Chapter Summaries

At a press conference, Cregan announced that William and Hermione would receive France’s First Class Medal of Valor for saving Paris. Sophie Costa then accused William of kissing her and rejecting her, creating a public scandal that damaged his reputation.

• Rita questioned Cregan over the Ministry’s failure to warn or evacuate the public before Arya’s attack, and Cregan struggled to defend his decisions.
• Cregan ended the question-and-answer session and announced that William and Hermione would receive France’s First Class Medal of Valor.
• Sophie Costa presented William and Hermione with bouquets, then whispered to William about meeting privately to discuss their supposed kiss.
• Costa accused William of kissing her, calling him a scumbag, slapped him, and ran out in tears as reporters photographed the scene.
• William denied Costa’s claims to Hermione, who said she believed him before teasing him about French girls.

Newt left Paris for the United Kingdom, while William and Hermione were approached by Rita, who offered to defend them in the press. William refused to discuss his deal with the French Ministry of Magic but gave Rita a different exclusive: Sirius Black had escaped from prison.

• William and Hermione saw Newt off at the airport, where he said Babbling was watching Tom in the United States.
• Rita transformed from a beetle and followed William and Hermione to a café by the Seine.
• Rita argued that Cregan had arranged the flower incident to shift attention from the Paris crisis and offered to interview William.
• William refused to reveal details of his deal with the French Ministry, and Hermione rejected Rita's attempt to profit from their relationship.
• William told Rita that Sirius Black had escaped from prison.

Rita learned that Sirius Black had escaped and prepared to expose the Ministry’s cover-up, while William explained that Fudge’s neglect and preparations for the Quidditch World Cup left no resources to pursue Black. At Hogwarts, Snape rejected Dumbledore’s request to protect Harry and swore to kill Black, asking for lilies on his grave if he died.

• Rita learned from William that Sirius Black had escaped and decided to return to Britain to report the story.
• William told Hermione that Fudge habitually ignored crises and that Ministry workers were occupied preparing for the Quidditch World Cup.
• Snape confronted Dumbledore and insisted he would pursue Black to avenge Lily rather than protect Harry.
• Dumbledore reminded Snape that Harry was Lily’s son, but Snape called Harry a substitute and refused to care for him.
• Snape stormed out after destroying a table, saying he would kill Black and asking Dumbledore to place lilies on his grave if he died.

William and Hermione reunited with Roy and Iris in Biarritz, where their parents confronted them about their role in the Paris crisis. At the hotel, Anne greeted William and Hermione with a skinny black dog, and William eyed it with a suspicious idea.

• Iris drove Roy, William, and Hermione along the Biarritz coast while William and Hermione pretended to discuss summer homework.
• Roy stopped the car and demanded that William and Hermione explain why the papers had called William the Chosen One of Paris.
• Hermione showed Roy and Iris the two Medals of Valor awarded to them by the French Ministry of Magic.
• Roy warned William that Lyanna was angry about the Paris events and told him to prepare for her reaction.
• William and Hermione reached the hotel, where Anne hugged William, scolded Hermione for leading him astray, and checked whether she was hurt.
• William noticed that Anne's black dog was extremely skinny and wondered if it had heatstroke.

William returned to the seaside hotel with Hermione, where Lyanna scolded him for his recent exploits and Anne told him how she had taken in a stray dog named Dahei. After dinner, William began writing to his friends, but Hermione arrived with news from her father just as Roy knocked at the door.

• Lyanna tugged William's ear and reprimanded him for saving Paris and taking Hermione along, then welcomed Hermione warmly.
• Roy and Lyanna discussed reports that William had played with a French girl's feelings, and Lyanna insisted Roy confront him after dinner.
• Anne explained that she had found Dahei abandoned at the harbor, and William offered to take responsibility for the stray dog's care and neutering.
• The group ate Chinese mitten crab and planned to explore the shore at low tide the next morning.
• William began writing letters to his friends after bathing, but Hermione came to his room and started to relay something her father had told her.
• Roy knocked at William's door before Hermione could finish speaking.

Roy visited William late at night and asked whether he truly liked Hermione; William described why she mattered to him. After Roy left, Hermione confessed that she had impersonated William and kissed Costa, and William forgave her while asking her not to lie again.

• Hermione panicked when Roy arrived, so William cast the Disillusionment Charm on her before letting Roy into his room.
• William told Roy that the rumors about Sophie Costa were false and described how he had come to like Hermione.
• Roy urged William to cherish Hermione and left to report back to Lyanna.
• William removed Hermione's Disillusionment Charm, and Hermione confessed that she had transformed into him and kissed Costa.
• William asked Hermione not to lie to him again and returned the parchment she had left at the Louvre, which read, “William and Hermione were here!”

William, Hermione, and Anne were caught by a sudden storm and towering waves while gathering crabs and shells on the French coast. William rescued the exhausted black dog, and the group headed back to the hotel as strange weather left William and Hermione suspicious.

• William and Hermione collected crabs while Anne gathered shells and stones, and the black dog rested after being worn out by Anne.
• The dog began barking as a huge wave advanced through the mist, but William, Hermione, and Anne Apparated safely to the road.
• The black dog was swept into the water, and William transformed into a sea eagle and repeatedly tried to carry him out until he rescued him.
• A fierce wind and torrential rain forced William, Hermione, and Anne to head for the hotel under umbrellas.
• Anne mentioned that an aurora had appeared over France on their first night, making William and Hermione suspect the strange weather had another cause.
• The black dog followed at a distance and concluded that William was an exceptionally advanced young wizard.

William, Hermione, and Anne sent letters from a wizarding post office in Biarritz before spending the day at the beach, where William showed off his swimming skills and rested with the Sorting Hat. William woke to find a little girl who looked like Phoebe staring at him.

• William and Hermione sent letters, while Anne wrote to her friends and Hagrid and included a false account of Norbert's death.
• William impressed beachgoers with his swimming, declined offers to teach and train him, and helped Hermione practice.
• William relaxed with the Sorting Hat, which discussed creating a second hat and said Slytherin's Wand could help with the necessary soul magic.
• William fell asleep to the Sorting Hat's singing and woke when ice water hit his face, finding a little girl who looked like Phoebe beside him.

William Stark playfully argued with Gabrielle Delacour before Phoebe arrived and joined him for a private conversation at the beach. Gabrielle was left asking whether Azkaban was Hogwarts’s best house after the Sorting Hat confused her.

• William teased Gabrielle about splashing water on him, and she tried to headbutt and bite him before he stopped her from falling.
• Phoebe arrived, scolded Gabrielle for playing with a magical bubble gun around Muggles, and made her apologize to William.
• William warned Gabrielle she could be expelled for using magic in public, then distracted her by sending her to play with Dahei.
• Phoebe and William sat together and discussed their meeting, her control over her allure, and the people on the beach who were affected by it.
• Gabrielle called over that the Sorting Hat had told her she could be sorted into Azkaban and asked William whether it was the best house.

William joked to Gabrielle about Azkaban and Dementors while Hermione struggled with swimming and grew jealous of Phoebe. The sky darkened as a swarm of Dementors descended on the beach and headed toward the Muggles, with several approaching William directly.

• William described Azkaban as a luxurious school where Death Eaters received Dementor bodyguards, and Gabrielle asked for one of her own.
• Hermione failed to swim while Anne showed off, and Hermione grew upset after noticing Phoebe on the beach.
• Anne offered to help Hermione dress up and borrow Lyanna's jewelry that night.
• The sky darkened, and William rescued Hermione from deeper water before Apparating with her, Anne, and their families to the beach.
• More than a hundred Dementors swept toward the beach, and several bypassed the crowd to approach William.

William and the others faced Dementors attacking a beach in Biarritz, and William drove them back with his Patronus while Aurors arrived. As the danger seemed to pass, William turned toward the last Dementor with a bold idea.

• William, Hermione, Anne, and Phoebe drew their wands as Dementors flew toward them across the beach.
• Hermione explained that the underage magic rules allowed them to use magic when lives were threatened, while Phoebe asked William whether he knew the Patronus Charm.
• William cast Expecto Patronum, and his silver sea eagle struck the leading Dementor and forced it to flee.
• Hermione’s protective magic failed against a Dementor, while Phoebe’s Patronus attempt produced only white mist.
• William sent his sea eagle after the Dementor near Hermione and made it vanish as Cregan and the Aurors arrived on the beach.
• William noticed the lone remaining Dementor and shouted for everyone to leave it to him.

William used his memories and three sea-eagle Patronuses to capture a Dementor in a rune-sealed cabinet while the Aurors fought off the rest. After the danger passed, he gave everyone Elixir to Induce Euphoria and hid the cabinet from Cregan.

• William used his happy memories to lure a separated Dementor away from Phoebe as the other Dementors attacked the Aurors.
• Hermione brought William a large cabinet, and his three sea-eagle Patronuses battered the Dementor into it.
• William sealed the cabinet with Ancient Runes and retrieved his memories into a crystal bottle for Hermione to store.
• William hid the cabinet, then gave Elixir to Induce Euphoria to the group and the black dog.

After the Dementors attacked Muggles in France, William let them flee and planned to blame Sirius Black for one Dementor’s disappearance while Cregan questioned him and arranged to send Sophie Costa to protect him. William’s group went to a restaurant with Phoebe and Gabrielle, where Hermione and Phoebe both made room for him beside them, leaving him mortified.

• The Aurors drove away the Dementors and erased the Muggles’ memories, while William decided to hint to Rita that Black had escaped and might have killed a Dementor.
• Cregan questioned William about the Dementors, then joked that he would assign Sophie Costa to protect him; William objected, and Cregan left after inviting him and Hermione to visit.
• William’s group set off for a wizarding restaurant with Phoebe and Gabrielle acting as their French guides, while Lyanna looked curiously at Phoebe.
• Anne whispered that William was doomed, then sat beside Hermione as the group took their places at a table with only eight chairs.
• Hermione and Phoebe both moved to make room for William beside them, and Anne laughed at his discomfort.

Hermione sneaked into William’s room with food, mistakenly feared he had gone to Phoebe, and fell asleep on his Safety Watch before finding him inside its expanded space. William showed her the captured Dementor he intended for her Patronus practice, and they shared a late-night snack while the lonely creature watched.

• Hermione tried to enter William’s room with WALL-E’s help, then used her wand when the Bowtruckle fell asleep.
• Hermione found William’s room empty, waited there, and fell asleep while reading an Ancient Runes book beside his Safety Watch.
• Hermione heard the watch tapping, entered its expanded space, and found William trying to open the door from inside.
• William reassured Hermione that he had not gone out and showed her the room where he kept a Basilisk, Devil’s Snare, and captured Dementor.
• William told Hermione she could practice the Patronus Charm on the weakened Dementor, then accepted the baguette she had brought and shared it with her.

After Gabrielle and Anne disappeared from the hotel, William followed their trail to the coast with Hermione and Phoebe. A rescued female Werewolf revealed that the girls and many other children had been taken to an island beyond a huge storm, and Phoebe proposed riding Abraxans there.

• Phoebe told William that Gabrielle, Anne, and the big black dog had vanished while she was bathing.
• William ruled out Muggles and concluded that a powerful adult wizard had taken the girls after Anne's tracking signal disappeared.
• William, Hermione, and Phoebe flew to the coast, where they found Dahei and traces showing the kidnappers had left by boat.
• A female Werewolf William had rescued at the Mysterious Circus told him the children were on an island west of the coast.
• The female Werewolf warned that a huge storm surrounded the island, and Phoebe said they could ride Madame Maxime's Abraxans to reach it.

William and his companions lured the Abraxans from Beauxbatons with dragon blood and whisky, then rode away with five of them. Madame Maxime discovered the herd had fled and vowed to punish whoever was responsible.

• William used Gubraithian Fire to boil seawater mixed with dragon blood and malt whisky to attract Abraxans.
• Madame Maxime spoke with Louis XVI at Beauxbatons, where they discussed Phoebe and William's destruction of Notre-Dame de Paris.
• Brienne warned Madame Maxime that the Abraxans had become restless, and Maxime saw the herd fly toward the Pyrenees.
• Hermione worried about the cost of harming the Abraxans, but William reassured her and told everyone to take one.
• William, Hermione, the female Werewolf, and the big black dog mounted five Abraxans and flew across the sea toward an island.

Anne and Gabrielle escaped from the Werewolves’ cave after overpowering Rickon and fleeing on a broom, but a fierce wind sent them crashing toward a dangerous part of the island. Jacob refused to pursue them, believing they had entered a beast’s territory where a creature was about to give birth.

• Jacob ordered Rickon to guard the captured children while he and Moose left, and Rickon secretly kept a gold watch he had stolen.
• Anne comforted Gabrielle and used her silver pendant to lure Rickon into the cage, where the girls blinded and beat him before reclaiming Anne’s Safety Watch and wand.
• Anne and Gabrielle fled the cave on the Nimbus 2001, promising the imprisoned children they would return to save them.
• The girls fought past Werewolves blocking their route with prank products, bubbles, and a broom charge, then escaped through the opening at Starlight Pool.
• After Anne and Gabrielle flew into the storm, a fierce wind sent their broom plunging toward the other end of the island, and Jacob said they had entered a beast’s territory.

William arrived at the island, killed a Werewolf guarding the cave, and sent Hermione, Phoebe, and Mormont to rescue Anne and Gabrielle while he drew out the remaining Werewolves. He battled the pack alone, leaving them terrified as he challenged them to attack.

• William landed on the island, seized a Werewolf guard, learned the captives were in a cave, and killed him with Avada Kedavra.
• Hermione comforted William before she, Phoebe, and Mormont entered the cave under a Disillusionment Charm to search for Anne and Gabrielle.
• William summoned the Werewolves with fireworks and taunted them while the black dog stayed by his side.
• William fought the Werewolves with spells and a silver sword, killing several and turning the attackers’ fear against them.
• William declared that Avada Kedavra killed too quickly and urged the remaining Werewolves to attack him.

Jacob used the Goblin Gems to turn the Werewolves into wolves and lead them against William, while Moose sneaked back to Starlight Pool. William and Dahei fought the pack as Anne and Gabrielle found a broken broom and an egg watched over by an enormous creature.

• Jacob used the Goblin Gems to create artificial moonlight, transformed himself and the Werewolves, and led the pack out of the cave toward William.
• Moose returned alone to Starlight Pool after the Werewolves left.
• William and Dahei fought the transformed Werewolves, with Dahei attacking Jacob and William controlling a black wolf with the Imperius Curse.
• Anne helped Gabrielle jump safely from a tree, and the girls followed the sound of William's voice through the forest.
• Anne and Gabrielle found Anne's broken Nimbus 2001 and discovered a silver egg as an enormous creature watched them.

Anne and Gabrielle tried to take a clutch of eggs, but Anne’s Thunderbird-feather wand warned her of attacks from a giant Thunderbird. The Thunderbird abandoned its eggs to chase a beam of light, then flew into the mountain and damaged the cave entrance as William rushed inside.

• Anne and Gabrielle decided to take the seemingly abandoned eggs, but Anne’s wand shocked her and warned her to evade a lightning strike.
• The Thunderbird attacked the girls repeatedly, and Anne guessed how to dodge its next moves until a beam of white light distracted the bird.
• William commanded dead wolves to fight the Werewolves while the black dog struggled against Jacob.
• William saw the Thunderbird fly toward the cave, where it crashed into the mountain and sent rocks tumbling onto the Werewolves.
• William slowed a boulder near the entrance and flew into the cave, while his Werewolf mount died after crashing into the rock.