Recaps

As Voldemort’s forces intensified their attacks and the Ministry targeted resistance families, Albert and the Defense Association prepared for betrayal and rescued imprisoned supporters. The arc ended with the rescued families sheltered at the resistance base, where some resisted being kept safe.

• Voldemort killed wandmakers while Albert hoped the Dark Lord would seek Slytherin’s wand at Ilvermorny, and Ginny resolved to marry Harry despite his belief that he had to die to defeat Voldemort.
• Percy fled the Ministry and rejoined the Order of the Phoenix, while Sirius Black and the Weasley twins used Ministry bounties on Dark Wizards to fund the resistance and stir distrust of the Ministry.
• Albert warned the Defense Association to prepare for an attack, but the Order refused to enter a Death Eater trap threatening a Muggle village, and Yaxley’s massacres fueled calls for action.
• Albert confronted Snape about strengthening the Death Eaters and warned that Voldemort intended to kill him, then Umbridge’s registration policy led to the arrest of resistance members’ relatives.
• Albert and the Defense Association abducted Umbridge and used Veritaserum to learn where prisoners were held, then Albert led a Ministry rescue with help from the Order of the Phoenix.
• The rescuers freed the prisoners and escaped Albert’s trap-filled passage as Yaxley’s forces arrived, while the Death Eaters were blasted by fireworks after Yaxley smashed a Scrying Mirror.
• Albert and the Association sheltered the rescued relatives, warning them that leaving was dangerous, while Tonks and Hagrid tried to keep them from abandoning the safe base.

The Defense Association survived Voldemort’s attack but withdrew into hiding while Dark Wizards spread chaos across Britain. As the Order and ordinary wizards struggled to respond, Babajide Akingbade confronted the International Confederation of Wizards with evidence of massacres and an Inferi army.

• Mr. Thompson left the shelter to find his wife, but Voldemort captured and killed him and Kevin after using Legilimency to learn the Association was based in an abandoned village.
• Voldemort attacked the village headquarters, but the Association’s anti-flight magic brought down the Death Eaters and its members helped defeat Voldemort’s forces before retreating to a new base.
• Albert returned after the battle, and the Association let the wizarding world believe it had been destroyed while Wizard Watchtower broadcasts announced its safe withdrawal.
• Voldemort left England to seek the Deathstick, while Dark Wizards looted Diagon Alley and attacked homes as the Order chose to encourage resistance without openly entering the Death Eaters’ trap.
• Albert warned the Association not to join the fight, while Harry and the Order tried to help people resist and the Death Eaters used ambushes and massacres to intensify the crisis.
• Death Eaters ambushed Bill’s group, but Bill survived a Dark spell because he wore Harry’s dragon-hide jacket, and Fred and George supplied the Order with protective gear and defensive items.
• Babajide Akingbade received Kingsley’s evidence of massacred Muggles and an Inferi army, then warned the International Confederation of Wizards that Britain could not wait for intervention.

Albert drew foreign Aurors and bounty hunters into the fight against Voldemort, but both efforts suffered devastating losses and heightened tensions with the International Confederation of Wizards. As Voldemort turned his attention to the Confederation and Hogwarts, the Order rescued tortured students and brought them to Hogwarts for treatment.

• Kingsley sought foreign help after French Aurors witnessed the devastation in England, but Death Eaters killed Victor Hugo and his companions when they returned to France.
• Kingsley addressed the International Confederation of Wizards, where Voldemort’s attack killed attendees, and European ministries later sent Aurors to England.
• Voldemort ambushed the multinational Auror force and killed most of its members, while Albert used the resulting bounty campaign to turn the Confederation against Voldemort.
• Bounty hunters attacked Voldemort but failed to kill him, and Voldemort blamed Albert for the ambushes and a council member’s murder.
• Albert gave Harry Liquid Luck to practice Devil’s Fire, and Harry improved his control before the potion wore off.
• The Order of the Phoenix attacked the Hogwarts dungeons to rescue captured students, while Snape and Yaxley tried to uncover their refuge and arrested Abforth’s pub in their search.
• The Order brought the injured students to Hogwarts instead of the trapped St. Mungo’s, where Madam Pomfrey treated them as Sirius Black asked Albert for help.

Albert set plans in motion for the coming battle while Voldemort pursued the Deathstick and the Death Eaters prepared their own traps. Harry, Hermione, and Ron destroyed Hufflepuff’s Cup at Gringotts, leaving the story poised for the fight at Hogwarts.

• Albert secured Babajide’s help to visit Grindelwald, who told him that Voldemort was searching for the Deathstick.
• Grindelwald burned Nurmengard and gave Voldemort the Deathstick, but Voldemort escaped the blaze and later suspected that the wand was a fake or bait set by Albert.
• Albert warned Harry, Ron, and Hermione that they might need to infiltrate Gringotts, and he prepared the Defense Association for the approaching battle.
• Voldemort withdrew his forces from Europe while Snape suspected that the Deathstick had turned Voldemort against him.
• Lucius Malfoy planned a raid on the Department of Mysteries, while Yaxley and Snape investigated the Wizard Watchtower broadcasts and Albert’s possible schemes.
• Kingsley spread a false report of a foreign Auror force to distract the Death Eaters, and Albert prepared his Friday-night plan while Harry promised Ginny they would marry after the war.
• Harry, Hermione, and Ron entered Gringotts with Griphook, reached the Lestrange Vault, and used Devil’s Fire to destroy Hufflepuff’s Cup.
• Harry sensed Voldemort’s rage and fear as Gringotts guards arrived, and he drank a Vitality Tonic.