Chapter Summaries

Amosta and Dumbledore extracted Horace’s memory and learned that Voldemort had made only seven Horcruxes, five of which they had already destroyed. Just as they prepared to deal with Nagini and the soul fragment in Harry, Amosta collapsed with black-and-white wings emerging from his back, one of them burning.

• Amosta, Dumbledore, and Horace discussed Harry’s courage and the victory over Voldemort’s forces.
• Amosta and Dumbledore urged Horace to confront his guilt over Lily and reveal Voldemort’s final safeguard.
• Horace recalled that Voldemort had made seven Horcruxes and gave Dumbledore and Amosta his memory.
• Dumbledore listed the five Horcruxes they had destroyed and identified Nagini and the soul fragment in Harry as the remaining two.
• Amosta realized Voldemort had not known about Harry, then collapsed as black-and-white wings appeared on his back, one burning.

Voldemort returned to Malfoy Manor and slaughtered the wizards there after Harry Potter escaped and Breen’s magic wounded him. The Twin Serpent Wand revealed that it served Herpo, not Voldemort, and offered a transaction involving Voldemort’s soul.

• Voldemort massacred the remaining Death Eaters and other wizards in Malfoy Manor as gray mist consumed the hall.
• Narcissa Malfoy hid from the slaughter and feared that Lucius Malfoy had been captured or killed.
• Voldemort wondered how Breen’s magic and Harry Potter had injured him, then dismissed love as the cause of his pain.
• Nagini returned to Voldemort, who insisted that he and the snake were still invincible.
• The Twin Serpent Wand gathered the gray mist and declared that it served Herpo, rejecting Voldemort’s claim of ownership.
• The wand offered to form a contract with Voldemort’s soul as a transaction.

Voldemort bargained with the Twin Serpent Wand, agreeing to rescue its imprisoned master, Herpo, in exchange for its power protecting his soul. After Bellatrix returned with news of Amosta Breen’s actions, Voldemort declared the wand belonged to him and announced he would conquer death.

• The Twin Serpent Wand offered to protect Voldemort’s soul and become his Horcrux if he saved Herpo, who was imprisoned among the stars.
• Voldemort accepted the bargain after claiming he first needed to deal with Amosta Breen, Albus Dumbledore, and the wizarding world’s troubles.
• Bellatrix returned to the Malfoy manor, and Voldemort questioned her about how she had escaped the Aurors.
• Bellatrix described how Breen had taken her from his office and how she escaped through the passage beneath the Whomping Willow, recounting her encounter with Hagrid.
• Voldemort dismissed the importance of Bellatrix’s information, claimed the Twin Serpent Wand as his own, and declared that Narcissa and Bellatrix would witness him conquer death and become a god.

After the battle, the professors guarded Vitia while Harry and the others tried to rest in the Hospital Wing. Harry woke screaming in unbearable pain and was carried to Dumbledore’s office, where Amosta warned that Voldemort was coming and ordered the students evacuated.

• Professor McGonagall assigned herself, Professor Sprout, Professor Flitwick, and Fromid to guard Vitia while Madam Pomfrey sent the exhausted survivors to bed.
• Hermione told Harry that Sirius feared Professor Breen’s promise might not be real and worried about apologizing to Harry’s parents’ spirits; Harry said Sirius had nothing to apologize for.
• Harry dreamed about meeting his parents’ spirits and considered telling Hermione he loved her, then woke screaming in agony.
• Sirius and the others carried Harry to Professor Dumbledore’s office, where they found Amosta lying on the floor.
• Amosta told them Voldemort was coming and ordered them to evacuate all the students.

Amosta suffered as black-and-white wings of light emerged from his back, and a crimson domain with an ancient tablet suppressed them. As Hogwarts shook under falling fire and spreading gray mist, Amosta joined Dumbledore at the window as the Isle of Avalon descended.

• Amosta collapsed in agony as an uneven pair of black-and-white wings of light grew from his back.
• Dumbledore pulled Hermione and Vitia away as crimson stars and an ancient clay tablet appeared and suppressed Amosta’s black wing.
• Hogwarts began to tremble, and a flaming boulder struck Ravenclaw Tower before Dumbledore blasted it apart.
• The boulder crashed into the Black Lake, sending huge waves onto the grounds, while Fawkes fell into the brazier amid gray mist.
• Amosta rose and joined Dumbledore at the broken window as the mist swallowed the sky and the Isle of Avalon descended.

Avalon descended toward Hogwarts, and Vitia used the Whomping Willow to slow its fall while Amosta revealed that he had summoned an old ally. The chapter ended as that ally approached the castle and asked Albus Dumbledore for his wand.

• Avalon began falling toward Hogwarts, threatening to destroy the school and kill everyone trapped inside.
• Amosta demanded that Vitia honor her promise, and Vitia took the Vine Staff and flew to the Whomping Willow.
• Vitia channeled the Druids’ power into the Whomping Willow, which grew enormous and sent branches to hold up Avalon.
• Dumbledore offered to stay behind and buy time, but Amosta assured him that he had found help.
• An old man approached Hogwarts through the falling stones, and he asked Dumbledore where his wand was.

Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Amosta held the descending Isle of Avalon aloft with four pillars while battling Voldemort’s enormous serpent form in the sky. As gray-mist creatures swarmed Hogwarts, Sirius organized a rescue and defense, and Harry’s group found Cedric fighting through the corridor with the sleeping Cho in his arms.

• Dumbledore and Grindelwald reunited across the burning battlefield, and Grindelwald caught his snakewood wand as the two helped raise pillars of water and quicksand beneath the Isle of Avalon.
• Amosta, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald used magma, lake water, and quicksand to form four pillars that stopped the Isle of Avalon from crushing the land.
• Voldemort declared that his power surpassed their understanding, and Amosta, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald charged into the sky to keep his giant serpent form aloft.
• Sirius rallied the survivors to rescue students and defend Hogwarts, assigning groups to the towers and the Entrance Hall as gray-mist creatures overran the campus.
• Harry and the others found the corridor packed with armored Leprechauns, where a bloodied Cedric attacked them while carrying the sleeping Cho.

Harry and the adults fought through the monsters attacking Hogwarts, but Hagrid fell from a corridor with a Bone Dragon and Cho died. Harry’s group tried to reach the Great Hall and found Draco beside his mortally wounded father, surrounded by monstrous Centaurs.

• Harry and the other students followed Sirius, Mr. Weasley, and Professor Flitwick through the monster-filled corridor while the adults fought to clear a path.
• Hagrid charged the Bone Dragon, knocked it from the corridor, and vanished into the gray mist with it.
• Cedric collapsed beside Cho Chang’s body, and Sirius ordered the group to follow their plan while he and the professors went upstairs.
• Frank led Harry and the others through the castle toward the Great Hall, and they heard Draco Malfoy crying out for help.
• Harry’s group found Draco beside Lucius Malfoy, who had been pierced by a black spear and told his son, “I love you, son.”

Harry’s group escaped the monster centaurs with help from Nick and the Headless Hunt, then reached the Great Hall, where Hogwarts’s defenders fought to protect the students. Draco joined the battle after fleeing his father’s corpse, and Neville drew the Sword of Gryffindor as the group prepared to fight.

• Harry’s group found Lucius Malfoy dead, and Neville’s parents and Professor Lahansen prepared to face the monster centaurs.
• Nick and the Headless Hunt attacked the centaurs, while Fred and George tried to carry Draco away from his father’s body.
• Harry slapped Draco and urged him to leave; Draco broke free and ran downstairs in grief.
• Harry’s group reached the Great Hall, where Hogwarts staff, goblins, and ghosts defended the students against invading creatures.
• Draco fought a mutated Hippogriff with a blade of starlight before Professor Krum pulled him back into the defensive ring.
• Neville drew the Sword of Gryffindor and told Harry to fight.

As monsters overwhelmed Hogwarts, Harry, Sirius, and the defenders fought to protect the students, but the arrival of seven Titan Giants made holding the castle impossible. Sirius ordered everyone to break out, with the Giant Squid and the defenders assigned to protect the students as they charged.

• Harry, Neville, Ron, Kingsley, and the Aurors fought the monsters in the Entrance Hall while waiting for Minerva and the others to return with rescued students.
• Professor McGonagall and Sirius brought injured students from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw down to the hall, and Madam Pomfrey began treating them.
• The Giant Squid crushed the Bone Dragon and Erumpents, and Hagrid returned alive after the squid rescued him outside.
• Kingsley said he had sent a Patronus to summon Ministry reinforcements, but seven Titan Giants approached the castle and left the defenders with no hope of holding it.
• Sirius ordered the Giant Squid to lead the students out, with the Aurors guarding the left flank, Hogwarts staff guarding the right, ghosts covering the sky, and McGonagall's statues following behind.

The Giant Squid carried the young wizards away from the ruined castle while they fought off monsters, and Sirius warned that Titan Giants would soon catch them. More than a hundred Centaurs arrived to help, carrying students on their backs as the battle continued.

• The Giant Squid blocked the castle entrance and carried younger students and the injured away while older fighters protected it from monsters.
• Harry, Neville, Draco, Hagrid, Grawp, and others fought the pursuing monsters as the squid crossed the school grounds.
• Sirius warned Harry that the Titan Giants were closing in and that the group needed to buy time to escape the island's range.
• More than a hundred Centaurs emerged from the Forbidden Forest, splitting up to confront the Titan Giants and help the students.
• Bane, Firenze, and Ronan ordered the students to climb onto the Centaurs, and Harry pulled Ginny onto Firenze's back.

Harry and the other Hogwarts evacuees fled the battlefield while Centaurs and the Giant Squid held back the monsters. Reinforcements led by Alastor cleared a path, but as the students prepared to leave, Cedric, Draco, Neville, and Harry chose to stay and fight.

• Harry rode with Ginny and Firenze as the Centaurs and Giant Squid struggled to hold off the Titan Giants and other monsters.
• Alastor arrived with over a thousand wizard and Goblin reinforcements, who blasted away the pursuing monsters and helped evacuate the younger students.
• Mrs. Weasley reunited with Ginny while Mr. Weasley, Remus, Tonks, Sirius, and the other adults urged the students to leave.
• Cedric told Amos he would stay and fight, Draco summoned his broom, and Neville refused to leave his parents behind.
• Mrs. Weasley ordered Harry to evacuate, but Harry summoned his Firebolt and Sirius supported his choice to take responsibility for his actions.

The wizarding alliance sealed the monsters inside the Hogwarts grounds and fought to keep the rest from reaching nearby villages. As the battle spread and casualties threatened to mount, Amosta prepared to confront Voldemort, who stood atop a Basilisk.

• Hope ordered wizards and Goblins to form a barrier around Hogwarts, while Harry, Fred, George, and Ron stayed to fight and Ginny was sent away with Mrs. Weasley.
• Amosta's barrier sealed the monsters inside Hogwarts, and the wizarding alliance launched a fierce battle across the surrounding land.
• Harry aided Hermione, Luna, and the Centaurs, then dodged Snape's moon blades as Snape brought down a Bone Dragon.
• Snape saved Tonks from a Grindylow, while Moody, Sirius, Kingsley, and other Aurors fought the Titan Giants by the lake.
• Madame Maxime, Chairman Kouhaug, Foley, and magical forces from across Europe joined the growing battle.
• Amosta looked down at the fighting, rose above the gray mist, and faced Voldemort on the head of a Basilisk.

Amosta revealed the history of the Twin Serpent Wand and Herpo, then charged Voldemort with a plan to return his soul fragment to him. The clash destroyed the gray mist and serpent, but Amosta fell from the sky and vanished into distorted space.

• Amosta told Dumbledore to kill Nagini and explained that Herpo, not Voldemort, was the true enemy.
• Amosta revealed that he had unsealed the Twin Serpent Wand and prepared Voldemort’s diary soul fragment to fulfill Salazar Slytherin’s obsession.
• Amosta gave Dumbledore instructions about Vitia, Sirius, and Harry, then charged Voldemort while Dumbledore and Grindelwald stayed behind.
• Amosta engulfed the sky in golden light and sent scarlet stars crashing into Voldemort’s gray tornado.
• The gray mist and giant serpent vanished, and Amosta fell wounded before being swallowed by distorted space.

Hogsmeade and The Hog's Head Inn remained crowded with wounded and grieving survivors after the battle, while Ron delivered food under tight security. Sirius returned from searching for Amosta and could not find him, leaving everyone unsure whether he had survived.

• Ron carried food through Hogsmeade to The Hog's Head Inn as Hit Wizards questioned and inspected him.
• Ron saw Cedric and Draco mourning beside bodies in the village square before continuing to the inn, where Hogwarts survivors gathered in grief.
• Mr. Weasley offered food to the exhausted mourners, and Remus fed Tonks a small piece of sandwich.
• Professor Lahansen brought the weakened Vitia downstairs as Sirius returned from searching for Amosta.
• Sirius said he had found no trace of Amosta at the orphanage or the graveyard, and the mourners wondered whether Amosta was still alive.

After Amosta disappeared, Dumbledore and Grindelwald revealed carvings that linked Morgan le Fay, Herpo, Merlin, and the Twin Serpent Wand to an ancient war and its sealing. Sirius then remembered that Amosta had left instructions for what to do if he vanished, leaving the group poised to hear what Sirius learned on their journey to Azkaban.

• Sirius comforted Amelia as the group grieved over Amosta’s disappearance and wondered how to respond to Voldemort’s survival and Hogwarts’s crisis.
• Dumbledore returned with Grindelwald and used magic to reveal a carved stone wall they had brought from the temple on Avalon Island.
• Dumbledore identified figures and events in the carvings, explaining that Herpo had failed and left the Twin Serpent Wand behind, where Merlin had helped suppress it.
• Vitia confirmed that Amosta had broken the wand’s seal and revealed that the Sword of Gryffindor, held by Neville, had served as its vessel.
• Sirius recalled that Amosta had instructed him to tell Dumbledore everything about their journey to Azkaban if Amosta ever disappeared and they needed to find him.

Vitia and Sirius recounted how Amosta found the Twin Serpent Wand and explored Azkaban with Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, giving Dumbledore clues about the ancient wizards’ plans. Dumbledore and Grindelwald concluded that the Twin Serpent Wand was a Deathly Hallow, leaving the group with a new understanding of the mystery surrounding Amosta.

• Dumbledore questioned Vitia about how Amosta obtained the Twin Serpent Wand and why she gave it to Voldemort, and Vitia recounted their visit to Avalon.
• Dumbledore speculated that Merlin, the Four Founders, and the wand’s master were acting around Amosta as part of a continuing ancient conflict.
• Sirius recalled taking Amosta to Azkaban, where they encountered Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw and explored Herpo’s lair through their memories.
• Harry recognized the stone door from the Department of Mysteries and Hufflepuff’s memories, while Sirius explained that Amosta returned to Azkaban alone after their memory ended.
• Dumbledore realized that Ravenclaw had described the Deathly Hallows as the opposite of Horcruxes, and Grindelwald identified the Twin Serpent Wand as a Deathly Hallow.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald connected the Twin Serpent Wand, the Deathly Hallows, and Amosta to a hidden plan involving Herpo and the world of death. As Hermione recounted the founders’ memories and the ongoing war beyond the stars, Dumbledore concealed what he knew about Salazar Slytherin’s memories.

• Dumbledore and Grindelwald concluded that the indestructible Twin Serpent Wand had become Voldemort’s Horcrux as part of a conspiracy centered on Amosta and Herpo.
• Aberforth interrupted Dumbledore to demand an explanation of Ariana’s connection to Amosta, but the others pulled him away before Dumbledore could resume his thoughts.
• Hermione recounted how she and Harry and Ron found a secret passage from the Hogwarts kitchens and encountered the founders’ memories, including Ravenclaw’s pact with the Dementors.
• After hearing about the stone archway, Dumbledore and Grindelwald reasoned that the Deathly Hallows opened a passage for Death God’s return rather than making their owner master of death.
• Hermione repeated Hufflepuff’s warning that an ancient war still raged beyond the stars and that Amosta was the one who could restrain the darkness.
• Dumbledore claimed Salazar Slytherin’s memories held no valuable information, though he knew Slytherin had borrowed the Sword of Gryffindor from Godric.

Dumbledore deduced that Voldemort’s Twin Serpent Wand was manipulating him to bring Amosta to Herpo, and Narcissa arrived with intelligence about the wand’s bargain. The chapter ended with Dumbledore realizing that the wand had deliberately become Voldemort’s Horcrux to force Amosta to travel to the stars and face its master.

• Dumbledore connected Gryffindor’s sword to King Arthur’s sword and concluded that destroying the Twin Serpent Wand required finding and killing Herpo.
• Narcissa Malfoy arrived with Draco and told Dumbledore that Lucius had died protecting their son.
• Narcissa revealed that the Twin Serpent Wand had offered Voldemort its power in exchange for rescuing Herpo, whom it said was among the stars.
• Sirius and Vitia believed the wand had used Amosta to break its seal and Voldemort to free Herpo.
• Dumbledore and Gellert concluded that the wand had deceived Voldemort and made itself his Horcrux to send Amosta to Herpo.

Dumbledore realized Amosta had cleared an obstacle to reaching the stars after Narcissa privately described Voldemort’s return from his attack. Back at the manor, Narcissa weighed her family’s chances under either side’s victory as Harry’s hand began to glow, and a sonic boom interrupted her.

• Dumbledore reasoned that Herpo and the Four Founders had both sought to send Amosta into the stars, though only Herpo had forced the issue.
• Narcissa told Dumbledore privately what had happened when Voldemort returned injured with the Twin Serpent Wand, and Dumbledore concluded that Amosta had cleared an obstacle to reaching the stars.
• Harry’s wrist began to glow as everyone in the bar looked on.
• At the manor, Bella worried that Voldemort distrusted her for staying behind, while Narcissa hoped either side’s victory would keep the Malfoy family safe.
• A sonic boom erupted above the courtyard, cutting Narcissa off mid-sentence.