Chapter Summaries

Will returned to Snape’s Defence Against the Dark Arts class, where students were assessed on dueling with nonverbal spells. The lesson continued with Neville facing Goyle, whose attack Neville dodged before sending a desk into the air.

• Snape summoned Will to his office and told him to attend the afternoon Defence Against the Dark Arts class.
• Snape announced that students had to duel using only nonverbal spells or write an eight-inch essay.
• Draco defeated Ron with two Expelliarmus spells after blocking Ron’s Stunning Spell, and Snape awarded Draco three points to Slytherin.
• Neville dodged Goyle’s nonverbal Stunning Spells and raised his wand, causing a heavy oak desk to fly into the air.

Neville defeated Goyle with a powerful barrage of summoned objects, and Will Behrens later overwhelmed Harry in a classroom duel. Snape declared Will the winner and reminded Harry to write his essay.

• Neville struck Goyle with summoned books, tables, chairs, and stools until Goyle fell unconscious, then apologized.
• Snape declared Neville the winner and sent two students to take Goyle to the Hospital Wing.
• Snape called Harry up to duel Will Behrens, and Harry warned that he might hurt Will because his control had been poor.
• Harry attacked Will with a series of spells, but Will deflected or neutralized them with ease.
• Will reflected Harry's final Disarming Charm, which struck Harry and nearly knocked his wand from his hand.
• Snape declared Will the winner and reminded Harry about his essay.

Will attended Snape’s Defence Against the Dark Arts class, then discussed the danger of his Death Eater ties with Snape in his office. Snape urged Will to withdraw, and Will asked Snape to agree to a condition before he could feel at ease.

• Snape praised Will after he defeated Harry in a duel, then continued the lesson, where many students earned essays for speaking incantations aloud.
• Will followed Snape to his office and discussed how his research kept him too busy to attend classes regularly.
• Snape told Will that Voldemort was dissatisfied with his progress and warned him to leave before Dumbledore closed in.
• Will agreed to find a way out but urged Snape to end his undercover work and prepare to fake his death.
• Snape refused to leave, saying his work concerned his generation’s grudges, and Will insisted that he agree to a condition.

Will secured Snape’s promise to stay out of danger and discovered that a severed arm was growing a new soul. He then secretly treated Scrimgeour by cutting off his cursed arm, turning him into a werewolf, and nurturing a replacement arm, leaving Scrimgeour groggy after waking.

• Will persuaded Snape to stop using the Dreamless Sleep Charm and promise not to get involved if matters worsened.
• Will found that the test subject’s severed arm had begun healing and could be controlled as a new soul formed in it.
• Will told Scrimgeour to arrange a trip to America to conceal his treatment from Dumbledore.
• Will rendered Scrimgeour unconscious and performed the operation, removing his arm, transforming him into a werewolf, and nurturing a new arm’s soul.
• Scrimgeour woke in pain and groaned as Will explained that the reaction was normal.

Will, disguised as Scrimgeour, led the Ministry Aurors in a raid on the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers, accusing it of illegal potion trafficking and ties to Dark Wizard attacks and Death Eaters. Vice President Rock Rowle tried to escape through the Floo Network, but Aurors and Death Eater potioneers clashed on the stairs as he fled toward another fireplace.

• Will told the recovering Scrimgeour that his treatment had removed the curse but would leave him with temporary headaches, dizziness, and weakened abilities, and offered to handle the society.
• Will, disguised as Scrimgeour, arrived with Kane and a team of Aurors and ordered them to take over and search the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers.
• The Aurors subdued the society’s members in the hall, while Will announced Emergency Order Number Seventy-Three and ordered a thorough search.
• A young Wizard warned Rock Rowle that the Aurors had arrived, and Rowle grabbed his Wand, parchment, and potion bottles before trying to flee with him.
• Rowle blasted apart a stair railing, and Death Eater potioneers attacked the Aurors, allowing Rowle to escape toward a fireplace connected to the Floo Network.

Will, disguised as Scrimgeour, captured and killed Rock Rowle after discovering his ties to the Death Eaters. He ordered the society sealed and its members registered, then found a list of Potions scholars and their families that might serve his plans.

• Rock Rowle tried to escape through the Floo but found Scrimgeour waiting with the Floo Powder.
• Rock Rowle attacked Scrimgeour with the Killing Curse, but Will stopped him, searched his memories, and killed him.
• Will told the arriving Aurors that Rock Rowle had supplied potions to the Death Eaters and sabotaged Ministry supplies.
• Will ordered the Aurors to seal the building, secure its records, register the society’s potioneers, alert the Daily Prophet, and arrange care for the injured.
• Will found a list of Potions scholars, their families, and their travel habits, collected on Voldemort’s orders, and considered how to use it.

Scrimgeour forced the creation of a Ministry Logistics Department to control wartime supplies, then collapsed from the effects of his treatment. Will met Grindelwald to discuss a plan involving the Saints and Professor Dumbledore, and Grindelwald said its success depended on preventing the Phoenix from Apparating.

• Scrimgeour overruled the department heads and ordered the Logistics Department to oversee supplies during the war.
• Scrimgeour returned to his office and collapsed, while Kane tried to help him rest.
• Will told Grindelwald about the Saints’ networks across Europe and their renewed activity.
• Will explained his plan to Grindelwald, who agreed to help if Will could stop the Phoenix from using Apparition.