Chapter Summaries

A disguised Wade watched as a sinister wizard forced a teenager to deliver a letter under threat of a curse. When the teenager and his little brother tried to flee, an elderly witch petrified them, but the wizard was suddenly blasted in the chest.

• A black-robed wizard grabbed a child who had bumped into him and made the boy’s teenage brother accept a letter, claiming he had cursed him if it was not delivered on time.
• The teenager took his little brother toward the address while the wizard secretly followed them, and Wade watched from a bench.
• Unable to find the address, the teenager turned back, but the wizard blocked the alley and revealed he had found the note left for their father.
• The teenager fired Stupefy at the wizard and tried to escape with his brother, but an elderly witch cast Petrificus Totalus on them.
• The male wizard kicked the petrified teenager and cast Crucio, but a sudden blast tore through his chest and flung him backward.

Theo and Lyte were rescued from a werewolf and a witch, and their father’s relatives captured and questioned the attackers. Theo recognized their rescuer as Wade and offered to show him where to find reliable secondhand wands.

• Werner rescued Theo and Lyte, incapacitated Chad Brick, and told the boys to alert their family while he guarded the suspects.
• Theo told John Mancini what happened, and John summoned relatives who found Chad awake and used Veritaserum to question him.
• Chad revealed that he was a werewolf who had targeted the brothers on impulse, and that the witch Ursula wanted their eyes and fingernails.
• Theo slipped away from his cousin and found Werner browsing secondhand goods in Diagon Alley.
• Theo recognized Werner as Wade by his wand, and Wade admitted he had not yet bought a second wand.
• Theo offered to take Wade to a shop with reliable secondhand wands.

Theo brought Wade to Leslie's General Store in Junk Alley, where Wade browsed the secondhand magical goods and bought several Wands and a talking Magic Mirror. While Wade shopped, Theo told Leslie that a Werewolf had nearly abducted him and his brother that morning, and Leslie demanded to hear what had happened.

• Theo guided Wade through Junk Alley and explained that Boon Leslie's clearly marked prices made his store safer for newcomers.
• Theo introduced Wade to Leslie, who welcomed him to browse while Theo began telling him about the attempted abduction.
• Wade inspected the store's used Wands and chose three that seemed compatible with him.
• Wade bought a Magic Mirror that gave fashion advice, intending it as a gift for Fiona.

Wade bought and repaired magical items while Theo offered to help him with whatever he was doing, and Wade agreed to call on him when the time came. As the summer holiday ended, Wade learned that Lupin had found a home in Hogsmeade and asked why he did not seek work in Muggle society.

• Wade bought a damaged Transfiguration Lizard skin bag, Two-Way Mirrors, Wizard's Chess pieces, an Invisibility Cloak, Wands, and other items, and Leslie warned Theo to stay away from him.
• Theo thanked Wade for saving him and his brother and asked to be included in Wade's future plans, and Wade agreed to find him when the time came.
• Wade repaired the lizard-skin bag at The Leaky Cauldron, where his magic would not be monitored.
• Lupin told Wade through the Book of Friends that he had bought a house in Hogsmeade Village and described how difficult it was to find work as a Werewolf.
• Wade asked Lupin why he did not seek work in Muggle society.

Wade and his friends watched Harry and Ron narrowly catch the Hogwarts Express after Lupin saw them off, unintentionally avoiding Dobby’s attempt to block Harry from reaching school. At Hogwarts, the Sorting introduced Colin Creevey, Luna Lovegood, and Rolf Scamander, while Ginny Weasley appeared healthy.

• Wade arrived at King's Cross with Michael, Theo, and Ryan and watched the Weasley Family come onto the platform just as the train began to leave.
• Lupin brought Harry and Ron to the station too late to board normally, so the Weasley Twins pulled them onto the moving train.
• Lupin's presence at the station inadvertently prevented Dobby from sealing the brick wall and trapping Harry outside Hogwarts.
• At the Sorting, Colin Creevey joined Gryffindor and asked Harry for a photo, while Luna Lovegood joined Ravenclaw and spoke about Crumple-Horned Snorkacks.
• Rolf Scamander was sorted into Hufflepuff and tried to visit Wade before his Prefect led him away; Ginny Weasley was the final first-year sorted and looked healthy.

Wade tested his restored Vanishing Cabinet before heading to Herbology, where Draco Malfoy mocked his broom and clashed with him. Wade silenced Malfoy with a nonverbal spell, and the confrontation remained unresolved when someone arrived.

• Wade tested the Vanishing Cabinet after repairing it with advice from Newt Scamander.
• On the way to Herbology, Malfoy bragged about ordering seven Nimbus 2001s and mocked Wade's Cleansweep 140.
• Michael embarrassed Malfoy by pointing out that he had resumed using Books of Friends after tearing his copies up.
• Malfoy insulted Wade's companions, and Wade cast a nonverbal spell that stuck Malfoy's tongue to the roof of his mouth.
• The Slytherins hesitated to intervene as the Ravenclaws drew their Wands, until someone's arrival broke the deadlock.

Wade Gray received detention after using a nonverbal spell on Draco Malfoy, then impressed Professor Sprout during a Mandrake lesson. He asked to use a Mandrake leaf to prepare for becoming an Animagus, and Professor Sprout agreed to keep his plans secret on the condition that a teacher supervise the final step.

• Professor Sprout questioned the students after Pansy accused Wade of using a Dark Curse on Draco, and Anthony Goldstein explained that Wade had used a nonverbal spell after Draco insulted Michael.
• Professor Sprout took five points from Wade and Draco and assigned them both three days of detention before taking the students to repot Mandrakes.
• Wade and Michael quickly repotted several Mandrakes while Malfoy's group struggled to restrain the seedlings.
• Professor Sprout praised Wade's nonverbal spellwork, awarded him ten points, and arranged for his detention to take place in the Second Greenhouse as extra instruction.
• Wade asked Professor Sprout for a Mandrake leaf to prepare to become an Animagus, and she agreed to keep his plans secret if a teacher supervised the final step.

Wade returned to Hogwarts and learned from Michael that students across the Great Hall had become more attractive after Aslan's Magic Workshop released the Softlight Badge, one of Wade's inventions. Michael eagerly accepted several free samples, while Wade explained that each badge lasted a month.

• Wade flew his modified Cleansweep 140 back to Ravenclaw Tower and went to lunch in the Great Hall.
• Michael sat with Wade and reassured him that he would not abandon their friendship because of what their enemies said.
• Michael noticed that many students looked more attractive and asked Wade why he had not changed in the same way.
• Wade showed Michael a Wizarding Weekly article about the Softlight Badge, a beauty-enhancing product from Aslan's Magic Workshop.
• Michael recognized the badge as Wade's invention and asked to buy one, so Wade gave him several samples and warned him that each lasted a month.

Wade found an annotated Advanced Potion-Making textbook and left Theo to test the repaired Vanishing Cabinet while he attended tutoring with Professor Sprout. When the cabinet experiments produced random failures, Theo realized Wade might have improved only one of the two cabinets, leading Wade to identify the likely cause.

• Wade found two old copies of Advanced Potion-Making in the Potions classroom cupboard and took the heavily annotated one.
• Wade brought Theo to the Room of Requirement, showed him the Vanishing Cabinet, and left him instructions and a way to contact Remus Lupin before leaving for detention with Professor Sprout.
• Professor Sprout taught Wade about plants and gave him a dandelion seed that rapidly sprouted, flowered, and scattered its seeds in his palm.
• Theo tested the Vanishing Cabinet fifty times and recorded thirty-seven successes and thirteen random failures, with no damage to the items that failed to transfer.
• Theo asked whether Wade had improved the other cabinet too, and Wade realized that this might explain the failures.

Wade advanced his Transfiguration and Bio-Alchemy studies, while his chess piece adopted the identity of a Witcher. Before Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts quiz, Anthony organized the Ravenclaws to memorize answers and cheat together, leaving the class poised to give Lockhart surprisingly high scores.

• Lupin judged Wade ready to begin preparing to become an Animagus, though he had to wait for the Mandrakes to mature before starting.
• During Bio-Alchemy tutoring, Wade’s White Knight declared itself a Witcher and refused to fight innocent chess pieces.
• Michael and Padma told Wade and the others about Lockhart’s disastrous lesson with Cornish Pixies and his quiz about himself.
• Anthony Goldstein gave the second-year Ravenclaws Lockhart’s quiz answers, and the students memorized them before burning their notes.
• The Ravenclaws recognized Lockhart’s unchanged test questions and began writing answers as Lockhart expected a pleasant surprise.

Wade used a Secret Passage to leave Hogwarts with Lupin, who helped him travel to Honeydukes so he could work on repairing the Vanishing Cabinet. The chapter ended with Wade and Lupin slipping out of the shop unnoticed.

• Wade obtained Lockhart's signature on copied photographs, while Michael and Padma helped him secure the signatures he needed.
• Wade reflected on past betrayals and considered Michael and Theo's encouragement to trust his friends.
• Wade entered the passage beneath the Hunchbacked One-Eyed Witch while Michael kept watch and covered for him.
• After a long journey, Wade emerged through a Trapdoor, where Lupin cleaned him and explained another passage beneath the Whomping Willow.
• Lupin cast the Disillusionment Charm on Wade, and they slipped out from behind the Honeydukes counter while the shopkeeper was distracted.

Wade asked Lupin whether Occlumency could resist the Imperius Curse, then asked him to test his own skills. Lupin helped Wade begin practicing how to conceal selected memories, and Wade insisted on trying again after his first attempt went imperfectly.

• Wade finished improving the Vanishing Cabinet and mastered the Disillusionment Charm, then asked Lupin whether Occlumency could resist the Imperius Curse.
• Lupin explained that Occlumency could help resist the Imperius Curse, possession, and Veritaserum, and recalled Sirius Black being imprisoned without trial.
• Wade asked Lupin to test his Occlumency, and Lupin's Legilimency initially encountered a blank void before finding ordinary memories.
• Lupin told Wade to hide a memory of a red apple, but Wade exposed it while instinctively protecting the Room of Requirement and knocked Lupin's Wand away with a Disarming Charm.
• Lupin praised Wade's progress and gave him hot chocolate, but Wade drew his Wand again and asked to practice once more.

Wade invited Theo, Michael, and Ryan to help with a future task involving Voldemort, while keeping Harry out of it. After a week of Stunning Spell practice and detentions with Professor Sprout, Wade heard Malfoy complain that someone had made him work.

• Wade invited Theo, Michael, and Ryan to join a club activity after they learned the Stunning Spell, warning them it involved future danger connected to Voldemort.
• Wade declined Michael’s suggestion to invite Harry, explaining that involving him could expose dangerous information to Voldemort.
• Wade and Michael joked about calling Voldemort “Tom” and comparing him to the cartoon cat Tom.
• Wade served two more detentions with Professor Sprout, learning about plant care and doing greenhouse chores.
• On his way back to the castle, Wade heard Malfoy threaten someone for making him work.

Wade took Lupin and several students to a remote cave to destroy the Diadem with Fiendfyre, keeping the mission from Dumbledore. They sealed the cave after a shadow resembling Tom surged toward them, leaving them uncertain whether they had truly destroyed the object.

• Wade used the Vanishing Cabinet to travel with Michael, Theo, and Ryan to Lupin, while Zoe stayed behind to open the cabinet when they returned.
• Wade explained that he had found a Dark Magic weapon Voldemort left at Hogwarts and said they should destroy it themselves rather than place every responsibility on Dumbledore.
• Lupin led them to a remote cave, and the group cleared away combustible material before Wade placed the Diadem on a rock.
• Lupin cast Fiendfyre, which ignited the wood and grew into shifting beasts as the group fled the cave.
• A huge black shadow rose from the flames and lunged toward them, so they dropped a boulder over the entrance; Michael then said the shadow had looked like Tom.

Wade and the others destroyed the Horcrux hidden in the diadem, then went to Lupin's home in Hogsmeade. A photograph there led Theo to identify the obscured man as Sirius Black, who he said had betrayed Harry's father.

• Harry's scar flared with pain at Hogwarts, and Fred caught him before he fell from his broom.
• Wade used Fiendfyre to destroy the Horcrux in the diadem, then washed and boxed the now ordinary metal.
• Lupin invited the group to rest at his home and explore Hogsmeade before returning to school.
• Michael spotted a black-haired man whose face was obscured in a photograph of Lupin, James Potter, and others, and Lupin hurriedly put it away.
• Theo told Wade and Michael that the man was Sirius Black, the notorious Death Eater who had betrayed Harry's father.

After visiting Hogsmeade with Lupin, Wade returned to Hogwarts with his friends and learned that Harry had fainted during Quidditch practice. Harry said his head had hurt at 10:45, the same time the shadow in the Diadem had been destroyed, prompting Ryan and Theo to suspect that Harry had sensed it from afar.

• Wade and Lupin visited Hogsmeade with Michael, Ryan, and Theo, and Wade asked Lupin to keep the day's events from Harry.
• Lupin warned Wade about Voldemort's dangerous magic, promised to teach him the Fiendfyre Curse, and told him not to use it recklessly.
• Wade returned to Hogwarts through the Vanishing Cabinet and found out that Harry had gone to the Hospital Wing after fainting during Quidditch practice.
• Harry told Ryan that his head had hurt around 10:45, and Ryan and Theo connected the timing to the destruction of the Diadem's shadow.
• Fred and George left the Hospital Wing to avoid Wood's lecture and serve detention cleaning the Pigsty without magic.

Michael took subtle revenge on Malfoy by turning Crabbe and Goyle against him, while Wade learned how the Slytherin group was breaking apart. Wade then helped Fred and George endure their punishment for sneaking into the Forbidden Forest to meet the Fire Dragon.

• Wade saw Fred and George cleaning the Pigsty while Percy argued with them and Slytherins mocked them.
• Padma told Wade that Michael was breaking up Malfoy's group by praising Malfoy while drawing out Crabbe and Goyle's resentment.
• Wade realized Crabbe and Goyle had stopped following Malfoy and were enjoying attention from the Slytherin Girls.
• Wade went to the Pigsty and cast Bubble-Head Charms on himself, Fred, and George so they could breathe.
• Fred and George told Wade they had earned their punishment by sneaking into the Forbidden Forest to meet the Fire Dragon.

Wade borrowed the Marauder's Map from Fred and George, offering to study its magic with them. Back in the Room of Requirement, he checked the map for Peter Pettigrew's name.

• Fred and George told Wade that Hagrid had caught them sneaking into the Forbidden Forest and assigned them to clean the Pigsty for half a month.
• Wade asked the twins to borrow their magical parchment, and they revealed it was the Marauder's Map.
• Fred showed Wade how to reveal and hide the map, and the twins agreed to study its magic with him.
• Hagrid assured Wade that Norberta was safe in the Forbidden Forest and had agreed not to hunt near the school or harm intelligent species.
• Wade returned to the Room of Requirement and searched the map for Wormtail, Peter Pettigrew.

Wade gathered dangerous Potions and warned his friends that Draco Malfoy had borrowed a book on poisonous magic. He then organized a battle game to train them in practical spellcasting, leaving the group ready to practice among Hagrid’s giant pumpkins.

• Wade found Peter Pettigrew’s dot on the Marauder’s Map and examined his collection of Potions, noting that he lacked Veritaserum.
• Wade borrowed Powerful Potions from the Restricted Section and learned that Draco Malfoy had borrowed Most Poisonous Magic.
• At the Umbrella Room gathering, Wade warned his friends to avoid provoking Draco and urged them to master practical combat spellcasting.
• Wade proposed a game called Battle Royale to train the group in drawing Wands quickly, casting while dodging, and hitting targets.
• Wade brought the group to Hagrid’s pumpkin patch, where they prepared to use the giant pumpkins for surprise-attack practice.

Wade, Harry, and Fred hunted the White Team in a thirty-minute wizarding game where any player hit by a spell counted as dead. Wade and Harry began taking out opponents, but Harry’s confrontation with Ryan, Michael, Theo, and Neville left the match still underway.

• Wade announced the teams and rules, and Hagrid started the game with a whistle.
• Wade and Harry used long-lasting Shield Charms, Fred climbed onto a pumpkin, and the three hunters split up.
• Wade turned invisible and silenced his footsteps before striking Padma with a spell.
• Fred ambushed Hermione from above, but George, Theo, Michael, Neville, and Ryan joined the fight and spells eliminated several players.
• Harry disarmed Ryan, dodged the others’ spells, and accidentally hit Theo and Neville before Michael and Ryan charged him.