Recaps

Pomona tried to protect Harry, Hermione, Hannah, and Lavender while navigating the escalating war and her complicated relationship with Severus. The arc ended with Pomona and Severus acknowledging their shared past and choosing a future together as she turned toward Gringotts’ security problem.

• Pomona and Hannah joined Harry in driving off Dementors that were attacking Muggle children, and Severus later asked Pomona to bring a girl home so they could talk.
• Pomona helped Hermione face her family troubles and gave her the address of her parents, whom Dementors threatened.
• Pomona and Severus clashed over his choices and his hidden nature, but he urged her to join him openly and kissed her.
• Draco fought in the coastal battle, where Dementors and Werewolves attacked, prisoners escaped, and dragons helped the human forces retreat.
• Pomona asked to study Lavender as a way to explore coexistence between Werewolves and humans, while Severus agreed to support her and warned that Goblins might rebel.
• Pomona urged Hannah to train and defend herself, then Hannah confronted her about her relationship with Severus and joined them at the table.
• Severus questioned Pomona about Sirius, Harry, and her plans for Lupin and Tonks, while Pomona told him to keep Harry from getting himself killed again.
• Pomona recalled helping Sirius recover from Azkaban and told Severus she wanted to grow old with him, then they became intimate as she prepared to address Gringotts’ security.

Pomona returned to Hogwarts and tried to repair its defenses while helping Hermione, Draco, and Amos address the dangers surrounding them. Her relationship with Severus deepened through revelations about their pasts, but her secrets drove him to restrain her before they reconciled.

• Pomona learned that Hagrid was hiding a Norwegian Ridgeback, then helped hatch an Occamy with Severus and Draco.
• Pomona enlisted Hermione and Amos to help with Hogwarts and the wider aftermath of the war, while Draco proposed using Fluffy to guard Gringotts.
• Pomona and Flitwick examined Hogwarts’s weakening defenses, and she confronted Hagrid over the Acromantulas threatening the school.
• Pomona clashed with Slughorn and Minerva over her choices, then agreed to return to teaching and sought Severus’s help with the school’s problems.
• Severus admitted his jealousy and desire for Pomona, and they kissed before discussing his wartime choices and her visions of the future.
• Pomona and Hermione investigated House-elf life and discussed the Horcruxes, leading Pomona to reveal that the Resurrection Stone was hidden in a Golden Snitch.
• Severus accused Pomona of spying and exposing his secrets, bound her in the villa, and left her there while he considered what to do.
• Pomona and Severus reconciled after she admitted she feared losing him, and he told her how Grindelwald had used visions of Muggle warfare to promote wizard rule.

Pomona confronted the secrets tying Severus to Dumbledore and the past while trying to protect Draco, Astoria, and the Weasleys. She prepared a Forbidden Forest operation with Hannah, Neville, and Justin, and ended the arc questioning whether Severus had altered her memories.

• Pomona challenged Severus about his past betrayals and the dangers threatening the Weasleys, then accompanied him to a gathering at Malfoy Manor.
• Pomona and Severus discussed Dumbledore’s request that Severus end his life, and Severus confessed to his jealousy of Sirius and his role in Harry’s intended sacrifice.
• Pomona welcomed Draco as her godson and promised to defend him as he sought advice about Astoria and his future.
• Pomona met Hannah and Astoria, organized a competition to address the Acromantulas, and agreed to help Astoria start a candy business.
• George demanded Pomona protect the Weasleys and proposed an Unbreakable Vow, while Severus took George to meet with him at the Black family home.
• Pomona learned from Severus about the Greengrass blood curse and his arrangement for Astoria to sell Honeydukes goods.
• Pomona met Justin Finch and recruited him to plan the Acromantula operation with Neville, offering to introduce him to a dueling expert if he obtained an invitation to the cultural exchange gala.
• Justin said he admired Severus and proposed meeting again on January ninth, while Pomona wondered whether Severus had altered her memories.

Pomona tried to protect Harry, Hermione, and the Hogwarts children while untangling the old betrayals surrounding Lily, Sirius, and Severus. As she and Severus confronted his Unbreakable Vow and her curse, their affection deepened, but the story ended with their unresolved questions about Sirius and the choices people made.

• Pomona pulled Severus out of a traumatic vision, and he told her that the Dark Lord had interrogated him for Petunia’s address and that he would never return to Spinner’s End.
• Pomona offered Hermione a choice between submitting to Severus’s Legilimency and having her memories of the Horcruxes erased, then began helping her strengthen her Patronus and Occlumency.
• Pomona challenged Hermione over Harry’s past and the Order’s history, then visited Harry and Ginny, asked Harry to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, and recruited him to help Neville with the Acromantulas.
• Pomona and Severus discussed their past and their future, and Severus proposed creating a Sorcerer’s Stone before forcing Pomona to choose between her death and Narcissa Malfoy’s.
• Pomona persuaded Severus not to kill Narcissa, comforted him, and asked him to help search the Black family books for a way to break her curse.
• Pomona and Severus argued about her choosing him over Sirius, and Severus burned Bellatrix’s face from the Black family tapestry before conjuring a clumsy swan.
• Pomona found Severus by the stairs and told him he might break the curse by ceasing to love people, while acknowledging that he had freed her to be herself.
• Severus blamed Sirius for failing to take risks and adapt, and Pomona asked why he had not warned him, leaving Severus to challenge her with a question about Jack and the Titanic.