Chapter Summaries

Tina recounted Queenie and Jacob’s relationship and the events surrounding Grindelwald’s fire trial, while Pomona reflected on loyalty, sacrifice, and the dangers of intervening in others’ lives. Georgiana remained awake with memories of Isolt, Grindelwald, and Jacob on her mind, and asked Bertin to keep her company.

• Tina explained that Queenie used an Entrancing Charm on Jacob and went with him to Britain, while Lally tested Jacob by arranging a staged attack.
• Tina described how Leta Lestrange pretended to attack Grindelwald, then targeted Vinda Rosier and the skull, causing the magical flames to spin out of control.
• Pomona recalled how Isolt and William the Pukwudgie had argued over death and how William stayed at Ilvermorny waiting for Isolt to become strong enough.
• Georgiana reflected on Jacob’s kindness and Queenie’s affection for him before Bertin entered her room.
• Georgiana asked Bertin to sit with her because she could not sleep.

Pomona reflected on Credence’s destruction and told Flitwick that Harry had cast Expecto Patronum with one wand in two places at nearly the same time. She later planned ways to make the maze easier to navigate, while wondering how Grindelwald had greeted Voldemort in Nurmengard.

• Tina left Hogwarts after seeing the damaged maze, and Pomona asked how the interns’ encounter with the Blast-Ended Skrewts compared with Credence.
• Pomona told Flitwick that Harry had used one wand to cast Expecto Patronum in two different places at almost the same time.
• Pomona considered how cooperation had helped subdue the Skrewts and questioned why the maze’s champions had to face its challenges alone.
• Pomona devised a plan to make the maze’s Fireseed Bushes float using the Mountain-Moving Charm, with Hagrid helping them grow larger.
• Pomona thought about Grindelwald and Dumbledore’s relationship and wondered how Grindelwald had greeted Voldemort when he visited Nurmengard.

Pomona attended a reception before joining Albus, Flitwick, and Severus to discuss Harry Potter’s powerful Patronus and the Triwizard Tournament’s wand-weighing ceremony. The discussion ended with tensions among the staff, while Tina sent an apology and Pomona reflected on her intuition about Harry’s magic.

• Pomona spoke with Marysin O'Flaherty at the reception and learned that Felicia Kaplan believed Gerald Lockhart’s stories and disapproved of her grandson Diego’s plans to become a dancer.
• Pomona told Albus, Flitwick, and Severus about Harry Potter’s powerful Patronus, and the group debated the investigation and whether the Triwizard Tournament should include a wand-weighing ceremony.
• Albus persuaded Severus to remain quiet about the ceremony and assigned Flitwick to coordinate with the Aurors, while Severus and Flitwick left the office upset.
• Albus suggested Flitwick could make a good Headmaster, but Pomona warned him that the wizarding world might not accept a half-goblin in the position.
• Neville told Pomona that Tina had apologized for her earlier behavior, and Pomona considered how Tina’s experience and intuition had helped her understand Harry’s magic.

Pomona learned how the maze security measures and wand checks would work, then faced Severus after her Polyjuice Potion failed again. The chapter ended with her back in Brussels, where Brick revealed that Napoleon had cursed someone to marry a cold-blooded British woman.

• Nicolas Flamel led the group in using Purifying Fire to weaken Grindelwald's Fiendfyre and drive it underground.
• Albus Dumbledore explained to Pomona how the interns could help prepare the maze and how wand checks would record wand details while contracts bound the interns to secrecy.
• Pomona transplanted the preserved Fireseed Bush in her office, where Severus demanded to know what she had seen in Remus Lupin's memories.
• Pomona's Polyjuice Potion wore off, and Severus explained that the Fluxweed and African tree snake skin had lost their effects.
• Severus grabbed Pomona when she tried to leave, then promised he would not hurt her and listened as she explained Remus's actions in the Forbidden Forest.
• Pomona found herself in Brussels with Brick, who admitted using Legilimency and said Napoleon had cursed someone to marry a cold-blooded British woman.

The chapter explained the origins and limits of several magical effects, then showed Snape questioning Pomona about a potion from Dumbledore and Georgiana confronting Brick about his life debt. Brick left Georgiana’s room in the form of a black dog.

• The account linked Isolt’s twin wands and Gormlaith’s Basilisk-feather wand to their magical properties and described how Grindelwald’s Fiendfyre overwhelmed the Aurors and the surviving defenders at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
• Pomona questioned Snape about whether the Chamber of Secrets Basilisk had been male, and Snape accused her of lying and asked what potion she had taken.
• Pomona remembered drinking Albus’s potion before Fawkes carried her to the greenhouse, where she recalled being wrapped in Snape’s robes as he worried that an unknown ingredient could interfere with Polyjuice Potion.
• Georgiana asked Brick why he had been imprisoned in a mirror, and Brick explained that magic had bound them through a life debt after she saved him.
• Brick drank a potion, transformed into a short-haired black dog, and left Georgiana’s room.

At a formal gathering, Pomona and Severus discussed the early-wearing-off Polyjuice Potion and how an experiment with two time travelers might have caused it, while Pomona recalled the cold left behind by the Dementors. Pomona also reflected on names, debts, and the uncertain aftermath of Fiendfyre, ending with a memory stirred by her hot cocoa.

• Marysin left with Cedric after Pomona encouraged them to join their friends, while Amos Diggory remained torn between following his son and hearing more about the Bigfoot Uprising.
• Pomona recalled competing stories about Salazar Slytherin's wands and his friendship with Gryffindor, then remembered why Snape had reported Sirius and James's planned trip to a Beatles concert.
• Pomona told Severus that her Polyjuice Potion had worn off early on the day of the incident, before she had seen Remus's Memory.
• Severus explained that Albus had conducted a time-travel experiment involving two people and that Dementor-related cold might have been a consequence they had overlooked.
• Pomona reflected on Georgiana's name, Brick's life contract, and Jacob's efforts to believe magic was only a hallucination before she vanished the handkerchief and sipped her cocoa.

At Greta’s entertainment, Pomona watched the dancers while Georgiana considered Cliodna’s lost Animagus Potion and the gap between magical legends and reality. Pomona reflected on Albus’s influence and Harry’s lasting scars, then recalled struggling to alter an inherited spell for moving trees.

• Greta brought actors dressed as Chocolate Frog Card characters into the venue and joined the dance, while Pomona noticed Cedric surrounded by three girls.
• Georgiana considered asking Brick for the lost Animagus Potion recipe, but knew the magical contract allowed him to keep it secret.
• Pomona reflected on Albus’s influence over gifted teachers and on the dangers Harry faced, including the dark-magic scars left by his punishment.
• Poppy Pomfrey treated Harry after a Fanged Geranium bit him and saw the scars bearing the words “I must not tell lies.”
• Pomona recalled trying to change a predecessor’s Mountain-Moving Charm so that only the trees, rather than the entire mountain, would float.

At a gathering, Gilbert Wimple questioned Flitwick about weather charms and Cedric’s injury, while Cedric blamed the Dementors. Later, Snape took Pomona to a cool dungeon storeroom to test Parseltongue on snake skin, and Georgiana examined the bracelets on her wrists.

• Gilbert Wimple asked Flitwick to sign regulations on weather charms and cited the storm during the Quidditch match.
• Cedric told Wimple that Dementors, not weather charms, had caused his injury, and Amos learned that his son had never mentioned the incident.
• Pomona and Flitwick left the gathering with Amos and Cedric as dark clouds covered the stars.
• Snape pulled Pomona from the greenhouse to a dungeon storeroom and proposed testing whether Parseltongue worked on African tree snake skin.
• Snape warned Pomona not to trust Albus, then held her hand over his heart and remarked that the storeroom was cool.
• Georgiana looked at the bracelets on her wrists and recalled Albus’s saying about how people forgive being wrong more easily than being right.

Pomona explained the hidden, altered routes beneath Hogwarts and the history behind the Chamber of Secrets while Sirius showed her a diary about Animagus potion. Georgiana questioned how her Animagus transformation and physical sensations fit with the possibility that her world was a Mirror World.

• Pomona described how Snape had turned a room near the potions storeroom into a misleading underground entrance and outlined Slytherin’s hidden underground spaces.
• Pomona recalled the Chamber of Secrets rumors, Dobby blocking the platform, and the danger that Voldemort’s monster had posed to students such as Draco.
• Sirius showed Pomona a diary describing the effects of Animagus potion and asked whether she could get Mandrake leaves.
• Pomona warned Sirius that the potion was dangerous, and he put the diary away.
• Georgiana remembered transforming into a swan while trapped by an anti-magic ring and wondered how she could transform and feel sensations if her world was a Mirror World.

Pomona questioned Snape about Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup and the Smith family gathering before leaving the storeroom, while her thoughts ranged over magical spaces, time, and her past. The chapter ended with her reflecting on Voldemort, Cedric, and what it meant to inherit something.

• Pomona told Snape that Albus had asked her to investigate whether Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup was still passed down through the Smith family.
• Pomona described the Cup’s ability to change into different cauldron materials, but kept its deeper connection to potion recipes secret from Snape.
• Snape asked Pomona to call him “Professor,” opened the storeroom door, and asked what they were having for dinner.
• Pomona left the cellar after telling Snape that Albus liked sweets and suggesting treacle tart to cheer him up.
• Pomona reflected on her achievements, her past as a half-blood Veela, and her inability to forgive Voldemort if he had used Cedric to make a Horcrux.

Pomona overheard Janice asking a man to find out who had bought a particular wand, then stole Janice’s perfume before returning to Hogwarts. During a chamber music gathering, Pomona developed an idea for moving the Fireseed Bushes and reflected on the Room of Requirement, travel magic, and the imbalance created by comparison; she remained uncertain about the Mirror World but felt closer to solving Grindelwald’s homework.

• Pomona overheard Janice and a man discussing a wand and Ollivander, then took Janice’s perfume from the powder room.
• After dinner, Pomona joined Snape and the others in the music classroom to hear Flitwick’s chamber music.
• As the Polyjuice Potion wore off, Pomona imagined the archives’ moving cabinets and realized she might make the Fireseed Bushes float.
• Pomona considered how the Room of Requirement had created washrooms and how magical doorways, Apparition, and Vanishing Cabinets enabled travel.
• Pomona reflected on jealousy, unequal lives, and Snape’s joke about natural and artificial vanilla while considering Grindelwald’s assignment to escape the Mirror World.

Pomona found Neville soaked and shivering after his return from visiting the Scamanders, warmed him, and helped him remember Tina’s message about Grindelwald. After Neville left, Pomona reflected on the dangers of being used and decided to have the broken Vanishing Cabinet moved into the Room of Requirement.

• Pomona woke from a dream, found Neville at the Quidditch Pitch, and brought him to the greenhouse for warmth and Invigoration Draught.
• Neville relayed Tina’s apology and recalled that she had said Grindelwald used Credence.
• Pomona made Fawkes a wooden perch and sent Neville back to the castle to rest and practice remembering the Gryffindor password.
• After Neville left, Pomona reflected on past events involving Nearly Headless Nick, Draco, Lucius, and the Vanishing Cabinet.
• Pomona decided to ask the House-elves to move the broken Vanishing Cabinet into the Room of Requirement.

Georgiana investigated an altar in the Burgundy Tower and connected Ravenclaw’s Diadem, a tree hollow, and Voldemort’s movements between Hogwarts and Albania. She left the mystery unresolved while considering whether the altar and the wind might offer a way between worlds.

• Georgiana recalled that Carloman had appeared as a ghost after she touched the altar in the Burgundy Tower.
• Georgiana connected Helena’s trip to Albania and the tree hollow where she hid Ravenclaw’s Diadem to Voldemort’s discovery of it and his later journeys between Hogwarts and Albania.
• Georgiana considered whether a passage linked Hogwarts and Albania, but decided she would need to investigate further in Paris.
• Georgiana studied Celtic stories about Pwyll and Arawn, then reflected on how Christian rulers had condemned ancient tree and stone worship.
• Georgiana examined the altar’s wind rose and remembered that wind could move ghosts, including Nearly Headless Nick.

Pomona and Georgiana restored the petrified victims, including Nick and Mrs Norris, by immersing them in a Mandrake restorative bath. Georgiana then connected historical accounts of Albania and Helena to a possible way to summon animal souls and strengthen defenses against Fiendfyre, and the experiment succeeded.

• Pomona grew enough Mandrakes to prepare a restorative bath in the Prefects' Bathroom for the petrified victims and Nick.
• The victims, including Mrs Norris, began waking after about half an hour in the blood-red potion.
• Georgiana considered Albania's history and Helena's past as she explored whether necromancy could summon animal souls.
• Georgiana reasoned that Fiendfyre and other elemental dark magic could be attached to summoned animal souls to reinforce underground fortifications.
• Georgiana tested the idea, and the summoned victims came back to life.

The narrator reflected on Roman and barbarian history, Druidic control, Enlightenment, and the limits of a man-made paradise. She decided not to partake in Bonaparte’s life, wished him happiness with someone else, and hoped she might one day keep Albus company in limbo.

• The narrator described how Rome conquered and Romanized Lutetia, then recounted the Western Roman Empire’s fall and the Visigothic sack of Rome.
• She considered Britain’s rough way of life and how the Druids controlled its people through religious exclusion and punishment.
• She recalled Kant’s call to use one’s own reason and criticized how Harry Potter had been guided by Albus and Snape.
• Thinking of Voltaire and the idea of paradise, she reflected that even a man-made paradise was flawed and that she had nearly lost herself in it.
• The narrator chose not to partake in Bonaparte’s life, blessed him, and hoped she could someday go to limbo to keep Albus company.

Pomona avoided accompanying Tonks to meet the Minister for Magic and spoke with Snape about his coming full moon task and Lucius Malfoy’s planned celebration. After checking on Longbottom with Minerva, Pomona returned to prepare for a party, while the narrative shifted to Georgiana’s thoughts on famine and the Visigoths’ war against Rome.

• Pomona asked the castle House-elves where Dobby was and recalled that he had brought Draco to Hogwarts during the summer break.
• Tonks tried to take Pomona to meet the Minister for Magic, but Snape intervened by reminding Tonks of what she had told the Aurors about Harry Potter and Sirius Black.
• Snape asked Pomona about perfume containing Forgetfulness Potion, then discussed his coming task and Lucius Malfoy’s planned ball at the manor.
• Pomona told Snape she intended to complete her task alone, but Minerva interrupted before he could offer further help.
• Minerva asked about Longbottom, and Pomona said he was doing well at the Scamander family’s home; Pomona then left to change for a party.
• Georgiana reflected on the danger of repeated Baltic grain failures and the famine that drove the Visigoths to defeat the Romans and settle in Thrace.

Pomona dressed while reflecting on aging, loyalty, history, and the dangers of relying on mercenaries and weak defenses. Gaston Martin then told her that a fire had destroyed a London warehouse holding half the Hope family’s indigo stock, leaving her to face a serious crisis.

• Pomona chose a yellow dress decorated with black botanical patterns and white flowers, then reflected on beauty, aging, and love.
• Pomona considered how corruption and internal betrayal had weakened Rome and how cities could fall when their defenses failed from within.
• Pomona recalled that Napoleon had halted conscription after two poor harvests and worried about the dangers of relying on mercenaries.
• Gaston Martin entered Pomona’s room and reported that the Hope family’s London warehouse had burned down.
• Gaston Martin explained that the warehouse had held half the family’s indigo stock, making the fire a disaster.

At a crowded Smith family gathering, Pomona unexpectedly saw Snape talking with Zacharias Smith’s father while she tried to learn about Herbert Smith’s inheritance. Later, she took Snape to buy new robes, while Georgiana listened to Gaston Martin’s account of cochineal and wondered whether lipstick used insect dye.

• Pomona and Cedric attended the Smith family gathering, where Sally Smith showed them the amusement park and mentioned the Weird Sisters’ concert.
• Pomona spotted Snape speaking with Zacharias Smith’s father, though she said nothing and continued around the gathering with Sally.
• After the party, Pomona and Severus bought him a dark green scholar’s robe and a dark blue coat from Twilfitt and Tattings.
• Georgiana listened to Gaston Martin describe the history and trade of cochineal, then wondered whether the lipstick she had worn contained insect dye.

Pomona met Sporos Langham, an investigator preparing to transfer to the Auror Office, and discussed his endurance-focused combat skills with Cedric. The chapter then turned to Pomona’s reflections on Draco, Narcissa, protective bonds, and the uncertain obligations created by promises and debts.

• Pomona greeted Sporos Langham, learned he was protecting a department head before transferring to the Auror Office, and encouraged him to train Hogwarts interns.
• Pomona explained Langham’s defensive and recovery-focused fighting style, and Cedric eagerly asked to train under him.
• Pomona reflected on Draco’s burden to repair the Vanishing Cabinet and assassinate Dumbledore, and on his respect for Flitwick’s dueling skill.
• Pomona considered the diamond trade and the symbolism of black, then recalled Hathor’s words and Narcissa’s desire to be a girl.
• Pomona wondered how she and Narcissa had connected during her coma and considered whether Narcissa’s bracelet could protect her from Bellatrix’s curses.
• Pomona questioned how Severus could fulfill his vow to care for Draco and how Isolt could clearly repay William the Pukwudgie’s debt of life.

At a Smith family gathering, Pomona watched Diego Kaplan dance and continued searching for clues to Hufflepuff's Cup. Later, Georgiana reflected on diamonds, love, and death before deciding to pawn the jewels to fund a lighthouse transmission route between Belgium and France.

• Pomona saw Diego Kaplan dancing with encouragement from his grandmother Felicia and learned that his grandfather Enrique Kaplan had once been an Auror and famous duelist.
• Pomona warned Amos Diggory not to approach Enrique Kaplan, then searched the gathering for someone who might know where Hufflepuff's Cup was.
• Georgiana considered the Titanic, Viscount Astor's death, and the choices people made as disaster struck.
• Georgiana recalled Narcissa's doubts about Snape's love for Lily and the Unbreakable Vow Narcissa made with him.
• Georgiana wrote a letter and planned to pawn the diamonds to fund Fresnel lenses and a nighttime lighthouse transmission system between Belgium and France.