Recaps

Amosta and Dumbledore transformed the Yule Ball with an ice castle, while the students navigated strained romances and investigated the tournament plot. At Christmas, Sirius and Remus joined Harry, Hermione, and Ron in visiting Amosta’s hidden orphanage, where they learned of his past relationship with Vitia and worried about the children’s safety if Voldemort returned.

• Amosta melted the ice outside the Owlery, gave Harry, Ron, and Hermione Honeydukes sweets, and confirmed that Sparkle had returned to care for Barty Crouch.
• Amosta and Dumbledore raised a shining ice castle from the frozen Black Lake for the Yule Ball, where Hermione danced with Ron, Harry danced with Cho, and Fleur danced with Amosta.
• After the ball, Amosta and Moody shared a lakeside barbecue, and Moody’s Polyjuice Potion wore off to reveal Vitia Creona before she was left alone as the magical barrier shattered.
• Sirius arrived at Hogwarts for Christmas and took Harry, Ron, and Hermione to Grimmauld Place, where the group discussed Karkaroff, Snape, the Dark Mark, and the possibility that Crouch had an accomplice inside Hogwarts.
• Sirius and Remus followed clues to the concealed orphanage at 178 Flank Street, where Mrs. Reagan let them in after Amosta sent a note.
• Amosta made Sirius, Remus, Harry, Ron, and Hermione help prepare dinner for the orphanage, and Harry’s familiarity with household chores troubled Sirius and Remus.
• Hammer Jr. told Hermione and the others that Vitia Hill had dated Amosta and cared for the children, but Amosta stopped him before he could say more.
• Amosta promised to explain whether Vitia Hill and Vitia Creona were the same person when the time was right, while Remus and the others worried about the orphanage children’s safety if Voldemort returned.

Hermione was struck by a deadly curse hidden in a package, leaving Amosta to investigate while she remained unconscious. The trail led him to Knockturn Alley, where he searched for a curse whose seed had been separated from the curse itself.

• Amosta told Remus that the dangers surrounding Hogwarts were expected and that events were proceeding according to plan.
• Voldemort welcomed Vitia as family, forced Old Barty to endure a cruel dinner, and sent Barty Crouch Jr. to punish him further.
• Amosta returned to Hogwarts, resumed physical education, and taught students how to escape dangerous situations without breaking the law.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione carried gifts for the orphanage to Hogsmeade, where Hermione opened a package containing an enchanted rose.
• The rose triggered a deadly curse that blasted Harry and Ron away, and Amosta and Moody stabilized Hermione before Dumbledore, Snape, and Fawkes treated her.
• Amosta confronted the Ministry over the uninspected package, while Dumbledore took Hermione to St. Mungo’s and Amosta left to investigate.
• Escuros and Jasna discussed the delayed delivery of Hermione’s gift and fled their hideout, while Escuros left behind another surprise.
• Disguised as Golden Viper, Amosta questioned Verolence about cursed artifacts and asked whether a curse could have its seed separated from the curse itself.

Amosta traced the cursed package that injured Hermione to Fraser and followed the trail to a secret magic research society in Bologna. His examination of Mr. Pastore connected the society to Hermione’s attack, while Louise named Angus Escuros as the investigation reached a crucial lead.

• Amosta and Kingsley traced Hermione’s package to Fraser, whose body had been turned into an explosive trap in Cokeworth.
• Amosta learned from Fraser’s sister Louise that Fraser had joined a Bologna society researching how to give Muggles magic, then disappeared after warning her that the organization had experimented on people.
• Amosta brought Louise to Italy, where she identified Tom Riddle on a list of people who had illegally left Britain.
• Amosta concluded that Fraser had likely joined Field Wittelsbach’s inner circle after the Magic Research Society disbanded.
• Louise remembered that Valeria Pastore, a society member, had taken her to the basement where Fraser stayed, and Amosta led Louise and Kingsley to a nearby isolated building.
• The group found Mr. Pastore, who fired a rifle at Amosta before Kingsley disarmed him, and Amosta discovered that Pastore had been tortured with the Cruciatus Curse.
• Amosta heard a torturer threaten Valeria in Pastore’s memories, and Louise identified the name Angus Escuros before demanding to know whether Fraser’s sought-after magic existed.

Amosta traced Hermione’s attack and Fraser’s murder to Jasna Rosier, Angus Escuros, and their hidden experimental base in Berlin. After capturing the group and confronting the German authorities, he entered Nurmengard and found Adam Vogel with Grindelwald.

• Louise confronted Amosta, who explained the hidden wizarding world and began investigating Angus Escuros and Hermione’s attack.
• Amosta followed the German betting trail to Jasna Vogel, identified her as Jasna Rosier, and learned from Anton Vogel and Hain about her history with Adam Vogel.
• Amosta arranged to meet Jasna near a university, but she arrived with armed wizards and ordered an attack, and Amosta killed her subordinates and pursued her as she fled.
• Jasna reached the hidden base beneath Sachsenhausen, where Christoph’s researchers used black sand to transfer Angus Escuros’s dark magic into a Muggle woman.
• Amosta entered the laboratory, exposed Escuros’s method of prolonging his life, and fought the base’s wizards while sealing the site with Fiendfyre.
• Amosta defeated and bound the surviving wizards, revealed that Escuros had killed Fraser Andel, and Louise chose to leave Escuros’s fate to wizarding law.
• Amosta presented Jasna and the captured wizards to German Minister Nikolaus Adenauer, then announced that he was going to Nurmengard to find Adam Vogel.
• With Dumbledore’s authorization, Amosta entered Nurmengard and found Adam kneeling before Grindelwald, claiming he had fulfilled his orders.