Recaps

Pomona became trapped in Napoleon’s dream world, where she tried to influence his rule while refusing his advances and resisting his plans for her. Severus searched for her across the other world and pursued intelligence that might help him reach her.

• Hathor sent Pomona into Napoleon’s dream, where Pomona challenged his treatment of women and urged him to make peace with Britain, while Severus and Eugene fought supernatural creatures in the Louvre.
• Pomona met Napoleon, Josephine, and Hortense in the dream, argued with Napoleon about politics and women’s rights, and learned that he intended to keep her as Georgiana in his dream world.
• Severus sought a way to rescue Pomona, but Hathor said her soul had left her body, and Napoleon used a cursed book to claim Pomona as his companion.
• Severus followed a golden feather to Nadia’s manor and learned from Lyall that Pomona was at Saint Luke Palace, agreeing to retrieve Sun Gold for help reaching her.
• Napoleon moved Pomona to Saint Luke Palace, declared her marriage invalid, and had an iron shackle placed on her ankle that blocked her magic while proposing she become his regent queen.
• Severus entered Saint Luke Palace, stole intelligence documents, survived a gunfight, and escaped Evan Salem after learning that Pomona’s body was elsewhere.
• Napoleon offered Pomona a choice between becoming his mistress and being handed to the Scourers, but Pomona refused and later challenged his reliance on fear before fleeing his bathroom.
• Severus returned to the real world and re-entered the dream with intelligence, while Pomona was taken toward the Grand Trianon and Severus sought a British contact to sell a bloodstained note.

Pomona navigated Napoleon’s possessiveness while trying to aid Paris and remain faithful to Severus, as Severus moved through the city under threat. The arc left Napoleon facing a grain crisis and political danger while Liancourt asked Pomona to help steady him.

• Napoleon tried to keep Pomona close, while Severus conspired with British contacts to undermine him and later survived an assassination attempt at the Opera.
• Pomona resisted Napoleon’s advances, worked with Edward Jenner, and began organizing medical and charitable projects at the estate.
• At Lucien’s masked-ball reception, Severus kissed Pomona and fled from the Scourers, while Napoleon had her taken to a convent.
• Pomona exchanged letters with Napoleon, urging him to consult Lucien and address Paris’s food and water needs, then advised him on his canal project.
• Severus heard warnings about bloodshed and considered using Kamose I’s dagger against Napoleon, while Napoleon and Pomona’s intimacy ended with her asking to return to Severus.
• Liancourt became Pomona’s guardian and told her that granaries had been sabotaged, then asked her to help keep Napoleon clear-headed as revolution threatened his family.

Pomona and Georgiana tried to steer Napoleon through France’s famine and political crises while he pursued her, even as Severus searched for a way to reach her and recover Lily. The arc left Georgiana accepting Napoleon as a possible father of her children, while Severus chose to pursue a dangerous bargain and Napoleon led Georgiana to see a gift.

• Pomona persuaded Napoleon to cancel the bounty on Severus, then urged him to address the grain crisis as he arranged shipments from British and Dutch ports.
• Pomona organized aid for struggling bakeries with the Leoncourt family, while Napoleon agreed to fund her charitable work and proposed marriage despite her refusal to promise it.
• Severus watched Pomona kiss Napoleon, redirected his spies toward Napoleon’s associates, and later discovered that Amortentia had been used on Pomona.
• Georgiana resisted Napoleon’s demands for marriage and intimacy while proposing measures to ease famine, including farmer aid, sugar-beet production, and an illustrated guide to edible plants.
• Napoleon faced a mutiny plot, financial pressure, and unrest over the war, while Georgiana challenged his priorities and urged him to separate his emotions from his duties.
• Severus pursued ways to reach Georgiana and restore Lily, rejecting Lyall’s warning that the Messenger of Death’s offer was a trap.
• Georgiana told Bonaparte she wanted someone who would love only her, kissed him, and accepted him as a possible father of her children.
• Chaptal discussed Georgiana’s edible-plants booklet and beet-sugar plans with her, then Bonaparte arrived and persuaded her to follow him to see a gift.

Georgiana navigated Napoleon’s growing attachment and France’s political and economic troubles while trying to preserve her own freedom and ties to Britain. The arc ended with Napoleon and Georgiana clashing over a British trade offer and her demand for independence.

• Napoleon showed Georgiana the swans and pressed her to help with his plans, while Severus gathered historical records and decided Harry would have to find the remaining Horcrux without him.
• Georgiana advised Napoleon on diplomacy, trade, roads, and care for soldiers, but rejected his proposals to marry him or make her a political instrument.
• After Gobain killed himself over love, Georgiana arranged for soldiers to vaccinate women at Inas’s stand and then went with Sophie to a church, where Napoleon joined her in the rain.
• Georgiana challenged Napoleon over the treatment and taxation of Italians, while Napoleon declared his attachment and offered her the position of regent queen.
• Georgiana met Bishop Caprara, became her guardian’s ward, and told him she loved both Napoleon and Severus, and she later explained to Napoleon that Severus had once given her half his life through a forbidden spell.
• British scholar James Stuart Mill offered Georgiana the prospect of becoming the Countess of Aberdeen if she secured a trade agreement, and she presented the proposal to Napoleon.
• Georgiana challenged Napoleon’s efforts to restrict her freedom and demanded a horse, a straddling saddle, and men’s clothes before Napoleon pounced on her.