Chapter Summaries

After Voldemort’s breach of Oxta spread panic across Europe, Amosta and Dumbledore joined Hope Draegen in Paris for an emergency Confederation meeting. Hope warned that the upheaval had already reached the European magical world and pleaded with them to stop Voldemort.

• Amosta and Dumbledore arrived at the Goblin Hotel, where Hope Draegen questioned Dumbledore’s appearance at the emergency meeting.
• Amosta explained that Minister Bones had to remain in Britain, so he would represent the British Ministry of Magic.
• Hope reported that Oxta’s mountain had collapsed under the Dark Mark and that many prisoners might have died in the rubble.
• Hope said nearly a quarter of Adenauer’s forces had died suppressing the riot, Muggles had noticed the disturbance, and Confederation members were helping Germany contain the fallout.
• Hope warned Amosta and Dumbledore that Voldemort’s upheaval had already spread through Europe and urged them to stop him.

Minister Adenauer reported that rioters killed and injured Muggles in Berlin and that Oxta prison had been breached, leaving the number of escaped prisoners unknown. He warned that other prisons could be targeted and apologized to the international wizarding community, while Amosta suspected the apology was aimed at him and Dumbledore.

• Minister Adenauer reported that rioters near Brandenburg Gate had killed thirty-one Muggles and injured one hundred seventy-two before fleeing.
• Minister Adenauer said the German Ministry had pursued the rioters but stopped when it learned Oxta had been breached.
• Minister Adenauer explained that a clash between Aurors and intruders caused the mountain containing Oxta to collapse, and officials could not yet determine how many prisoners escaped or died.
• Minister Adenauer warned representatives that the intruders might target prisons in their countries to free criminals and strengthen their forces.
• Minister Adenauer bowed and apologized on behalf of the German Ministry, while Amosta suspected the apology was aimed at him and Dumbledore.

Amosta Breen countered the French minister’s attempt to make the chamber observe silence only for Berlin’s victims, uniting the attendees in a broader memorial before Hope questioned Germany’s claims about the attackers. The chapter left Minister Adenauer answering questions about the Death Eaters and the alleged plan to free imprisoned criminals.

• Hope interrupted Orlonkos Adenauer’s apology to bring the tense proceedings under control.
• Minister Nash proposed three minutes of silence for German officials and Muggles killed or injured in Berlin, but most attendees stayed seated.
• Amosta proposed honoring all who had died protecting peace and the wizarding and Muggle worlds, prompting Dumbledore, Hope, the Council of Seven, and many representatives to stand.
• After the silence, Hope asked Adenauer what Germany knew about the rioters who attacked Berlin and breached Oxta, and Adenauer identified them as British Death Eaters.
• Hope asked Adenauer what evidence supported his claim that the attackers planned to free prisoners from secret holding sites.

At the International Confederation of Wizards, Hope and Minister Adenauer clashed over whether someone in the German Ministry had revealed Oxta Prison’s location. Amosta challenged Adenauer’s attempt to blame Britain for the Death Eaters, leaving the chamber confronting the Blood Purists’ crimes across Europe.

• Hope questioned Minister Adenauer about how rioters had found secret Oxta Prison, and Adenauer accused him of slander and threatened to cut German funding to the Confederation.
• Amosta placed his wand on the conference table, silencing the chamber and drawing alarm from Minister Nash and other attendees.
• Amosta asked Adenauer whether he was accusing the British Ministry of planning Oxta’s breach, and the French Minister clarified that Adenauer meant Britain should crack down harder on the Death Eaters.
• Amosta challenged Germany’s record on suppressing terrorist groups and pointed to the Blood Purists’ crimes and footholds across Europe.

At the Confederation assembly, Amosta Breen explained that the Death Eaters’ defeat in Britain had driven them to expand abroad and warned that their ranks could approach a thousand. He urged the world’s magical governments to unite against them, leaving the assembly focused on his call for unity.

• An Asian representative asked whether the Death Eaters’ attack on Oxta Magical Prison signaled further attacks abroad, and Amosta said it was likely.
• Amosta explained that the Death Eaters had turned beyond Britain after losing the Battle of Diagon Alley and facing determined opposition from the British Ministry of Magic.
• Amosta estimated that Voldemort commanded at least fifty core Death Eaters, hundreds of other Dark Wizards, and potentially hundreds of Oxta prisoners who might join them.
• Amosta warned that hidden Dark Wizards, pure-blood sympathizers, and the Death Eaters’ wealth could destabilize countries and their businesses.
• Chairman Kouhaug asked how the magical world should respond, and Amosta declared that only unity could meet the threat.

Amosta Breen proposed a Joint Security Treaty and an International Confederation of Wizards task force to combat cross-border dark wizard organizations. The representatives weighed the proposal’s safeguards, authority, and costs before Amosta requested a vote.

• Amosta argued that no single nation could reliably defeat the Death Eaters and called for a joint force against cross-border dark wizard alliances.
• Minister Nash questioned whether the Death Eaters alone justified creating a joint force, and Amosta explained that the force would address dark wizard organizations operating across borders.
• Amosta proposed placing the force under the Confederation, with a Joint Task Committee that would approve deployments by a two-thirds vote and could operate only in treaty-signing states.
• Samuel spotted that dark wizard groups could flee to nonsignatory countries, while representatives recognized that the treaty’s limits and protections might make it acceptable.
• Amosta proposed that each signatory Ministry send Aurors to the Confederation headquarters and that member states share the budget, then requested a vote.

Amosta’s Joint Security Treaty passed after weeks of negotiation, and the Joint Task Committee authorized the future Joint Force to pursue the Death Eaters across member states. As Amosta and Dumbledore left Paris, Dumbledore revealed he planned to search a possible Horcrux hiding place, and Amosta joined him.

• Amosta and Dumbledore worked to secure support for the Joint Security Treaty, which passed despite several powerful nations refusing to sign.
• After weeks of arguments, treaty members agreed to send enforcers and fund the Joint Force within two months.
• Amosta submitted a request to designate the Death Eaters an international dark wizard organization, and the Joint Task Committee unanimously approved it.
• As Amosta and Dumbledore prepared to leave Paris, they discussed what Voldemort might do before the Joint Force was established.
• Dumbledore told Amosta he planned to investigate a possible Horcrux hiding place, and Amosta asked to accompany him.

Amosta and Dumbledore traveled to the Gaunt family’s ruined house to investigate a magical presence linked to Tom Riddle. Amosta detected clumsy magic inside, while Dumbledore reacted with unease as an old memory returned to him.

• Amosta recognized the distant manor as Little Hangleton and told Dumbledore he had visited Riddle House before.
• Dumbledore led Amosta away from the village road and down a neglected mountain path toward the Gaunt family’s house.
• They reached the ruined house and found it overgrown, deserted, and inhabited by creatures.
• Amosta used his sight to detect clumsy magic hidden inside the house.
• Dumbledore confirmed the magic was clumsy and said Tom Riddle had not yet mastered Dark Magic when he hid something there, though he seemed afraid.

Amosta and Dumbledore found the Gaunt family ring, which held the cracked black stone they had been searching for, but Dumbledore reached for it and triggered a violent blast. After the house was restored, Amosta tried to contain a spreading black mark on his hand as Dumbledore rushed to help.

• Amosta and Dumbledore entered the ruined Gaunt family house and uncovered a magically concealed chest of drawers.
• Dumbledore opened the middle drawer, revealing the ring with the cracked black stone.
• Amosta recognized the stone as a coordinate linked to the mysterious stone door and the Department of Mysteries.
• Dumbledore reached for the ring despite Amosta's warning, and Amosta knocked his hand away as a blast tore through the house.
• Dumbledore restored the collapsed house, while Amosta tried to stop a black blotch spreading across his left palm.
• Dumbledore rushed to Amosta and cast sacred white light toward his injured hand.

Amosta used a mysterious domain to destroy the curse afflicting his hand and the soul fragment inside the ring. He left the ring safe and faced a grief-stricken Dumbledore, who lamented that he had not changed in nearly a century.

• Amosta told Dumbledore to move away as the curse threatened to cost him his left arm.
• Amosta created a crimson domain that isolated the house and began stripping the curse from his hand and the ring.
• The curse and the soul fragment were destroyed, and Amosta restored his left hand.
• Dumbledore confirmed that he carried the Elder Wand and broke down on a stone outside the house.
• Amosta inspected the ring, recognized it as the Resurrection Stone, and told Dumbledore it was safe.
• Dumbledore wept and said that he had not improved since nearly a century earlier.

After nearly causing Amosta’s death, Dumbledore grieved over his past and the loss of his sister, Ariana. When Dumbledore used the Resurrection Stone, Ariana’s figure appeared, and Amosta sensed what seemed to be a real soul as the chapter ended.

• Amosta shared Firewhisky with Dumbledore at the ruined Gaunt Shack and accepted his apology.
• Dumbledore spoke of his lifelong regret over his past and asked how Amosta had avoided the mistakes of youthful arrogance.
• Amosta returned the ring containing the Resurrection Stone to Dumbledore and took the Elder Wand to keep him from acting dangerously.
• Dumbledore rubbed the Resurrection Stone three times, and gray mist filled the air as Ariana’s figure appeared.
• Dumbledore asked Ariana to forgive him, while Amosta sensed a faint but seemingly real fluctuation of a soul.

Amosta tried to pull Dumbledore away from the vision of Ariana, but the Resurrection Stone left the old wizard trapped in grief. Amosta’s Patronus revealed a connection to the Tablet of Destiny, and Ariana told him he had existed in the Timeless Eternal Land for a very long time.

• Dumbledore saw Ariana and begged her to forgive him, while Amosta sensed a faint third soul and feared the Resurrection Stone was draining Dumbledore’s life.
• Amosta summoned his Soaring Serpent Patronus, which reacted to an unseen presence and transported his consciousness to a gray world with the Tablet of Destiny and a vast door.
• Amosta watched a blonde girl’s soul approach the door, lose its form to the gray currents, and then reappear before being swallowed by a vortex.
• Amosta returned to the countryside and recognized the girl comforting Dumbledore as Ariana.
• Ariana told Amosta she had seen him in the Timeless Eternal Land for a very long time, leaving both Amosta and Dumbledore astonished.

Amosta and Dumbledore witnessed Ariana appear through the Resurrection Stone before she returned to the world of the dead. Dumbledore gave up the Stone and asked Amosta about death, while Amosta confirmed that he intended to gather all the Deathly Hallows.

• Ariana told Dumbledore she did not resent him or Aberforth and asked not to be summoned again before her spirit faded away.
• Amosta connected Ariana’s appearance to the Resurrection Stone and realized the Tablet of Destiny had shown him the timeless World of the Dead.
• Amosta confirmed to Dumbledore that the spirit had been Ariana, and Dumbledore rejoiced that she had forgiven him.
• Dumbledore resisted using the Resurrection Stone again and handed its ring to Amosta.
• Amosta returned the Elder Wand to Dumbledore and confirmed that he needed all the Deathly Hallows.

Amosta and Dumbledore discussed the Elder Wand, Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes, and the coming campaign against the Death Eaters. Dumbledore revealed that Harry’s Invisibility Cloak was the third Deathly Hallow, leaving Amosta to realize he could now open the stone door in the Department of Mysteries and reach the starry sky.

• Amosta told Dumbledore he needed the Deathly Hallows and might someday borrow the Elder Wand, which Dumbledore said he had considered passing to Amosta or Harry.
• Amosta and Dumbledore reviewed Voldemort’s destroyed Horcruxes and discussed waiting to approach Professor Slughorn until after more victories.
• Amosta described the international force that would gather in Paris in two months to hunt Death Eaters across Europe.
• Amosta tossed the ring onto the table, and Dumbledore said that Ignotus Peverell had passed his Invisibility Cloak down through his descendants, the Potters.
• Amosta realized Harry’s cloak completed the three Hallows and that he now held the coordinates needed to open the Department of Mysteries stone door.

Amosta weighed whether to enter the world beyond the stars, but touching the Resurrection Stone unexpectedly pulled him and Dumbledore into a memory of an earlier Hogwarts. The chapter left them facing Professor Slytherin as two students nervously explained themselves.

• Amosta considered traveling into the stars to confront the threat connected to Herpo the Foul, while Dumbledore suspected the Deathly Hallows could lead him to Ariana.
• Amosta lifted the Resurrection Stone, and Dumbledore knocked it from his hand as emerald light engulfed them both.
• Amosta and Dumbledore awoke in an older Hogwarts, where they recognized the scene as a memory rather than a journey through time.
• A pale-haired boy and a chestnut-haired girl were startled by Amosta and Dumbledore, then the boy stammered that they were discussing homework when Professor Slytherin returned.

Amosta and Dumbledore watched Salazar Slytherin confront Malfoy and Greengrass over their contempt for students without pure-blood ancestry. They followed Slytherin through ancient Hogwarts, where he encountered Professor Binns and his history manuscript.

• Slytherin questioned Malfoy and Greengrass after discovering they had criticized Gryffindor for admitting boys rescued from the Vatican.
• Greengrass admitted that she and Malfoy had called people born without magical ancestors “Mudbloods.”
• Slytherin rebuked them for judging Gryffindor, assigned both a month of detention, and ordered Malfoy to write a three-foot essay.
• Amosta and Dumbledore followed Slytherin through the ancient Entrance Hall, noting how Hogwarts differed from its later appearance.
• Professor Binns showed Slytherin his revised history manuscript, but Slytherin returned it and said he needed to speak with Godric.

Amosta and Dumbledore followed Slytherin through a memory, discussing Hogwarts history and Amosta’s idea to abolish the House system. When Slytherin entered Gryffindor’s office, a hidden attacker struck, leaving Slytherin under an enormous blade.

• Amosta and Dumbledore encountered two red-haired Weasley brothers, and Dumbledore said no Weasley from the direct line had joined Slytherin House.
• Amosta proposed abolishing Hogwarts’ Houses and replacing them with common studies followed by specialized education.
• Slytherin protected a chestnut-haired boy from two Slytherin students bullying him near a washroom.
• Slytherin entered Gryffindor’s office with Amosta and Dumbledore, but no one was there despite a voice inviting them in.
• The office expanded amid a surge of magic, and a blade tore through space toward Slytherin’s forehead.

Amosta and Dumbledore witnessed a memory of Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor dueling, until Slytherin used the Resurrection Stone to dissolve Gryffindor’s magic. Their conversation revealed that Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff had left Hogwarts, and Amosta suspected Rowena was about to give birth.

• Amosta and Dumbledore watched Gryffindor’s lightning sword break through Slytherin’s magical domain.
• Slytherin used the gray mist from his Resurrection Stone ring to dissolve Gryffindor’s lightning sword.
• Gryffindor and Slytherin emerged from the void and discussed the danger of the power Slytherin had used.
• Gryffindor explained that Rowena Ravenclaw had left Hogwarts after encountering trouble and that Helga Hufflepuff had gone with her.
• Amosta suspected that Rowena Ravenclaw had left because she was about to give birth.

Amosta explained that Godric Gryffindor was Helena Ravenclaw’s father and that Rowena Ravenclaw had hidden the truth to protect Hogwarts. Salazar confronted Godric about his choices and his feelings for Rowena, leaving their shared knowledge of her secret exposed.

• Amosta told Dumbledore that Rowena Ravenclaw and Godric Gryffindor were Helena Ravenclaw’s parents, and that Rowena planned to invent a Muggle father.
• Salazar warned Godric that recruiting children from the Vatican could make Hogwarts a powerful enemy.
• Godric defended rescuing the children and said he had concealed his identity when he acted.
• Salazar asked whether Godric intended to continue hiding his feelings for Rowena, and called him a coward.
• Godric said he respected Rowena’s choice, then revealed that he knew everything Salazar knew about her.

Amosta and Dumbledore watched a memory of Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin argue over bloodlines and a future crisis. The memory ended before Slytherin explained why he wanted Gryffindor’s sword, and they discovered the Resurrection Stone had been sealed.

• Salazar Slytherin criticized Godric Gryffindor for respecting Rowena’s decision and insisted he would preserve Slytherin blood through their child.
• Gryffindor warned Slytherin against interfering with the future, while Dumbledore realized Helga Hufflepuff had prophesied that their family names would eventually vanish.
• Slytherin asked to borrow Gryffindor’s sword, but the memory room collapsed before Gryffindor’s response could be heard.
• Amosta awoke beneath the moon and realized Slytherin’s memory had shown only a conversation about Rowena’s child and the sword.
• Dumbledore and Amosta found glowing runes encircling the Resurrection Stone and preventing Amosta from touching it.