Chapter Summaries

Albert returned to Hogwarts as its new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, while Cedric joined him as an assistant teacher. After the welcome feast, Hermione visited Albert, feeling lonely because so few familiar people remained at school.

• Albert and the professors discussed how Umbridge’s persecution had left Hogwarts with far fewer new students, and Professor Flitwick began the Sorting Ceremony.
• Headmistress McGonagall welcomed everyone and began the feast, where professors and students noticed the improved menu and Hermione felt isolated.
• McGonagall announced that Albert would teach Defense Against the Dark Arts and Cedric would handle classes for first through fifth years, prompting students to protest Cedric’s appointment.
• Albert explained that Cedric had teaching experience and that their lessons were planned, then reassured Cedric after the students left for their dormitories.
• Hermione waited outside Albert’s office and told him she felt she had hardly any familiar faces left at Hogwarts, so Albert invited her inside.

Hermione sought comfort from Albert because she felt lonely and unfamiliar with Hogwarts, and the two became intimate in his Defence Against the Dark Arts office. Afterward, Albert used a Time-Turner to return Hermione to her dormitory unnoticed and went home, where Isobel recognized that he had been with someone.

• Hermione rushed to Albert for comfort and told him that Hogwarts felt unfamiliar and she had few friends.
• Albert brought Hermione into his suitcase, but she explained that she had come to talk before accepting his invitation to be intimate in the office.
• Hermione asked whether Albert cherished her, and he said he would cherish their relationship as long as she loved him.
• Albert gave Hermione a Vitality Potion, cleaned the office, and used a Time-Turner to return with her to the fifth-floor bathroom several hours earlier.
• Hermione rejoined the students heading to the Gryffindor Common Room, while Albert went home and Isobel told him to bathe after noticing an unfamiliar scent.

Cedric won over Hogwarts students with effective Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons, while Albert’s advanced class taught practical curse-breaking and emphasized students’ responsibility for their own training. Albert’s class became the school’s most popular, and Kingsley heard that the Ministry might benefit from his teaching.

• Cedric used his teaching experience and clear lessons to improve his reputation among Hogwarts students.
• Albert told his Sixth and seventh year students that Defence Against the Dark Arts was meant to help them protect themselves, then had them practise harmless curses and counter-curses in pairs.
• Albert encouraged students to practise in the Room of Requirement, warned them against using magic in corridors, and assigned no regular homework.
• Students spread word of Albert’s practical lessons, making his Advanced Defence Against the Dark Arts class popular even with students who were not enrolled.
• Cedric was surprised by Albert’s bold teaching approach, and Kingsley heard a suggestion that Albert train newly recruited Aurors.

Kingsley struggled to prepare the Ministry for the coming Full Moon while recognizing that Albert was unlikely to join or obey it. On a rare day off, Harry visited Avalon, saw its memorial and nearly finished villas, and joined the residents preparing furniture.

• Kingsley dismissed the idea of recruiting Albert and worried that the Death Eaters might use werewolves during the next Full Moon.
• Harry read Ginny’s note and decided to visit Avalon rather than go to The Burrow for lunch.
• Harry saw the new villas and memorial in Avalon, then found Hermione and the others working on furnishings.
• Harry visited the carpentry tent, learned how the residents were making and assembling furniture, and told Lee Jordan the Aurors had been given time off before the Full Moon.

Harry and the others discussed the threat of Death Eater-backed werewolves and why the Ministry of Magic had failed to act, while Albert taught Hogwarts students how to survive encounters with Inferi. The Ministry’s Inferi hunt had mostly ended, and Albert and Cedric reviewed a Defence Against the Dark Arts guide as Hermione corrected it.

• Harry said Albert’s warning likely meant that many werewolves would appear, and Lee Jordan explained that Albert had warned Kingsley about suspected werewolf-making by former Voldemort supporters.
• Kenneth argued that Kingsley’s Aurors were putting on a show so the Ministry could blame the public if disaster struck, and the group chose to focus on guarding Avalon instead of helping the Ministry.
• After the weekend break, the Aurors had destroyed most of the Inferi hidden by the Death Eaters, though a few might remain.
• Albert showed students a bottled Inferius and taught them how to identify, repel, and destroy Inferi using light, fire, and defensive Charms.
• Cedric asked Albert about the two Charms he taught, and Albert explained that they were improvements meant to provide immediate protection rather than kill Inferi.
• Albert and Cedric reviewed the Defence Against the Dark Arts Guide while Hermione filled gaps and corrected errors.

As the Full Moon approached, Albert refused to take direct responsibility for helping Kingsley stop the Death Eaters, believing the Ministry of Magic was unwilling to act decisively against Pure-blood families. Concern spread through Britain, and Hogwarts and Wizard Lookout Station prepared people for a possible werewolf attack.

• Cedric told Albert that Kingsley wanted his help guarding against the Death Eaters, but Albert said the Ministry could find clues if it used special methods and criticized its lack of resolve.
• Hermione asked Albert whether the Death Eaters would unleash werewolves, and Albert said it was likely because their Inferi had been destroyed.
• Albert told Hermione he would offer Kingsley some help but could not prevent events from unfolding, while keeping his reasons to himself.
• As the Full Moon neared, the Daily Prophet criticized Kingsley for diverting Aurors to prepare for a werewolf threat, while Hogwarts students and staff worried about Albert's prophecy.
• McGonagall strengthened Hogwarts patrols and ordered students to stay in their Common Rooms during the Full Moon, while Wizard Lookout Station began educating the public about werewolves.

Albert understood that Voldemort's Remnants planned to unleash werewolves to pressure Kingsley's Ministry, while Kingsley prepared to use the crisis to dismantle their influence. The Remnants argued over whether to delay or act, and the chapter ended with the Ministry still on high alert despite the previous Full Moon passing without incident.

• Albert recognized that the Remnants intended to use werewolf attacks to create fear and force Kingsley to negotiate.
• Parkinson and other Remnants doubted the plan, but their Unbreakable Vows and dwindling influence left them with few ways to escape.
• Some Remnants considered delaying the attacks, while others wanted to act before the Ministry eroded their remaining power.
• Albert and Kingsley expected the Remnants' attempt at peaceful negotiations to fail and prepared to eliminate the threat.
• Kingsley ordered Ministry departments to work through the night and remain ready for a possible werewolf disaster.

Over a hundred werewolves attacked towns across Britain on the September full moon, overwhelming the Ministry and exposing the wizarding world to Muggles. Kingsley prepared an emergency response as Hogwarts and Avalon dealt with attacks of their own, leaving the Ministry short of help.

• Werewolves appeared across Britain and attacked people, causing panic and revealing magic to Muggles.
• Percy told Kingsley that werewolves had entered Hogwarts from the Forbidden Forest, where McGonagall and the professors were hunting them.
• Percy reported that Avalon had also been attacked and that Albert, Fred, and George were keeping the Defence Association occupied capturing werewolves there.
• Kingsley ordered the Aurors to kill werewolves on sight and accepted that the Defence Association could not come to the Ministry's aid.
• Percy reported that St. Catchpole Village had been attacked and that fewer than half the expected attendees had arrived for the emergency meeting.
• Kingsley told Percy to continue with the meeting so they could plan how to contain the werewolf disaster.

On the Full Moon, Lee Jordan broadcast advice on recognizing and surviving werewolf attacks. After reports of nearby howling came in, Lee and Sirius prepared to patrol, expecting at least three werewolves.

• Lee Jordan repeated guidance on werewolf infection, home defenses, escape, and fighting transformed werewolves.
• Listeners checked their homes while keeping the radio on for updates.
• Lee announced that wolf howls had been heard nearby and said he and others would patrol and deal with the werewolf.
• Sirius handed Lee Jordan a Flying Broom and estimated there were at least three werewolves.

Harry and Ron joined an Auror team hunting werewolves amid widespread attacks across Britain. After Ron accidentally killed a bitten Muggle and became too shaken to continue, Harry was sent back with him, but Ron regained his composure and they returned to help their team.

• Ministry Aurors prioritized werewolves in Muggle-populated areas as Voldemort's remnants unleashed attacks across major cities.
• Ron accidentally killed a Muggle who had been bitten by a werewolf, leaving him pale and distracted.
• The team leader warned Ron to focus or return to the Ministry, and Ron chose to keep hunting.
• After Ron continued struggling during another encounter, the leader sent Harry back with him while the rest of the team moved on.
• Harry told Ron he might need to give up being an Auror if he could not handle such incidents, and Ron slapped himself and drank a Vitality Potion.
• Harry and Ron rejoined the team, which had struggled to contain a werewolf without Harry's help.

Truman, Shanna, and their teams hunted werewolves during the Full Moon while Albert coordinated the effort from Avalon. The attacks appeared to be slowing, but the Death Eaters’ attacks on crowded areas had left the Ministry facing a crisis among Muggles.

• Kenneth and the other wizards stunned a thirteenth werewolf Truman’s team had captured and sealed it into the ground.
• Shanna led her group toward signals marking more werewolves, where they found three chained werewolves and ordered them killed with Exploding Charms rather than risk a trap.
• Shanna reported the encounter to Albert, who judged it was probably a bluff and continued monitoring the map from Avalon.
• Albert and Ginny coordinated with Percy while Avalon’s residents prioritized catching werewolves threatening their own people.
• Kingsley’s forces struggled to contain the attacks as Death Eaters sent werewolves into crowded areas, causing Muggles to be bitten or killed and creating unrest.

After the Full Moon werewolf crisis, Kingsley held a press conference to explain the Ministry of Magic’s response and the casualties. He revealed how the Ministry had prepared, credited Albert and his companions, and promised support for the bitten Auror Bole.

• Kingsley announced that the Ministry had contained the crisis after Voldemort’s remnants abducted Muggles and released newly created werewolves.
• Kingsley reported that Aurors had killed 115 werewolves and captured 17, and said international specialists would use Memory Charms to limit the damage.
• Kingsley rebuked reporters who had mocked the Ministry’s preparations and explained that a Crisis Plan and drills had helped them respond quickly.
• Kingsley credited Albert Anderson’s prophecy and promised to apply for the Order of Merlin for Albert and his companions.
• Kingsley confirmed that Bole had been bitten, was being treated at St. Mungo’s, and would keep working for the Ministry on a confidential assignment.

Voldemort’s remnants planned to sacrifice a prominent member, including Parkinson, to make peace with the man opposing them, while hoping their werewolf scheme would force him to back down. After the werewolf hunt succeeded, Albert celebrated with Avalon’s residents and warned them to stay alert as Harry, Ron, and the exhausted Aurors arrived.

• A middle-aged wizard treated a Muggle whose fingers were bitten off by werewolves and told a newcomer that the remnants would prepare scapegoats to appease their opponent.
• The newcomer learned that Parkinson had agreed to sacrifice himself to protect his family and help it sever ties with Voldemort.
• The remnants relied on their Unbreakable Vows to prevent members from betraying one another, but the victims’ families still stood in the way of their hoped-for escape.
• George and Fred joined Albert’s celebration after the werewolf hunt, and Albert declared that they had thwarted Voldemort’s remnants.
• Albert asked Shanna to keep watch, and George took the pregnant Ginny back to Grimmauld Place No. 12 to rest.
• Harry and Ron arrived with their Auror friends, who looked exhausted when they saw Avalon’s residents celebrating.

After a werewolf hunt, Harry’s exhausted group rested and celebrated with Albert’s companions, while Harry explained that Kingsley planned to seek an Order of Merlin for them. Albert returned home briefly, then went to Hogwarts, where Hermione met him and asked to spend the morning together.

• Harry agreed to let the werewolves wait until dawn before they were taken to the Ministry, and both groups rested together on the lawn.
• Harry told George that Kingsley planned to apply for one Order of Merlin for everyone, but George said they would rather receive more Galleons.
• Albert returned home and told Isobel that the newly graduated Aurors needed money more than an award.
• Albert traveled to Hogwarts despite the likely canceled lessons, and Hermione told him she had waited for the werewolf crisis to end before resting.
• Hermione asked Albert to keep her company for the morning and said she would accept the consequences if she became pregnant.

Albert discussed the Ministry of Magic’s failed interrogation of the werewolves and its investigation into the Pure-blood wizards suspected of orchestrating the attacks. After one suspect died from an Unbreakable Vow, Albert suggested questioning their family members and explained that Kingsley planned to appear to compromise while leaving vengeance to others.

• Shanna counted the bounty Albert had given her, and Albert asked Percy about the werewolf interrogations.
• Percy said the werewolves’ memories held no useful information, and Albert argued that skilled Legilimens could uncover them.
• Godwin Robards announced that suspected Pure-blood wizards would be invited to assist with the investigation rather than arrested.
• A Pure-blood suspect died from an Unbreakable Vow during interrogation, stalling the Ministry’s investigation.
• Cedric told Albert and Hermione that Kingsley was considering a compromise, and Albert suggested privately interviewing the suspects’ family members.
• Albert explained that Kingsley would pretend to compromise while allowing avengers to deal with those the Ministry’s laws could not punish.

After the Ministry revealed that a man had died because of an Unbreakable Vow, Kingsley used the public outrage and the coming werewolf threat to negotiate an agreement with Mrs. Parkinson and Voldemort's Remnants. He brought the terms before the Wizengamot, where they were settled openly, leaving the Ministry poised to monitor the surviving Remnants.

• The Daily Prophet published the dead man's report and identified him as one of Voldemort's Remnants, earning Kingsley public understanding and prompting calls to interrogate people connected to Voldemort.
• Kingsley told Albert that he had contacted Mrs. Parkinson and needed Albert's support for an Unbreakable Vow and the proposed deal.
• Kingsley negotiated terms that would prevent the Ministry from purging Voldemort's Remnants who did not cause trouble, while arranging for Nelson Tobin's group to receive a list of targets.
• Kingsley convened an emergency Wizengamot meeting, and after a day of debate the attendees settled the terms of the Unbreakable Vow.
• Isobel asked Albert whether he had advised Kingsley to handle the agreement publicly, and Albert explained that Kingsley had needed the support of his faction.
• The Ministry and its allies agreed to watch the surviving Remnants and expose and kill them if they tried to stir up trouble.

Mr. Parkinson sacrificed himself to expose Voldemort’s Remnants, allowing Kingsley to arrest them and cleanse the Parkinson family’s reputation. The Ministry then put the fate of hundreds of werewolves to a public vote, but rejected housing or exile and turned toward punishing those responsible for creating the crisis.

• Mr. Parkinson persuaded Mrs. Parkinson to return to Britain and negotiate with Kingsley, intending to sacrifice himself to protect the Parkinson family and secure his grandson’s future.
• Under Wizengamot witnesses, Kingsley received Mr. Parkinson’s list of Voldemort’s Remnants and werewolf breeding locations after the Unbreakable Vow killed him.
• Aurors arrested the listed Death Eaters that night, and the Ministry publicly declared Voldemort’s Remnants wiped out.
• Kingsley convened a Temporary Meeting of the Wizengamot to discuss the hundreds of werewolves, and wizards overwhelmingly voted to let them leave peacefully.
• The Ministry explained that a shelter required money and lasting safeguards, while the Wizengamot rejected exile, so the Ministry decided to punish those who had created the problem.

After the Ministry voted to sentence hundreds of Muggle werewolves to death, Kingsley arranged for Avalon to use the Killing Curse to end their lives peacefully. The next day at Hogwarts, McGonagall asked Albert to help her find a new Transfiguration professor.

• After Aurors refused to carry out a mass execution, Kingsley led the Ministry in using Avalon's Killing Curse to euthanize the werewolves.
• Albert, Isobel, and Katrina discussed Nia's wish to return to Britain and considered possible careers for her.
• Albert used his Time-Turner to get ready for teaching after sleeping late.
• In the Staff Room, Albert told Slughorn, Sprout, and Flitwick how the Wizengamot voted on the werewolves' fate.
• McGonagall showed Albert a list of possible Transfiguration professors and asked him to accompany her as she approached candidates.

Albert declined to help Hogwarts recruit professors, while Headmistress McGonagall’s efforts to find candidates failed. As Avalon Village neared completion, Cedric and Cho Chang considered living together, and more couples in Avalon began making plans to cohabit.

• Albert told Headmistress McGonagall he would not stay at Hogwarts or take over as Transfiguration Professor, then offered her advice after her recruitment efforts failed.
• Cedric complained to Albert about McGonagall wanting him to teach, and Albert suggested he live with Cho Chang in Avalon.
• Albert encouraged Cedric and Cho Chang when they met among the people moving furniture into the villas.
• Avalon’s residents worked longer hours to finish the village before the rainy season and winter.
• Fred persuaded Angelina to live with him, and other couples held engagement ceremonies so they could move in together.

Albert discussed Avalon’s villas and the residents’ plans to move in, then spoke with Harry about Kingsley’s decision regarding Nelson and his group. Harry left uncertain about whether to give them a list of Voldemort’s Remnants, and Hermione learned that Kingsley was relying on them to eliminate the remaining enemies.

• Albert told Shanna that five couples planned to get engaged and move in, and said he would move to Avalon after it was finished so he could bring Little Alice.
• Shanna asked Albert for villa design plans, and Albert later arranged decorating templates after most residents showed little interest in his lessons.
• Harry told Albert that the Ministry had rounded up Voldemort’s Remnants and asked him about Nelson and his group.
• Albert said he did not approve of their revenge but would not stop them, and pointed out that Kingsley had pushed the decision of whether to give them a list onto Harry.
• Hermione learned from Albert that Kingsley had little choice but to use Nelson and his group to deal with the remaining Voldemort’s Remnants.