Recaps

Pomona faced the consequences of her choices at Hogwarts as she navigated Elena’s place in the school, Harry’s future, and her growing intimacy with Severus. In the mirror, Georgiana confronted political and personal conflicts, then secured permission to leave after her identity was exposed.

• Pomona dreamed of shipwreck survivors and reflected on Prohibition, then returned to Hogwarts troubled by the Underground disaster and the school’s treatment of vulnerable students.
• Pomona proposed a vote on whether Elena Aiken could join Hufflepuff, while Dumbledore and Severus urged her to reconsider, and she later offered Elena another path and apologized after Elena’s potion experiment blinded Charlie.
• Pomona and Severus comforted one another, shared an intimate encounter, and discussed his plans, while Pomona warned him against joining Malfoy’s Underground venture and refused to learn about her own past.
• Pomona declined to interfere in Phoebe and Gareth’s relationship, and Severus told her he believed Sirius had betrayed James as they discussed Harry and the rose tree in his Mirror of Erised.
• In a vision, Denon led Pomona from her ruined former home to the Louvre, where the First Consul welcomed her and urged her to overcome confinement through imagination.
• Georgiana considered trade, political power, polygamy, and women’s independence as she attended ceremonies and answered questions about justice, religion, and the withheld trial records.
• Severus confessed that he could not stop thinking about Pomona, but she urged him to move on from Lily, and Paul called her a monster and later confronted her about Severus.
• Flitwick questioned Pomona about Severus and the Celestial Ball, while Paul said he wanted to leave, and Georgiana argued for reconciliation, won permission to depart, and realized her identity had been exposed.

Pomona struggled with student factions, the Celestial Ball, and her growing bond with Severus while Georgiana investigated poverty, imprisonment, and the past in Brussels. The stretch ended with Pomona considering desire, Voldemort’s hidden history, and the danger of using the Resurrection Stone to bring Lily back.

• Pomona confronted Severus about his secrecy and the cursed reserve Seeker, then resolved to leave for Siberia as Georgiana explored Brussels and planned to investigate the Killer Forest Incident.
• Pomona and Severus dealt with Slytherin’s growing influence, student conflicts, and searches of the dormitories, while Pomona comforted Amata and questioned the cost of trying to control students.
• Pomona recovered confiscated books, leaned on Severus, and asked Dumbledore to cancel the Celestial Ball because she feared Lockhart’s influence, and Dumbledore challenged her reasoning but promised to consider her concerns.
• Pomona comforted Myrtle, discovered the missing Daedalian Key, and attacked Severus after he admitted someone had hidden a book in her room, but she calmed when he kissed her cheek.
• Charlie caught the Golden Snitch in Gryffindor’s victory over Slytherin, while Pomona worried about dark magic and Voldemort’s possible return, and Severus later asked to meet her at the cursed place.
• Pomona warned Severus to ask before taking Mandrakes, then searched the girls’ dormitory with Ast and found Nancy Schaeffer hiding under an invisibility potion after brewing Amortentia.
• Severus showed Pomona a mushroom for his research into Protego Diabolica, and its scent left her blissfully dazed before a force shoved her from the classroom.
• Pomona told Dumbledore that Nancy wanted Amortentia to learn what she desired, then considered Voldemort’s past, the Resurrection Stone, and whether Severus might meet a suitable girl at the Yule Ball.

Pomona and the Hogwarts staff investigated a spreading magical infection and a series of attacks while Pomona and Severus grew closer. The arc ended with officials investigating Hagrid’s creature and Pomona returning to the Forbidden Forest as the wider mystery remained unresolved.

• Pomona learned that the girls planned to give Amortentia to the Weird Sisters and reported the scheme to Dumbledore.
• Pomona and Dumbledore visited the Longbottoms and Harry, while Dumbledore urged her to make Hogwarts a warm home for him.
• Pomona and Severus discovered that the castle was affected by a chilling dark object, and Ruse warned that Hogwarts’s atmosphere could attract Dementors.
• Pomona connected Isidora’s magic to the infection, while Ben Cooper was found frozen in the restricted area and lost his memory.
• Pomona learned that Lucius had engineered a clash between Émilie and Amata, and Severus offered to speak to Lucius about moving Émilie.
• Severus gave Pomona a Salamander-blood necklace, then drew her into helping him seek unicorn blood and negotiate with Lucius.
• Pomona and Severus danced in the spring sunlight before he carried her into his house.
• Pomona restrained Gold Necklace when it attacked Charlie, hid with him as Dumbledore, Fudge, and Umbridge arrived to investigate, then went deeper into the Forbidden Forest.

Pomona investigated strange disturbances at Hogwarts while navigating her growing closeness with Severus and the suspicions surrounding informants, students, and dark magic. The weather threat passed and the teachers began watching a dangerous object, while Pomona and Severus ended the stretch agreeing to watch separate films together.

• Pomona questioned whether Severus was using her to obtain rare ingredients and wrote to Director Thugut, then brought him Lucius Malfoy’s material and learned Hagrid had taken Spark away.
• Pomona and Severus discussed investigating Albania, but Pomona later realized she had suspected an informant without evidence as she reviewed Ministry files.
• Pomona discovered Severus holding a photograph of himself with Lily and chose to leave him alone, then sought Dumbledore’s advice after Severus angrily confronted her for intervening when two Slytherins mocked Percy Weasley.
• Pomona and Trelawney followed the fog to the flooded Great Hall, where Pomona stopped the rain and Ruse cleared the mist, but the Big-Headed Hairy Monster escaped with a black object in its fur.
• Dumbledore concluded that the black object had controlled the monster, and Pomona worried that it might harm a student while Severus wondered whether it was a dark-magic quill or feather.
• Pomona reviewed Malfoy’s historical research and the Daily Prophet’s report about him, while she and Severus shared a poem and a kiss after she declined his invitation to a movie.
• Pomona and Severus agreed to watch separate films together, and Pomona briefly noticed a coin-like object roll across the floor before forgetting it.