Recaps

Albert developed Avalon and expanded the Wizard Card Competition while Kingsley pursued a harsh werewolf policy. As Christmas approached, Albert welcomed Yanila into his circle of lovers, Hermione prepared a daring outfit and reunited with his friends, and the arc ended with a festive banquet in Avalon.

• Albert discussed Avalon’s development with Shanna, offered Winky a place in its household, and helped Hermione arrange work and Christmas gifts.
• Kingsley used incentives and threats to drive werewolves to register, while Albert launched the first Wizard Card Tournament, which Hermione won.
• Hermione accepted Isobel’s invitation to the Christmas gathering and designed a revealing outfit with Albert’s help.
• Catherine, Valeria, Louise, and Yanila arrived, and the women welcomed Yanila into Albert’s circle with a wedding dress, ring, and ceremony.
• Yanila began her relationship with Albert, learned how the other women shared his attention, and heard that he planned to travel around the world the next summer.
• Hermione joined Albert’s lovers at the manor, discussed House-elf rights with him, and accepted the limits of her current plans to help them.
• Albert took Hermione around Britain before she traveled to Avalon, where she reunited with Shanna, Harry, and Ron and handed out Australian souvenirs.
• Albert opened Avalon’s Christmas banquet with a magical fireworks display, and the guests feasted and danced while Hermione declined Ron’s invitation to dance.

As Albert prepared to leave Britain, he helped develop Avalon, supported his friends’ plans, and watched tensions with the goblins threaten to become a rebellion. Ron’s feelings for Hermione led him to end things with Lavender before Hermione rejected him and encouraged him to make amends.

• Harry and Ginny accepted Albert’s warning not to interfere with Nelson’s revenge, while George and Mrs. Weasley realized Ron seemed to have a crush on Hermione.
• At the Christmas Feast, Albert’s companions celebrated together, set a limit on his lovers, and learned that Louise was expecting his daughter.
• Albert persuaded Avalon’s residents to prioritize essential construction and helped Fred and George develop the game I Am an Auror as a source of jobs.
• Nelson used the Imperius Curse to make Gornuk provoke a wizard, whose self-defense killing of the goblin intensified the conflict between wizards and goblins.
• Kingsley prepared for a possible Third Goblin Rebellion while secretly recognizing Nelson’s role, and Albert told the Wizengamot he planned to leave Britain by September.
• Ron rejected Lavender’s attempt to reconcile, but after Hermione told him she valued him as a friend and urged him to apologize, he wrote to Lavender and they reunited.
• Harry and Ginny welcomed James, and Albert agreed to be his godfather before telling the Weasleys he intended to travel after Fred and George’s wedding.
• Albert advised Fred and George on their Communication Bookmarks, warned Avalon’s workers against rushing construction, and cautioned his friends about the goblins’ reported interest in Hogsmeade.

Albert balanced international duties and his relationships while Avalon grew into a community, as conflict between wizards and goblins worsened. He left Hogwarts and let Avalon’s residents face the consequences of rushing construction, ending with Shanna telling them the community could not fund further repairs.

• Albert attended international meetings in Spain, where Heliotrope Willis died after a troll struck her and Kingsley secured foreign investment for Britain’s werewolf plan.
• Albert returned to Hogwarts, taught students, and helped Hermione consider ways to advance her efforts for House-elves, though she remained determined to work in the House-elf Relocation Office.
• Albert and Truman built Avalon’s water system as Shanna organized plans for sewers and other facilities, while more residents moved into the growing community.
• Angelina and Cho became pregnant, and Albert and Isobel helped the expectant mothers prepare as Fred and George arranged a joint wedding.
• Harry led the Aurors during failed goblin negotiations in Chipping Clodbury, where the Goblin Brotherhood attacked Royden Poke’s party and tensions worsened.
• Hermione chose to move to Avalon, Albert left Hogwarts after the graduation ceremony, and Hagrid joined him to help with the breeding farm.
• Albert let Avalon’s residents learn from their own mistakes when they accelerated construction, then ordered badly built houses demolished after their work failed.
• Shanna told Avalon’s residents that the renovation budget was exhausted and villa owners would have to pay for further repairs themselves.

Albert prepared Avalon to survive without him, celebrated Cedric and Cho Chang’s wedding and the Weasley Twins’ weddings, then left Britain with his family as conflict between the Ministry and goblins escalated. From abroad, he continued coordinating with Nelson as Nelson prepared to attack the Death Eater Remnants.

• Shanna warned Avalon’s residents that Albert’s funds were nearly gone, and she later organized jobs and management fees so the community could sustain its farms, shops, and other benefits.
• Cedric and Cho Chang married at Avalon, and Fred and George held their weddings there despite their families’ chaotic expansion of the guest list.
• The residents captured Rita Skeeter in beetle form, beat her, repeatedly wiped her memories, and abandoned her abroad after giving her Polyjuice Potion.
• Hermione joined the Ministry’s Magical Creatures Management Control Division, where she learned that the Ministry and goblins were provoking a possible rebellion while she struggled with her colleagues’ hostility.
• Albert left Britain with Isobel and Little Alice after assuring Avalon’s residents and Hermione that he would remain involved from afar.
• Kingsley announced failed negotiations with the Goblins, and violence between the Ministry and the Goblin Brotherhood intensified after Albert’s departure became public.
• Albert told Isobel that he had helped drive Nelson and Kingsley toward conflict, then continued coordinating with Nelson while living abroad and supporting Nia’s plans to open a Witch Beauty Shop.
• Podmore rallied goblins against the Ministry, while Nelson and Will prepared to use Fiendfyre against the Death Eater Remnants and kept the full scope of their plan from Geli and Kingsley.