Chapter Summaries

Will’s Cold Spell brought him widespread acclaim as Dumbledore returned and began setting a trap for Voldemort. Dumbledore revealed that he had led Voldemort to believe the Appleby family possessed the Invisibility Cloak, hoping to draw him toward the Deathly Hallows.

• Snape agreed to Will’s plan, and Will wrote Lucius to assure him that Draco had acted on Will’s instructions rather than betraying them.
• Will’s Cold Spell caused a sensation in academic circles and received extensive coverage in the Daily Prophet, while Rita Skeeter portrayed him favorably in an interview.
• Fernando publicly praised Will’s Potion Transfiguration Theory after previously criticizing it.
• Dumbledore returned to Hogwarts and invited Will to inspect memories of his rescue of the Appleby family.
• Dumbledore explained to Will and Snape that Voldemort sought the Deathly Hallows and that he had planted the belief that the Applebys held the Invisibility Cloak.

Dumbledore told Snape and Will that the Deathly Hallows were real and planned to use them to deceive Voldemort while protecting Harry. He then took Will to visit Grindelwald, where he asked about clues to the Resurrection Stone, leaving Will to suspect that Voldemort had kept the ring from him.

• Dumbledore explained that Harry had the Peverell Invisibility Cloak and asked Snape and Will to help mislead Voldemort.
• Will suggested they steal some Origin Spells to maintain progress with Voldemort, and Dumbledore agreed to divide the material into portions.
• Snape warned Dumbledore not to give Will dangerous assignments, then left after Dumbledore promised to keep him safe.
• Dumbledore invited Will to visit Grindelwald at Nurmengard, and Grindelwald welcomed them warmly.
• Dumbledore asked Grindelwald what clues he had found about the Resurrection Stone, and Will concluded that Voldemort likely had the ring and had concealed it from him.

Grindelwald and Dumbledore discussed the Resurrection Stone and the Peverell family, while Will considered how the Stone might have passed into the Gaunt family. Dumbledore connected Voldemort to the Gaunts, refused to involve Will in the danger, and maintained that Harry had to face Voldemort because of the Prophecy.

• Grindelwald told Dumbledore that Cadmus Peverell's descendants joined the Gaunt family and Ignotus Peverell's descendants joined the Potter family.
• Will reasoned that Cadmus may have created the Resurrection Stone, which could summon images of the dead but could not truly restore life.
• Dumbledore realized that Voldemort's mother was descended from the Gaunt family and asked Will to focus on locating the Horcruxes instead of investigating the Stone.
• Grindelwald suggested that he and Dumbledore confront Voldemort, but Dumbledore argued that the Horcruxes would prevent them from keeping Voldemort dead.
• Dumbledore rejected Grindelwald's implication that Will should take up the fight and said Harry had to confront Voldemort because of the Prophecy.

Dumbledore explained to Grindelwald that Harry was destined to face Voldemort because he carried part of Voldemort’s soul, while Dumbledore still needed to find the other Horcruxes. Back at Hogwarts, Will agreed to help Dumbledore question Slughorn, then joined Professor Flitwick to discuss an idea about turning spells into potions.

• Dumbledore told Grindelwald that Harry was a Horcrux and that he intended for Harry to confront Voldemort after the other Horcruxes were dealt with.
• Snape packed a report on Origin Spells with two bottles of Invigoration Draught and headed for the Owlery to make an intelligence transfer look convincing.
• Dumbledore asked Will to help him learn from Slughorn what he knew about Voldemort and Horcruxes, and Will agreed while considering using Ravenclaw's Diadem to draw Dumbledore away from Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore offered to answer Will’s questions about magic while he remained at Hogwarts.
• Professor Flitwick told Will he had an idea about turning spells into potions and took him to his office to discuss it.

Professor Flitwick explained his theory that potions could be understood as simplified rituals and derived from charms. Will recognized the connection but suspected something was wrong as Flitwick proposed brewing potions from charms alone.

• Professor Flitwick reviewed Golpalott's Third Law with Will and described his idea of deriving potions from charms through reverse deconstruction.
• Professor Flitwick proposed that potion-making was a simplified ritual, and Will gained ritual studies knowledge as he understood the connection.
• Professor Flitwick compared charm incantations and gestures to potion ingredients and stirring patterns, suggesting potions could contain active charms.
• Professor Flitwick presented his ritual anchoring theory for converting charms and potions, then proposed making potions directly from charms without ingredients.
• Will considered Flitwick's proposal and felt that something about it was wrong.

Will considered Professor Flitwick’s proposal for creating potion-like effects by liquidizing spells and agreed to explore the research with him. He then planned to establish a Magical University in America, using educational reform to draw attention and advance his long-term ambitions for the Wizarding World.

• Will recognized that Professor Flitwick’s idea used spells to create potion-like effects rather than converting potions into spells.
• Will praised Professor Flitwick’s research proposal, and they discussed testing it and arranging time to work together.
• Will returned to the Room of Requirement and began prioritizing his tasks for the coming months.
• Will decided that establishing a Magical University could distract American Wizards and the Magical Congress of the United States of America while he gained influence over them.
• Will planned to use educational reform and [Origin Spells] to reshape the Wizarding World and eventually erase the divide between Muggles and Wizards.

Will arranged for the Howard family’s American operations leaders to gather while he pursued an intense course of study at Hogwarts and prepared plans to infiltrate the American Wizarding World. The chapter ended with a message saying the leaders had assembled in Zurich and were waiting for him.

• Will visited the old duke, delivered Jeffrey Rich, and ordered him to summon everyone in charge of their American operations.
• Will resumed an exhausting routine of lessons, research with Professor Flitwick, and nightly experiments in the Room of Requirement.
• Dumbledore gave Will notes on Origin Spells for him to pass to Voldemort and expressed concern about Will’s relentless studying.
• After Dumbledore left, Will continued shaping plans to reach across the American Wizarding World.
• Will received a letter informing him that the American leaders had gathered at 13 Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich and awaited him that night.

Will arrived at a gathering of powerful people in Zurich and punished those whose memories revealed they had tortured and killed innocents. He continued through the room, leaving the assembled guests frozen and terrified.

• Will entered the meeting at 13 Bahnhofstrasse, where guests mocked his plain clothes until the old duke greeted him humbly.
• Will transformed the mustached man who insulted him into a dog, then turned the dog into gray-white powder after confronting him about his victims.
• Will froze the fleeing guests and used Legilimency on a woman wearing an emerald necklace.
• Will saw the woman torturing and killing a Muggle child in her memories, then killed her with a streak of green light.
• Will walked toward the next person in the room.

Will killed or spared the Howard family’s executives based on their memories, then altered the survivors’ memories and took captives for magical experiments. In England, Voldemort began organizing the study of Origin Spells and summoned Lucius for a task.

• Will used memories to judge the Howard family’s executives, killing those whose actions he found unacceptable and secretly sparing more than a dozen as test subjects.
• Will promised the surviving executives greater resources if they completed their assignments, then altered their memories of him.
• Voldemort copied the notebook on Origin Spells and ordered Corban Yaxley to arrange for senior Death Eaters and selected followers to study it in secret.
• Voldemort told Yaxley to send Lucius to him because he had a task for him.

Voldemort ordered Lucius Malfoy to collect powerful cursed objects from Caractacus Burke while he studied Origin Spells and learned a variant of Confringo. He chose a bracelet and an Opal Necklace from Burke’s collection, restored the bracelet with dark threads, and began working on the necklace.

• Voldemort ordered Lucius to hold a Selection Trial for foreign wizards and then bring him cursed objects from Caractacus Burke.
• Voldemort studied Origin Spells, learned the basics of a powerful Confringo variant, and prepared to test it before Lucius returned.
• Lucius brought Voldemort a key, an Opal Necklace, a human-skin book, and a damaged bracelet, explaining the curses attributed to each.
• Voldemort dismissed the key and book, kept the bracelet and Opal Necklace, and let Lucius take the remaining objects.
• Voldemort restored the bracelet with black threads, which left Lucius feeling a frightening urge to wear it, then aimed his Wand at the Opal Necklace.

Voldemort sent cursed jewelry to Severus and Scrimgeour, then tested an Origin Spell and realized it was much weaker than Scrimgeour’s version. Suspecting the materials might have been tampered with by Severus, he ordered Lucius to warn Will to protect himself.

• Voldemort ordered Lucius to send the Opal Necklace to Severus for delivery to Dumbledore and the bracelet to Scrimgeour.
• Voldemort tested the Origin Spell version of Confringo in the garden at Malfoy Manor, drawing the Death Eaters’ attention.
• Voldemort compared his spell’s destruction with Scrimgeour’s earlier performance and found his own Origin Spell far weaker.
• Voldemort dismissed the other Death Eaters and told Yaxley that something might be wrong with the Origin Spells materials.
• Yaxley suggested Severus might be responsible, and Voldemort ordered Lucius to warn Will to watch out for his safety.

Voldemort dismissed the released Origin Spells as incomplete and focused on the Deathly Hallows, while Will continued his exhausting research into soul studies and spell-based potion-making. Will then traveled to New York and used magic to restrain the president of the Magical Congress, Samuel G. Cohog, before entering his mind.

• Yaxley suggested Scrimgeour might have withheld the most important Origin Spells, and Voldemort agreed the possibility was likely.
• Voldemort told Yaxley to protect Will, continue their plans, and accelerate the selection and training of Death Eaters.
• Will worked through classes, potion experiments, and soul studies, then traveled to the Cohog residence in New York.
• Will introduced himself to Samuel G. Cohog and said he wanted to discuss the future of America's Ministry of Magic.
• Cohog called for help, but Will sealed the room, bound and silenced him, and cast Legilimency.

Will altered Cohog’s memories and then collapsed from exhaustion, prompting Sylvia and Professor Flitwick to urge him to rest. After spending the afternoon with Sylvia, Will went to meet Professor Flitwick for dinner, while considering using a Horcrux to make Voldemort feel threatened.

• Will used Legilimency to alter Cohog’s memories, then left for Hogwarts exhausted.
• Will cast a Sleeping Charm on himself and slept until the afternoon, missing his planned activities.
• Sylvia told Will that Professor Flitwick and their friends were worried about his health and asked him to rest.
• Will comforted Sylvia and considered using a Horcrux to threaten Voldemort and delay his plans.
• Will spent the afternoon with Sylvia, then went to Professor Flitwick’s office for dinner.

Professor Flitwick took Will to Hogsmeade for dinner and urged him to rest from his research and time travel. Their meal was interrupted when Fisher spotted black-robed figures flying toward the village and warned that the Death Eaters had arrived.

• Professor Flitwick took Will to the Echoing Fireplace Restaurant and encouraged him to balance his work with rest.
• Fisher discovered that Conras had gone to the Three Broomsticks to buy wine and went to look for him.
• Fisher saw black-robed figures flying into Hogsmeade and realized they were Death Eaters.
• Fisher ran into a neighbor's house and shouted that the Death Eaters were there.
• The wizard told Fisher to alert the Aurors, then rushed out to do it himself.

Dark Wizards from across Europe attacked Hogsmeade as part of a test to qualify for the Death Eaters, and Aurors and Professor Flitwick fought back. Will joined the defense, while Flitwick faced the attackers in the street.

• Yaxley’s Death Eater veterans sent foreign Dark Wizards to create as much chaos in Hogsmeade as possible to prove themselves worthy of joining.
• The Dark Wizards set houses and shops ablaze, attacked villagers, and disabled a Wizard trying to alert the Aurors.
• Aurors arrived and battled the attackers as spells and explosions turned Hogsmeade into a battlefield.
• Professor Flitwick and Will left the Echoing Fireplace, where they had been dining, and found the village under attack.
• Flitwick fought the Dark Wizards while Will protected himself with a shield charm; Flitwick then aimed the Killing Curse at an attacker who had tried to harm Will.

Professor Flitwick and Will defeated the Dark Wizards attacking them in Hogsmeade, then headed to help the Aurors fighting near Madam Puddifoot's teashop. They approached the battle from behind the Dark Wizards and prepared to coordinate with the Aurors using nonverbal spells.

• Professor Flitwick killed a Dark Wizard who had attacked Will, while Will secretly stopped another from attacking the professor.
• Will protected himself and Professor Flitwick with defensive runes as they fought off the Dark Wizards together.
• Professor Flitwick and Will subdued the attackers in their area, leaving them dead or unable to fight.
• Professor Flitwick and Will hurried toward the battle at Madam Puddifoot's teashop, where Kingsley and the Aurors were battling Dark Wizards.
• Professor Flitwick told Will to use nonverbal spells as they approached the Dark Wizards from behind to coordinate with the Aurors.

Will and Professor Flitwick joined the defense of Hogsmeade, helping the Aurors and villagers defeat the attacking Dark Wizards. The attackers were all subdued, though the village was left badly damaged.

• Professor Flitwick secretly struck a Dark Wizard from a rooftop, while Liamusko raised a blood-fed Vine that devoured several Dark Wizards and attacked the Aurors.
• Will cut the monstrous Vine apart with magically animated blades, then he and Professor Flitwick joined the battle openly.
• Hogsmeade's Wizards joined the Aurors, and a Death Eater signaled the Dark Wizards to retreat.
• Professor Flitwick, Kingsley, the Aurors, and the villagers stopped the fleeing Dark Wizards and subdued every attacker.
• After the battle, Will checked on Professor Flitwick, who praised him for his efforts.

After the Aurors restored order in Hogsmeade, the Daily Prophet publicized their victory while fear of Voldemort spread through the wizarding world. Scrimgeour struggled to reassure the public in Diagon Alley before an employee told him that someone from America had arrived with an urgent matter.

• Professor Flitwick, Will, and the Aurors rescued Hogsmeade residents, extinguished fires, and captured the surviving dark wizards.
• Professor Flitwick asked the Aurors to keep his and Will's involvement out of the Daily Prophet to protect Will from retaliation.
• The Daily Prophet reported the attack and the Aurors' victory, reassuring some readers while worsening fears among wizards without Auror protection.
• Scrimgeour inspected Diagon Alley and heard officials warn that businesses were closing and people were considering moving abroad.
• A Ministry employee told Scrimgeour that a visitor from America had arrived to discuss something important, and Scrimgeour hurried back to meet them.

After news of an attack in Hogsmeade unsettled Hogwarts, Percy taught his students while they worried about their families. Meanwhile, American officials proposed a Magical University to Scrimgeour, and Ludo Bagman suggested using the plan to divert public attention from the panic.

• Owls brought news of the previous night's events in Hogsmeade, and Professor McGonagall reassured the students before sending them to class.
• Will put down the Daily Prophet and led Sylvia out of the Great Hall as students worried about their families and wrote letters home.
• Percy taught the International Statute of Secrecy, caught Baldwin writing to his parents, and took one point from Hufflepuff.
• Officials from the Magical Congress of the United States of America told Scrimgeour they wanted to establish a Magical University offering higher magical education.
• Ludo Bagman told Scrimgeour that the university proposal could divert public attention from the panic.

Scrimgeour considered the Ministry’s response to the proposed Magical University while Draco recruited Selwyn and Nott into his organization. After defeating them, Draco said they would await the return of “that lord” at Hogwarts, and both agreed to serve.

• Scrimgeour rejected Ludo Bagman’s suggestion to immediately cooperate with the Magical Congress of the United States of America and asked to learn its terms first.
• Draco summoned Ivan Selwyn and Obain Nott to an empty classroom and demanded that they join his organization.
• Selwyn and Nott mocked Draco’s past loyalty to Will Behrens, so Draco fought them with Origin Spells and overpowered them.
• Draco treated Selwyn and Nott’s injuries and explained that he was recruiting pure-bloods to help bring “that lord” back.
• Draco said they could lie low at Hogwarts and await their leader’s orders, and Selwyn and Nott bowed and agreed to serve.