Recaps

As Umbridge tightened her control over Hogwarts, Albert and the students undermined her with pranks while Harry organized Dumbledore’s Army and prepared to learn defensive magic. The arc left the Houses’ feud escalating as Gryffindor and Slytherin prepared for their Quidditch match.

• Albert returned to Hogwarts as students’ pranks humiliated Umbridge, and she became the target of the Anti-Toad Alliance rumors.
• After the Ministry appointed Umbridge High Inquisitor, she banned student activities and punished dissenters, while Albert encouraged the students to keep her occupied with pranks.
• Harry and Hermione organized the Dark Arts Defense Group, and Albert helped Harry gain access to the Room of Requirement for its meetings.
• Albert discovered Voldemort’s plans to rebuild his forces and ordered Lucius to find an opportunity to kill him.
• Fred and George led Harry, Ron, and Hermione to the Room of Requirement, where Hermione proposed enchanted Galleons for signaling the group.
• Umbridge interfered with Gryffindor’s Quidditch team, and Albert stopped Malfoy from cursing Harry before sending him to Snape for punishment.
• After Albert warned Dumbledore that Voldemort had sent Dementors after Harry, Harry asked Dumbledore for help with his dreams and Occlumency.
• Following Miles Blatchy’s attack on Aaliyah and his later discovery in a swan costume, conflicts between Gryffindor and Slytherin intensified as the Quidditch match approached.

Harry and the students resisted Umbridge’s rule, eventually transforming her into a toad and exposing her humiliation. As Voldemort’s plans advanced, Death Eaters escaped Azkaban, Fudge faced public pressure, and Harry was ordered to begin Occlumency lessons.

• Harry caught the Snitch to win the Quidditch match, and a clash between Gryffindor and Slytherin students ended when Dumbledore stopped the brawl and assigned laps.
• Albert warned Hagrid that Umbridge planned to dismiss him, while Hagrid revealed that his attempt to recruit giants had failed and later hid a young giant in the Forbidden Forest.
• Umbridge banned Harry, Fred, and George from Quidditch, fired Trelawney, and tightened her control, while Dumbledore appointed Firenze as Divination professor.
• Cedric, Albert, and the Dumbledore’s Army members prepared for Umbridge’s interrogations, and Hermione stunned Umbridge and the action squad before using memory charms to protect the group.
• Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Lee forced Umbridge to drink a potion that transformed her into a toad, and the students later revealed the prank at the Christmas feast.
• Voldemort ordered Lucius Malfoy to arrange a January attack on Azkaban, and Death Eaters escaped with help from the Dementors while the Ministry failed to respond in time.
• The Daily Prophet reported the breakout, Sirius warned Amelia Bones that she was in danger, and Snape told Harry he would begin weekly Occlumency lessons.

Albert helped the Anti-Toad Alliance resist Umbridge and the Ministry until Dumbledore fled Hogwarts and Umbridge’s authority collapsed. As the Ministry struggled and Voldemort’s plans emerged, Albert and the Order prepared for Harry to be lured toward the Department of Mysteries, while the Weasley twins advanced their joke-shop plans.

• Albert helped Fred, George, and Lee Jordan grow the Anti-Toad Alliance, which used badges and pranks to organize students against Umbridge.
• Umbridge brought Aurors to Hogwarts to remove Peeves, but Peeves and the students overwhelmed them and sent her to St. Mungo’s.
• Albert helped arrange Rita Skeeter’s article exposing the Ministry, while Umbridge targeted Harry’s Defense group and Dumbledore disappeared after confronting Fudge.
• Fred, George, Lee Jordan, and the students resisted Umbridge and the Investigation Action Group with pranks, and the twins transformed Umbridge into a toad during a swamp-filled attack on her office.
• Albert warned Hagrid to leave Hogwarts and ambushed the Aurors pursuing him, while the Ministry’s failed response to the attacks drew public criticism.
• Scrimgeour hired Albert to divine Voldemort’s whereabouts and the next Minister, and Albert warned that Amelia Bones might die and the Ministry could collapse without Dumbledore.
• Albert and Dumbledore discussed Voldemort’s suspected Horcruxes and the need to obtain Slughorn’s memory, while Harry told Albert that his dreams had grown clearer.
• Sirius persuaded much of the Order to prepare for Voldemort to lure Harry to the Department of Mysteries, and Albert advised the Weasley twins to pursue well-located Diagon Alley shops.

Albert and the students drove Umbridge from Hogwarts, while Voldemort’s scheme to obtain the prophecy brought Harry and the Order into a battle at the Ministry. The prophecy was destroyed, Voldemort escaped, and Dumbledore forced Fudge to face the consequences of his return.

• Lucius Malfoy organized the Death Eaters’ plan to lure Harry to the Ministry, while Albert prepared for danger and helped Isabelle with Easter celebrations.
• Umbridge tightened her grip on Hogwarts, but Fred and George led a student uprising with Peeves, and Albert defeated the Aurors and punished Umbridge before leaving the school.
• Fudge’s response to the Hogwarts uprising failed under press scrutiny, while Lucius Malfoy set the Death Eaters’ Ministry raid for Friday.
• Harry saw Voldemort torturing Sirius for the prophecy, drank Liquid Luck, and joined the Order’s plan to confront the Death Eaters at the Ministry.
• Scrimgeour’s Aurors attacked Voldemort’s hidden lair, where Albert intervened in the fight, while Harry and the Order ambushed Lucius Malfoy’s group in the Department of Mysteries.
• Harry destroyed the Prophecy Orb, then helped the Order resist Voldemort until he escaped, while Dumbledore took Harry away and Fudge ordered arrests.
• Albert stripped Voldemort’s hidden chambers of their contents and destroyed his laboratory, then explained to Isabelle that he would recover the spoils after Voldemort died.
• Dumbledore explained the prophecy and Harry’s protection to him, while Sirius learned the truth and Dumbledore confronted Fudge about Voldemort’s return and Umbridge’s actions.