Recaps

Dumbledore and Grindelwald staged a devastating duel at Azkaban, jointly annihilating most of its Dementors. The survivors went mad and began breaking through the island’s barrier, leaving Gleeson and the Aurors close to disaster.

• Dumbledore and Grindelwald fought above Azkaban while thousands of Dementors swarmed toward their magic.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald combined their power in a storm that destroyed most of the Dementors as they secretly concealed their final farewell within their staged duel.
• The surviving Dementors tried to escape Azkaban, but its barrier repelled and burned them, driving them into a frenzy.
• Gleeson and the Aurors attacked the Dementors with Patronuses, but the creatures’ shrieks shattered the charms and left several Aurors incapacitated.
• A huge Dementor struck a deep crack in the barrier and widened it, while Gleeson collapsed and feared the barrier was about to fail.

A mysterious raven appeared during the Dementors’ attack on Azkaban and subdued the creatures, saving the surviving Aurors. It vanished into the ruins with the Dementors, leaving the Aurors alive but bewildered as Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s battle continued overhead.

• The berserk Dementors overwhelmed the Aurors’ defenses, and one Auror fell into a permanent coma after they passed through him.
• Just as the Dementors were about to kill the Auror captain, a large raven appeared on a ruined tower and silenced them.
• The Dementors gathered beneath the raven, which drew them in as black smoke and contained them beneath its wings.
• The raven’s cry eased the Aurors’ fear and the chill left by the Dementors, then it flew into the shadows of Azkaban and disappeared.
• Gleeson and the Auror captain confirmed that the raven had saved them, while the surviving Aurors wondered what it was as the battle overhead continued.

Aurors gathered at Azkaban as Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald fought with overwhelming magic, while a raven that could command Dementors vanished from the scene. The duel continued above the prison, ending this chapter with Grindelwald shielding himself inside a Fiendfyre shell as Dumbledore’s golden wheel struck toward him.

• Gleeson said the Aurors had to report the raven that controlled Dementors, and the sounds of battle erupted again.
• Auror reinforcements arrived at Azkaban but hid from the pressure of Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s duel.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald burst through Azkaban’s roof and battled above the North Sea as the Aurors watched.
• Grindelwald formed black Fiendfyre wings and launched a storm of fire feathers at Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore’s golden wheel absorbed and purified Grindelwald’s fire feathers before surging toward him.
• Grindelwald folded his Fiendfyre wings around himself into a blazing black shell to meet Dumbledore’s attack.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald continued their devastating duel above Azkaban while the Aurors watched helplessly. A raven revealed that the battle was a carefully staged performance, and the chapter ended with Gleeson hesitating over whether to send an emergency distress signal.

• Dumbledore and Grindelwald exchanged powerful spells that shook Azkaban, battered its walls, and terrified the watching Aurors.
• The two wizards launched a black Fiendfyre dragon and a golden sword of light at each other, and both attacks dissipated after a fierce midair clash.
• The Auror commander-in-chief called the duel the most astounding in Wizarding World history as the Aurors struggled to recover.
• A raven watching from a reef recognized the battle as a convincing performance and understood that it was only the opening act of a larger plan.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald resumed their duel as the Aurors retreated behind cover, and Gleeson gripped an emergency badge without activating it.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald continued their devastating duel, with both wizards badly wounded and nearly out of magic. Grindelwald caught Dumbledore with Fiendfyre hands and began dragging him down as Dumbledore struggled to resist.

• Gleeson decided that calling the Ministry of Magic or the International Wizarding Union for help would be useless and watched the duel helplessly.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald faced each other in the sky, both injured and exhausted, while Grindelwald taunted Dumbledore about their past.
• Dumbledore cast All Spells End, but Grindelwald used Fiendfyre: Ten Thousand Shields to block the barrage before vanishing from the beams’ path.
• Grindelwald tricked Dumbledore with an illusory voice, then seized his ankle with a Fiendfyre hand emerging from a spatial fissure and yanked him downward.
• Dumbledore used Wingardium Leviosa on himself to counter the pull, but Grindelwald summoned a second fiery hand, and Dumbledore began sinking toward him again.

Dumbledore used a life-consuming healing spell to recover enough strength to break free of Grindelwald’s Dark Magic, then drove him back with a golden blast. Both wizards staked their remaining strength on one final attack, and the chapter ended as their black dragon and golden magic circle collided, leaving the outcome unknown.

• Dumbledore cast Episkey, secretly burning his life force to restore his magic and weaken Grindelwald’s grip.
• Dumbledore blasted Grindelwald nearly a hundred meters back with a pillar of golden light, while both wizards recognized they were nearing their limits.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald agreed to settle the duel with one final strike and poured their remaining power into their respective weapons.
• Grindelwald summoned a colossal black dragon with Fiendfyre · End, while Dumbledore unleashed Holy Light · Final Chapter from a massive golden magic circle.
• The black dragon and golden magic circle collided, engulfing the sky in light and shaking Azkaban; when the Aurors looked up afterward, they were stunned by what they saw.

After Grindelwald defeated Dumbledore in their devastating battle, Raven carried the wounded Grindelwald away while Aurors caught Dumbledore and rushed him to St Mungo's. Dumbledore remained alive but gravely injured by Fiendfyre, and Healer Webster began treatment as Gleeson ordered guards to secure the ward.

• Grindelwald told Dumbledore he would kill him the next time they met, then fell from the sky as Raven transformed into a giant black bird and carried him away.
• Dumbledore lost consciousness and dropped the Elder Wand into the sea before Gleeson and the Aurors caught him with Wingardium Leviosa.
• Dumbledore briefly regained consciousness and told Gleeson he needed to rest, and Gleeson ordered Aurors to take him to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
• Healer Herman Webster identified the wound's black Fiendfyre as highly concentrated and resistant to ordinary Healing Charms, then requested a countercurse team and Nick LeMay.
• Webster took Dumbledore into the intensive care ward and barred the Aurors from following, while Gleeson ordered guards to keep everyone out without his or Webster's approval.

Dumbledore remained critically injured at St Mungo's after Grindelwald's attack, while secret watchers and Voldemort awaited news of his fate. Nick LeMay arrived to treat him and realized Dumbledore was pretending to be unconscious.

• Edmund Faulkner secretly reported Dumbledore's Fiendfyre wound to a hidden group, whose leader ordered him to keep watching and sent word to the master.
• Voldemort learned that Grindelwald had escaped after striking Dumbledore with Fiendfyre, and ordered his Death Eaters to report every development.
• Gleeson told Minister for Magic Fudge that Dumbledore was still being treated, Grindelwald had escaped, and the Dementors had fled after a raven led them away.
• Nick LeMay arrived at St Mungo's, entered Dumbledore's room alone, and found that the black flames did not harm him.
• Nick LeMay touched the flames and told Dumbledore to stop acting, but Dumbledore remained motionless.

Dumbledore revealed to LeMay that his grave injury was a performance meant to lure Voldemort, and the two old friends vanished from the ward together. As rumors of Dumbledore’s death spread, Gleeson recorded the unidentified raven in his report and the Death Eaters took the bait.

• Dumbledore woke and healed his staged Fiendfyre wound, then told LeMay that his apparent injury was necessary to draw Voldemort out.
• LeMay helped Dumbledore recreate the appearance of dying and convinced the healers and Gleeson that he would take Dumbledore away for three days.
• LeMay and Dumbledore discussed Grindelwald’s use of Fiendfyre, then vanished from the ward together.
• Gleeson revised his report on the Azkaban attack to include the unidentified raven that had driven away the Dementors.
• Death Eaters speculated that Dumbledore was dead, and their eagerness showed that the bait had worked.

Voldemort learned of the Fortress of Solitude and its Mirror of Banishment, then traveled to the Arctic and entered the ancient fortress in search of the artifact that could banish the raven. Unbeknownst to him, the supposed ruins were a trap built by Ian.

• Death Eaters told Voldemort that Dumbledore had been taken away by Nicolas Flamel and that Grindelwald's whereabouts remained unknown.
• A Death Eater showed Voldemort an ancient account of the Fortress of Solitude and the Mirror of Banishment, which could erase its target from reality.
• Voldemort decided to travel to the Arctic himself, believing that his connection to Deep Space marked him as destined to find the fortress.
• Voldemort sensed a resonance beneath the ice, found the fortress entrance, and opened its raven-shaped door with his magic.
• Voldemort ignored warnings carved into the inner door and entered a dark red-lit corridor, seeking the Mirror of Banishment.
• Ian's supposed ancient ruins were revealed to be a trap he had built overnight.

Voldemort entered Ian’s trap-filled ruins and overcame a seemingly unkillable creature before reaching the Mirror. Touching it drew him into a dark realm where a child and a boundless swarm of bugs confronted him, and Voldemort began trying to devour the space itself.

• Voldemort entered the stone chamber, where a decaying figure emerged from a coffin and resisted his Fiendfyre and severing curses.
• Voldemort pinned the figure to a wall, but it dissolved into green smoke that he erased with a burst of red light.
• Ian watched from the ceiling in raven form and noted that Voldemort had passed the first stage of the trap.
• Voldemort descended a staircase covered in parasitic bugs, opened a stone door, and found the Mirror in a vast hall.
• When Voldemort touched the Mirror, he appeared in a dark realm opposite a black-haired child as an immense swarm of bugs attacked him.
• Voldemort burned and blasted through the swarm, then began to writhe as he tried to devour the bizarre space.

Voldemort navigated a shifting labyrinth and a series of lethal traps, paying with his magic and blood to reach an enormous hall. He arrived at the altar where a mysterious object hovered, unaware that Ian had prepared the hall as his ultimate trap.

• Voldemort escaped the illusion, entered a rune-covered living labyrinth, and chose the seventh passage after sensing an exit beyond it.
• He survived a poisoned-arrow chamber and its deadly mechanisms, then surrendered magic to open a bronze door while Ian watched from a raven’s body.
• Voldemort fled rolling stone balls into a corridor that sank beneath corrosive liquid, then let a spiked doorway drain his blood and magic so he could pass.
• He crossed a rune-covered bridge that collapsed into an abyss behind him and reached the platform’s altar, unaware it was Ian’s ultimate trap.

Voldemort surrendered his destiny to claim a sealed black scroll, then passed through a hidden door into a golden desert where he was stripped of his powers and forced to walk toward a distant pyramid. He continued across the burning sands as an ordinary mortal, with the scroll’s key still waiting at the end of the trial.

• Voldemort touched the altar’s light, learned that it required him to surrender all his power, and chose to accept the sacrifice.
• Voldemort’s sacrifice awakened a Titan Guardian, and he fought it until he discovered that the stone platform sustained its power.
• Voldemort destroyed the platform’s power and defeated the Guardian, then claimed the black scroll, which told him its key lay at the end of the trial.
• Voldemort passed through a newly appeared door and entered a golden desert beneath three suns, where he became an ordinary human without magic.
• Voldemort set out toward a black pyramid and endured several days of heat and exhaustion without seeming to get closer.

Voldemort completed the fourth trial, obtained the Mirror of Banishment, and returned to his hideout intending to banish Ian’s raven. Ian revealed that the mirror was fake and that he had lured Voldemort into offering power from Deep Space, then left the ruins pondering what to do with the small portion he absorbed.

• After six days crossing the desert, Voldemort reached the pyramid and took the Mirror of Banishment, which promised to banish a target after he spoke its true name three times.
• Ian watched Voldemort leave the ruins, then examined the Deep Space power the altar had taken from him and absorbed a tiny fraction through his authority of the Old Ones.
• Ian confirmed that the mirror was fake, reviewed footage of Voldemort at the altar, and concluded that Voldemort had taken the bait before departing the ruins.
• Voldemort returned to his London hideout with the mirror and asked a Death Eater whether they had found Ian’s raven or Grindelwald.
• The Death Eater reported that neither the raven nor Grindelwald had been found, and Voldemort mocked the suggestion that Grindelwald might have died.

Voldemort chose Bellatrix Lestrange to receive power from Deep Space and transform beyond humanity. She emerged from the ritual changed into a many-eyed being, devoted to Voldemort and newly empowered.

• Voldemort ordered a Death Eater to investigate Raven, Grindelwald, and Dumbledore and find loyal followers worthy of cultivation.
• Voldemort selected Bellatrix Lestrange and asked whether she would surrender everything, including her humanity, for him.
• Bellatrix accepted the dark red power from Deep Space, which remade her body and began changing her soul.
• Bellatrix emerged covered in eyes and knelt before Voldemort, declaring that she felt more powerful than ever.
• Bellatrix released a burst of dark red light that twisted the air, cracked the stone walls, and injured nearby Death Eaters.

Voldemort transformed Bellatrix with power from Deep Space and learned the locations of Raven and Grindelwald by communicating with it. Though he feared risking his only life, he decided to send Bellatrix ahead to test his enemies.

• Bellatrix embraced her new powers and swore to destroy Raven, Grindelwald, and Dumbledore for Voldemort.
• Voldemort sensed through the crystal ball that Deep Space demanded a greater sacrifice and sought Raven and Grindelwald through his rune circle.
• Deep Space revealed Raven on a far-southern icy peak and Grindelwald wounded in a remote European town.
• Voldemort concluded that Deep Space wanted him to eliminate Raven and Grindelwald, and imagined his path to godhood.
• Remembering his losses at Azkaban and realizing he had no Horcruxes left, Voldemort chose not to risk himself and decided to send Bellatrix to scout ahead.

Voldemort sent Bellatrix, Selwyn, Crabbe, and Nott to find and kill the wounded Grindelwald, and Bellatrix found him in a small European town. As Bellatrix prepared to attack, Grindelwald mocked her loyalty to Voldemort, provoking her anger and causing the power of Deep Space to surge.

• Voldemort ordered Bellatrix to confirm Grindelwald's condition and kill him, assigning Selwyn, Crabbe, and Nott to accompany her.
• Bellatrix and the three Death Eaters reached a European town, where Bellatrix sensed Grindelwald in a gray house and reported their arrival to Voldemort.
• Bellatrix led the Death Eaters into the house and confronted the pale, weakened Grindelwald by the fireplace.
• Bellatrix told the others to stand back and gathered dark red power in her hand as Grindelwald calmly challenged her.
• Grindelwald mocked Bellatrix's devotion to Voldemort, and the power of Deep Space surged within her.

Bellatrix attacked Grindelwald with her Deep Space-enhanced powers, but he deflected her strongest spell and let her leave to preserve his deception. After reporting to Voldemort and choosing to stay behind and watch Grindelwald, Bellatrix departed, and Ian Prince revealed he had witnessed Grindelwald's act.

• Grindelwald taunted Bellatrix about her dependence on masters, provoking her to attack him with dark-red blasts that he evaded.
• Grindelwald stopped Bellatrix's powerful beam with his bare hand and redirected it, burying her beneath rubble without killing her.
• Bellatrix used the Deep Space spell Crucio: Soul Annihilation, but Grindelwald vanished from its path and calmly criticized the spell.
• Grindelwald told Bellatrix to report that he was alive and challenge Voldemort to come himself, while concealing his strength to protect the plan.
• Bellatrix told Voldemort through a Mirror that Grindelwald remained strong, then sent Selwyn, Crabbe, and Nott back while she stayed to watch him.
• Ian Prince appeared in the ruined house and told Grindelwald that his acting had impressed him.

Ian and Grindelwald discussed Voldemort’s expected attack and the fake mirror, while Bellatrix’s group waited outside town. Voldemort arrived in a newly created Horcrux Clone and declared it strong enough to defeat the weakened Grindelwald.

• Ian and Grindelwald agreed Voldemort would come in person and try to use the fake mirror against Ian.
• Bellatrix, Selwyn, Crabbe, and Nott waited outside town and discussed Grindelwald’s strength and Voldemort’s plans.
• Black smoke covered the sky, and Voldemort arrived on the hill before Bellatrix and the other Death Eaters.
• Bellatrix knelt before Voldemort, and the others followed before he ordered them to rise.
• Voldemort revealed that his arriving body was a newly created Horcrux Clone and said it was enough to defeat Grindelwald.

Voldemort forced Selwyn, Crabbe, and Nott to accept his dark red transformation as a supposed gift of power. Selwyn was transformed and emerged awed by his new strength, while Voldemort began the process on Crabbe.

• Voldemort told Selwyn, Crabbe, and Nott that he would modify them, and they protested against becoming like Bellatrix.
• Voldemort had Bellatrix describe her transformation as a gift, then pressured the three men until they knelt and agreed to accept it.
• Voldemort pressed the dark red light against Selwyn’s forehead, and tendrils reshaped his body amid extreme pain.
• Selwyn emerged with pupil-less dark red eyes and told Voldemort that he felt powerful.
• Voldemort turned to Crabbe and pressed the dark red light against his forehead.

Voldemort transformed Crabbe and Nott into powerful apostles and sent them with Bellatrix and Selwyn to kill Grindelwald. Grindelwald effortlessly turned their attack aside and sent them away, disappointed that Voldemort had not come himself.

• Voldemort transformed Crabbe and Nott, who embraced their new power and joined Selwyn as his apostles.
• Voldemort ordered Bellatrix, Selwyn, Crabbe, and Nott to go to Grindelwald’s house and kill him.
• Bellatrix led the others into Grindelwald’s sitting room, where Grindelwald criticized Voldemort for hiding and sending pawns in his place.
• Bellatrix and the three Death Eaters attacked Grindelwald, but he stopped Bellatrix’s spell with his bare hand and sent it back, burying her under rubble.
• Grindelwald told the attackers to leave and tell Voldemort he had waited for him, while Bellatrix emerged from the rubble without attacking again.

After Bellatrix, Selwyn, Crabbe, and Nott failed to kill Grindelwald, Voldemort fused them into a monster and sent it back to finish the job. The creature reached Grindelwald’s house, where Grindelwald faced it calmly.

• Bellatrix, Selwyn, Crabbe, and Nott fled Grindelwald’s house and returned to Voldemort on the hill.
• Ian transformed into a raven and flew away, while Grindelwald stayed behind and waited.
• Voldemort condemned the four followers and used his tendrils to fuse them into a single monster.
• Voldemort ordered the monster to kill Grindelwald, and it made its way through the town to the gray stone house.
• The monster entered the sitting room and threatened Grindelwald, who turned to face it and sighed.

Grindelwald fought the stitched monster formed from Bellatrix, Selwyn, Crabbe, and Nott, pretending to flee so he could draw Voldemort out. Voldemort captured him on the hill, and the two faced each other at last.

• Grindelwald struggled to hold back the stitched monster, whose combined strength and Deep Space’s power overwhelmed his defenses.
• Grindelwald dropped his force field and blasted the monster’s back before retreating through the wrecked house.
• Grindelwald transformed into blue mist and fled toward the hill, while the stitched monster chased him from the town.
• The stitched monster reported to Voldemort, who called it useless and seized Grindelwald from the sky with a tendril of dark red light.
• Voldemort confronted the exhausted, kneeling Grindelwald and told him they had finally met.

Grindelwald summoned the Raven to face Voldemort’s Horcrux Clone, and Ian Prince arrived on the hill. Ian effortlessly evaded Voldemort’s attacks and countered his strongest spell, leaving the sphere suspended as the clash continued.

• Voldemort taunted the weakened Grindelwald and revealed that he was only a clone, but Grindelwald said he could find help.
• Grindelwald sent a golden signal into the sky, and a raven emerged from the light and transformed into Ian Prince.
• Ian faced Voldemort, who attacked him with dark red beams, but Ian calmly deflected the first and dodged the rest.
• Voldemort unleashed a huge sphere of dark red power, and Ian’s thin silver-white spell stopped it in midair.

Ian defeated Voldemort's Horcrux Clone and let it escape so Voldemort's true body would fear him and come in person. Ian and Grindelwald erased the Muggles' memories and left the town, planning to wait for what came next.

• Ian destroyed Voldemort's attacks while Grindelwald pretended to struggle against the stitched monster.
• Ian revealed to Voldemort that he was Raven, and Voldemort fled without being pursued.
• Ian told Grindelwald he had spared the clone so Voldemort's true body would be more afraid and would come in person.
• Ian and Grindelwald used the Confundus Charm and Memory Charm to erase the Muggles' memories of the battle.
• Ian and Grindelwald watched the town return to normal, then decided to go back and wait.