Chapter Summaries

Pomona found James Potter taking refuge at the safe house because caring for Harry had exhausted him, and she helped him settle in and prepare food. The chapter ended with Pomona listening to the lyrics of the song James was playing.

• Pomona returned to the safe house and found James Potter listening to music, cooking, and surrounded by comics, pizza boxes, and alcohol.
• James told Pomona that Sirius had let him stay there because Harry would not sleep unless Lily held him.
• Pomona allowed James to sleep on the sofa after he cleared away the comics.
• Pomona helped James cook steak and made a salad while they discussed his music.
• Pomona listened closely as the song began, “Very superstitious,”

Pomona reflected on the Order of the Phoenix and Lily’s support for Remus while Snape complained that Jig had made him rewrite his paper. Georgiana considered the difference between snake fangs and insect ingredients, then welcomed Bougainville into her office.

• Pomona learned from a prefect that a student quarrel had started over belongings thought to be stolen, but the House-elves had found them.
• Pomona remembered how Lily had comforted Remus when he moved out and how James had accepted that Remus and Sirius could not reconcile.
• Snape told Pomona that Jig had rejected his paper’s focus on conversion efficiency and demanded that he rewrite it.
• Georgiana picked up a dart that had pierced the map and thought about snake fangs, potions, and Jig’s essay assignment.
• Bougainville arrived at Georgiana’s office, and she invited him in.

Pomona dealt with Sirius’s first day as Harry’s godfather and investigated Jig’s Potions technique while considering the danger of its secrets reaching the Death Eaters. In Georgiana’s other life, she ordered a confidential experiment treating leprosy patients with symptoms of niacin deficiency, then watched Bougainville leave her to decide what to do next.

• Pomona found Sirius struggling to care for baby Harry and refused to change his diaper, then suggested Snape use Jig to train the Potions Tournament contestants.
• Pomona saw Draco and Lucius Malfoy at Hogwarts and worried Jig’s secret technique might be stolen, but Minerva gave her an essay topic about natural Animagi instead.
• Pomona found Jig’s old paper on transforming Werewolves and learned his research had brought death threats that drove him to Australia.
• Bougainville warned Georgiana to stay away from Dermide and promised to remain at her side, while Georgiana questioned whether she could still be loved if she lost her beauty.
• Georgiana gave Bougainville a recipe and ordered him to find leprosy patients with strawberry tongues for a secret experiment, also describing symptoms of niacin deficiency.
• Bougainville said he knew what he should believe in and left, while Georgiana wondered what her next step should be.

Pomona witnessed Remus Lupin preparing to leave Sirius’s home, but Harry’s crying drew the two men into an uneasy moment together. As Remus soothed Harry and Sirius reminded him of the gramophone, their strained parting threatened to become a fight, and Pomona tried to escape the tension.

• Pomona woke at Sirius’s home and heard Sirius speaking with someone before a door slammed and Harry continued crying.
• Pomona saw Remus Lupin leaving with his luggage and learned that he had found a new place to stay.
• Remus took Harry from Sirius and soothed him by supporting his neck.
• Sirius pointed out the gramophone Remus had forgotten, but Remus coldly told him to keep it.
• Pomona went to look for music to get away from the tension between Sirius and Remus.

Pomona followed Jig as he pursued Flitwick, while Georgiana searched through scattered belongings and reflected on Jig’s past and his connection to the Grey Lady. She found a grain-storage manuscript and the warm Snowflake Locket, then left the room without taking anything.

• Pomona saw Jig chasing Flitwick and followed them to learn what was happening.
• Snape invited Pomona to Lockhart’s next book launch, but she told him to focus on the competition.
• Georgiana considered how to search the debris and recalled finding the Invisibility Cloak among the ruins of Godric’s Hollow.
• Pomona connected Jig’s obsession with the Deathly Hallows to his efforts to learn from Flitwick where the Grey Lady might be hiding.
• Georgiana found the manuscript Persephone’s Secret and the warm Snowflake Locket, then put the paper in the model observatory and left empty-handed.

Pomona confronted Snape after Draco Malfoy humiliated a Hufflepuff girl, while her thoughts turned to love, ambition, and the dangers of seeking greater fame. Georgiana left Sforza Castle with Bougainville and Lorban, uncertain whether the trip was truly for pleasure.

• Pomona found a Hufflepuff girl crying after Draco Malfoy had spread a humiliating story about her, and a Gryffindor girl comforted her.
• Snape promised to teach Draco a lesson, but Pomona said it would change nothing and walked away.
• Pomona reflected on love, Gilderoy Lockhart's ambition, Voldemort's possible return, and Draco's frailty as she watched Georgiana's departure in her thoughts.
• Bougainville and Lorban joined Georgiana in her carriage, and she said she needed no luggage beyond the observatory model Melzi had given her.
• Bougainville set the carriage moving, and Georgiana left Sforza Castle hoping the outing was only for pleasure.

Pomona and the other professors investigated a student injured by a mixed spell, while Snape questioned the Gryffindors involved and the teachers discussed rumors of the Triwizard Tournament. In a separate scene, Georgiana considered a birthday gift for Leon and asked Bougainville and Lorban to decide which travel story to tell by flipping a coin.

• Poppy Pomfrey treated the injured Slytherin student, and Dumbledore led the professors to question the three Gryffindors.
• Snape demanded the students' wands and accused them of practicing curses on Armando, while one Gryffindor explained that they had been trying to drive away Doxies.
• Jig criticized the students for using their wands instead of Doxy spray, and Minerva connected the Doxies to rumors about the Triwizard Tournament's possible return.
• Dumbledore described the injury as an accident, and Pomona decided the school should be sprayed for the unusually early Doxies.
• Georgiana worried about a superstition concerning witches born in the fifth month and considered what gift she could give Leon without exposing Persephone's secret.
• Georgiana asked Bougainville and Lorban to tell her about their travels, then had them flip a Louis d'or to choose between Siberia and the voyage around the world.

Pomona was summoned to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, where Jig and Snape argued over Dark magic and whether Snape should bring Draco to Durmstrang. Meanwhile, Georgiana arrived at Villa Melzi on Lake Como with Bougainville and Lorban, ending the chapter admiring the quiet lakeside estate.

• Pomona learned that Doxy eggs were spreading through Hogwarts, while Minerva organized student inspections and Kettleburn concluded they needed to find the Doxy queens.
• Jig taught students unconventional ways to use potions against dangerous creatures, though many students treated Defense Against the Dark Arts as a practical Charms class.
• Bill Weasley told Pomona that Jig wanted her in the DA classroom, where she found Jig and Snape arguing over Disendium, Separatio, and Dark magic.
• Jig challenged Snape’s plan to take Draco to Durmstrang, but Snape defended his godson and refused to back down.
• Georgiana arrived at Villa Melzi at night with Bougainville and Lorban, admired the still waters and gardens, and briefly imagined moving the villa to Elba.

Pomona searched old Wizarding magazines for Transfiguration material and recalled the dangerous experiments and school emergencies connected to Zigmont Baji. The story left Georgiana setting aside her book as Marquis Lorban approached.

• Pomona visited the Wizarding Library and searched a huge pile of magazines from the twenties for Transfiguration articles.
• Pomona borrowed the old magazines and had students help search them while Elena complained about a jet-plane offer.
• Georgiana remembered the Laughing Potion incident, Baji’s dangerous experiments, and the Doxy outbreak at Hogwarts.
• Georgiana reflected on power, resistance, and the limits of Transfiguration as she recalled the school’s students defending one another.
• Marquis Lorban walked toward Georgiana, who put aside her book to hear his story.

Georgiana discussed the airship blueprints and the threat of war with Lorban, while reflecting on the destruction of Hogwarts and her own numbness toward conflict. She arranged for General Ney to be kept waiting, then considered the consequences of secrets and decided she could not remain in the peaceful surroundings for long.

• Lorban returned the airship blueprints to Georgiana and urged her to be careful, then asked whether she still cared about peace and whether she had anyone in Britain she wanted to protect.
• Georgiana said Caesar had chosen his fate and questioned whether peace could still be maintained as Lorban imagined the lakes and mountains devastated by war.
• Lorban told Georgiana that General Ney would visit the next afternoon to ask why Switzerland's army was not being deployed.
• Georgiana instructed Lorban to keep General Ney company for two days before meeting with her.
• Georgiana recalled Jig's work on Chizpurfles and Venomous Tentacula, then reflected on the dangers of secrets and looked over the scenery she feared she might spoil.

Jig warned Pomona that Dark magic could poison her, prompting her to wonder when its effects had first taken hold. Later, in a sequence centered on Lake Como, Georgiana swam away from a French soldier who tried to rescue her.

• Pomona delivered Chizpurfle shells to Jig, and Hagrid brought fire-seed bush seeds; Jig gave Hagrid jewel-encrusted Fire Crabs as compensation for the Acromantulas they planned to destroy.
• Jig questioned Pomona about Barnaby Lee using Dark magic and warned her to beware of good intentions; she left angrily and began recalling the poison-like effects that sometimes afflicted her.
• Jig reflected on Dumbledore's wand, his correspondence with Snape, and the people and relationships surrounding Pomona, Tonks, and Remus.
• Georgiana changed into a swimsuit and jumped into Lake Como, where a French soldier pursued her underwater and called out that he was there to save her.
• Georgiana told the soldier she could swim, then headed for shore.

Pomona watched Charlie sneak a dragon egg into the Forbidden Forest to find Fireseed Bush seeds, while Georgiana reflected on the bone flute, Helena’s hidden diadem, and how Neville might destroy Voldemort’s soul-bearing tree. The chapter left Georgiana considering the forest as a target for her experiment and connecting the tree to Voldemort’s defeat.

• Quirrell’s lizard received treatment for a Doxy bite, and Kettleburn noted that Doxies and fairies were unusually numerous that year.
• Pomona followed students to the vegetable garden and saw Charlie reveal a dragon egg he planned to hatch with Fireseed Bush seeds.
• Bill warned Charlie not to take the seeds, but Charlie and the students headed into the Forbidden Forest to seek Hagrid.
• Georgiana swam in the lake, changed at Villa Melzi, and recalled how cannon fire had stopped the events at La Scala.
• Georgiana examined Lorban’s bone flute and reasoned that Neville might need to find and destroy a tree in Albania connected to Voldemort’s soul.

Pomona investigated the Four-Beast Well after it overflowed, while the Doxies were eventually traced to a nest in the West Tower. Elsewhere, Georgiana pondered the Goblin Forest, Helena’s hidden diadem, and the dangers of love and ambition before learning that visitors had arrived.

• Pomona secured Hufflepuff’s common room against Doxies, then joined Dumbledore and others at the Four-Beast Well when water overflowed from it.
• The group found no cause for the well’s flooding, while the three champions discovered a Doxy nest in the West Tower and captured its queens.
• Charlie and his friends pursued a trader who had sold them a fake dragon egg, and Olivia Girling intervened before the confrontation escalated.
• Olivia’s missing-Muggle-girl case concerned a disappearance near the Goblin Forest, where magical creatures and a royal estate complicated the search.
• Georgiana considered the forest’s ancient rowan tree as a possible hiding place for Helena’s diadem and reflected on Helena’s death and the dangers of love and ambition.
• Oshana told Georgiana that Mr. Lestrange’s guests had arrived, and Georgiana went to find a place to receive the Goblins.

Georgiana negotiated with the Lombard Goblins over the ancient kingdom’s treasure and their place in magical society. They agreed to her terms, and the meeting ended in a toast to peace, though Georgiana left a further matter for after their dragon hunt.

• Georgiana met the Lombard Goblins in Melzi Manor’s underground ice shaft, where they proposed giving the cave’s treasure to humans in exchange for the legal right to possess wands.
• The Goblins presented Georgiana with a box containing what appeared to be a Peruvian Vipertooth fang and proposed using its venom to hunt dragons.
• Georgiana accepted their terms on the condition that they take a few items from the treasure, and she hinted that she would ask for their help with another matter after the hunt.
• Georgiana tried to vanish the fang, but only its outer shell disappeared, and Rabastan Lestrange revealed that the fang was fake.
• Rabastan poured the wine with magic, and Georgiana, the old Goblin, and the others drank to peace and friendship.

Pomona reflected on social expectations, magical creatures, and the costs of protecting the wizarding world before Georgiana confronted Rabastan about Goblin silver. Georgiana revealed that she wanted the silver to build something, but kept its purpose secret.

• Pomona read about Florence Nightingale, then made a late-night inspection for students who might be at risk from Doxies.
• Pomona considered pure-blood expectations, Grindelwald’s ideas, and the treatment of magical beings as she recalled encounters involving vampires and Giants.
• Georgiana watched the guests’ ship depart and thought about laws governing magical creatures and the danger facing Peruvian Vipertooths.
• Rabastan Lestrange apologized to Georgiana and asked what she wanted the Goblins to do for her.
• Georgiana said she wanted Goblin silver to build something, but told Rabastan she would explain when the time was right.

Pomona learned that Filch had placed Augureys in the dungeon to keep Doxies away and posted rules for feeding the birds. She then reflected on events surrounding Scamander, the French Ministry of Magic’s cabinets, and the risks hidden in old agreements, leaving those matters temporarily settled but uncertain in the future.

• Filch told Pomona that Professor Grubbly-Plank had ordered him to keep Augureys in the dungeon, and Pomona suggested putting them near other Houses as well.
• Pomona wrote a notice allowing students to feed captured Doxies to the Augureys, provided they avoided insecticide and did not overfeed them.
• Pomona recalled Scamander’s absence from Gilderoy Lockhart’s book launch and his past rescue of a Bowtruckle from a Goblin.
• Pomona considered how American abolitionism, food and cotton production, and silk cultivation affected Britain and Piedmont.
• Pomona connected the French Ministry of Magic’s cabinets to Goblin silver and Isidora’s history, then concluded that the matter was temporarily settled while future consequences remained unpredictable.

Pomona dealt with Doxy trouble at Hogwarts while preparing for the Potions Tournament trip to Durmstrang, and Georgiana reflected on freedom, loss, and a new life. The chapter ended with Georgiana waking at dawn after a vision of a dark, trembling man and his Patronus.

• Pomona told Filch to store the Vanishing Cabinet in his office and ask the deputy headmaster what to do with it.
• Pomona decided to prepare Doxy antidotes for the Potions Tournament contestants, who planned to fly to Norway and continue on to Durmstrang.
• Pomona spoke with Snape at Four-Beast Well, but he ignored her question about how they would reach Durmstrang.
• Georgiana reflected on Myrtle's release from the bathroom where she had died and on how she had found a new life at Hogwarts.
• Georgiana saw a vision of a dark, trembling man, who summoned a stag Patronus and promised that they would have a new life after the war.
• Georgiana awoke at dawn beside Lake Como as the water lapped softly against the shore.

Pomona supervised Potions practice as Joy struggled under Snape’s pressure and the students prepared for the international competition. Meanwhile, Georgiana swam along the lake’s surface near a fishing village, hoping to catch a fish.

• Joy struggled to use a silver grater while Snape criticized her work, then transformed her little silver knife into an uneven grater after Draco Malfoy drew Snape’s attention away.
• Pomona reflected on Durmstrang’s hidden werewolves and the international competition’s emphasis on innovative potions and special ingredients.
• Pomona sent a contestant a Shrivelfig and rushed from the classroom when a student’s potion released foul-smelling yellow smoke, telling the students to call out if they needed anything.
• Georgiana jumped into the lake after giving advance notice, swam along the surface past the misty fishing village, and turned back rather than go ashore for fresh fish.

Pomona recalled Jin’s history and his attempts to join the Potion-Making Championship, while Georgiana prepared to rest after emerging from the lake. The chapter ended with Margarita treating Georgiana’s clothes with perfume by order of the First Consul as thunder sounded in the distance.

• The Potion-Making Championship contestants moved into the Herbology greenhouses because a smell had driven them from the Potions classroom, while Augureys and Doxies disturbed the students nearby.
• Pomona encountered Jin in the kitchen during detention and learned that he had sought to enter the championship to obtain an Extension-Charmed trunk.
• Pomona remembered Jin’s background, his friendship with Charlie, and how he had exposed the fraud who sold Charlie a fake dragon egg.
• Georgiana emerged from the lake, accepted a towel from Oshana of the Hancock family, and wrote down Shrivelfig as an ingredient for Thunderbrew.
• Margarita sprayed perfume on Georgiana’s clothes, saying the First Consul had ordered it, and Georgiana decided to nap as thunder rolled in the distance.

Pomona and Snape discussed Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s Blood Pact, Snape’s past, and his fears about leaving Britain. Georgiana confronted Radetzky, who warned her that Pichegru had been captured and offered information about a masked employer planning an attack.

• Snape asked Pomona about the Blood Pact and described the arguments among Death Eaters, including how he had rushed to tell Voldemort about the prophecy.
• Snape asked Pomona what would happen if he left and did not return; she reassured him, and they playfully tussled beneath his cloak.
• Georgiana woke to find Radetzky in her bedroom, raised her wand, and demanded to know how he had entered.
• Radetzky told Georgiana that Pichegru had been captured and argued that smugglers had targeted her because of her anti-smuggling work.
• Georgiana refused Radetzky’s offer of friendship but heard that his masked former employer wanted him to attack Murat’s army.
• Radetzky suggested Georgiana use magic to search his Memory for his employer’s identity, but she declined and asked him to share what he knew.