Recaps

Hermione learned that the Ministry had appointed Dolores Umbridge Hogwarts’s first High Inquisitor, then joined the High Tower members to see Will’s expanded headquarters. The group reached the new meeting room, where Will prepared to hold a vote on their nominees.

• Hermione read the Daily Prophet’s announcement of Educational Decree Number Twenty-Three and concluded that the Ministry was interfering with Hogwarts.
• Anco stopped Hermione from using the Vanishing Cabinet because Will was expanding the High Tower and had forbidden entry until he came out.
• Will emerged after more than two hours and showed the fourteen assembled members the High Tower’s new nine-floor layout and grand hall.
• Will led the group to the seventh-floor meeting room and explained that they would use it for discussions and votes, beginning with a vote on their nominees.

Will showed the High Tower members its connected floors, including their recreation areas, a vast training ground, and a new workshop for Fred and George. Back in the meeting room, Draco nominated Astoria Greengrass for membership, and Will recognized her as Draco’s future wife in the original timeline.

• Will led the group through the eighth floor and showed Anco the room he had prepared for him.
• Will showed the members the recreation areas on the fourth and fifth floors and the expansive training ground on the Third Floor.
• Will explained that he had created the training ground using an advanced Undetectable Extension Charm.
• Will showed Fred and George their enlarged workshop on the Second Floor, with separate areas for research, storage, and testing.
• After the group returned to the meeting room, Draco nominated Astoria Greengrass.

Will approved four new High Tower members before hearing Draco reveal that Lucius had asked him to nominate Astoria and report the Greengrass family's work for Voldemort. Draco also mentioned his father's books on healing magic, and Will suggested Draco's hawthorn Wand might suit both healing and Dark Magic.

• The High Tower approved Astoria Greengrass, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Terry Brown, and Cho Chang, while Colin Creevey's nomination was unanimously rejected.
• Draco asked to speak privately with Will, and Hermione agreed to wait for them.
• Draco told Will that Lucius had asked him to nominate Astoria, concealed the Malfoy-Greengrass alliance, and revealed that the Greengrass family was helping Voldemort's followers plan a new operation.
• Draco said Lucius had sent him books on healing magic, and Will advised him to consider learning healing spells alongside Dark Magic because of his hawthorn Wand.
• Will said he would contact the relevant people about the new operation and sent Draco to fetch Hermione.

Hermione asked Will to obtain four books from the Restricted Section so she could prepare for the possibility that Voldemort had returned, and Will agreed. In the second week of term, Umbridge began inspecting lessons and interrupted Professor McGonagall’s class, drawing Will and the Slytherins’ displeasure.

• Hermione asked Will to get her four Restricted Section books about antidotes, charms, and Dark Magic, explaining that she wanted to prepare for danger.
• Will agreed to obtain the books and advised Hermione to organize the others into a study group while Dumbledore handled concerns about Lupin.
• Umbridge began visiting other professors’ classes to observe them and take notes.
• Umbridge interrupted Professor McGonagall’s lesson, but McGonagall rebuked her and continued teaching the Vanishing Spell.
• Will demonstrated the spell for Sylvia and earned two points for Slytherin, then Umbridge interrupted him as he tried to ask McGonagall a question.

Umbridge interrupted McGonagall’s Transfiguration lesson and was ordered out, then appeared again at Herbology. On Tuesday, Will taught third-year students to brew the Draught of Living Death and found that he enjoyed teaching.

• Umbridge challenged McGonagall over teaching the Vanishing Spell, but McGonagall sent her out of the classroom.
• McGonagall told Will to save his questions for their tutoring session, and he agreed.
• Harry and the other Gryffindors saw Umbridge again at Herbology after Transfiguration.
• Will taught third-year students about the Draught of Living Death, awarded Ravenclaw two points for Calvin Harper’s answer, and explained the brewing process.
• Will noticed the students’ admiration and decided he liked teaching.

Will understood how difficult teaching Potions could be for young wizards, then received two werewolf gathering-place addresses from Snape. At Hogwarts, Umbridge challenged Lupin’s combat lesson, but Harry confronted her about Voldemort’s return, and Lupin refused to punish him; Umbridge warned that her investigation results would come within a week.

• Will corrected students’ mistakes while teaching the Draught of Living Death, and a quarter of the class failed to brew it properly.
• Snape returned and gave Will addresses for two werewolf gathering places used by former followers of Fenrir Greyback, who were making deals with the Death Eaters.
• Lupin led his fifth-year students to the edge of the Forbidden Forest for practical combat training, while Umbridge followed and objected to his lesson.
• Umbridge criticized Lupin for exposing students to combat and injuries, insisting he should teach from the textbook instead.
• Harry challenged Umbridge’s claim that the wizarding world was peaceful by mentioning Voldemort’s return and the Ministry murders.
• Lupin refused to deduct points from Harry, and Umbridge said the results of her investigation would be out within a week.

After Umbridge left, Lupin trained the students in defending against attacks, and Will impressed the class with his Transfiguration and Protego. Will then captured werewolves for experiments, successfully turned a Muggle into a werewolf, and began investigating how to separate the magic that caused the condition.

• Lupin had Will demonstrate defenses against offensive spells, and Will blocked attacks with Transfiguration and Protego.
• Lupin began calling students up for practical training, where they struggled against combinations of jinxes.
• Will raided a werewolf gathering in London's East End and captured its members for his experiments.
• Will explained that he planned to study whether werewolf transformations could be controlled or removed, and whether Muggles could be turned into werewolves.
• Will resumed his experiments, successfully transformed a Muggle into a werewolf, and began searching for the magical structure responsible for the werewolf state.

Will studied Werewolf transformation and realized Neville’s unusual Magic structure might help him separate a Wizard’s and Werewolf’s Magic. He later found Neville with Luna in the High Tower and asked him to come along for a private discussion.

• Will recorded a Werewolf’s Magic structure as the full moon triggered its transformation.
• Will recalled that Neville’s Magic structure had once been unusually uneven and considered it a possible breakthrough for his research.
• Will used a Memory Charm on the Werewolves.
• Neville told Luna and the others about the dangers of Biting Cabbage and the 1988 incident involving smuggled plants.
• Luna suggested using dangerous plants against the Dark Lord and his followers, and Will approved the idea.
• Will asked Neville to come with him so he could ask him a few things.

Will investigated whether Neville’s unusual magic and improving memory were connected to something in his childhood, and asked Dumbledore to arrange a meeting with Mrs. Longbottom. Augusta arrived at Hogwarts, where she learned Will was the one who wanted to question her.

• Will asked Neville whether anything unusual had happened while he was growing up, but Neville could recall nothing.
• Will asked Dumbledore to arrange a meeting with Mrs. Longbottom to discuss Neville’s magic.
• Dumbledore agreed to contact Augusta on the condition that Will follow his arrangements concerning Harry.
• Dumbledore and Will discussed Harry’s upcoming Occlumency lessons and whether Snape or Flitwick should teach him.
• Augusta arrived at Hogwarts that afternoon, and Dumbledore told her that Will wanted to ask her about Neville.

Will learned that Neville’s childhood memory problems began after the Death Eaters tortured him with the Cruciatus Curse and Mrs. Longbottom used a Memory Charm to erase his memories. He left Dumbledore and Mrs. Longbottom alone to talk, wondering whether the two spells had interacted.

• Will asked Mrs. Longbottom about Neville’s abnormal magical structure and childhood, with Dumbledore assuring her that Will could be trusted.
• Mrs. Longbottom revealed that Death Eaters had tortured Frank and Alice and used the Cruciatus Curse on Neville when he was a baby.
• Mrs. Longbottom said Neville later described memories of the attack, so she used a Memory Charm to make him forget, but her poor Charms skill also caused his forgetfulness.
• Mrs. Longbottom asked whether Will’s research could help Frank and Alice, then asked him to keep looking out for Neville.
• Dumbledore asked Will to step outside so he could speak privately with Mrs. Longbottom, and Will wondered whether the Cruciatus Curse and Memory Charm had reacted together.

Will researched how memory and the soul were connected as he considered whether the Cruciatus Curse and a Memory Charm had disrupted Neville’s magic. He began planning experiments to test the effects of damaged or altered memories on the soul.

• Will theorized that the Cruciatus Curse had damaged Neville’s soul as an infant and that Mrs. Longbottom’s Memory Charm had disrupted his magic structure.
• Will searched his Book Trunk and found a book called Memory and the Soul.
• Will read that research suggested memory was anchored to both the body and the soul, and that erasing memories could affect the soul.
• Will connected the book’s account of Soul Summoning to Neville’s partial memory loss and wondered whether soul damage and memory erasure could disrupt magic.
• Will considered creating a Ghost and testing what happened when someone’s memories were altered.

Professor Flitwick took Will for a walk by the Black Lake and urged him to rest instead of overworking himself. He gave Will a dueling manual and his research notes to help him prepare for the coming war.

• Professor Flitwick found Will and persuaded him to take a break with a walk by the Black Lake.
• Professor Flitwick questioned Will about his relentless research and warned him to balance work with rest.
• Will explained that Voldemort’s return and the threat of a new war drove him to grow stronger and learn more.
• Professor Flitwick gave Will a recent dueling manual that he could share with other young wizards.
• Professor Flitwick also gave Will his old notes on charms and magical research, and Will thanked him.
• Snape felt a chill run down his back while bottling a potion in his office.

Will tested the Cruciatus Curse on a werewolf whose memories he had damaged with repeated Memory Charms, hoping to learn how the curses affected magical structure. The werewolf's memories returned and his magic began to stabilize, so Will searched his fragmented memories to investigate the link.

• Will brought a werewolf he had used in Memory Charm experiments to his laboratory and repeatedly cast Crucio on him.
• The werewolf's memories returned, and he begged Will to stop torturing him.
• Will observed that the werewolf's unstable magical structure slowly began to recover as his memories returned.
• Will silenced the werewolf with Langlock and used Legilimency to examine his fragmented memories.
• Will wondered whether the werewolf's magical structure would keep repairing itself if his memories were erased again.

Will realized the Cruciatus Curse and Memory Charm could disrupt a werewolf’s magical structure, while Harry dreamed of Voldemort killing someone and torturing a huge snake. Dumbledore suspected the snake was a new Horcrux and asked Will to investigate it.

• Will observed that the Memory Charm stopped the werewolf’s damaged magical structure from repairing itself and considered how the two spells might work together.
• Harry woke from a dream in which Voldemort killed a stranger and cast a spell on a huge snake, then decided to tell Dumbledore.
• Harry told Dumbledore about the dream, and Dumbledore grew grave as he listened.
• Dumbledore summoned Will and said Voldemort might have made the snake a new Horcrux.
• Dumbledore asked Will to watch the snake and confirm whether it was a Horcrux, while Will suspected it was Nagini.

Harry confronted Umbridge in History of Magic after she dismissed Voldemort’s return as a rumor and insulted Dumbledore, earning detention. Will accepted that Harry would have to endure Umbridge’s punishment while he continued his experiments into separating the werewolf form.

• Dumbledore said he intended for Severus to teach Harry Occlumency.
• Harry struggled through Umbridge’s History of Magic lesson as she praised Fudge and criticized Dumbledore and Defence Against the Dark Arts.
• Harry stood up to Umbridge, defended Dumbledore, and shouted that Voldemort had returned.
• Umbridge took ten points from Gryffindor and ordered Harry to detention in her office at five o’clock.
• Will heard about Harry’s detention at dinner, then left to continue his experiments.

Will tested how the Cruciatus Curse and Memory Charm affected a Werewolf’s Magic structure, then discovered a way to cut Magic by precisely directing an enhanced Sectumsempra. He began experimenting with the new technique, which he regarded as a blade that could cut Magic.

• Will tortured a Werewolf with the Cruciatus Curse and found that severe memory damage and a Memory Charm made its Magic structure pitted but did not break or split it.
• Will tried to target the Werewolf’s arm with the Cruciatus Curse, then forcibly twisted the spell through sheer will and amplified it with Ancient Magic.
• The Werewolf’s arm shattered, prompting Will to realize that damaging the body and soul could affect Magic directly.
• Will brought in another Werewolf and used Sectumsempra enhanced with Soul Annihilation to make small cuts along its Magic structure.
• Will became excited as the experiment revealed that Sectumsempra could act as a blade that cut Magic.

Will’s experiments on Lupin’s magic structure reached a dangerous bottleneck, so he consulted Dumbledore, who suggested that werewolf and wizard magic might be connected and need transformation rather than separation. Will realized he might be able to contain and remove the magic carrying werewolf venom, potentially cure werewolves and even create wizards.

• Will found that his experiments had badly damaged the werewolf’s magic structure and decided he needed advice about souls.
• Will met Dumbledore by the Black Lake and explained his research into changing magic through the body and soul.
• Dumbledore suggested that werewolf and wizard magic could be branches of the same structure, making transformation safer than cutting one away.
• Will recalled that Muggles infected by werewolf magic became magical beings after their transformations ended and reconsidered how werewolves differed from Veela.
• Will theorized that he could contain and remove the magic carrying werewolf venom, and that the venom’s blueprint might let him create a Werewolf Curse capable of creating wizards.

Dumbledore urged Will to approach a difficult problem by inventing a spell, then told him to gradually resume spending time with Harry while Snape taught Harry Occlumency. Harry told Will about Umbridge’s painful detention and asked for a way to fake illness, but Will refused and hinted he could instead drive Umbridge out of Hogwarts.

• Dumbledore encouraged Will to consider inventing a spell and said Harry could start spending time with him again while Snape taught Harry Occlumency.
• Harry and Hermione caught up with Will and Sylvia after lunch, and Will invited them to talk in private.
• Harry explained that Umbridge had punished him with a Dark Magic object during detention and that McGonagall had redirected him to Snape’s Office.
• Harry asked Will for a way to fake being sick for a week, but Will said he could not help him.
• Will told Harry he might have a way to drive Umbridge out of Hogwarts.

Will advised Harry and Hermione to expose Umbridge’s use of Dark Magic through wizarding newspapers, then received Voldemort’s urgent orders to watch Dumbledore and investigate the Lestrange family vault. As Umbridge’s hostile faculty reviews continued, Will kept her from targeting Lupin by altering her memory and pursuing research into a new spell.

• Will told Hermione to write an article about Umbridge hurting Harry with Dark Magic and asked her to get Colin to take photographs.
• Draco delivered Voldemort’s letter, which warned Will that Dumbledore was investigating the Order of the Phoenix, ordered him to watch Dumbledore’s movements, and pressed him to investigate the Lestrange family vault.
• Will decided he would soon visit Vincent's Vault and keep Hufflepuff's Cup in Dumbledore’s Portable Library.
• Will reassured Draco that he did not need to help and told him to follow his father’s instructions while at school.
• Umbridge gave nearly every professor a poor review and recommended dismissals or restrictions, especially targeting Lupin.
• Will’s altered memory kept Umbridge from exposing Lupin herself, while his research into a new spell prevented her from finding an incident to use against him.

Will used an improved Werewolf Venom Curse on three werewolves during the full moon, forcing the venom magic into a localized region but leaving them only partly transformed. He planned to finish the magical surgery after returning to his proper timeline and use the result to build Faith, gathering power from Wizards and Muggles alike.

• Will decided to use the Hour-Reversal Charm and strengthen the Werewolf Venom Curse so it could isolate the venom magic within a werewolf’s body.
• During the full moon, Will cast his improved curse on three chained werewolves, forcing their venom magic to retreat and their fur to fall away.
• Will stopped short of cutting away the isolated region because he feared time would punish him for completing the work in the past.
• Will planned to finish the surgery in his proper timeline and use it to create Wizards and establish Faith.
• Will resolved to gather power from everyone in the world to fulfill his ambition to surpass all others.

Will tested his magic for transforming Muggles into werewolves and suppressing the effects of Werewolf Venom. Meanwhile, Harry entered Snape’s Pensieve and began to see his father and his friends in a troubling new light.

• Will transformed two Muggles into werewolves and tested whether an improved Werewolf Venom Curse could prevent a bite from infecting someone.
• Harry ignored Strange’s warning and plunged into Snape’s Pensieve to view his memories.
• Harry watched a Hogwarts exam and saw James, Sirius, Lupin, and Peter after it ended.
• Harry heard James mock Peter and then call Snape “Snivellus,” leaving Harry uneasy about his father.

Harry watched Snape’s memory and saw James and Sirius attack and humiliate Snape while Lily tried to stop them. The memory left Harry struggling to reconcile his father’s bullying with his image of James, as the confrontation continued with Lily drawing her wand.

• James mocked Snape and attacked him without warning, while Sirius helped disarm and knock Snape into the mud.
• James taunted Snape and cast Scourgify on him, filling his mouth with bubbles as students watched.
• Lily arrived and demanded that James release Snape, but James tried to make her agree to date him in exchange.
• Snape recovered his wand and cut James’s face with Sectumsempra, then James hit Snape with Levicorpus.
• James dropped Snape, who fell hard, and Sirius then used Petrificus Totalus to knock him down again.
• Lily drew her wand and ordered James and Sirius to let Snape go.

Harry saw the end of Snape’s memory of James and Lily and learned that James had bullied Snape. He then witnessed Snape, Will, and Dumbledore discussing a dangerous choice Will had made, but Snape and Dumbledore withheld the details as Dumbledore ordered Harry to focus on Occlumency.

• James released Snape, but Snape insulted Lily, who rejected James’s demand that Snape apologize and left after condemning James’s bullying.
• Harry’s image of his father was shaken by the memory, especially Lily’s accusations that James hexed people and showed off.
• Harry saw Will tell Dumbledore that he had chosen a dangerous path and was ready to face the consequences, while Snape warned that it would lead to Will’s death.
• Snape pulled Harry out of the memory and sent a Paper Crane to summon Dumbledore after Harry demanded to know what Will planned to do.
• Harry recounted what he had seen, argued with Snape about James and Will, and Dumbledore restrained them before telling Harry to devote himself to learning Occlumency.

Dumbledore brought Harry to a Safe House for intensive Occlumency training because Harry had seen something concerning Will. Harry asked about James, and Dumbledore explained James’s faults and later changes before Will appeared at the door.

• Dumbledore ended Harry’s other lessons and arranged for Snape and Filius to teach him Occlumency, then took him to a Hogwarts Safe House.
• Harry asked Dumbledore what kind of person James had really been, hoping Snape’s memory of the Black Lake had been misleading.
• Dumbledore confirmed James had bullied Snape, acted arrogantly, and gone too far at the Black Lake, while also once saving Snape’s life.
• Dumbledore explained that James changed for Lily and joined the fight against the Death Eaters despite his pure-blood background.
• Will opened the door after hearing his name as Dumbledore reminded Harry that he needed to master Occlumency for Will’s sake.

Will told Dumbledore that his work on curing Werewolf transformations was nearly complete, then discussed plans to remove Umbridge from Hogwarts. Dumbledore warned that Harry had seen Will in Snape’s memory, leaving Will resolved to be careful but unwilling to mediate Harry and Snape’s relationship.

• Will asked Dumbledore whether magic could let Werewolves transform at will or trigger a transformation without a full moon, but Dumbledore had no solution.
• Will told Dumbledore he planned to get Umbridge expelled from Hogwarts and needed only a little help.
• Dumbledore warned Will that Harry had seen part of Snape’s memory involving him and might expose his activities.
• Dumbledore asked Will to help mend Harry and Snape’s relationship, but Will refused and judged the older generation’s conflicts to be their own responsibility.