Chapter Summaries

Wade and his Golems contained the fire aboard the plane, while the passengers mistook the rescue for a dream. As the group repaired the breach and put the passengers to sleep, Quinn Martin begged Drill Youth to help his daughter Renina.

• Wade sent Stone Golems to smother the fire with Dry Ice, sand, and soil, bringing the flames under control.
• Wade agreed the passengers needed help and sent Drill Youth to fetch Draught of Living Death and Healing Potion.
• Wade inspected the plane’s breach and concluded that a safe, permanent repair would be difficult.
• Mrs. Weasley, Mr. Weasley, Mr. Kona, and the Weasley children joined Wade in temporarily repairing the cabin wall.
• Drill Youth used Potion to put the passengers to sleep, then Quinn Martin asked him to help his daughter Renina, and Drill Youth replied that their illnesses were different.

Wade and his allies subdued the plane’s passengers and hijackers with Draught of Living Death, then Wade and Arthur Weasley began restoring the cabin and treating the injured. As the crisis wound down, Arthur realized the plane’s pilot might be connected to Wade.

• Wilan explained to Martin that Renina’s inherited illness differed from Cornelius’s stroke, then put Martin to sleep after warning him he would face consequences for his actions.
• Widas spread Draught of Living Death through the cabin, while Wilan pretended to sleep among the passengers.
• Wade gave Arthur an antidote and explained that he had arranged for everyone else to be put to sleep so they would recover and remember the crisis as a dream.
• Wade and Arthur repaired the cabin, healed injured passengers, and restored the plane while the Golems moved sleeping passengers and cleaned up.
• Arthur asked why Wade had given him the antidote, and Wade said he wanted Arthur’s help handling the Ministry’s investigation and controlling the aftermath.
• After Wade explained the plane’s air circulation system, Arthur asked whether its pilot was one of Wade’s people.

British authorities surrounded the landed hijacked plane, but Wade kept the cabin radio silent while waiting. Kingsley Shacklebolt’s team took control and boarded after a document made the suspicious commander accept their credentials, leaving the plane’s interior situation unknown.

• Seton Strow arrived and took command of the scene, then ordered the tower to contact the plane’s captain.
• Wade told Mr. Weasley to wait longer, and the plane remained silent on the radio.
• Kingsley Shacklebolt arrived with a team claiming emergency Cabinet Office authority and demanded control of the incident.
• Strauss questioned the team’s credentials, but Kingsley showed him a document that dispelled his suspicions.
• Kingsley and his team approached the plane, whose cabin door opened, and they entered without hesitation.

Kingsley arrived at the plane and explained to Arthur Weasley that Ministry factions were using an inspector proposal to weaken Rufus Scrimgeour. As Kingsley took charge of the Scourers captured aboard the flight, he prepared to confront the Magical Congress of the United States of America while Arthur warned him to avoid becoming a pawn in Ministry intrigue.

• Mundungus Fletcher complained about his tie as Kingsley, Lupin, and the others boarded the plane.
• Kingsley told Arthur Weasley that the inspector proposal was real but might also be intended to suppress Scrimgeour and weaken his influence.
• Lupin asked Wade about Sirius, and Wade said Mrs. Weasley had taken him to St. Mungo's, where healers found his condition was not serious.
• Arthur told Kingsley that the captured Scourers had attacked the flight and identified Modihis, while Adebayo had been captured by Alastor and Remus.
• Kingsley took responsibility for the captives and said he would demand an explanation from the Magical Congress of the United States of America.
• Arthur warned Kingsley to be careful and avoid becoming trapped in Ministry struggles, and Kingsley said he understood.

Harry woke from a strange dream after the plane landed and learned that wizards were modifying the Muggle passengers’ memories. As the group left the airport, he noticed Lev Zakharov sitting alone among them.

• Harry woke when Lupin shook him and followed him and Hermione off the landed plane.
• Lupin told Harry that Wade had gone to see Dumbledore and explained that wizards were modifying the passengers’ memories.
• Harry saw Tonks greet them warmly, and Lupin awkwardly waved back.
• On the shuttle bus, Mrs. Weasley scolded Fred and George for their dangerous experiments while the Weasley family eased the group’s tense mood.
• Hermione said the Book of Friends had burned in her suitcase, and Harry noticed Lev Zakharov sitting alone at the back of the bus.

Harry wondered where Viktor and the others had gone, while Lupin concealed how they had secretly left the plane and kept his doubts about Wade’s power to himself. At the airport, a precisely timed lightning storm destroyed the aircraft after the passengers had escaped, leaving Strauss to suspect a hidden force was covering its tracks.

• Harry asked Lupin why Viktor and the people who helped in economy class were not on the bus, and Lupin gave him a vague explanation.
• Lupin recalled that Viktor and the others had disappeared before the plane landed, then suppressed his questions about Wade, Dobby, and the Golems.
• Kingsley told Commander Strauss that Martin had been caught and that anesthetic gas had left the passengers unconscious; officers and medical staff then evacuated them from the plane.
• Strauss ordered his subordinates to check the passengers’ identities and trace those taken away, but a sudden lightning strike blew up the aircraft before they could finish.
• Strauss’s group fled to the terminal as lightning and fire engulfed the plane, while the passengers concluded that Martin’s hijacking had saved them.
• A subordinate reported that some passengers had left and no nearby hospitals had received patients, and Strauss accepted that the truth would remain hidden.

After the runway disaster, Wade and Dumbledore discussed the balance of power between wizards and Muggles and the Ministry’s agreement with the Prime Minister. Wade then told Dumbledore that Madam Piquery had sent him a long memory, and they left to view it.

• Wade admired the Weather Charm that had caused the storm and discussed how Muggle meteorological research might deepen his understanding of magic with Dumbledore.
• Wade worried that investigators would find inconsistencies in the traces left at the runway, but Dumbledore explained the Ministry’s understanding with the Prime Minister and its safeguards against threats.
• Dumbledore warned Wade not to measure power only through individual confrontations and described ordinary Muggles as a vast collective force that could threaten the Wizarding World.
• Wade told Dumbledore that Madam Piquery had sent a long memory for him, and they finished their coffee and left to view it.

Dumbledore and Wade returned to Hogwarts after leaving the crowded terminal, and Dumbledore reflected on Wade’s restraint and the risks of guiding a gifted young wizard. Wade considered how a Weather Charm might be made to target specific opponents, while Filch asked him to visit the Administrator’s office after his discussion with Dumbledore.

• Dumbledore and Wade Apparated discreetly from the terminal to the Scottish Highlands near Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore praised Wade’s refined Apparition, and Wade said he had no plans to obtain a license.
• Dumbledore worried about Wade’s future choices and felt reassured by his respect for the law.
• Wade thought about whether a Weather Charm could be locked onto a particular target as they approached Hogwarts.
• Filch opened the gate, thanked Wade for his help with his injury, and asked him to visit the Administrator’s office later.

Wade showed Dumbledore Madam Piquery’s memory of a war-torn scene connected to Jensen, which left Dumbledore gravely shaken. Wade then insisted on returning to the United States to investigate the Scourers and the people experimenting with Time Particles, but Dumbledore warned him that the mission was dangerous.

• Phineas Black taunted Wade about trouble with the Ministry, and Dumbledore redirected the conversation to Madam Piquery’s message.
• Wade placed his memory in the Pensieve, and he and Dumbledore witnessed a battlefield scene from Jensen’s memories.
• Wade noticed Stella drawing out Jensen’s memory, then the vision ended without Jensen’s soul appearing.
• Dumbledore called the memory a fragment of a darker truth, and Wade said he wanted to return to the United States to retaliate against the Scourers and investigate their plans.
• Dumbledore urged Wade to leave the investigation to qualified people, but Wade argued that the Magical Congress might be compromised by the Scourers and their allies.

Wade argued that corrupt officials in the American and British wizarding governments might cooperate with Muggles for profit, so he refused to trust an official investigation and asked Dumbledore to let him investigate in the United States. Dumbledore accepted that Wade could protect himself, and Wade planned to travel as an ordinary Muggle while his school identity, Wade Grey, continued attending classes.

• Wade argued that some Magical Congress officials might sell wizarding secrets to Muggles for wealth and warned that an official investigation could conceal the truth.
• Wade told Dumbledore he would go to the United States because he trusted his own observations and did not want to leave his fate in others' hands.
• Dumbledore cautioned Wade that he was still a student, but Wade insisted he had little left to learn in regular classes and could survive danger.
• Dumbledore reconsidered Wade's abilities and asked what he planned to do.
• Wade proposed that Wade Grey keep attending Hogwarts while he traveled to the United States alone as an ordinary Muggle.

Dumbledore told Wade that Kingsley, Alastor, and Tonks would support his mission in the United States, then revealed that Frank Longbottom would become the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Wade returned the Prefect badge Dumbledore had intended for him and recommended Anthony Goldstein instead, but Dumbledore stopped him as he was leaving.

• Dumbledore told Wade that Kingsley would lead Aurors to the United States and that Wade could rely on Kingsley, Alastor, and Tonks for help.
• Dumbledore revealed that Frank Longbottom had accepted the Defense Against the Dark Arts post and that Alice would work as an assistant school healer.
• Dumbledore returned the Stone Necklace to Wade, and Wade noticed Dumbledore briefly lost himself while looking at it.
• Dumbledore offered Wade the Ravenclaw Prefect badge, but Wade declined and recommended Anthony Goldstein for the role.
• As Wade prepared to leave, Dumbledore called him back.

Wade left Dumbledore's office with permission to seek help from any allies he could reach, then agreed to repair Filch's damaged Cleaning Crabs. After seeing the care Filch had put into trying to fix them, Wade began to work on the crabs himself.

• Dumbledore urged Wade to contact whatever helpers he could reach, regardless of their affiliations, if the situation required it.
• Wade resolved to use every resource available to investigate rather than return to Britain without answers.
• Filch waited anxiously for Wade and asked him to repair the Little Crabs damaged by Barty Crouch Jr.
• Wade repaired a broken stool and gave Filch a practical Alchemy manual, encouraging him to learn how to make repairs himself.
• Filch showed Wade the badly damaged Cleaning Crabs, and Wade saw how his rough repairs had failed to restore their ruined Magic Rune Circuits.
• Wade drew his Wand and began repairing the crabs.

Wade repaired Filch’s Cleaning Crabs, then began imagining magical devices that could help Squibs and ordinary people. After reassuring his parents about the plane’s destruction, he excitedly shared his new ideas with them.

• Wade dismantled and magically rebuilt more than a dozen damaged Cleaning Crabs, restoring them and improving their appearance.
• Filch wept with joy, thanked Wade, and embraced one of the crabs as it tried to wipe his tears.
• As Wade left Filch’s office, he wondered how magical inventions and modified Golems could help Squibs overcome the barriers they faced.
• Wade returned home and told Fiona and Ferdinand that Dumbledore had destroyed the plane with lightning to erase traces of their involvement.
• Wade turned the conversation toward his new inventions and began explaining his idea to his parents.

Wade excitedly proposed magical inventions that could give ordinary people and Squibs new abilities, but Ferdinand warned that disrupting the balance of power would make Wade a target. The chapter left Wade quietly confronting the danger his ideas could bring in a world not ready for them.

• Wade described inventions including shrinking flashlights, protective bracelets, and Flying Wings, and Fiona eagerly urged him to make the wings first.
• Ferdinand firmly rejected the inventions, warning that even well-intentioned technology could be abused by criminals and make them harder to stop.
• Ferdinand explained that giving Squibs and ordinary people magical power could frighten wizards and turn them against Wade.
• Fiona recognized that Wade could be pushed into the eye of the storm, while Wade fell silent and reconsidered his ideas.
• Ferdinand told Wade he was proud of his wish to help the marginalized but warned that his knowledge could either make or destroy him.

Ferdinand regretted speaking so harshly to Wade about his inventions and went to find him before dawn, only to mistake the humanlike Golem Wiser for his son. He realized Wade’s creations had reached a frightening level of sophistication, but kept the encounter secret and greeted Wade normally that morning.

• Ferdinand lay awake regretting that he had warned Wade so sternly about his inventions and decided to speak more gently the next day.
• Ferdinand found someone who looked exactly like Wade in the garden and panicked when the figure addressed him as Father.
• Wiser explained that he was Wade’s Golem, while Coco confirmed that Wiser could move freely and resemble Wade.
• Ferdinand realized Wade’s Golems and Alchemy had advanced far beyond what he had imagined, then asked the Golems not to tell Wade about the encounter.
• Ferdinand returned to bed and stayed awake until dawn, then greeted Wade warmly when he found him reading the newspaper.

Wade arranged for his friends to play Gulliver's Travels while preparing to reach the United States before the Aurors investigating the plane incident. Wiser learned that Fiona had recognized him as a Golem, and Wade boarded a flight to New York under the name Joel Black.

• Wade declined Harry's and Michael's invitations but arranged with Marchioni for his friends to get places in Gulliver's Travels.
• Wade read Dumbledore's message that the Aurors would leave for the United States in three days and decided to arrive two days ahead of them.
• Fiona recognized Wiser as a Golem but reassured him that she would help him act more like Wade at school.
• Ferdinand reflected on Fiona's acceptance of Wiser and joined them for breakfast.
• Wade boarded British Airways flight BA183 to New York as Joel Black and saw the name Greta Bailey above the staff member who checked his boarding pass.

Wade traveled under a disguised appearance and checked into a hotel near the White Bridge Inn, where he secretly monitored officials investigating recent magical incidents. He learned that the Magical Congress had ordered the innkeeper to keep silent, and watched an ice cream truck disappear around the corner.

• Wade overheard passengers discussing the flight that had burned after returning from New York, then rested without joining their conversation.
• Wade checked into Traveler's Rest under a concealed identity, inspected his room for surveillance, and revealed his original appearance.
• Wade used a hidden wardrobe in his suitcase, then went out disguised as Joel Black to observe the White Bridge Inn.
• Wade sent a tiny wasp into the inn and overheard the innkeeper tell officials that the guest register had burned and the Magical Congress demand permanent silence.
• Wade watched a shabby ice cream truck pass by and disappear around the corner.

Wade met with his cleaner informant, who reported that Second Salem had abandoned a base beneath a Brooklyn textile factory after what appeared to be a battle. Wade went to inspect the site, where Viktor pointed out deep scratches on a wall.

• Wade waited in a park until his cleaner informant arrived and called him Master.
• The cleaner told Wade that her investigators had found an abandoned Second Salem base beneath a textile factory in Brooklyn.
• Wade left with Viktor in a black sedan and asked him about living in the United States.
• Wade and Viktor reached the Riverside Textile Factory and entered its underground base.
• Two investigators collected evidence as Viktor showed Wade several deep scratches in the cement wall.

Wade investigated the Scourers’ abandoned base, found signs of werewolves and trolls, and traced fresh claw marks toward Brooklyn’s hidden tunnels. After warning the Golems not to sacrifice themselves, he returned to the inn and heard how Dobby had recruited House-elves to help find a spy inside the Magical Congress.

• Wade identified werewolf claw marks and troll residue at the Scourers’ base, then recognized an old training room associated with Professor Abigail.
• Wilan reported fresh claw marks leading toward the municipal sewers, and Wade’s team traced the trail toward Brooklyn’s underground tunnels.
• Wade told the Golems to investigate cautiously and return their cores rather than sacrifice themselves.
• Wade returned to the inn and reunited with Dobby, who explained that House-elves at the Magical Congress had shared information about officials’ movements.

Wade praised Dobby for gathering clues that pointed toward five names. Meanwhile, Percy Weasley and Mr. Fuller investigated Cornelius Davan’s records at Madison Sanatorium, leaving Fuller to photograph the files and explain why Davan had drawn attention.

• Wade read Dobby’s crooked notes and found that the clues pointed toward five names.
• Percy complained to Mr. Fuller about being assigned to investigate a Muggle sanatorium, but Fuller urged him to accept the undemanding work.
• Percy and Fuller reached Madison Sanatorium and met Warren Edward, who let them inside after Fuller showed his identification.
• Edward gave Percy and Fuller the patient files for Cornelius Davan, while Fuller explained that Davan had been mentioned during a plane hijacking and photographed the records.