Chapter Summaries

Tierra led the Golden Books Conference into the Cold Plateau and waited at Benner Bay to observe the trade between a merchant ship and the Cold Wasteland Residents. When the Residents noticed Tierra and his companions, they paused, then bowed to them before continuing their business.

• Tierra took the Golden Books Conference through the Cold Plateau, avoiding the Cold Wasteland Residents and Cold Spiders along the way.
• Tierra led the group to Benner Bay, where they waited four days for a merchant ship to arrive.
• A crimson-lacquered ship unloaded slaves, grain, furs, and spices at the harbor, leaving one sailor behind as the cargo was exchanged.
• Ten Cold Spiders and five Cold Wasteland Residents emerged from the snow to meet the sailor and inspect the cargo.
• The Cold Wasteland Residents noticed Tierra and the Golden Books Conference, paused to confer, then bowed before continuing toward the ship.

Tierra paid the merchant caravan to take Dumbledore and the others to a human port, then stayed behind in the Dreamlands. He tested the modern goods he had brought as offerings for the Dream Gods and set off to seek them and trade for powers tied to Annihilation.

• Tierra watched the Cold Wasteland Residents leave after their smooth trade and led the Golden Books Conference to the harbor.
• Tierra paid the merchant with two gold bars, and the merchant agreed to take Dumbledore and the others aboard his ship.
• Tierra stayed at the harbor while the merchant ship sailed away with the other travelers.
• Tierra tested his Game Boys, videocassette player, and other modern items, confirming that they worked in the Dreamlands.
• Tierra prepared his goods as offerings to the Dream Gods, hoping to trade for blessings of pain, illusion, and destruction, then transformed into mist and set off across the Snowy Plains.

After returning from the Dreamlands, the Golden Books Conference members put their purchases and discoveries to work at Hogwarts. Tierra took Dumbledore to a remote sea cliff where Tom Riddle had hidden a Horcrux and killed two children, and they went to investigate.

• Dumbledore and the others spent nearly a week shopping in Dylath-Leen, buying magical supplies, materials, and creatures with Noden Currency.
• Tierra arrived in Dylath-Leen with Sky Gold, Flowing Silver, and Pillar Copper, then later led the group back to Hogwarts through The Gate.
• At Hogwarts, Slytherin, Nicolas Flamel, and Wu Peirong processed the metals while the Thunderbird Chieftain and Madam Maka-Far-Monkasha worked with three souls, including Dolores Umbridge's.
• Before the History of Magic exam, Tierra took Dumbledore through The Gate to a remote sea cliff where Tom had hidden a Horcrux.
• Dumbledore recognized the cliff from Tom Riddle's memories and recalled that Riddle had brought two children there, whom Tierra said he had killed.

Tierra and Dumbledore entered Voldemort’s hidden cavern to recover Regulus Black and the locket he had taken from Voldemort. After Tierra drank the potion protecting it and retrieved the locket, the Inferi rose from the lake, and Tierra unleashed his power against them.

• Tierra led Dumbledore through the cave passage and used his blood to open the hidden entrance, noting that Voldemort would be surprised when he tried the same method.
• Tierra and Dumbledore crossed the black lake while Tierra explained how Regulus had turned against Voldemort and died after taking his Horcrux.
• Tierra reached the island’s stone basin, drank the potion inside, and recovered the locket at the bottom.
• Tierra threw the shell bowl into the lake, provoking the Inferi to emerge and crawl toward the island.
• Dumbledore drew his wand as Tierra filled the cavern with strange mist and invoked, “The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters!”

Harry left his History of Magic exam after a nightmare, while Hathaway Romanov passed through a Gate to begin her Godhood Ascension Ritual with Tierra. The ritual reached the creation of humanity as allies in the Ministry of Magic helped Tierra build a world inside his body, and Hathaway ended by invoking war, plague, famine, and death.

• Harry refused to go to the Hospital Wing and told Professor Tofty that he had fallen asleep and had a nightmare.
• Hathaway Romanov left the examination room and passed through a Gate to a dark place where Tierra began her Godhood Ascension Ritual.
• Tierra recited the creation account as Hathaway Romanov crossed the black waters toward an emerging island and archway.
• Dumbledore, Slytherin, Makar-Far-Monkasha, Wu Peirong, Nicolas Flamel, and the Thunderbird Chieftain threw enchanted suitcases and other contents into Tierra's suspended body in the Veil Chamber.
• Tierra merged with Hathaway Romanov, who welcomed a naked wizard and witch, tore out her heart, and let them eat it.
• Hathaway Romanov declared that the forbidden fruit brought war, plague, famine, and death into the world.

Harry told Ron and Hermione that Voldemort had captured Sirius and planned to rescue him from the Department of Mysteries. Meanwhile, Hathaway Romanov cast away three powerful artifacts, which reappeared through the Veil as a voice proclaimed itself omnipotent, driving the Golden Books Conference members to flee.

• Harry left his exam and told Ron and Hermione that he had seen Voldemort torturing Sirius in the Department of Mysteries.
• Harry insisted they rescue Sirius, and Hermione warned that the vision might be a trap while Ron agreed to help.
• Harry and Hermione headed to meet Ron near the Defense Against the Dark Arts office, planning to use the Floo Network and Fred and George's fireworks.
• Hathaway Romanov threw the Red Priest's Grimoire, the Scepter of the Decayed Empress, and the Barren Crown into a black lake before stepping through an empty archway with a wizard and witch.
• The three artifacts emerged from the mist above The Veil Chamber, and the mist formed a towering archway as a voice declared itself the omnipotent one.
• Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel, Wu Peirong, Maka-Far-Monkasha, Slytherin, and the others fled the Veil Chamber.

Harry and his friends were caught breaking into Umbridge's office, where Tierra appeared and claimed the three souls Umbridge had prepared for him. At the Ministry, the souls emerged from Umbridge's trunk and rode through a Gate on three magical horses, leaving the Ministry empty.

• Harry used Umbridge's fireplace to contact Number 12, Grimmauld Place, where Kreacher revealed that Sirius had gone to the Department of Mysteries and would not return.
• Umbridge caught Harry and Hermione, and Malfoy and the Slytherins captured most of Dumbledore's Army; Snape refused to provide Veritaserum and left after Harry warned him that Sirius was in danger.
• Umbridge prepared to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry, but a supernatural disturbance struck the office, threw Umbridge into a wall, and caused the Slytherins to collapse and behave strangely.
• Tierra appeared in the office's mirrors, named the three Ministry officials whose souls Umbridge had prepared, and said he would take those souls from her.
• At the Ministry, three magical items opened Umbridge's trunk and released the living-dead Mazan Kessler, Isaiah Duncan, and Alexander Thorne, who mounted Sky Gold, Flowing Silver, and Pillar Copper and rode through a Gate.

Tierra made Dumbledore’s Army face its final assessment by fighting Umbridge and the Inquisitorial Squad, and the students defeated Umbridge. Harry then decided to go to the Ministry of Magic to save Sirius, while Luna suggested they fly there.

• Tierra sent Umbridge back into the past and explained that picking up the hovering wands would begin Dumbledore’s Army’s final assessment.
• Hermione, Fred, and George guarded the office door while Harry counted down, and Dumbledore’s Army grabbed their wands and attacked the recovering Inquisitorial Squad.
• Harry and Hermione led the attack on Umbridge, and Dumbledore’s Army used its trained team tactics to defeat her and bind her.
• Harry wanted to reach the Ministry of Magic to save Sirius, while Hermione urged him to follow Tierra’s order to maintain order at Hogwarts.
• Neville and Luna said they would go with Harry, and Luna proposed that they fly to the Ministry.

Harry and eight members of Dumbledore’s Army flew to the Ministry of Magic to rescue Sirius, but found a trap waiting in the Department of Mysteries. As Death Eaters surrounded them, Tierra appeared with three strange knights and urged Harry to run.

• Harry, Hermione, Ron, Neville, George, Fred, Ginny, Luna, and Cho Chang rode Thestrals from Hogwarts to London.
• Harry led the group through the Ministry of Magic to the Department of Mysteries and Row Ninety-Seven, but they found no sign of Sirius.
• Cho spotted a prophecy sphere bearing Harry’s name, and Harry picked it up despite Hermione and Luna’s warnings.
• Lucius Malfoy and eleven other Death Eaters surrounded the group and demanded the prophecy sphere, revealing that Harry had been lured into a trap.
• Tierra appeared behind the Death Eaters as three knights on gold, silver, and bronze horses blocked the passages.
• Harry heard Tierra tell him to run.

Harry and the other members of Dumbledore’s Army escaped the prophecy room after Tierra trapped the Death Eaters and unleashed the three knights against them. At the Ministry Atrium, Voldemort was waiting for Harry.

• Harry’s group split up to break through the Death Eaters’ encirclement, but the Death Eaters found themselves trapped in the prophecy room and Tierra crushed Bellatrix’s Killing Curse before ordering the knights to attack.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione escaped into a circular chamber, where they found Neville, Luna, and Cho Chang beside an ancient archway that Luna believed was safe.
• Hermione pulled Luna away from the archway, and the six students reunited with George, Fred, and Ginny at the elevator.
• The nine members of Dumbledore’s Army rode the elevator to the Ministry Atrium, where Harry saw Voldemort waiting beside the magical fountain.

Voldemort trapped Harry and Dumbledore’s Army in the Ministry Atrium, but Dumbledore and the Thunderbird Chieftain intervened as allies arrived to protect them. The chapter ended with an unknown creature climbing from the burning elevator shaft.

• Voldemort destroyed the elevators and cornered Harry and Dumbledore’s Army in the Atrium.
• Dumbledore arrived through the fireplace, and the Thunderbird Chieftain blocked Voldemort’s attack and moved Harry and the others to safety.
• A giant Basilisk attacked Voldemort, while Nicolas Flamel greeted the students and Wu Peirong used a Jade Ruyi to unleash ice and raise a protective barrier.
• Voldemort’s Killing Curse failed to penetrate the barrier as Dumbledore told Harry to watch for the real show.
• A roar and heavy pounding came from the elevator shaft, and a pale hand clawed up onto the floor.

Tierra emerged in the Ministry of Magic atrium and used a grotesque ritual to return to his enormous form, confronting Voldemort. Voldemort tried to flee, but Tierra’s magic kept bringing him back.

• Tierra crawled from the elevator shaft as the atrium darkened, and Voldemort recognized him.
• Three warhorses carrying the heads of Voldemort’s Death Eaters shielded Tierra while nine headless corpses drew a runic circle in blood.
• Voldemort’s Fire Serpent failed to stop the ritual, and Tierra vomited a flood of strange liquid that transformed him into Marietta Edgecombe.
• Tierra rose from the receding liquid, towering over Marietta and telling her that she had already been punished for betraying Dumbledore’s Army.
• Tierra confronted Voldemort, who repeatedly tried to Apparate away but reappeared in the same place and shouted that Tierra should be dead.

Tierra explained to Voldemort how he had used prophecies, his own death, and the demon contract to return to life. He revealed that Marietta was only a temporary vessel and declared that he wanted Voldemort’s powerful body.

• Tierra told Voldemort that he had foreseen his death and used the prophecy to plan his return.
• Tierra explained that prophecies showed partial truths and that he had turned his predicted death into the foundation of a Godhood Ascension Ritual.
• Tierra said he had become a demon, arranged for his consciousness to return through the Resurrection Stone, and used fulfilled prophecies to make people his anchors.
• Tierra revealed that the spell binding Dumbledore's Army was a demon contract that let him possess Marietta after she betrayed the group.
• Tierra told Voldemort that Marietta was only a temporary vessel and reached for him, saying he needed Voldemort’s body.

Tierra overwhelmed Voldemort at the Ministry, then pursued him into the courtroom, where a toxin he had planted on Lucius Malfoy let him control Lucius into suggesting the Veil Chamber. Voldemort secretly approved the plan, while Dumbledore and the Golden Books Conference prepared for what came next.

• Voldemort attacked Tierra with the Killing Curse and other spells, but they could not harm Tierra’s conceptual form.
• When Fudge and other wizards arrived, Tierra pretended Voldemort was trying to assassinate the Minister, then opened a vast pit in the Ministry Atrium and dragged Voldemort down despite his attempt to escape as smoke.
• Dumbledore explained that Tierra had wanted to build a new Ministry upon the ruins, and Fudge ordered Aurors to investigate the pit.
• Tierra led Voldemort to the courtroom, where Bellatrix forced Lucius to join the fight and Fenrir Greyback charged at Tierra.
• Tierra’s toxin let him control Lucius into proposing that they force Tierra through the execution doorway in the Department of Mysteries’ Veil Chamber, and Voldemort secretly praised the suggestion.

Tierra fought Voldemort and used their battle to demonstrate a new approach to the Godhood Ritual Path. After entering the stone archway and emerging from Voldemort’s body, Tierra crowned himself and declared that death now had an image.

• Tierra fought Voldemort, shifting forms while the Aurors attacked both of them and Bellatrix, Lucius, and Fenrir aided Voldemort.
• Voldemort realized Tierra feared other people’s Killing Curses and advanced with the Death Eaters, forcing Tierra toward the stone archway.
• As Tierra battled Voldemort, he explained to the invisible Golden Books Conference that the Divine Dimension crossing and later fusion of the ritual’s steps could be separated into two stages.
• Voldemort, Bellatrix, Lucius, and Fenrir struck Tierra with Killing Curses, sending him into the archway, which then turned into black liquid and poured into Voldemort’s mouth.
• Voldemort’s body swelled, and Tierra emerged from his stomach holding a Crown of Thorns before placing it on his head and declaring, “From this day onward, death has an image.”

After Tierra resurrected and subdued Voldemort, he stopped time and forced Cornelius Fudge to choose between becoming a puppet Minister of Magic or losing power. Fudge agreed to the Tarot Conclave’s terms, and Tierra presented him with a demonic contract disguised as the Hogwarts Educational Reform Act.

• Tierra appeared transformed by the crown, incapacitated Voldemort, and ordered Madam Maka-Far-Monkasha to keep him alive for public judgment.
• Tierra stopped time and confronted Cornelius Fudge about his Ministry’s past claims concerning Voldemort’s return.
• Tierra offered Fudge a chance to retain his position as a puppet minister and claim credit for Voldemort’s defeat, but threatened to remove him if he refused.
• Fudge accepted Tierra’s terms after Tierra explained that Dumbledore could replace him with a loyal official.
• Tierra showed Fudge a demonic contract setting out the Tarot Conclave’s terms and handed him a quill to sign.

Tierra guided Cornelius Fudge through a press conference that blamed the Ministry’s past failures on a plan to expose Voldemort’s followers and announced emergency reforms. Fudge said Dolores Umbridge had escaped Azkaban and joined Voldemort, while Tierra knew she was with Voldemort in a remote forest castle.

• Tierra told reporters that Fudge had feigned resistance to Voldemort to expose hidden Death Eaters, and that Bellatrix Lestrange, Fenrir Greyback, and Lucius Malfoy had been captured.
• Fudge announced that Voldemort had escaped during his transfer to Azkaban after the Dementors rebelled, and declared a Ministry state of emergency.
• Fudge announced the Hogwarts Educational Reform Act and said Tierra would become the new Hogwarts Inquisitor in September.
• Luna Lovegood asked what had happened to Dolores Umbridge, then questioned Fudge about evidence that Umbridge had used the Cruciatus Curse on students.
• Fudge claimed Umbridge had joined Voldemort and escaped from Azkaban, while Tierra recalled that Voldemort was questioning her about the Godhood Ascension Ritual in a remote forest castle.

Voldemort escaped Azkaban with Umbridge after she claimed to know the secret of Tierra’s Godhood Ascension Ritual. Meanwhile, Cornelius Fudge announced sweeping Ministry reforms that concentrated power in a new British Magical Federation, and Tierra explained his intentions to Dumbledore.

• Umbridge persuaded Voldemort to take her from Azkaban by claiming she knew how Tierra’s Godhood Ascension Ritual worked and where its secret was hidden.
• Voldemort failed to read Umbridge’s mind, seized her, and escaped with her to the Death Eaters’ hideout, where Tierra later removed her mental barrier.
• Cornelius Fudge announced reforms to Wizengamot trials, including a prosecutorial body, a four-member court, and the right for defendants to hire advocates.
• Fudge announced a Magical Political Department led by Dumbledore, with members selected by Dumbledore and tasked with evaluating Ministry employees.
• Fudge declared that the Ministry would become the British Magical Federation, giving its General Secretary extensive authority over the Aurors, Wizengamot, and interpretation of laws.
• Tierra told Dumbledore that Fudge would face resistance, but that Tierra wanted concentrated power to unite the Wizarding World against external threats.

As the Ministry’s purge sparked outrage, Tierra reassured Harry, Ron, and Hermione that their friendship remained unchanged, then used his new role as Hogwarts High Inquisitor to expel the Inquisitorial Squad. The chapter ended with Harry, Ron, and Hermione realizing Tierra’s frightening cruelty had been hidden beneath his gentle exterior.

• The Daily Prophet condemned Cornelius Fudge’s Internal Purge Act, while Harry and Ron discussed the Ministry’s turmoil and Sirius’s warning about Tierra.
• Hermione told Harry that Tierra had grown so powerful that they should not interfere in his affairs, and Harry struggled to accept the distance between them.
• Draco Malfoy threatened Harry over his father, but Tierra’s arrival sent Malfoy back to the Slytherin table.
• Tierra reassured Harry, Ron, and Hermione that his friendship with them had not changed.
• Dumbledore announced Slytherin as House Cup winner, and Tierra addressed the Great Hall as Hogwarts High Inquisitor.
• Tierra named the Inquisitorial Squad members for Outstanding Student Medals, then announced their expulsion from Hogwarts.

Jim Hacker met Cornelius Fudge, who warned him that Voldemort had returned and was attacking across the United Kingdom. Fudge asked the Prime Minister to secretly station modern troops at the Ministry of Magic, leaving Jim to consider the request.

• Jim Hacker worried over the week's disasters and the growing public panic as he waited in his office.
• A portrait summoned Jim to meet Cornelius Fudge, who arrived through the fireplace at 10 Downing Street.
• Fudge told Jim that Voldemort had returned with a stronger army and was conducting terrorist attacks across the United Kingdom.
• Fudge admitted the Ministry of Magic could not stop Voldemort and asked Jim to secretly dispatch modern troops to protect the Ministry.