Recaps

Hannah assassinated Empress Sophia Petrovna with a dagger carrying the Holy Mother’s powerful magic, and Murphy petrified Sophia to slow the poison while seeking a cure. Snape found that the magic could infect both body and soul, leaving Murphy with little hope until Maxim suggested the Ancestral Coffin might save her.

• Hannah struck Sophia Petrovna with a poisoned dagger, but Murphy arrived in time to interrupt the attack and catch the wounded Empress.
• Murphy petrified Sophia to slow the poison, sent Maxim to deploy the Holy Wall, and summoned Snape to examine the dagger.
• Murphy discovered that the dagger and Hannah’s body carried ultraviolet magical residue, then arranged guards and Lightning Ravens to protect Sophia.
• Maxim told Murphy that the Holy Wall was operational, Madame Yaga was in the Ancestral Mausoleum, and the enemy was targeting the Ancestral Coffin.
• Snape determined that the poison was high-level magical power that could infect the soul and had no known cure.
• Maxim suggested that the Ancestral Coffin might help save Sophia.

Murphy entered the Ancestral Mausoleum to seek Lady Miriam’s power while Madame Yaga faced the thorn-crowned priest underground. Murphy interrupted the priest’s attack and prepared a magical-metal sniper rifle to test whether his protection could withstand a physical assault.

• Murphy told Maxim that Lady Miriam might still be alive and sleeping, and that she had awakened to guide Arkaim in the past.
• Murphy used a machine gun to kill the dragonhide-armored knights in the Holy Grove, then followed Maxim into the mausoleum.
• Madame Yaga fought the thorn-crowned priest and learned that he claimed Sofia Petrovna had been killed.
• Murphy arrived in time to stop the priest’s attack on Madame Yaga, then struck him with spells that failed to penetrate his protective shield.
• Murphy summoned his prototype magical-metal heavy sniper rifle and aimed it at the priest, asking whether a god could bleed.

Murphy killed the black-robed priest and reached the Door of Rebirth to seek Ancestor Miriam’s help for the cursed Empress Sophia. Following Madame Yaga’s instructions, he crossed a series of strange realms and found Miriam in a crystal coffin, where he discovered she looked exactly like Sophia.

• Murphy shot the black-robed priest, took and crushed his pendant, and saw the remaining priests collapse and die.
• Madame Yaga explained that Ancestor Miriam’s magic could neutralize the curse on Sophia and warned Murphy to follow a precise path through the Door of Rebirth.
• Murphy entered with his eyes closed, but opened them when the ground gave way and glimpsed a vast desert and an immense fortress.
• Murphy passed through several bizarre landscapes, including a deep well, a field of floating slabs, a strange fleet, skull statues, and a pillar-lined abyss.
• After seven steps, Murphy stepped backward and arrived before a crystal coffin containing a silver-haired girl.
• Murphy saw that Ancestor Miriam’s face was identical to Empress Sophia’s.

Murphy received a powerful bead of vampire True Blood from Ancestor Miriam and used it to neutralize the Holy Mother's magic poisoning Sophia. Sophia survived, though the True Blood began transforming her into a vampire, and she asked Murphy to stay beside her as she slept.

• Murphy entered the inner mausoleum, where Ancestor Miriam awakened, gave him a bead of True Blood, and vanished from sight.
• Murphy told Madame Yaga what he had seen, and Snape confirmed the bead could neutralize the Holy Mother's magic but might turn Sophia into a vampire.
• Murphy approved using the True Blood, and Snape applied it to Sophia after removing the petrification spell.
• The True Blood destroyed the Holy Mother's magic, merged into Sophia, and began changing her body as her wounds healed.
• Sophia awoke with a faint crimson tint in her eyes, thanked Murphy for saving her, and asked him to stay while she slept.

Murphy investigated how to generate high-frequency magic power to counter the Holy Mother, while Hordan explained that current methods could not produce it reliably. After Lucas demonstrated her completed Horcrux Transfer Technique, Murphy invited her to inhabit the supercomputer Athena and help calculate the magic radar’s frequency modulation.

• Murphy left Arkaim after confirming Sophia was safe and went to the Magic Research Institute to ask Hordan about high-frequency magic power.
• Hordan explained that high-frequency magic power was difficult to create or detect and suggested the magic radar might reveal a source.
• By May 1994, the Goblins had finished casting enough magical metal for the radar, and Lucas told Murphy she had completed her Horcrux Transfer Technique.
• Lucas showed Murphy how she had moved her soul fragment and spells from one notebook into another, then agreed to try transferring into a computer.
• Murphy led Lucas to the computer room and presented the supercomputer Athena as her new body.

Murphy discussed his son’s magical training and Britain’s confrontation with the United States before capturing a spy while surveying a radar site. Meanwhile, wizards in the International Confederation of Wizards argued over how to respond to Murphy, and Dumbledore was asked about his earlier fight with him.

• Murphy told Patrick that Ares’s magical training could make him a wandless caster, then urged Patrick to keep the People’s Livelihood Party broad and avoid stirring up hatred.
• Patrick described U.S. sanctions and warships near Britain, and Murphy said a war might break out.
• Murphy chose a mountaintop in the Lake District for a radar installation and caught a spy who had been following him.
• At a meeting in France, Gaston and other wizards accused Murphy of threatening the wizarding world, while others debated whether to declare war or help British wizards oppose him.
• A wizard on the dais asked Dumbledore whether he had fought Murphy and failed to defeat him.

Dumbledore admitted that Murphy was one of the world’s most powerful wizards and urged the International Confederation of Wizards to punish only his chief offenders, but the conference ended without an effective plan. Afterward, powerful officials gathered secretly to discuss Murphy’s wealth and Umbrella Corporation, raising the prospect of trying to take over the company.

• Dumbledore acknowledged Murphy’s power and proposed narrowing the scope of punishment rather than wiping out all his followers.
• The conference convicted Murphy of fifty-six crimes and made him the world’s most wanted fugitive, with a bounty of thirty thousand Galleons, but reached no substantive decision.
• After the conference, officials excluded Dumbledore and the moderates and convened a secret meeting in another castle.
• A bald American wizard pointed out that Murphy’s wealth came from Umbrella Corporation and argued that Murphy had to be eliminated.
• A wizard scoffed at the idea of swallowing Umbrella Corporation whole and warned that the attempt could be disastrous.

Dumbledore and the international wizards considered how to stop Murphy, while Grindelwald argued that resistance could be futile. A black-robed priest warned that Murphy’s antenna would let him find materials for the Philosopher’s Stone and trigger the collapse of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy.

• An American wizard urged the gathered wizards to unite against Murphy and exploit his businesses while distracting him with pressure from Britain’s resistance groups and foreign Ministries.
• Dumbledore visited Grindelwald, who criticized his reluctance to make sacrifices and praised Murphy’s legal influence across the Muggle and wizarding worlds.
• Dumbledore said that killing Murphy still seemed like the least harmful way to stop him, despite their previous failure.
• A black-robed priest arrived and warned Dumbledore and Grindelwald that Murphy was building an antenna to locate materials for the Philosopher’s Stone.
• The priest said completing the antenna would make the collapse of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy inevitable and urged them to stop Murphy immediately.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald learned that a mysterious priest wanted them to destroy Murphy Darkholme’s antenna to protect the wizarding oath, and Dumbledore prepared to confront Murphy while the Order of the Phoenix handled the antenna. At Stoatshead Hill, Sirius received an emergency battle summons but hesitated to go because he wanted to be there when Harry returned home.

• The black-robed priest identified Miriam, Riddle, and Murphy Darkholme as threats to the oath and urged Dumbledore and Grindelwald to destroy the antenna.
• Dumbledore told Grindelwald that church agents with powerful abilities had once devastated wizarding society during the witch hunts, helping force the Statute of Secrecy into existence.
• Dumbledore planned to keep Murphy occupied while members of the Order of the Phoenix destroyed the antenna, and Grindelwald chose to stay with him.
• Sirius prepared Stoatshead Hill for Harry’s return and worried that Harry had grown withdrawn and interested in Dark magic since Lucas’s death.
• Sirius received an emergency Order of the Phoenix Portkey summons warning of an extremely dangerous battle at dusk, but hesitated to leave Harry without him.

Murphy confronted Dumbledore and Grindelwald at a Goblin factory while the Order of the Phoenix prepared to attack a magical-metal construction site. The chapter ended as Murphy's guards learned that intruders were nearby.

• Murphy received reports that Dumbledore had attacked Goblin factories and went to Kent, where hundreds of Goblins were escaping through Portkeys.
• Murphy found Dumbledore and Grindelwald waiting for him, then proposed a game of Every Flavour Beans in exchange for answering questions.
• Moody joined Kingsley and the remaining Order of the Phoenix members in the Lake District to destroy Murphy's magical-metal construction site.
• Kingsley warned the group that Aurors guarded the site, and the Order prepared to attack while Murphy was occupied.
• An Auror captain received word from Murphy's raven scouts that intruders were nearby and ordered the guards to prepare for battle.

Kingsley Shacklebolt led the Order of the Phoenix in an assault on the Holy Mother’s forces while Murphy questioned Dumbledore over Every Flavour Beans. Dumbledore revealed that the Holy Mother considered Murphy, Miriam the Oathbreaker, and Tom Riddle its enemies, leaving Murphy wondering which Tom it meant.

• Kingsley waited for a signal, then led the Order of the Phoenix in an Apparition attack on the hill where black-robed priests and armored knights fought the Aurors.
• A priest’s portrait disrupted the mind network, and a black-armored knight blocked the Auror captain’s Stunning Spell.
• Gunshots wounded the knight and the praying priest, restoring the mind network and allowing Lightning Ravens to bring Auror reinforcements.
• Murphy admitted to Dumbledore that he wanted immortality and sought knowledge and power, and Dumbledore asked who he was.
• Murphy asked Dumbledore about the Holy Mother, and Dumbledore said it was ancient, difficult to kill, guarded a secret, and saw Murphy, Miriam the Oathbreaker, and Tom Riddle as enemies.

Sirius answered the Order of the Phoenix’s call for help and fought beside Remus Lupin, while Murphy told Dumbledore that he had come from the future. Sirius left his plans to ask Harry about traveling together for later as the Order’s battle began.

• Sirius considered leaving with Harry after his return from school and wrote him a letter, but put it away to discuss in person during summer break.
• The phoenix feather signaled that the Order of the Phoenix was surrounded and needed support.
• Murphy told Dumbledore that he had come from about thirty years in the future, and Dumbledore connected this to Murphy’s knowledge and unusual development.
• Sirius answered the call and arrived in the battle, where he and Remus Lupin fought back-to-back against Aurors and Watchmen.
• Sirius and Lupin exchanged jokes about their years apart, then agreed to raise hell together.

Murphy deduced that the hidden force making Muggles overlook magic was a world-class Fidelius Charm, with all wizards serving as Secret-Keepers. The chapter left him wondering who cast it and why, while an infiltrator was trapped inside the Magic Research Institute.

• A disguised researcher named Jackson incapacitated the guards at the Magic Research Institute and entered its underground computer room.
• The Institute’s poison mist, magic shielding, and laser grid trapped Jackson inside his body and prevented him from escaping through his mindscape.
• Murphy argued that Dumbledore and Grindelwald opposed him for reasons beyond preserving the Statute of Secrecy.
• Murphy connected the Observer Effect of Magic to a world-class Fidelius Charm that concealed magic from Muggles.
• Murphy asked who had cast the charm and why.

Lucas trapped the Holy Mother pendant while the Order of the Phoenix attacked the unfinished antenna. Sirius destroyed the antenna with Fiendfyre, but a floating girl struck him with a green beam and anchored the space around the battlefield.

• Lucas explained that he had anticipated the Holy Mother’s attempt to sabotage Athena and trapped its pendant for testing.
• Lucas agreed with the Lightning Raven that the Order of the Phoenix needed to be eliminated before it could threaten the antenna.
• Moody held off the Aurors while Kingsley gave Sirius two Fiendfyre canisters supplied by Dumbledore.
• Sirius flew to the antenna and hurled both canisters, setting the structure ablaze before returning to Lupin.
• A short-haired girl struck Sirius in the back with a green beam, and Lupin caught him as the girl cast Space Anchor.

Murphy revealed that the antenna was bait and questioned Dumbledore and Grindelwald about the worldwide Fidelius Charm and the consequences of spreading magic to Muggles. After they left, Murphy learned that the Holy Mother was escaping and ordered Lucas to activate the unfinished antenna, but the Holy Mother addressed Lucas as Tom Riddle and challenged his trust in Murphy.

• Murphy told Dumbledore and Grindelwald that the antenna was bait and that the Order of the Phoenix was being attacked.
• Murphy asked why the worldwide Fidelius Charm had been cast and what would happen if magic spread to Muggles, and Grindelwald warned that mass access to magic could have vast consequences.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald left, and Murphy contacted Lucas through his Horcrux notebook.
• Lucas told Murphy that the Holy Mother was escaping from the Magic Research Institute through a connection to its mindscape.
• Murphy learned that the antenna was only about eighty percent complete and ordered Lucas to activate it anyway.
• The Holy Mother called Lucas Tom Riddle and asked whether he really trusted Murphy.

Murphy reassured Lucas that he was not a puppet and encouraged him to choose his own path, while offering to be his friend. Lucas then revealed that he had killed Sirius, Harry’s godfather.

• The Holy Mother accused Murphy of manipulating Lucas and called him a slave and puppet, but Lucas rejected her claims and left with Murphy.
• Murphy brought Lucas to Athena’s computer room and prepared a neural network for Lucas to transfer into.
• Lucas asked what he meant to Murphy, saying Murphy had shaped his life and that he wanted to know Murphy’s true feelings.
• Murphy admitted he might have deceived Lucas but urged him to make his own choices and define himself.
• Murphy told Lucas he was his student and could become his companion; Lucas asked to be his friend, then confessed that he had killed Sirius.

Lucas struggled with guilt over betraying her former friends and asked Murphy whether learning to understand others had made her weaker. After Murphy helped her reconsider the limits of moral judgment, Lucas transferred her Horcrux, and the story left her awake and declaring success.

• Lucas told Murphy she felt guilty for betraying Harry, Ron Weasley, and her former friends, and Murphy apologized for sending her against the Order of the Phoenix.
• Lucas asked Murphy why understanding love and other people left her feeling constrained, and he explained that moral standards did not apply to every conflict of ideals.
• Lucas told Murphy she hoped he would keep deceiving her if her life was a lie, leaving him puzzled by her attachment.
• Murphy and Lucas began the Horcrux transfer, and Lucas performed the ritual without using a condemned prisoner.
• The transfer overloaded the server equipment and plunged the room into darkness before Lucas's screen announced, "I succeeded!"

Murphy and Lucas used a magic radar to remove the Mind Coordinate from Murphy and weaken the Holy Mother by disrupting its magic. The pendant shattered and the Holy Mother's voice vanished, but Lucas and Murphy suspected it had not been completely destroyed.

• Lucas used the magic radar to locate and remove the Mind Coordinate from Murphy's head.
• Murphy and Lucas returned to the glass enclosure, where Lucas aimed a frequency-adjustable magic ray at the Holy Mother's pendant.
• Murphy explained that the ray could bypass the magic-sealing rules because it was produced through fundamental physical laws.
• Murphy rejected the Holy Mother's claim to be humanity's mother and recounted humanity's long struggle to survive and become the only remaining human species.
• Lucas adjusted the ray to cancel out the Holy Mother's magic, causing its pendant to melt, crack, and burn away as its voice disappeared.
• Lucas warned Murphy that the Holy Mother might still be alive, and Murphy planned to search for its magic energy source with magic radars.

After Harry Potter placed second in the exams, Hermione Granger and Cho Chang worried that he was becoming like Tom as he coped with loss. A letter told Harry that his godfather Sirius Black had died, and Harry went home before seeing Sirius in his coffin.

• Hermione Granger saw that she had placed first in the third-year rankings, with Harry Potter in second place.
• Cho Chang explained that Harry might be imitating Tom because of grief, while Lucius Malfoy asked Hermione for help studying the wave equation for an internship with the teacher.
• Harry received a letter saying that Sirius Black had died and ran from the Great Hall in shock.
• Professor Filius Flitwick took Harry home to Stoatshead Hill, where Harry hoped the news was a mistake.
• Arthur Weasley and nearby wizards took Harry to see Sirius lying in a wooden coffin.

Murphy tested the completed magic radar, which located three strong magical signals and enabled him to take control of a planted agent’s body in southern France. Through the agent, he learned that a faction planned to remove Dumbledore and start a war against Britain at the International Confederation of Wizards meeting, and he began considering a way to strike the gathering.

• Murphy and Lucas oversaw the first full test of the magic radar, which scanned a million square kilometers and detected three strong feedback locations in the North Sea, Germany, and Ireland.
• Murphy used the radar’s long-range magical signal to extend the Seed of the Mind’s communication range and possess Sinande Tolly in the Loire Valley.
• Sinande Tolly’s companions discussed removing Dumbledore as chairman and electing a leader who would seek war against Britain after Murphy was killed.
• Murphy learned the meeting would take place in Oulusburg at nine the next morning, with more than a hundred directors expected to attend.
• Murphy abandoned his initial plan for a human bomb attack and considered using two nearby United States missile destroyers instead.

A black-haired young man and his black-robed companions infiltrated the McCain after its crew detected strange jamming signals near Birmingham. They took control of the command center, leaving Ender magically compelled to serve them.

• Patrick Lincoln condemned the United States' sanctions and called on the British government to defend its interests.
• Lieutenant Ender learned that the McCain had detected ultra-wideband jamming signals near Birmingham.
• A mysterious figure appeared on the McCain's deck in a flash, then vanished, and the crew raised the alarm.
• A sailor entered the command center and announced that he needed to borrow the ship.
• More than a dozen black-robed figures appeared, cast spells to control the crew, and the young man used magic on Ender.
• Ender declared it his pleasure to serve the young man.

The McCain and Ramage exchanged fire with British destroyers after a series of suspicious attacks, and a missile launched from the sinking McCain threatened London before vanishing from radar. Murphy secretly redirected the missile aimed at France to Oulusburg, where it struck the gathering of wizards who had just voted to remove Dumbledore.

• The McCain reported attacks and damage in the English Channel, while the Ramage reported electronic interference and a collision with a cargo ship.
• British destroyers and the American ships exchanged torpedoes and missiles after the White House authorized the Ramage to defend itself.
• The McCain launched four Tomahawks before a British missile split it apart; one Tomahawk headed for London and another flew toward France.
• The British prime minister ordered London’s defenses to intercept the missile, but Murphy concealed it from radar with an improved Disillusionment Charm and redirected it toward Westminster.
• At Oulusburg, the Confederation voted to remove Dumbledore as a short, stout American wizard prepared to seek the presidency.
• Murphy’s redirected missile smashed into the meeting hall and exploded among the assembled wizards.

A Tomahawk Missile struck the Palace of Westminster during a naval clash between British and American forces, collapsing Parliament as MPs fled to shelters. At the Pentagon, investigators reconstructed the fifty-minute battle and highlighted two unexplained events as crucial to understanding what happened.

• British MPs fled the Palace of Westminster after reports that a Tomahawk Missile was headed for London, while MacDonald insisted the United States would not threaten Britain.
• An explosion tore through the Palace of Westminster, and Marlis photographed the damage as Victoria Tower fell and Big Ben chimed ten o’clock.
• A senior intelligence officer told the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the McCain had been attacked, the Ramage had collided with a cargo ship, and British destroyers had engaged the American ships.
• The McCain launched four Tomahawk Missiles, two were intercepted, and one vanished before the Palace of Westminster was destroyed.
• The intelligence officer said two strange events during the fifty-minute incident might explain the battle.

U.S. officials blamed the Soviet Union for the USS McCain incident while investigating why a Tomahawk struck Oulusburg, where it had destroyed a gathering of the International Confederation of Wizards. Émile tried to conceal the disaster with help from French President François, who demanded that the wizards clean up the scene and stop interfering in his country.

• An intelligence officer argued that the USS McCain had been seized through total signal suppression and that its attackers had struck the British fleet and launched missiles to provoke conflict between the United States and its allies.
• The Secretary of Defense accepted the Soviet Union as the most plausible culprit and ordered an investigation into the USS McCain and the Tomahawk impact site in France.
• Aurors searched the ruins of Oulusburg, where Émile told Henri that the Muggle bomb had killed everyone attending the Confederation gathering.
• Émile ordered the Aurors to leave before Muggle investigators arrived and said he would ask the Muggle president how to cover up the destruction.
• President François berated Émile over the missile and the bodies, then gave the wizards half a day to clean up before ordering them to stay hidden and stop meddling in France.

Patrick Duncan discussed the United States' bombing of Parliament, arguing that Britain needed sovereignty and an equal peace rather than war. He blamed Britain's decline on political infighting and urged the people to love their country and make it great again.

• Patrick Duncan called the United States president's apology hypocritical and said the bombing had exposed Britain's loss of sovereignty.
• He said Britain should demand accountability and compensation for the attack but rejected war in favor of peace based on equality and mutual respect.
• Patrick affirmed his love for Britain while acknowledging that it had declined in economic, military, and cultural power.
• He traced Britain's rise to reforms that embraced capitalism and blamed its decline on complacency and Conservative-Labour infighting.
• Patrick told viewers to love their motherland and make it great again.