Recaps

As Kingsley’s struggle with the Pure-bloods threatened to flare up again, Albert stayed out of the conflict and expanded his plans for Avalon. Isobel brought Hermione and several women into a formal arrangement around Albert and the Witch Beauty Shop, and the arc ended with Louise hoping to have his child.

• Kingsley prepared to pressure and negotiate with the Pure-bloods, while Mr. Parkinson considered feigning agreement before fleeing with his family.
• Hermione reunited with Albert, who warned that Kingsley’s compromise over the Inferi attacks was only a temporary calm before a storm.
• Harry and Ron visited Avalon, where Hagrid showed them Harry’s nearly finished house and Hermione demonstrated plans to generate electricity.
• Catherine and Valeria recruited Louise to strengthen their ties to Albert, and Isobel arranged for the women, including Hermione, to enter loyalty contracts with him.
• Hermione signed Isobel’s contract, while she and Albert discussed power proposals for Avalon and he revealed he had secured a private London apartment for them.
• Isobel welcomed Catherine, Valeria, and Louise into Albert’s business circle, offered Madam Primpernelle a share in the Witch Beauty Shop, and arranged the visiting women’s contracts with Albert.
• At the Welcome Banquet, the women danced with Albert, and Louise used a Veela courtship ritual to spend the night with him.
• Afterward, Louise said she wanted a child with Albert, while Valeria and Katrina considered the burdens and choices involved in motherhood.

As Kingsley rose to Minister, he and Albert prepared for Voldemort’s supporters to use werewolves against the Ministry, while Harry and Ginny made plans for their wedding. The Burrow burned, the expected full-moon assault proved limited, and the Death Eaters’ hidden scheme to create expendable werewolves remained undiscovered.

• Albert helped Kingsley locate the werewolf involved in the attack, and the Ministry blamed Voldemort’s supporters before Kingsley won the vote to become Minister of Magic.
• Kingsley tightened laws against Dark wizards and werewolves, while Mr. Parkinson secretly sent Pansy and her child to France and warned his wife that their allies planned to create werewolves.
• Albert warned Hermione that pure-blood extremists might use werewolves, offered her work revising his Defence Against the Dark Arts textbook, and helped strengthen Avalon’s protections.
• Molly, Hermione, and Ginny prepared for Harry and Ginny’s wedding, and Albert, Moody, and Lupin planned security as the Ministry feared an attack on the next full moon.
• Death Eaters burned the Burrow, forcing the Weasleys to shelter at Grimmauld Place No. 12, while Ron called for retaliation and Kingsley’s team found no evidence identifying the attackers.
• Fred and George led an attack on Rita Skeeter, and Ginny announced her pregnancy during a broadcast before Harry and other Aurors rescued Skeeter from the burning house.
• The Ministry prepared for werewolf attacks and captured several werewolves, but the expected widespread assault did not occur as Death Eaters secretly infected captured Muggles to create more werewolves.
• At Harry and Ginny’s wedding, Isobel advised the girls about marriage, Cho planned to marry Cedric, and Angelina postponed Fred’s wedding plans until after trying out for the Holyhead Harpies.

Harry and Ginny’s wedding comes under attack, and Albert helps establish Avalon while returning to Hogwarts to teach. When Voldemort’s remnants unleash werewolves across Britain, Albert’s warnings help the Ministry prepare, and the crisis ends with the remnants’ investigation stalled by their Unbreakable Vows.

• A Dark Mark appeared over Harry and Ginny’s wedding, but Albert, Moody, and Kingsley repelled the Death Eaters, and Albert later agreed to be James’s godfather.
• Shanna explained on the Wizard Lookout Station that Avalon sheltered those who had fought Voldemort, ending the rumors about the village.
• Albert published the final Defence Against the Dark Arts Guide volume, returned to Hogwarts as a teacher, and declined McGonagall’s offer to become a professor and Head of House.
• Albert taught practical Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons and warned Kingsley that Voldemort’s remnants would likely unleash werewolves during the Full Moon.
• Werewolves attacked across Britain, and Albert, the Defence Association, Hogwarts staff, and Ministry forces fought to contain them while Lee Jordan broadcast safety advice.
• Kingsley announced that the Ministry had contained the crisis, credited Albert’s prophecy, and promised to seek an Order of Merlin for Albert and his companions.
• The Ministry’s investigation stalled when a suspected Pure-blood wizard died from an Unbreakable Vow, and Albert suggested privately questioning the suspects’ families.

Kingsley dismantled Voldemort’s remaining network, struggled to manage the Ministry and fund new werewolf policies, and exposed the dangers of Horcruxes. As Cedric chose to remain at Hogwarts and Avalon neared completion, Nelson’s group prepared to exploit the growing goblin conflict after Albert left Britain.

• Kingsley negotiated an Unbreakable Vow with Mr. Parkinson, who died after handing over a list of Voldemort’s Remnants and werewolf breeding sites, and the Ministry arrested the listed Death Eaters and used Avalon’s Killing Curse to euthanize the werewolves.
• Albert declined McGonagall’s offer to teach at Hogwarts and advised Kingsley on handling the Aurors, the public, and the stalled werewolf legislation as influenza spread through Britain.
• Albert and Cedric helped finish the Defence Against the Dark Arts Guide, while Fred and Angelina struggled over marriage, her Quidditch ambitions, and their future before deciding to marry and have children after four years.
• Hermione’s Halloween play revealed how Albert, Harry, and Albus had defeated Voldemort, and Kingsley confirmed that Horcruxes existed while Harry explained their dangers and the Ministry quietly warned Pure-blood families.
• Kingsley fined publications that fabricated stories about Albert and planned to use the money for the werewolf isolation plan, while his dispute with Gringotts over Death Eater assets worsened relations with the goblins.
• Cedric declined Kingsley’s expected Ministry post and chose to remain at Hogwarts, where McGonagall welcomed him and offered to resolve the practical difficulties.
• Neville Longbottom gave Nelson’s group intelligence about the Ministry’s plans to seize money from Death Eater vaults, and Nelson’s Avengers discussed provoking a Third Goblin Rebellion after Albert left Britain.
• As Avalon’s residents prepared to celebrate Christmas there, Albert checked the villas’ insulation and discussed developing a Magical Heater before touring the nearly finished village with Shanna.