Chapter Summaries

Kingsley told the Order of the Phoenix that Voldemort had ambushed the foreign Aurors, leaving only about a quarter alive. As the survivors recovered at headquarters, Kingsley explained that Albert Anderson’s warnings had helped the Order prepare, though Anderson had gone into hiding.

• Kingsley returned to Order of the Phoenix headquarters and reported that Voldemort’s pre-dawn attack had killed most of the foreign Aurors.
• Kingsley and the others discussed whether the International Confederation of Wizards would retaliate, while Molly prepared food for the survivors.
• Kingsley brought food to the shaken Aurors, who blamed their leaders for sending them into danger, and Conrad asked whether the Order had a spy among the Death Eaters.
• Kingsley explained that Albert Anderson had warned the Order about Voldemort and had predicted Dumbledore’s death, prompting Conrad to ask how the Order had survived so long.
• Kingsley told Conrad that Anderson had gone into hiding because Voldemort wanted to kill him.

After Conrad reported that Voldemort had routed the Aurors sent to support England, Babajide argued that the Confederation could not ignore the threat to wizarding secrecy. The delegates considered offering a large bounty to find someone who could defeat Voldemort.

• Conrad returned to the International Confederation of Wizards and described the nighttime raid that had driven the Aurors from their camp in England.
• The delegates resumed arguing over the failed operation, and Babajide struggled to quiet them and defend the decision to intervene.
• Babajide warned that Voldemort's actions could expose the wizarding world to Muggles and said Conrad's team had destroyed hundreds or thousands of Inferi.
• Babajide offered to resign as president if the delegates needed someone to blame, but no one accepted the challenge of replacing him.
• Babajide proposed raising a large bounty to find a wizard capable of killing Voldemort, since Dumbledore had died.

The International Confederation of Wizards announced a huge bounty on Voldemort after its Aurors suffered devastating losses, but the Order doubted it would help. Albert then provoked the Confederation by framing Voldemort for controlling its members, leaving it united in demanding his death.

• Kingsley and the Order discussed the bounty, while Hermione worried that Harry would die once Voldemort’s Horcruxes were destroyed.
• Harry argued that the Order should receive part of the reward, and the others debated whether the Ministry of Magic could be trusted to pay it.
• Voldemort learned that the Confederation had issued the bounty to distance itself from England’s conflict and chose not to retaliate.
• Albert used the Imperius Curse on several Confederation members and made it appear that Voldemort had controlled them.
• The Confederation’s members held meetings for several days and became determined to kill Voldemort.

Shanna tried to keep the sheltered young wizards from acting recklessly while Kingsley and Lupin debated how to stop Dark Wizards from terrorizing Muggles. Trusting that Harry and Albert’s plans would bring the war closer to an end, Kingsley and Lupin decided to pit Dark Wizards against one another and captured a deranged arsonist.

• Shanna reminded the restless gathering that Albert’s prophecy warned of an imminent and dangerous final battle, and decided to message him.
• After a tower collapsed amid rising chaos caused by foreign Dark Wizards, Kingsley suggested using the Imperius Curse to make them fight each other.
• Kingsley and Lupin discussed their faith in Harry and Albert, then agreed to muddy the waters to divert Dark Wizards from harming Muggles.
• Kingsley and Lupin found a Dark Wizard tormenting a Muggle shopkeeper’s family and ambushed the deranged arsonist.

Kingsley and Lupin reported that the war had worsened as Dark Wizards flocked to England, while Harry struggled to master Fiendfyre and the Order placed its hopes in him. Hermione urged Harry to focus on his mission and told Ron that he was being kept from a secret because he could not bear the pressure.

• Kingsley and Lupin returned after using the Imperius Curse on the wizard responsible for the arson, and told the Order that Dark Wizards had destroyed a Muggle tower.
• Lupin said the International Confederation of Wizards' bounty had failed to stop the Dark Wizards arriving in England, and Moody questioned Harry, Hermione, and Ron about their spell practice.
• Harry admitted he was progressing slowly with Fiendfyre and said he expected to duel The Dark Lord after completing his mission, even if he died.
• Hermione reassured Harry and reminded him that England's crisis was not his responsibility to solve.
• Hermione pulled Ron away from Harry and Ginny, then told Ron that she and Harry were prepared to die in the war and urged him to believe in Harry.

International Bounty Hunters gathered in France to plan a coordinated attack on Voldemort, while the International Confederation of Wizards weighed the risks and sought Albert’s help. The chapter left England’s worsening violence unresolved as Babajide considered contacting Albert for advice.

• Voldemort suspected that a traitor or a source of accurate divination had revealed his location after he killed the first Bounty Hunters who attacked him.
• Conrad briefed the gathered Bounty Hunters on Voldemort’s strength, urged them to use Avada Kedavra and retreat if their plan failed, and advised them to cooperate and share the reward.
• The Bounty Hunters agreed to attack together after remembering that Voldemort had killed earlier hunters and displayed their bodies in Diagon Alley.
• Conrad told Babajide that the hunters might succeed but had poor odds, and suggested contacting Albert, whom Kingsley considered capable of killing Voldemort.
• Babajide learned from Kingsley’s letter that Dark Wizards were flooding into England and murdering Muggles, and considered asking Albert for ideas in exchange for Galleons.

Bounty hunters infiltrated England to claim the reward for killing Voldemort, while Voldemort investigated signs that Harry Potter was practicing Fiendfyre. He suspected a trap, but when he went to the site, a large group of wizards surrounded him and unleashed Avada Kedavra.

• After discussing the risks, the bounty hunters split up and secretly entered England to meet at their own safe house.
• Yaxley told Voldemort that Harry Potter appeared to be practicing the Fiendfyre Curse, and Voldemort suspected the reports were bait.
• Voldemort took several newly recruited Death Eaters to investigate, using Dementors to scout for an ambush.
• Finding no one nearby, Voldemort set the area ablaze with Fiendfyre, but saw no unusual response.
• Red sparks signaled a gathering of wizards, who drove off the Dementors, surrounded Voldemort, and cast Avada Kedavra.

The Bounty Hunters’ attack on Voldemort failed when he survived their assault and killed the Dark Wizards used as cannon fodder. They withdrew from England and demanded paid employment from the International Confederation of Wizards, but negotiations collapsed over the lack of funds.

• The Bounty Hunters celebrated Voldemort’s apparent death until he unleashed Fiendfyre and killed the Dark Wizards outside their hiding place.
• The hunters guessed Voldemort had escaped Avada Kedavra by Apparating, then watched him leave and decided to withdraw from England.
• The Bounty Hunters used a Portkey to leave England and reported the failed operation to Conrad.
• Maurice told Conrad that the hunters wanted the bounty converted into paid employment because the mission carried too much risk.
• The International Confederation of Wizards rejected the proposal, and Babajide told Conrad that the organization lacked funds to compensate the hunters.
• Babajide asked Conrad to persuade the Bounty Hunters to wait while he tried to secure a modest payment.

Voldemort survived an ambush, then found his headquarters destroyed by Devil's Fire. Yaxley later reported that Albert Anderson had likely arranged the attacks to make the Death Eaters enemies of the Bounty Hunters and the International Confederation of Wizards, and Voldemort decided to retaliate.

• Voldemort suspected Albert Anderson after surviving an ambush, but questioned whether burning the headquarters served Anderson's purposes.
• Yaxley arrived and told Voldemort that the Dementors had reported the ambush; Voldemort extinguished the Devil's Fire and ordered an investigation.
• A member of the International Confederation of Wizards was murdered with the Dark Mark left at the scene, and Voldemort denied ordering the killing.
• Yaxley reported that Bounty Hunters hired by the International Confederation of Wizards had attacked Voldemort and likely killed the council member after a dispute over payment.
• Yaxley said Albert Anderson had probably supplied the information and arranged the attacks to pit the Death Eaters against the Confederation and the Bounty Hunters.
• Voldemort decided the Bounty Hunters and the International Confederation of Wizards would pay for the attacks.

Albert explained that the International Confederation of Wizards had collapsed under Voldemort’s pressure and trained Harry, Hermione, and Ron to master the Fiendfyre Curse. With Liquid Luck’s help, Harry learned to control Devil’s Fire, but its effects began fading before he had fully mastered it.

• Albert revealed that Babajide had gone into hiding after Albert warned him Voldemort would retaliate against the International Confederation of Wizards.
• Albert told Harry, Hermione, and Ron that mastering the Fiendfyre Curse and its counter-curse was their simplest way to prepare for the worsening situation.
• Albert gave Harry a Liquid Luck pill and explained that it could draw out abilities he had already trained rather than grant new skills.
• Harry used Liquid Luck to summon Devil’s Fire and discovered he could shape and suppress it more easily than before.
• As the potion’s effects faded and Devil’s Fire became harder to control, Albert urged Harry to stay calm and recall how he had managed it.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione trained to counter Fiendfyre with Liquid Luck, revealing Hermione’s skill and leaving Ron discouraged by his lack of progress. At Order of the Phoenix headquarters, Sirius Black reported that Voldemort might have taken control of the International Confederation of Wizards, while Percy and Moody suspected its leaders were using the crisis as an excuse to withdraw from the war.

• After Liquid Luck wore off, Harry briefly halted the Devil’s Fire but failed to control it before Albert compressed the flames into a harmless wisp.
• Ron used Liquid Luck to practice the counter-curse but performed poorly, while Hermione could weaken Devil’s Fire even after the potion wore off.
• Harry urged more practice, but Hermione warned that Liquid Luck was too difficult and costly to waste; Ron admitted he felt useless.
• Harry comforted Ron, who recognized that he had not prepared himself to give everything to defeat Voldemort.
• Back at Order of the Phoenix headquarters, Sirius Black told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that Voldemort might have taken control of the International Confederation of Wizards.
• Percy suggested the Confederation’s insiders might have enabled the takeover, and Moody suspected they wanted an excuse to withdraw from the war; Sirius noted that Babajide had vanished and might be blamed.

Albert used a communication bookmark to expose Voldemort’s attempt to impersonate Babajide and provoke him with claims about the Deathstick and Harry Potter. After Voldemort killed the man holding the bookmark, it burned itself up, and Albert reassured Isabelle and Katrina that Voldemort’s allies were secretly working against him.

• Albert exchanged messages with an impostor claiming to be Babajide and realized the sender was Voldemort.
• Albert told Voldemort he had not found the Deathstick and challenged him by saying Harry Potter was his true enemy.
• Voldemort killed the man holding the communication bookmark, then read Albert’s message accusing his right-hand men of being spies.
• Albert ended the exchange by warning Voldemort that Harry would defeat him, and the bookmark burned itself.
• Isabelle and Katrina criticized Albert for provoking Voldemort, while Albert insisted that Voldemort could not win.

The Order of the Phoenix launched a rescue for the students trapped in Hogwarts’s dungeons, despite Snape’s efforts to lure rescuers into an ambush. Kingsley and Sirius escaped with help from a house-elf, while Snape’s trap failed to stop them.

• Professor McGonagall rejected Slughorn’s suggestion to expel Snape, while the Heads of House worried about the captured students and the Order of the Phoenix’s response.
• Snape told Dumbledore’s portrait that Yaxley and Alecto Carrow were using the students and that he needed the Order to act before the situation became public.
• Kingsley, Sirius, Lupin, Bill, and Arthur warned Neville and the others that Hogwarts was a trap and prepared to move them.
• Kingsley led the rescue into the dungeons, where Dementors and Dark Wizards ambushed the Order of the Phoenix members.
• Kingsley used stone walls and traps to delay the attackers as others freed the tortured students, and Patronuses drove back Snape’s Dementors.
• A house-elf grabbed Sirius and Kingsley to take them out of the dungeons, and Sirius threw smoke bombs at the Dark Wizards before escaping.

Snape, Yaxley, and the Carrows used information extracted from captured students to hunt for Dumbledore’s Army, but the students had already escaped. The Death Eaters failed to capture Abforth and burned down the Hog’s Head Pub, while the Army regrouped at its shelter with its injured members still in critical condition.

• Alecto revealed that interrogated students had disclosed the Room of Requirement and Abforth’s role in supplying food, prompting Yaxley to send Death Eaters to arrest him.
• Snape and the others entered the Room of Requirement but found it empty, while Snape directed Yaxley to question Abforth about a secret passage.
• Warned by Albert, Abforth fled before Yaxley could catch him, and Yaxley burned the Hog’s Head Pub in anger.
• Dumbledore’s Army reunited at its shelter, where Kingsley treated the injured students, who remained unconscious and unable to reach St. Mungo’s.
• Neville worried that the captured students had exposed Professor McGonagall and Abforth, but Kingsley reassured him that Abforth had escaped, and Abforth soon arrived at the shelter furious about losing his pub.

The Order of the Phoenix brought the tortured students to Hogwarts for treatment while Death Eaters watched the Hospital Wing and St. Mungo’s. Madam Pomfrey treated the students, but their lingering pain and the danger of seeking further care left the Order with few options.

• Sirius Black took Albert into the suitcase, where seeing the students’ condition made Albert abandon his plan to torment them further.
• The Order of the Phoenix escorted the injured students to Hogwarts, avoiding St. Mungo’s because Death Eaters had set a trap there.
• Albert inspected the Hospital Wing and ordered the Dark Wizards to leave after Madam Pomfrey threatened to resign.
• A disguised Order member posed as Madam Pomfrey while the real Madam Pomfrey treated the students with help from Professor McGonagall and Lupin.
• Madam Pomfrey warned that the students’ injuries, lingering Cruciatus pain, and excessive Veritaserum could have serious effects, but the Order could not safely take them to St. Mungo’s.
• Sirius Black tried to contact Anderson and left him a message asking for help.

Albert left the injured group to Madam Pomfrey and met Babajide at a decoy safe house to discuss cooperation. Babajide agreed to help him enter Nurmengard, where Albert wanted to visit Grindelwald, and Albert left him to wait for the war to end.

• Albert declined to help treat the injured and Apparated to a secluded town to find Babajide.
• Albert revealed that he had tracked down Babajide’s Secret Keeper and confronted him about the Communication Bookmark.
• Babajide explained that the International Confederation of Wizards had targeted Albert, and Albert noted that its members had brought disaster on themselves.
• Albert proposed cooperation, and Babajide readily agreed to wait until the war ended before discussing it further.
• Albert asked Babajide for a way into Nurmengard so he could visit Grindelwald, and Babajide agreed to arrange it.

Albert visited Gellert Grindelwald in Nurmengard and told him that Dumbledore was dead and had found all the Deathly Hallows. Grindelwald realized that Voldemort was searching for the Elder Wand, which he had once possessed.

• Albert entered Nurmengard with Babajide’s credentials and used the Imperius Curse on an Auror to reach Grindelwald’s cell.
• Albert told Grindelwald that Dumbledore had died and had asked him to apologize for drawing Grindelwald into their conflict.
• Grindelwald questioned Albert about the Deathly Hallows, and Albert said Dumbledore had found them and conquered death by facing it.
• Albert explained that Harry Potter had been Dumbledore’s favorite student and that someone seeking the Elder Wand called it the Deathstick.
• Grindelwald said the name suited the wand and guessed who was searching for it.

Albert, a transmigrator with a quest-and-skill panel, prepared to travel to London with his family to arrange his Eton College uniform and buy supplies. As the Andersons were about to leave, an owl dropped a letter at Albert’s feet, startling them all.

• Nia woke Albert and told him Herb was taking the family to London for his Eton preparations.
• Albert reflected on his past life, his panel, and his plans to use his skills to pursue a future in finance.
• Albert asked his family to buy him economics books, and Herb and Daisy questioned his ambitions.
• The Anderson family finished breakfast and prepared to leave for London.
• An owl flew over the family and dropped a letter at Albert’s feet.

Albert, a transmigrator with a skill-and-quest panel, prepared to go with his family to London for his Eton College uniform and supplies. As the Anderson Family set out, an owl dropped a letter at Albert’s feet, leaving them stunned.

• Nia woke Albert and told him that Herb was taking the family to London to buy his Eton College uniform and supplies.
• Albert reflected on his transmigration, his panel’s quests and skills, and his plan to pursue finance.
• Albert told his family he wanted to work in finance and asked Nia to buy him economics books.
• The Anderson Family headed out, and an owl dropped a letter at Albert’s feet.

Albert, a transmigrator with a skill-raising game panel, prepared to visit London with his family and planned for a future in finance. As the Andersons were about to leave, an owl dropped a letter at Albert’s feet, leaving them stunned.

• Nia woke Albert and told him Herb planned to take the family to London to arrange his Eton College uniform and buy supplies.
• At breakfast, Albert reflected on his transmigration, his game panel, and the quest tied to entering Eton College.
• Albert told Herb and Daisy that he wanted to work in finance and asked them to buy him economics books.
• The Anderson Family prepared to leave for London, but an owl flew over them and dropped a letter at Albert’s feet.