Recaps

Albert helped bring Umbridge to justice, prepared for his wedding in France, and tried to protect his family as Voldemort’s attacks intensified. The arc left Scrimgeour planning to use the wedding as an ambush while Voldemort ordered an attack on Albert and the Muggle world.

• Albert arranged Trelawney’s return to Hogwarts, where she prophesied that the Dark Lord’s nemesis would die at the hands of someone trusted and that the Dark Lord would embrace death.
• Umbridge tried to flee Hogwarts, but Albert’s Confundus Charm made her believe she was a toad, and she was later sentenced to life in Azkaban after Harry and Albert exposed her crimes.
• Albert gave students self-defense advice, shared wedding invitations, and met Scrimgeour to arrange an Auror ambush for Death Eaters who might attack the wedding.
• Voldemort’s forces killed Karkaroff, Amelia Bones, and Emeline Vance, while Albert moved Isobel’s family and his own family to safety in France.
• Nicolas gave Albert his Philosopher’s Stone notes and warned him about the Elixir of Life, while Albert and Isobel prepared Noles Manor for their wedding.
• Albert and Scrimgeour planned to use the wedding to capture or kill Death Eaters, and Scrimgeour prepared to take over as Minister.
• Voldemort ordered Macnair to attack the Muggle world and told Malfoy to kill Albert, while Fred and George kept the real wedding details secret until after the twelfth.

Albert and Isobel married as Scrimgeour’s forces fought the Death Eaters, while Dumbledore’s hunt for a Horcrux left him cursed and facing death. After Albert returned to Britain, a raid on his shops exposed a renewed bounty on him, and Malfoy Manor burned in apparent retaliation.

• Macnair led giants, Death Eaters, and Dementors through Somerset, and Scrimgeour prepared an ambush at Albert Anderson’s wedding.
• Lucius Malfoy’s forces attacked the wedding, but Scrimgeour’s Aurors fought back until werewolves and giants turned the battle against them.
• Albert joined Dumbledore’s duel with Voldemort, then helped drive the attackers from the manor and secure the wounded and prisoners.
• Albert and Isobel married, celebrated with their guests, and began their honeymoon after Nicolas and Perenelle LeMay gave Albert two enchanted rings.
• Dumbledore found and destroyed a Horcrux in Gaunt Old House, but the cursed ring blackened his hand, and he used the Resurrection Stone to apologize to Ariana.
• Voldemort ordered Draco Malfoy to kill Dumbledore, while Albert and Dumbledore later discovered that Regulus Black had been connected to the missing Horcrux.
• Nicolas and Perenelle died peacefully, leaving Albert a map and ring that led to their alchemical workshop, and Albert and Isobel returned to Britain.
• A raid on Albert’s shops was repelled, and Albert learned that Draco had renewed the bounty on him before Malfoy Manor was consumed by Fiendfyre.

Albert helped the Ministry and the Order of the Phoenix establish a defence-training program and lure Death Eaters into an ambush, while Voldemort escalated his plans against Scrimgeour and Dumbledore. The arc ended with the Defence Association bringing new recruits to Albert’s hidden headquarters as Malfoy struggled with his assignment to kill Dumbledore.

• Albert warned Fred and George that their shop and lodgings were unsafe, helped them move to a protected Safe House, and arranged for them to approach Zonko about a partnership.
• Albert proposed a joint Ministry and Order of the Phoenix training institution, and Scrimgeour approved the plan and tasked Percy with preparing it discreetly.
• Dumbledore destroyed Slytherin’s Locket with the Sword of Gryffindor and sent Harry a note about beginning private lessons.
• Albert and his allies helped the Ministry use Kenneth Towler as bait, and Bellatrix led a Death Eater raid on an empty house that became an ambush by Aurors and the Order.
• Scrimgeour’s forces captured Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange, while Alecto escaped with Bellatrix, and Voldemort blamed Bellatrix for the losses and ordered retaliation.
• Snape told Dumbledore that Draco planned to kill him, showed him Albert’s prophecies, and later proposed a plan to Draco involving Bellatrix and an attack on Hogwarts.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione arranged another Defence Association meeting as Draco focused on the Dark Lord’s order and doubted Snape’s plans.
• Lee Jordan, Fred, and George welcomed Cedric and Truman to the Defence Association’s hidden headquarters and explained that Albert was preparing combat training for Voldemort’s opponents.

Albert and the Defence Association rescued Cedric while Voldemort hunted for Albert and prepared to exploit Hogwarts's weaknesses. As Cassandra Vablatsky’s final prophecies raised fears for Scrimgeour, Dumbledore, and Hermione’s family, Draco and Snape moved toward repairing the Vanishing Cabinet.

• Ambrosius Flume learned that the Weasley twins could not be reached, while a Ministry employee secretly attacked his colleague near Hogsmeade.
• Albert explained his role in Dumbledore’s plan to Isobel, then led Fred, George, and Lee Jordan to rescue Cedric from Death Eaters and Dementors.
• Albert learned that an Imperius-controlled student had exposed the Defence Association, and Voldemort arrived at the trap site after Cassandra Vablatsky divined Albert’s location, but Albert escaped.
• Dumbledore told Albert that Snape was helping protect Draco and gain Voldemort’s trust, while Albert warned him of ways Death Eaters could enter Hogwarts.
• Harry and his friends learned that Draco might have arranged Katie Bell’s Opal Necklace attack through the Imperius-controlled Madam Rosmerta, while Snape urged Draco to repair Hogwarts’s Vanishing Cabinet.
• Harry and Cedric trained students in defensive magic and camp protections as Albert organized the Defence Association and warned that Scrimgeour and the Ministry might fall.
• Cassandra Vablatsky told Voldemort that he would kill Scrimgeour and offered a final prophecy, but Voldemort later killed her family after her death.
• Albert and Dumbledore found Cassandra’s family’s bodies and interpreted coded dates as warnings, while Hermione prepared to send her family away and Ron and Hermione eased their tension.