Chapter Summaries

Will attended Slughorn’s reopened Slug Club gathering, where Slughorn focused on persuading him to publish his Potion Transfiguration research. The chapter ended with Will agreeing to publish one paper each semester in exchange for Slughorn’s private notes and rare books.

• Will climbed to the East Tower and joined Slughorn, Harry, Neville, Hermione, Ginny, Susan Bones, Blaise Zabini, and other students at the Slug Club gathering.
• Slughorn gave Will special attention and spent most of the gathering discussing Potion Transfiguration with him.
• Slughorn urged Will to publish his research, while Will explained that he wanted to develop and verify it further before presenting it to the public.
• Slughorn offered his private Potions notes and rare out-of-print books as support for Will’s research if he published a paper.
• Will agreed to publish one paper each semester if Slughorn provided enough theoretical support, and Slughorn happily accepted the deal.

At Malfoy Manor, Voldemort learned that the Ministry’s Aurors were studying Origin Spells but could not obtain them through his agents. He ordered Lucius to contact Severus and Will, leaving the task of acquiring the spells to them.

• Yaxley reported that Death Eaters had taken control of Knockturn Alley but had not found the two items Voldemort wanted.
• Yaxley told Voldemort that Auror Command had made Origin Spells mandatory and that its agents could no longer infiltrate the Aurors.
• Voldemort demanded a way to obtain the spells, then attacked Yaxley when he admitted he had no plan.
• Voldemort released Yaxley and ordered him to summon Lucius.
• Voldemort told Lucius to contact Severus and Will because he had tasks for them.

Will resumed his soul experiments and was summoned to the Headmaster’s Office, where Lupin told him the Prefects had nominated him for Head Boy. Will refused, but Snape arrived and insisted he would agree before revealing that new word from elsewhere concerned Will too.

• Will continued experimenting on Dark Wizards’ souls in his reopened laboratory.
• Neville told Will that Professor Sprout had assigned him an academic paper on Mandrake.
• Lupin told Will that the Prefects and Hermione Granger had nominated him for Head Boy, but Will declined.
• Snape arrived and declared that Will would accept the position, then told Will to stay because news from elsewhere concerned him.

After Snape explained Voldemort’s interest in the Origin Spells, Lupin learned that Will was working as a spy and worried about the danger he faced. Will proposed controlling how the Death Eaters gained the spells while sharing his converted spells with the Order of the Phoenix, and Lupin prepared to report to Dumbledore.

• Snape told Lupin that Voldemort wanted the Origin Spells, and Lupin asked to speak privately with Will.
• Will told Lupin he had accepted the dangerous spy work to protect his friends and the wizarding world.
• Snape proposed stalling the Death Eaters, while Will argued that the spies could control when and how much information they received.
• Will offered to give the Order of the Phoenix a textbook of spells he had converted from potions.
• Lupin was moved by Will’s plan, and Dumbledore said he would discuss it with the Order of the Phoenix.

Will agreed to become Head Boy after Snape insisted the position stay with Slytherin, and promised to give the Order of the Phoenix his Potion Transfiguration Charms. Meanwhile, Yaxley raided the Ellmsworth estate for Invisibility Cloaks and used Veritaserum to question Tanglian Ellmsworth about the family heirloom.

• Snape confronted Will about refusing the Head Boy position and persuaded him to accept it for Slytherin.
• Will told Snape that he and Professor Flitwick were studying the Dream Potion’s Magic structure, then promised to share his derived Charms with the Order of the Phoenix.
• At Voca Village, Dominic noticed an invisible estate under attack after hearing explosions from the hill.
• Yaxley searched the Ellmsworth family’s storeroom and took an Invisibility Cloak from a box.
• Yaxley forced Veritaserum on Tanglian Ellmsworth and questioned him about the family’s heirloom.

Yaxley raided the Elmsworth manor and forced the family to make Invisibility Cloaks from their Demiguises. At Hogwarts, Draco failed to recruit supporters and went to Will for help, leaving Will intrigued by his account.

• Yaxley discovered that the Elmsworth family heirloom was a parchment explaining how to make Invisibility Cloaks, then used the Cruciatus Curse on Elmsworth when he denied having a legendary cloak.
• Yaxley ordered the family to hand over its Invisibility Cloaks and make more from the Demiguises, threatening to kill them if they failed.
• Elmsworth told his son to make the cloaks while the family sought a way to escape England or find another solution.
• Draco struggled to recruit Slytherins to his group after Will had driven him out of the High Tower, and he decided to ask Will for help.
• Draco waited outside the Room of Requirement until Will returned, then explained his failure inside as Will listened with growing interest.

Will arranged for Draco to become Head Boy so he could use the position to recruit students and identify pure-blood families interested in joining the Death Eaters. The appointment was announced alongside Hermione’s as Head Girl, leaving Slughorn and many students shocked and angry at Draco.

• Draco told Will that Slytherins would not listen to him, and Will promised to help him.
• Will instructed Draco to use the Head Boy position to recruit students and report potential Death Eater supporters.
• Slughorn praised Will’s potion-making and invited him to discuss his paper on the Cold Spell.
• Dumbledore announced that Draco would be Head Boy and Hermione would be Head Girl.
• Slughorn and a crowd of students protested Draco’s appointment as the students turned their attention toward him.

Dumbledore defended his decision to appoint Draco Malfoy as Head Boy, but Draco faced hostility from students and Slughorn. After days of criticism and rumors, Draco received a Paper Crane summoning him to the Kitchens at ten that night.

• Dumbledore explained that he had chosen Draco Malfoy as Head Boy after careful consideration, and the students dispersed.
• Ron and Seamus confronted Draco over taking Will Behrens's position, but Slughorn broke up the argument and sent them away.
• Slughorn harshly criticized Draco in Potions, while students whispered that he had gained his position through family connections.
• Draco found a Paper Crane in his pocket inviting him to meet someone in the Kitchens at ten that night.

Draco visited Will in the Hogwarts kitchens and received secret Origin Spells material along with advice on strengthening his standing as Head Boy. After Draco left, Will reviewed his research goals, but the next morning brought an unexpected development.

• Draco found Will writing and eating in the underground kitchens, then told him about his troubles as Head Boy and the hostility he faced in the High Tower.
• Will gave Draco teaching material on Origin Spells and urged him to master it and use wizarding duels to earn respect in Slytherin.
• Draco thanked Will and left the kitchens to study.
• Will finished a paper on transfiguring a cold-inducing charm and considered his goals for charisma, potions, dark magic, soul studies, Origin Spells, and alchemy.
• Will planned to rest for a few days, but something unexpected happened the next morning.

Will received word from Miles Howard that American wizards had taken a Howard operative in Connecticut, while Dumbledore learned that Death Eaters were stealing Invisibility Cloaks. Both incidents left the characters facing unexplained magical activity and possible larger plans.

• Will received books from Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, including the Scroll of Balance, and set them aside in the Room of Requirement.
• Will read Miles Howard's letter reporting that the Howard family's Connecticut operative had vanished after being visited by people believed to be American wizards.
• Will examined surveillance photographs, concluded that wizards were involved, and decided he would have to investigate the American situation himself.
• Moody told Dumbledore that Death Eaters were attacking families and workshops that made Invisibility Cloaks and stealing their stocks and vault supplies.
• Moody added that the Death Eaters kept asking about permanent Invisibility Cloaks, sharpening Dumbledore's suspicion that they had a larger plan.

Dumbledore suspected Tom might be pursuing the Deathly Hallows and arranged for Moody to impersonate him at Hogwarts. Meanwhile, Slughorn praised Will's cold-curing charm research, gave him rare books, and asked whether he was working on Felix Felicis Transmutation.

• Dumbledore asked Moody to drink Polyjuice Potion and take his place at Hogwarts for a few days, and Moody reluctantly agreed.
• Moody transformed into Dumbledore before he realized he had taken the potion earlier than planned.
• Will gave Slughorn his paper on the cold-curing charm during Potions class.
• Slughorn gave Will rare books from his private collection on the overlap between Charms and Potions.
• Slughorn read Will's paper, praised his method of deriving charms from potion effects, and asked if he was researching Felix Felicis Transmutation.

Will collected Romanoff's experimental records from Slughorn, then discovered that Moody was impersonating Dumbledore in the Headmaster's Office. He decided to wait for Dumbledore so he could ask about his plans and his own trip to America.

• Will accepted Romanoff's experimental records from Slughorn, who hoped he would publish research on turning Felix Felicis into a charm.
• Will arrived late to Charms class, where Professor Flitwick took points from Gryffindor after Harry and Ron arrived late.
• After hearing that Dumbledore had summoned Harry, Will decided to visit the Headmaster's Office and ask about Dumbledore's plans.
• Will went to the Headmaster's Office and recognized Moody impersonating Dumbledore, then said he would wait for Dumbledore to return.

Will traveled to Connecticut to provoke America’s wizards into confronting him and uncover what the local leader had done. Four young wizards arrived at the house, and Will magically immobilized them.

• Will left Hogwarts for Connecticut and entered the home of the person in charge there, hoping to draw out American wizards.
• Will searched the empty house and found an open safe and signs that someone had ransacked the study.
• Simon and three young men entered the house, and Simon questioned Will while his companions discussed his grandparents and a plan to use Veritaserum.
• César suspected Will was a wizard, and Marc approached him to search him.
• Will snapped his fingers and magically pinned all four young men in place.

Will used Legilimency on Simon and discovered that Simon and his friends had captured Jeffrey Rich after learning he had abused and brainwashed Simon’s grandparents through the Heavenly Sacred Church. Will realized Jeffrey seemed to be exploiting the Howard family’s influence for his own scheme, and the chapter ended with Marc, Ryan, and Xavier anxiously waiting for his response.

• Will asked Simon and his friends whether they had captured the homeowner, then used Legilimency to learn what had happened.
• Will learned that Simon, Marc, Xavier, and Ryan were recent Ilvermorny graduates who had investigated Simon’s injured grandparents.
• Will discovered that Jeffrey Rich had abused his followers during church gatherings and that Simon’s grandparents had been among his victims.
• Simon and his friends had taken the elderly couple to Magical Gospel Hospital and then captured Jeffrey to stop him from hurting more people.
• Will concluded that Jeffrey had likely abused the Howard family’s political support and resources, then turned toward the three friends as they grew uneasy.

Will subdued Xavier and the other young people, altered their memories, and planned to use them to gain influence over the Magical Congress of the United States of America. He then confronted Jeffrey Rich, while Death Eaters attacked the Appleby family's factory in England.

• Will told Simon he would make Jeffrey Rich suffer and reassured the young people that he meant them no harm.
• Xavier tried to negotiate with Will by citing his and Ryan's influential family connections, but Will rendered all four young people unconscious.
• Will altered the four young people's memories and returned them to Xavier's house, intending to use them as a way into the Magical Congress of the United States of America.
• Will confronted the imprisoned Jeffrey Rich and sent his consciousness into an experience of Hell.
• Death Eaters attacked the Appleby family's textile factory beside a Muggle town, targeting the family for its ability to make Invisibility Cloaks.

Death Eaters attacked the Appleby family’s factory to seize their Invisibility Cloaks and family vault, killing and injuring several people before Albus Dumbledore arrived. Dumbledore defeated the attackers and offered the surviving Applebys protection, while considering how to use the incident to set a trap.

• Death Eaters broke into the Appleby factory, demanded the family’s Invisibility Cloaks and vault contents, and attacked the family and the workers.
• Albus Dumbledore arrived as the Death Eaters threatened the remaining Applebys and effortlessly subdued the attackers.
• Dumbledore helped Ulysses Appleby and asked him to settle the Muggles before bringing the family somewhere safe.
• Dumbledore told Ulysses Appleby he would deal with the Death Eaters and considered using the attack as an opportunity to lay a trap.

Dumbledore considered using the Appleby family to plant false information about the Invisibility Cloak, while Will followed Xavier into the Magical Congress of the United States of America. The chapter ended with an invisible attacker knocking Xavier and Evelyn unconscious and searching her documents.

• Dumbledore decided to protect the surviving Applebys and use them to spread a false lead about the Invisibility Cloak to Voldemort.
• Will followed Xavier into the Magical Congress of the United States of America’s headquarters in the Woolworth Building, concealed by his strengthened Disillusionment Charm.
• Xavier went to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and entered his mother Evelyn’s office.
• Xavier forgot why he had come, and an unseen attacker knocked both Xavier and Evelyn unconscious.
• The papers on Evelyn’s desk rose into the air as the invisible attacker searched through them.

Will studied documents about the American Wizarding World before returning to Hogwarts for breakfast and Herbology. The lesson was interrupted when Draco Malfoy attacked Harper, and Snape took them away as the school awaited an explanation.

• Will read documents Evelyn had obtained about the American Wizarding World and considered how to infiltrate its Magical Congress.
• Will encouraged Ron before Ron went to Quidditch tryouts, then attended Herbology with Neville.
• Professor Sprout taught the class about the Venomous Tentacula and its venom.
• Draco Malfoy crashed onto the Greenhouse roof and stunned Harper with a spell.
• Professor Sprout docked Slytherin points, sent Neville to fetch Snape, and Snape took Draco and Harper away.

Sylvia told Will how Draco and Harper's argument during Slytherin's Quidditch tryouts escalated into a dangerous midair fight. Harper fled after Draco overwhelmed him with spells, and Will guessed that the chase had ended with Harper falling above the Greenhouse.

• Draco arrived at Slytherin's tryouts intending to keep his Seeker position.
• Harper collided with Draco and mocked him for supposedly buying his place on the team through Lucius Malfoy's donation.
• Draco and Harper traded insults, collided again, and began fighting on their broomsticks.
• Draco fired a minor jinx at Harper, who retrieved his wand from the Stands and cast Stupefy at Draco.
• Draco fired several spells in succession, forcing Harper to flee the pitch.
• Sylvia recounted the fight to Will, who guessed that Harper had fallen near the Greenhouse and that Snape would decide what happened next.

After the Slytherin fight, Snape discussed Voldemort’s suspicions with Will and planned to deliver the first set of [Origin Spells] documents. Will proposed staging Dumbledore’s death—and Snape’s—to convince Voldemort of their loyalty.

• Snape kicked Harper off the Quidditch team and deducted fifteen points from each student involved in the fight.
• Lucius sent Snape a letter asking why Will had kicked Draco out of his group, and Will predicted that Draco would cause more incidents within Slytherin.
• Snape told Will that Voldemort had ordered him to obtain the [Origin Spells] and assassinate Dumbledore, and asked Will to deliver the first documents to Dumbledore.
• Will argued that handing the documents through him would not dispel Voldemort’s suspicions and suggested demonstrating Snape’s loyalty with a staged attack on Dumbledore.
• Will proposed that Dumbledore and Snape fake their deaths, with Harry appearing to avenge Dumbledore by killing Snape, so Voldemort would trust both Snape and Will.