Chapter Summaries

Voldemort assigned Adam and Bellatrix dangerous tasks involving Breen and Remus Lupin, then called on Vitia Criona to take part. Vitia warned that they had to leave immediately or everyone would die.

• Voldemort gave Adam control of the prisoners in Oxta and ordered him to teach Breen a lesson.
• Bellatrix volunteered to target Remus Lupin, and Voldemort mocked her and the Malfoys over their niece's planned marriage to him.
• Voldemort told Bellatrix it was time to cut away the families' rotten branches, and she vowed to attack the wedding.
• Voldemort ordered Vitia Criona to join the task, but she questioned his plan and refused to help hold back Breen or Dumbledore.
• Vitia interrupted Voldemort and warned that they had to leave the place or everyone would die.

Vitia warned Voldemort that the Twin Serpent Wand could endanger the world and urged him to move it to the polar regions, but he rejected her advice. Severus realized she was trying to send a message to Amosta and attacked her, only for Voldemort to stop the Death Eaters from escalating the confrontation.

• Vitia told Voldemort that Malfoy Manor and everyone in it would be doomed, and recommended taking the Twin Serpent Wand to the polar regions.
• Voldemort insisted the wand had chosen to submit to him, while Vitia said it would never submit to a mortal.
• Severus realized Vitia was trying to send a message to Amosta and cast Sectumsempra at her.
• Vitia blocked Severus's curse with vines conjured from emerald light.
• Severus and Bellatrix urged the Death Eaters to attack Vitia, but Voldemort ordered them to lower their wands.

Amosta hid out at 12 Grimmauld Place while weighing his political burdens and a risky plan connected to Salazar Slytherin. Remus visited him with joyful news: he was getting married.

• Amosta watched a Muggle couple notice the mysterious absence of number 12 before he magically steered their attention away from it.
• Amosta reflected on his many obligations and the growing political pressure surrounding his reforms and conflict with Voldemort.
• Amosta examined a black stone and a darkened fragment of light, considering the riddle and problem left by Salazar Slytherin.
• Remus arrived at Grimmauld Place after hearing from Sirius that Amosta was there.
• Remus told Amosta that he had come to invite him in person because he was getting married.

Remus told Amosta that he and Tonks were getting married because Tonks was pregnant, and asked him to be their child's godfather. Their conversation was interrupted when Severus Snape appeared in the flames by the stove.

• Remus told Amosta that he and Tonks planned to marry in two weeks and were expecting a child.
• Remus invited Amosta to their wedding and asked him to be the child's godfather, and Amosta gladly accepted.
• Remus said Sirius hoped Amosta would also become godfather to a child of his own someday.
• As Remus began to ask whether they could name a son Amosta Lupin, Amosta sensed someone arriving and stopped him.
• A figure in black robes emerged from the flames, and Remus asked whether it was Severus.

Severus warned Amosta and Remus that Voldemort was planning retaliation against the Joint Force proposal and intended to use the Death Eaters to sabotage Remus and Tonks’s wedding. Remus wondered whether Voldemort had learned that he planned to invite Harry, but Severus rejected the idea that this was Voldemort’s motive.

• Fawkes brought Severus to Amosta, where Remus was also present to invite Amosta to his wedding.
• Severus said Voldemort had assigned Adam Vogel and escaped Oxta prisoners to sabotage the Joint Force initiative, while keeping the Death Eaters out of that operation.
• Amosta explained that Voldemort wanted to avoid uniting the international wizarding world against the Death Eaters and described Adam as eager to unleash war.
• Severus revealed that Voldemort planned to send the Death Eaters to ruin Remus and Tonks’s wedding because he considered it an insult to pure-bloods.
• Amosta asked whether Remus planned to invite Harry, and Remus confirmed he had considered it but worried about the danger.
• Remus asked whether Voldemort had learned of his plan to invite Harry, and Severus answered no.

Amosta and Severus discussed Voldemort's possible threat to Remus and Tonks's wedding, then Severus brought Amosta a wood fragment connected to Vitia Criona and the Twin Serpent Wand. After inspecting it, Amosta changed his plans and sent Remus to Paris with a flask for Vice President Hope of the International Confederation of Wizards.

• Amosta advised Remus not to change his wedding plans, while Severus suggested protecting the house with the Fidelius Charm.
• Remus decided to proceed with the wedding but not invite Harry and his friends.
• Severus told Amosta how he attacked Vitia Criona at a Death Eater gathering and presented the only wood fragment left behind afterward.
• Severus asked Amosta about the gray mist surrounding Voldemort's gathering place and the Twin Serpent Wand's motives.
• Amosta examined the fragment, realized it pointed him toward somewhere he needed to investigate, and asked Remus to deliver a flask to Vice President Hope in Paris.

Amosta returned to Stonehenge and used the key Vitia had left with Severus to reopen the gateway to the ruined realm in the void. He stepped through as Stonehenge collapsed, while a fiery Eye of God opened in the spatial turbulence and brought another visitor into the void.

• Amosta arrived at Stonehenge and examined its damaged magical corridors, reflecting on the troubles that had begun there.
• Amosta used magic to activate the wooden chip’s key and opened the unstable gateway.
• Amosta passed through the gateway, and Stonehenge collapsed behind him.
• Amosta found the ruined remnants of Avalon drifting in the spatial turbulence, with the Death Expanse gone.
• A golden pupil appeared in a fiery rift, and a gray-haired, violet-eyed figure descended into the void.

Amosta surveyed the death-ravaged fragments of the Isle of Avalon and realized that the Twin Serpent Wand’s power was far more dangerous than he had understood. He suspected the wand and the Deathly Hallows originated in the Jellyfish World, then turned to face the monsters rushing toward him.

• Amosta examined the scattered remnants of the Isle of Avalon and saw how thoroughly death had corrupted the island and its inhabitants.
• Amosta wondered why Vitia had sent him back to witness the devastation and why the Twin Serpent Wand had affected Avalon so differently from Malfoy Manor.
• Amosta connected the Tablet of Destiny, the three Deathly Hallows, and the Twin Serpent Wand to the Jellyfish World.
• Amosta faced the monsters as they became frenzied at the sight of him, then raised his hand and pressed it down.

Amosta failed to destroy the magical creatures on the Isle of Avalon and left the void after concluding that the Twin Serpent Wand remained a grave danger in Voldemort’s hands. Back at Hogwarts, Harry and Loya competed on their brooms as Dumbledore and Slughorn watched.

• Amosta pierced the Death Gray Mist with Fiendfyre, but discovered the island fragment he struck was only an illusion and could not locate the real fragments without precise spatial coordinates.
• Amosta decided he could not safely reclaim the Twin Serpent Wand from Voldemort or forcefully seize it without risking catastrophic destruction, then left the void.
• Amosta restored Stonehenge before returning to Salisbury Plain, where the Muggle guards remained asleep.
• Loya made a series of rapid aerial maneuvers to break past Ron and Harry, and Harry matched her moves with his Firebolt.
• Dumbledore steadied Hermione after a gust nearly knocked her over, while Slughorn praised Harry’s inherited Quidditch talent.

Harry urged Loya to join the Gryffindor Quidditch team, but she wanted to form a team for the exchange group instead. Meanwhile, Dumbledore pressed Slughorn for information about Voldemort’s Horcruxes, and Slughorn was left confronting his lifelong shame over having helped shape Riddle.

• After their broomstick contest, Harry invited Loya to join Gryffindor’s Quidditch team, and Ron reminded her that Harry had joined as a first-year.
• Loya admitted she wanted to form a Quidditch team within the exchange group, and Hermione offered to ask Professor Breen when he returned.
• Hermione spotted Professor Breen arriving through the school gates as she and the others discussed Loya’s request.
• By the Black Lake, Dumbledore asked Slughorn for information that could prevent innocent deaths, but Slughorn insisted he had already shared everything he knew.
• Slughorn remembered that he had once answered Riddle’s questions about Horcruxes and believed he had helped turn Riddle into history’s most evil dark wizard.

Amosta joined Dumbledore and Horace after they discussed Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes, then went with them to Horace’s office for a drink. As Horace poured a bottle of oak-aged liquor, Amosta noticed something about its aroma and began probing him.

• Dumbledore and Horace fell silent while considering whether Voldemort had any Horcruxes besides Nagini and Harry, but Horace still would not reveal what he knew.
• Amosta arrived, and Horace welcomed him enthusiastically while Dumbledore noticed that he seemed weary and had spent a great deal of magic.
• Horace invited Amosta and Dumbledore to his office to share a bottle of oak-aged liquor, and they left the Great Hall as Grawp entered it.
• In Horace’s office, Horace poured the liquor and asked Amosta about the progress of the Joint Force.
• Amosta remarked on the liquor’s aroma and questioned Horace about how long he had kept the bottle, while Dumbledore watched warily.

Amosta explained why he had proposed the International Confederation of Wizards’ Joint Force and revealed that Voldemort had made multiple Horcruxes. The chapter ended with him showing Horace a recently destroyed Horcrux, a black stone wrapped in a green, starry ring.

• Horace told Dumbledore and Amosta how he had received a bottle of aged mead as a supposed Christmas present for Dumbledore, and Amosta returned the drink to the bottle and let Dumbledore keep it.
• Amosta explained that the Joint Force belonged to the International Confederation of Wizards and that he had recommended Alastor Moody as its commander.
• Amosta said the Joint Force might struggle to remain effective because of its costs, casualties, and the risk that member nations would withdraw their support.
• Amosta explained that he had established the force to share the burden of resisting Voldemort, while Dumbledore realized that Amosta had used the fall of Oxta Prison to help make the force possible.
• Amosta told Horace that Voldemort could not be defeated by numbers alone because he had a secret that kept him from dying, then showed him a recently destroyed Horcrux.

Amosta showed Horace the destroyed Resurrection Stone and pressed him for information about Voldemort’s Horcruxes, while Dumbledore worried that time was running out. Amosta then met Fromid by the Whomping Willow, which Fromid said had shared stories about its past and its irritating knot.

• Amosta revealed that he and Dumbledore had found the Resurrection Stone in Voldemort’s old house and destroyed its Horcrux enchantment.
• Horace recognized the stone and, realizing Amosta and Dumbledore had destroyed multiple Horcruxes, began to waver but still did not answer their questions.
• Amosta told Dumbledore that the gray mist at Malfoy Manor was death and warned him to be cautious about deceiving time.
• Amosta left Dumbledore to speak with Fromid about Hogwarts’s life and death.
• Fromid told Amosta that the Whomping Willow had shared old stories, including that Dumbledore planted it as shelter for a transforming wolf and that scratching its knot calmed it.

Amosta discussed Hogwarts’s looming crisis with Fromid, who offered a way to create a guardian more powerful than Vitia’s oak giant. In the Slytherin Common Room, Draco remained terrified after Professor Breen returned, and Pansy tried to dissuade him from taking a risk.

• Amosta and Fromid discussed the Whomping Willow, Druid beliefs, and the limits of using the sacred staff to create oak guardians.
• Amosta explained that Hogwarts needed exceptionally powerful protection for an approaching crisis, and Fromid offered to help in exchange for a request.
• Fromid assured Amosta that his proposed method would create a guardian far more powerful than Vitia’s oak giant.
• Pansy found Draco awake in the Slytherin Common Room after Professor Breen returned and warned him to give up before he was discovered.
• Draco, trembling and tearful, asked Pansy whether she thought he had a choice.

Hermione managed the crowded Magical Creature Rights Protection Association exchange event and taught Tangley to perform the levitation charm. At the gathering afterward, Harry learned Remus was marrying Tonks but feared he had not been invited.

• Hermione struggled to keep order at the association's crowded events and focused lessons on the magical visitors and young werewolf Burnell.
• Hagrid told Hermione that Grawp had grown healthier and taller since coming to Hogwarts, while Ilune mostly slept and wandered the castle at night.
• Hermione taught Tangley Wingardium Leviosa, and his spell lifted a feather before blasting it against a rock.
• Loya led Hermione and classmates to the gathering, where Hermione found Harry, Ron, and their friends talking outside a cabin.
• Ron said Ginny's letter mentioned that Remus would marry on the first Sunday of November, and Harry worried Sirius had not invited him.

Harry learned that Remus and Tonks were getting married and that Tonks was pregnant, then worried Voldemort might target them. He suspected Remus would protect his family with the Fidelius Charm and concluded that Sirius would become their Secret Keeper.

• Ginny told Harry and the others that Remus and Tonks were getting married, Tonks was pregnant, and Sirius would be the best man.
• Harry worried that Remus and Tonks's child might inherit Remus's Werewolf condition, but Neville pointed to Burnell as a reason not to fear it.
• Ginny explained that Remus had invited Professor Breen to officiate but had chosen Professor Moody because Breen was too busy.
• Hermione suggested that Sirius might have kept the wedding secret because Voldemort could attack, and Harry considered the wedding a possible target.
• Harry thought Remus might use the Fidelius Charm to protect Tonks and their child, and he decided Sirius would likely volunteer as Secret Keeper.

Harry woke with a headache and a cold, then learned that Hogwarts was organizing an educational excursion to Avalon Prison. As students debated the prison and signed up, Harry heard that Malfoy might not be joining the trip.

• Harry woke after a sleepless night with a headache, but decided his scar was not hurting and went to class with Ron.
• Fred and George told Ron that students in fourth year and above could register with their prefects for Professor Breen’s Saturday excursion to Avalon Prison.
• Ron registered the eager students crowding around him, while Fred explained that the Ministry had stopped using Dementors to guard the prison.
• Harry and other students speculated about Avalon Prison’s location during Transfiguration, and Seamus earned detention for discussing it in class.
• Harry was astonished when gossip spread on Thursday evening that Malfoy might not join the excursion.

Harry and Hermione suspected that Malfoy planned to break into Professor Breen's office while Breen led the study trip to Avalon Prison. They went to question Breen without naming Malfoy, and Harry wondered whether a confiscated item in the office was the target.

• Hermione learned that Malfoy would not join the Avalon Prison trip, and Harry wondered why he was withdrawing.
• Ron hesitated over joining the trip and went to discuss it with Lavender.
• Harry and Hermione suspected Malfoy had tried to break into Professor Breen's office and might try again while Breen was away.
• Hermione and Harry caught up with Professor Breen and asked to speak with him in his office.
• While Breen made tea, Harry examined the confiscated-items cabinet and wondered whether Malfoy wanted something stored there.

Hermione and Harry asked Professor Breen about Loya Taily forming an exchange-group Quidditch team and tried to warn him that a Voldemort supporter might be spying on his plans. Breen allowed Loya’s team to compete if Harry judged it capable, but he remained unconcerned about the attempted break-in and revealed that Malfoy and Parkinson would skip the study trip.

• Hermione told Professor Breen that Loya Taily wanted to form an exchange-group Quidditch team for the House Cup, and Harry said she was talented enough to have a chance.
• Breen said the team could join the competition if Harry judged it strong enough, and Harry welcomed the prospect of facing Loya on the pitch.
• Hermione asked whether Breen had found the person who tried to break into his office and warned that Voldemort might have a spy at Hogwarts.
• Breen thanked Hermione and Harry but dismissed their concern, saying the school’s students and staff opposed Voldemort’s ideology.
• Hermione asked whether the older Slytherins would join the study trip, and Breen said Malfoy and Parkinson were the only Slytherins who seemed uninterested.

Harry and the Hogwarts students traveled by Portkey to Avalon Prison for a field study led by Professor Breen. They arrived in the rain and found themselves surrounded by hostile-looking guards, leaving the visit on a tense note.

• Harry joined the students gathering before dawn and heard that roll call would begin at five thirty.
• Professor Breen assigned Harry to replace Ron as Gryffindor’s temporary prefect and ordered the students to stay in formation during the visit.
• Professor Breen enveloped the four Houses in golden barriers and used an oak leaf Portkey to transport them to Avalon Prison.
• Harry landed hard, lost his glasses, and accepted Ginny’s help before putting them back on.
• Harry reached for his wand when he saw their surroundings, but a sharp command and the guards’ icy stares stopped him.