Chapter Summaries

Wade and the others arrived at Hogwarts in a storm, where Wade used his Warm Breeze spell to dry the soaked students in the Great Hall. The spell left the first-years and several Muggle-born Young Wizards impressed, while Professor Snape glared at Wade.

• Theo urged the others to leave the train after the crowd thinned, and Michael transformed a Chocolate Frog wrapper into a waterproof cloak.
• Wade, Michael, and Ryan crossed the rain-soaked platform and reached the Great Hall, where Harry and other students arrived drenched after Peeves attacked them with Water Bombs.
• Colin Creevey introduced himself to Harry and asked to take his picture, but Harry refused.
• Professor McGonagall brought the shivering first-years into the Great Hall, and Wade cast Warm Breeze to dry everyone and send hats and hair flying.
• The first-years and several Muggle-world Young Wizards stared in amazement, while Snape glared at Wade and Dumbledore enjoyed the warm gust.

Wade earned Ravenclaw points by proposing a spell that cleared the storm from the Great Hall, then listened as Dumbledore announced the Magic School League and its selection process. As the students left the feast, Anthony Goldstein asked Wade to meet him in the Common Room.

• Dumbledore awarded Ravenclaw twenty points for Wade's spell idea, then cleared the stormy ceiling with his Wand.
• While the Sorting Hat sang and the first-years were sorted, Wade told Michael he hoped to prove his qualifications as Hogwarts's champion and discussed what would make a good team.
• After the feast, Dumbledore announced new rules, introduced Moody as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and revealed that eleven Magic Schools would compete in the league.
• Wade and Michael discussed whether the schools would choose individual champions or teams, and Michael noted that older students might have an advantage.
• Anthony Goldstein stopped Wade as the students left and asked to speak with him in the Common Room.

Wade retrieved his Time-Turner from Professor McGonagall and confirmed that he intended to enter the tournament. Anthony then asked Wade to lead Hogwarts students in preparing for the competition.

• Wade collected the Time-Turner from Professor McGonagall and promised to follow its rules and not use it to influence a tournament match.
• Professor McGonagall told Flitwick that Wade had decided to participate, while warning that the competition would be dangerous and that he would need to trust his companions and guard against outside tricks.
• Wade returned to the Common Room and found Anthony Goldstein waiting for him.
• Anthony told Wade that other schools had trained their students in advance and asked him to lead Hogwarts's tournament training.

Wade agreed to tutor students preparing for the inter-school league, setting strict conditions for participation. Michael advised him to schedule the lessons at five in the morning to discourage casual attendees, while Wade learned that students from every Hogwarts house and year might want to join.

• Anthony praised Wade's teaching and asked him to guide students who wanted to compete in the league.
• Wade agreed to teach spell techniques when his timetable allowed, provided students genuinely wanted to learn and behaved properly.
• Wade told Michael and the others about the agreement, and he welcomed Theo and other Hufflepuff students to join.
• Michael suggested scheduling the sessions between five and seven in the morning to weed out people who were only curious.
• Michael warned Wade that many students lacked basic spell skills and predicted that word of the tutoring would bring in students from all seven years.

Wade agreed to tutor his classmates in Charms twice a week, but Grindelwald questioned what Wade hoped to gain from the commitment. The chapter ended with Wade considering Grindelwald’s challenge.

• Students discussed the Magic School League and compared Beauxbatons, Uagadou, and Durmstrang, until Astoria asked why Grindelwald had been expelled from Durmstrang.
• Anthony told Wade that Professor McGonagall had approved an unused student club Activity Room for the tutoring sessions, and Wade set them for Tuesdays and Fridays from seven to nine after dinner.
• Wade recalled that Grindelwald had contacted him after Drayne mentioned the tutoring plan and had asked whether it served a clear purpose.
• Grindelwald asked Wade what he wanted to gain from tutoring his classmates.

Wade reconsidered why he had agreed to tutor his classmates and chose to set fair rules rather than impose harsh conditions. Grindelwald saw Wade’s approach as a path toward finding friends who could walk alongside him, though he told Antoine to remind the students to show gratitude.

• Grindelwald advised Wade to think carefully about his reasons for tutoring and to commit fully if he truly wanted to help.
• Wade reflected that he had agreed partly because he got along with his classmates, trusted Anthony, and might need teammates for the tournament.
• Wade told Michael they should trust Anthony’s judgment and set clear tutoring rules instead of making participation difficult.
• Michael wondered whether his suggestion made him seem like a Slytherin, and Wade reassured him that he had only considered Wade’s perspective.
• Grindelwald told Antoine that Wade was choosing friends over followers and asked him to remind the students to be grateful for Wade’s help.

Wade attended his first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson with Professor Moody, who taught the class through sudden attacks rather than theory. The students began practicing defensive spells, and Wade immediately defeated Michael.

• Wade arrived at the classroom, where the students hesitated outside because Moody was teaching.
• Moody dismissed the textbooks, cleared the desks, and demonstrated that Dark Wizards attacked without warning by knocking Goyle and Michael down and sending a spell toward Wade.
• Wade's Shield Charm blocked Moody's spell, which ricocheted and hit Pansy.
• Moody questioned Draco Malfoy about surviving the Leprechaun attack at the World Cup camp, then warned the class to stay alert and prepare for chaotic danger.
• Moody ordered the students to pair up and practice Defensive Charms, and Wade quickly sent Michael out of the match.

Moody put his students through chaotic Dueling exercises, and Wade impressed him by freezing the class and deflecting Moody’s attack. After a second round left everyone on the floor, Moody dismissed the students but ordered Wade to stay behind.

• Michael recovered from being knocked aside as students attacked one another, and Wade immobilized the remaining duelists when the first round ended.
• Moody challenged Wade to prove his identity, and Wade gave the secret name “Ali,” convincing Moody to lower his Wand.
• Moody criticized the students’ spellwork and divided them into skill-based pairs for another Dueling round.
• The second round ended with no students left standing, and Moody criticized them again before warning that next week’s lesson would cover Dark Magic traps.
• Moody dismissed the class and told Gray to stay behind.

Moody warned Wade about the dangers and lasting costs of Dark Magic, then Wade joined his friends for a Charms study group. Wade discovered that the group's classroom had once belonged to a secret society founded by Voldemort.

• Moody arranged to tutor Wade in illegal Dark Magic and explained that some Dark Magic wounds caused constant pain that Potion could suppress.
• Wade left Moody and found Padma, Hermione, and the others discussing their duels in Defense Against the Dark Arts.
• Wade and his friends spent the afternoon doing homework and practicing spells in the Umbrella Room.
• Anthony brought everyone to the Spell Study Group's new classroom on the Fifth Floor of the main castle.
• Wade used Trace Revelation on the group's sign and discovered the words "Midnight Society · V" beneath its fresh ink.

Wade opened the Spell Study Group to a large crowd of students from all four houses and laid out its rules. The group was set to focus on practical spells for the Magic School League, with Wade insisting on cooperation across house lines.

• Hermione told Padma she wanted to start a club, then urged her to join after declaring that House-elves deserved equal rights.
• Wade entered the freshly cleaned Activity Room and found dozens of students from every house waiting to attend.
• Anthony told Wade that Slytherin students had helped prepare the room and encouraged him to get to know them.
• Wade announced that the Spell Study Group would teach practical spells to help students prepare for the Magic School League.
• Wade established rules against unauthorized spellcasting, house-based hostility, interrupting lessons, and refusing to help fellow students practice.

Wade taught the students how to cast the Shield Charm, demonstrating its power and guiding them through paired practice. Lini struggled with the spell but, encouraged by Wade, resolved to keep practicing.

• Wade began the lesson by explaining why the Shield Charm was essential and demonstrated it by blocking Angelina Johnson’s Stunning Spell.
• Wade explained the incantation, wand movements, and techniques for strengthening the Shield Charm, then paired the students to practice against minor spells.
• Wade coached students around the classroom while Harry and the others cast counterspells on classmates who were hit.
• Wade encouraged Lini by telling her a story about a witch who used a Shield Charm to save a boy, and urged her to keep practicing.
• Lini thanked Wade and said she would practice hard.

Wade’s first Spell Study Group session ended successfully, and he reflected on the ambitions that had driven Voldemort and Grindelwald as he questioned his own goals. After Wade left, Hogwarts’s professors discussed the group, the tournament, and how to protect the students.

• Wade ended the Spell Study Group’s first session, promised the students another meeting next Friday, and declined Anthony’s invitation to celebrate so he could study Alchemy.
• After the others left, Wade considered how Tom Riddle had gathered followers at Hogwarts and wondered what he himself wanted to accomplish.
• Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Moody, and Dumbledore emerged from hiding and praised Wade’s teaching.
• Moody warned that Fudge might view the Spell Study Group as Dumbledore training an army, but Dumbledore allowed it to continue.
• Dumbledore insisted that student safety came first in the coming tournament and told Flitwick not to pressure Wade into competing.

The students discussed the Spell Study Group’s growing influence and Moody’s dangerous, unconventional Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons. Hermione proposed creating a house-elf rights organization, and Wade agreed with the idea but had questions.

• Students at Hogwarts showed off their Shield Charms and discussed how few Ministry employees knew the spell.
• Harry and the others discussed whether Snape was afraid of Moody and described the injuries and dangers in Moody’s classes.
• Wade explained that Moody’s Auror experience and past service protected him from being driven out of his teaching post.
• Hermione handed out a petition for S.P.E.W. and asked the others to join.
• Wade called Hermione’s idea good and said he had a few questions.

Wade challenged Hermione to reconsider her plans for the House-elf Rights Promotion Association and learn what house-elves actually wanted before trying to change their lives. Hermione accepted his advice and began drafting a survey, leaving her ready to investigate the elves’ needs.

• Hermione explained her plans to improve house-elves’ working conditions and eventually free them, starting with Hogwarts’s elves.
• Wade praised Hermione’s cause but asked what she intended to do, and Hermione described recruiting members, persuading the elves, and freeing them by giving them clothes.
• Wade warned Hermione that freeing more than a hundred Hogwarts elves without considering their livelihoods could leave them homeless and vulnerable.
• Wade urged Hermione to ask house-elves about their working conditions, needs, and hopes instead of deciding what they wanted for them.
• Hermione agreed that she needed reliable data and began writing a survey.

Wade explained why Hogwarts’ House-elves were unlikely to seek freedom and why he would not provoke a wider conflict, while Hermione pursued small reforms. After securing a monthly fund for the elves, Hermione began researching laws against their abuse as the visiting tournament schools approached Hogwarts.

• Wade told Michael and Padma that Hogwarts’ House-elves were content and that changing their views would require a slow, painful awakening he could not personally set in motion.
• Hermione surveyed the House-elves with help from Harry, Ron, and Neville, but most insisted they were happy serving their masters and did not want freedom.
• Hermione asked Dumbledore for a fund, and Hogwarts allocated the kitchen 10 Galleons a month for the House-elves to buy things they needed.
• Hermione announced that she would next try to reduce or prohibit the abuse of House-elves, and Wade told her that existing Ministry laws were not enforced.
• Hermione rushed to the library to research those laws while Wade began planning the next Spell Study Group activity; the tournament’s visiting schools were due the following week.

As the Triwizard Tournament drew closer, the Spell Study Group continued to grow, and Draco Malfoy joined despite his history with the Gryffindors. He left the session shaken by the group’s indifference and by Slytherins’ mockery, realizing his father’s absence had stripped him of his former security.

• Marcus Belby told Ford he still hoped to become Hogwarts’ champion, while Ford teased him about his chances.
• Hermione stopped Ron and the other Gryffindors from mocking Draco Malfoy, reminding them that the Spell Study Group’s rules applied to everyone.
• Wade treated Draco like any other student during tutoring, and Draco found the group’s lack of attention more painful than open hostility.
• Draco rushed to the restroom after the session and overheard Slytherins speculate that Lucius Malfoy was dead and the family’s wealth might be seized.
• Draco realized he no longer had the protection and status he had enjoyed beneath his father’s wings.

Wade overheard Malfoy sobbing alone after a Spell Study Group session, then saw Hogwarts being scrubbed spotless as preparations for a grand event intensified. Michael hinted that he had spent the morning by the Black Lake with someone, but an encounter with Padma left him awkward as Filch continued enforcing cleanliness.

• After the Spell Study Group, Wade heard Malfoy crying in a bathroom and quietly left without disturbing him.
• On October 30, Cleaning Crabs scrubbed the portraits while Filch scolded students for getting the castle dirty.
• Michael told Wade he had been at the Black Lake early that morning, prompting Wade to ask whether he had found another girlfriend.
• Padma and several girls walked past Michael, who bumped his face into cake and sat back down awkwardly.
• As Wade and Michael left for class, Filch ordered Michael to clean the cream off his face.

Hogwarts students awaited the visiting schools for the tournament as Ilvermorny arrived by a magically fast bus. Wade recognized a boy among the arrivals before looking up to see another school’s flying carriage approaching over the Forbidden Forest.

• Professor Trelawney broke down during Divination and claimed that Ludo Bagman would lose his wealth and suffer a terrible fate.
• Wade suspected Trelawney had lost money betting on the World Cup, perhaps because Bagman had cheated her with Leprechaun gold.
• Professor Flitwick and the other staff organized Hogwarts students outside to welcome the visiting schools.
• Egbert arrived at Hogwarts with Ilvermorny students aboard the red triple-decker Ilvermorny Express Bus and greeted Dumbledore.
• Wade noticed a boy among the Ilvermorny students, then saw a carriage pulled by twelve silver-maned horses flying toward Hogwarts.

Beauxbatons and Koldovstoretz arrived at Hogwarts to join the gathering of visiting magic schools. After welcoming Madame Maxime and her students, Dumbledore greeted Ivan and calmed the three-headed Fire Dragon pulling Koldovstoretz’s war carriage while everyone awaited Karkaroff.

• Dumbledore and Egbert welcomed Madame Maxime and the Beauxbatons students as they arrived in their powder-blue carriage.
• Madame Maxime asked Hagrid to care for her Abraxans, and he nervously promised to look after them.
• A three-headed Fire Dragon pulled Koldovstoretz’s war carriage into the grounds, startling the students and making several stumble.
• Wade identified Koldovstoretz for Anthony and Michael, while Dumbledore calmly patted the Fire Dragon’s middle head.
• Ivan greeted Dumbledore, asked whether Karkaroff had arrived, and waited with him as the Koldovstoretz students led the dragon aside.

The visiting schools arrived at Hogwarts by ship, aircraft, elephant, flying carpet, and enchanted train, while Ivan and Karkaroff reunited tensely. Dumbledore welcomed the delegations as Wade warmed the waiting students, and Uagadou and Mahoutokoro remained to arrive.

• A three-headed dragon flew toward the Forbidden Forest, and a ghostly ship rose from the lake carrying Karkaroff and his students.
• Ivan greeted Karkaroff with a forceful embrace, and the two old friends exchanged strained words.
• Owens and Professor Antoine Moreau arrived by helicopter with Salem's students, and Dumbledore welcomed them.
• Wade conjured warm air for the students waiting outside Hogwarts.
• Usha and Sunil arrived with their students on an elephant and a flying carpet, and Dumbledore greeted them.
• Headmistress Carvalho arrived by enchanted train and sent her cold, shivering students into the castle; Dumbledore said Uagadou and Mahoutokoro had yet to arrive.