Chapter Summaries

Rufus Scrimgeour brought Aurors to Hogwarts to investigate Remus Lupin and Douglas’s improved Wolfsbane Potion, while Lupin reassured him and explained the potion. Sirius Black then showed Scrimgeour a collection of modern magical devices, leaving him stunned.

• Scrimgeour positioned Aurors around the Quidditch Pitch, and Lupin told the students he was an old friend rather than an arresting officer.
• Scrimgeour questioned Lupin about revealing that he was a werewolf and challenged whether Douglas’s improved Wolfsbane Potion existed.
• Lupin showed Scrimgeour five differently colored potions and explained Douglas’s theory behind them.
• Sirius offered Scrimgeour magical gadgets, including a Dark Magic Detection Radar, an Apparition Positioning Tracker, and a shield-generating ring.
• Sirius told Scrimgeour that times had changed and reflected on how wizards neglected modern magical inventions while Muggles advanced their technology.

Sirius demonstrated a collection of magical devices to Scrimgeour and tried to sell them to the Aurors. Scrimgeour questioned the legality and price of the items, then wondered why Sirius could not offer a larger discount despite having made them.

• Sirius explained the restraints, shields, nets, grenades, and communication earrings he had created, along with their uses and prices.
• Sirius offered Scrimgeour a two-percent discount on the entire collection and threatened to sell to a German connection instead.
• Scrimgeour warned Sirius that keeping dangerous magical items at Hogwarts could constitute an offense.
• Sirius said he would ask Amelia Bones about the law when she visited the next day.
• Scrimgeour complained about securing Auror funding and questioned why Sirius could not authorize a better discount on his own creations.

Sirius pitched his magical devices to Rufus Scrimgeour, whose disdain for Dumbledore’s resistance fighters sparked a tense argument over how the Death Eaters should have been fought. Sirius ended by mocking the Aurors’ effectiveness and pressing Scrimgeour to consider how the devices could help them.

• Sirius refused to reveal his suppliers and tried to keep Scrimgeour from negotiating directly with Douglas, hoping to sell the Ministry the devices at a large markup.
• Scrimgeour questioned whether the devices would work against Dark Wizards and criticized Sirius and Dumbledore’s followers for resisting Voldemort without killing Death Eaters.
• Sirius restrained his anger, reflecting on his willingness to kill in the future to protect Harry and the children if Voldemort returned.
• Sirius cited an Auror who had been badly injured by a German Dark Wizard and argued that one of his badges might have helped the Auror capture the attacker.
• Sirius tossed his hair aside and made his sales pitch with a mocking look, while Scrimgeour watched him.

Sirius negotiated with Scrimgeour over magical devices for the Aurors, using the chance to test them against Hogwarts students and hinting at the approaching Quidditch World Cup. He then abruptly welcomed Scrimgeour and the Aurors as guests of Hogwarts, leaving Scrimgeour wary and confused about Sirius’s intentions.

• Sirius mocked Scrimgeour over the Ministry’s bounty on him and suggested the Aurors use the handcuffs to track Peter Pettigrew.
• Sirius asked why Barty Crouch had lost the Minister for Magic position, and Scrimgeour said Crouch’s son had been a Death Eater.
• Scrimgeour questioned the devices’ price and asked to take samples for testing before signing a long-term procurement contract.
• Sirius proposed a friendly match between Aurors and students to test the devices, and suggested mass production could begin around the time of the Quidditch World Cup.
• Sirius introduced himself as the first office director of the Hogwarts Academic Affairs Office and formally welcomed Scrimgeour and the Aurors to Hogwarts.
• Scrimgeour stepped back and asked Sirius what he was playing at.

Sirius arranged a friendly duel between the Aurors and Hogwarts students, presenting it as a chance to showcase the Aurors and inspire future recruits. Scrimgeour addressed the students and led the Aurors in their oath, whose swan-song effect stirred an ominous foreboding in him.

• Sirius persuaded Scrimgeour to hold a friendly match between the Aurors and Hogwarts students before the operation that night.
• Sirius introduced the Aurors to the students, joking about their past failures and irritating Scrimgeour.
• Scrimgeour addressed the students, describing the Aurors as the Ministry’s blade against dangers in the shadows.
• The Aurors recited their oath of enlistment across the Quidditch Pitch.
• Scrimgeour sensed the oath’s swan-song effect and felt an ominous warning.

Sirius, Lupin, and Scrimgeour announced an Auror demonstration and a special duel between Aurors and a student team at the Quidditch Pitch. Students rushed to support their peers, while Dumbledore and Fudge arrived and Fudge grew suspicious of Dumbledore.

• Peeves proclaimed that there would be no compromise with Black, drawing curious students toward the Quidditch Pitch while Hermione urged Harry to let the Charon Detective Agency gather information.
• The teachers heard the declarations during the examinations; Snape mentioned rumors about an improved Wolfsbane Potion, and Douglas tried to redirect their attention to the candidates.
• Dumbledore and Fudge headed toward the pitch, and Fudge worried that Scrimgeour was taking an oath despite having been sent to deal with the werewolf.
• Lupin and Scrimgeour spoke to the students about facing danger and using their lessons to fight Dark Wizards, while Sirius added that they might instead become Dark Wizards.
• Sirius announced a special duel between Aurors and a student team, prompting students to rush to support President Longbottom and Vice President Weasley.
• The students ran into Dumbledore and Fudge, and Fudge became more convinced that Dumbledore had ulterior motives when they looked to Dumbledore first.

Sirius used magical insoles to walk through the air and summoned a giant dueling arena onto the Quidditch Pitch, declaring himself referee. As Fudge demanded an explanation, students began suspecting the duel would decide whether Lupin could remain at Hogwarts.

• Dumbledore encouraged the students to follow their curiosity and went with Fudge to investigate the commotion at the Quidditch Pitch.
• Sirius stepped into the air using enchanted insoles, then summoned a giant Octagonal Arena onto the pitch and declared a wizard's duel.
• Fudge demanded an explanation from Sirius and Scrimgeour, while Sirius asked the students to wait as the referee addressed the minister.
• Ron suggested the duel might decide whether Lupin could stay, prompting the students to rally around Lupin.
• Sirius descended in a spiral around Fudge and landed before him as Scrimgeour arrived at the minister's side.

Sirius defended an Auror demonstration at Hogwarts as a way to guide students and introduce them to the Aurors’ work, while Fudge tried to reassert his authority. His reflections on Regulus and education left Dumbledore convinced that Hogwarts needed to do more than teach magic.

• Fudge challenged Scrimgeour over the Aurors’ actions, while Sirius insisted Fudge address him by his official title as Hogwarts Academic Affairs Office director.
• Sirius explained that the friendly match would teach students about Auror work and help identify promising recruits.
• Sirius suggested that stronger outreach might have kept young people from being drawn into the Death Eaters, prompting Fudge to tell him that the past was over.
• Sirius remembered his regrets about Regulus and considered how he might guide students who were at risk of losing their way.
• Dumbledore reflected that Hogwarts needed to nurture students with new approaches to education, and Sirius concluded that the event would benefit the wizarding world.

Sirius, Scrimgeour, and Dumbledore persuaded Fudge to approve a Ministry visit to Hogwarts that would showcase new equipment and talent. A Daily Prophet extra revealed Remus Lupin’s werewolf condition and Douglas Holmes’s improved Wolfsbane Potion, prompting a stunned reaction at St Mungo’s.

• Sirius pitched a Hogwarts demonstration of new equipment to Fudge, while Scrimgeour and Dumbledore helped persuade the Minister to approve it.
• Fudge approved the event, which was presented as a Ministry inspection of Hogwarts’s future talent pool.
• The Daily Prophet published an extra edition reporting that Remus Lupin had revealed he was a werewolf and that Douglas Holmes had improved the Wolfsbane Potion.
• Augustus Pye rushed the newspaper to Hippocrates Smethwyck at St Mungo’s and told him Douglas Holmes had improved the potion.
• Smethwyck stopped writing and asked Augustus to repeat who Douglas Holmes was.

Douglas Holmes’s improved Wolfsbane Potion provoked anger and opportunistic dealing among werewolves and dark wizards, while Hogwarts officials supported his work over dinner. Flitwick suggested Dumbledore’s vitality might be connected to his fondness for sweets.

• Borgin Burke dismissed a shrunken head’s call to kill Holmes and said he wanted no trouble with the boy.
• A hooded figure sold werewolf materials to a cloaked wizard seeking Wolfsbane Potion, saying Holmes gave him reason to be grateful.
• Fenrir Greyback tore up the newspaper photograph of Remus Lupin and vowed to confront the traitor once the uproar passed.
• Douglas served dragon blood dumplings and health tea to Professor Marchbanks and other Hogwarts staff, who discussed criticism of his improved Wolfsbane Potion.
• Snape disparaged Douglas’s methods, but Sprout reminded him of his own youthful potion experiments, and Snape drank the health tea in silence.
• Flitwick praised Douglas’s theory about taste, emotions, and magic, then suggested Dumbledore’s fondness for sweets might explain his youthful vitality.

At Hogwarts, Dumbledore introduced the dueling competition and praised Remus Lupin for publicly declaring that a werewolf could be a Night Watchman. Sirius announced the rules and gave Ravenclaw prefect Meg Erin a pair of enchanted insoles as the first magical item.

• Douglas prepared a viewing platform and seating while the students gathered on the Quidditch Pitch.
• Dumbledore projected his image into the night sky, joked with the students, and praised Lupin's bravery.
• Dumbledore yielded the next speech to Fudge, but Sirius interrupted to announce the competition rules.
• Douglas guided the embarrassed Fudge back to his seat as Sirius explained that three teams of three Hogwarts students would each face one Auror.
• Sirius handed Meg Erin enchanted insoles and told her that her next teammate would use them after her.

Dumbledore opened the Hogwarts dueling competition with a speech praising the students and warning the Aurors not to underestimate them. The first match began with three students launching a coordinated surprise attack on Garrick, who answered with a Fire Serpent spell.

• Dumbledore praised the Air-Treading Insoles, recalled the Aurors’ Hogwarts misadventures, and told the students the competition was about understanding opponents rather than proving strength.
• Dumbledore inspired the crowd, warned the Aurors that students might use Immobilizing Flash Grenades, and magically stamped the Hogwarts Crest onto the nine sixth-year competitors.
• Sirius Black introduced himself as referee and equipment sponsor, then announced Alicia Spinnet, Meg Erin, Valentine Webb, and Garrick as the first competitors.
• Alicia, Meg, and Valentine attacked Garrick together with Impedimenta, Expelliarmus, and Double Gravity before he could begin the formal dueling procedure.
• Garrick raised a Shield Charm and counterattacked with three Fire Serpents as Sirius excitedly narrated the opening exchange.

Valentin, Meg Erin, and Alicia used coordinated spells and new magical equipment to defeat Auror Garrick in the Octagonal Arena. Hogwarts won the first match, leaving Garrick bewildered as the students thanked him.

• Valentin chewed a Bay Leaf and spat at the Fire Serpent, extinguishing it, then used a Levitation Charm to throw Garrick off balance.
• Meg Erin used Air-Treading Insoles to take the fight into the air, while Garrick's curved Earth Wall blocked both her attack and Alicia's Tracking Handcuffs.
• Garrick Apparated across the arena, and Sirius explained that the Octagonal Arena allowed Apparition and that the students communicated through Tactical Communication Earrings.
• Garrick's Stunning Spell triggered Meg's Badge Shield, and Alicia and Valentin caught her before launching another attack.
• Valentin turned pastries into sunglasses, and the three students cast the Douglas Sun Spell before trapping the blinded Garrick in a Transfiguration Net.
• Sirius announced Hogwarts's victory, and Alicia, Meg, and Valentin hugged Garrick and thanked him.

Sirius Black refereed a duel in which Cassius Warrington and the other student champions defeated Auror Mindy with magical gadgets, while officials watched Remus Lupin endure the full moon safely after taking the New Wolfsbane Potion. The next morning, the Daily Prophet published a glowing account portraying Cornelius Fudge as a champion of werewolf rights, prompting Hagrid to call him shameless.

• Sirius Black introduced the duel between Cassius Warrington, Tom Cruise, Maerqian Xiu, and Auror Mindy.
• Mindy attacked swiftly and broke the students’ shields, but the three champions trapped and bound her with magical gadgets.
• As moonlight fell on Lupin, Scrimgeour kept his wand trained on him while Douglas and Dumbledore discussed the potion trial and werewolf rights.
• Lupin remained calm under the full moon, and the students later joked with him during their morning run.
• The Daily Prophet reported that Fudge had spent twelve hours with Lupin and praised him as a leader in the werewolf rights movement.
• Hagrid slammed his hand on the staff table and called the newspaper’s portrayal shameless.

Douglas explained his plan to organize werewolves through potion access, Ministry registration, and the Werewolf Mutual Aid Society, while Lupin challenged its risks and militarized structure. Sirius reported that the Ministry had bought magical equipment, and Lupin realized Douglas’s broader strategy was already gaining influence.

• Lupin recognized that Douglas’s potion sales plan could draw Britain’s werewolves into a community, but warned that extremists such as Fenrir Greyback could exploit it.
• Douglas presented a Ministry-backed registration system that would give werewolves potion trials, regular examinations, legal work permits, and a path to lawful citizenship.
• Douglas described the society’s group training and tactical exercises as healthcare and self-defense, while Lupin pointed out that the plan resembled a paramilitary organization.
• Sirius announced that Scrimgeour had signed an order for communication earrings, badge shields, and immobilizing flash grenades, securing more than ten thousand Galleons in net profit.
• Sirius said Fudge’s attitude had changed after the previous night’s events and the Daily Prophet’s favorable coverage, and Lupin concluded that the developments had been part of Douglas’s plan.

Douglas and Dumbledore agreed to invite foreign Ministries of Magic to Hogwarts and launch an International Werewolf Relief Foundation, while an invitation from Italy offered a chance to begin the plan abroad. The chapter ended with Scrimgeour warning Douglas that Fenrir Greyback had returned to Britain and was preparing retaliation against Lupin, and Douglas asking why that concerned him.

• Dumbledore told Douglas, Sirius, and Lupin that several foreign Ministries wanted to inspect Hogwarts's improved Wolfsbane Potion, and Douglas agreed to invite them all.
• Douglas proposed an International Werewolf Relief Foundation to establish shelters and treatment centers across Europe, while Sirius pointed out it could also create a werewolf intelligence network and force.
• Dumbledore decided to invite representatives to Hogwarts the following month, and Sirius raised the possibility of selling their magical items internationally, which Douglas deferred.
• Lupin gave Douglas an invitation from the Italian Ministry of Magic to help with its werewolf problem, and Douglas considered going to Italy to begin their relief plan.
• Professor McGonagall summoned Douglas to the Headmaster's Office, where Fudge and Scrimgeour told him Greyback had returned from Austria and was preparing to retaliate against Lupin.
• Douglas asked Scrimgeour what Greyback's threat had to do with him.

Douglas confronted Fudge and Scrimgeour over the Ministry’s inability to handle Fenrir Greyback’s threat and their plan to send Douglas and Remus to Italy. He offered to help only if the Ministry publicly backed the New Wolfsbane Potion and werewolf registration, with funding and staff to support them.

• Scrimgeour warned Douglas that Greyback planned revenge against Remus and claimed the Aurors were too busy preparing for the Quidditch World Cup to respond.
• Douglas challenged Fudge and Scrimgeour’s assumptions and realized they wanted him to take Remus to Italy as bait for Greyback.
• Fudge and Scrimgeour proposed using Douglas and Remus to address Italy’s werewolf problem while keeping Greyback away from Britain during the tournament.
• Douglas said he might accept their proposal if the Ministry publicly supported the New Wolfsbane Potion and implemented werewolf registration with sufficient funding and manpower.
• Scrimgeour accused Douglas of using Ministry resources for personal profit, but Douglas refused to negotiate further unless the Ministry met his conditions.

Students discussed the Ministry’s new Werewolf Friends Plan, while Hermione gave Harry, Ron, and Neville exam notes and detailed summer study plans. Harry, Ron, and Neville faced a summer of Hermione’s weekly study checks.

• Students read the Daily Prophet’s report on the Ministry’s Werewolf Friends Plan and questioned its motives and policies.
• Hermione greeted Harry, Ron, and Neville in the Gryffindor Common Room with exam notes she had prepared overnight.
• Hermione handed each of them review notes and told them she had made detailed summer study plans.
• Hermione assigned Harry work in Transfiguration and Charms and ordered Ron to review History of Magic and Potions, with weekly progress checks.
• Ron despaired that his summer holidays were ruined and predicted that Mrs. Weasley would approve of Hermione’s plan.

Neville presented a summer training plan for the Swiftwind Sword Club, while Harry proposed restoring his family home in Godric’s Hollow with help from the Charon Detective Agency. Sirius welcomed four students as Hogwarts Academic Affairs Office assistants and read their heads of house’s recommendations.

• Neville showed Hermione his Swiftwind Sword Club training plan, and she suggested adding exercises suited to Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws.
• Harry proposed inviting the Charon Detective Agency members to help restore his parents’ damaged house in Godric’s Hollow, pending approval from Sirius and Professor Holmes.
• Ron and Neville offered to help Harry, and Hermione suggested researching magical building repairs in the library.
• Sirius welcomed Jack Williams, Emily Winston, Augustine Jones, and Victoria Green as the first Hogwarts Academic Affairs Office assistants.
• Sirius read the four students’ recommendations and remarked on Snape’s brief endorsement of Victoria Green.

Sirius introduced the four students to the Academic Affairs Office and gave them an aptitude assessment before assigning practical work. The chapter ended with Jack, Emily, and Augustine receiving their first tasks, while Victoria’s assignment was not shown.

• Sirius explained that the Academic Affairs Office coordinated school departments and handled work left to it by prefects, the headmaster, and Madam Hooch.
• Sirius gave Victoria, Jack, Emily, and Augustine a written assessment about Hogwarts rules and student management.
• After reviewing their answers, Sirius used the student edition of the Hogwarts Marauder's Map to assign four practical tasks.
• Sirius sent Jack to coordinate the End-of-Term Feast menu with the house-elves and revise the kitchen rules.
• Sirius tasked Emily with consulting Madam Pince and devising a way to detect food brought into the library.
• Sirius assigned Augustine to organize students' conduct records and send them to their parents with grades or preparation letters.