Chapter Summaries

Will considered his role as a spy and searched the Black family’s underground Book Repository, then received invitations to an award ceremony and a conference. As the Hogwarts Express left for summer, he told Sylvia he would continue his research and attend the Quidditch World Cup, while her farewell left their relationship uncertain.

• Will decided he would deal with Voldemort and planned to handle Old Riddle’s grave over the summer.
• Harry woke in the Hospital Wing feeling better, where Lupin visited and Snape brought him medicine in a foul mood.
• Will found a thin, damaged book in the underground Book Repository at 12 Grimmauld Place.
• Will received a Wizard Innovation Award nomination and an invitation to a Rune Association conference, followed by another letter signed by Hobart Howard.
• On the Hogwarts Express, Will told Sylvia that he and his uncle had things to do before he continued his research and joined her for the Quidditch World Cup.
• Sylvia wished Will a good summer, and Luna and Ginny interrupted their moment.

Will used the Imperius Curse and memory charms to make Richard Avery write a political proposal that would enable reforms in Little Hangleton, including the removal of Old Riddle’s grave. The chapter left Will considering how valuable the Howard family was.

• Ginny told the High Tower students that Will had upset Sylvia, and Fred and George organized bets on how long the pair would be at odds.
• The students were surprised when Will and Sylvia arrived at the station chatting and laughing, ending the betting game.
• Will left the station with Hobert and spent the journey thinking about Voldemort’s old grave in Little Hangleton.
• Four days later, Will used the Imperius Curse to make Richard Avery draft a detailed rural reform proposal that included reforming the Little Hangleton graveyard.
• Will erased Avery’s memories, made him believe the proposal was his own idea, and reflected on the usefulness of Muggle political systems and the Howard family.

Will traveled to Germany with Hobert and learned how the Howard Family maintained its wealth and political influence in the Muggle world. He remained wary of the family and questioned why it had so few Wizards.

• Will left the Howard house under a Disillusionment Charm, jogged to the hotel, and gained stamina experience.
• Hobert teased Will about his poor fitness and said the old duke wanted him to learn about politics from Edward.
• Hobert told Will that the Howard Family could provide him with nearly anything and warned him against becoming a Dark Wizard.
• Hobert dismissed the maids and explained the Howard Family's hidden assets, political connections, and charitable public reputation.
• Will considered the family's scandals and his plans to use its Muggle influence, then asked why it had so few Wizards.

Hobert explained why wizards remained separated from Muggles and urged Will not to devote his life to magic, instead inviting him to help start a video game company. Will declined to abandon magic but became intrigued by the idea of using Muggles’ emotions as a source of power.

• Hobert told Will that the International Statute of Secrecy and the Wizarding World’s isolation made it difficult for wizards to integrate into Muggle society.
• Hobert described how Muggles advanced in medicine and technology while wizarding society remained stagnant, and warned Will that becoming a great wizard was difficult.
• Hobert urged Will to enjoy an easier life and offered him a role in a video game company after graduation.
• Will appreciated Hobert’s concern but resolved to keep pursuing magic.
• Hobert said he and Will were alike and imagined using games to win people’s hearts and become Video Game Gods.
• Will wondered whether Muggles’ happiness and other emotions could be used as power.

Will studied a Black family ancestor’s damaged manuscript on the Hour-Reversal Charm and learned that the spell could cause unpredictable, dangerous distortions in time. He resolved to research it cautiously, while a white-haired man outside Malfoy Manor felt his burning arm and realized the Dark Lord was summoning him again.

• Will ignored Hobert’s party in Germany and studied the manuscript, which described the charm’s limits and instability.
• Will noted the Madsen Village and Black Ring Wizards' Society incidents as cases possibly linked to time travel.
• Will read that the Black family ancestor’s experiments became uncontrollable and once carried a patch of spacetime several hours into the past.
• The manuscript described a 1882 geomagnetic storm, widespread time distortions, and the ancestor’s claim that something was taking revenge on him.
• Will decided not to use the Hour-Reversal Charm recklessly and sighed over the difficulty of magic.
• Outside Malfoy Manor, a white-haired middle-aged man felt his arm burning and realized the Dark Lord was summoning him.

Voldemort ordered Lucius to summon Will Behrens during the summer so Will could bring Harry Potter to him during the Triwizard Tournament. Meanwhile, Will toured Germany with Hobert and found old books on medieval German Dark Magic Societies in Berlin.

• Voldemort told Lucius that Will would help capture Harry Potter during the Triwizard Tournament, and Lucius warned that Will was currently in Germany.
• Lucius reported that Will would return for the summer holiday, and Voldemort ordered him to wait until then.
• Hobert took Will to Cologne, where they visited the cathedral and the crowded Cologne Magical Market.
• Will and Hobert visited Berlin’s hidden wizarding district, where Will’s persistent sneezing and attraction to beer halls puzzled him.
• Will found several prewar books on Medieval German Dark Magic Societies at the Fountain of Wisdom, and the elderly shopkeeper questioned his interest in dark magic.

Will traveled through Germany, read biographies of major wizards, and learned that German wizards admired Grindelwald more than Dumbledore and dismissed Voldemort as a terrorist. After seeing Hobert with his new girlfriend Lina, Will began thinking about visiting Austria.

• Will bought a copy of The Life of Grindelwald from an old wizard bookseller and set out to learn how German wizards viewed famous figures.
• Hobert introduced Will to Lina von Ahrns, his new girlfriend, who joined them on their travels.
• While Hobert and Lina were away at a campsite in the Black Forest, Will killed two Erklings that had targeted him and Transfigured their remains into firewood.
• Will abandoned his effort to study German spells because learning them would require him to learn German.
• After reading biographies, Will found that German wizards viewed Dumbledore as a saint, preferred Grindelwald as a hero, and considered Voldemort unworthy of comparison with Grindelwald.
• Will left Hobert and Lina alone, watched clouds and mist from another cabin, and felt like visiting Austria.

Will mastered the Hour-Reversal Charm by mid-August, then traveled with the Lestrange family to the Quidditch World Cup final. At the stadium, he sensed the crowd’s excitement and noticed Lucius Malfoy approaching.

• Will returned to England and devoted himself to learning the Hour-Reversal Charm, mastering it by mid-August.
• Sylvia invited Will to attend the Quidditch World Cup final with her family, who collected him on the evening of the seventeenth.
• Will traveled by Portkey with Sylvia, Daisy, and Victor to the crowded campsite, where they greeted Arthur Weasley and his family.
• The Lestranges hosted Will in their enchanted tent and took him to their seats in the stadium’s top box.
• Will sensed the crowd’s intense excitement as he surveyed the stadium, and Lucius Malfoy came over to speak with the Lestranges.

At the Quidditch World Cup, Will accepted Lucius’s invitation to Malfoy Manor and studied the Veela’s magical structure during their performance. The match’s mascots continued with the Leprechauns, whose magically conjured gold coins Will examined.

• Lucius invited Will to Malfoy Manor after the match, and Will accepted, suspecting Voldemort wanted to meet him.
• Fudge introduced Will to Ludo Bagman before Will took his seat in the Top Box near the Weasleys and Harry’s friends.
• Will noticed an invisible magical patch near the scoreboard disappear as the match began.
• The Veela danced on the pitch, and Will studied their magic while Sylvia teased him about watching them.
• Harry, Ron, and Draco were captivated by the Veela until Hermione, Ginny, and Lucius pulled or held them back.
• The Leprechauns formed a four-leaf clover and showered the stands with gold coins, and Will identified his coin as magically created rather than transfigured.

Will watched the Quidditch World Cup final, then used the Hour-Reversal Charm to return to before the match and harvest the crowd’s joy. After discovering where the Bulgarian Team’s Veela were staying, he planned to capture one that night to study her transformation.

• Will watched the chaotic final as Krum caught the Snitch, but Ireland defeated Bulgaria 170–160.
• Will returned to the Lestrange family tent and cast the Hour-Reversal Charm, traveling three hours into the past.
• Will flew into the stadium under a Disillusionment Charm and built a Joy Core on a billboard.
• Will harvested the crowd’s joy as excitement grew, then stored the Joy Core when the match descended into chaos.
• Will followed the Bulgarian Team’s Veela to their lodgings and planned to capture one for study.

Will and Victor joined the defense against a Death Eater attack on the campsite after helping Daisy and Sylvia reach the Minister’s tent. The first Death Eater wave charged the earth wall, and Will killed one attacker as the defenders fought back.

• Will woke to the camp’s commotion, drank a Wakefulness Potion, and joined Victor in guarding their tent despite Victor’s warning.
• Ludo Bagman escorted Daisy and Sylvia to the Minister’s tent, where Fudge was gathering families while the men formed a defensive line.
• Victor and Will joined Fudge’s defenders behind an earth wall alongside Lucius and Draco, and the first wave of Death Eaters attacked with spells.
• Will dodged a Cruciatus Curse and used Reducto to blow apart the Death Eater who had cast it.
• A nearby Death Eater hesitated after being splattered with gore, allowing a defender to hit him with Petrificus Totalus, while Draco attacked with other curses.

Will and the defenders struggled against a growing Death Eater attack until the Dark Mark appeared and a strange gray-black mist incapacitated the attackers. Benjamin recognized the mist as resembling the magic of the Christmas Dark Wizard who had given them gold.

• Will used a Collapse Charm, Expelliarmus, and Petrificus Totalus to stop several Death Eaters.
• Victor and Will faced a larger wave of attackers as Draco and the defenders helped hold the line behind the Earth Wall.
• The Dark Mark appeared in the sky, and the Death Eaters surged forward as Fudge ordered a retreat.
• Gray-black mist spread across the campsite, draining the Death Eaters' will and leaving them unconscious before it vanished.
• Benjamin told Fudge that the mist resembled the magic of the Christmas Dark Wizard who had given them gold.

After the Death Eaters’ attack, Will used the Hour-Reversal Charm to return to before the chaos, examined and repaired the Roberts family’s memories, then headed to the Veela’s tent. Nicolina and her sister were caught in the attack and faced Death Eaters who intended to take the Veela alive.

• Scrimgeour arrived with the Aurors and arrested the Death Eaters as Will waited with the Lestrange family and later reversed time by four hours.
• Will examined Roberts’s brain, found damage from repeated Memory Charms, and used Obliviate to repair the memories of Roberts and his family.
• Will heard footsteps, placed Disillusionment Charms on the Roberts family, and left for the Veela’s tent.
• Nicolina heard the attack, rushed outside with her sister, and tried to reach the Bulgarian Ministry of Magic officials.
• Several Death Eaters blocked Nicolina and her sister, demanded that the Veela be taken alive, and attacked them.

Will rescued the unconscious Veela sisters from Death Eaters and took them to a hidden cave, where he began studying Nicolina’s transformation ability. He left Nicolina captive and asked whether changing forms was instinctive or learned.

• Death Eaters stunned Milena and petrified Nicolina before a dark mist weakened everyone and Will appeared.
• Will confirmed the sisters were unconscious, changed them into sparrows, and carried them to a cave he had made in a valley.
• Will restored Nicolina to human form and told her he wanted to study Veela transformations, threatening to use Veritaserum or the Imperius Curse if she refused to cooperate.
• Nicolina changed into her bird form while Will recorded her magical structure and tested her abilities.
• Will had Nicolina switch between human and bird forms, then asked whether the transformation was instinctive or had to be learned.

Will questioned Nicolina about Veela transformations, then secretly left her and her sister among the injured after erasing their memories. Harry returned to The Burrow with the Weasleys after the Quidditch World Cup attack, while Sylvia assured Will that he was family and would attend the awards ceremony with them.

• Nicolina explained that Veela learned to transform instinctively, usually in their teens, and that some transformed Veela remained birds and later became male.
• Nicolina's sister woke and threatened Will, but Nicolina calmed her; Will stunned her during her transformation and found that she continued transforming while unconscious.
• Will erased the sisters' memories and placed them among St. Mungo's patients before returning to his tent and falling asleep.
• Harry traveled with the Weasleys to Stoatshead Hill using a tire Portkey and reached The Burrow, where Molly welcomed him as family.
• Sylvia told Will that he was family and that they would attend the Society for the Promotion of Alchemical Excellence awards ceremony.

Will attended the Society for the Promotion of Alchemical Excellence’s award ceremony alone after warning Sylvia that she might be in danger, and he won the Wizard Innovation Award. Rock Rowle invited Will and Snape to a private banquet, leaving Will facing a potentially dangerous gathering.

• Will refused Sylvia’s offer to accompany him to the ceremony, and Sylvia agreed while arranging for her father to keep people nearby in case Will needed help.
• Roy gave Will Dumbledore’s letter asking him to investigate Voldemort and the Death Eaters, then handed him a Nokia phone as another way to seek help.
• Will arrived alone at the Society’s hall, where Rock Rowle welcomed him to the ceremony.
• Will received the Wizard Innovation Award and thanked the Hogwarts professors, Snape, and the Society in his speech.
• Will spent the banquet with Snape and politely spoke with potion-makers, including Slughorn.
• After the banquet, Rock invited Will and Snape to a private banquet.

Will met Voldemort at Malfoy Manor and was ordered to enter the Triwizard Tournament, keep Harry Potter alive, and act as Voldemort’s agent while remaining close to Dumbledore. After supper, Will and Snape left for Spinner’s End.

• Will traveled with Snape and Rowle to Malfoy Manor, where Lucius escorted him to meet Voldemort.
• Voldemort told Will to enter the Triwizard Tournament and ensure Harry followed his plan without attacking him.
• Voldemort ordered Will to build his reputation and serve as an agent on Dumbledore’s side after Voldemort’s resurrection.
• Will explained what he knew about the ancient emotion magic at the Quidditch World Cup, and Voldemort said the Death Eaters there had not been meant to capture Harry.
• Will ate supper with Snape and Lucius, then left with Snape for Spinner’s End.

Will spent the night drinking wine and talking with Snape at Spinner's End, then returned to Hogwarts for the start of fourth year. As the Hogwarts Express approached the school, Will considered how he would have to take Barty Crouch Jr.'s place in Voldemort's plan.

• Will arrived at Snape's home in Spinner's End, where Snape shared wine with him and warned him to stay safe.
• Will spent the night at Snape's house and called Roy the next morning to reassure him that he was fine.
• Will attended a Rune Association event before returning to King's Cross on September first.
• Will helped Hermione with her trunk, then boarded the Hogwarts Express with Sylvia and later shared a compartment with Hannah and Neville.
• Will reflected that Lupin's continued presence meant Barty Crouch Jr. could not pose as Moody, so Will would have to take his place in the plan.

Will returned to Hogwarts for the new school year as students arrived in a downpour and Peeves ambushed them with water balloons. At the opening feast, Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts would host the Triwizard Tournament, and Lupin returned as Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor for a second year.

• Will rode to Hogwarts with Sylvia and the other High Tower members, avoiding the rain with protective charms and raincoats.
• Peeves dropped water balloons on students in the entrance hall, and Cedric, Sylvia, Hermione, Harry, Michael, Neville, and Ron stopped them with Levitation Charms.
• Professor McGonagall summoned Will and took him away before the feast, and he later returned to the Slytherin table without revealing what they had discussed.
• Dumbledore announced that the Triwizard Tournament would take place at Hogwarts and explained that it had been revived with an Age Restriction.
• Dumbledore introduced Lupin as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor for a second consecutive year.

Before the feast, Will told Dumbledore that Voldemort wanted to use him as a Double Agent, and they arranged for Will to monitor the plan while Dumbledore handled the tasks Voldemort assigned him. At the feast, Will declined to enter the Triwizard Tournament, but Malfoy decided to try entering himself.

• Before the feast, Will told Dumbledore what Voldemort had asked him to do and described Voldemort's plan to make him a Double Agent.
• Will explained that Little Hangleton's cemetery had been cleared, Old Riddle's grave had been leveled, and his remains had apparently been destroyed.
• Dumbledore asked Will to keep watch over Voldemort's plans and said he would arrange for Will to complete any tasks Voldemort gave him.
• At the feast, Sylvia urged Will to eat and warned him that the Triwizard Tournament was dangerous, while Malfoy encouraged him to enter.
• Will said he was not interested in entering the tournament, and Malfoy resolved to try entering himself.