Chapter Summaries

Edward met Xenophilius Lovegood in Ottery St Catchpole, where Lovegood invited him to contribute to The Quibbler. After seeing a spirit following Luna, Edward accompanied the Lovegoods home and asked Luna about what she could see.

• Edward returned a rejected love letter to its sender and decided not to use Emlyn’s face again.
• Edward explored Ottery St Catchpole, recording local customs and legends while Lilith complained about being unable to understand his conversations.
• Xenophilius Lovegood recognized Edward’s curiosity and invited him to join The Quibbler.
• Edward saw a blonde spirit following Luna and asked to visit the Lovegoods’ home.
• Luna said the spirit was her deceased mother and explained that her father did not believe her claims about Wrackspurts and other creatures.

Edward discovered that Luna could see spirituality as Wrackspurts and left her home after Lovegood mistook him for a threat to The Quibbler. He visited the Weasley family and spoke with Arthur and Molly about their pathway choices before the weekly Defense Against the Dark Arts Practical Combat Class began at Hogwarts.

• Edward tested Luna’s Wrackspurts and found they increased whenever he or Lilith used a Beyonder ability, while a coin toss suggested Luna was not a Beyonder.
• Lovegood accused Edward of targeting Luna to steal The Quibbler and drove him from the house, but Luna told her father Edward had seen her dead mother, Pandora.
• Edward visited the Burrow, where Molly said Arthur wanted to choose the Savant Pathway and considered choosing the Seer Pathway herself.
• Edward advised Molly to consider a pathway with early combat strength to help protect her family, then asked her about the village for his travelogue.
• Arthur returned, chose the Savant Pathway, shared information about wizarding villages, and happily accepted Edward’s books on machinery and electric motors.
• The weekly Defense Against the Dark Arts Practical Combat Class began at Hogwarts.

Snape’s Practical Combat Class featured duels between Hogwarts students, while Audrey noticed a Durmstrang girl challenging her with a look. The Durmstrang students asked to join the class, and Snape agreed, leaving their matches to begin.

• Snape made Harry and Ron duel, and their simultaneous Petrificus Totalus left them facing a month of toilet cleaning for drawing.
• Odope Jones defeated Bilke with an uppercut, prompting Snape to consider teaching the Shield Charm earlier.
• Audrey noticed a Durmstrang girl searching the crowd and giving her a challenging look.
• Snape sent the Weasley brothers against nine third-years, and the pair were soundly defeated.
• The Durmstrang students asked Snape to take part in the Practical Combat Class, and he agreed.

Edward defused Emily Larson’s public challenge by redirecting the class to practical combat, but Lee Jordan framed it as a duel between Emily and Audrey. The two began an intense spell exchange, and their fight continued as both sides of the platform collapsed.

• Emily Larson challenged Audrey and said she wanted to date Edward, then clarified that she wanted him to tutor her in Transfiguration.
• Edward refused the date and urged the students to focus on Snape’s practical Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
• Lee Jordan announced a duel between Emily and Audrey, and the two stepped onto the platform and began fighting.
• Audrey attacked with fire, enlarged birds, and a disarming spell while Emily countered with ice, mist, and Apparition.
• Emily blasted Audrey’s side of the platform, and Audrey levitated a table to escape before collapsing Emily’s side in return.

Edward and Dumbledore investigated the Dark Mark that appeared over Hogwarts, while Karkaroff denied summoning it and the culprit remained unidentified. The next morning, Umbridge and Scrimgeour arrived with a Ministry ruling to remove Dumbledore and demanded that Snape and Karkaroff be taken in for questioning.

• Edward and Dumbledore found Snape with Karkaroff, who claimed Death Eaters had followed him to Hogwarts and were trying to kill him.
• Dumbledore ordered Karkaroff to remain under Snape's watch, and Edward examined Karkaroff's memories and found they supported his account.
• Edward suggested using Karkaroff as bait to catch the Death Eaters, then divined that none of the Durmstrang students had cast the Dark Mark.
• Umbridge arrived with a Ministry ruling to remove Dumbledore, but Dumbledore said Hogwarts regulations required him to remain headmaster after the incident.
• Edward challenged Umbridge with Hogwarts regulations and Fudge's past claims, while Scrimgeour argued the Dark Mark had to be investigated quickly.
• Scrimgeour asked to take Snape and Karkaroff to the Ministry as suspects, and Dumbledore asked whether he could trust Scrimgeour.

Edward and Audrey planned to reach Azkaban by using Barty Crouch to learn its location and investigate his son, while Umbridge returned to teach at Hogwarts and political tensions grew around Dumbledore. The chapter ended with Malfoy fearing that someone would discover he had cast the Dark Mark under the Imperius Curse.

• Umbridge chose to resume teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts instead of presenting her appointment as Hogwarts' Acting Headmistress.
• Hogwarts students learned that Snape and Karkaroff had been taken for questioning and worried that the incident might be a plot to steal the Philosopher's Stone.
• Edward and Audrey decided to visit Azkaban to undermine Fudge's accusations against Dumbledore, and Edward planned to use Barty Crouch to find its location and learn about Barty Crouch Jr.
• Malfoy feigned illness to avoid Umbridge's class and feared that Voldemort had forced him to cast the Dark Mark.

Audrey and Edward continued treating the Longbottoms, then confronted Barty Crouch Sr. about his missing son and discovered that Barty Crouch Jr. had escaped death and was working for Voldemort. They left after asking to borrow Crouch’s house-elf, with their next destination still unstated.

• Audrey gave the Longbottoms another psychotherapy session, and Mrs. Longbottom began showing more awareness when she held Neville’s photograph.
• Edward and Audrey visited Barty Crouch Sr.’s home and demanded to know where Barty Crouch Jr. was.
• Edward revealed that Crouch had secretly switched his son’s identity with his dying wife’s to fake the son’s death in Azkaban.
• Crouch confessed that he believed he had killed his son two months earlier, but Edward used Specialis Revelio to show the buried corpse was someone else.
• Edward told Crouch that Barty Crouch Jr. had escaped and might have helped cause the Dark Mark’s appearance at Hogwarts.
• Edward and Audrey left Crouch’s home after Audrey asked to borrow Winky.

Edward and Audrey freed Winky and used her to reach a reef near Azkaban, where Edward explained the prison’s defenses before launching an assault on its guards. Edward and Lilith overwhelmed the Hit Wizards and Dementors on Lighthouse Island, leaving the surviving guards fleeing or surrendering as they prepared to enter Azkaban.

• Edward restored Winky, used the Imperius Curse to make her take him, Audrey, and Lilith near Azkaban, then erased her memory.
• Edward explained Azkaban’s defenses to Audrey and decided to attack openly rather than attempt a quiet entry.
• Two Hit Wizards on patrol spotted an explosion on Lighthouse Island and rushed to help.
• Edward and Lilith had already subdued the Hit Wizards at the lighthouse and waited for reinforcements to arrive.
• Edward forbade flight and summoned a pillar of light that killed several Dementors, while Lilith’s ability stirred the others into confusion.
• The surviving Hit Wizards fled or surrendered, and Lilith complained that Edward had ended the fight before she could get serious.

Edward, Audrey, and Lilith explored Azkaban after disarming the Hit Wizards and driving away most of the prison’s guards. Audrey began questioning Elphin Rosier while Edward identified prisoners rumored to be Death Eaters, leaving him asking where they were held.

• Edward ordered the Hit Wizards to gather, surrendered their confiscated belongings at Azkaban, and told them not to disturb him until dawn.
• Edward, Audrey, and Lilith entered Azkaban, subdued the remaining Hit Wizards, and toured its cells with Susie.
• Audrey confused the Dementors with Intimidation and Frenzy while Lilith incited them to fight one another until only one fled.
• Audrey questioned Elphin Rosier, who claimed he had been framed as a Death Eater, while Edward inspected and documented the prison.
• A prisoner named several alleged Death Eaters and identified Elphin Rosier as one before Edward asked him to point out their cells.

Edward freed Sirius from Azkaban after explaining that Peter Pettigrew had been responsible for betraying the Potters and was now dead, leaving Sirius unable to clear his name. Edward then brought Sirius to help kill several Death Eaters while Audrey used her Beyonder abilities to treat other prisoners.

• Edward taunted Bellatrix and Sirius in their cells, then told Sirius that Peter Pettigrew had survived the explosion and later died in Fiendfyre.
• Edward revealed that he had intended to give Sirius to Harry Potter as a Christmas present and opened Sirius's cell, handing him a wand and ordering him to kill whoever Edward named.
• Edward returned with Sirius to find Audrey, Lilith, and Susie attending to prisoners, and Audrey admitted she could not cure some of them.
• Edward shot a Death Eater, claiming that death solved psychological problems, then threatened the other prisoners into silence.
• Sirius used Avada Kedavra to kill Death Eaters, while frightened prisoners heard angry shouts from inside Azkaban.

Edward, Audrey, and Sirius killed the Death Eaters and other dangerous prisoners in Azkaban, then escaped as Lilith and Susie stirred chaos among the remaining inmates. They left for Hogwarts with Sirius transformed into a dog, while Lilith revealed that she had digested more than half her potion.

• Audrey treated prisoners cell by cell while Sirius killed the Death Eaters, and Lilith and Susie went outside with Edward.
• Audrey recognized Bellatrix from the Longbottoms’ mind world, and Sirius killed his cousin after confronting her about the Black family and Tom Riddle.
• Sirius used Polyjuice Potion and the Imperius Curse to disguise himself as a prisoner before killing several other dangerous inmates and hiding the double in his cell.
• Edward, Audrey, and Sirius left Azkaban through a stone door, then saw the remaining prisoners fighting after Lilith and Susie returned.
• Lilith told Edward she had digested more than half her potion, and the group headed for Hogwarts with Sirius transformed into a black dog.

Edward told Dumbledore about the Azkaban operation, including Sirius’s escape and the deaths of the imprisoned Death Eaters, while Dumbledore revealed that the goblins had refused to surrender Hufflepuff’s Cup. The next morning, Edward woke late and joined Cedric for breakfast, where students were discussing Snape, Karkaroff, and Umbridge.

• After Edward and the others left Azkaban, a group of goblins riding shackled fire dragons flew toward the prison, intent on reclaiming what belonged to them.
• Sirius reached Hogwarts, recognized the Whomping Willow, and hid in the Shrieking Shack after Edward promised to arrange a meeting with Dumbledore and Harry Potter.
• Edward told Dumbledore that he had freed Sirius and eliminated the Death Eaters in Azkaban, and Dumbledore agreed to go with Edward to negotiate for Hufflepuff’s Cup at Gringotts.
• Dumbledore said Snape had suspected Malfoy of involvement in the Dark Mark incident, and he planned to use divination to search Hogwarts for the culprit.
• Dumbledore left to seek support from the Wizengamot for Snape, who was still being interrogated by Fudge.
• Cedric woke Edward the next morning, and they went to breakfast as students discussed Snape and Karkaroff being taken to the Ministry of Magic and Umbridge’s return.

Edward and the students learned that Azkaban had been attacked and more than half its prisoners had escaped, while Edward concealed his involvement in the raid. Harry received an unexplained Nimbus 2000, and the chapter ended with Umbridge panicking over the Azkaban reports.

• Harry received a second Nimbus 2000 and suspected Edward had sent it as a Christmas present.
• The Weasley brothers read reports that Azkaban had been breached and more than half its prisoners had escaped.
• Edward read that two attacks had struck Azkaban and realized the Hit Wizards had reported that he and Audrey took their confiscated belongings.
• Cedric suspected Edward and Audrey had gone to Azkaban, but Edward denied that they could have been the powerful attackers.
• Edward told Harry he had not sent the broom and said it must be part of his Christmas present.
• The students celebrated the news about Azkaban and Fudge as Professor McGonagall sent them to class, while Umbridge paced anxiously in her office.

Cornelius Fudge sent Dementors into Hogwarts and blamed Dumbledore for the Azkaban attack, while Edward and Audrey tried to learn what had happened there. Edward lured Dementors with Sirius, killed several, and began a Spirit Channeling ritual with the last one.

• Fudge accused Dumbledore of attacking Azkaban, brought Dementors into Hogwarts, and sought to have Dumbledore impeached.
• Dumbledore told Edward and Audrey that the Azkaban attackers had released prisoners and arrived on fire dragons, while the Dementors could not be questioned normally.
• Fudge learned the ministerial election had been moved to December 20 and went to Gringotts in desperation.
• Edward used Sirius as bait to lure five Dementors through the Whomping Willow and into the Shrieking Shack, where the tree attacked pursuing Aurors.
• Edward killed four Dementors with golden flames, threatened the remaining one into cooperating, and began the Spirit Channeling ritual.

After learning that goblins had attacked Azkaban, Edward and Dumbledore planned to visit Gringotts, while the Ministry’s Dementors caused a crisis at Hogwarts. Umbridge discovered Edward was absent from her Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson and angrily questioned the students about his whereabouts.

• Edward dreamed that goblins riding fire dragons had attacked Azkaban, then told Dumbledore he believed the goblins were involved; Dumbledore agreed to visit Gringotts the next morning.
• Edward sent Sirius away from the Shrieking Shack and advised him to go home and think of a Christmas gift for Harry.
• Malfoy and the Durmstrang students discussed their fears about their headmaster’s arrest, while Emily praised Edward’s Transfiguration abilities.
• Hogwarts condemned the Ministry’s deployment of Dementors after five escaped near the Whomping Willow, prompting Fudge to withdraw half of them.
• Umbridge noticed Edward was missing from her Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson and challenged the students when one called him Professor Edward.

Umbridge objected to Edward teaching Transfiguration, while Dumbledore and Edward failed to persuade Gringotts to let them inspect the Lestrange Vault. They began a plan to gain access under cover of an alibi, leaving Edward and Dumbledore posing as wealthy customers at Gringotts.

• Umbridge learned that Edward was covering McGonagall's Transfiguration classes, complained, and ordered a student to copy a page ten times.
• Dumbledore brought Edward to Gringotts, where Craw refused to let them inspect the Lestrange Vault without evidence or the owner's key.
• Dumbledore accused the goblins of safeguarding an object connected to Voldemort, and Craw threatened to have him escorted out.
• Outside Gringotts, Edward used Divination to suggest that Craw's memories had been altered or protected, and Dumbledore agreed to try Edward's plan.
• Edward and Dumbledore arranged for others to appear in their likenesses as an alibi, while they posed as wealthy customers seeking a vault.
• Edward displayed gold and jewels at Gringotts and asked for a private lounge and a bottle of 1982 Château Lafite.

Edward and Dumbledore uncovered that a one-eyed goblin from the 1612 rebellion had ordered the goblins to work with the Death Eaters, possibly in pursuit of something at Hogwarts. They prepared to investigate the Lestrange Vault, leaving two stunned goblins behind.

• Edward and Dumbledore confronted three goblins at Gringotts, and Edward subdued them after they attacked.
• Edward divined that the goblins were following a one-eyed old goblin who had ordered them to cooperate with the Death Eaters.
• Edward and Dumbledore speculated that the alliance might target a treasure at Hogwarts, though they could not identify it.
• Edward tried to learn the one-eyed goblin's whereabouts through Spirit Channeling, but the three goblins knew nothing.
• Dumbledore suggested visiting the Lestrange Vault to verify whether the Death Eaters were acting without Voldemort's involvement, and Edward placed Craw under the Imperius Curse to lead them there.

Dumbledore and Edward retrieved Hufflepuff’s Cup from the Lestrange Vault and learned that the goblins and Death Eaters might attack Hogwarts on election day. As Hogwarts prepared for the threat, Edward continued recording Beyonder abilities and spoke with Emily Larson about her visits to his Transfiguration lessons.

• Dumbledore and Edward found Hufflepuff’s Cup in the Lestrange Vault, silenced the vault’s protective charms, and rented a high-standard vault to conceal the treasures they took.
• Dumbledore told Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick that the goblins and Death Eaters had joined forces and might attack Hogwarts on the day of the Minister for Magic election.
• Over the next two days, Edward used divination and trips beyond Hogwarts to record Beyonder abilities, increasing his recording capacity and advancing his Scribe potion digestion.
• Emily Larson asked Edward whether he minded her attending his third-year Transfiguration lessons, and he explained that he had been traveling to gather material for his travelogue, including a visit to Durmstrang.

After the students drove off the Dementors and overwhelmed Umbridge with Dungbombs, Lucius Malfoy invited Audrey and Edward to a family gathering. Audrey and Edward had other plans for the weekend, and she wondered whether Lucius was plotting something.

• Emily asked Edward for help with Transfiguration, and he offered to assist her with specific problems.
• The Weasley brothers explained how their improved Dungbombs had become popular for driving away Dementors.
• Students bombarded Umbridge with Dungbombs, then soaked her with water until she fainted in the filthy puddle.
• Malfoy gave Audrey an invitation from his father, Lucius, inviting her and Edward to a family gathering that Saturday.
• Audrey told Malfoy she needed time to consider the invitation and asked Edward whether Lucius might be plotting something.

Edward and Audrey consulted Dumbledore about Lucius Malfoy’s invitation, and Dumbledore agreed they should attend the dinner after Edward’s divination showed no danger. During Audrey’s treatment of Mrs. Longbottom, she found the woman waiting for an unknown Messenger.

• Edward and Audrey found Umbridge confronting Dumbledore, who warned her that Fudge was unlikely to win the Minister for Magic election and told her to leave Hogwarts’s children alone.
• Edward gave Dumbledore Lucius Malfoy’s invitation to Audrey, and they discussed whether Lucius wanted to discourage her from investigating his son’s dream.
• Dumbledore told Edward and Audrey to attend the dinner after Edward reported that his divination showed no danger.
• Audrey treated Mrs. Longbottom at St. Mungo’s and found her alone outside the house in her inner world.
• Mrs. Longbottom told Audrey that the Messenger was coming, and Audrey sat with her to wait.