Chapter Summaries

The Hunchbacked Witch murdered a Muggle woman and her household before returning to her home in Upper Flagley. There, she discovered Foley and Golden Viper waiting for her, and her own black-mist creatures killed her after she released them.

• The Hunchbacked Witch killed the woman’s servants and dog, tortured the woman with the Cruciatus Curse, and set the villa ablaze.
• The Hunchbacked Witch returned to her crooked house in Upper Flagley and checked that its traps and creatures seemed undisturbed.
• The Hunchbacked Witch found Foley and Golden Viper waiting in her laboratory and accused them of breaking the rules.
• Golden Viper denied having a serious grudge against Winrylie and said he would not kill her over trivial matters.
• Winrylie smashed the tank and ordered her black-mist creatures to kill Foley and Golden Viper, but they engulfed her and stripped her flesh until only her skeleton remained.

Amosta killed the Hunchbacked Witch and destroyed the intelligent black-mist creature she had kept, then asked Cacus to arrange an extravagant escort commission for a secret shipment. He left Cacus to organize the commission and prepare a new department to integrate Secret Witches into modern wizarding society.

• After the Hunchbacked Witch died, Amosta destroyed the black-mist creature when it tried to escape, then asked Cacus which name on his list it had been.
• Cacus warned Amosta that this was the seventeenth disappearance in ten days and suggested slowing down, and Amosta agreed before requesting an escort commission.
• Amosta offered two thousand Galleons per escort, gave Cacus twenty thousand Galleons for advances, and set the mission for around the end of the month in Britain.
• Amosta told Cacus not to destroy the Hunchbacked Witch's house and reminded him to prepare a department for Secret Witches.
• Cacus proposed assessing Secret Witches' professional skills and seeking Ministry recognition, while Amosta agreed to ask Remus about recruiting qualified witches at the Learning Machine Workshop.
• Amosta departed for Paris and left Cacus to handle the commission.

Amosta urged Bana to help the Goblins join the coming changes in the magical world, warning that their wealth without power would eventually bring disaster. He revealed his ambition to make Hogwarts a more comprehensive school, leaving Bana shocked and doubtful that the plan was possible.

• Amosta admired Twin Moon Town, and Bana explained that the Goblins had rebuilt their ancestral town as a memorial and a refuge.
• Bana hesitated to support Amosta’s request, fearing it would begin a countdown to the Goblins’ need to use the refuge.
• Amosta warned Bana that the Goblins’ wealth and lack of power would eventually lead wizards to massacre them.
• Bana argued that supporting Amosta would anger the Dark Lord and cost the Goblins the wizards’ trust.
• Amosta proposed expanding Hogwarts beyond the Four Founders’ original vision, and Bana reacted with shock and disbelief.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione were kept out of the Order of the Phoenix meeting at Grimmauld Place until Ginny brought them to see Fred and George’s new Monitoring Ear. The trio used it to eavesdrop on the meeting and heard Snape tell Sirius that Grimmauld Place belonged to Amosta.

• Harry told Ron and Hermione that he had been dreaming of a clear corridor and a door at its end, but Ginny interrupted before he could explain further.
• Ginny led Harry, Ron, and Hermione to Fred and George’s darkened room to see their new invention, the Monitoring Ear.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione put on the Monitoring Ears and listened to voices from the Order’s meeting, including Bill, Mrs. Weasley, and Sirius.
• Snape arrived at Grimmauld Place and told Sirius that the house belonged to Amosta.

Severus joined the Order of the Phoenix for dinner and reported that Dumbledore was absent, while the group discussed the Ministry’s accusation against Harry and planned for his safety. Amosta arrived and was asked to decide whether Fleur Delacour should be hired by the Workshop despite her personal reason for seeking work in Britain.

• Severus mocked Sirius for losing the Black family home, and Sirius nearly started a fight before Remus and Amelia calmed him.
• Severus told the Order that Dumbledore was not coming, and Harry secretly listened as the adults discussed Fudge’s accusation that he had murdered a Muggle.
• Sirius suspected that Delix knew more about the case, while Moody urged the Order to prepare to get Harry safely to and from the Ministry.
• Amosta arrived at dinner, and Remus asked him to decide whether the Workshop should hire Fleur Delacour, who had come to Britain for personal reasons.
• Harry asked what Remus meant, and Hermione told him Fleur wanted to help clear his name.

Amosta and the Order of the Phoenix discussed Adam Vogel, Voldemort’s plans, and a possible new power, while Harry struggled with anger over being excluded from the meeting. The chapter ended with Amosta questioning whether Voldemort had mastered unfamiliar magic.

• Amosta declined to advise Remus about Fleur and began the Order’s meeting after Severus teased him about relationships.
• Harry grew furious that he was excluded from the meeting, and Ginny noticed something strange about his eyes before he left the room.
• Hermione and Ron followed Harry downstairs, and Hermione gently redirected Ron when he challenged Harry for snapping at Ginny.
• The Order discussed the danger of Voldemort’s forces remaining in Britain, and Severus warned that Adam Vogel was a clever schemer assigned to assassinate Amelia.
• Severus said Voldemort was focused on obtaining the Prophecy Orb and might use Harry to get it.
• Severus reported that Voldemort seemed to have used unfamiliar magic, and Dumbledore wanted to know Amosta’s thoughts on this possible new power.

Amosta explained that Voldemort’s new power resembled a force of death linked to the Twin Serpent Wand, which Voldemort had not yet learned to control. He reassured the Order of the Phoenix about Voldemort and Vitia, then told Sirius to wait while he handled Harry’s situation.

• Severus told the Order that Voldemort’s power felt extremely evil and seemed to drain the life from everyone nearby.
• Amosta recognized the power as the force that had withered Avalon and reasoned that Voldemort had not gained control of the Twin Serpent Wand.
• Amosta told the Order that Voldemort and Vitia were not yet enough to overcome him and Dumbledore, and said Vitia’s wand was being kept in his office.
• Severus reported that Vitia appeared to be under house arrest after angering Voldemort.
• Sirius asked whether Amosta had learned anything about Harry, and Amosta promised Harry would not become a sacrifice to the Ministry’s political ambitions.

On the eve of Harry’s hearing, he hid his recurring dreams and feared being sentenced to Azkaban. Sirius woke Harry, Ron, and Hermione with news that the Ministry had summoned all three of them for questioning.

• Harry refused to tell Professor Breen about his dreams and lied to Hermione that they had stopped, though the dreams continued each night.
• Harry’s friends tried to comfort him before the hearing, but he remained convinced he might be sent to Azkaban.
• Harry dreamed again of the yellow corridor and black door, then Sirius woke him and Ron because something unexpected had happened.
• Sirius led Harry and Ron to the kitchen, where they met Tonks, Hermione, and several members of the Order of the Phoenix.
• Sirius told Harry, Hermione, and Ron that the Ministry had sent three letters requiring all of them to be questioned at the hearing.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione learned that the Ministry had summoned them to trial, with Harry accused of murder and Ron and Hermione accused of violating the International Confederation of Wizards Secrecy Law. Dumbledore and the adults trusted Amosta to handle the case, and Mrs. Weasley prepared the three for their hearing.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione panicked when they learned the Ministry planned to prosecute them, and Harry's letter also said he had been expelled from Hogwarts.
• Remus clarified the charges, while Tonks and Kingsley urged the three to recall any incident that might explain them.
• Ron denied that they had tortured Muggles, and Dumbledore's Patronus appeared to reassure them that only the Hogwarts headmaster could expel them.
• Sirius received a letter from Amosta instructing them to send Ron and Hermione to trial as the Ministry demanded and promising to handle the rest.
• Dumbledore decided they should trust Amosta, and Mrs. Weasley prepared their clothes for the hearing.

Amosta and Lawrence left Hass Orphanage for the wizarding government’s headquarters, where they planned to defend a child and expose a conspiracy. After evading reporters at the entrance, they arrived in the Ministry of Magic’s grand Magical Hall.

• Mrs. Reagan asked Amosta and Lawrence to stay longer, and they promised to return once their trouble was settled.
• Lawrence worried that they were opposing powerful wizarding officials, but Amosta assured him that they had supporters and promised to bring him back safely from the wizards’ court.
• Amosta and Lawrence traveled by bus and Underground to central London, where reporters were waiting outside the Ministry entrance.
• Amosta made Lawrence and himself invisible, then used a gust of wind to distract the reporters as they entered the telephone booth.
• Amosta welcomed Lawrence to the world of magic as they arrived in the Ministry of Magic’s crowded golden Magical Hall.

Amosta brought the Muggle butler Lawrence to the Ministry of Magic as reporters gathered for the trial of Harry, Hermione, and Ron. After meeting Dumbledore, Amosta prepared to confront the Ministry over its actions.

• Reporters crowded the Ministry reception hall and learned that Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley would also face a hearing over the International Confederation of Wizards Secrecy Law.
• Amosta used a silver serpent to summon help, then led invisible Lawrence through the reporters and into a lift after Aurors cleared the lobby.
• Lawrence asked whether the conflict between the Ministry and Hogwarts might lead to bloodshed, and Amosta warned that some people would be unlucky.
• Amosta and Lawrence met Dumbledore outside the lift, and Amosta explained that Lawrence had witnessed events related to Harry, Hermione, and Ron's case.
• Dumbledore told Amosta that Fudge had demanded control over Hogwarts, an end to the student army's training, and Amosta's expulsion, and Amosta led him toward the others to settle the matter.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione faced a murder charge at a Ministry hearing, where Cornelius Fudge’s security measures included Dementors sealed above the courtroom. The hearing was about to begin as the three defendants were ordered into chained chairs, while Dumbledore and Professor Breen still had not acknowledged them.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione pushed through reporters at the Ministry with the Order of the Phoenix escorting them.
• Sirius, Remus, Kingsley, Moody, and Mr. Weasley tried to reassure the frightened defendants and prepare them for the hearing.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione entered the courtroom with Kingsley and found Amelia Bones arguing with Cornelius Fudge over his use of Dementors and wand restrictions.
• Harry noticed Dementors hovering beneath the courtroom dome, secured behind a barrier, while Aurors watched from around the room.
• Ludo Bagman informed Dumbledore and Professor Breen that the defendants had arrived, but neither looked toward them.
• A witch urged Fudge to begin the hearing, and Fudge ordered Harry, Ron, and Hermione to sit in the chained chairs.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione faced charges at a Ministry hearing, while Amosta Breen challenged the prosecution’s vague accusations. Fudge called Honeydukes proprietor Ambrose Flume as a witness, leaving the hearing poised to reveal the Ministry’s evidence.

• Fudge convened the hearing and charged Harry, Ron, and Hermione with violating magical secrecy and underage-wizard laws, including causing a Muggle’s death.
• Amosta stood as the defense witness, then objected that the Ministry was making unsupported accusations against the students.
• Fudge asked whether the three had bought goods from Honeydukes on January twenty-seventh, and Harry said he could not remember.
• Fudge sent Delix to fetch a witness, who returned with Ambrose Flume, the proprietor of Honeydukes.

During Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s trial, witnesses and records confirmed that they had sent wizarding goods to a Muggle orphanage, and the Ministry revealed that a Chocolate Frog had killed a Muggle postman. As the Wizengamot turned against Harry, Amosta finally spoke up to question the prosecution.

• Ambrose Flume testified that Harry, Ron, and Hermione had spent thirty Galleons at Honeydukes on January twenty-seventh, and a sales ledger confirmed his account.
• Fudge established that visiting Honeydukes was not itself illegal, then called Zadley Kern to testify about the trio’s parcels sent to London.
• Delix revealed that the parcels had been redirected to a Muggle police station after the orphanage never received them.
• Delix claimed that a Chocolate Frog from Harry’s parcel had suffocated a Muggle postman, and he accused Harry of killing someone.
• As the jury reacted with shock, Amosta broke his silence and said he had questions.

At Harry Potter’s murder trial, Amosta Breen exposed gaps in the Ministry of Magic’s evidence and challenged its account of how the Muggle postman died. He left the Wizengamot questioning the case after asking how a Chocolate Frog could have suffocated anyone.

• Amosta asked Delix when the Auror Office had retrieved Harry’s parcel from the Hogsmeade Post Office, and Delix first claimed it had been found on June 21st.
• Pressed for a definite date, Delix changed his answer to February, prompting Amosta to question why the Ministry had waited months to charge Harry.
• Fudge and Umbridge claimed the Ministry had delayed because it investigated carefully, but tribunal members appeared unconvinced.
• Amosta asked how a Chocolate Frog could have suffocated the Muggle postman, explaining that the confectionery melted into liquid chocolate if someone tried to swallow it whole.

During Harry James Potter’s trial, Amosta Breen challenged the Ministry’s evidence and demanded the right to present his own, while Dolores Umbridge and Cornelius Fudge tried to silence him. Fudge ordered the Dementors to expel Amosta, and as they closed in, Amosta stood his ground and commanded them to get back.

• Amosta questioned how a Chocolate Frog could have killed a Muggle, and a wizard on the judges’ bench testified that all British workshops followed the same safety standards.
• Umbridge argued that Harry’s Chocolate Frog might have been defective and urged the Wizengamot to sentence him to life imprisonment unless he proved his innocence.
• Amosta confirmed that he had evidence, but Umbridge and Fudge tried to have him expelled; Madam Bones and Ludo Bagman objected that his defense followed the Wizengamot Charter of Rights.
• Fudge ordered the Dementors to expel Amosta, and they descended into the courtroom as the chamber turned icy and colorless.
• Amosta faced the approaching Dementors and shouted, “Get back!”

Amosta Breen stopped the Dementors with a shout, then faced down Ministry officials and Aurors who tried to arrest him. As allies flooded into the courtroom, he reclaimed his wand and stood at a fateful decision, with Dumbledore pleading for him not to make a mistake.

• Amosta froze the Dementors and forced them to retreat, prompting Umbridge and Fudge to accuse him of taking the contract that controlled them and hijacking Azkaban.
• Fudge ordered Delix and more than twenty Aurors to arrest Amosta, but their rope spell burned to ash before reaching him.
• Dumbledore urged Fudge to stand down and warned Amosta not to kill anyone as the courtroom descended into panic.
• Rufus Scrimgeour arrived with Aurors, rejected Fudge and Umbridge's demands, and returned Amosta's confiscated ebony wand.
• Sirius, Remus, Mr. Weasley, Kingsley, and Amelia entered as Dumbledore and the three young defendants watched Amosta raise his wand.
• Amosta swung his wand down, releasing a brilliant golden flame.

Amosta Breen imprisoned Fudge, Umbridge, and their Aurors, then asked Amelia to continue Harry James Potter’s trial instead of using force to place himself above the law. He presented Lawrence as a witness to the Muggle postman’s death, and Lawrence began recounting what he had seen.

• Amosta trapped Fudge, Umbridge, and the Aurors in golden flaming cages, then silenced Fudge and Umbridge when they shouted at him.
• Dumbledore warned Fudge that his misuse of power had led to his downfall, while Sirius and Remus reacted with alarm to Amosta’s actions.
• Amosta asked Amelia to continue the trial, and she agreed to hear his evidence about Harry James Potter’s alleged killing of a Muggle postman.
• Amosta revealed Lawrence as a witness, and Harry recognized him as the butler from Breen Manor.
• Lawrence confirmed that he had witnessed the death and began describing his visit to Hass Orphanage on January twenty-eighth.

Lawrence identified Delix and another Auror as the men who killed the Muggle postman, clearing Harry Potter of murder and exposing a conspiracy involving Fudge and Umbridge. The Wizengamot found Harry not guilty of murder, fined Harry, Ron, and Hermione for violating wizarding laws, and revoked their expulsions; the tribunal then prepared to vote on the verdict.

• Lawrence testified that two men killed the postman and identified Delix and another Auror as the culprits.
• Fudge and Umbridge blamed Delix, while Amosta silenced them before they could reveal more.
• Amosta asked the Wizengamot to vote on Harry's murder charge separately from the postman's murder case.
• Amelia Bones found Harry not guilty of murder and fined Harry three thousand Galleons and Ron and Hermione one thousand Galleons each.
• Amelia announced that the Ministry had revoked the trio's expulsions and asked the Wizengamot members to vote on the verdict.

After the Wizengamot acquitted Harry Potter, Ron, and Hermione, Amosta moved to secure the Ministry and arrange a new leadership. He backed Amelia Bones as Acting Minister and planned a public explanation for the case, but postponed explaining how to redirect attention to the Azkaban breakout when senior officials arrived.

• The Wizengamot voted overwhelmingly to acquit Hermione and Harry, while Ron received a one-thousand-Galleon fine.
• Amosta ordered Sirius, Remus, and the others to take the students away without sharing trial details, then told Rufus to seal the Ministry of Magic and summon senior officials.
• Amosta, Dumbledore, and Amelia agreed that Cornelius Fudge and Dolores Umbridge should be removed, and Amelia accepted the role of Acting Minister pending a later election.
• Amosta proposed blaming Delix publicly, sentencing him to life imprisonment, and announcing that Fudge and Umbridge had resigned, while secretly imprisoning them in Azkaban.
• Amosta began to suggest using the Azkaban breakout to divert public attention, but Mr. Weasley arrived with senior Ministry officials before he could explain further.