Recaps

Harry and his friends searched for Voldemort’s Horcruxes while Albert organized the Defence Association and helped the resistance grow. The arc ended with Dumbledore turning to Albert for help as Dumbledore’s Army faced discovery and Voldemort’s plans for Harry changed.

• Ron and Hermione gave Harry birthday gifts, Ginny confessed her feelings and kissed him, and Harry said they should discuss love after the war.
• Albert built up the Defence Association at the shelter while Nelson joined and the members prepared to train, even as Albert warned them to protect themselves.
• Harry, Hermione, and Ron visited Godric’s Hollow, escaped Voldemort’s attack, then went to Hogwarts to investigate Ravenclaw’s Diadem and learn from Dumbledore that the real Sword of Gryffindor was hidden behind his portrait.
• Harry tried to learn Fiendfyre and kept his plan secret from the Order, while he and his friends considered how to find Hufflepuff’s Cup and reach the Yaxley vault.
• Neville, Ernie, and Luna rebuilt Dumbledore’s Army as a secret student group, while Albert prepared the Defence Association to oppose Death Eaters and Dementors on the Hogwarts Express.
• Albert’s disguised Defence Association members defeated the attackers on the train, and Voldemort ordered his followers to hunt Harry while Yaxley used captured families and Tracking Charms against the resistance.
• After Death Eaters found a shelter and Hagrid was arrested, Albert refused to intervene, and Harry invited Hermione and Ron to a Dumbledore’s Army gathering at Hogwarts.
• Snape warned Dumbledore that Dumbledore’s Army would be discovered, learned that Voldemort wanted Harry to die at his hands, and urged Dumbledore to ask Albert for help.

Albert and the Defence Association prepared students for the war, rescued prisoners from Yaxley’s castle, and arranged Hagrid’s escape from execution. Voldemort retaliated against the Order’s allies, forcing the rescuers to suspend operations before they brought Xenophilius Lovegood to safety.

• Cedric brought Harry, Hermione, and Ron to Hogwarts, where Harry told Dumbledore’s Army about his destined battle with Voldemort and Cedric began teaching defensive spells.
• Albert recruited Bosted as a spy and urged Dumbledore to let students train to resist the Death Eaters, while Neville’s group decided to work underground and Neville later joined the Defence Association.
• Albert sought the goblins’ help to reach the Lestrange vault and learned that Bogrod knew how to open it, while Voldemort’s search for Gregorovitch led Snape to suspect that Albert had the Elder Wand.
• Albert led the Defence Association and the Order of the Phoenix in a raid on Yaxley’s castle, freeing Ollivander and other prisoners before Voldemort took the wand from Dumbledore’s tomb.
• After Yaxley planned to use Hagrid’s execution to draw out Harry, Albert helped the Order arrange a Portkey escape and drew Voldemort away while Hagrid vanished from the Execution Ground.
• Harry and the Order took Hagrid to headquarters, while Voldemort retaliated against people connected to the Order and Albert warned the Defence Association to suspend operations.
• Fred’s group failed to persuade Kevin and his wife to leave before Death Eaters seized them, then joined the Order to find Xenophilius Lovegood, who agreed to leave his hidden refuge after learning Luna was safe.

Albert engineered a clash between Hogsmeade’s Dark wizards and the Death Eaters, then used the distraction to help the Order and Defence Association free prisoners from Azkaban. As the resistance gained strength, the Death Eaters turned their attention to Albert and Dumbledore’s Army, while Neville’s students refused to surrender.

• Albert prepared safeguards for Harry’s Gringotts plan and set out to provoke conflict in Hogsmeade, while Michael and other students discussed resisting the Death Eaters.
• Yaxley sent Death Eaters and Dementors against Hogsmeade, where Bochival rallied the defenders and died unleashing Fiendfyre.
• Albert and the Order organized an Azkaban raid, using foreign Dark wizards’ attack on Hogsmeade to distract the Death Eaters.
• Albert led the rescue team into Azkaban, where they freed more than a hundred prisoners and captured Aurors before escaping.
• Foreign Dark wizards looted Hogsmeade and burned the Yaxley Family manor, while the Death Eaters failed to stop them.
• Harry praised the resistance on the radio, and the Defence Association celebrated the prisoners’ escape as many joined the fight.
• After Death Eaters tortured wizards who left a shelter, Kenneth and Cedric warned members that the Association could not protect those who ignored its safeguards.
• Snape warned Dumbledore that the Death Eaters planned to attack Dumbledore’s Army, but Neville urged the students to resist and promised help for their imprisoned relatives.

Albert and the Defence Association rescued families, cleared hidden Inferi, and prepared for the coming battle while the Death Eaters searched for a spy and Voldemort pursued Gregorovitch. Christmas brought the groups together, as Albert revealed to Hermione that Harry was a Horcrux and Voldemort finally found and killed the false Gregorovitch.

• Prout denounced the Aurors’ cooperation with the Death Eaters, but Gavender erased his memory, and Snape suspected Albert had engineered the confrontation before ordering a trap for Dumbledore’s Army.
• Cedric coordinated an operation in Hogwarts that brought together the Order of the Phoenix and the Defence Association, and the teams rescued five families before Snape escaped.
• Albert sent the rescued families out of Britain and argued that helping them would unite more people against Voldemort, while Moody and Kingsley debated Albert’s methods and the Order’s role.
• Albert trained the Defence Association to destroy Inferi, and its members cleared several hidden sites as the Order joined later operations against the growing threat.
• Yaxley suspected that a spy was revealing Death Eater plans to Albert, while Macnair proposed creating more Inferi and the Death Eaters discussed using Lucien’s werewolf army as a trap.
• Albert destroyed a village’s Inferi and a black cocoon that released the villagers’ tormented souls, but his account of the atrocity drew little response from the wider wizarding community.
• Albert organized Christmas celebrations for the Association, Shelter, Order, and Hogwarts students, and Hermione learned that Harry contained a fragment of Voldemort’s soul and might have to die.
• Albert encouraged Nelson to train and directed Moody to Dumbledore’s portrait for answers, while the Christmas gathering praised Albert’s leadership and Voldemort killed the false Gregorovitch and the Aurors who surrounded the house.