Chapter Summaries

Will arrived at Baron Hume’s castle, confirmed that no Wizard served the Baron, and used a Confundus Charm on him. In a hidden room above the castle, Will studied Dumbledore’s notes on Soul Transfiguration and permanent transformations, then continued training to advance his Transfiguration.

• Will followed the knights to Baron Hume’s castle, then used Legilimency to learn that the Baron had no Wizard in his service.
• Will cast a Confundus Charm on Baron Hume, leaving him dazed and forgetful.
• Will made a concealed room above the castle and studied Dumbledore’s notes on Soul Transfiguration and making transformations permanent.
• Will cast a Felix Charm on himself and continued studying, gaining Transfiguration experience.

The students and professors at Hogwarts grieved over Will’s disappearance while the Wizarding World reeled from attacks on Diagon Alley and the Ministry of Magic. Karkaroff considered seeking Dumbledore’s protection by revealing what he knew about Will, unaware that Dumbledore was focused on Will’s fate.

• Werewolves attacked Diagon Alley, but Dumbledore’s preparations and the Order of the Phoenix prevented casualties, and Fenrir Greyback was arrested.
• An Auror arrived at the tournament grounds mortally wounded and reported that the Ministry of Magic had been attacked; Dumbledore left, and Fudge sent Scrimgeour and his Aurors back to the Ministry.
• Dumbledore returned with an injured Harry, who told Sylvia that Will had tried to save him and had disappeared.
• Fudge announced that mysterious Dark Wizards had attacked the Ministry and that the attackers had all been killed.
• At Hogwarts, Karkaroff considered telling Dumbledore what he knew about Will in exchange for protection, while Dumbledore remained preoccupied with Will’s situation.

Dumbledore worried about Will’s absence before Karkaroff came to accuse Will of serving Voldemort and handed over evidence. Dumbledore dismissed Karkaroff’s conspiracy theories and erased his memory, leaving him to atone for his mistakes.

• Dumbledore wondered why Will had not returned and reflected on his own past with Grindelwald.
• Karkaroff visited Dumbledore and claimed Will was Voldemort’s disciple, presenting parchment as proof.
• Karkaroff said Will had used the Imperius Curse to control him and involve him in experiments.
• Dumbledore said Will was his student, as Voldemort had once been, and admitted he had failed to guide Voldemort.
• Karkaroff imagined Dumbledore had orchestrated events to control Britain and begged him to spare his life.
• Dumbledore told Karkaroff he had misunderstood and needed to atone, then cast Obliviate.

Will struggled to advance his Soul Transfiguration studies, then encountered a transforming werewolf near a Muggle village and captured him as a potential test subject. He flew away with the unconscious man, leaving the woodcutter unable to remember what had happened.

• Will found that weeks of practicing Dumbledore's animal-transfiguration method had brought him little progress.
• Will flew to a forest and watched a man transform into a werewolf beneath the moon.
• Will struck the werewolf down before it could reach a woodcutter and used magic to make the woodcutter forget the encounter.
• Will bound the unconscious werewolf with a Vine and flew away with him, calling him a new test subject.

Will studied a werewolf in Baron Hume's dungeon and tested whether its bite could transform Muggles. On the full moon, he watched three bitten prisoners become werewolves and concluded that the change reconstructed their magical structures through a ritual-like process.

• Will examined a werewolf's magical structure and wondered whether it could reveal how the soul related to magic.
• Will bit three condemned prisoners with the werewolf, then monitored them over the following days without seeing any immediate changes.
• On the full moon, Will watched the prisoners' magical structures form and shift as they transformed into werewolves.
• Will restrained a newly transformed werewolf and recorded that the full moon triggered an explosive, ritual-like reconstruction of magical structure.

Will studied werewolves and concluded that their transformation might be a form of permanent Transfiguration caused by natural magic. He tried to reproduce the process in death-row prisoners, but every attempt ended in failure, so he decided to observe a bitten person's transformation during a full moon.

• Will resolved to pursue a deeper understanding of Transfiguration after considering how magic could rewrite a living being's structure.
• Will discovered that a Muggle bitten by a wizard werewolf became a werewolf, while one bitten by a Muggle werewolf only became ill.
• Will theorized that werewolf transformation was permanent Transfiguration driven by natural magic and began trying to create a werewolf artificially.
• Will repeatedly attempted to construct a werewolf's magical structure inside death-row prisoners, but each prisoner died when the process failed.
• Will wondered whether werewolf venom was necessary and decided to observe a bitten person's transformation during a full moon.

Will observed werewolf venom transforming a prisoner and concluded that venom, Natural Magic, and the full moon formed a ritual that created werewolves. After gaining Transfiguration knowledge, he sensed danger, transformed into a phoenix, and was hurled through time before losing consciousness.

• Will had a condemned prisoner bitten by a werewolf and used his Wizard's Eye to study the venom spreading through the man's body.
• Will watched Natural Magic build a self-sustaining structure in the prisoner and recorded that werewolf venom acted as its seed and blueprint.
• Will theorized that werewolf transformation was a form of Natural Transfiguration and wondered whether nature could create wizards.
• Will gained Transfiguration experience and reached LV6, but a sudden warning sensation and the Silver Watch's frantic spinning alarmed him.
• Will transformed into a phoenix as the werewolves attacked, and he killed them with Avada Kedavra and Sectumsempra.
• Will was violently thrown through time, saw his feathers fall out, and blacked out.

After emerging from the earth in 1767, Will chose the Formless bonus ability for his Level 6 Transfiguration. He unleashed a chaotic miniature world through Soul Transfiguration, then realized his power had reached the highest ranks.

• Will crawled out of the ashes underground, surfaced in a barren land, and saw that his watch still showed 1767.
• Will considered the effects of time and magic, then chose Formless over Distortion and The Limit as his Transfiguration bonus ability.
• Will's new ability transformed the wilderness around him into a chaotic ecosystem of mismatched landscapes and creatures.
• Will watched the miniature world's creatures reproduce, hunt, and die as time raced forward within it.
• Will's miniature world collapsed back into barren wilderness, and he laughed as he realized his Transfiguration had reached the highest ranks.

Will experimented with LV6 Transfiguration and considered how it differed from the natural magic that created werewolves. He ended the night questioning the limits of Transfiguration and transformed into a silver phoenix to guard against time.

• Will used Transfiguration to make lifelike animals that a Muggle hunter believed were real, then secretly replaced the hunter’s catch.
• Will lived in a magically furnished mountain crevice and reflected on the werewolf experiment he intended to continue.
• Will compared his artificial animals’ soul-like qualities with the permanent transformation of Muggles into werewolves.
• Will recognized that he was approaching a fundamental boundary and wrote questions about Transfiguration and the creation of souls in his notebook.
• Will put away the notebook, extinguished the lamp, and changed into a silver phoenix in case time ambushed him in his sleep.

Voldemort summoned the Death Eaters to Malfoy Manor, praised the missing Will Behrens, and ordered his followers to infiltrate the Ministry and free prisoners from Azkaban. He privately tasked Lucius Malfoy with finding Hufflepuff's Cup and helping Will establish himself among the Death Eaters if he returned.

• Lucius Malfoy worried that Voldemort would punish him for contributing little, but Voldemort did not reprimand him.
• Voldemort praised Yaxley's performance and ordered the Death Eaters to find Will Behrens and bring him back.
• Voldemort ordered the Death Eaters to infiltrate key Ministry of Magic positions and prepare to free his servants from Azkaban.
• Voldemort asked Lucius what he thought of Will, then assigned him to find Hufflepuff's Cup, which he had entrusted to Bellatrix.
• Voldemort told Lucius to help Will find his place among the Death Eaters if he returned, and ordered him to keep the matter secret.

Will studied Durmstrang spells and chose a new cooking ability, Taste Memory, after reaching Cooking LV4. While eating, he found that his watch had started responding again, suggesting time’s retaliation against him had ended or weakened.

• Will read about Durmstrang’s practical War Magic, unusual alcohol spells, and other spells such as Snow Blade and War Stomp.
• Will decided to postpone his research into creating artificial Werewolves until he returned to the proper time.
• After reaching Cooking LV4, Will chose Taste Memory, which let him perceive and reproduce the flavors of food he had tasted.
• Will noticed his watch clicking as he handled it and realized its renewed response might mean time’s retaliation had eased.

Will traveled back to 1890 to investigate incidents involving Ancient Magic and Emotion Magic during Phineas Nigellus Black's time as Headmaster, but found no useful clues at Hogwarts. He left for the Scottish Highlands to study magic, remaining there until September 1980.

• Will adjusted his watch and traveled to 1890, arriving without suffering any distortion to his body.
• Will entered Hogwarts under a Disillusionment Charm and observed students from different houses practicing magic together.
• Will explored Hogwarts and found the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom's dragon skeleton and a potion brewing in the empty Potions classroom.
• Will searched the Room of Requirement for information on Ancient Magic and Emotion Magic but found only basic books and no useful clues.
• Will left Hogwarts for the Scottish Highlands and studied magic there for several months, until September 1980.

Will followed a Dragon attacking Professor Fig and DePty’s carriage, then was transported with them by an Ancient Magic Portkey to coastal Ruins. As Fig and DePty began exploring the site, Will recognized its traces of Ancient Magic and learned more about DePty’s unusual late awakening as a wizard.

• Will followed a collared Norwegian Ridgeback and saw it attack Professor Fig and DePty’s Hogwarts carriage.
• Will slowed the fall of an Ancient Magic key, and Professor Fig summoned it, activating a Portkey that carried Will, Fig, and DePty to a Cave beside Ruins.
• Will recognized the Ruins’ traces of Ancient Magic, while Professor Fig suspected Miriam’s Portkey had brought them to the place she and George had died seeking.
• Will learned that DePty Winston had only become a wizard that summer and had entered Hogwarts as a fifth-year transfer.
• Professor Fig and DePty broke a magical barrier, and Fig prepared to repair a path leading toward the Ruins in the water.

Will followed Professor Fig and DePty into Gringotts, but the Thief's Downfall exposed him and forced him to incapacitate them and erase their memories. The group reached a Gringotts Guard with no one remembering Will's presence.

• Professor Fig repaired a stone bridge, and he and DePty entered the ruins, where touching a magical crystal transported them to Gringotts.
• A goblin recognized Professor Fig's key and led him and DePty onto a minecart headed for Vault Twelve, while Will secretly rode with them.
• The Thief's Downfall dispelled Will's Disillusionment Charm, exposing him to Professor Fig, DePty, and the goblin.
• Will stunned Professor Fig and DePty, put the goblin to sleep, and erased all three of their memories of him.
• Will woke the others, and the minecart stopped before a Gringotts Guard.

Will, DePty, and Professor Fig entered Vault Twelve and discovered that DePty’s unusual gift could reveal a hidden doorway. After DePty activated it, they were transported to a dark, strange place where he uncovered the outline of armor beneath a translucent floor.

• A goblin escorted Will, DePty, and Professor Fig to Vault Twelve and locked them inside its small stone chamber.
• Professor Fig tried Specialis Revelio on the blank wall, but it did not work, so he taught DePty the spell.
• DePty cast Specialis Revelio and revealed a door-shaped outline matching the key, then touched its center.
• Darkness engulfed the group, and DePty followed a silvery-blue light that transported him, Will, and Professor Fig to an open space.
• DePty spotted a suit of armor beneath the translucent floor and cast Specialis Revelio, revealing another suit whose movement matched the one below.

DePty learned to use Lumos to guide the armor, triggering a fight with six Guardians that he and Professor Fig defeated with help from Will in the shadows. The darkness then led Will to another hall, where DePty faced the Guardians alone and was wounded, forcing Will to intervene again.

• Professor Fig taught DePty to control Lumos, and DePty used the light to guide the armor on the ice.
• The armor struck the ice and summoned six Guardians, which attacked DePty and Professor Fig.
• Will secretly tripped, slowed, and disrupted the Guardians while Professor Fig and DePty fought them off.
• Darkness separated Will from DePty, and Will followed faint lights to another hall.
• DePty activated the Guardians alone, was wounded in the fight, and Will decided to help him from the shadows.

DePty and Professor Fig discovered a Pensieve memory explaining the Ancient Magic trials, but Ranrok confronted them and demanded what they had found. Ranrok killed a goblin who objected, then attacked Professor Fig as Will watched from the shadows.

• DePty followed the lights into a hidden hall, where he and Professor Fig viewed a memory of Percival and Charles Rookwood creating the trials for people who could see Ancient Magic.
• Professor Fig realized DePty could see traces of Ancient Magic and suspected Miriam and George had sought the same knowledge.
• Ranrok entered with two goblins and demanded that DePty and Professor Fig hand over what they held.
• A goblin defended DePty and Professor Fig’s right to enter their vault, but Ranrok killed him with a beam from his glowing bracer.
• Professor Fig and Ranrok locked spells in a beam struggle while Will noticed the bracer on Ranrok’s other arm flash red.

Ranrok destroyed the Guardian and attacked Will, who emerged from hiding and countered the Goblins’ spells with Transfiguration. Ranrok’s dark magic appeared to tear Will apart, but Will spoke from behind him, leaving Ranrok chilled.

• The Guardian attacked Ranrok and his men, killing one Goblin before Ranrok and his surviving man destroyed it with repeated spells.
• DePty pulled Professor Fig away from the Guardian and escaped through a portal.
• Will emerged from the shadows, and Ranrok attacked him alongside his remaining man.
• Will transfigured stone fragments into feathered serpents that blocked the Goblins’ spells.
• Ranrok struck Will with dark magic and believed he had killed him, but Will’s voice sounded behind Ranrok.

Will revealed that he had hidden while a transfigured double fought Ranrok, then attacked the goblin with transfigured creatures and shifting stone. Ranrok countered Will’s spells with the goblin magic in his rune-enchanted gear, and the chapter ended with Will lowering his wand as Ranrok taunted him.

• Will appeared behind Ranrok, revealing that his real body had stayed hidden while a transfigured decoy fought.
• Will transfigured stones and dust into werewolves and trapped Ranrok’s remaining subordinate in liquid stone.
• Ranrok used the runes on his bracers to create a barrier and dissolve the werewolves with a red shockwave.
• Ranrok fired needle-like rays at Will, but Will raised a thick stone wall to block them.
• Will sent stone spikes at Ranrok and turned the ground beneath him to quicksand, but Ranrok’s enchanted gear shattered the attacks and hardened the ground.
• Will lowered his wand, and Ranrok laughed and asked if he was giving up.

Will defeated Ranrok using a transfigured puppet while remaining hidden, then incapacitated him with Legilimency and erased his memories. He planned to manipulate the struggle over ancient Magic from behind the scenes.

• Ranrok broke free of the stone trapping him and attacked Will, but Will used Transfiguration to create obstacles and traps that weakened him.
• A stone cage trapped Ranrok, who detonated his Bracers and destroyed the apparent Will, only to discover the figure had been a puppet.
• Will revealed he had stayed hidden throughout the fight and used Legilimency to search Ranrok’s memories.
• Will’s brutal Legilimency left Ranrok unconscious, and Will cast Obliviate on him.