Chapter Summaries

Michael fought Cthulhu above the Black Lake, but his holy flames failed to seriously harm it. As the battle shook Hogwarts, McGonagall ordered the professors to evacuate every student through the secret passages.

• Cthulhu blocked Michael’s full-force sword strike, hurled him back with a tentacle, and struck his mind with an invisible attack.
• Michael and Cthulhu traded spells and attacks across the Black Lake while Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel watched without intervening.
• The battle’s shockwaves shook Hogwarts and terrified the students, while McGonagall recognized the giant squid as a school guardian and noted that the Basilisk had not answered her summons.
• Flitwick identified the winged beings as angels, and Snape warned that the visitors meant no good and urged the school to prepare to fight or evacuate.
• McGonagall ordered Flitwick, Snape, and Sprout to evacuate all students through the secret passages under the highest emergency shelter plan.

As battle threatened Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall activated the castle’s defenses while teachers and students prepared to fight. Harry organized the G.A. as Gabriel and the others watched from outside, unconcerned.

• Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout, and Snape led students toward secret passages as the evacuation began.
• Harry and other students refused to leave, so Professor McGonagall allowed those aged seventeen or older to stay and ordered younger students to evacuate.
• Professor McGonagall raised Hogwarts’s protective barrier and animated the statues and suits of armor to defend the castle.
• Professor Slughorn supplied potions, Professor Flitwick cast a wind-blade barrier, Professor Sprout empowered magical plants, and Snape spread poisonous mist around Hogwarts.
• Hagrid and Grawp guarded the gates while Harry assigned the G.A. into groups for attack, defense, mobile support, and aerial reconnaissance.
• Gabriel and the others noticed the preparations inside Hogwarts but did not consider them a threat.

Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel breached Hogwarts’ defenses and treated the castle’s protections as toys while Michael continued fighting Cthulhu above the Black Lake. Gabriel discovered Professor Sprout’s magically intelligent plants and ordered her captured alive, leaving the angels advancing on the defenders.

• Gabriel destroyed the pale golden barrier protecting Hogwarts after his first attempt failed.
• Uriel melted the castle’s stone and metal defenses, while Raphael aged the attacking gargoyles into dust.
• The three angels entered the grounds and ignored Professor Flitwick’s wind blades and Snape’s poisonous fog.
• Gabriel seized a Biting Cabbage and recognized that Professor Sprout’s magic had granted intelligence to the plants.
• Gabriel ordered his companions to attack and demanded that Professor Sprout be captured alive.

Uriel overwhelmed Hogwarts’ defenders with Judgment Fire, forcing even the professors’ Killing Curses to halt him only briefly. He pierced their defenses with soul-tormenting whips and continued punishing anyone who resisted.

• Uriel shattered the defenders’ combined Crushing Curse and knocked Hagrid and Grawp into the castle wall with a casual sword strike.
• Ron and the Group B defenders blocked Uriel’s shockwave, but it broke their barrier and injured several students.
• McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick, Sprout, and the other professors forced Uriel to defend himself with a coordinated barrage of Killing Curses.
• Harry, Draco, and the other students attacked Uriel, but his fiery domain burned away their spells.
• Uriel sent flaming whips through the students’ barrier, tormenting their souls and striking down anyone who continued to resist.

Uriel and Gabriel continued tormenting the exhausted Hogwarts defenders, and Gabriel tortured Professor Sprout to learn how she had given intelligence to the Biting Cabbage. After Sprout refused to reveal Brook’s secret, Gabriel threatened to kill students until she talked, leaving her in despair as Rio bled from a wound to the heart.

• Uriel watched Harry, Draco, and the other defenders buckle under his attacks while Gabriel restrained Professor Sprout with chains of holy light.
• Gabriel questioned Sprout about the Biting Cabbage and tortured her soul when she stayed silent, while McGonagall, Flitwick, and Snape were too exhausted to help.
• Harry, Ron, Draco, and the students who could still stand tried to attack Gabriel, but Uriel struck them down with his whip.
• Gabriel stopped torturing Sprout and demanded an answer, but she remained silent and defiant.
• Gabriel pierced Rio through the heart and threatened to kill another student every ten seconds unless Sprout told him what he wanted to know.

Vinda Rosier arrived at the palace mortally wounded and warned Brook that angels had destroyed the Nordic Wizard Republic and were heading to Hogwarts. Brook left with Voldemort and Eula to confront them, while Hermione stayed behind to stabilize the palace.

• Vinda Rosier fell through distorted space into the palace and told Brook that angels had destroyed the Nordic Wizard Republic and gone to Hogwarts before she died.
• Brook realized Hogwarts was in danger and opened a Space Gate to go there.
• Voldemort and Eula volunteered to accompany Brook, while Hermione asked to come too.
• Brook told Hermione to stay behind and hold down the rear, and she agreed to wait for his return.
• Brook, Voldemort, and Eula entered the Space Gate and departed for Hogwarts.

After Brook vanished to face danger alone, Hermione chose to undergo Ravenclaw’s ancient ritual to gain power, accepting the loss of half her life essence. The ritual began painfully, flooding her mind with knowledge and transforming her body with magic.

• Hermione felt helpless and resolved to gain enough strength to fight beside Brook.
• Hermione put on Ravenclaw’s Diadem and asked Rowena Ravenclaw to begin the ancient equivalent exchange ritual.
• Ravenclaw warned Hermione that the ritual would consume half her life essence, but Hermione accepted the cost because the flat peach had given her thousands of years of life.
• Ravenclaw began the ritual, and Hermione collapsed as the diadem drained her life essence and poured knowledge and magic into her.

Hermione endured Ravenclaw’s ritual, sacrificing sixteen hundred years of life essence to gain immense power and ancient knowledge. Brook arrived at Hogwarts to find the teachers and students badly wounded, and faced the angels responsible for the attack.

• Hermione completed the ritual, her hair turning white as the exchange granted her immense magical power and knowledge.
• Brook, Voldemort, and Eula appeared before Hogwarts Castle and saw Professor Sprout suspended in chains while students and teachers lay injured or dead.
• Brook cut through the chains, rescued Professor Sprout, and carried her to the other survivors.
• Professor Sprout warned Brook that the angels were stronger than Dumbledore and urged him to flee if he could not defeat them.
• Brook promised Professor Sprout he knew what to do, and she lost consciousness as Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel studied Brook.

Brook learned that the angels blamed the Four Founders for sealing their race and erasing its traces, then evacuated Hogwarts’ teachers and students before attacking Gabriel and the other angels. His opening strike forced Uriel back, and the battle began with the angels.

• Gabriel told Brook that the Four Founders had learned magic and Word Spirit Arts from the angels before sealing them away.
• Brook connected the angels’ escape four months earlier to the energy shock from his final battle with Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
• Gabriel threatened the Founders’ inheritors, and Brook sent every teacher and student on the battlefield through Space Gates.
• Brook attacked Gabriel and the other angels with Mingyue, Armament Haki, and Fiendfyre.
• Uriel blocked Brook’s sword aura with his greatsword but was forced back a step.

Eula, Raphael, and Brook each fought one of the three angels as the battlefield split into separate duels. Brook wounded Gabriel with a space-cutting strike, but his pupils suddenly contracted before he could press the attack.

• Eula intercepted Uriel and clashed with him using Song of Broken Pines and the Human Sovereign Banner’s netherworld power.
• Raphael confronted Voldemort and countered her Wraith Spirits with turquoise life light.
• Brook attacked Gabriel, broke through his defenses with Rupture: Seamless Rift Valley, and dodged a barrage of holy feathers.
• Brook unleashed a series of varied blade techniques, forcing Gabriel onto the defensive and cutting his arm deeply.
• Brook prepared to exploit Gabriel’s wound, but his pupils suddenly contracted.

Brook struggled to overcome Gabriel’s rapid healing while Eula held Uriel at bay and Voldemort and Cthulhu faced mounting danger. After learning that soul injuries were difficult for the angels to heal, Brook released his Zanpakuto and struck Gabriel with an attack that reached his soul.

• Brook found that Gabriel healed every wound, while Eula and Uriel fought to a standstill and Voldemort struggled against Raphael.
• Brook saw that Michael was overwhelming Cthulhu and realized the battle could soon turn against them.
• A weary voice told Brook to use soul attacks because the angels’ physical healing could not easily repair soul damage.
• Brook released his Zanpakuto, Utsusemi, and used World Gap Traversal to slash Gabriel through a spatial rift.
• Brook rang Utsusemi’s bell and sent Soul Resonance through the wound to affect Gabriel’s soul.

Brook’s soul-targeting Zanpakuto badly wounded Gabriel, forcing Gabriel to call Michael into the fight. The two angels turned the battle against Brook, and Gabriel prepared a powerful spell while ordering Michael to hold him off for three minutes.

• Brook repeatedly used World Gap Traversal and Soul Resonance to tear fragments from Gabriel’s soul, weakening him and disrupting his powers.
• Gabriel called for Michael’s help, and Michael abandoned his fight against Cthulhu to defend Gabriel with his shield.
• Michael protected Gabriel while Gabriel unleashed waves of holy attacks against Brook, forcing the battle into a stalemate.
• Cthulhu tried to assist from Black Lake but was too slow to intervene effectively and was nearly struck by Michael.
• Gabriel resolved to kill Brook to protect the angels and secretly told Michael to hold him off for three minutes as he turned to the final page of his Holy Book.

Hermione arrived on the battlefield with greatly increased magical power and helped Brook fight Michael and Gabriel. She restrained the angels and created an opening for Brook to attack Gabriel as he prepared a forbidden spell.

• Gabriel began preparing Root Curse, and Brook considered using his last costly trump card.
• Hermione struck Michael from behind and joined Brook on the battlefield.
• Brook told Hermione that the angels’ weakness was their souls and urged her to restrain them while he attacked.
• Hermione used a series of control spells to restrict the angels’ movement, weaken their elemental connection, and disrupt their holy-light energy.
• Brook exploited Hermione’s battlefield control to attack Gabriel, while Hermione kept Michael occupied.
• Hermione bound Gabriel’s ankle with Order Chains, briefly interrupting him and giving Brook an opening.

Brook grievously wounded Gabriel by piercing his soul with Utsusemi, forcing Michael to protect him and order Raphael and Uriel to retreat. Raphael and Uriel fled their battles, pursued by Voldemort and Eula, while Gabriel and Michael remained to face Brook and Hermione.

• Brook struck Gabriel with Utsusemi, devouring more than a third of his soul and interrupting his forbidden curse.
• Michael forced Hermione back and attacked Brook alongside Gabriel, but Brook's blade stripped away more of Gabriel's soul and Gabriel fell to the ground.
• Gabriel warned Michael to flee, but Brook used a Space Gate to attack Michael again.
• Gabriel sacrificed his remaining power to create a barrier around Michael and urged him to escape for their people.
• Michael ordered Raphael and Uriel to run; Raphael fled from Voldemort, who pursued him with the Human Sovereign Banner.
• Uriel fled after taking Eula's heavy strike, and Eula immediately chased him.

Brook and Hermione defeated Michael and Gabriel, then rushed to help Voldemort confront Raphael. Raphael threatened to kill the more than a thousand mind-controlled Muggles around him.

• Michael burned his origin and charged Brook and Hermione, but Hermione shattered Gabriel's Luminous Barrier and Brook stabbed Michael with Utsusemi.
• Brook pinned Michael to the ground and devoured his soul, killing him as Gabriel watched in despair.
• Hermione bound Gabriel with All-Phenomena Confinement, and Brook pierced Gabriel's skull, annihilating his remaining soul.
• Brook and Hermione restored their strength with Senzu Beans and used a Space Gate to reach Voldemort, who was fighting Raphael.
• Brook and Hermione found Raphael controlling over a thousand Muggles and feeding on pale green threads from their heads, and Raphael threatened to kill them if they did not leave.

Brook, Hermione, and Voldemort attacked Raphael after he used Muggles as hostages, but Raphael began draining the surrounding life to build an unstable energy core. As Brook’s blade pierced his heart, Raphael released control of the gathered energy, leaving the trio facing his imminent detonation.

• Raphael drained several Muggles to pressure Brook and Voldemort, but Voldemort explained that she had held back to prevent a massacre from ruining the wizards’ reputation.
• Brook ordered Hermione to control Raphael, Voldemort to interfere, and himself to lead the attack; Hermione restricted Raphael while Voldemort attacked the Muggles with the Human Sovereign Banner.
• Brook and Hermione shattered Raphael’s shield and wounded him as he fled, but Brook continued attacking despite Raphael’s pleas for mercy.
• Raphael drained life from nearby people and creatures and aged the surrounding buildings to gather energy for a destructive explosion.
• Brook, Hermione, and Voldemort coordinated their attacks as Raphael compressed the stolen life energy, and Brook thrust his blade into Raphael’s heart.
• Raphael relinquished control over the vast, unstable energy within his body.

Brook destroyed Raphael and then joined Eula, Hermione, and Voldemort to defeat Uriel, finishing the four angels who had descended on Earth. After the battles, Hermione explained that she had sacrificed half her life essence for knowledge and power, and Brook promised they would face future dangers together.

• Brook teleported away with Voldemort and Raphael as Raphael's energy erupted, then returned to find Raphael dead in a vast crater.
• Brook went to Eula's battle with Uriel and led Hermione, Voldemort, and Eula in a coordinated attack that ended with Brook piercing Uriel's heart.
• Brook and his companions confirmed that Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, and Uriel had all been killed.
• Eula asked Hermione about her changed appearance and power, and Hermione revealed that an ancient sacrificial spell had cost her half her life essence.
• Brook embraced Hermione and promised they would face danger and grow stronger together.

Brook returned to the ruined Hogwarts with Hermione, Eula, and Voldemort, bringing back the rescued teachers and students and revealing that the angels were dead. As the survivors treated the wounded and mourned their losses, Brook comforted Professor McGonagall and helped Professor Sprout finally rest.

• Hermione asked about the teachers and students, and Brook said they were safe in his Space Ring before taking everyone back to Hogwarts.
• Brook returned the rescued survivors to the castle grounds and showed them the four dead angels, which Snape took away for research.
• Professor McGonagall ordered Flitwick, Pomfrey, and Snape to continue treating the wounded, while Hermione, Eula, and Voldemort joined the rescue efforts.
• Brook comforted the grieving Professor McGonagall, who composed herself and returned to help the injured.
• Brook took over from Ginny in soothing the unconscious Professor Sprout and told her the angels were dead until she fell into a peaceful sleep.

After Hogwarts was devastated by the battle, Professor McGonagall organized aid and mourning while Brook chose to repair the castle rather than move the school to Australia. Hogwarts was temporarily closed after seventeen students died, and Harry prepared to stay at Malfoy Manor with Draco until the school reopened.

• Professor McGonagall organized the aftermath, and Brook rejected Voldemort's suggestion to move Hogwarts to Australia, deciding the castle should be repaired.
• Hermione and the House Elves helped restore much of Hogwarts in three days, while the seventeen dead students were taken home and commemorated with a monument.
• Professor McGonagall met with the bereaved parents, and the school arranged compensation and sent the other students home to recover.
• Hogwarts closed temporarily for a Ministry investigation, while Percy used the media to praise the defenders and blame the angels' invasion.
• Brook asked Harry about his plans, and Harry said Draco had invited him to stay at Malfoy Manor until Hogwarts reopened.

Brook explained to Harry that he had unknowingly become a living Horcrux when a fragment of Voldemort’s soul attached itself to him. Harry asked Brook to kill Voldemort and offered to sacrifice himself, but Brook pointed out that Diana might also be a living Horcrux, leaving Harry to confront the possibility that he could not simply choose her death.

• Harry asked Brook how he had met Diana because his scar hurt whenever she came near.
• Brook explained that Harry carried a fragment of Voldemort’s soul and was therefore one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes.
• Harry wondered whether Diana was also a living Horcrux and whether that explained his scar’s pain.
• Harry asked Brook to help kill Voldemort and said he would sacrifice himself when the time came.
• Brook pointed out that Harry’s logic would also require him to kill Diana, and Harry recoiled at the thought of harming an innocent person.
• Hermione overheard them and told Brook to stop teasing Harry.