Not able to find a job at Hogwarts had given Atticus a large amount of free time, and now he considered devoting a good deal of his time to finishing what he and Hildegard had started, but inevitably would never have been able to finish amicably. The Elder wand must be found. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper he had taken from Hildegard's corpse. It had a single word on it "Chester."

Chester could be the name of a person or a place...this clue certainly wasn't leading him anywhere in a hurry. In spite of that he figured it would be better to begin in the town of Chester than to scour the countryside looking for Chesters. Outside in Diagon Alley he drew his black robes around himself and disapparated with a crack, arriving on the outskirts of the muggle town in a field.