Recaps

Pomona traveled with Severus through Vienna and Venice, where she explored the city in disguise with Monica and Alessandro while evading her husband. Her search led her to a basilica, where a strange man warned that their time was short and the ship was sinking, and Pomona wondered whether she could free the souls trapped in the cursed violin.

• Severus told Pomona that the Ministry had restricted their Wolfsbane Potion sales, and she worried the law would leave werewolves vulnerable to Fenrir.
• Pomona and Severus traveled through Vienna, where she heard the cursed Guarneri violin and learned it had trapped six Muggle souls before they hid it for safekeeping.
• Pomona and Severus continued to Venice, where Pomona slipped away from their hotel to explore the city and began a masked treasure hunt with Monica.
• Pomona and Monica escaped Severus by boat with Alessandro, then sought help from Monica’s Squib grandmother, Rosa, after a cursed site barred Pomona entry.
• Pomona bought Rosa’s painting and a Colombina Mask, then used an Invisibility Cloak to explore the Doge’s Palace and leave an invisible-ink letter in its secret mailbox.
• Pomona taught Monica and Alessandro to encrypt messages, and the three sent a letter through a restaurant owner while someone pursued them.
• Pomona followed snake-like whispers into a cemetery, then traveled by motorboat with Monica and Alessandro to admire the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute.
• Pomona entered the basilica and heard a strangely dressed man say their time was short and the ship was sinking, then wondered whether the cursed violin could be used to free its trapped souls.

Pomona and Severus explored Venice’s history and legends while Monica, Alessandro, and Gianluca pursued clues about the Knights Templar’s wealth and Venice’s future. The group sailed into the Adriatic to investigate a shipwreck, where Pomona’s Golden Egg revealed the danger of a mermaid’s song and Gianluca disclosed that he was a wizard.

• Pomona urged Monica to build a family-supported political career, then left the church with Severus after asking him to declare his love before God.
• Severus and Pomona met Alessandro at the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, where he asked Severus to teach him and they discussed Venice’s role in the Crusades.
• Pomona, Severus, Monica, and Alessandro visited Torcello and Lazaretto, where Pomona identified the supposed vampires as Dementors and Severus sensed Dark Magic.
• On Lido Island, Severus told Pomona that he loved her and spoke about Lily, his promise, and his uncertainty about being alive or dead.
• Gianluca brought the group to an archaeology club investigating a ship Napoleon had sunk, and Monica and Alessandro proposed using evidence of Venetian aid to the Templars to attract banking business.
• Monica and Pomona prepared for a voyage while Severus and Gianluca discussed Venice’s history, then the group sailed aboard Hurricane toward the Adriatic.
• Pomona briefly opened the Golden Egg, exposing the group to a mermaid’s shriek that could lure men underwater.
• Gianluca introduced himself to Severus as Gianluca Dante, wizard, as the group approached the Adriatic Sea.

Pomona and Severus explored Venice’s history, flood defenses, and political intrigues during their honeymoon, while Gianluca and Monica drew them into the city’s present-day disputes. The group ended their tour with Professor Oparo, who warned that the proposed Angel Nine-Bend Canal could damage the lagoon and enrich officials.

• Gianluca brought Pomona and her companions to meet Captain Diego Vecchio and New Venice Group head Giovanni Masaku, whom Pomona challenged about the Moses Project and its plans for flood drainage.
• Pomona studied Venice’s records and history of flooding, while she and Severus debated whether salt bridges and restrictions on cruise ships could protect the lagoon.
• At the Doge’s Palace, masked members of the Council of Ten questioned Severus and Pomona, who criticized the city’s leaders and discussed Venice’s ties to the Knights Templar and Freemasonry.
• Pomona and Severus toured Ca’ Rezzonico, danced together, and reconciled over Severus’s Unbreakable Vow to Narcissa Malfoy before kissing in the courtyard.
• Gianluca told Pomona and Severus about Venice’s financial history, the Peruzzi Bank’s collapse, and the city’s guarded glassmaking secrets as they searched San Polo for clues to the old bank.
• Pomona proposed using the story of Saint Francis to persuade the Vatican to deposit money in Severus’s bank, and Gianluca suggested visiting Le Vignole and San Francesco Island.
• Over lunch, Gianluca introduced Professor Luigi Oparo, who told Pomona, Severus, and Monica that the proposed Angel Nine-Bend Canal could harm the lagoon and enrich officials.

Pomona and Severus investigated Venice’s past and explored Padua while their relationship deepened. Pomona’s theories about Jack the Ripper and her habit of trying to arrange others’ lives prompted Severus to challenge her before they went to find their companions.

• Pomona and Severus explored the islands around Venice, investigated the 1689 arsenal explosion, and debated whether Marcantonio Giustinian or Britain had caused it.
• Pomona proposed recovering the Sussex’s shipwreck and its treasure, then offered Alessandro gold to fund a bank in exchange for sheltering her family.
• Pomona and Severus visited Gianluca’s home, where un'ombra challenged Severus, and later toured Padua’s botanical garden and university with their companions.
• Severus took Pomona across Padua’s rooftops after she panicked about being late, and she reflected on the city’s history, its debts, and the burden of decisions made by the powerful.
• Severus played the Devil’s Trill on a Guarneri violin at the music pavilion, and Pomona later investigated Vesalius’s anatomy work and theorized about Jack the Ripper’s crimes.
• Pomona asked Severus why he had kept the seven Horcruxes from her, and they discussed protection, the Death Eaters, and the choices people made.
• Pomona told Severus her theory that George Chapman had imitated Jack the Ripper after killing his mother, while acknowledging that evidence would be hard to find.
• Severus questioned Pomona’s efforts to arrange other people’s fates, said he sympathized with Sirius Black, and led her to find Alessandro, Monica, and Gianluca.