Chapter Summaries

Pomona explained the desperation that drove Werewolves toward violence and warned Justin that surviving them might require dark magic. She suspected Xenophilius had kidnapped Elphias Doge to learn about the Resurrection Stone, and she left Justin to prepare for the danger ahead.

• Pomona used a Dumbledore’s Army Galleon to summon Justin near the Hexagonal Pavilion.
• Pomona told Justin she suspected Xenophilius had kidnapped Elphias Doge because he wanted information about the Resurrection Stone and Pandora.
• Justin revealed that he knew Harry had mentioned the Elder Wand but had never told him about the Resurrection Stone.
• Pomona urged Justin to speak with his father and grandfather and warned that Werewolves would not be stopped by the methods he learned in Dumbledore’s Army.
• Justin said they would have to use dark magic, and Pomona accepted that fighting Werewolves meant getting tainted by the darkness around them.

Pomona reflected on Ireland’s history of human sacrifice and learned that the Werewolf leader Crom Cruach was demanding children in exchange for food. As she considered the danger of Werewolves uniting and the road-rage creature threat amid Chinatown’s traffic, she returned there for dim sum and wondered why a peaceful life was so hard to attain.

• Pomona read accounts of Irish human sacrifice and learned that Crom Cruach had been worshipped as a moon god who demanded children in exchange for milk and grain.
• Pomona connected Crom Cruach to the Werewolf leader of the same name, who believed he had divine power and demanded sacrifices from families.
• Pomona considered the danger of Crom Cruach uniting the Werewolf tribes and the possibility that they might cooperate rather than destroy one another.
• Pomona noted that the full moon could trigger Werewolf transformations and that Chinatown needed to remain on alert during the Lantern Festival, especially at night.
• Pomona reflected on how traffic jams and road rage brought out dark emotions, then returned to Chinatown because St Mungo’s had not yet opened and she wanted to try Cantonese morning tea.
• Pomona thought about being fifty, the peaceful life she and Lily might have had, and how difficult such a simple wish was to fulfill.

Pomona discussed Hermione’s Ministry work, exhaustion, and growing anxiety over breakfast, while the news offered no reports of the recent Azkaban breakout. Hermione left unsettled as Pomona warned that darkness was coming.

• Pomona read the Daily Prophet and reflected on Werewolves, violence, and the lack of news about the Azkaban breakout.
• Hermione joined Pomona for breakfast and pressed her about her Accionites informant and the January ninth riot, but Pomona gave her no answers.
• Hermione told Pomona that someone had sent her undiluted Bubotuber pus and that Kingsley wanted her advice on abolishing the special entrance for pure-blood aristocrats.
• Pomona urged Hermione to relax and be patient, then argued with her about pure-blood society, House-elves, and Lavender Brown.
• Hermione admitted she felt unlike herself and touched the scar left by Bella’s Dark magic; Pomona told her darkness was coming and urged her to sleep.

Pomona and Severus discussed how to answer Hermione’s request for information about Accionites while Chinatown remained sealed off by police. After Severus revealed that a Werewolf had confessed, Pomona urged him to consider Kingsley’s help and worried about Teddy, then accepted Severus’s invitation to dance.

• The chapter recounted the San Francisco plague crisis and the discriminatory sieges imposed on Chinatown in 1900.
• Pomona watched Chairman Lin argue with police who had blocked the entrance to London Chinatown while Hermione slept in the hotel bedroom.
• Severus embraced Pomona and objected to her spy games when she asked how to answer Hermione’s question about Accionites.
• Pomona pleaded with Severus to let Kingsley make amends and said she feared a war between humans and Werewolves would undo Teddy’s father’s efforts.
• Severus told Pomona that a Werewolf had confessed, then invited her to dance with him.
• Pomona agreed to dance but changed her mind, and Severus pulled her back into his embrace.

Pomona and Severus relaxed in a hotel garden, where a song about a sailor led them to discuss Mermaids, the wizarding world, and their complicated history. Severus confronted Pomona over her visit to the Dragon-Phoenix Restaurant after Wen Jingchang was murdered, but their anger gave way to intimacy, and Pomona resolved that she would never let Severus end up in Azkaban.

• Pomona sang a sailor's song to Severus and explained its story, while reflecting on the Mermaids who sang it at Hogwarts.
• Pomona promised Severus she would never play spy games again, but he accused her of visiting the Dragon-Phoenix Restaurant after Wen Jingchang's death.
• Pomona said she had gone with Ma Youjiang to warn people about a possible leak, and Severus revealed that Ma had told him to keep the news of Wen's death quiet.
• Severus said Ma had accused Pomona of being a government agent sent to help erase London's Chinatown, and Pomona suggested Ma might have killed Wen to seize power.
• Severus recalled Ma's warning that Pomona was using a honey trap, then sang to her and drew her into an intimate embrace.
• Pomona wondered whether Albus Dumbledore had seen Grindelwald in the Mirror of Erised and decided she would never let anyone send Severus to Azkaban.

Pomona considered the dangers of escalating tensions in Chinatown after Mr. Wen’s death and turned Hermione’s hotel suite into a temporary headquarters. As pure-blood aristocrats gathered there, she reflected on how political privilege was maintained through bloodshed and left wary of the Malfoys’ pursuit of wealth and power.

• Pomona weighed the risk that accusing Ma Youjiang of killing Wen Jingchang without evidence would inflame Chinatown and provoke a riot.
• Severus took over Hermione’s presidential suite as a headquarters, and Aaron Rosier arrived while Slytherins gathered outside Hermione’s bedroom.
• Hermione woke, encountered the distant but polite pure-blood aristocrats, and left without Pomona trying to stop her.
• Pomona reflected on marriage alliances and wartime aristocratic service, arguing that privilege had long depended on bloodshed.
• Pomona covered her nose against the odor in the crowded suite and considered the Malfoys’ wealth another form of bloodshed.

Pomona listened to pure-blood aristocrats plan to lure Werewolves into a trap with Muggle tourists, while considering their hierarchy and contempt for those they deemed inferior. The plan remained dependent on getting tourists through the police cordon, and Pomona chose to act as hostess and serve the guests.

• Pomona recalled Mr. Wen’s recent death, which the men meeting in the conference room had not yet heard about.
• Pomona compared the meeting’s strict hierarchy with the Order of the Phoenix and recalled how Alastor and Sirius had ignored organizational rules.
• The aristocrats discussed using cash-carrying Muggle tourists as bait to lure Werewolves into a trap, but police had sealed the entrance to Chinatown.
• The group considered using the Imperius Curse on Muggle police to let tourists through, while worrying about the political fallout of another Chinatown riot.
• Pomona judged that the aristocrats treated the Werewolf hunt as sport and decided to entertain them with food as a hostess.

Pomona reflected on the damage war and cruelty had done to people while the pure-blood guests occupied the inn and Narcissa endured life under Voldemort’s followers. She focused on contacting Kreacher so they could work together to rescue Regulus, while suspecting that Luna’s father had kidnapped Doge to find clues to the Resurrection Stone.

• Pomona found Rita Skeeter’s book and realized Albus Dumbledore and Grindelwald had shared a signature because they were married.
• Pomona thought about Narcissa’s courage, Neville and Justin’s danger in Chinatown, and the lasting harm caused by war.
• A boy asked Pomona for tea, and she rebuked him for treating her like a maid.
• Pomona considered Tom’s disregard for human life and the ways people ignored warnings about disaster and cruelty.
• Pomona called Kreacher to help rescue Regulus and suspected Luna’s father had kidnapped Doge to search for the Resurrection Stone.

Pomona spoke with Aaron Rosier about the Rosier family, the Dark Mark, and wizarding society while the young aristocrats gathered in the presidential suite. She avoided his arguments about separating pure-blood children from Muggle-borns by offering to make honey pie with Kreacher’s help.

• Pomona watched the young aristocrats play piano while Kreacher served them, and reflected on the Dark Mark and the grim years of the first war.
• Aaron Rosier joined Pomona in the garden and explained why he was there instead of Lucius Malfoy, while Rowle searched a cemetery for skeletons.
• Aaron discussed Luna Lovegood’s kidnapping, his fear that the Rosier family would repeat its history, and whether “sir” would become a Dark Lord.
• Aaron argued that pure-blood children should begin studying magic early and that Muggle-borns should attend a separate school.
• Pomona changed the subject by offering Aaron honey pie and went to the kitchen to prepare it with Kreacher.

Pomona considered the need for strength and compromise as the Houses and wizarding factions faced rising tensions, while hunters lured Werewolves into a trap in London. She turned down Kreacher’s request to discuss saving Regulus and watched the street below, expecting chaos.

• Pomona weighed Aaron Rosier’s proposal against her goal of restoring cooperation among Hogwarts’ four Houses and considered how the Dark Force Defense League’s pressure had pushed pure-blood families toward compromise.
• As night fell, the hunters sprayed themselves with perfume and set out to deal with the Werewolves, while police let unsuspecting tourists into the streets as bait.
• Kreacher asked Pomona whether he should clean the room as she watched the street through the window.
• Kreacher told Pomona that a Werewolf had found a way to move the Chamber of Secrets and that 12 Grimmauld Place would soon be taken over by Master Potter.
• Pomona told Kreacher she hated Werewolves but did not consider them filthy, and she asked him to wait before discussing his plan to save Regulus.

Pomona patrolled Chinatown during the New Year festivities and followed a familiar bespectacled man to a hidden inn, where she overheard that Wen Jiachang was missing. As a fire dragon performance began, a piercing wolf howl sounded behind her.

• Pomona patrolled Chinatown with magical plants while considering how people needed sleep and how women could learn to protect themselves.
• Pomona recognized a bespectacled man who had brought silver ingots to the South Kensington flat and followed him into an alley.
• Pomona stunned the inn’s doorman and entered Family Joy Inn, where she heard men discuss Wen Jiachang’s disappearance.
• Pomona left the inn after waking the doorman, then heard the fire dragon drums and a piercing wolf howl behind her.

Pomona stopped Jeffrey and Otalain from exposing the wizarding operation, then found Werewolves hiding along the dragon dance parade route. After Dolores Umbridge killed the last Werewolf and left with the two boys, Pomona was left to deal with the unconscious Muggles and doubt her own ability.

• Pomona extinguished a street performer's runaway flames, caught Jeffrey and Otalain causing trouble, and took them to the parade route.
• Pomona heard a transforming Werewolf among the crowd, spread Sleeping Potion over the Muggles, and watched Jeffrey and Otalain kill two Werewolves with Avada Kedavra.
• A third Werewolf attacked Pomona, but Dolores Umbridge killed it before it could reach her.
• Dolores Umbridge left with Jeffrey and Otalain, while Pomona remained among the unconscious Muggles and reflected that she was left to clean up.

Pomona fought to protect people during a violent clash in Chinatown, where Werewolves hunted Muggles and Dark wizards hunted Werewolves. As she ran toward another howl, the story reflected on Doctor Simon’s sacrifice during the Black Death and ended with Pomona facing the brutal chaos of the present.

• Pomona carried unconscious people into Chinatown basements, warded the entrances, and attacked a Werewolf with a Bubotuber pod.
• Pomona recognized a Muggle doctor she had previously met at a supermarket and gave him bandages and Dittany, explaining how to treat Werewolf wounds.
• The doctor followed Pomona as she ran toward a nearby howl, while she told him to flee Chinatown or hide.
• The story recounted how Doctor Simon stayed in plague-stricken London to treat patients, was driven away by frightened neighbors, and died while fleeing into the countryside.
• Pomona reflected on Werewolves, the Japanese Wolf, and how fear and social disorder could strip people of their humanity.
• Pomona ran into a city where Werewolves hunted Muggles, Dark wizards hunted Werewolves, and Muggles were driven toward traps as green lightning flashed overhead.

Pomona guarded a London intersection during a Werewolf attack, using Dragon Claw Vine to control the horde and protect the fleeing Muggles. She watched one Werewolf die in the vines while another chose to leave, and reflected on the complicated uses of Dark magic.

• Pomona saw Werewolves fighting an undead army as the fleeing Muggles were chased through the streets.
• Pomona planted Dragon Claw Vine seeds in the road and accelerated their growth with an improved potion.
• The Muggles turned back when the spreading vines blocked their escape route, and Pomona pruned the plant to shape its growth.
• A crazed, hungry Werewolf lunged at Pomona and was seized and corroded by the Dragon Claw Vine.
• Pomona faced another calm, rational Werewolf, who eventually left without attacking her.
• Pomona watched the vines reduce a Werewolf to a skeleton and reflected on Dark magic and Severus.

Pomona resisted Voldemort’s attempt to manipulate her into using Fiendfyre, while the Werewolves closed in on the intersection and endangered Muggles. She searched for a way to stop them without killing them and wondered why no one had summoned the Basilisk.

• Pomona asked Dolores about her backup plan as Werewolves approached the intersection near M&M's World.
• Tom Riddle urged Pomona to control Fiendfyre and tempted her with the identity of Helga Hufflepuff’s true descendant and Slytherin’s Locket.
• Tom revealed that he had used Harry Potter’s blood and claimed that Severus had decided to kill Pomona’s child.
• Pomona resisted Tom’s influence by focusing on love and memories of a life with Severus, then regained control of her body.
• As Werewolves fell to Avada Kedavra and took Muggles with them, Pomona decided she could not do anything unforgivable to them.
• Pomona wondered why they had not summoned the Basilisk and recalled that only Severus, Bellatrix, and Draco Malfoy had used Serpensortia.

Pomona helped contain the Werewolves as martial artists and wizards fought them across the city. Just as Justin and the others trapped several Werewolves and the battle seemed settled, Pomona received an emergency summons to the Leaky Cauldron.

• Chinese martial artists and nearby civilians fought the Werewolves, while Pomona raised a wall of fire and turned shop furniture into metal barriers.
• Pomona sealed the looted shops to hold the Werewolves until they changed back, then warned Muggle helpers away when walking skeletons arrived.
• Pomona Apparated to her students and found Justin and the others waiting beside a trap beneath tempered glass.
• Filius raised a defensive barrier against the Werewolves, and the wizards shattered the glass to drop them into a trap of Christmas cacti and vines.
• Pomona's fake Galleon grew hot and delivered an order to gather immediately at the Leaky Cauldron.

Pomona and the others debated Neville’s warning that suspicious people had gathered near Dervent Village, where Nicolas Flamel might be hiding. Neville revealed that the oaks had warned of a possible attack on the reservoir, and Pomona decided to tell Severus.

• Neville urged the group to leave London for Dervent Village, but George demanded to know the source of his intelligence.
• Pomona said Nicolas Flamel might be living in Dervent and suggested that people could be seeking the Sorcerer’s Stone.
• George said he had seen Severus enter Gringotts with Lucius Malfoy, prompting Pomona to question what Severus was doing there.
• Pomona and the others decided to investigate without notifying the Order of the Phoenix or Harry.
• Neville told Pomona that a Venomous Tentacula had relayed a warning from the oaks of Dervent that someone might destroy the reservoir.
• Neville agreed that Pomona could share the warning with Severus.

Pomona summoned Severus to ask about Helga Hufflepuff’s heir and suspicious activity in Derwent, but their conversation revealed his growing fear and resentment over the past. He threatened Harry if Pomona did not meet him at the cabin in three hours.

• Pomona summoned Severus, asked for a mask, and questioned him about Helga Hufflepuff’s descendant and the information in the Chamber of Secrets.
• Pomona told Severus she planned to go to Derwent with Neville after plants reported suspicious visitors, and she mentioned that Nicolas Flamel had lived in Devonshire.
• Severus said he and Lucius had warned the Goblins and that at least one Horcrux remained undiscovered, then urged Pomona not to join the fighting.
• Severus accused Albus Dumbledore and Alastor Moody of concealing evidence that could have proved Sirius Black’s innocence, and admitted that he had falsified his own memories.
• Severus told Pomona he wanted to live with her, warned that he might become a very bad person, and threatened to kill Harry unless she met him at the cabin in three hours.

Pomona led Neville and a group of students to investigate a sacred oak forest near Derwent, where Neville went to communicate with the trees. While Pomona considered Helga Hufflepuff’s heirs and the history of the forest, a voice behind her offered a cryptic hint about the Basilisk and wizarding blood.

• Pomona Apparated with Neville to Derwent, where they met Luna, Rolf, George, Hannah, Michael Corner, and Terry Boot in an oak forest near a village and dam.
• Pomona set out a picnic while Neville left to speak with the oak trees, and she quietly told Hannah about his unusual talent.
• Pomona wondered why Voldemort had not valued Helga Hufflepuff’s bloodline and considered the history of Hufflepuff’s Cup and Slytherin’s Locket.
• A voice behind Pomona hinted that she should remember the bloody writing at Hogwarts and Filch’s petrified cat, then offered compensation for her daughter by claiming she had wizarding blood.
• Pomona used Occlumency and wished the speaker would explain the riddles directly.

Pomona, Luna, and Hannah traded barbed remarks in the sacred oak forest while Luna practised making her Patronus speak. Their argument ended with Luna feeling unhappy, and George left to check on Neville.

• Pomona asked Luna about her redwood wand and why she had summoned her Patronus; Luna said she wanted to practise sending messages.
• Hannah teased Rolf about dating a Ravenclaw, and Luna answered that she would support Gryffindor if its Quidditch team played Ravenclaw.
• Luna explained that remembering how The Quibbler exposed the Ministry's conspiracy against Umbridge made her happy, and Hannah mocked her plan.
• Pomona urged Luna to compromise and value her Ravenclaw identity, while George objected that the others were ganging up on her.
• George left to check on Neville, and Hannah quietly apologized to Luna for what her father's The Quibbler had revealed.
• Luna said she felt unhappy and asked Pomona to make the pudding dance, but Pomona, Luna, and Hannah shouted at Rolf to stay out of it when he raised his wand.