Chapter Summaries

Jon met Dumbledore at The Hog’s Head, where Dumbledore reunited with his sister Ariana through her portrait before discussing Voldemort’s injuries and destroyed Horcruxes with Jon. Dumbledore then revealed that Jon had been born a Prophet Animagus, leaving Jon stunned and unsure what the term meant.

• Dumbledore introduced Jon to his brother Aberforth and asked permission to see Ariana.
• Dumbledore visited Ariana’s portrait, and she began sobbing when she saw him.
• Jon showed Dumbledore the remains of Tom’s diary and Ravenclaw’s diadem, explaining that Fiendfyre had destroyed them during the battle.
• Dumbledore said Tom was badly injured and would need at least six months to a year to recover.
• Dumbledore interrupted Jon’s discussion of the remaining Horcruxes and revealed that Jon was born a Prophet Animagus.
• Jon stared at Dumbledore in shock and asked what a Prophet Animagus was.

Dumbledore explained that Jon was a Prophet Animagus with rare mind-magic and prophetic abilities, and revealed how he had recognized Jon’s gift. He also confessed his guilt over Ariana’s death and described his youthful relationship with Gellert Grindelwald, who had shared his knowledge of the future.

• Dumbledore told Jon that Prophet Animagi were exceptionally rare natural masters of mind magic whose visions revealed possible futures.
• Dumbledore said he had suspected Jon was a Prophet Animagus after Jon’s Boggart became Dumbledore, because Jon seemed to understand his hidden nature.
• Jon asked whether Dumbledore was also a Prophet Animagus, and Dumbledore broke down, grieving that he had been unable to foresee or prevent the tragedies that befell Ariana and his family.
• Jon comforted Dumbledore and asked who else had been a Prophet Animagus.
• Dumbledore described how, at seventeen, he had been drawn into a relationship with Gellert Grindelwald, who knew of future weapons and wars and eventually told Dumbledore his identity and secret.

Albus Dumbledore explained how he learned that Gellert Grindelwald was a Prophet Animagus and recounted how he had come to recognize Jon’s own gift and character. He praised Jon for helping prevent the Basilisk from harming more students, leaving Jon honored but admitting he had acted to protect himself.

• Dumbledore said Grindelwald confessed to being a Prophet Animagus after their 1945 duel, and that he had not been able to forgive him because of Alan, Yusuf, and Ariana.
• Aberforth brought Butterbeer into the Dungeon, scolded Albus for dirtying the floor, and left; Albus said his brother deserved more admiration and respect than he did.
• Dumbledore recalled that Jon had chosen Hufflepuff at the Sorting Ceremony and later subtly helped reveal the Chamber of Secrets monster and Miss Weasley’s abnormality.
• Dumbledore said Jon’s warnings helped prevent further Basilisk attacks and possible disaster at Hogwarts, then raised his Butterbeer to salute him.
• Jon said he had acted mainly to protect himself, and Dumbledore added that Jon’s concern for Miss Greengrass convinced him Jon would not become another Grindelwald.

Dumbledore apologized to Jon for manipulating him into joining the war and explained why he had entered Jon in the Triwizard Tournament. He also revealed that Astoria’s Blood Curse was worsening, then asked Jon to return to the castle for one final revelation.

• Dumbledore admitted he had entered Jon’s name in the Goblet of Fire to bind him to the fight against Tom and later regretted keeping Jon involved.
• Dumbledore explained that Jon’s actions had helped him, including offering Harry’s blood to Tom and turning the fake Alastor into a double agent.
• Jon asked about Astoria, and Dumbledore said her Blood Curse was breaking through the spell he had used to suppress it.
• Dumbledore told Jon he had left him Secrets of the Advanced Dark Arts in the hope that Jon could find a cure.
• Dumbledore asked Jon to return to the castle for one last thing, and Jon said goodbye to Ariana Dumbledore.

Dumbledore brought Jon to a hidden chamber beneath the Headmaster’s Office and revealed Hogwarts’s magical records of students and headmasters. The castle had chosen Jon as its next headmaster, prompting him to insist that Dumbledore would not die or retire and promise to help him escape death.

• Dumbledore returned with Jon to Hogwarts, where the former headmasters welcomed him in the Headmaster’s Office.
• Dumbledore opened a hidden door and told Jon that Hogwarts Castle possessed a will of its own.
• Dumbledore showed Jon the stele recording students’ names and explained how Hogwarts determined who received acceptance letters.
• Jon discovered his name beneath Dumbledore’s on the stele of headmasters, marking him as Hogwarts’s chosen future headmaster.
• Dumbledore revealed that Jon’s name had appeared three years earlier and that he expected to retire or die within four years.
• Jon rejected the prediction and promised to help Dumbledore stop death.

After discussing the aftermath of the Department of Mysteries battle with Albus Dumbledore, Jon returned to Hogwarts and saw the school reacting to Voldemort’s defeat. He told the Slytherins he planned to return to France, leaving them to wonder which side he believed would win.

• Jon and Albus Dumbledore agreed to delay destroying Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes, while Jon remained concerned about Astoria’s serious condition.
• Jon avoided Harry Potter, who was being praised by students after the battle.
• Jon found Draco Malfoy and Sean Avery distressed because their fathers had been captured, while Selwyn criticized Malfoy and urged Jon to distance himself from him.
• Tiffany Selwyn invited Jon to Selwyn Manor, but Jon said his exchange year was over and he intended to return to France.
• Jon told the Slytherins he would stand with the side he had seen winning, then bid them farewell and headed to the dormitory.

On the last day of term, Umbridge fled Hogwarts, Slytherin won the House Cup, and Jon encouraged a shaken Draco Malfoy to consider changing sides. After the feast, Jon asked Astoria Greengrass whether her invitation to visit her family for the summer still stood.

• Umbridge tried to leave Hogwarts secretly, but Peeves intercepted her and drove her out as students watched.
• Slytherin won the House Cup, and Dumbledore urged everyone at the feast to unite and face the threats ahead.
• Jon told Draco that the Dark Lord might not reward the Malfoy family and urged him to stand with the eventual victor.
• After the feast, Jon asked Astoria whether she still wanted him to visit her family over the summer.

Jon left Hogwarts for the summer in black robes, using Fawkes to travel to Little Hangleton, where Albus Dumbledore met him. Dumbledore brought Godric Gryffindor’s sword, and the chapter ended with Jon and Dumbledore reunited on the country lane.

• Jon pressed Astoria to visit his mother during the summer and promised to write to her, but Professor Flitwick interrupted them before she could answer.
• Jon packed his belongings, left his Slytherin robes behind, and announced that he was leaving Hogwarts.
• Jon petrified Mrs. Norris in the Dungeon corridor and met Fawkes near Myrtle’s bathroom.
• Jon grabbed Fawkes’s tail feather and traveled to a country lane near Little Hangleton.
• Dumbledore arrived in white robes carrying a cane that concealed his wand and Godric Gryffindor’s sword.

Amicus and Alecto Carrow went to Gaunt's old house to retrieve a ring for Voldemort, but Moody and a group of Aurors captured them. The Aurors hid again to wait for more Death Eaters and for Dumbledore to arrive.

• Amicus and Alecto Carrow traveled to Great Hangleton to find the ring Voldemort had ordered them to retrieve.
• Golden ropes sprang from the bushes and trapped Amicus as he approached the shack, while Moody blocked Alecto's escape.
• The Aurors stunned Alecto and unmasked both siblings, then prepared to take them to the Ministry of Magic.
• Gedwin Robards noted that the Carrows were the sixth and seventh Death Eaters caught that week, and Moody warned the Aurors not to enter the house.
• Moody said Dumbledore would arrive in a few hours, so the Aurors concealed themselves around Gaunt's old house to wait for more prey.

Jon Hart and Albus Dumbledore discussed their efforts to track down Voldemort’s Horcruxes as they approached the Gaunt family’s old house. Dumbledore had destroyed Regulus Black’s locket, but the golden cup remained missing, and Jon hinted that another Horcrux was connected to Dumbledore himself.

• Dumbledore told Jon that Aurors had caught seven Death Eaters trying to enter the Gaunt family’s old house and five trying to enter the cave on the island.
• Dumbledore gave Jon Regulus Black’s locket and explained that he had destroyed it with Gryffindor’s sword after Sirius Black retrieved it from Kreacher.
• Dumbledore said that Arthur Weasley and Bill had found no golden cup in the Lestranges’ Gringotts vault.
• Jon told Dumbledore that Voldemort still had half of one Horcrux, and Dumbledore avoided meeting his gaze.
• Jon and Dumbledore reached the Gaunt house, where Moody warned the others not to attack them.

Jon and Dumbledore captured the Carrow siblings and searched Gaunt’s old house for Voldemort’s magic. They found Marvolo Gaunt’s ring, and as black smoke emerged from its gemstone, Dumbledore recovered from nearly touching the Horcrux.

• Moody and the Aurors praised Dumbledore and Jon after capturing the Carrow siblings and more than twenty Death Eaters, then left them at Gaunt’s old house.
• Jon and Dumbledore used the Carrow siblings’ memories to learn where Voldemort had hidden something in the house.
• Jon placed his blood on Merope Gaunt’s old bedding, releasing a serpent of green smoke that Dumbledore destroyed.
• Dumbledore recognized the Peverell mark on a golden ring with a black gemstone, while Jon identified it as one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes.
• Dumbledore reached for the ring, but Jon’s Obstacle Curse knocked him away and brought him back to his senses.
• Jon pointed his wand at the ring as black smoke began drifting from its gemstone.

Jon used Fiendfyre to destroy Voldemort’s Horcrux ring, while Dumbledore claimed the Resurrection Stone and then gave it to Jon before Apparating away. Jon left the ruined Gaunt house, then realized Fawkes’s ashes were still inside and rushed back for them.

• Fawkes sacrificed herself to contain the dangerous Dark magic protecting the ring, and Jon destroyed the Horcrux with Fiendfyre.
• Jon returned to Gaunt's old house, drew the Fiendfyre back into the Mithras Core, and extinguished it with a powerful jet of water.
• Dumbledore used the Resurrection Stone to summon memories of his dead family and friends, then gave the stone to Jon because he feared losing himself in it.
• Dumbledore thanked Jon and Apparated away, while Jon left on foot to find a Muggle town for the night.
• Jon remembered that Fawkes’s remains were still in Gaunt's old house and hurried back.

After Voldemort’s return, the wizarding world settled as the Ministry announced arrests and claimed he was fleeing, while Cornelius Fudge resigned and Amelia Bones became Minister. Old Tom cleared discarded Ministry booklets and newspapers from the Diagon Alley entrance, then handed a booklet to a mysterious young wizard in a black robe.

• Wizards returned to Diagon Alley as the Daily Prophet reported Death Eaters being arrested and Voldemort being pursued across Britain.
• Cornelius Fudge resigned after a week of opposition and unanswered pleas to Albus Dumbledore.
• Amelia Bones took office as Minister, appointed Rufus Scrimgeour to head the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and named Gedwin Robards Head of the Auror Office.
• Amelia Bones removed Dolores Umbridge from her Ministry and Hogwarts positions, and the newspaper reported that Umbridge was receiving treatment at St. Mungo’s Hospital.
• Old Tom cleared discarded booklets and newspapers from the Diagon Alley entrance, then gave a free booklet to a young wizard in a black robe who rented a room.

Jon settled into the Leaky Cauldron with the newly reborn Fawkes and learned from the Daily Prophet that the wizarding world had undergone several changes. He was stunned to discover that Severus Snape would replace Newt Scamander as Defence Against the Dark Arts professor while Dumbledore sought a new Potions teacher.

• Jon rented a room at the Leaky Cauldron and received a Ministry booklet warning wizards about the Death Eaters.
• Jon brought the featherless young Fawkes to his room, warmed her by the fireplace, and fed her herbs until she fell asleep.
• Jon read that Fudge had stepped down and Mrs. Bones had become Minister, alongside other news from the wizarding world.
• Jon discovered that Newt Scamander had left his Defence Against the Dark Arts post and Severus Snape would take over, leaving Dumbledore searching for a Potions teacher.

Narcissa Malfoy visited Severus Snape at Spinner's End to beg him to save Draco from the dangerous task assigned by the Dark Lord. Snape revealed that he would help Draco as part of the Dark Lord's plan, leaving Narcissa relieved.

• Narcissa Malfoy searched the abandoned streets of Cokeworth and found Severus Snape's home at Spinner's End.
• Snape welcomed Narcissa inside, and she begged him to save Draco from the Dark Lord's task.
• Snape explained that the Dark Lord knew about his warning before the Department of Mysteries battle, but had trusted Barty Crouch Jr.'s false intelligence.
• Narcissa pleaded that Draco was only sixteen and feared the task was punishment for Lucius's failure.
• Snape told Narcissa that Draco was only one part of a larger plan and that Snape himself had an important role in helping him.
• Narcissa accepted Snape's promise to help Draco and raised a glass to the Dark Lord.

Jon struggled to care for the ravenous, newly reborn Fawkes while his Patronus, an Iron-Eating Beast, confronted her. After Jon quieted them, Georgelin arrived with a letter but fainted when it faced the two hostile Magical Creatures.

• Jon discovered that Fawkes ate through a ten-pound bag of herbs in half a day and bought more to keep her from singing through the night.
• Jon summoned his Iron-Eating Beast Patronus, which charged at Fawkes despite his order to return.
• Fawkes and the Iron-Eating Beast exchanged warnings without attacking, until Jon threatened them into silence.
• Old Tom Abbott brought Jon Georgelin, who had delivered a letter; Georgelin fainted after seeing Fawkes and the Iron-Eating Beast glaring at her.

Harry waited for Dumbledore’s late-night visit, while Ron worked at the Weasley twins’ crowded shop and Hermione awoke at St Mungo’s after more than a week unconscious. The chapter left Harry still awaiting Dumbledore and Hermione reunited with her relieved parents.

• Harry reread Dumbledore’s letter and waited at Privet Drive for his promised eleven o’clock visit.
• Ron hauled stock and cleaned up at Fred and George’s busy shop in Diagon Alley.
• A Healer told Wendell and Monica Granger that Hermione had awakened.
• Hermione embraced her parents and learned she had recovered, though she remained weak.

Jon accepted Astoria Greengrass’s invitation to visit Greengrass Manor and prepared for the journey while making Fawkes regrow her wings. On Monday morning, Fawkes took Jon from The Leaky Cauldron toward Paisley.

• Jon read Astoria’s invitation to Greengrass Manor and wrote back that he would arrive before nine on Monday.
• Jon promised to untie Fawkes’s beak and let her eat if she regrew her wings, and she rapidly shed her excess weight over the weekend.
• Jon bought supplies throughout Diagon Alley, nearly exhausting his bounty money while avoiding Polyjuice Potion because of strict Ministry oversight.
• Jon checked out of the Leaky Cauldron on Monday morning, then asked Fawkes to take him to Paisley, Renfrewshire.
• Fawkes nodded, and Jon grasped her tail feathers as they vanished from the inn.

Voldemort hid in an abandoned castle while fleeing the Ministry of Magic and the Order of the Phoenix, and resolved to kill Dumbledore to regain his power. As he rested with his final Horcrux, a strange rat found a Silver Rat Statue, which vanished shortly after the rat left.

• Voldemort ordered Wormtail to bring him water, then sent him away so he could be alone.
• Voldemort reflected on the losses of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and identified the golden cup as his last remaining Horcrux.
• Voldemort planned to kill Dumbledore and considered the allies and resources he could still rely on, including Wormtail and Severus Snape.
• Voldemort touched the cup against his chest and closed his eyes to rest.
• A strange rat searched the castle, paused at a Silver Rat Statue, and left; a minute later, the statue vanished.

Jon arrived in Paisley with Fawkes and met Astoria at the Elk Statue. Astoria used the password “For All Seasons” to take them to Greengrass Manor, where her mother was expecting them.

• Fawkes transported Jon to Paisley, where he concealed her from Muggles and asked an elderly man for directions to the Elk Statue.
• Jon found Astoria waiting beneath the statue, and she nervously asked whether they really had to see her mother.
• Astoria touched the statue and said “For All Seasons,” transporting herself, Jon, and Fawkes to the grounds of Greengrass Manor.
• Astoria explained that the password alerted the manor to their arrival, then led Jon across the grass toward the manor while Fawkes followed.