Recaps

Voldemort hunted Albert’s allies and escalated attacks on Muggles while the Order and Defence Association prepared for war. The Ministry then began arresting families to pressure the resistance, leaving Albert’s allies looking to him for a response.

• Voldemort returned to Britain, punished Snape and Yaxley, and targeted Mundungus and the Order, while Harry’s wand connection with Voldemort revealed the Soul Fragment linking them.
• Albert warned the Order about Mundungus and helped organize safer Shelters, while Harry faced the possibility that defeating Voldemort could cost him his life and Ginny tried to give him a reason to live.
• Albert revealed Percy had been his Ministry spy, and the Order used Sirius, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan to collect bounties from Dark wizards, spreading suspicion among Voldemort’s followers.
• Albert prepared the Defence Association for a possible attack as Voldemort massacred Muggle villagers, while the Order debated whether to intervene and Albert refused to let Voldemort dictate their choices.
• Voldemort ordered further attacks and sought to draw the Order into the open, while Snape warned that the massacres would not lure Albert out.
• Albert confronted Snape and Yaxley, questioned Snape’s loyalties, and left him a Communication Bookmark that Snape kept.
• Voldemort approved Umbridge’s plan to investigate wizarding families, and the Ministry began arrests intended to weaken the Defence Association.
• As the Ministry arrested families including the Diggorys and Angelina’s father, Albert warned that the prisoners were likely bait, and his allies looked to him for a decision.

Albert led the Defence Association in rescuing imprisoned wizards and surviving Voldemort’s assault on their headquarters, then kept the group from rushing into further danger as chaos spread across Britain. The Order’s efforts to restore order briefly benefited from Harry’s presence, but the Death Eaters’ raids resumed after he withdrew.

• Albert and the Defence Association rescued prisoners from the Ministry of Magic, then helped their families remain at the Shelter after Death Eaters began tracking them.
• Voldemort learned the location of the Association’s headquarters through Kevin Thompson, but Albert prepared the members for the coming attack.
• The Defence Association ambushed Voldemort’s forces, escaped the exposed headquarters, and moved to a new base after Albert fought Voldemort.
• Albert let rumors of the Association’s destruction continue while the members rebuilt, tightened recruitment, and prepared to restore the Wizard Lookout Station Broadcast.
• Albert trained Harry in Fiendfyre and explained that he was preparing him for a possible worst-case scenario involving the Gringotts plan.
• Harry, Hermione, and Ron helped the Order pursue Dark wizards, and publicity about Harry’s victory briefly deterred criminals before Sirius withdrew the trio to avoid a trap.
• Dark wizards resumed raids across Britain and gathered at a Diagon Alley Black Market, while Snape warned Yaxley that the chaos would turn wizards against them.
• Albert warned the Defence Association that hunting Dark wizards would lead members into a trap, and the group held back despite debating whether to fight or join the Order.

As Death Eaters intensified their attacks, Albert helped draw foreign Aurors and the International Wizarding Federation into Britain’s war while the Order tried to protect Muggles. After Voldemort survived an ambush by bounty hunters, the Federation rejected their demand for a paid contract.

• The Order learned that Death Eaters were using massacres to lure its members into ambushes, while Albert urged wizards to defend themselves and secretly support those who resisted.
• After Bill was badly injured in an ambush, Kingsley presented evidence of massacres and Inferi to the International Wizarding Federation, whose meeting was then attacked by Death Eaters.
• Albert’s warnings and Kingsley’s intelligence helped bring European Aurors to Britain, but Voldemort attacked their camp and killed or scattered most of them.
• The Federation offered a bounty on Voldemort, while Albert used the Imperius Curse on council members to provoke the Federation into considering action against him.
• Harry continued training to destroy the Horcruxes and told Hermione and Ron that he expected to face Voldemort even if he did not survive.
• Conrad organized bounty hunters to attack Voldemort, while Kingsley and Lupin worked to curb Dark wizard attacks on Muggles.
• Voldemort survived the bounty hunters’ ambush, and they left Britain after deciding the risk was too great for the bounty offered.
• The Federation rejected the bounty hunters’ request for a paid contract, while Babajide told Conrad he would seek limited compensation if they waited.

Albert maneuvered Voldemort toward Grindelwald and the Deathstick while preparing the Order and the Defence Association for a final battle at Hogwarts. The arc ended with Snape learning that Albert was the Elder Wand’s true master as Voldemort withdrew from Europe.

• Voldemort blamed the International Wizarding Federation and its Bounty Hunters for the attack on his headquarters, then realized Albert had turned the factions against him and vowed revenge.
• Albert trained Harry, Hermione, and Ron to control Fiendfyre, while the Order rescued captured students from Hogwarts and brought them to the Shelter for treatment.
• Albert met Grindelwald in Nurmengard, shared Dumbledore’s final message, and left him with a wand and Felix Felicis before Voldemort arrived seeking the Deathstick.
• Grindelwald used Fiendfyre to confront Voldemort and died in the blaze, while Voldemort escaped the Aurors’ assault with a House-elf and then killed it.
• Ollivander identified Grindelwald’s wand as a replica and judged Dumbledore’s wand to be the genuine Deathstick, leading Voldemort to suspect Snape was its master and kill Ollivander when he could not uncover his memories.
• Albert worried that Harry, Ron, and Hermione were not ready to infiltrate Gringotts, but he began preparing the Defence Association and Shelter residents for the approaching battle at Hogwarts.
• Voldemort withdrew his forces from Europe as Snape confronted Dumbledore’s portrait, learned that Albert was the Elder Wand’s true master, and promised to keep the secret.