Chapter Summaries

Albert returned to Hogwarts and learned that Peeves had been tormenting Umbridge, who suspected Harry of the pranks. At breakfast, a spectacular prank transformed Umbridge into a Pink Toad, and the scattered photographs ensured the students would remember her humiliation.

• Albert spent the weekend with Isobel, began their plan to brew Felix Felicis, then returned to Hogwarts and heard Fred, George, and Lee Jordan describe Peeves’s attacks on Umbridge.
• Fred explained that Peeves had trapped Harry and Umbridge in a gas-filled office, leading Harry to expose Umbridge’s use of a Dark Magic Item to punish students.
• Umbridge arrived at breakfast exhausted and suspicious, while Professor McGonagall asked whether she would agree to appear on a Wizard Card.
• Owls delivered howler-like letters and a parcel that covered Umbridge in soot and unleashed a swarm of toads at the teachers’ table.
• Umbridge announced that she was a Pink Toad, transformed into one, then changed back and fainted after reappearing in an embarrassing frog-jumping pose.
• The toads turned into photographs of Umbridge’s humiliations, and Lee Jordan handed them out while Albert suggested that students preserve her infamy for generations.

After becoming Hogwarts’ laughingstock, Umbridge gained authority as High Inquisitor and imposed increasingly absurd Educational Decrees. Albert and the Weasley twins encouraged student resistance with pranks and predicted that Umbridge would target Professor Trelawney, leaving the school braced for harsher Ministry control.

• Umbridge banned students from possessing photographs of her and, after further humiliations, persuaded Fudge to make her Hogwarts’ High Inquisitor.
• Albert told George, Fred, Hermione, and Lee Jordan that Umbridge would probably dismiss Professor Trelawney, and advised them to have Trelawney predict Umbridge’s disgrace and eventual imprisonment in Azkaban.
• Hermione considered rebuilding the Defence Association, but Albert refused to teach it and suggested Harry Potter lead the students with help from his new Defence Against the Dark Arts book.
• Filch posted new decrees banning students from standing close together and eating Exploding Bonbons, while Albert urged the twins and Lee Jordan to intensify pressure on Umbridge.
• Albert helped Fred, George, and Lee Jordan introduce Umbridge-shaped Vomiting Soft Candy, prompting Umbridge to ban students from dry-heaving; the three then discussed ways to make her restrict the Defence Reporter and Wizard Lookout Station.

Umbridge’s attempt to suppress Hogwarts students and confiscate their Ghost Radios met with growing resistance, while Fudge faced political pressure over the vacant Wizengamot seat. Albert intervened when Umbridge searched Gryffindor Tower, and the chapter ended with her injured after the radio she took away exploded.

• Fudge learned that Wizengamot members had rejected his attempt to fill the vacant seat with one of his allies, and Percy told him many people expected him to lose office by next summer.
• Umbridge faced student pranks and protests, including Howlers, hidden Ghost Radios, and Ravenclaw students blocking her from their Common Room.
• Albert helped Umbridge enter the Gryffindor Common Room, then told her to wait for the scheduled radio broadcast instead of demanding that students hand over a radio.
• When Wizard Lookout Station began revealing gossip about Umbridge, she tried to destroy the radio, but Albert stopped her from casting a dangerous spell in the Common Room.
• Umbridge froze the radio and took it away, but it exploded outside, leaving her soot-blackened and carried off on a stretcher.

After Umbridge was injured trying to destroy a radio, Hogwarts students celebrated the Wizard Lookout Station’s exposés and learned from Albert how the Patronus Charm worked. Umbridge tried to confiscate the radios and punish Hufflepuffs, but Professor Sprout challenged her and she left without settling the dispute.

• Students spread the broadcast’s claims about Umbridge, and Albert explained that casting a Patronus depended on happy memories rather than a wizard’s goodness.
• After leaving the hospital, Umbridge tried to confiscate Hufflepuff’s radios but found the students had avoided her.
• The Wizard Lookout Station broadcast more stories about Umbridge’s ambitions and rise at the Ministry.
• Professor Sprout brought Umbridge into the Hufflepuff Common Room as a radio broadcast discussed her rumored relationship with Fudge, and Umbridge blasted the radio with an Exploding Charm.
• Ernie Macmillan and Professor Sprout challenged Umbridge’s attempt to punish the students, and Umbridge left after Professor Sprout defended them.

After Umbridge gained sweeping authority to punish students, Albert helped Fred, George, and Lee Jordan turn opposition to her into the mysterious Anti-Toad Alliance. Rumors of the Alliance spread through Hogwarts, leaving Umbridge unable to find its members or prove it existed.

• Filch posted Umbridge's decree giving her supreme authority over punishments, and Albert warned his friends that she might target clubs and Quidditch.
• Albert urged Lee Jordan to finish the Wizard Card Competition quickly and predicted Umbridge would go after Hermione's Defence Association and Harry's Quidditch participation.
• Umbridge punished Hufflepuff students, including Ernie Macmillan, but did not challenge Professor Sprout during her Herbology inspection.
• Fred and George proposed an Anti-Toad Alliance, and Albert advised them to make it a rumor whose members identified themselves with easily removed Toad Marks.
• Rumors about the Alliance spread across Hogwarts, and Umbridge searched students and questioned George but found no evidence of the supposedly nonexistent group.

Harry discussed practicing Defence Against the Dark Arts with Hermione and Ron, who proposed rebuilding the Defence Association with him as its leader. After reading Albert's Self-Defense Guide, Harry rejected Hermione's plan to recruit broadly and suggested inviting only those who already believed him.

• Harry finished his homework and treated the scar on his hand with ointment as Hermione and Ron stayed up to talk with him.
• Harry told Hermione that Sirius had suggested the Shrieking Shack as a place to practice spells and that Sirius and Remus might teach them.
• Hermione gave Harry Albert's Self-Defense Guide and explained that it covered practical spells and protective skills.
• Hermione proposed recruiting members of the Anti-Toad Alliance to rebuild the Defence Association, but Harry said he did not want to persuade people who doubted him.
• Harry suggested showing Voldemort's return in Dumbledore's Pensieve, then told Hermione to invite only those willing to believe him and left with the book.

Umbridge inspected Trelawney’s Divination lesson while plotting to remove professors and strengthen the Ministry’s hold at Hogwarts. Trelawney confronted her with prophecies of her disgrace and death, and the class ended with Trelawney explaining the limits of her gift.

• Umbridge reviewed the grim history of Defence Against the Dark Arts professors and decided to seek another Hogwarts position before the curse could harm her.
• Umbridge planned to dismiss Hagrid, Trelawney, and Charity Burbage to advance her control of Hogwarts and win pure-blood support.
• Umbridge arrived to inspect Trelawney’s lesson, and Trelawney declared that Umbridge would dismiss her before an unpleasant person took over the post.
• Trelawney gave Umbridge a hostile reading, predicting her failure to become Headmistress, humiliation at Hogwarts, and eventual death in Azkaban.
• After Umbridge stormed out, Trelawney told the students she had a weak, unstable prophetic gift and explained that Divination taught basic skills as well as identifying talent.

Trelawney’s prophecies about Umbridge caused a school-wide stir, while Albert confirmed their truth and erased part of Umbridge’s memory after she tried to pressure him into giving her a prediction without paying. McGonagall and Dumbledore connected the prophecies to Albert’s earlier predictions and feared that Snape becoming headmaster would mean Voldemort had taken control of Hogwarts.

• Trelawney’s prophecies said Umbridge would become headmistress, face trouble in the Forbidden Forest, leave Hogwarts, and die in Azkaban, prompting students to seek Albert’s assessment.
• Umbridge summoned Albert to ask about Trelawney’s Divination, but balked at his thousand-Galleon fee and tried to accuse him of extortion; Albert made her forget most of their conversation.
• Albert told Fred, George, and Lee Jordan that Trelawney’s prophecies were real, including the prediction that Umbridge would die in Azkaban, though he warned the future could change.
• Shanna learned that Harry was organizing a Defence Association using Albert’s Self-Defense Guide, while Albert declined to join because he believed his presence would change the group’s purpose.
• McGonagall showed Dumbledore a memory of Albert predicting Snape would become headmaster unless the Pink Toad did, and they concluded that Snape’s appointment could mean Voldemort had taken control of Hogwarts.

As rumors about a Defence Association confused Umbridge, Harry quietly formed the Defence Against the Dark Arts Group with Hermione’s help. The group planned to hold its first meeting under cover of a Wizard Card Competition celebration.

• Rumors about Albert, Harry, and the Anti-Toad Alliance spread across Hogwarts and kept Umbridge chasing nonexistent plans.
• Lee Jordan’s rumor tactics convinced Umbridge that the Anti-Toad Alliance was an imaginary group used by students to frustrate her.
• Harry invited a small group of students to join the Defence Against the Dark Arts Group, while George, Hermione, and Ginny quietly invited others.
• Hermione arranged for the group’s first meeting to take place after the Wizard Card Competition celebration, using the cleanup as cover.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione discussed Luna inheriting the Wizard Card Club and Albert funding its continued operation.

Albert held the Wizard Card Competition despite expecting the club to suspend activities because of Umbridge, who tried to seize the Book of Origins and was cursed. After the competition, Albert privately dealt with Umbridge and announced that the club would temporarily suspend activities and she would not pursue the incident.

• Albert announced that the Wizard Card Club might suspend activities and introduced Luna Lovegood as its designated successor.
• Umbridge arrived with Slytherin students, declared the Activity Room illegal, and ordered everyone to leave.
• Luna handed Umbridge the Book of Origins, and its curse covered Umbridge in bumps and caused her to faint; several accompanying Slytherins also collapsed.
• Aura Quirk won the competition, and Albert gave her Galleons and his unpublished book.
• Albert visited Umbridge at the School Hospital, silenced and immobilized her, then spoke with her privately.
• Albert told Professor McGonagall that he had persuaded Umbridge to drop the matter and agreed to suspend the Wizard Card Club temporarily.

Hermione and Harry gathered students to revive the Defence Association, with Harry demonstrating his Patronus and telling them Voldemort had returned. The students began organizing the club, though they still needed a safe meeting place.

• Hermione proposed re-forming the Defence Association and using Albert’s Self-Defense Guide to teach practical defensive magic.
• Harry demonstrated his Silver Stag Patronus to reassure the students he could teach them.
• Hermione revealed that Voldemort had returned, and Harry offered to show them his memories of the resurrection through a Pensieve.
• Hermione explained Albert had compiled the guide to help students protect themselves, and the group agreed to call the club the Defence Association or DA.
• The students debated where to meet safely and agreed to wait for Albert’s advice about a location.
• Hermione prepared a membership list, and Fred and George signed it, promising they were not afraid of Umbridge.

Albert advised Fred, George, and Lee Jordan on opposing Umbridge and agreed to let Harry learn about the Room of Requirement for Dumbledore’s Army. As Umbridge’s authority eroded, pranks and rumours spread across Hogwarts, leaving her publicly mocked and unable to identify the culprits.

• Albert said the Wizard Card Club would be suspended because Umbridge had caused trouble, and he urged the trio to keep her busy rather than alter her memories.
• Albert agreed that Potter could learn about the Room of Requirement so Dumbledore’s Army could use it as a meeting place.
• As October grew colder, Fred and George’s pranks against Umbridge multiplied, including Stink Pellets and a shrieking blackboard in her classroom.
• Students spread rumours that Umbridge knew nothing about Defence Against the Dark Arts and that the Ministry had sent her to prevent them from learning defensive spells.
• Enchanted photographs, painted doors, and Peeves’s song mocked Umbridge as a useless Pink Toad, while she failed to find the pranksters or gain help from the professors.

Fred, George, and Lee discussed the Daily Prophet’s attack on Dumbledore and planned to keep Umbridge from seizing Albert’s Self-Defense Guide. Umbridge failed to discover who had borrowed Aura Quirk’s copy, while students increasingly dismissed her Defence teaching.

• Fred, George, and Lee condemned the Daily Prophet’s slanted report about Umbridge and considered giving Hogwarts students a surprise.
• Cedric asked the twins to help him obtain Self-Defense Guide and warned them that Umbridge might target the book.
• Lee proposed having Aura lend out her copy so Umbridge could not take it, and Aura later told Umbridge she had left it in the library for an unknown borrower.
• Umbridge failed to learn who had borrowed the book and could not legally punish Albert, as students increasingly sought his guide and scorned her teaching.

Albert used the Metal Book to track Death Eaters and narrow down Voldemort’s hidden location while Voldemort gathered his followers and planned his next moves. Voldemort learned about Albert’s suspected Squib ancestry and prophetic abilities, ordered his murder, and continued trying to exploit his connection to Harry Potter.

• Albert placed the Metal Book aside as its map tracked Death Eaters, including Lucius Malfoy, to help locate Voldemort’s lair.
• Macnair reported that the giants had agreed to support Voldemort, while Yaxley admitted he had not found the fugitive Karkaroff.
• Lucius told Voldemort that he had used the Imperius Curse on Sturgis Podmore to try to obtain a Prophecy Sphere and revealed Albert’s suspected Squib ancestry and crystal-ball prophecies.
• Voldemort ordered Lucius to find an opportunity to kill Albert and told Avery to prepare to help the imprisoned Death Eaters escape Azkaban when the time was right.
• Voldemort kept his survival concealed, assigned tasks to his followers, and continued trying to enter Harry Potter’s mind and use him against Dumbledore.

Harry endured another nightmare about a locked corridor and managed the pain in his scar with medicine. He joined Ron and Hermione on the way to Hogsmeade, where they discussed the new Dumbledore’s Army meeting room and the practical lessons in Albert’s Self-Defense Guide.

• Harry woke from a recurring dream of a dim corridor, took painkillers from a bottle Sirius had given him, and ignored Seamus’s stare.
• Harry went downstairs late for breakfast and heard Hermione report that Fred and George had found a secluded room for Dumbledore’s Army.
• On the way to Hogsmeade, Hermione said Fred and George would reveal the room’s location once she set a meeting time.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione discussed the dueling and survival advice in Albert’s Self-Defense Guide, including tactics against Dark wizards and dangerous creatures.
• Harry reflected that mastering the guide might bring someone to Trainee Auror level and realized how lucky he had been to survive Voldemort.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione visited Honeydukes and the Three Broomsticks, where they discussed Ginny's new relationship and their own unrequited crushes. The chapter ended with Fred saying Angelina wanted to focus on Quidditch, though he had hidden that she had actually agreed to date him.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione saw Albert leave Honeydukes with Isobel, while Ron spotted Ginny going into the Three Broomsticks with Michael Corner.
• Hermione told Ron that Ginny was dating Michael and that she had once liked Harry, while Harry watched Cho Chang with Cedric Diggory.
• At the Three Broomsticks, Harry explained that George and Lee Jordan sometimes bought smuggled ingredients from Mundungus, and Ron failed to get hot whiskey from Mrs. Rosmerta.
• Hermione admitted that she admired Albert, while Harry's feelings for Cho and Ron's crush on Mrs. Rosmerta remained unspoken.
• Fred told George and Lee Jordan that Angelina planned to focus on Quidditch, concealing that she had agreed to date him.

Harry struggled with insomnia and his feelings for Cho while he and Hermione planned to begin practicing magic with Fred and George. The twins brought them to Hogwarts’ Room of Requirement, where they explained how it could become a large space for group training.

• Harry asked Hermione when they would start practicing magic, and she said everyone was free on Thursday.
• Umbridge stormed out of the Great Hall after the Daily Prophet reported that its headquarters had been attacked with Howlers and fireworks, while the Toad Song spread through the wizarding world.
• Fred and George said the Ministry had refused to pay Albert the ten thousand Galleons promised for catching Sirius.
• Fred and George led Harry, Ron, and Hermione through a secret passage and cast Disillusionment Charms on them.
• George opened the Room of Requirement on the Eighth Floor and showed Harry, Ron, and Hermione inside.
• George explained that the Room of Requirement could expand to suit their training needs, and the twins said Albert had never managed to uncover its secrets.

Albert collected his belongings from the Room of Requirement before graduating, showing Hermione his private study, greenhouse, and potion laboratory. He also helped Hermione consider how the Defence Association could pass along meeting times.

• Katrina questioned Albert about the Room of Requirement, and he gave her Isobel's notes for the Defence Against the Dark Arts exam and promised her a copy of his Survival Guide.
• Albert claimed the Reading Maniac reward and discovered that it had given him the Confund Charm and Counter-Charm.
• Albert met Hermione on his way to the Room of Requirement and packed away his study, greenhouse plants, potion supplies, and other belongings.
• Hermione saw Albert's Beauty Potion and Skiving Snackbox supplies, then asked about his Communication Bookmarks.
• Albert suggested ways Hermione could use Transformation Charm to pass meeting times to the Defence Association, and approved her idea of using Magic Coins.

As Umbridge tightened her control over Hogwarts, Albert advised Angelina that the Gryffindor Quidditch team would face deliberate obstruction under the new rules. The team was left deciding whether to compromise, challenge Umbridge, or undermine the season by persuading other houses not to compete.

• Harry asked Albert to teach him Occlumency, but Albert refused and directed him to Dumbledore or a book in the Restricted Section.
• Lee Jordan told Albert, Fred, and George that Umbridge's new decree required her approval for any student organization, with expulsion as the penalty for disobedience.
• Angelina reported that Umbridge had demanded a written application to reform the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and Albert warned that even approval would not stop Umbridge from targeting them.
• Albert suggested stopping the Quidditch Match, while George proposed persuading another house to withdraw so there would be no match to play.
• George told Angelina to choose between compromising and fighting Umbridge, while he and Fred returned to the dormitory without committing to help.

Trelawney warned Harry that Umbridge would target him, while Hermione suspected someone was influencing the Divination Professor. After Malfoy attacked Harry with a Dark Curse, Albert intervened and confronted Snape over Malfoy’s conduct, leaving Snape furious.

• Trelawney told her class that Umbridge might ban Harry from playing Quidditch, and Hermione later questioned whether Trelawney’s recent behavior was genuine.
• Angelina told Harry that Umbridge had delayed the Gryffindor Quidditch team’s application, and Malfoy taunted them about the team being disbanded.
• Malfoy cast a Dark Curse at Harry in the Entrance Hall, but the spell struck the wall instead.
• Albert ordered Malfoy to put away his wand and took him to see Snape, while Umbridge fell and was carried to the School Hospital.
• Albert told Snape that Malfoy had attacked Harry and ordered Malfoy to copy every Educational Decree ten times.
• Snape became furious as Albert challenged him to educate Malfoy properly and said he could take the matter to Dumbledore.