Chapter Summaries

Umbridge fell unconscious after a mysterious accident, canceling her Defense Against the Dark Arts class and making her the latest Hogwarts joke. Harry learned that Dumbledore was at school and hurried to the Headmaster’s Office to ask for help with Occlumency and find out why Dumbledore had been avoiding him.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione speculated that Albert had caused Umbridge to fall, while insisting that she had simply slipped.
• Professor McGonagall confirmed that Umbridge remained unconscious, and her Defense Against the Dark Arts class was canceled.
• Harry asked Hermione for help learning Occlumency, and she agreed to study his Advanced Occlumency Guide.
• Hermione showed Harry and Ron Magic Coins she was developing as a discreet way to communicate meeting times.
• Fred and George told Harry that Albert had recently visited Dumbledore, so Harry grabbed the Marauder’s Map and set off for the Headmaster’s Office.

Albert discussed his new book, his conflict with Snape, and his predictions about the coming war with Dumbledore, then warned him that Sirius might die. Harry arrived seeking help with nightmares linked to Voldemort, and Dumbledore said he would try to persuade Albert to teach him Occlumency.

• Albert gave Dumbledore a copy of his book and warned that Voldemort's victory would bring many deaths, especially among Muggle-born wizards.
• Albert refused to indulge Snape's disrespect and told Dumbledore that Snape should either treat him as an equal or avoid him.
• Albert told Dumbledore that Umbridge had sent Dementors to attack Harry and that Harry had formed the DA.
• Dumbledore asked Albert to teach Harry Occlumency, but Albert refused and urged Dumbledore to teach Harry himself, warning that he had foreseen Sirius's death.
• Harry told Dumbledore about his recurring dream of a dark corridor and asked to learn Occlumency; Dumbledore said he would try to persuade Albert or find another teacher.
• After Harry left, Phineas criticized Dumbledore for not acting on Albert's warning and vanished to speak with Sirius.

As the Gryffindor–Slytherin Quidditch match approached, Slytherin students tried to provoke Harry and sabotage Gryffindor, while the Weasley Twins retaliated after Miles Bletchley cursed Aylia. Miles was later found enchanted in a washroom, and Albert insisted that Snape and Umbridge needed evidence before accusing anyone.

• Slytherin students repeatedly provoked Harry in hopes of getting Umbridge to ban him from the match, while Albert made troublemakers copy Educational Decrees.
• Miles Bletchley cursed Aylia, and Hermione stopped Harry from confronting the Slytherins as the Weasley Twins hinted they would retaliate.
• Miles disappeared, and Hermione asked Albert to restrain the Twins, but he asked whether she had evidence.
• Albert and his companions found Miles enchanted in the fifth-floor Boys' Washroom, standing on a sink in a ballet tutu, and Albert freed him and arranged for him to be taken to the School Hospital.
• Snape and Umbridge arrived and questioned the incident, but Albert described what he had witnessed and told them to wait for Miles to wake up before making accusations.

As Gryffindor and Slytherin clashes worsened under Umbridge and Snape’s biased discipline, Albert and Katrina refused to take responsibility for managing the school’s anger. The chapter ended with Umbridge being attacked by enchanted Dungbombs and her detentions turning into further pranks as the Quidditch match approached.

• Slytherin students blamed Gryffindor for Miles Bletchley’s Swan Dress humiliation, while conflicts between the Houses intensified under Umbridge’s favoritism.
• Professor McGonagall confronted Albert and Katrina about the growing number of clashes, but they urged her to address the unfairness behind them and declined to intervene.
• Albert and Katrina left McGonagall’s office after suggesting that Umbridge be driven out, and Albert said McGonagall would have to face reality herself.
• Umbridge was pelted by enchanted balls of dung bearing the words “Anti-Toad Alliance” as students gathered to watch.
• As the Quidditch match neared, violent clashes filled the School Hospital and Umbridge’s detention schedule, while students pranked her punishment classroom with a Laughing Bomb.

Fred, George, and Lee Jordan prepared for Gryffindor’s Quidditch match against Slytherin, while Ron struggled with nerves and Slytherin students taunted him. The chapter left both teams committed to a large wager before heading to the pitch.

• Fred, George, and Lee Jordan discussed Gryffindor’s chances and George planned to give the players Pumpkin Juice before the match.
• The trio mocked Slytherin’s “Weasley is our King” badges, and George’s small ball caused black smoke to cover Malfoy and two nearby students.
• Harry gave Ron calming pills while Lee Jordan supplied Vitality Potion, but Ron remained nervous as the team prepared to leave for the pitch.
• George and Fred challenged Slytherin to bet twenty Galleons on the match, and Montague agreed after Gryffindor students began joining in.

Albert and Isobel watched Gryffindor defeat Slytherin in a Quidditch match before a confrontation between the houses erupted into a brawl. Dumbledore stopped the students and ordered them to run laps, while the rivalry continued through chants and insults.

• Albert and Isobel watched Harry catch the Golden Snitch after Ron’s poor goalkeeping let Slytherin take an early lead.
• Harry and Malfoy traded insults after the match, drawing Gryffindor and Slytherin students into a tense standoff.
• Slytherin students attacked first, but Harry, Fred, and George blocked their spells and disarmed Malfoy as the crowd descended into a brawl.
• Someone stunned Umbridge before she could intervene, and Dumbledore froze the students to bring the fight to an end.
• Dumbledore sent the students involved to run laps, while Gryffindor and Slytherin continued to taunt each other from opposite sides of the pitch.

Albert visited Hagrid after learning he had returned badly injured from his failed mission to recruit the giants, then warned him about Umbridge’s growing power at Hogwarts. Hagrid learned that Umbridge intended to inspect and dismiss him, and Albert left him to prepare for the inspection.

• Bit delivered Albert a message that Hagrid had returned injured with fresh Dragon meat, so Albert went to Hagrid’s cabin.
• Hagrid told Albert that he and Olympe had failed to recruit the giants after Death Eaters turned them against Dumbledore’s cause and their leader was killed.
• Albert explained that the giants had stronger reasons to join Voldemort, and reassured Hagrid that Dumbledore had expected the mission might fail.
• Albert warned Hagrid that Umbridge was using the Educational Decrees to target Dumbledore, Harry, and Hogwarts staff, and planned to inspect and sack Hagrid.
• Albert urged Hagrid to prepare for Umbridge’s inspection and promised to have House-elves send him Dittany for his injuries.

After a clash between Gryffindor and Slytherin, Harry and the Weasley Twins defended their actions to Professor McGonagall and dismissed Umbridge’s authority. McGonagall later resisted Umbridge’s attempt to punish them, leaving Umbridge furious and McGonagall relieved.

• Professor McGonagall summoned Harry, Fred, and George after the Quidditch Pitch confrontation, but they argued that Slytherin had provoked them and that they had only defended themselves.
• Fred, George, and Harry told Professor McGonagall that Umbridge had been stunned during the chaos and would soon be gone, and they urged her not to obey the Educational Decrees.
• After they left, Professor McGonagall realized they intended to keep opposing Umbridge and felt less burdened by the situation.
• Umbridge visited Professor McGonagall that evening and proposed banning Harry and the Weasley Twins from Quidditch and confiscating their brooms.
• Professor McGonagall refused to let Umbridge seize the students’ private property and suggested she address the students herself, then sent her away.

Umbridge’s office caught fire after Peeves hid a Fire Crab Egg there, and she retaliated by banning Harry, Fred, and George from Quidditch and confiscating their brooms. Gryffindor grew furious and struck back, while McGonagall declined to intervene, leaving the conflict with Umbridge poised to escalate.

• Umbridge returned to find her office burning, while Filch struggled to unlock the door and Peeves mocked them; a Slytherin student finally suggested using Aguamenti.
• Filch found Fire Crab Eggs in the fireplace, but Umbridge wrongly suspected Professor Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank, Hagrid, and Gryffindor before the chapter revealed Peeves had placed an egg under her desk.
• Umbridge summoned Harry, Fred, and George, banned them from Quidditch, and confiscated their brooms; the three handed them over while Gryffindor students watched.
• Lee Jordan confronted Gryffindor about their timid response, and Shanna showed the Common Room how little money its students had contributed to the earlier celebration feast.
• Umbridge gave Malfoy and his companions Educational Decrees to copy, and Gryffindor students retaliated by leaving the Slytherin players in a washroom and hanging Umbridge on the Notice Board.
• Umbridge considered interrogating every Gryffindor student, while McGonagall told protesting students she could do nothing and advised them to write to the Ministry.

Hogwarts descended into chaos as Umbridge faced escalating pranks and the professors stopped intervening. Harry told Hermione and Ron that Albert’s prophecy warned Umbridge would bring disaster and death to Muggle-born wizards in the coming years, leaving them shocked and more determined to oppose her.

• After McGonagall stopped intervening, students retaliated against Umbridge and Slytherins while Peeves and the Anti-Toad Alliance repeatedly targeted Umbridge with Dungbombs.
• Hermione objected to the students’ radical methods, but Harry and Ron argued that Umbridge deserved resistance and might use her authority to dismiss Hagrid.
• Harry explained that Umbridge suspected Hagrid of bringing Fire Crab Eggs into her office, and the three worried they could not protect him through a fair hearing.
• While waiting outside Hagrid’s cabin, Harry described Albert’s assessment of Umbridge as controlling and fanatical, and revealed that Albert’s prophecy predicted future deaths among Muggle-born wizards.
• Hermione and Ron were shocked by the prophecy, while Harry said he trusted Albert’s predictions and explained why he hated Umbridge.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione visited Hagrid and found him injured after a secret trip into the Forbidden Forest. Albert’s letters warned Hagrid to abandon his efforts and told him to help Firenze later; Hermione suspected Hagrid had brought back a young giant, and she planned to ask Albert about it.

• Hagrid treated his injuries with Albert’s painkillers and Dittany while avoiding questions about how he had been hurt.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione warned Hagrid that Umbridge was looking for a reason to sack him, but Hagrid refused to change his plans for his Care of Magical Creatures lessons.
• Harry read Albert’s letter, which urged Hagrid to give up his efforts and later help Firenze avoid being killed by the Centaurs.
• On their way back to the castle, Hermione guessed that Hagrid had brought a young giant into the Forbidden Forest, and she decided to talk to Albert.

Hermione confronted Albert about Hagrid hiding giants in the Forbidden Forest, and Albert urged her to respect Hagrid’s privacy and set limits on what she would do for him. Later, Albert met Dumbledore to collect Felix Felicis and discuss Voldemort, Harry’s Occlumency, and Umbridge’s latest actions, leaving Dumbledore to face the growing turmoil at Hogwarts.

• Hermione told Albert she had guessed Hagrid was hiding giants, and Albert refused to reveal Hagrid’s private reasons while advising her not to feel guilty if she had to refuse him help.
• Albert saw Umbridge regard the returned Hagrid coldly, then received Dumbledore’s note from George and went to meet Dumbledore that evening.
• Dumbledore gave Albert a bottle of Felix Felicis obtained from Horace Slughorn, and Albert paid him one hundred Galleons.
• Albert cautioned Dumbledore about unexpected circumstances in his Horcrux hunt and refused to teach Harry Occlumency, doubting Harry could master it.
• McGonagall told Dumbledore that Umbridge had banned Harry and the Weasley Twins from Quidditch for life and confiscated their brooms, and Albert predicted that Umbridge would soon try to dismiss Trelawney.
• Albert warned Dumbledore that hiring Firenze could anger the other Centaurs, while Dumbledore remained focused on what he considered more important than the school’s immediate problems.

Albert and Katrina joined the crowd watching Umbridge dismiss Professor Trelawney, whose sharp prophecies and a mysterious prank left Umbridge and two Aurors on the floor. Dumbledore let Trelawney leave temporarily, while Umbridge was sent to the School Hospital.

• Albert and Katrina heard that Umbridge had fired Professor Trelawney and went to watch the confrontation in the Entrance Hall.
• Albert stopped Montague from attacking two Gryffindor girls after Montague mocked Trelawney.
• Trelawney taunted Umbridge with prophecies about Fudge, Umbridge’s future, and the curse on Defence Against the Dark Arts professors.
• A cloud of white mist filled the Entrance Hall, the two Aurors fell, and Umbridge crashed to the floor with her boots stuck in place.
• Dumbledore asked Trelawney to stay, but she refused and left, saying she planned to return after Umbridge was removed.
• Dumbledore ordered Albert, Katrina, and several Slytherin students to take Umbridge and the Aurors to the School Hospital.

After Professor Trelawney’s dismissal fulfilled her prophecies, Dumbledore arranged for Firenze to become Hogwarts’ new Divination Professor. Hagrid rescued Firenze from the Centaurs’ attack and brought him to Hogwarts, where Dumbledore welcomed him.

• Trelawney’s prophecies about being dismissed and a nonhuman Divination Professor gained renewed attention, unsettling Umbridge and strengthening Dumbledore’s confidence in hiring Firenze.
• Dumbledore sent Hagrid to meet Firenze in the Forbidden Forest after the Centaur refused to return to Hogwarts with him.
• Hagrid found the Centaurs beating Firenze for agreeing to work with wizards and helped him leave the herd despite Magorian’s threats.
• Hagrid treated Firenze’s injuries with Dittany Albert had provided, and Firenze used a Centaur healing Charm to help heal his wounds.
• Dumbledore arrived at Hagrid’s cabin, thanked Hagrid and Firenze, and told Firenze that Albert was eager to exchange knowledge of prophecy with him.

Dumbledore’s appointment of Firenze as Divination Professor intensified Hogwarts’ hostility toward Umbridge, whose authority and reputation suffered as Trelawney’s prophecies spread. Albert visited Firenze to discuss Divination and warned him that he would eventually return to the Forbidden Forest and should beware of Umbridge.

• Dumbledore’s appointment of Firenze fulfilled Trelawney’s prophecy, and students began to believe her prediction that Umbridge would become headmistress and eventually be sent to Azkaban.
• Umbridge’s punishments failed to stop students from despising her, and Fred, George, and Lee Jordan praised Albert’s success in turning Hogwarts against her.
• Albert warned Fred, George, and Lee Jordan that Umbridge might discover Dumbledore’s Army’s meeting place, prompting George to seek help from its members.
• Albert visited Firenze in Classroom Eleven and arranged to exchange knowledge about human and Centaur Divination.
• Albert told Firenze that he would resign and return to the Forbidden Forest, then warned him that Umbridge hated nonhuman creatures and resented his appointment.

Cedric warned Albert that Umbridge might be investigating Dumbledore's Army, and Albert gave him advice and Veritaserum antidote. As Gryffindor's Quidditch team struggled with its new lineup, Albert warned the Weasley Twins and Lee Jordan that Umbridge would use Veritaserum if she was determined to uncover the group.

• Professor McGonagall told Angelina she could not lift Potter and the Weasley Twins' Quidditch ban and advised her to choose replacements.
• Cedric told Albert he feared Umbridge suspected him of helping Dumbledore's Army, and Albert offered him Veritaserum antidote and ways to protect himself.
• Albert, the Weasley Twins, and Lee Jordan discussed spreading a rumor about Dumbledore's Army training with Acromantulas in the Forbidden Forest.
• Angelina told Albert that Ginny, Andrew Kirke, and Jack Sloper had joined Gryffindor's struggling Quidditch team, then asked whether she could become a professional player.
• Albert warned the Weasley Twins and Lee Jordan that Umbridge would use Veritaserum if she had decided to uncover Dumbledore's Army.

Cedric resisted Umbridge’s interrogation about the Self-Defense Guide and Dumbledore’s Army by using Albert’s antidote to Veritaserum. As Umbridge tightened her control over Hogwarts, George began considering ways to punish her.

• Filch escorted Cedric to Umbridge’s office, where she questioned him under Veritaserum about the Self-Defense Guide, Dumbledore’s Army, and Albert.
• Cedric left without revealing the truth, and Umbridge tested the remaining milk tea on a House-elf before concluding the Veritaserum worked.
• Cedric told Harry and Hermione that Albert had given him an antidote and relayed Albert’s advice for handling future interrogations.
• George told Albert and Shanna that Umbridge had interrogated Cedric, and Albert warned that she might use harsher methods against students.
• Lee Jordan reported that Umbridge had issued a decree to form an action squad, and George proposed secretly harming or transforming her.

Harry called a Dumbledore's Army meeting after Cedric warned them that Umbridge had used Veritaserum on him and might screen students for the group. The members rejected extreme or impractical proposals and practiced backup ways to stall Umbridge, while the Weasley Twins used the meeting to promote their Skiving Snackboxes.

• Cedric told the Dumbledore's Army members that Umbridge had summoned him for tea and used Veritaserum, and he warned that she likely suspected the group existed.
• Bones proposed reporting Umbridge to the Ministry, but Ernie Macmillan and Hermione rejected the idea; Harry and Cedric discussed telling Dumbledore instead.
• Fred and George proposed turning Umbridge into a toad, but the members backed away when George said they would all have to sign their names.
• Hermione ruled out distributing Veritaserum antidote because no one present could reliably brew it, and Fred revealed that he had the recipe and instructions.
• Harry and the Weasley Twins taught the members ways to delay Umbridge, including using Skiving Snackboxes to feign unconsciousness, and the group practiced in pairs.
• After the meeting, Fred and George explained to Ron and the others that giving away the sweets was advertising for their planned Joke Shop.

Umbridge targeted Hermione, suspecting she knew about Dumbledore’s Army, but Hermione and Harry’s group outmaneuvered her and erased the witnesses’ memories. The chapter ended with Hermione planting a false memory that the Forbidden Forest held a suspected DA base, directing Umbridge toward Hagrid’s Acromantulas.

• Umbridge issued a decree allowing students to be questioned about suspected illegal activities and accused Hermione of organizing them.
• Hermione lured Umbridge toward her office, tripped and stunned her, and Harry and other DA members stunned Malfoy’s action squad when they appeared.
• Hermione erased Malfoy’s group’s memories, while the DA members prepared a prank and Hermione and Umbridge faked injuries when Filch arrived.
• After Umbridge summoned Hermione to her office again, Harry helped her incapacitate Umbridge amid smoke, and Hermione altered Umbridge’s memories of the questioning.
• At Harry’s suggestion, Hermione implanted a false memory that the Forbidden Forest contained a suspected Dumbledore’s Army base, hoping Umbridge would confront the Acromantulas.

Albert supplied Hermione with Polyjuice Potion, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione used it to transform Umbridge into a toad and leave her unconscious in her office. The trio returned with an alibi, while Albert gave Ron confidence-boosting medicine for Quidditch practice.

• Shanna asked Albert about Umbridge’s daily tea interrogations, and Albert reflected on his recent study of Centaur astrology and healing magic.
• Hermione asked Albert for Polyjuice Potion, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione planned to use Trevor’s skin to turn Umbridge into a toad.
• Albert warned the trio that Umbridge might intensify her search for conspirators, then gave them the Book of Origins to help create an alibi.
• Albert gave Ron medicine he said would help him play Quidditch at his normal level, and George led Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Lee Jordan out of the Common Room.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Lee stunned Umbridge, made her drink the potion, and Hermione modified her memories as she transformed into a toad.
• Lee photographed the unconscious Umbridge, and the group erased signs of their presence before leaving her office.