Recaps

John attended Hogwarts’ sorting ceremony and dinner, where the professors welcomed new staff. Professor McGonagall introduced John Wick as the new Guidance Professor, leaving Stella confused about his role and Professor Howlett’s appointment.

• John greeted Professors Sprout and Flitwick, who discussed how little they had taught him during his Hogwarts years.
• Neville led the new students into the Great Hall and sorted Alfred Allen into Gryffindor.
• John avoided the Stargazy Pie and Mapo Tofu Ice Cream as the professors passed the strange dishes around the table.
• Professor McGonagall announced that Professor Howlett would teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, surprising Stella.
• Professor McGonagall introduced Mr. Wick as Hogwarts’ new Guidance Professor, and Stella wondered what the unfamiliar position meant.

John investigated the Forbidden Forest after Stephens Diggory was found unconscious and heard that a Skeleton Horse and Red Knight had frightened him. Unicorn princess Weiwei revealed that the creatures had been searching for unicorns, leaving John to wonder whether they wanted unicorn blood.

• Lewis and Stella discussed the new professors, with Stella agreeing that Professor Howlett seemed formidable.
• Hagrid told John that Stephens Diggory had wandered deep into the Forbidden Forest and been found babbling about a Skeleton Horse and a Red Knight.
• John asked Hagrid to keep students out of the forest and set off with him to investigate, leaving Grawp to guard the entrance.
• John found traces where Stephens had been and realized something had tried to follow the boy into Hogwarts, but the evidence had been erased.
• Weiwei told John that armored skeleton creatures had searched for unicorns and that Stephens had lured one away from her.

John visited the unicorns’ home and learned from Clark that the elves hunting them were refugees fleeing the world-ending White Frost. He discovered that the elves had brought the calamity with them and returned from the ancient tree intending to address the threat.

• Weiwei welcomed John and Hagrid to the unicorns’ hidden home, where Clark explained that the elves had been searching for unicorns and people with magic.
• Clark led John into the ancient tree and revealed that elves had once hunted unicorns to use their world-traveling power to conquer other worlds.
• John read the tree’s records and learned that the elves were fleeing the White Frost, a recurring catastrophe that pursued them between worlds.
• John realized that the elves had trapped themselves in this world and that the White Frost had followed him there.
• John concluded that only Weiwei and Clark retained the ancient unicorn bloodline, then headed down the tree as Hagrid came looking for him.

John Wick overwhelmed students with unsolicited Potions knowledge while they struggled with Snape’s essay assignment. In the Hospital Wing, Stephens told John how he had encountered a blood ritual and a pursuing knight in the Forbidden Forest, and the whispers in his mind stopped as they spoke.

• Snape repeatedly deducted points from Lewis and Stella before assigning the students a seven-inch Potions essay.
• Stella and Lewis asked John about Polyjuice Potion, but his torrent of related knowledge left them and a Hufflepuff student bewildered.
• Stephens woke in the Hospital Wing tormented by whispers about the White Wolf, White Frost, and the Supreme Sorcerer.
• John introduced himself to the wary Stephens and invited him to explain what had happened in the Forbidden Forest.
• Stephens recounted touching blood from a ritual gate and fleeing a knight on a skeleton horse until Hagrid found him.
• Stephens noticed that the whispers had stopped while he was talking to John, leaving John wondering why they had disappeared.

Stephens recovered from the hospital and began studying ancient runes to understand the mysterious voice tormenting him. Meanwhile, Lewis, Stella, and Alice planned to investigate Hogwarts’ three great legends, while John gave Stephens even more ancient-language books to study.

• Stephens left the hospital, resolved to study ancient runes and languages to deal with the whisper, and noticed the voice fell silent whenever Professor Wick was nearby.
• Lewis told Stephens and Stella about the Night-Walking Devil, the Golden Thief, and the Wizard King's Treasure, then showed them a blank map he had found.
• Alice took the map and insisted on joining the investigation, and Stephens offered the group his Invisibility Cloak while explaining that it could cover only three people.
• Stella and Alice argued over the plan, and Stephens realized he would have to deliver the Invisibility Cloak to them despite not joining the adventure.
• The whisper returned to torment Stephens but stopped when John came near, and John handed him more books written in ancient languages to study.

Stella and Alice attended Hagrid’s Care of Magical Creatures lesson and flew on hippogriffs while John investigated a blood-soaked site in the Forbidden Forest. After finding evidence that elves were preparing a powerful curse, John ordered the centaurs to patrol the forest and report discoveries to Hagrid, and their leader agreed.

• Hagrid took the students to meet hippogriffs, and Stella and Alice enjoyed flying on them.
• John and Weiwei found the bodies of magical creatures, including centaurs, and John realized the elves were gathering blood to create a powerful curse.
• John decided to ask Hagrid for Fang to track the elves and told Weiwei to warn her father to hide the Forbidden Forest’s creatures.
• Centaurs surrounded John at the slaughter site, and he demanded that their leader come forward.
• John ordered the centaurs to patrol the forest, drive students away, and report discoveries to Hagrid; their leader agreed after seeing the corpses.

Lewis and Stella set out after curfew to explore Hogwarts, using Stephens’s Invisibility Cloak and a magical map, and Alice joined them along the way. They found the Golden Thief hosting a midnight banquet in a hidden room near the kitchen, where their sudden entrance left them face-to-face with him.

• Stephens gave Stella his Stars Badge and lent the pair his Invisibility Cloak, then warned them to watch out for Filch after curfew.
• Lewis and Stella sneaked out of Gryffindor Tower and used the Marauder's Map to evade Filch and search for Hogwarts legends.
• The pair found Alice hiding near the Slytherin dormitories and brought her under the Invisibility Cloak as Filch approached.
• Lewis led Stella and Alice into the kitchen, where they discovered a hidden door and heard music coming from inside.
• The three opened the door and saw the Golden Little Man conducting dancing furniture beside a table full of food.

Stella, Lewis, and Alice chased a golden thief through a room of animated kitchenware, only for it to escape and lead them into the corridor. They evaded Filch and regrouped near the Library, where Lewis found that Filch had stopped moving.

• Lewis and Stella tried to catch the golden thief while Alice guarded the doorway, but it repeatedly escaped their grasp.
• Lewis trapped the golden thief beneath a pot, but it slipped out, kicked Alice in the face, and fled as the kitchenware cheered.
• Alice and Stella chased the thief into the corridor, where Mrs. Norris appeared and Filch began approaching.
• The trio hid under Altair's Robe, but Mrs. Norris ran toward a strange sound in the darkness, drawing Filch away.
• Stella, Lewis, and Alice escaped to an empty classroom near the Library, argued over the chase, and then agreed to work together.
• Lewis checked the Marauder's Map and saw that Filch had stopped moving.

Stella, Alice, and Lewis feared that the Devil of the Night had taken Mrs. Norris and fled through Hogwarts after hearing invisible footsteps. John encountered Filch and Mrs. Norris on patrol, then noticed the trio under an Invisibility Cloak and wondered why they ran from him.

• Stella, Alice, and Lewis saw that Mrs. Norris's name had vanished from the Marauder's Map and feared the Devil of the Night had killed her.
• Alice told Stella and Lewis the Slytherin legend of Daredevil, whose unseen footsteps and victims could not be detected on the map.
• Filch began moving again, and Stella led Alice and Lewis toward Slytherin by a shortcut as Filch headed upstairs.
• Stella, Alice, and Lewis heard footsteps with no corresponding figure on the map and ran to the fourth floor, where Lewis froze after touching a door.
• John met Mrs. Norris and Filch after checking on Stephens, then spotted the trio under an Invisibility Cloak and watched them flee.

Stella, Alice, and Lewis escaped Daredevil through a door into a star-filled chamber where Stella’s Badge let her control the clouds and they encountered the Golden Thief, a Star Spirit. Believing the chamber held the Wizard King’s treasure, they opened its doors and accidentally unleashed a three-headed giant dog, fleeing through the forest doorway.

• Stella’s Badge glowed as she opened the eye-marked door, and the three children entered a magnificent chamber beneath a starry dome.
• The children fought the Golden Thief, and Stella discovered she could disperse the chamber’s clouds with the Badge.
• The children recognized the Golden Thief as a Star Spirit and concluded that the chamber was the Wizard King’s treasure.
• Lewis opened several of the nine doors, revealing paths to different places, including an underwater area and a glowing forest.
• A three-headed giant dog followed the children through the forest doorway, and they escaped into the forest as it chased them.

John treated Grawp’s injuries after knights attacked him and the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, then went with Fang to track the attackers. Meanwhile, Stella, Alice, and Lewis fled a three-headed dog and a swarm of fiery butterflies, while Neville discovered the Marauder’s Map and a nameplate reading “Fluffy” by the open doors.

• John examined Grawp’s wounds, removed an elven sword, and healed him using Galleons after magic failed.
• A centaur told John that knights riding skeleton horses had attacked them while capturing magical creatures in the eastern forest.
• John took Fang into the Forbidden Forest to follow the scent of blood, while Hagrid stayed with Grawp.
• Stella, Alice, and Lewis hid from a three-headed dog, realized they had lost their map, and escaped a swarm of fire-starting butterflies.
• Neville found the Marauder’s Map and a golden nameplate bearing the name “Fluffy” by the open doors in the Stars Society.

Stephens used a Good Sleep Potion to return to the strange world calling to him, while Stella and Alice searched for Lewis in the Forbidden Forest. After Lewis discovered masked knights sacrificing a Kappa beneath two Pillars of Stone, a mysterious voice guided him as he fled.

• Stephens learned that he had spoken about the White Frost in his sleep, then took a small spoonful of Good Sleep Potion to enter the strange world again.
• Stella and Alice extinguished the light to drive away the Fireflies, then realized Lewis was missing and set out to find him.
• Lewis woke in a pit with his wand broken and followed a dark passage toward an underground cavern.
• Lewis saw masked knights sacrifice a Kappa before two Pillars of Stone, and a mysterious voice guided him away as the knights pursued him.

Lewis was trapped in the Forbidden Forest, where Fluffy fought an elven knight, while Stephens was drawn toward a mysterious gate and identified as bearing Elder Blood. Stella and Alice came to rescue Lewis, and the Wild Hunt’s king turned his attention to Stephens.

• Lewis hid from an armored knight in the Forbidden Forest, and Stephens guided him until the knight cornered him with his wand broken.
• Fluffy found Lewis and knocked the knight into a wall, but the knight wounded Fluffy and provoked him into fighting back fiercely.
• Stella decided to go help Lewis, and Alice joined her; Stella gave Alice the badge and told her to return to Hogwarts if danger arose.
• John followed Fang to a small corpse pit, where the dog picked up other scents and led him onward.
• Stella and Alice reached Lewis, and Alice lifted him out with Wingardium Leviosa; Lewis said Stephens had gone quiet after sensing a gate.
• A white-robed elf told Stephens that Elder Blood had appeared in another world, and the King of the Wild Hunt fixed his gaze on him.

Alice, Stella, and Lewis slipped into the knights’ holding area while searching for Stephens and freed a group of captured magical creatures. After the Demiguise guided them toward danger, the children set off with the juvenile Zouwu following them.

• Alice and Stella fell through the collapsing tunnel with Lewis, and the three hid from a knight beneath Altair's Robe.
• Stella, Alice, and Lewis found captured magical creatures, including a juvenile Zouwu and an injured Demiguise, inside the knights’ holding area.
• The Demiguise distracted a knight while the children slipped inside, and Stella and Alice stunned the knight who remained behind.
• The Zouwu killed the knight as he attacked Stella, and the children freed the Zouwu and the other creatures.
• The Demiguise pointed the children toward a place where something was about to happen, and the juvenile Zouwu followed them.

Stella and Alice freed Stephens from the knights’ ritual, but were trapped in the Underground Cavern. An Astral Spirit Guardian and Professor Longbottom arrived to protect them, leaving the battle against the knights underway.

• The Red Knight prepared to sacrifice Stephens, but Stella stunned the White-Robed Elves while Alice broke his chains, allowing Stephens’s consciousness to return to Hogwarts.
• Stephens told Professor Sprout that Stella, Lewis, and Alice were trapped in the Forbidden Forest, and McGonagall sent professors to the forest while Stephens went with Sprout.
• The Red Knight attacked Stella and Alice, but an Astral Spirit Guardian appeared and struck the knights with a golden blast.
• The knights charged Stella and Alice on skeleton horses as an opening was blasted into the cavern from above.
• Professor Longbottom arrived with his sword, killed a knight, and asked what the knights intended to do to his students.

John and Neville defeated the White-Robed Elves and their knights after Stella, Alice, Lewis, and Stephens became caught up in the attack near Hogwarts. The Red Knight escaped, while John prepared to investigate the captured elves and the magical stone pillars.

• John and Neville fought off the knights, and John took fifty points each from Stella, Alice, and Lewis for being out at night.
• John countered the White-Robed Elves' ancient magic while Neville battled the Red Knight, and the Red Knight fled during the fight.
• John captured the White-Robed Elves, then Neville noticed two unfamiliar stone pillars that John identified as obelisk-like structures fed with magical and unicorn blood.
• Weiwei returned with a Demiguise and explained that the creature had tried to rescue her after she was captured.
• Professor McGonagall and Stephens checked on the students, and John sent everyone back while he stayed to study the pillars and captured elves.

Stella, Lewis, and Alice discussed their failed chance to claim the Wizard King's Treasure while Stephens learned that Professor Wick was still in the Forbidden Forest. There, John questioned a captured Elf Sorcerer about the frost wolf and snowstorm after discovering the elves' ancient soul, and the students later noticed that their Guidance Professor had vanished again.

• Stella told Lewis that she had returned the badge to Stephens, and Lewis reluctantly agreed that the treasure belonged to him.
• Stephens asked Neville whether Professor Wick had returned, and Neville assured him that John was dependable and still had things to do in the Forbidden Forest.
• John examined a dead elf and its ancient soul, then woke the captured Elf Sorcerer and used Red Peony to block his escape.
• John questioned the Elf Sorcerer about the era of the frost wolf and snowstorm and extracted useful information from him over several days.
• The students discovered that their Guidance Professor had vanished again.

John returned to Hogwarts, welcomed Little Dragon into his office, and investigated Stephens’s unusual elder blood with Snape. After learning Stephens had visited the Devil’s Triangle as a child, John took a blood sample for experiments, leaving Stephens’s mysterious changes under investigation.

• John heard students recount Lewis’s stories about the trio’s adventures and learned that Little Dragon had helped them in the Forbidden Forest.
• John brought Little Dragon to his office, gave him toys, and warned him not to keep picking on the same students.
• John recalled that the elves had found elder blood in Stephens and wanted to use its power to travel between worlds, then moved the Elf Sorcerer to another confinement.
• Stephens impressed Snape with his potion work before John summoned him away from Quidditch practice to meet Snape.
• John asked Stephens about unusual experiences and learned he had visited the Devil’s Triangle with his parents as a child.
• Stephens agreed to give blood, and John enlisted Snape to help investigate his unusual bloodline.

John planned to use the Wild Hunt to make the Muggles recognize the importance of magic, while sightings of the riders spread around the world. At Avengers Tower, Wanda tried to awaken Vision as the Wild Hunt invaded, and John entered the Devil's Triangle, where he began fighting its creatures before becoming lost.

• Snape analyzed Stephens's blood as John said one Wild Hunt elf had escaped and explained that he intended to use the riders to strengthen magic's standing among Muggles.
• Steve asked Wanda to use her magic to wake Vision, and the Avengers prepared to restrain him if he attacked.
• Agent Hill reported Wild Hunt sightings worldwide, and Wanda entered Vision's dream to awaken him as an invasion struck Avengers Tower.
• Steve sealed the room around Wanda, Vision, Pietro, and Barton before he, Sam, and Natasha went to face the intruders.
• John entered the Devil's Triangle, found its waters filled with dangerous magical creatures, and fought them before the whirlpools and chaotic forces left him lost.

John found an enormous meteorite beneath the sea that was causing magical chaos, altered gravity, and the whirlpools, then carried it toward the surface. In October, Hogwarts students discussed the upcoming Inter-School League and the challenges Stephens would face.

• John followed the whispers into a structure of reefs and wrecked ships and discovered a meteorite emitting chaos particles.
• John used the Reality Stone to compress the meteorite and seized it, then flew upward through the storm while lightning struck at him.
• Slughorn told Freeman Griffiths that Hogwarts was favored to win the Three-Event Tournament, citing home-ground advantages.
• Lewis and Stella discussed Stephens's prospects in the Starry Sky Cup and how exams and later tournaments could affect his performance.
• Stella told Lewis to stop talking when she noticed that someone had arrived.

The eleven magical schools gathered at Hogwarts for the Inter-School League, where Pheobe and Neville argued over their schools’ past victories and the delegates praised the changing place of werewolves. John returned from the Devil’s Triangle, contained a dangerous meteorite in his office, and prepared to join the feast.

• The delegations arrived at Hogwarts in spectacular processions, and the students admired Fleur Delacour and the other standout young wizards.
• Pheobe and Neville discussed Beauxbatons’ plans to reclaim its pride and Hogwarts’ undefeated record, while Kim and Heinrich praised Professor Howlett and the progress of werewolves.
• John entered Hogwarts after flying for half a month and wondered how Snape’s research had progressed.
• John discovered that the little dragon had dug a passage from his office to a cozy room stocked with potatoes and Pumpkin Juice.
• John placed the meteorite inside the Silver Egg and used the Limited Gauntlet with four Finite Stones to contain its Chaos Particles.
• John cleaned up, changed clothes, and prepared to join his friends at the feast.

Hagrid struggled to choose between Madame Maxime and Hogwarts, so John proposed letting the Inter-School League decide their future. After discussing the chaos magic John brought back from the Devil’s Triangle, John invited Snape to research magic that could reach another world.

• Madame Maxime gave Hagrid an ultimatum: transfer to Beauxbatons or remain at Hogwarts, and then she left him to decide.
• John suggested that Hagrid go to France if Hogwarts failed to win the Inter-School League, and Hagrid happily accepted the plan.
• Pheobe teased John about his romantic advice, then warned him to be careful with the chaos magic he had brought back from the Devil’s Triangle.
• Snape reported that Diggory’s blood contained magic from an unknown realm, and John invited him to research magic that could take them to another world.

John watched the lively Inter-School League gathering at Hogwarts, spoke with former student Remus Lupin about his new teaching post, and faced questions from Professor Howlett about his identity. The chapter ended as Hulk appeared in the Entrance Hall, chasing Peeves.

• John watched visiting students display Transfiguration and mingle with Hogwarts students in the Great Hall.
• John and Neville discussed Draco, Slughorn, Percy, and Cedric, who was in Egypt protecting a pyramid from Muggle archaeologists.
• Remus Lupin greeted Professor McGonagall and told her he had become a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Silver Wolf Magic School.
• Lupin reunited with John, discussed the school's struggles, and explained that he had chosen teaching over his work at the Werewolf Office.
• Professor Howlett questioned John about his identity and warned him not to harm the students.
• John went to investigate a commotion and found Hulk chasing Peeves in the Entrance Hall.

John turned Hulk’s arrival into a special appearance at the Inter-School League, then showed Snape his prototype for storing chaos-particle energy beneath Hogwarts and asked him to help guard it. Meanwhile, the League’s competitive pressure drove students from visiting schools into a fierce race to study.

• John stopped Hulk from attacking Peeves, and Lockhart revealed that he had brought Hulk to Hogwarts as a proposed mascot for the Inter-School League.
• Professor McGonagall rejected Lockhart’s mascot plan but agreed to John’s suggestion that Hulk attend as a special guest; Hulk stayed with Hagrid.
• John demonstrated how three Celestial Spheres absorbed and converted chaos particles from the Meteorite, explaining that a larger device could enable travel between worlds.
• John questioned whether Snape still served the Order of the Phoenix and entrusted him with knowledge of the dangerous device beneath Hogwarts.
• Students from visiting schools packed the library to prepare for the Inter-School League, and a dispute over a book nearly became a duel.

Students across Hogwarts competed fiercely for books as the Inter-School League drove them to study, while Lockhart’s fictional memoir became a hit with Muggle readers. John agreed to teach a Runes lesson for Professor Babbling, leaving her worried that his advanced explanations would overwhelm the class.

• Alice, Stella, Stephens, and Lewis joined the students scrambling for books in the Library, while Madam Pince chased rule-breaking students and fought the crowd.
• John’s promotion helped Lockhart’s book gain praise and orders in Muggle bookshops, and John arranged further publicity for Lockhart in the Wizarding World.
• As the Inter-School League raised pressure on Hogwarts teachers, John watched Snape nearly quarrel with the headmaster of Beauxbatons.
• Professor Babbling asked John to cover her Runes lesson because Master Nicolatin and a Beauxbatons professor would be observing her examination class.
• John entered the crowded Runes classroom confident in his teaching, while Babbling feared he would overwhelm the students.