Chapter Summaries

Snape and Rookwood reported to Voldemort, revealing that the Death Eaters had located the Ministry of Magic’s temporary base and gathered extensive intelligence on wizarding households. At the base in Devon, Bertha Jorkins questioned Scrimgeour’s refusal to work with Dumbledore, and Scrimgeour regarded her in silence.

• Snape warned Rookwood to restrain his hostility toward Muggles, and Rookwood pressed him for the location of the Ministry’s new prison.
• Snape reported that the Death Eaters had found the Ministry’s temporary base and mapped thousands of wizarding households, while Voldemort demanded a way to overcome Dumbledore and Hogwarts.
• Snape assured Voldemort that Dumbledore would eventually grow old and die, and Voldemort said he wanted Dumbledore alive to witness his victory.
• At the Devon base, Bertha Jorkins received a letter from the French Ministry of Magic asking about Britain’s crisis and potential foreign assistance.
• Jorkins asked Scrimgeour whether his visit to Hogwarts had achieved anything, and he said Harry Potter had refused to cooperate with the Ministry and had declared himself Dumbledore’s man.
• Jorkins suggested that the Ministry cooperate with Dumbledore, and Scrimgeour stared at her without replying.

In Potions class, Loren and Hermione excelled at identifying a blended poison and brewing its antidote, while Harry used a Bezoar to win back Slughorn’s favor. Later, as Seamus struggled with Apparition practice, Loren suggested a new approach, leaving Seamus to consider practicing with his eyes closed.

• Hermione explained Golpalott's Third Law, and Slughorn awarded Gryffindor ten points while overlooking Harry's raised hand.
• Loren and Hermione analyzed their poison and brewed a perfect antidote, earning Outstanding marks.
• Harry found the Half-Blood Prince's note recommending a Bezoar, used one as his antidote, and earned Slughorn's praise and ten points for Gryffindor.
• Harry later asked Slughorn questions about poisons and antidotes, rebuilding the professor's favor.
• Seamus asked Loren and Hermione for guidance on Apparition, and Loren suggested that he practice with his eyes closed.

During the second Apparition class, Seamus used Loren’s advice to visualize the space inside a Wooden Ring and successfully Apparated without Splinching. His success left the students and professors amazed, while Dean and the others wondered how he had managed it.

• The instructor began the second Apparition lesson by having the students practice spinning toward Wooden Rings.
• Dean and Seamus struggled to find the Void State, and Seamus recalled Loren’s instructions to imagine the space inside the ring with his eyes closed.
• Seamus pictured himself inside the ring and recognized the floor pattern as Fang the hound.
• When Tykros called out, Seamus spun and Apparated into the Wooden Ring without losing any part of his body.
• Professor McGonagall checked Seamus, and the professors and students celebrated his success.
• Dean watched Seamus receive attention and bitterly wished he had Splinched.

Professor McGonagall and Tykros discussed Apparition lessons and the growing threat from the Death Eaters as Tykros warned that Hogwarts had drawn their attention. In Knockturn Alley, Moody and Tonks patrolled while Lucius Malfoy emerged from Borgin and Burkes, leading Tonks to suspect he had come to sell something.

• Professor McGonagall saw Tykros off and told him about students who had mastered Apparition, including Seamus Finnigan, Loren Morgan, and Hermione Granger.
• Tykros praised Loren Morgan's Eyes-Closed Practice Method and warned Professor McGonagall that Death Eaters had been found in Hogsmeade.
• Mundungus Fletcher blamed Moody's strict patrols for the decline in Knockturn Alley's trade as he followed him through the street.
• Tonks joined Moody in disguise and continued patrolling Knockturn Alley with him.
• Moody confronted Lucius Malfoy outside Borgin and Burkes, and Lucius taunted him about whether the Ministry could imprison him again.
• Tonks saw Lucius leave Borgin and Burkes and suspected that he had gone there to sell something.

Loren tested whether a Soul Stone could interact with a Boggart, but his initial attempts showed no effect. After placing the stone and Boggart together in a closed box, he found the stone had changed, leaving the result of the experiment unexplained.

• Loren entered the Room of Requirement with a Boggart and a Soul Stone to test whether they would interact.
• Loren used a false fear of slugs to make the Boggart emerge as a slug, then tried placing the Soul Stone in its path.
• Loren repeatedly prodded the slug with the Soul Stone, but it only avoided the stone or left mucus on it.
• Loren placed the Soul Stone in the box with the Boggart, covered the box, and restored his Occlumency.
• Loren reopened the box and found the Soul Stone scratched with a crude image of a whale with its side fins spread wide.

Loren investigated the stone formed by the Boggart and Soul Stone, discovering that it revealed colored impressions of nearby people. During Hogsmeade Weekend, he spent time with Hermione and the Weasley twins before the chapter ended with Draco reuniting with his father, Lucius, in the Shrieking Shack.

• Loren examined the fused stone, found that ordinary spells had no effect on it, and saw colored impressions around people when he held it.
• Loren told Hermione about the experiment and noticed that the stone seemed to reveal something like people's emotions or souls.
• Loren and Hermione visited Honeydukes and The Three Broomsticks, where they talked with Harry, Ron, Fred, and George.
• Loren advised Fred and George that Hogsmeade shops might be cheaper while business was poor, and they told him their Communication Badges were attracting Ministry and international orders.
• Fred and George offered Loren his share of the profits and urged him to make his invention public, but he declined.
• Draco met his father, Lucius, in the Shrieking Shack, and the two exchanged brief greetings.

Lucius warned Draco that the Death Eaters’ recovery could put the Malfoy family in danger and urged him to stay safe at Hogwarts. Meanwhile, Snape reviewed the Death Eaters’ assets at the Ministry while Bellatrix tested his patience, leaving the group’s rebuilding underway.

• Lucius told Draco that the Death Eaters and Ministry were regaining strength and that war was likely to begin soon.
• Lucius warned Draco that someone might threaten his parents to force him to act, and advised him to agree outwardly but remain protected at Hogwarts.
• The Death Eaters celebrated their release by occupying Ministry offices and destroying documents.
• Snape reviewed reports and assessed the Death Eaters’ assets while Bellatrix mocked his work and disrupted the documents.
• Snape ignored Bellatrix, who stormed out of the Minister’s Office.

Voldemort questioned Bellatrix about her sanity and reaffirmed his confidence in her loyalty and the Death Eaters’ eventual victory. At Hogwarts, Loren watched the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff Quidditch match with Hermione while Luna made her debut as commentator.

• Voldemort asked Bellatrix whether Ministry Aurors had tortured her into madness, and she insisted their attempts at torture were ineffective.
• Voldemort and Bellatrix discussed the weakened state of the Ministry and Dumbledore, and he promised to share the glory of conquering death with her.
• Loren sat with Hermione at the Quidditch match and held her hand while they bantered about his vanishing stone and his past stint as commentator.
• Luna began commentating on the match, and Professor McGonagall reluctantly sat beside her.
• Ginny rammed into Hufflepuff player Smith and took the Quaffle after he dropped it.
• Luna struggled to remember another Hufflepuff player's name until Professor McGonagall corrected her, prompting laughter from the audience.

Harry caught the Golden Snitch and won the Quidditch match for Gryffindor, after which Loren and Hermione left the celebrations to visit the lake. At the rescheduled Apparition lesson, Loren explained his ideas about the soul and body to instructor Wicky Tekross, who realized they might help perfect Apparition and solve Splinching.

• Gryffindor and Hufflepuff fought through a close Quidditch match as Summerby relentlessly followed Harry.
• Luna’s commentary distracted the crowd until Professor McGonagall called her out, and Harry then caught the Golden Snitch to win for Gryffindor.
• Loren took Hermione away from the celebrating crowd, and they chose to visit the lakeside daffodils instead of returning to the Castle.
• Professor Flitwick held the rescheduled Apparition lesson outdoors by the Black Lake, where the students practiced with Old Wooden Rings.
• Wicky Tekross met Loren and asked about his theory on why closing one’s eyes improved Apparition.
• Loren explained how the soul and body related to Apparition, and Tekross realized the ideas could help solve Splinching.

As Hogwarts students continued practicing Apparition, Tykros told Loren that his methods would be credited in a Ministry textbook. At the end of March, Loren and Hermione learned that Aragog had died and agreed to attend his funeral.

• Seamus Finnigan failed to Apparate during practice, while Harry successfully Apparated and drew a crowd.
• Tykros told Loren that the Ministry planned to publish a book about Apparition and would credit Loren as a coauthor for his practice methods and analysis.
• Loren reflected on the Apparition course ending for the Easter Holiday and on Hermione's plans to work for the Ministry after graduation.
• Hedwig delivered Hagrid's note, which told Loren and Hermione that Aragog had died and invited them to his funeral.
• Loren and Hermione accepted Hagrid's invitation to attend Aragog's funeral.

Harry used Felix Felicis to bring Slughorn to Hagrid’s funeral for Aragog, while Loren questioned whether the potion would guide Harry toward the memory he needed. The chapter ended with Slughorn collecting Aragog’s venom and delivering a tribute.

• Harry drank a small amount of Felix Felicis and decided to invite Slughorn to Aragog’s funeral.
• Loren, Hermione, and Ron went to Hagrid’s hut, where Hagrid mourned Aragog beside the grave.
• Harry arrived with Slughorn, whom he had met while the Potions Master was gathering herbs.
• Slughorn asked Hagrid for permission to collect Aragog’s venom, and Hagrid agreed.
• Slughorn collected two tubes of venom and gave a tribute to Aragog.

After Aragog’s funeral, Harry got Slughorn drunk and learned from his memory that Voldemort had planned to make six Horcruxes. Back in the dormitory, Harry pondered the last remaining Horcrux before a mysterious question appeared in his book.

• Hagrid collapsed in grief after Aragog was buried, and Loren asked Slughorn to stay with him while the students returned to the Castle.
• Loren detoured to pick pumpkins as Ron hurried fearfully through the Forbidden Forest alone.
• Harry used Hagrid’s help to get Slughorn drunk and obtain his memory about Voldemort’s plan to split his soul into seven pieces.
• Dumbledore showed Harry an older memory that confirmed Slughorn’s account, and Harry realized that Dumbledore and Loren had known the information already.
• Unable to sleep, Harry read the Half-Blood Prince’s spells and wondered about the last Horcrux before ink formed the question, “Do you want to resurrect your mother?”

Harry discovered that the Half-Blood Prince's textbook could communicate with him and claimed his mother could be brought back to life. After he told Dumbledore about the book, exhaustion overcame him and he fell asleep.

• Harry saw the textbook write that his mother could be brought back to life, resisted communicating with it, and put it away in a drawer.
• Harry told Loren about the book, and Loren warned him not to expect resurrection and advised him to speak with Dumbledore.
• Harry went to Dumbledore's office without changing out of his pajamas and recounted the textbook's messages and strange spells.
• Dumbledore urged Harry to get some sleep, and Harry finally succumbed to exhaustion.

On Easter, Harry spoke with Dumbledore about the Half-Blood Prince and the possibility of reviving his mother, then followed the Prince’s instructions to leave Hogwarts at night. At the gates, Harry discovered that Snape was waiting for him.

• Loren and Hermione relaxed beside the lake, where Hermione kissed Loren to silence his chatter.
• Dumbledore comforted Harry, answered his questions about the Half-Blood Prince, and urged him to remain rational about reviving his mother.
• At the Easter feast, Ginny encouraged Harry to rest while he kept his conversation with Dumbledore secret from Ron.
• Harry wrote to the Half-Blood Prince in his Advanced Potion-Making book and was told to meet him at the school gates.
• Harry left the Castle after dark and found Snape waiting outside the gates.

Loren discovered Harry sneaking out with the Half-Blood Prince’s “Advanced Potion-Making” and joined Dumbledore as they followed him. Dumbledore recounted the histories of Remus, Peter, and Snape while Harry and Snape reached the place where Snape had met Harry’s mother, and Loren’s Bronze Knut suddenly alerted him to something.

• Loren returned to Gryffindor Tower with Hermione, shared an orange-flavored goodnight kiss with her, then found that Harry and the Half-Blood Prince’s “Advanced Potion-Making” were missing.
• Loren transformed into a Spectacled Owl and caught up with Dumbledore, who was following Harry toward the school gates; Dumbledore said he had chosen Easter because resurrection seemed fitting.
• As they followed Harry, Dumbledore told Loren how Remus’s friends became Animagi, how he had misjudged Peter Pettigrew, and how Snape’s love had brought him back from darkness.
• In the Slytherin Common Room, Theodore Nott urged Draco to pass school information to his father, then told him that Dumbledore had left the school; Draco took out a strangely designed Galleon after Nott departed.
• Harry and Snape Apparated to an abandoned Playground on the outskirts of London, where Snape told Harry to hurry with their preparations; Dumbledore and Loren appeared nearby in Phoenix fire and watched them.
• Loren reached into his pendant and took out a Bronze Knut when his expression suddenly changed.

Snape attempted to resurrect Lily with Harry’s and Petunia Evans’s memories, but Voldemort’s arrival and a curse destroyed the ritual. Surrounded by Death Eaters, Snape unexpectedly cast Avada Kedavra at Voldemort.

• Snape prepared the Resurrection Ritual while Harry kept the fire burning and wondered whether it would require a sacrifice.
• Snape used the cauldron and memories to open a passage between life and death, and Lily’s soul appeared before Harry and Snape.
• As Lily was drawn toward the cauldron, the ritual’s cost aged Snape’s body, but a red beam shattered the cauldron and interrupted the resurrection.
• Lily vanished, Snape’s body recovered, and Voldemort arrived with Bellatrix, the Lestrange Brothers, Lucius Malfoy, and other Death Eaters.
• Voldemort confronted Snape about risking his life for Lily, and Snape answered by casting Avada Kedavra.

Snape confronted Voldemort, but Dumbledore pushed Loren into the duel, where Loren shattered Voldemort’s Killing Curse and helped Snape and Harry escape. Loren then fought Voldemort across a burning meadow, leaving their battle raging in the sky.

• Snape blocked Voldemort’s Killing Curse and condemned him for fearing death, prompting Voldemort to attack again.
• Dumbledore shoved Loren out from hiding with a wand, and Loren’s Piercing Charm shattered Voldemort’s next Killing Curse.
• Loren blasted a crater near the Death Eaters, then offered to take Snape and Harry back to Hogwarts.
• Voldemort attacked Loren, who dodged and spread flames across the meadow, opening a path for Snape and Harry to flee.
• Loren pursued Voldemort into the sky with fiery beasts as Voldemort launched magical attacks from above.

Loren and Voldemort battled in the air, trading powerful magic while Voldemort tried to recruit him. Loren struck Voldemort with a devastating Piercing Bolt, but Dumbledore revealed that Voldemort had escaped and was likely badly injured.

• Voldemort offered to join forces with Loren, but Loren asked him to reveal the living Horcrux.
• Voldemort attacked Loren with a Killing Curse and split it into thousands of curses to blanket the area.
• Loren used spatial magic to appear above Voldemort and unleash a powerful Piercing Bolt that blasted a deep crater into the ground.
• Dumbledore told Loren that Voldemort had blocked the spell briefly with his Silver Shield before escaping, likely seriously injured.
• Loren worried about Harry and Snape, then used Transfiguration to repair the devastated clearing.

After Voldemort’s defeat, Loren questioned Dumbledore about the failed Resurrection Ritual, the battle, and the Elder Wand. Dumbledore explained his reasoning and urged Loren to trust his own strength, leaving Loren unconvinced that the wand had not been crucial.

• Loren inspected the Elder Wand and followed Dumbledore into the woods after asking him to explain what had happened.
• Loren asked whether Dumbledore had known the Resurrection Ritual would fail, and Dumbledore said he had hoped Lily and Harry could be reunited and that Snape could find release from his guilt.
• Loren questioned why Dumbledore had made him fight Voldemort, and Dumbledore called it a sudden whim while avoiding a direct explanation of his plans for the Elder Wand.
• Loren offered to return the Elder Wand, but Dumbledore said he had not needed it to defeat Voldemort and credited Loren’s Magic Power, Apparition, and Piercing Charm.
• Dumbledore told Loren to practice with the Elder Wand, while Loren still believed it had been crucial to his victory.

After Loren and Dumbledore defeated Voldemort, Snape reunited with Harry in the Woods and used the Black Gem to summon Lily. The chapter ended with Lily appearing before Snape and Harry as Loren and Dumbledore stepped away to give them privacy.

• Snape led Harry through the Woods while fending off the pursuing Death Eaters, and Voldemort's summons drew the attackers away.
• Snape explained that Voldemort had summoned the Death Eaters because something had happened to him, and Harry realized Loren and Dumbledore had defeated him.
• Snape told Harry he would begin preparing the resurrection ritual again, and Harry quietly reflected on how his feelings toward Snape had changed.
• Loren and Dumbledore emerged from the trees, and Dumbledore urged Snape to speak with Lily.
• Snape turned the Black Gem three times and summoned Lily, whose spirit appeared before him and Harry.
• Loren observed Lily's spirit while Dumbledore touched his shoulder, and the two withdrew to leave Snape and Harry alone with her.