Chapter Summaries

Pomona and Severus discussed Harry’s future and their life by the sea before confronting Walburga’s portrait in the Black family home. Walburga offered to help remove Pomona’s curse if Severus searched for Regulus, and the chapter ended with Severus and Pomona setting out to find Draco Malfoy.

• Pomona reflected on her past, Harry’s safety, and the romance between Ron and Hermione while Severus comforted her and asked where she had lived before Hogwarts.
• Severus warned Walburga’s portrait to control her insults, and Walburga asked them to find Regulus, whom she believed might still be alive.
• Walburga offered to help remove Pomona’s curse if Severus made a serious effort to find Regulus, and Pomona realized Severus could use his position as head of the Black family to change its inheritance.
• Severus agreed to Walburga’s terms and discovered Kreacher guarding a hidden room filled with books and wearing Slytherin’s Locket.
• Severus arranged for the Black portraits not to reveal that he was alive to Harry, then took Pomona to find Draco Malfoy.

Pomona danced with Severus in the snowy forest while they waited for Draco, but her mention of Sirius enraged him and exposed how deeply he feared losing her. Severus comforted her over Fred’s death and confessed that she was the treasure he wanted above the inheritance, leaving Pomona careful not to provoke his jealousy again.

• Pomona and Severus found Draco in a snowy forest with the help of Severus’s crystal ball and a half-Giant.
• Pomona danced with Severus, and he joined her after she teased him about refusing to dance.
• Severus grew furious when Pomona mentioned Sirius and warned her not to use his name to provoke him.
• Severus told Pomona that Fred’s death was not her fault and said meeting her was the luckiest thing in his life.
• Severus said he did not want the inheritance but wanted the treasure, while Pomona likened him to a dragon guarding what it cherished.

Pomona and Severus shared a quiet moment in a treehouse as he confessed his feelings and his reasons for serving Dumbledore, while she urged him not to return to darkness. Their intimacy was interrupted by the kettle’s whistle, and Pomona was left confronting the danger of the fragile treehouse and the revelation that Draco had been chosen by the Elder Wand.

• Pomona kept warm in the treehouse with Severus while bubbles from her gum filled the shelter, and she reflected on Titanic and Sirius’s generosity.
• Severus recalled Dumbledore asking whether he wanted to flee with Karkaroff, then told Pomona he was not a coward and praised her beauty.
• Pomona asked Severus for Scented Illusion Grass, and they joked about Nifflers, Hermione, and Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans.
• Severus explained that he had betrayed the Dark Lord for reasons beyond Lily and described the risks involving the Horcruxes and the Elder Wand.
• Pomona warned Severus to watch Draco and not enter darkness; Severus summoned a swan Patronus and demanded that she help him prove he was still alive.
• Severus leaned toward Pomona as she noticed Draco had been chosen by the Elder Wand, but the kettle’s whistle warned that the treehouse might collapse.

Pomona recalled Severus's choices and the sacrifices behind his plan, then watched him arrive in the Forbidden Forest to protect Draco and teach him Arania exumai. Severus drove off the Acromantulas and blamed Hagrid for bringing them to Hogwarts, while Draco learned to use the spell against the spiders.

• Pomona reflected on Severus's loyalty to Lily, his role in the plan to help Harry destroy the Horcruxes, and the memories he chose to give Harry before his death.
• Pomona woke alone in the treehouse as Severus left under the Invisibility Cloak and raced through the Forbidden Forest in black smoke.
• Severus found Draco and Hagrid fighting Acromantulas and used Arania exumai to repel the spiders.
• Severus taught Draco the spell, corrected his wandwork, and mocked Hagrid for keeping Aragog and bringing the spiders trouble.
• Draco and Severus swatted the spiders with the spell, and Severus claimed that the Dark Lord had invented it.

Pomona, Draco, Severus, and Hagrid fought through an Acromantula attack in the Forbidden Forest while trying to reach Fluffy. They left the forest in chaos, and Pomona worried that Bane would be furious.

• Pomona rode a Thestral into the Forbidden Forest to rescue Hagrid from the Acromantulas, with Draco and Severus joining the fight.
• Pomona urged Hagrid to escape, but he insisted on finding Fluffy and freeing it from its chain.
• Pomona stopped Draco from using an Engorgement Charm on his two-day-old Occamy and told him to be patient while taming it.
• Severus and Draco threw orange poison onto the spiders as Pomona and Hagrid rode forward through the forest.
• Pomona attacked the Acromantulas with fireballs, and she worried that the centaurs would blame them for wrecking their home.

Pomona reflected on death, love, and her inability to let Severus go, then shared an intimate winter conversation with him beside Fluffy’s den. The chapter ended with Severus kissing her in front of Hagrid, who was moving Fluffy.

• Pomona and Severus avoided the dangerous elder tree and discussed Dumbledore’s notes on Beedle’s tales and the impossibility of bringing back the dead.
• Pomona remembered her grief over Severus and admitted that she wanted to die on the same day as him.
• Severus asked Pomona whether she still wanted to be human, and she told him she loved him.
• Pomona and Severus joked about Lockhart, Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and taming beasts while Hagrid led Fluffy toward them.
• Severus told Hagrid he was no longer Headmaster, then kissed Pomona as Hagrid looked away.

Pomona, Severus, Draco, and Hagrid traveled through the Forbidden Forest with Fluffy pulling a makeshift sled. The journey ended with Pomona casting Obliviate on Hagrid as Draco protested and sinister laughter echoed through the forest.

• Pomona proposed using Fluffy to pull Hagrid and the others on a sled, and Hagrid agreed.
• Pomona rode the sled with Draco and Hagrid while Fluffy raced through the Forbidden Forest.
• Pomona cast Obliviate on Hagrid, leaving him rigid and staring blankly.
• Draco screamed in protest as Dark Lord-like laughter echoed through the forest and shook snow from the trees.

Pomona and Severus discussed the Dark Lord’s power, the remaining Horcruxes, and the possibility that Wormtail carried one, while Pomona struggled with frightening voices and exhaustion. They left the corridor with the threat unresolved, as Pomona went to seek Hermione and Severus considered the clues.

• Pomona reflected on the Dark Lord’s strength and the students helping protect Hogwarts while she regretted leaving the castle and letting the spiders multiply.
• Severus found Pomona in the corridor, and she told him she was hearing voices and feared the Dark Lord was too powerful.
• Severus revealed what he had learned through Legilimency about the night the Killing Curse rebounded and about Cedric’s appearance among the souls protecting Harry.
• Pomona and Severus considered whether Wormtail might contain a Horcrux and whether he could help revive the Dark Lord, then discussed sending help to Amos Diggory.
• Pomona went to look for Hermione at the Hogwarts Kitchen while Severus remained behind to think.

Pomona discussed Hermione’s work and Lily’s mysterious rebounding spell before setting a shopping appointment with her. On her way to find Firenze, Pomona brooded over the ruin of the pure-blood families, her feelings about Severus and Dumbledore, and whether Neville should rely on his wand or the Sword of Gryffindor.

• Pomona found Hermione buried in applications for House-elves and asked her to help investigate Lily’s rebounding spell because Harry’s scar was hurting.
• Pomona arranged to meet Hermione at Harrods the next afternoon to find a dress for a Sino-British cultural exchange event.
• Pomona left to seek Firenze and told Hermione to remind Neville to maintain good relations with the centaurs.
• Pomona reflected on Euphemia Rowle’s decline and the consequences of the defeated pure-blood families’ losses.
• Pomona questioned why Severus had lied and thought about Dumbledore’s treatment of him, Neville’s new wand, and Neville’s choice between the Sword of Gryffindor and a wand.

Pomona spoke with Neville about her past with Severus and their feelings for each other. Severus arrived and pushed her into an immediate wedding, leaving her faint with shock before calling her Mrs. Prince.

• Pomona told Neville that a traitor had once exposed the Order of the Phoenix and recalled Severus joining it to save Lily.
• Neville revealed that he had noticed Severus caring for Pomona and described how she and Luna had grown close before separating.
• Pomona and Neville discussed her feelings for Severus as Black Fairies appeared in the classroom, and she explained that potions could repel them.
• Neville asked whether he could attend Pomona’s wedding, and she agreed.
• Severus arrived, threatened to expose Pomona’s role in the dragon incident, and ordered Neville to summon Minerva, Bill, and Fleur for an urgent mission.
• Severus insisted they marry that day in the classroom, and Pomona fainted before he caught her and called her Mrs. Prince.

On Thor's Day, Pomona prepared to marry Severus Snape in a Scottish Celtic ceremony, while Hermione questioned her motives and his past. Hermione helped ready Pomona for the wedding, then realized Pomona had been pretending to be kinder and more naïve than she was.

• Pomona prepared a Moondew Flower wreath in the greenhouse and told Hermione that she would marry Snape and leave with him.
• Pomona revealed that she had invited Hannah Abbott so she could introduce her to Neville, and Hermione challenged her coldness toward Neville.
• Hermione warned Pomona that Snape might still be attached to Lily, but Pomona argued that his choices showed he had moved beyond the past.
• Hermione cleaned Pomona's dress with Scourgify, and Pomona praised Hermione as the cleverest witch of her age.
• Hermione conjured Christmas cacti and accused Pomona of pretending, realizing that Pomona was good at deceiving people who underestimated Hufflepuffs.

Pomona and Severus married at Hogwarts in a small winter ceremony attended by their friends and colleagues. After trading teasing remarks and exchanging vows, they left the ceremony bound by Severus’s promise to protect and cherish her for life.

• Pomona walked down the flower-strewn aisle with Hannah Abbott as Severus waited at the altar with Neville Longbottom as his best man.
• Pomona welcomed the Fat Friar’s offer to invite Peeves, then noticed Lavender Brown among the guests and reflected on her feelings about Lavender and Neville.
• Pomona and Severus bickered during the ceremony until Minerva McGonagall began officiating and asked them to exchange vows.
• Severus and Pomona each agreed to the marriage, and Pomona promised to remain faithful and cherish him until she died.
• Severus vowed that he had stayed at Hogwarts, left, and returned for Pomona, promising to protect and cherish her until the end of his life.

At their wedding, Pomona and Severus danced while discussing Lily, Dumbledore, Hermione, and the choices they had made for others. Severus raised Astoria’s blood curse and its possible consequences for the Malfoy family, but Pomona ended the conversation with a kiss as their dance finished.

• Pomona and Severus opened their wedding dance, and Severus explained how he viewed Lily’s choices and the value he had placed on relying on himself.
• Severus criticized Dumbledore for treating people as pieces and challenged Pomona over letting Hermione and Hannah make choices without considering what others wanted.
• Pomona and Severus discussed Draco, Lucius, and their reasons for choosing Neville as best man, then argued over checking the Lestrange vault for possible Horcruxes.
• Severus told Pomona that Astoria’s blood curse could threaten the Malfoys if Draco had a daughter, and Pomona asked him to kiss her instead of discussing it at their wedding.
• Their dance ended with a kiss as the guests cheered.

At the Hogwarts wedding feast, Pomona and Severus slipped away together, and Severus confronted her about how others judged his Dark magic and their relationship. The chapter ended with Pomona reflecting on Muggle persecution of wizards and recalling how Snape had knocked Lockhart down at the Dueling Club.

• The chapter recounted how Salazar Slytherin’s father brought a Dragon to Hogwarts, where it killed Muggle children and Slytherin’s mother before escaping into the lake.
• Pomona enjoyed the wedding party as guests danced, while Slughorn tried and failed to persuade McGonagall to join him.
• A House-elf told Pomona that the punch contained Gillyweed juice, and Snape took her away from the feast to tell her that she still had not told her Mermaid friends they were married.
• Pomona resisted entering a broom closet, but the newlyweds kissed and became intimate after deciding they no longer wanted to hide their relationship.
• In the Forbidden Forest, Severus accused others of wanting to change him because he practiced Dark magic, and Pomona compared their situation with the founders’ history.
• Pomona reflected on Muggles’ persecution of helpful wizards and remembered Snape defeating Lockhart at the Dueling Club.

The chapter recounts the Malfoys’ history and Severus’s complicated ties to Lucius, Dumbledore, and the First Wizarding War, while the wedding couple’s private encounter turns toward a supernatural reckoning. It leaves the narrator bewildered by the purpose of Dumbledore’s fire spell and wondering whether Grindelwald can explain it.

• The chapter described the Malfoys’ Norman origins, pragmatism, and ties to Muggle society, as well as Lucius’s and Severus’s attempts to escape Voldemort’s influence.
• The narrator argued that Dumbledore had abandoned Sirius Black and left Severus unable to prove that killing him had been part of a plan.
• Arthur Weasley reopened the Marlene McKinnon case and pursued the mastermind behind the killings that had devastated the Order of the Phoenix.
• The narrator reflected on the Black family’s ruin, Narcissa’s constrained marriage, and the Malfoys’ concealed history and ambitions.
• The wedding couple continued their private encounter as the narrator considered forbidden desires, Pomona’s return, and the danger of Veela.
• The narrator questioned why Dumbledore had used Partis Temporus and wondered whether Grindelwald could explain the spell.

Pomona confronted Lucius in Hogwarts about his knowledge of Severus’s apparent death and the secrets hidden in the Room of Requirement. Lucius revealed that he had seen Severus survive Nagini’s attack, then left Pomona questioning why she had ever believed herself unworthy of Severus.

• Pomona met Lucius in an empty corridor and questioned why he was at Hogwarts and whether he intended to let Death Eaters in again.
• Lucius asked about Pomona’s past and compared her with Lily; Pomona explained that Sprout was her nanny’s surname and admitted she feared Severus might abandon her.
• Lucius revealed that he had warned Severus about Nagini, seen him stagger out of the boathouse, and later assumed he had died after reading the casualty list.
• Pomona told Lucius that Astoria had a blood curse, and Lucius said he had come to reclaim a Time-Turner from the Room of Requirement.
• Lucius explained that Dumbledore had once told Karkaroff about the Room of Requirement and urged Pomona to recognize her own worth; Pomona reconsidered her doubts about Severus.

Lucius Malfoy confronted Pomona in the Room of Requirement over the Ministry’s Time-Turner, while provoking her with claims about Severus’s love for Lily. Pomona refused to surrender the artifact, and after glass shattered behind her, green mist awakened the seeds scattered across the floor.

• Lucius explained the Room of Requirement’s history and revealed that the Ministry had lent its Time-Turner to Hogwarts.
• Pomona stunned Lucius, but his enchanted glove blocked the spell, and he insisted that he had come to retrieve Ministry property.
• Pomona stood between Lucius and the Time-Turner, scattering seeds and warning him to leave.
• Lucius taunted Pomona about Severus’s enduring love for Lily and urged her to guard her husband instead.
• Glass shattered behind Pomona, blood fell to the floor, and green mist made the seeds take root and sprout.

Pomona fought Lucius Malfoy over the Time-Turner, then learned from Peevis that changing the past could lead to a catastrophic war. She set aside her attempt to use the device and left with Narcissa, while the Time-Turner remained tangled in the Vitex Trees.

• Pomona used soot, growing Vitex Trees, and fireballs to battle Lucius and stop him reaching the Time-Turner.
• Lucius revealed that the Time-Turner was broken and could only travel back five minutes, and Pomona declared she wanted a divorce.
• Peevis warned Pomona against using the Time-Turner and recounted the deadly attack on Hogwarts and Salazar Slytherin’s later hunt for dark wizards.
• Narcissa arrived, and Pomona embraced her and asked to go shopping for a dress the next afternoon.
• Narcissa repaired her dress and told Lucius to clean up while they planned how to deal with the Time-Turner.

Pomona recalled meeting the Daoist wizard Wang Wei, who gave her a Dream-Recall Grass seed and a poem about longing, before turning her attention back to Severus and their plans. She woke Severus from a sleeping spell and left with him to rest, discuss the Time-Turner problem, and prepare to visit Fleur and Bill and take Draco to the Black family.

• Pomona remembered how Wang Wei had taught her about Dream-Recall Grass, given her a seed and a poem, and left the camp.
• Pomona compared Wang Wei's gentleness with Severus's sharp manner before waking Severus from a sleeping spell in a broom closet.
• Pomona told Severus they would explain themselves to Fleur Delacour and Bill the next morning and ordered him to sleep and consider the Time-Turner problem.
• Severus suggested sending Longbottom and Hannah to XZ, but Pomona said Longbottom did not need to hide from his enemies.
• Pomona insisted Neville was the Chosen One and said she wanted him to marry Hannah; Severus then asked whether she considered him a good person.

Pomona reflected on cultural differences and teased Severus over breakfast, while he questioned Hermione about her past and warned her to value her life. Severus learned that Pomona had visited the Come and Go Room to hide the past, and he assured her he would not use the Resurrection Stone to revive Lily.

• Pomona and Severus discussed music, Hogwarts rules, and Hermione’s dangerous choices during the quest for the Sorcerer’s Stone, including drinking gorge water and using a Time-Turner.
• Hermione left for work, and Pomona warned Severus not to let older politicians use him while they discussed the Norwegian Ridgeback dragon egg.
• Severus pressed Pomona to explain where she had gone the previous night, and she admitted she had visited the Come and Go Room to hide the past and prevent him from returning to it.
• Severus said he would not revive Lily with the Resurrection Stone because he loved Pomona and would not cling to an illusion of the past.
• Pomona discovered Severus had secretly entered the girls’ dormitory at their camp and learned about boys using Wingardium Leviosa to reach its entrance.
• Severus asked whether Pomona would revive Cedric with the Resurrection Stone, and after she called it a bad idea, he kissed her.