Recaps

Hermione joined Jon’s effort while helping Harry form Dumbledore’s Army to resist Umbridge. As Jon’s laboratory advanced, he arranged Mr. Weasley’s secret reassignment and supported Sirius’s plan to disappear.

• Jon warned Zhu Sha that Voldemort’s Horcrux might become harder to destroy, then concluded that his failed attempt strengthened the case for Creation Theory.
• Hermione learned Jon and Dumbledore’s plan to overturn the Secrecy Act, agreed to help, and began guiding Harry toward organizing students against Umbridge.
• Harry and Hermione recruited students into Dumbledore’s Army, found the Room of Requirement, and began practicing defensive magic under Harry’s leadership.
• Jon and Grindelwald advanced their London laboratory while discussing gods, magical decline, bloodlines, and the origins of wizardkind.
• Jon attended Sirius’s arranged wedding, then discussed Umbridge, Hermione, and a registration issue with Dumbledore before returning to the laboratory.
• Hermione defended Hagrid after Umbridge observed his Thestral lesson, while Harry grew weary of school and struggled to understand Cho’s grief and feelings.
• Harry dreamed through a snake’s eyes as it attacked Mr. Weasley, then convinced McGonagall and Dumbledore that the vision was real.
• Jon arranged for Mr. Weasley to report secretly to the laboratory while a magical duplicate covered his hospital role, and he supported Sirius’s plan to fake his death and return under another identity.

Jon and Laura entered Mrs. Longbottom’s fractured consciousness to search for a way to treat her, while Harry led his friends to the Ministry to rescue Sirius. The group found the prophecy about Harry and Voldemort, but the Death Eaters ambushed them and separated Harry, Hermione, and Neville from the others.

• Jon transformed Laura into a witch and strengthened her soul so she could help treat the Longbottoms.
• Jon and Laura entered Mrs. Longbottom’s consciousness, explored its shifting layers, and searched for an anchor while avoiding its dangerous inhabitants.
• Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Neville, and Luna rode Thestrals to the Ministry, with Dumbledore following and summoning the Order of the Phoenix.
• Harry’s group searched the Ministry’s Department of Mysteries and found a prophecy orb labeled with the Dark Lord and Harry Potter.
• Lucius Malfoy and the Death Eaters cornered the children and demanded the orb, while Bellatrix threatened Ginny.
• Harry and his friends smashed the prophecy shelves and fled, but Ron, Ginny, and Luna became separated from Harry, Hermione, and Neville.
• Harry, Hermione, and Neville hid from two Death Eaters, then stunned and disarmed them before Hermione retrieved Harry’s wand.

Harry and his friends fought Death Eaters in the Ministry, where Sirius fell through the Veil and Voldemort revealed himself to the Ministry. During the summer, the Prime Minister learned the truth about the wizarding conflict, and Narcissa sought Snape’s help to save Draco from the Dark Lord’s task.

• Harry and Neville fled the Department of Mysteries with Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and Luna as Death Eaters pursued them and Bellatrix tortured Neville for the Prophecy Orb.
• Sirius joined the fight at the Ministry, but Bellatrix struck him and he fell through the Veil, and Neville accidentally shattered the Prophecy Orb as Harry tried to escape with him.
• Harry chased Bellatrix to the Atrium, where Voldemort appeared and fought Dumbledore before Ministry officials witnessed his return and escape.
• Dumbledore sent Harry back to Hogwarts, where Jon broke the illusion trapping Mrs. Longbottom, and Harry mourned Sirius before learning from Nearly Headless Nick that Sirius would not return as a ghost.
• Harry left Hogwarts for the summer with Order members waiting at King’s Cross, while Fudge and then Scrimgeour informed the Muggle Prime Minister about Voldemort’s return and the growing wizarding conflict.
• Narcissa and Bellatrix visited Snape, where Bellatrix challenged his loyalty and Snape defended his role as a spy who had helped Voldemort’s cause.
• Narcissa begged Snape to take Draco’s dangerous task in his place, and Snape said Voldemort was angry with Lucius and would not be persuaded to change his decision.

Jon helped Snape prepare for Voldemort’s task, met Zhu Sha to break open an ancient coffin, and pursued a path toward godhood while Hogwarts’s defenses were modified. Harry returned to the wizarding world, grew suspicious of Draco’s dealings with Borgin, and boarded the Hogwarts Express as Jon and Dumbledore finalized their plans.

• Snape made an Unbreakable Vow to protect Draco and complete Voldemort’s task if Draco failed, while Jon warned Snape that he might not arrive in time to save him.
• Dumbledore told Harry he had inherited Sirius’s possessions and Grimmauld Place, and Harry sent Kreacher to Hogwarts before leaving the Dursleys’ home.
• Jon revealed his strength to the American dark Wizard Association, then met Sirius and Derek at the harbor to receive Zhu Sha and Bai Jin with a sealed Hufflepuff coffin.
• Jon opened the coffin and fought the awakened Mermaid, using the World Tree’s power to take a leaf from her heart and kill her.
• Jon returned to Hogwarts, placed Helga’s mature leaf on the World Tree, and received its inherited memory about the path to godhood.
• Harry and the Weasleys shopped in Diagon Alley, where Harry followed Draco to Borgin and Burkes and overheard him arranging to repair and store objects.
• Jon later confronted Borgin about repairing the Vanishing Cabinet, then met Dumbledore to discuss their plans, Snape’s role, and his intended visit to Professor Slahogern.
• Harry told Mr. Weasley he suspected Draco had become a Death Eater, then boarded the Hogwarts Express as Jon and Dumbledore agreed that the plan depended on Snape provoking Voldemort.