Chapter Summaries

Jon spoke with Zhu Sha about promoting Creation Theory, the family’s Horcrux, and the need to deal with Voldemort permanently. After she disappeared, Jon reflected on his role as a catalyst and returned to his room, where his failed attempt supported his argument for Creation Theory.

• Jon asked Zhu Sha how her efforts to promote the theory were progressing, and she said she could only raise it with senior family members for now.
• Jon warned Zhu Sha that Voldemort’s Horcrux could become harder to destroy as Voldemort grew stronger.
• Zhu Sha said she would preserve her family’s Golden Goblet and deal with its soul fragment herself or consult her Ancestor.
• Zhu Sha ended the conversation and vanished, leaving Jon alone on the rooftop.
• Jon returned to his room and concluded that his failed attempt supported the argument that human contradictions made Creation Theory more reasonable.

Harry worried about Umbridge’s growing influence at Hogwarts and his inability to convince others that Voldemort had returned. After the Ministry appointed Umbridge Hogwarts Senior Undersecretary, Harry spoke up during her lesson and received another week of detention.

• Harry thought about Umbridge targeting him, Hagrid’s absence, and his brief communications with Sirius, while recalling his feelings for Cho Chang.
• Hermione read The Daily Prophet’s report that the Ministry had created the position of Hogwarts Senior Undersecretary and appointed Umbridge to it.
• Harry and Hermione hurried to class, where Hermione continued challenging Umbridge during lessons.
• Harry joined Hermione in speaking up against Umbridge and earned another week of detention.

Hermione agreed to join Jon’s side after Dumbledore revealed the full story, while Harry received another detention from Umbridge and faced anger from Angelina and Professor McGonagall. The chapter ended with Harry frustrated over his bleeding hand and Hermione keeping quiet about her decision.

• Hermione questioned Dumbledore about tolerating Umbridge’s actions, then agreed to join Jon’s side and asked to learn exactly what had happened.
• Dumbledore informed Jon that he had explained the full story to Hermione, and Jon wrote to arrange a meeting with her.
• Harry’s detention wound reopened the next morning, and Angelina confronted him at breakfast over receiving another detention.
• Professor McGonagall took points from Gryffindor for Angelina’s outburst and Harry’s detention, then warned Angelina about making scenes.
• Harry complained to Ron about the unfair punishment, while Hermione remained unusually silent.

Hermione met Jon to learn more about his and Dumbledore’s plan to overturn the Secrecy Act and asked to join the fight. Jon explained that she could help by opposing Umbridge at Hogwarts and supporting Harry, whom they intended to shape into a hero.

• Hermione ignored Harry’s question about McGonagall because she was tired and preoccupied with Dumbledore’s revelations and Jon’s letter.
• Umbridge entered McGonagall’s Transfiguration class, and Hermione considered how she might act against the Ministry official within Hogwarts.
• Hermione met Jon that evening and asked to hear what Dumbledore had left out and to take part in the fight.
• Jon explained that he and Dumbledore planned to make Muggle and wizarding society overlap by overturning the Secrecy Act, using a technique that could turn some Muggles into witches and wizards.
• Hermione warned that using Voldemort as part of their plan was dangerous, but Jon said other countries would oppose him if he threatened Britain.
• Jon told Hermione that Harry would ultimately confront Voldemort and that they needed her to support and perhaps control Harry.

Jon gave Hermione a magical notebook that could teach combat magic and send her questions to Jon or Zhu Sha. After Harry returned from detention with an injured hand, Hermione treated it and began discussing how to oppose Umbridge.

• Jon explained Hogwarts' situation to Hermione and gave her a notebook containing combat-wizard lessons and a way to contact him or Zhu Sha.
• Hermione accepted Jon's healing potion for Hagrid and left the castle lawn.
• Harry returned to the Common Room at midnight, where Hermione and Ron were waiting for him.
• Hermione treated Harry's injured hand with filtered Murtlap Tentacle juice while Ron urged him to report Umbridge.
• Hermione told Harry and Ron that they had to do something about Umbridge and that her Defense Against the Dark Arts class taught them nothing.

Hermione proposed that Harry teach the students Defense Against the Dark Arts because he had faced dangerous situations and could prepare them better than Umbridge. Harry rejected the idea, insisting his past escapes had relied on luck and help, and he angrily described the terror of facing death as Ron and Hermione stopped laughing.

• Hermione suggested that the students learn Defense Against the Dark Arts themselves and argued they needed a proper teacher.
• Hermione asked Harry to teach them, and Ron agreed that it was a good idea.
• Hermione and Ron listed Harry’s past victories as proof that he could teach them.
• Harry insisted that luck and help, not skill, had kept him alive, and he grew furious when Ron and Hermione laughed.
• Harry shouted that they could not understand facing death or watching friends die, and he objected to their treating Cedric as a fool.

Hermione calmed Harry after he angrily misunderstood Ron and urged him to consider helping them learn how to face Voldemort. She reflected on her new role guiding Harry and the others, then fell asleep planning what to do next.

• Harry accused Ron and the others of not understanding that Voldemort might have chosen him instead of Cedric, and Ron hurriedly denied insulting Diggory.
• Hermione calmed Harry by explaining that they needed to know what it felt like to face Voldemort, and asked him to think it over.
• Hermione returned to her dormitory and resolved to try guiding Harry, as Jon had encouraged her to do.
• Hermione considered how her place as the trio’s strategist could let her influence her friends and help train the other students.
• Hermione thought about her next steps and gradually fell asleep.

Jon handled reports from Hogwarts, the Order of the Phoenix, and his laboratory, then arranged for Kaledi to contact Dobby. The laboratory was ready for equipment and experiments, and Jon ended the morning admiring a flower blooming in the sunlight.

• Jon reviewed Hogwarts affairs and told Filch to continue monitoring Umbridge while preserving his usual image.
• Jon read Hermione's plans to form a resistance group and recognized that Harry's group would need to find the Room of Requirement.
• Jon asked Kaledi to contact Dobby discreetly and tell him that Jon and the Order of the Phoenix were on Harry's side.
• Jon received a report that the laboratory was complete and that the Dark Forest was ready to begin research once he sent the materials.
• Jon replied to the reports, sent them back, and looked out at the flower Kaledi had kept blooming.

Harry’s budding feelings for Cho lifted his spirits, but a new decree threatening the study group and Hedwig’s injury raised alarm. At Biro Manor, Jon arranged for Dobby to tell Harry about the Room of Requirement when the time was right.

• Hermione’s study group took shape as Harry happily spent the weekend thinking about his feelings for Cho.
• Harry and Ron found Educational Decree No. 24 on the Gryffindor notice board, and Hermione said her secrecy spell would reveal and punish any member who betrayed the group.
• Harry discovered Hedwig was injured, and Hermione grew uneasy that someone might have intercepted the owl.
• Umbridge observed Potions, where Harry suffered through Snape’s harsh treatment and received a punishment essay.
• At Biro Manor, Jon asked Dobby to tell Harry about the Room of Requirement, and Dobby agreed.

Dobby returned Hedwig to Harry and told him about the Room of Requirement, which could provide a hidden place for twenty-eight people to practice Defense Against the Dark Arts. Harry decided to visit later and asked Dobby how to find the room.

• Dobby brought Hedwig back to Harry and said Professor Grubbly-Plank had healed her.
• Dobby told Harry that Winky was still drinking and that Hogwarts House-elves refused to clean Gryffindor Tower because Hermione's clothes were hidden there.
• Harry asked Dobby to find a place where twenty-eight people could practice Defense Against the Dark Arts without Umbridge discovering them.
• Dobby explained how the Room of Requirement appeared when someone truly needed it and adapted to their needs.
• Harry resisted going to the room immediately because he was tired and had Snape's essay to write, then asked Dobby how to reach it.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione found the Room of Requirement and gathered the students who had signed up to learn defense. The group unanimously chose Harry as its leader, and Hermione began pushing for a discreet name.

• Harry told the Hog's Head sign-ups to meet that evening on the Eighth Floor and used the Marauder's Map to check that the corridor was clear.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked past the blank wall three times and opened the Room of Requirement, which contained books and magical equipment useful for defense practice.
• Ginny, Neville, Parvati, Dean, and the other recruits arrived, filling the room by eight o'clock.
• Harry explained the room's defensive equipment and began discussing what the group would learn first.
• Hermione proposed a formal vote, and everyone present voted for Harry to lead the group.
• Hermione suggested they choose a name that would not reveal the group's purpose, while Angelina and Fred offered alternatives.

Harry led the first Dumbledore's Army training session, teaching the group to cast Expelliarmus and correcting their technique. The meeting ended late, with the members agreeing to meet again while Angelina reminded them that Quidditch practice was also approaching.

• Hermione confirmed that the group would use the name Dumbledore's Army, and Harry began the lesson with Expelliarmus.
• Zacharias Smith questioned whether the spell could work against the Dark Lord, and Harry said it had saved his life in June.
• Harry paired with Neville, who managed to disarm him, then circulated to coach the other students as Fred and George secretly disarmed Smith.
• Harry spoke with Cho about Marietta's reluctance to oppose Umbridge and heard Luna praise her father's opposition to the Ministry.
• Hermione noticed it was past nine, so Harry ended the session and proposed meeting the same time next week, while Angelina pointed out that Quidditch practice was starting.

Harry ended the first gathering and arranged for students to return safely to their dormitories. Fren heard Smith’s report afterward, while Jon and Grindelwald continued setting up the underground laboratory in London.

• Harry checked the Marauder's Map and sent the students back to their dormitories in small groups.
• Fren waited in the Hufflepuff Common Room and asked Smith, Macmillan, and Justin how the gathering had gone.
• Smith recorded what he had witnessed, and Macmillan criticized his deliberately poor performance and the impression it left on Ravenclaw.
• Fren told the three students to work together and avoid drawing attention to Smith, then accompanied them toward the boys' dormitory.
• Jon and Grindelwald completed the preliminary construction of the London laboratory and began enchanting its equipment.
• Grindelwald complained about his workload while Jon argued that the laboratory would eventually let ordinary wizards operate the equipment.

Jon and Grindelwald discussed gods, the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon, and the world’s declining power while working, then compared their ideas about the origins of wizards. The chapter ended as Jon began to explain that Sally had found unusual material in ancient Chinese texts.

• Jon asked Grindelwald whether he had encountered gods, and Grindelwald explained why gods avoided appearing in the real world.
• Grindelwald said he wanted the world’s power to recover so he could become a god by conventional means.
• Jon explained that gods could not simply move to other worlds because worlds restricted or rejected them.
• Jon told Grindelwald that his research with Sally had only simplified the Bloodline Purification Potion and that they still lacked ingredients.
• Jon and Grindelwald discussed the origins of wizards, and Jon said Sally had found unusual content in ancient Chinese texts.

Jon and Grindelwald discussed how ancient races and animal bloodlines shaped modern people, and how magical ability depended on compatibility with magical elements. Grindelwald proposed that inheriting a magical creature’s bloodline could directly enhance a human’s abilities, illustrating the idea with Thunderbird blood.

• Jon described how records Sally found in China pointed to a break in recorded history during the Qin Dynasty and preserved evidence of ancient races.
• Grindelwald explained that many humanoid races had transformed into human forms and mixed their bloodlines with humans, while bloodline purification had reduced some inherited traits.
• Jon observed that people would favor a powerful bloodline over an ordinary one, regardless of racial purity.
• Grindelwald displayed a projection made with a transformed form of Memory Magic and compared the Human Race with the Thunderbird.
• Grindelwald explained that a person with Thunderbird blood could gain enhanced affinity with electromagnetic waves because Thunderbirds naturally fused with lightning.

Jon explained to Grindelwald that bloodlines and power had become essential shortcuts in the declining magical world, and that a wizard’s lineage could determine whether they could transform or ascend. Grindelwald revealed his Augurey bloodline and admitted that he was driving the world’s recovery of power to prepare for becoming a god.

• Jon argued that people favored immediate power and that the world’s magical decline made bloodline advantages or other shortcuts necessary for survival.
• Grindelwald asked why he could not use the Animagus spell, and Jon explained that transformation worked only for those with weak bloodlines or a suitable creature as a substitute.
• Jon reflected that his powerful Mysterious Bird and World Tree bloodlines could not be discarded, and that Helga’s exceptional lineage had helped her become a god.
• Grindelwald identified his bloodline as Augurey and described its connection to death, contrasting it with the phoenix and the Mysterious Bird.
• Grindelwald admitted that he wanted to become a god and was promoting the recovery of the world’s power to prepare for his ascension.

Jon finished a magical array and prepared to travel with Anthony to a wedding, while Grindelwald protected Anthony from magical forces. The chapter left them entering a stable spatial rift to begin their mission.

• Jon asked Grindelwald about Voldemort, who had been causing destruction while the Ministry of Magic ignored the attacks.
• Jon completed the Magic array and learned that Anthony had found researchers, who were signing confidentiality agreements and receiving implanted memories from Mr. Lockhart.
• Jon assigned Grindelwald to oversee the researchers and told Anthony they would infiltrate from the edges inward.
• Grindelwald placed a protective magical barrier around Anthony so he could withstand magical fluctuations and spatial travel.
• Jon opened a black crack in space and stepped through, and Anthony followed him toward the wedding.

Jon and Anthony attended Sirius Black’s secret wedding at a remote manor, where Dumbledore explained that Sirius had arranged a practical marriage with an unfamiliar pure-blood witch from a fallen family. The gathering resembled a family dinner more than a wedding, and Jon greeted the House-elves helping prepare it.

• Jon and Anthony arrived through a spatial rift at a remote manor where Sirius Black’s wedding was being held.
• Dumbledore explained that Phineas had arranged Sirius’s match with a pure-blood witch from a fallen noble family, and that both families expected to benefit from the marriage.
• Jon learned that the bride had few surviving relatives, making the wedding a small family gathering attended by portraits, Dumbledore, Jon, and Anthony.
• Jon entered the manor with Dumbledore and greeted Dobby and Latia as they prepared the banquet.
• Jon asked Latia about the old clan chief, and she said his health was good and promised to pass along Jon’s greetings.

Jon attended Sirius's awkward wedding banquet, where Dumbledore vouched for Sirius and the bride's family kept their distance from Jon. Afterward, Jon and Dumbledore discussed the school, Hermione, and their plans before Jon returned to meet Grindelwald.

• Sirius married a woman he had no feelings for, while the bride and her relatives pretended Jon was not there.
• Jon explained that the bride's family knew about Voldemort and that Sirius's cousins followed him.
• Jon and Dumbledore left the Black family estate and discussed Umbridge and Hermione's abilities.
• Jon said he would return to discuss the next part of the plan with Grindelwald and leave school matters to Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore and Jon discussed using Jon's maternal grandmother and her Royal family connections to address a registration issue.

Jon visited the laboratory with Anthony and saw Grindelwald managing the researchers and advanced equipment as preparations neared completion. Meanwhile, the Magic Net was being integrated into Hogwarts, while Dumbledore prepared for his final ritual and other plans continued.

• Jon returned to the laboratory with Anthony and found Grindelwald overseeing the researchers and newly installed equipment.
• Grindelwald told Jon that Dumbledore was using the final period of his life to complete the ritual and showed him that the laboratory was nearly ready.
• Jon concluded that the laboratory could proceed without much further involvement from him and that events were developing as planned.
• Hogwarts integrated the Magic Net after Peeves repaired the castle’s old magical arrays and channeled it inside.