Chapter Summaries

George arranged to graduate early, take the N.E.W.T. exams, and seek a Ministry of Magic position, with Dumbledore agreeing to recommend him. He then visited Amy and Lina in London to ask for their help and planned to deal with Sirius after the exams.

• George asked Dumbledore to add him to the upcoming N.E.W.T. exams, and Dumbledore agreed to recommend him for the Ministry of Magic.
• George decided to capture Sirius after the exams to win Cornelius Fudge's favor and improve his chances of joining the Ministry.
• George flew invisibly from Hogwarts and Apparated to Amy's London home, where he reunited with Amy and Lina.
• George told Amy and Lina that he planned to graduate early and join the Ministry of Magic, and they agreed to help smooth things over.

George gave Amy five thousand Galleons to help him secure a powerful position in the Ministry of Magic, then prepared for his N.E.W.T.s at Hogwarts. In the library, he helped Hermione find a book about the Cheering Charm and revealed that he was taking every N.E.W.T. subject, shocking her.

• George gave Amy five thousand Galleons and explained that he wanted a Ministry position with authority and access to influential wizards and magic.
• Amy accepted the money, and George Apparated away after teasing her.
• George studied Divination in the Hogwarts library before his N.E.W.T.s, which he had registered to take in all twelve subjects.
• Hermione told George she had missed Professor Flitwick's Charms class and the Cheering Charm, so George suggested a library book that covered it.
• Harry and Ron learned that George was studying seventh-year material, and Hermione was stunned when he said he was taking his N.E.W.T.s the next day.

George took the N.E.W.T.s exams early to graduate and prepare for a Ministry of Magic career. After finishing the exams, he used the Four Arrays of Reason to locate Sirius near the Whomping Willow and flew off to stop him.

• George told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that Dumbledore had approved his request to graduate early and that he planned to gain experience at the Ministry of Magic.
• George said he had invented a Tracking Charm that might locate Sirius, then took the N.E.W.T.s exams alongside the seventh-years.
• News spread through Hogwarts that George was taking the exams, and students speculated about whether he would graduate successfully.
• Three days later, George finished his last exam and met Harry, Hermione, and their friends outside the classroom.
• George used the Four Arrays of Reason to locate Sirius near the Whomping Willow, then flew there to stop him while Harry and the others went to notify the professors.

George tracked Sirius to the passage beneath the Whomping Willow and pursued him alone, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione rushed to alert the staff. George reached the Shrieking Shack and confronted Sirius, who attacked him in dog form.

• George told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that he had found Sirius and flew toward the Whomping Willow to capture him alone.
• Scabbers bit Ron and fled, while Hermione sent the others to summon teachers; after meeting Professor Lupin, Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed him toward the Whomping Willow.
• George used plant-controlling magic to make the Whomping Willow open a path, then followed Sirius through the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack.
• George found the room empty, called out that Sirius was hiding beneath a bed, and Sirius transformed into a black dog and lunged for George's wand hand.

George subdued Sirius Black beneath the Whomping Willow, where Lupin intervened and heard Sirius explain that Peter Pettigrew had betrayed Harry's parents. Lupin recognized Scabbers in a newspaper photograph as Pettigrew, confirming Sirius's story and leaving Ron and the others to face the truth about his pet rat.

• George stunned Sirius, reversed his Animagus Transformation, and brought him out of the secret passage beneath the Whomping Willow.
• Harry tried to attack Sirius, but Lupin disarmed Harry, George, Hermione, and Ron, then questioned Sirius about the past.
• Sirius told Lupin that Peter Pettigrew had been the secret keeper and had faked his death after betraying Harry's parents.
• Sirius said he had escaped Azkaban to find Pettigrew, whom he had recognized in a photograph of Ron's family.
• Lupin recognized Scabbers in the photograph as Peter Pettigrew, believed Sirius, and embraced him.

Hermione challenged Lupin and Sirius’s account, revealing that she knew Lupin was a werewolf, while Ron and Harry remained unconvinced about Scabbers. George stopped Sirius and subdued both him and Lupin, then prepared to face the approaching Dumbledore, professors, and Ministry examiners.

• Hermione explained that Peter Pettigrew was absent from the Ministry’s Animagus registry, and Sirius admitted that he and his friends had never registered.
• Hermione told Lupin that she had deduced he was a werewolf, and Lupin confirmed that Snape had assigned an essay to help students recognize his condition.
• Sirius tried to flee toward the Whomping Willow, but George stunned him and Lupin attacked George to protect Sirius from the Ministry officials.
• George deflected Lupin’s spell, disarmed and bound him, and stopped Sirius from leaving.
• Hermione warned George that Dumbledore, the professors, and the Ministry examiners had arrived, and George said he would claim credit for capturing Sirius.

George captured Sirius and restrained Lupin, then tracked Scabbers and caught him before he could escape Hogwarts and use Apparition. The group was left with the chance to verify whether Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew.

• A Ministry examiner recognized Sirius Black after he transformed from a dog, while Snape accused Lupin of helping Sirius enter Hogwarts.
• George explained that Sirius had come to reveal Scabbers was Pettigrew, and Dumbledore argued that their failure to attack Harry supported their account.
• George used the Four Arrays of Reason to track Scabbers after Ron said the rat had escaped.
• George flew after Scabbers, who fled toward Hogsmeade Station hoping to get beyond Hogwarts' Anti-Apparition Charm.
• George caught Scabbers by the tail and let the rat bite him without breaking his skin.

George captured Peter Pettigrew and brought him back to the Whomping Willow, where Pettigrew denied betraying the Potters and framing Sirius. When Snape was asked to provide Veritaserum, Pettigrew tried to flee as a rat, confirming the suspicions against him.

• Pettigrew abandoned his rat form and fired the Killing Curse at George, who dodged, beat him, and broke his wand.
• George brought the injured Pettigrew back to Dumbledore, Fudge, the professors, and the Aurors, where Sirius recognized him and tried to attack.
• Pettigrew accused Sirius of being the traitor, but George challenged his story about hiding as a rat for twelve years.
• Dumbledore asked Snape for Veritaserum, and Pettigrew transformed into a rat and tried to escape.
• George stomped Pettigrew beneath his foot, and Fudge accepted that Sirius and Lupin had been telling the truth.

Fudge arranged for Peter Pettigrew to be taken to Azkaban and offered George a Ministry career and a Level Two Order of Merlin for uncovering the truth. George left Hogwarts after achieving his goals and planned to destroy Voldemort’s Horcrux in the Room of Requirement that night.

• Fudge ordered the Aurors to take Peter Pettigrew to Azkaban and praised George for his achievements.
• Dumbledore and George encouraged Fudge to welcome George into the Ministry after graduation.
• Fudge promised to propose a Level Two Order of Merlin for George and said George could collect a ten-thousand-Galleon reward.
• George considered joining the Department of Mysteries but decided to begin his Ministry career elsewhere first.
• George withdrew after Pettigrew was captured and Sirius was cleared, then planned to destroy Voldemort’s Horcrux in the Room of Requirement that night.

George entered Hogwarts’s Room of Requirement and removed Voldemort’s soul fragment from Ravenclaw’s diadem, burning it away while keeping the diadem intact. He planned to study its wisdom-enhancing magic and use the Room of Requirement’s design to improve his simulated training room.

• George decided to destroy only Ravenclaw’s diadem Horcrux to provoke Voldemort into emerging, since Pettigrew was already in Azkaban and Voldemort posed little danger to him.
• George arrived invisibly on the eighth floor, summoned the Room of Requirement, and examined its complex magical construction for ideas to improve his training room.
• George found Ravenclaw’s diadem resting on a wizard bust and used Soul Separation to pull Voldemort’s soul fragment from it.
• George burned the soul fragment with Tri-color Flames but spared the diadem because its magic could enhance wisdom and might help him study or create intelligence-boosting magic items.

George disguised Ravenclaw’s Diadem as a hat and gained its boost to his thinking. In the Albanian Forest, Voldemort decided to possess Nagini and seek allies at Azkaban, while George and Percy applied for Ministry of Magic positions and received an unusually swift reply.

• George wrapped Ravenclaw’s Diadem inside an awakened wizard’s hat and wore it, finding that it made his mind clearer and faster.
• Voldemort learned that another Horcrux had been destroyed and feared Dumbledore was hunting the rest.
• Voldemort decided to possess Nagini and travel to Azkaban to persuade the Dementors to help free the imprisoned Death Eaters.
• George earned Outstanding grades in all twelve Ultimate Wizard Exam subjects and placed first, while Percy placed second.
• George, Percy, and other high-achieving seventh-year wizards applied for Ministry of Magic jobs, and the Ministry replied the next day after an unusually quick review.

George received an appointment as an assistant at the Misuse of Magic Office and planned to use the position to rise through the Ministry of Magic. After celebrating with his friends and saying farewell to Snape, he left Hogwarts for London.

• George received confirmation that he would start as an assistant at the Misuse of Magic Office in two weeks, a position he hoped would help him advance through the Ministry of Magic.
• George told Hermione, Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Luna about the appointment, and Hermione vowed to work hard to join the Ministry after graduating.
• George reminded Harry and the others to study for their final exams, then reflected on their conversation as he left the library.
• George visited Dumbledore, Snape, and his Slytherin classmates, who admired his achievements and his new Ministry position.
• While the younger students took their exams, George studied the Room of Requirement, attended the final feast, bade Snape farewell, and boarded the train to London.

After leaving the station, George secretly collected two of Voldemort’s Horcruxes and sealed away their dark power. He headed to Gringotts to retrieve Hufflepuff’s cup, the last object he needed to collect.

• George watched Hermione and the others reunite with their families, then turned invisible and Apparated to 12 Grimmauld Place.
• George scanned the Black manor, took Slytherin’s locket from a display cabinet, replaced it with a counterfeit, and sealed the locket inside his Costume Space.
• George traveled to the Gaunt shack and broke through the traps protecting Voldemort’s ring.
• The ring’s curse spread toward George’s hand, but his holy Light Power dispelled it; he sealed the ring’s dark power and stored it away.
• George examined the Resurrection Stone and considered how it might help his necromancy before setting off for Gringotts to obtain Hufflepuff’s cup.

George infiltrated Gringotts, emptied the Lestrange Family vault, and left after altering the memories of the goblin who helped him. Back at his Knockturn Alley shop, he found Minister Cornelius Fudge waiting with several Aurors, ready to explain something.

• George used the Imperius Curse on an elderly goblin and had him lead the way to the Lestrange Family vault.
• A dragon guarding the vaults recoiled from George, who entered the Lestrange vault after the goblin opened it.
• George dispelled the vault's protective curses and stored its treasure, including Hufflepuff's cup, in a small box.
• George had the goblin close the vault, erased and replaced his memories, and left Gringotts.
• George returned to his shop, where Cornelius Fudge and several Aurors were waiting to speak with him.

George secured Fudge’s support by agreeing to represent the Ministry at a press conference, then began work at the Ministry of Magic three days later. His arrival as a twelve-year-old Hogwarts graduate sparked rumors about his identity among Ministry staff.

• Fudge praised George after they agreed that George would speak favorably for the Ministry at a press conference on his first day at work.
• George returned to his shop and continued researching Thought Body magic so he could pursue his studies alongside his Ministry job.
• Knockturn Alley’s shop owners learned that Fudge had visited George and became wary of provoking him.
• George Apparated to the Ministry of Magic, registered, and took the Magic Elevator to report to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
• The registration witch and her colleagues spread rumors that George was Fudge’s illegitimate son or related to other prominent Ministry figures.

George began his new job as an assistant in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, where he met Tonks and reported to Director Umbridge. The chapter left him stepping onto a press-conference stage as Fudge introduced him as the little hero who had contributed most to the recent incident.

• George arrived at the Auror Office, greeted Tonks and several Aurors, and then went to the Misuse of Magic Office to report for work.
• George met Director Umbridge, completed his employment paperwork, and was assigned a place in the outer office.
• Umbridge decided to keep George from earning merits that could threaten her position while she focused on her rivalry with Rufus Scrimgeour.
• George spent the morning visiting departments, making friends, and learning how Ministry workers used magic.
• A Ministry messenger summoned George to the press conference, where Fudge introduced him as the incident's greatest contributor and George stepped onto the stage.

After Fudge publicly praised George and awarded him an Order of Merlin and ten thousand Galleons, the Daily Prophet’s coverage made him a celebrated figure in the wizarding world. George arrived at the Ministry to find his reputation transformed and agreed to visit Arthur Weasley’s family during his next break.

• Fudge presented George as an outstanding Ministry employee, and Dumbledore and Umbridge gave him an Order of Merlin and ten thousand Galleons.
• The Daily Prophet reported George’s achievements and the clearing of Sirius Black’s name, making George famous across Britain.
• Ministry employees welcomed George warmly after learning about his abilities and role in Sirius’s case.
• George met Arthur Weasley in the lift, congratulated him on the newspaper’s attention, and promised to visit The Burrow next week.

After Azkaban was bombed and its prisoners escaped, George watched the Ministry scramble to contain the panic while considering how the crisis might advance his interests. Ludo Bagman asked him to join the England Quidditch Team early, and George weighed the offer against the benefits he could negotiate.

• George learned from Arthur that an Explosion Curse had opened Azkaban and every Death Eater and prisoner had escaped.
• George suspected Voldemort had arranged the breakout and decided to watch for signs that Barty Crouch had been placed under the Imperius Curse.
• Wizards at the Ministry and across Britain grew anxious, while Fudge blamed the escape on a loophole caused by the Dementors and promised to recapture the prisoners.
• Ludo Bagman asked George to join the England Quidditch Team before their agreement's scheduled date, offering Ministry merit if George helped the team succeed.
• Ludo told George that Fudge hoped a Quidditch victory would divert public attention, and George considered the opportunity while withholding his agreement.

George agreed to participate in the Quidditch World Cup and considered using Ludo’s gambling debts to bring the Department of Magical Sports under his influence. In the Marvel Universe, George transformed an Atlantic island into a magically defended flying city, transported it above Superpower Academy, and left New York’s residents and leaders fearing another catastrophe.

• George reluctantly agreed to participate in the Quidditch World Cup after Ludo repeatedly pleaded with him.
• George considered using Ludo’s gambling debts to recruit him and extend his influence across the Ministry of Magic.
• George lifted an Atlantic island into the air and transformed it with magic, defenses, and a Cosmic Cube-powered device.
• George teleported the island above Superpower Academy and cast the Awakening Charm on it.
• New York’s citizens and newly reorganized leaders panicked when they saw the island overhead, remembering Kur’s destruction of Washington.

George revealed the Floating Island to remind politicians and citizens of the Superpower Academy’s power, then moved the school onto it. Meanwhile, Gamora arrived on Earth to find the Cosmic Cube for Thanos, though she planned to sell it and escape, as a Ravagers spaceship headed toward the planet.

• George reassured Coulson that the Floating Island was safe and explained that he had revealed it to keep politicians and citizens wary of opposing the Superpower Academy.
• Wolverine agreed with George’s forceful leadership, and George sent the teachers and students through a Portkey before moving the school onto the Floating Island.
• Gamora landed in Florida, disguised her green skin, and began scanning for the Cosmic Cube while planning to sell it to The Collector and flee Thanos.
• A massive spaceship bearing the Ravagers’ symbol emerged from a nearby spatial jump point and headed toward Earth.