Recaps

Pomona and Severus navigated their strained relationship while confronting the werewolf threat to Chinatown and considering how fear, politics, and leadership shaped people’s choices. The arc left Pomona preparing for the Lantern Festival operation and reflecting on power, prejudice, and responsibility.

• Pomona confessed to Severus what she had done after he questioned her about Zhang, and they met Mr. Wen, who asked for their help identifying Little Ma and feared the Big Circle Gang would drive Hongmen out of Chinatown.
• Pomona and Severus argued over their lost child and their marriage, then sought comfort in one another as Pomona wrestled with grief and Severus’s enduring love for Lily.
• Pomona read Zhang Tao’s research connecting volcanic eruptions and climate crises to famine and political upheaval, while she and Severus discussed history, war, and the fragility of civilization.
• Pomona revised Hermione Granger’s political speech and urged her to become a forceful advocate for House-elves, while Severus warned that Hermione needed support, public credibility, and a better understanding of people’s concerns.
• Pomona invited Justin to join the Lantern Festival operation because werewolves might attack Chinatown, and asked him to mediate a dispute between Roswell Real Estate Company and Chinatown’s residents if he survived.
• Pomona found silver bricks in her apartment and learned that Hongmen wanted metric-caliber bullets, while Severus warned that the werewolves should not attack Chinatown and that Remus’s son should stay out of the wizarding world.
• Pomona urged Severus to love people as he raged against insults, then reflected on how fear, prejudice, propaganda, and leaders’ choices could shape entire societies.

Pomona and Severus navigated their relationship while examining financial collapses, social divisions, and the forces shaping wizarding and Muggle history. The arc left Severus comforted by Pomona’s promise to love him even if he became a Werewolf.

• Pomona brought Severus Butterbeer and asked him to keep Justin Finch-Fletchley safe during the operation, then promised she would stay with him even if he became a werewolf.
• Pomona and Severus discussed Lucius Malfoy’s financial schemes, historical economic crises, and the risks of greed, while Severus prepared a delivery of Wolfsbane bullets.
• Pomona and Severus visited Hogwarts, where they watched Harry teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Severus warned that Galvin wanted to make the Aurors his soldiers.
• Pomona reflected on Harry’s belief that he had to die as the last Horcrux, and Severus revealed that the locket Dumbledore had traded his life for was fake.
• Severus explained the Goblins’ growing resistance and Ludo Bagman’s debts, while Pomona connected the crises among wizards with trouble among Muggles.
• Pomona asked Severus whether they were role-playing, then stopped resisting and embraced him in an abandoned classroom.
• Severus held Pomona and sobbed, and she silently comforted him before later giving him tea and listening to him ask whether she would love him as a Werewolf.
• Pomona assured Severus that she would love him, and he laughed, said he had won, and kissed her.

Pomona and Severus confronted their shared past and Albus’s hidden love for Grindelwald while navigating political and financial schemes with Ma Youjiang and Lin Yan. After Lin Yan challenged Pomona to live as an ordinary woman, she danced with Severus and chose to visit the flower market, where she thought she saw Bellatrix.

• Pomona examined social conformity, money, and relationships, then woke Severus and told him she liked him as he asked her to assure him their life together was real.
• Pomona realized Severus cherished an imagined version of her, while he asked her to help him resist losing control and she agreed to face danger beside him.
• Pomona read letters revealing that Albus and Grindelwald had been lovers, and she cried over Grindelwald’s letter from Nurmengard.
• Pomona demanded the letter Severus had concealed from Sirius’s room, but he withheld its final pages as they chased each other through their apartment.
• Severus delivered silver bullets to Ma Youjiang and discussed political reform and British elections, while Pomona met Lin Yan and watched Gone with the Wind with him.
• Pomona discussed immigration, revolution, ambition, and survival with Lin Yan, who questioned whether he was living inside someone else’s script and told her to be an ordinary woman.
• Severus joined Pomona after Lin Yan left, danced tango with her, and asked where she wanted to go next.
• Pomona chose the flower market and briefly thought she saw Bellatrix in the dark screening room.

Pomona investigated the stolen artifacts and Horcruxes while trying to protect Ma Qingchen, support the people around her, and reckon with her relationship with Severus. As the Lantern Festival approached, she joined Chinatown’s preparations for the coming werewolf attack, with a cold fog recalling King's Cross Station.

• Pomona and Severus followed Ma Qingchen to the theater, searched her belongings, and Pomona later warned her to stay away from Chinatown.
• Pomona confronted Ma Qingchen about the stolen vase, then told Severus not to hurt her while he investigated.
• Pomona read Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s letters and learned that Harry carried a fragment of Voldemort’s soul, then urged Severus to find Peter Pettigrew because she suspected his silver hand held another Horcrux.
• Pomona gave Hannah a potion for Neville and ordered her to help prepare him for the werewolf ambush, though Hannah challenged Pomona’s cold approach.
• Pomona told Kingsley and the others that Pettigrew might be alive and carrying a Horcrux, warned them about a possible attack on Chinatown, and offered Zhang Tao’s contact information.
• Pomona argued with Severus over the Horcruxes and Hermione’s scar, then visited Narcissa and promised that they had returned to help Draco.
• Pomona and Severus discussed the coming violence and their future together, while Pomona considered preparing legal lessons for Harry.
• Pomona joined the others in preparing Chinatown’s defenses before the Lantern Festival, held the Dream-Recall Grass seed, and felt the cold fog bring King's Cross Station to mind.