Chapter Summaries

Pomona and Narcissa visited George to persuade him to help prevent conflict between the Ministry and Slytherin, warning that a greater threat was coming. George resisted until Pomona hinted she had information about his father, then asked what terms she wanted as she left.

• George discussed Fred's death and his family's lives with Pomona, while questioning why she had come after so many years.
• Pomona warned George that another war threatened humanity and urged people to stop fighting among themselves.
• Pomona and Narcissa described the threat from Fenrir Greyback's followers and argued that the Aurors should unite against outside enemies.
• Pomona offered to trade information about George's father, suggesting his work at the Ministry of Magic could bring trouble.
• George asked Pomona what terms she wanted, and she told him to stop being aggressive before leaving with Narcissa.
• Narcissa asked how George knew Pomona and her relationship with Severus, and Pomona told her to do what she could to prevent men from fighting.

Pomona left the Order’s chaotic meeting and helped Fred and George understand the Marauder’s Map before teaching them Apparition. As the conflict with the Werewolves threatened to escalate and the Order lost its headquarters, she considered how to manage the young pure-blood faction and joked with Narcissa about her relationship with Severus.

• Pomona overheard Fred and George discussing their early departure from Hogwarts and offered to teach them Apparition.
• Pomona explained how Hogwarts’ enchantments and earth magic connected the Sorting Hat, the Goblet of Fire, and the Marauder’s Map.
• Pomona led Fred and George away to begin their Apparition lessons.
• Pomona worried that the Order could not contain the conflict or find a secure new headquarters, and planned to focus on Draco and other young people drawn to pure-blood ideology.
• At St Mungo’s, Narcissa asked Pomona about her relationship with Severus, and Pomona privately blamed him for their affair.

Pomona recalled how Sirius’s feud with Severus escalated after Sirius insulted him, while Sirius trained to regain his fighting strength. At St Mungo’s, Charlotte Prewett visited Pomona and revealed that she knew her as Nox.

• Pomona asked Sirius to hold out his paw, but he refused and said he needed to rebuild his strength after Azkaban.
• Sirius criticized Severus and defended his own past, prompting Severus to order him to come along.
• Severus and Sirius left together, and Pomona realized their conflict had reached a breaking point.
• Sirius, Severus, and Lupin later clashed in the Black home’s dueling room until Dumbledore returned, and Severus emerged victorious with the twins following him.
• Charlotte Prewett visited Pomona in St Mungo’s confidential ward, said she had once treated her, and addressed her as Nox.

Pomona gave Draco a lesson in Parseltongue and Occlumency, using a golden egg that played Harry Potter speaking in his sleep. The lesson exposed Draco to a private memory of Snape and a mysterious woman, and Pomona left him with a warning to guard his mind and knock before entering.

• Pomona explained the golden egg’s Fwooper-saliva recording and lent it to Draco until he learned Parseltongue.
• Pomona cast Legilimency on Draco and sent him into a memory of searching Snape’s office for a Soft-clawed Crayfish.
• Draco overheard Snape and a gray-haired woman speaking intimately in the adjoining room.
• Pomona explained that Draco’s open mental door had let her enter his thoughts and instructed him to strengthen his Occlumency.
• Pomona began another Legilimency practice session with Draco.

Pomona and Snape struck a bargain to prepare for the Triwizard Tournament, while their conversation revealed Snape’s grief and his wish for Pomona to leave Hogwarts and join him. Pomona then helped Draco understand his parents’ troubles and let him summon his godfather for dinner, though she suspected Draco was plotting something.

• Snape realized a Fwooper could record the merpeople’s song, and he and Pomona agreed to trade help with their Tournament preparations.
• Pomona urged Snape to make his own choices and restore the Prince family, but he accused her of trying to change his beliefs and asked her to leave Hogwarts and become his House-elf.
• Pomona warned Snape to treat Robby well and left him alone as he grieved for Eileen.
• Pomona comforted Draco and told him that Lucius might have deceived Narcissa, urging him to think about how to help his parents.
• Draco asked for Gillyweed, then persuaded Pomona to summon his godfather by asking for a ring like hers.
• Pomona agreed to prepare dinner while Draco left with the golden egg, and she tried to reassure herself that Snape would not lecture her.

Pomona and Severus went on a private picnic, where their conversation exposed Severus’s unresolved grief and anger over Dumbledore, Ariana, and his own place in Pomona’s life. Pomona chose to accept his desire for her and agreed to name a future son Cygnus.

• Pomona summoned Severus from St Mungo’s and asked him to take her on a picnic instead of visiting Draco.
• Severus Apparated with Pomona to a secluded lake, where they ate dinner and discussed his teaching Draco Occlumency.
• Pomona explained that Dumbledore had treated her like a daughter and that Ariana had become her substitute in his grief.
• Severus confessed that he had wanted Dumbledore’s treasure, not his inheritance, and compared himself to a tragic hero like Sirius Black.
• Pomona asked Severus to show his Patronus and said hers was a swan; Severus suggested naming their future son Cygnus, and she agreed.

Pomona and Severus resumed working with Draco at St Mungo’s while Pomona and Narcissa discussed their families, relationships, and plans for the Halloween ball. Severus asked Pomona to be his dance partner, and she agreed as they prepared to leave together for Godric’s Hollow.

• Pomona planned for Draco to become a battlefield summoner, and Severus resumed researching potions with him at St Mungo’s.
• Pomona asked Narcissa to help find a suitable match for Neville Longbottom, and Narcissa offered Pomona and Severus Portkeys to a house in Godric’s Hollow.
• Narcissa said she and Lucius were starting over and asked Pomona to plan the Halloween ball in St Mungo’s tea room.
• Severus asked Pomona to be his dance partner at the Halloween ball, and Pomona agreed to meet him at the hall entrance.

Pomona and Severus discussed her message to George, the possibility of Arthur’s involvement in contraband, Animagus transformations, and Severus’s past dealings with Voldemort. Their flirtation ended in a sudden attack, leaving Severus confronted with memories of the Potter murders and the thought that someone in Godric’s Hollow might move Tom’s body.

• Pomona told Severus she had urged George to tell the Minister to back off and suggested Arthur could retire because George was earning money.
• Pomona explained that an Animagus transformation could be intensified by positive emotions, and she and Severus discussed Cú Chulainn and the Marauders.
• Pomona questioned Severus about Barty Crouch, Polyjuice Potion, and how he had won Voldemort’s mercy; Severus said he would investigate what Barty knew about the next task.
• Severus explained that he had told Voldemort the Sorcerer’s Stone had been taken from Gringotts, then discussed Voldemort’s Horcruxes and Dumbledore’s sense of responsibility for Tom Riddle.
• Pomona invited Severus to sit with her, but when she threatened to sleep elsewhere, he lunged at her and she screamed.
• Severus recalled finding devastation at the Potters’ home and wondered whether a neighbor in Godric’s Hollow might move Tom’s body.

Pomona and Severus discussed the crisis at Gringotts after Harry Potter let its dragon escape, while Severus tried to persuade her to spend money on their future together. The chapter ended with them joking about changing his name and the dead who still haunted them.

• Severus told Pomona that nobles were withdrawing their assets from Gringotts and that he was helping Lucius negotiate with the goblins while trying to prevent a bank run.
• Pomona said she wanted to withdraw her vault money to support Hermione’s campaign for Minister for Magic, prompting Severus to offer to let her spend it on a house for them.
• Severus asked Pomona to help him buy back the Prince family’s old house, but she teased him about pleasing her first.
• Pomona gave Severus beer ice cream to deliver to Minerva and offered him shared access to her vault if he changed his name.
• Severus chose Ophiuchus as his new name and complained that Sirius and Nearly Headless Nick still haunted him; Pomona urged him to prepare Felix Felicis.

Pomona signed a Gringotts contract granting Ophiuchus Sprout access to her vault, then fought with Severus Snape over his intrusion into her independence and his use of Legilimency. After Snape Apparated away, Pomona encountered Amos Diggory outside Gringotts.

• Pomona considered the dangers of Animagus transformation and recalled how she had helped restrain Remus Lupin before the Marauders mastered their animal forms.
• At Gringotts, Teye warned Pomona that granting Ophiuchus Sprout access to her vault would be difficult to undo, but Pomona signed the contract for vault 712.
• Pomona left Gringotts and punched Severus Snape, accusing him of disrupting her life, while he reminded her that she had asked him to stay with her.
• Pomona fled into the Forbidden Forest, then returned when Snape called after her and realized he had used Legilimency to draw out her vulnerable memories.
• Snape asked whether Pomona wanted to be alone, kissed her cheek, and Apparated away; Pomona then recognized Amos Diggory as he called to her.

Pomona met Amos Diggory at a café after handling documents at Gringotts and helped him revisit happier memories of Cedric. Hannah Abbott joined them, and their conversation left Amos newly determined to keep living as Pomona noticed a wolf’s head in her teacup.

• Pomona discussed her marriage and her return to rebuild Hogwarts with Amos Diggory, who had come to Gringotts to handle inheritance paperwork.
• Pomona recalled Cedric winning the Quidditch match against Gryffindor, and Amos remembered how they had celebrated Hufflepuff’s House Cup victory.
• Hannah Abbott greeted Pomona and told Amos that Cedric had been popular with girls, prompting a conversation about whom he might have liked.
• Pomona reminded Amos that Cedric had been champion and urged him to keep the story private and continue living.
• Amos left looking strengthened, and Pomona saw a wolf’s head at the bottom of her teacup.

Pomona met Hannah Abbott, revealed her plans to help Hermione Granger become Minister for Magic, and recruited Hannah to help. She then took Hannah to meet Hermione so they could train in Legilimency and Occlumency.

• Pomona told Hannah she had pursued Cedric's killer after leaving Hogwarts and asked whether Hannah still had a fake Galleon from Dumbledore's Army.
• Hannah recognized that Pomona had secretly helped students at Hogwarts and described how she would have resisted Umbridge.
• Pomona asked Hannah to help make Hermione Minister for Magic, and Hannah agreed.
• Pomona learned Hannah had studied Occlumency and proposed that she and Hermione train in Legilimency and Occlumency together.
• Pomona took Hannah by the arm and Apparated them to Hermione.

Pomona reflected on the Order, Hermione’s losses, and her own choices before Hermione and Hannah discovered that she and Snape were together. She left the girls to learn from each other and returned to her chair to consider what to do next.

• Pomona considered the Order’s search for a secure headquarters and worried about Hermione’s parents, the missing child of Lupin and Tonks, and the dangers of changing the past.
• Pomona recalled her choices involving Harry, Cedric, Umbridge, the Weasley twins, and her growing resemblance to Eileen.
• Hermione and Hannah exclaimed that Pomona and Snape were a couple and that Snape was alive, prompting Pomona to warn Hannah to keep quiet.
• Pomona told Hermione they had begun their relationship on the day Hermione danced with Viktor and explained that she had helped because it seemed right.
• Pomona assigned Hannah to teach Hermione beauty magic and asked the two girls to learn from each other, then returned to her lounge chair.

Pomona urged Hermione to take responsibility for the dangers caused by freeing the Gringotts dragon and to prepare for the work ahead, while also telling her to master Occlumency. After Hannah encouraged her to contact Severus, Pomona stepped into the reeds to Apparate.

• Pomona discussed Hermione’s marriage and Molly’s expectations with Hermione and Hannah over ice cream.
• Pomona warned Hermione that freeing the Gringotts dragon had destabilized wizarding finances and could provoke the dragon to return for revenge.
• Pomona told Hermione to work with Charlie Weasley to address the dragon problem and to master Occlumency to protect herself from control.
• Hermione said Professor Snape had assigned her other tasks, and Pomona agreed to help her handle Molly’s problem.
• Hannah persuaded Pomona to contact Severus, and Pomona walked into the reeds to Apparate.

Pomona revisited her buried memories of Tobias’s death and the night she had been used as bait to protect Harry, then lost control while telling Severus she wanted to celebrate her freedom. Severus caught and comforted her, and she closed her eyes after recalling Dumbledore and fearing that she and Hermione would grow apart.

• Pomona remembered helping dispose of Tobias’s body and hiding the truth about the Thestrals and the cabin by the Black Lake.
• Pomona recalled how she had drawn Death Eaters away from Harry until he reached Petunia’s protection, then felt abandoned by Dumbledore.
• Severus appeared before Pomona, and she declared that she wanted to celebrate and began dancing in the mist.
• Pomona’s strength faded, and Severus caught her as she spoke of her fear that her ageless appearance made her a monster.
• Pomona relived Tobias trying to drown her and remembered young Severus saving Eileen, then drank the potion Severus offered.
• Pomona thought of Dumbledore, judged that he deserved his crooked nose, and closed her eyes while worrying that she and Hermione would become strangers.

Pomona awoke with Severus in Godric's Hollow and realized Theodore Nott might have used Harry Potter’s appearance to lure Barty Crouch to his death. As Severus and Pomona considered the clues, she urged him to investigate Theodore and the bathrooms connected to the school’s pipes.

• Severus told Pomona they were in Godric's Hollow and explained that Dumbledore’s memories had led him to the place.
• Pomona insisted she wanted to see Neville Longbottom, and Severus said Neville was at Hogwarts as the Herbology professor.
• Pomona confronted Severus about moving Myrtle to the fifth-floor prefects' bathroom and asked whether he had cheated during the Golden Egg task.
• Pomona connected the Polyjuice Potion brewed in a bathroom to the pipes and suggested that a student had stolen Severus’s ingredients.
• Pomona ruled out Draco after using Legilimency and named Theodore Nott as the likely suspect who supplied someone with Harry’s hair and potion.
• Pomona suspected Old Nott had ordered Theodore to help kill Barty Crouch, and Severus told her they would discuss the accusers later.

Pomona urged Severus to speak with Theodore Nott and keep him from following the path of revenge, but Severus explained the political risks of revealing the truth about Barty Crouch’s murder. The chapter ended with Severus recalling that he had once been glad Sirius Black was dead.

• Pomona joked with Severus about how Theodore might have witnessed Barty Crouch’s murder and could prove Severus’s innocence.
• Pomona told Severus to talk to Theodore Nott, arguing that he should not let the boy become like him.
• Pomona said she had asked Hermione Granger to find Charlie Weasley to deal with the Gringotts Dragon problem.
• Severus explained that revealing the truth could expose Theodore as an accomplice and put Old Nott at risk of a Dementor’s Kiss.
• Severus said Gawain Robards had once accused him of murdering Barty Crouch to undermine Dumbledore’s influence.
• Severus recalled that he had been glad Sirius Black was dead, and Pomona left to prepare breakfast.

Pomona reflected on appearances, fame, and her plans to bring liquor-filled chocolates to Lockhart and the Longbottoms. Snape returned and seduced her with teasing references to The Rolling Stones and their past investigation of vampires in Ireland, and Pomona eventually stopped resisting him.

• Pomona prepared liquor-filled chocolates for Lockhart and the Longbottoms, using spirits that Frank, Alice, and Lockhart preferred.
• Snape appeared and teased Pomona by writing her name on her back while The Rolling Stones' “Don't Stop” played.
• Snape suggested they return to Ireland and seek a way to become vampires and live forever, but Pomona objected that it was Dark Magic.
• Snape invoked their past in Ireland and persisted despite Pomona asking him to stop.
• Pomona surrendered to Snape, who trapped her against the counter and enveloped her in a mass of black cloud.

Pomona put on an Invisibility Cloak and went to Severus, choosing to enter his rooms despite her doubts about their relationship. The next day, Narcissa told her that Lucius was seeking support to replace Kingsley as Minister for Magic, and Pomona left to visit the Longbottoms.

• Pomona reflected on her loneliness, her feelings for Severus, and the fear and abandonment she had endured.
• Pomona used the Two-Way Mirror to contact Severus, then went to his door and entered his rooms despite his hesitation.
• The next day, Narcissa told Pomona she had searched for her and complained that Lucius was handling matters without her.
• Narcissa explained that Lucius was involved in efforts to replace Kingsley, with Gawain Robards among those seeking the Minister's position.
• Pomona told Narcissa she planned to visit the Longbottoms and left with her basket.

Pomona visited patients at St Mungo’s, reflected on the people whose choices had shaped others’ fates, and checked on Gilderoy Lockhart. She then joined Mrs. Longbottom and Charlotte Prewett to discuss a cursed patient and asked Mrs. Longbottom to hear about her strange dream of repeatedly returning to Hogwarts as a first-year.

• Pomona brought chocolate to Gilderoy Lockhart at St Mungo’s and found him recovering but still suffering from memory loss.
• Pomona planned visits to the Longbottoms and Draco, as well as a discussion with Neville’s grandmother about establishing Order of the Phoenix headquarters at her home.
• Charlotte Prewett explained to Mrs. Longbottom that a rare Runespoor egg was difficult to obtain and that the patient’s condition differed from Frank and Alice’s.
• Pomona told Mrs. Longbottom that the patient had been cursed to remain conscious and suffer, then asked to sit and talk about her recurring dream of returning to Hogwarts as a first-year.