Chapter Summaries

Will mastered the technique of rewriting and stacking magical structures, transformed Skele-Gro into the Flesh and Bone Separation spell, and reached Charms LV5. He chose Primordial Meme, gaining the ability to reshape spell structures directly through his will, and began considering how it could simplify the Bone-Growing Charm and help him pursue Felix Felicis.

• Will studied how precise rewriting and stacking could amplify a spell’s magical structure.
• Will used his knowledge to cast Flesh and Bone Separation on his fingers, then restored them by repeating the Magic flow without an incantation.
• Will reached Charms LV5 and received the Mind Spell and Transmuter special bonuses.
• Will chose the Primordial Meme Bonus Ability, which let him construct, rewrite, and simplify spell structures through his will.
• Will realized the ability might help simplify the Bone-Growing Charm and began thinking about its potential for transforming complex Potions such as Felix Felicis.

Will continued refining the Bone-Growing Charm while brewing potions for Snape, who had become the acting Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. The chapter left Ron in danger after he took an unfamiliar potion from Will’s room without permission.

• After spending a sleepless night simplifying the Bone-Growing Charm, Will fell asleep exhausted and estimated the work would take weeks.
• Snape took over Defence Against the Dark Arts, leaving Will to study Potions books and brew much of Harry’s medicine.
• Ron told Hogwarts about Harry and his friends overcoming the professors’ challenges, making the students popular.
• Will cut the Bone-Growing Charm’s casting time to just over ten seconds and brewed a potent Beauty Potion.
• While Will attended Herbology, Ron entered Will’s private room to collect Harry’s medicine and took an unfamiliar clear potion without waiting for Will.

Harry accidentally drank Will's Powerful Beauty Potion and transformed into a beautiful girl, though his magic remained unaffected. Snape suspected the potion's effects were unusually strong, and Will realized his brewing bonuses might have increased its potency.

• Hermione and Madam Pomfrey discovered that Harry had transformed into a girl, and Hermione showed him his reflection.
• Snape examined the empty vial, identified the potion as a likely Powerful Beauty Potion, and found that Harry's magic had not been affected.
• Professor McGonagall summoned Will from Herbology, and Hermione explained that Ron had accidentally given Harry Will's potion.
• Will realized his potion-making bonuses could have strengthened the potion, while Snape questioned him and suggested Harry's unusual constitution might explain the results.

After Harry was affected by Will’s experimental potion, Snape agreed to study and treat him while Will received instruction in two spells in exchange for keeping the potion’s effects uncertain. Will returned to the Room of Requirement and successfully created a refined Bone-Growing Charm.

• Will described the Powerful Beauty Potion as an experimental product with unknown effects, and Snape recommended cautious treatment for Harry.
• Snape and Professor McGonagall forbade Ron from discussing the incident, while Snape privately began examining Harry.
• Will warned Ron not to tamper with unfamiliar magical items, then returned to the Room of Requirement to work on the Bone-Growing Charm.
• Will repeatedly tested and refined the charm on two lizards, improving his understanding of its magic.
• Will used the refined spell on his own fingers and regrew their bones, successfully constructing a new Bone-Growing Charm.

Will celebrated the maturity of his Potion Transfiguration Theory and planned to eventually turn Felix Felicis into a spell. While relaxing by the Black Lake, he heard Sylvia speculate that Snape and Malfoy had romantic feelings for Harry, leaving Hermione and Neville nearly persuaded by the gossip.

• Will decided to practice transforming other potions before attempting to make Felix Felicis into a spell.
• Will relaxed by the Black Lake with Sylvia, who caught a fish while Anco prepared food.
• Hermione and Neville joined them and said Harry's transformation effects seemed to be fading as Snape continued treating him.
• Sylvia suggested Snape had loved Harry's father and later claimed Malfoy sought Harry's attention because he liked him.
• Hermione and Neville were nearly convinced by Sylvia's account while Will ate grilled fish and considered his next potion project.

As First Year ended, Will learned the Flying Charm, completed his exams, and received seven Os alongside Hermione. During the summer break, he encountered Lupin in a London bookshop.

• Snape taught Will the dangerous Flying Charm, and Will practised flying over the Black Lake until he could manage it steadily.
• Will finished the written and practical exams with strong performances, while Snape threatened Harry with a retake for peeking at a classmate's Potion Brewing.
• Will and Hermione each earned seven Os, Sylvia earned five, and Harry, Neville, and Ron received lower results as First Year ended.
• During the summer holiday, Will entered a London bookshop and greeted Lupin, who was reading behind a bookcase.

Will visited Lupin, who had settled into a happy new life as manager of Green's Bookshop, and reassured him about adjusting to stability. Lupin declined Dumbledore's offer to teach at Hogwarts but planned to visit Harry, and agreed to tutor Will over the holidays.

• Lupin showed Will around Green's Bookshop and explained how quickly he had adapted to the job and become its manager.
• Lupin took Will to his new home, where he described his unease at suddenly having a steady job, income, and friends.
• Will explained that Lupin's fear of losing his new life was a natural response to years of instability and pressure.
• Lupin told Will that Harry had helped Gryffindor win the House Cup and that Dumbledore had offered him a teaching position at Hogwarts.
• Lupin declined the offer because he feared his werewolf condition would cause trouble at Hogwarts, but said he planned to visit Harry.
• Lupin agreed to keep his promise to tutor Will over the holidays.

Over the holiday, Will developed the Confusion Charm and Vigor Charm while continuing his potion research, then went to Diagon Alley with Lupin to buy schoolbooks. There, Lucius Malfoy warned Draco to hide his hostility toward Harry, mindful that the Ministry was already scrutinizing the Malfoy family.

• Will experimented with potions and developed the Confusion Charm using a Jamaican Black-Faced Monkey as a test subject.
• Will successfully transfigured the Invigoration Draught into the Vigor Charm and tested it on himself.
• Sylvia reminded Will to meet her and Hermione at Flourish and Blotts on August 7 to buy second-year textbooks.
• Will went to Diagon Alley with Lupin, who hoped to see Harry, and found Hermione and Sylvia watching Lockhart show off.
• Lucius Malfoy reprimanded Draco for openly mocking Harry and told him to conceal his opinions in public.
• Lucius worried that the Malfoys' apparent dislike of Harry could fuel suspicions about their ties to Voldemort, especially after the Ministry searched Malfoy Manor.

At Flourish and Blotts, Lockhart interrupted Harry's conversation with Lupin to announce that he would teach Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. Lucius Malfoy then sought a private meeting with Will and revealed that he had brought him a Black Diary from the Dark Lord.

• Draco reflected on his long-standing desire to befriend Harry and watched as Lucius searched the crowd for Will.
• Will met Sylvia, Hermione, and Neville, while Harry reunited with Lupin and spoke with him about his parents.
• Lockhart seized Harry for photographs and announced that he would become Hogwarts' Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
• Draco mocked Harry and Sylvia, but Lucius silenced him and asked Will to speak with him privately.
• Lucius met Will at a nearby restaurant and showed him a Black Diary that the Dark Lord had asked him to deliver.

Will recognized the diary Lucius Malfoy gave him as one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes and used it to gain Dark Magic knowledge while hiding what he knew. After discovering the diary was draining his Magic, he limited his use of it and began writing under the name Ivan Selwyn.

• Will realized Lucius had given him Voldemort’s diary and pretended not to know its significance while asking about the professor’s instructions.
• Lucius left to rescue Draco, who had been beaten by Harry, Neville, and Ron, and later warned Draco to avoid Harry and stay on good terms with Will.
• Will returned home from Lestrange Manor, wrote a false entry in the diary, and received a detailed essay about the Imperius Curse in reply.
• Will used Wizard’s Eye to catch the diary absorbing his Magic and decided to use it sparingly while continuing to draw knowledge from Tom.
• Will introduced himself to the diary as Ivan Selwyn.

Will used the Diary to build his dark magic knowledge but grew wary as it stole more of his magic, then traveled to Tahiti with Uncle Hobert before the new school term. Hobert told him the Howard family would welcome him back in twenty years, while Will’s magical attack left a fish’s insides mangled.

• Will raised his Dark magic and Potions skills through studying the Diary and Potion Transfiguration, then limited contact with the Diary after noticing it steal more of his magic.
• Will packed for term and dismissed Lockhart’s books as poor sources of experience.
• Uncle Hobert took Will to Tahiti on his yacht and used magic to fill a bucket with fish.
• Will used wandless, nonverbal magic to make two fish convulse and bleed, astonishing Hobert.
• Hobert told Will that the Howard family planned to recognize him as Edward’s second son in twenty years and would support him until then, and Will accepted the arrangement.
• A cook found a fish Will had caught with its organs mangled and its belly packed with bone spurs.

Will arrived late at King's Cross and found Harry and Ron unable to pass through the barrier to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. After discovering that Dobby had frozen the barrier's magic, Will searched for the house-elf and spotted his magic nearby.

• Sylvia waited for Will on the Hogwarts Express while Hermione praised Lockhart to Neville.
• Will reached King's Cross late after waiting for Hobert's wizard friend to sober up.
• Harry and Ron failed to get through the barrier, and Will used Muggle-Repelling Charms to send a nearby guard away.
• Will examined the barrier with the Wizard's Eye and realized that Dobby had stopped its magic.
• Will flew above the crowd, spotted a cluster of magic without a visible figure, and announced that he had found Dobby.

Will used a Confusion Charm and a Stunning Spell to stop Dobby from blocking the way to Hogwarts, allowing Harry and Ron to board the train. After reaching the castle, Will began his second school year with Sylvia, Neville, and Hermione.

• Will confused Dobby, stunned him, and used Levitation Charms and conjured rope to carry the unconscious House-elf to the platform.
• Will led Harry and Ron through the barrier to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters just before the train departed, where Sylvia was relieved to see him.
• On the train, Harry explained Dobby's presence to the Weasley Twins, who teased Ron when he tried to speak up.
• After arriving near Hogsmeade, Will saw the Thestrals and admired them as he traveled with Sylvia, Neville, and Hermione toward Hogwarts.
• Will arrived at Hogwarts Castle and welcomed the start of his second school year.

Will began his second year at Hogwarts and found his routine dull until Gilderoy Lockhart’s first Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson descended into chaos. Will helped the students subdue the Cornish Pixies, leaving Lockhart facing a bloodied, bone-spiked creature and staining his robes.

• Will attended the Sorting Ceremony, learned Lockhart would teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, and returned to his reserved Seventh Floor dormitory.
• Will settled into a predictable routine of classes, research, and extra lessons while earning a reputation as a dedicated student.
• In Lockhart’s first Defence Against the Dark Arts class, Will ignored the professor’s quiz and read a book on Dark Magic.
• Lockhart released Cornish Pixies, lost control of them, and hid beneath the lectern as the classroom fell into chaos.
• Will cast several spells to incapacitate the pixies, and the students joined him in subduing them.
• Lockhart emerged to salvage his reputation, but a bloodied, bone-spiked pixie fell before him and splattered his robes.

Will completed his transfiguration of the Swelling Solution and paused his Baruffio's Brain Elixir research because he lacked a safe wizard test subject. After questioning Professor McGonagall about food transfiguration, he asked whether its effects could persist long enough for a person to digest and use the altered food.

• Will finished transfiguring the Swelling Solution after working through the night and concluded that he could not safely study Baruffio's Brain Elixir without a wizard test subject.
• Will decided to focus next on Transfiguration and to improve his Potions and Transfiguration skills.
• Will successfully turned a beetle into a button in Professor McGonagall's class.
• Will asked Professor McGonagall whether transfigured food provided the nutrients of its original form or its new form, and she explained that the original nutrients remained and would revert when the Transfiguration ended.
• Will asked whether someone would still die if transfigured food remained altered until it was excreted or its nutrients were used up.

Will asked Professor McGonagall whether Transfiguration could permanently affect the body after transformed food was eaten. She explained how a group of Wizards pursued long-lasting Ritual Transfiguration through horrific experiments, and left Will with their argument that it was genuine Transfiguration: the Animagus.

• Will asked Professor McGonagall what happened when transformed food was absorbed and its Transfiguration later wore off.
• Professor McGonagall explained that Wizards in 1412 experimented on Muggles while studying Food and Human Transfiguration, causing deaths later reflected in Grimms' Fairy Tales.
• Professor McGonagall said those Wizards developed Ritual Transfiguration, which could sustain changes for a long time but was widely dismissed as inferior Alchemy.
• Will described his knowledge of Ritual Studies, and Professor McGonagall praised his learning before returning to the subject.
• Professor McGonagall said the Wizards used the Animagus as evidence that Ritual Transfiguration was truly Transfiguration.

Will learned about the history of Ritual Transfiguration and the disputed relationship between Transfiguration and Alchemy, unlocking Alchemy after gaining Distorted Knowledge. After Professor McGonagall invited him to her Transfiguration Club, Will pondered whether different magical disciplines shared a single source and gained a boost to his magical experience rate.

• Professor McGonagall explained Animagus Transformation and described how Ritual Transfiguration produced food that usually held its form but remained controversial among wizards.
• Will connected the disputed relationship between Transfiguration and Alchemy to the boundary between Charms and Potions, gaining Distorted Knowledge and unlocking Alchemy.
• Professor McGonagall invited Will to join her Transfiguration Club and asked him to take a test at her Office on Saturday afternoon.
• Will returned to his room, woke at midnight, and went to the Kitchens for food after greeting the Weasley Twins.
• While eating, Will considered whether magical disciplines shared one underlying source and gained a five-percent increase to his magical experience rate.

Will reflected on his inability to view his Magic stat, then demonstrated his Bone-Growing Charm to Dumbledore and explained his direct manipulation of Magic. Dumbledore warned him to seek help if Magic began responding to his thoughts or changing how the world appeared.

• Will saw that his Magic stat was temporarily unavailable and resolved to push his other abilities to their limits.
• During Flying Class, Dumbledore sent Will a note asking him to meet beside the Black Lake.
• Dumbledore asked Will to demonstrate the Bone-Growing Charm, and Will used it on a fish without an incantation.
• Will explained how he sensed and manipulated Magic, and Dumbledore praised him as an extraordinary prodigy.
• Dumbledore recalled Grindelwald's view of magic and warned Will to come to him if Magic began responding to his thoughts.

Will discussed Lockhart and Voldemort with Dumbledore, who asked him to help Harry if Voldemort returned. After the diary unexpectedly stole Will’s magic despite showing a question mark over his identity, Will asked Professor Flitwick whether magic could identify a wizard.

• Dumbledore told Will that Lockhart was not connected to Voldemort and asked Will to help Harry if Voldemort returned.
• Will passed Lockhart at the greenhouse, where Lockhart had offended Professor Sprout by boasting about his Mandrakes.
• After training raised his Stamina to LV3, Will chose Magic-Blessed Body.
• Will found that the diary’s magic had weakened, but it began stealing his magic as soon as he touched its page, so he put it away.
• Will asked Professor Flitwick whether wizards could identify one another by their magic, and Flitwick explained that magic itself had no distinguishing properties.

Will learned from Professor Flitwick that Wizards’ Magic could alter anything and that overusing it could harm the mind and spirit. Meanwhile, Harry heard the murderous voice again and spoke to it in Parseltongue, shocking everyone around him.

• Professor Flitwick explained how Magic enabled disguises and said that overusing it could impair the mind and harm the spirit.
• Will concluded that spellcasting used Sanity, and Professor Flitwick urged him not to rush into dangerous research.
• After Quidditch practice, Harry heard the murderous voice in a corridor and was interrupted by Snape.
• Harry encountered Lockhart and Colin Creevey, whose bickering and attention left him frazzled.
• When the voice sounded beside him again, Harry asked who it wanted to kill in Parseltongue, and Lockhart revealed that Harry had spoken the language.