Recaps

The search for Ron drew Harry, Hermione, Arthur, and others into a forest filled with Acromantulas, Dementors, Centaurs, and human hunters. Pomona remained with Draco while fearing Severus’s motives, as Ron and the Muggles faced Mosag’s spiders and the story left Harry preparing to investigate the forest.

• Ron and Simon lured the Acromantulas into Devil’s Snare and detonated potion barrels, but Ron was knocked unconscious as Simon escaped.
• David and Brandon organized a search for Anna and Dylan, while Harry’s party moved camp and followed signs of Ron through the forest.
• Ron recovered in a cave with Buckbeak and met a young Centaur carrying his lost coins, while Anna recruited Dylan to hunt werewolves and seek revenge.
• Pomona brought Severus and Lily into the forest, advised Severus on choosing his own path, and later reunited with Draco as danger gathered around them.
• Pomona helped Arthur’s search party destroy a Giant skeleton and reunited with Hermione, while Severus warned that Harry, Draco, Arthur, and Neville could be targets.
• Ron joined Anna and Dylan, showed them how to fight magical creatures, and led them toward the Acromantulas as Harry rallied hunters to gather venom and search for him.
• Centaurs and spiders confronted Ron, Anna, and Dylan amid the Dementors, while Harry saw a Phoenix lead a rider into the forest and prepared to follow.
• Pomona insisted on staying with Draco and feared Severus might be using her, while Harry resolved to face Voldemort if he returned.

Harry and his allies fought Mosag in the Forbidden Forest while Pomona and Severus navigated their relationship and relocated amid danger to Arthur. Later, Pomona and Severus investigated a watcher in Chinatown as tensions over Roseville’s development grew.

• Arthur led the group through the fog toward Ron as an assassin attacked and a woman called for him, while magical creatures fought Dementors and spiders in the forest.
• Hermione reached Ron, and Harry arrived with allies to help battle the spiders as the group learned Arthur was a target and Mosag might be heading toward Trembling Town.
• Harry tried to reason with Mosag, but she fled into Pomona’s Portable Swamp, where Neville, Ron, Hermione, and Harry prepared to contain her without using Fiendfyre.
• Pomona and Severus discussed their past, reconciled, and moved to Severus’s South Kensington apartment after Arthur came under surveillance.
• Pomona challenged Severus over his choices, and after someone Petrified her, Severus caught her and threatened to teach her a lesson.
• Pomona asked Severus to help Justin seek a position in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, then considered how Justin could mediate Roseville’s development conflict in Chinatown.
• Pomona and Severus visited Chinatown amid protests, noticed a man watching them, and agreed to investigate while posing as an ordinary couple.
• A Chinese wizard decided not to wipe out the Yetis or frame them, while Pomona and Cho Chang were served Peking roast duck.

Pomona and Severus pursued leads about the Obscurus and political threats while Pomona met Iris, investigated Yellowstone’s possible eruption, and considered the consequences of conflict between wizards and Muggles. The arc ended with Severus revealing that Kingsley had misunderstood the Accionites’ plan and withholding the truth until Pomona agreed to a favor she refused.

• Pomona collapsed after her bracelet was stolen, then woke in the Hospital Wing and learned that Severus had recovered it and found a lead on the Obscurus.
• Pomona and Severus questioned Ma Youjiang and the orphaned children, and Ivan gave Pomona the name and address of the boy they sought.
• Pomona and Severus reconciled, and she agreed to live with him while they discussed his regrets and their failure to help the Obscurus-possessed child.
• Pomona proposed a foundation for children of illegal immigrants, while she and Severus discussed political influence, Dumbledore’s legacy, and the growing risks of anti-Muggle sentiment.
• Pomona heard Zhang Tao’s account of Ma Liang’s Magic Brush and later met him again, when he warned her about Yellowstone, Chinese anger, and worsening international relations.
• Pomona toured London museums with Iris, where Professor Locke warned that a Yellowstone eruption could devastate America and revealed that an Arctic seed vault was linked to an Ark Project.
• Iris offered to spy for Pomona in exchange for help with revenge, while he and Pomona discussed political rivalries, historical violence, and the treatment of refugees.
• Severus joined Pomona and Iris after their museum visit, then said the Accionites had never planned to use Thunderbird against the power grid and demanded a favor before explaining their real plan.

Pomona and Severus navigated their relationship, the threat to Chinese communities, and their differing views of power and morality. Pomona built ties with Zhang Tao and Ma Youjiang as the authorities agreed to let Aurors enter Chinatown, while Severus defended his place as the world’s villain.

• Severus and Pomona left the Egyptian museum together after confronting their shared grief and Pomona revealed she had helped Sirius and James become Animagi.
• Severus proposed to Pomona again, and she accepted without an Unbreakable Vow or legal marriage.
• Pomona learned that werewolves planned to attack Chinatown during the Lantern Festival and warned Hermione to pass intelligence to Kingsley anonymously.
• Pomona met Zhang Tao, learned that he had taken in Ma Qingchen, and discussed a plan to defend Liverpool’s Chinatown with the Chinese community.
• Pomona developed a connection with Zhang Tao and agreed to discuss rescuing Raffles and revealing the island’s location after Kreacher reported that Zhang liked her cheesecake.
• Pomona met Ma Youjiang at an old cinema, watched Infernal Affairs with him, and proposed that they walk through Chinatown with friends during the Lantern Festival.
• Pomona returned to Chinatown and told Severus that the authorities had agreed to let Aurors come there.
• Severus said the world needed a villain to unite good people, and Pomona challenged him by recalling his jealousy of James and Harry.