Recaps

Jon learned that he was a Prophet Animagus, helped Dumbledore destroy another Horcrux, and left Hogwarts as the wizarding world began to recover from the battle. At Greengrass Manor, Jon learned that Astoria might die from her Blood Curse and proposed a dangerous way to save her.

• Dumbledore told Jon he was a Prophet Animagus and shared how his own connection to Gellert Grindelwald and his family’s tragedies had shaped him.
• Dumbledore revealed that he had put Jon in the Goblet of Fire and left him Secrets of the Advanced Dark Arts, hoping Jon could find a cure for Astoria’s Blood Curse.
• Dumbledore showed Jon Hogwarts’s hidden stele, where Jon’s name appeared as its chosen future headmaster, but Jon refused to accept that Dumbledore would die.
• Jon left Hogwarts, and Dumbledore joined him at Gaunt’s old house as Aurors captured Death Eaters seeking Voldemort’s hidden objects.
• Jon identified Voldemort’s ring as a Horcrux, stopped Dumbledore from taking it, and destroyed it with Fiendfyre after Fawkes sacrificed herself to contain its magic.
• Amelia Bones became Minister of Magic as Jon cared for the young, featherless Fawkes and prepared to visit Astoria at Greengrass Manor.
• At Greengrass Manor, Diana Greengrass told Jon that Astoria’s Blood Curse might kill her by Christmas and asked him to leave her or end her life if necessary.
• Jon proposed using Horcrux magic to separate and destroy the Blood Curse’s soul, and Diana agreed despite his estimate of a twenty percent chance of success.

Jon learned how to pursue a cure for Astoria’s Blood Curse, then traveled to Albania to investigate a threat involving Fenrir Greyback’s werewolves. The arc left Jon using Legilimency on Jean as the full moon appeared.

• Jon visited Astoria, promised to cure her, and left her with Felix Felicis before setting out to meet Slughorn.
• Jon won a Felix Felicis brewing contest against Slughorn and used their Unbreakable Vow to obtain the method for making a Horcrux.
• Jon visited Grindelwald in Nurmengard, who explained the limits of magic’s effect on souls and said Jon’s plan might still have hope.
• Fenrir Greyback recruited Remus Lupin into his werewolf group after Lupin killed a captive Muggle girl, and revealed his aim to gather allies for the Dark Lord.
• Jon traveled to Albania under the name Kristoff Patrick and joined William Smith and Xander on the road to Kruja.
• Jon exposed William Smith as the werewolf Jean and learned that he served Greyback’s plan to turn wizards and had been ordered to Kruja.
• Jon used Legilimency on Jean as Xander watched and the moon emerged from behind the clouds.

Jon hunted the vampires and werewolves threatening Transylvania and earned a branch of Kruja’s sacred Soul Tree. He then traveled to Beauxbatons to request leave so he could stay near his gravely ill friend, Astoria.

• Jon traveled to Kruja with Xander, learned about the Skanderbeg family’s Giant Eagle transformation, and asked the elders for a branch of the Kalaba Soul Tree.
• Elder Phineas agreed to give Jon a branch if he killed the vampires attacking Kruja, so Jon went with Xander to investigate the murders in Ghileu.
• Jon learned from Joseph Pistol that vampires had not attacked the area in fifty years, while Fenrir Greyback recruited vampires at Dracula’s Castle for Voldemort.
• Jon reunited with Remus Lupin, learned Greyback had freed the vampires from their curse, and joined Xander in a plan to confront them.
• Jon used Fiendfyre and the forest’s Wraiths to destroy most of the pursuing vampires and werewolves, while Joseph Pistol shot Greyback with a silver bullet.
• Jon returned to Kruja with the creatures’ ashes, fulfilled the elders’ demand, and received a Soul Tree branch with instructions to keep it in water.
• While Daphne returned to Hogwarts and learned from Slughorn that Harry believed Wormtail had murdered Jon, Jon stayed in Kruja to nurture the branch and study its magic.
• Jon traveled to Beauxbatons, secretly joined the fifth-year students, and asked Madame Maxime for leave to remain with his gravely ill friend, revealing that she had a Blood Curse.

Jon’s identity was exposed, and he survived Voldemort’s trap while the Ministry and Order fought the Death Eaters. After taking Astoria to the Isle of Man, Jon discovered the hidden giants and sent word of their location to Dumbledore and the Aurors.

• Jon learned from Hagrid that his mother Frieduvfa had used giant magic to conceive him and that she had died, then asked Dumbledore where the remaining giants were hiding.
• Diana Greengrass told Jon that giants had devastated Lancashire and Cheshire, and Jon disguised himself as David Yorman to join the Ministry search operation.
• Macnair lured the Ministry party into a Death Eater ambush, where Voldemort attacked Jon and captured Ministry workers before Dumbledore and the Order arrived.
• Jon learned that Scrimgeour had exposed his identity and taken Diana to Azkaban, then visited Astoria after Aurors killed Emily and arrested Diana.
• Jon brought Astoria to the Isle of Man, where her Blood Curse began and she transformed into a giant snake before Jon restrained her and reassured her.
• Klyne told Jon that the house-elves had found the giants, and Jon slipped past Voldemort’s defenses to find their hidden habitat.
• Jon provoked two giants into fighting so he and the house-elf could escape, then asked Phineas Black to alert Chris Everard and the Ministry Aurors.