Chapter Summaries

Irina excelled in her O.W.L. examinations, impressing Professor Marchbanks with her silent, wandless magic during the Defense Against the Dark Arts practical. The chapter ended with Marchbanks offering Irina extra credit if she could conjure a Patronus.

• Irina answered the written examinations confidently and dazzled examiners with her silent spellcasting and wandless magic in the practical tests.
• Irina demonstrated five offensive spells and three defensive spells for Professor Marchbanks, destroying an alchemical dummy and shielding herself.
• When Marchbanks asked how she would survive a Death Eater attack, Irina destroyed another dummy with an Ice Crystal Spear, then demonstrated a silently cast Disillusionment Charm.
• Professor Marchbanks asked Irina to conjure a Patronus for extra credit, valuing both her magical ability and her kindness.

Irina and Linley prepared for the coming confrontation while monitoring the Ministry and Gringotts, then called an unexpected daytime D.A. Army meeting. Linley revealed that Umbridge planned to arrest Hagrid and that Fudge was likely to be impeached the next morning, leaving the group ready to execute Umbridge that night.

• Irina finished her Defense Against the Dark Arts exam and spent the next few days preparing a living area for the dragon while Green worked on Goblin gloves.
• Linley distributed Alchemy Earpieces to five informants so Sirius Black could track developments at the Ministry, in Diagon Alley, and at Gringotts.
• After Irina completed her Potions and Magical Creatures exams, she changed the D.A. Army meeting to Wednesday afternoon, and Linley and Irina cast a powerful Confundus Charm over the eighth-floor corridor.
• Linley told the assembled D.A. Army that Umbridge had ordered five Aurors to arrest Hagrid and that Fudge was expected to lose the impeachment vote the next morning.
• Hermione explained that Umbridge would lose Ministry support if the students drove her out, and Linley announced that the D.A. Army would execute Umbridge that night.

Linley prepared the D.A. Army to punish Umbridge, but told them to wait until she attacked Hagrid so they would have a just cause. As Umbridge and five Aurors approached Hagrid under cover of night, Irina and the fifth-years watched from their Astronomy O.W.L. examination on the Astronomy Tower.

• Linley told the fifth-years they could not join the operation because they had to take their Astronomy O.W.L., and Irina led them back to study.
• Linley planned the operation with the older students and explained that they needed evidence of Umbridge attacking Hagrid before they could act against her.
• Irina used Ziwei Cold Star to complete her star chart quickly during the Astronomy examination.
• Umbridge arrived on the grounds with Dawlish and four other Aurors while Linley and the D.A. Army followed under the Disillusionment Charm.
• Linley told the hidden students to wait for Umbridge to attack Hagrid so their response could be presented as a righteous defense of a professor.

Umbridge and five Aurors attacked Hagrid, and Professor McGonagall was stunned when she tried to stop them. Enraged, Linley ordered the D.A. Army to attack Umbridge and the Aurors, who raised defensive spells as the chapter ended.

• Umbridge led five Aurors into Hagrid's Hut, where they tried to stun Hagrid and he fought back, knocking one Auror aside.
• Fang tried to protect Hagrid but was stunned, provoking Hagrid to hurl the Auror who had attacked him.
• Professor McGonagall arrived and demanded that the Aurors release Hagrid, but Umbridge ordered them to stun her.
• The Aurors' Stunning Spells struck Professor McGonagall, and she fell unconscious as the D.A. Army watched in horror.
• Linley ordered the thirty-nine D.A. Army members to attack Umbridge and the five Aurors, who turned from Hagrid and cast defensive spells.

Dumbledore's Army attacked Umbridge and the Aurors at Hagrid's Hut, then Linley revealed her buried memories and had the students punish her. The group returned to Hogwarts Castle while Linley secretly destroyed the hut with Umbridge still inside.

• Ginny led Dumbledore's Army in a surprise attack, rescued Hagrid and Fang, and helped defeat Dawlish and the other Aurors.
• Linley confronted Umbridge, who pleaded that her position would protect her from punishment.
• Linley restored Umbridge's sealed memories, and she realized he had orchestrated the attacks and framed a Dark wizard.
• Linley severed Umbridge's wrist and let the members of Dumbledore's Army each cast a Disarming Charm on her.
• As the group returned to Hogwarts Castle, Linley secretly cast Bombarda, setting Hagrid's Hut and Umbridge inside it ablaze.

After Dolores Umbridge was killed in the destruction of Hagrid’s Hut, Cornelius Fudge was removed as Minister for Magic and faced charges alongside her. The chapter ended with Madam Bones finding that evidence for several of Umbridge’s worst crimes was still missing.

• Linley’s explosion destroyed Hagrid’s Hut and killed Umbridge, while the five Aurors survived outside the blast radius.
• Professor Marchbanks and Professor Tofeldi sent the injured Professor McGonagall and, later, the five Aurors to St Mungo’s.
• Amelia Susan Bones announced that Cornelius Fudge had been impeached and was no longer Minister for Magic.
• Barty Crouch Sr. submitted evidence accusing Fudge and Umbridge of numerous crimes.
• Madam Bones said the evidence largely supported the charges but was missing proof for several accusations against Umbridge.

Barty Crouch Sr. used memories Linley had secretly extracted from Umbridge to expose her crimes during Fudge’s impeachment trial. The Wizengamot found the charges against Cornelius Fudge proven and sent him to Azkaban, while the evidence also revealed Umbridge’s crimes.

• Barty Crouch Sr. presented Linley’s stored memories of Umbridge to the Wizengamot through a magical projection.
• The memories showed Umbridge forcing Hogwarts students to use the Dark Arts Quill and ordering Dementors to attack Linley, Irina, and Harry.
• The projection showed Umbridge leading Aurors in attacking Hagrid and stunning Professor McGonagall, prompting the Wizengamot to condemn her actions.
• After an hour of discussion, Madam Bones called for a vote on sentencing Fudge to thirty years in Azkaban, and everyone raised their hands.
• Fudge protested and struggled, but magical chains restrained him as Aurors escorted him away to Azkaban.

After Fudge was removed and Umbridge was sentenced to life in Azkaban, Barty Crouch Sr. was elected Minister for Magic. He announced that his first priority would be investigating the Ministry and rooting out Death Eaters.

• The Wizengamot upheld Umbridge's charges and ordered Aurors to arrest her at Hogwarts.
• Madam Bones announced the candidates for Minister for Magic and received the completed public vote tally.
• Barty Crouch Sr. won the election by nearly a thousand votes over Rufus Scrimgeour and was approved by the Wizengamot.
• Barty Crouch Sr. took office and declared that his first initiative would be a thorough Ministry investigation to uncover Death Eaters.

Barty Crouch Sr. explained why the Wizengamot had not been told about Death Eaters in the Ministry, while Aurors arriving at Hogwarts learned that Umbridge had been killed by students. The Wizengamot then debated whether the students should be prosecuted, and Barty defended their actions as protecting Hogwarts professors.

• A neutral Wizengamot member questioned Barty Crouch Sr. about failing to report Death Eaters in the Ministry, and Barty blamed Cornelius Fudge for suppressing the information.
• Scrimgeour and a group of Aurors interrupted the O.W.L. History of Magic exam to arrest Umbridge, but Professor Marchbanks told them she had died the previous night.
• Professor Marchbanks explained that Umbridge had attacked Hogwarts professors and that thirty-nine students had killed her, while five Aurors who obeyed her had been seriously injured.
• Scrimgeour asked for the students' names, but Professor Marchbanks refused without an investigation order, so he withdrew with the Aurors.
• At the Ministry, Wizengamot members argued that the students had broken the law, while Barty Crouch Sr. said they had been protecting their professors.

Barty Crouch Sr. persuaded the Wizengamot to find the thirty-nine students innocent of killing Dolores Umbridge. After finishing her History of Magic O.W.L. early, Irina joined the group at 12 Grimmauld Place, tested her equipment and communications, and prepared to depart for the Gringotts robbery.

• Barty Crouch Sr. argued that the students had acted in self-defense and that the Ministry could not afford to lose more public trust.
• Madam Bones held a vote, and the Wizengamot cleared the thirty-nine students of the charges, with only two members voting guilty.
• Irina finished her History of Magic O.W.L. after one hour, handed in her paper to Professor Marchbanks, and Apparated to 12 Grimmauld Place.
• Linley gave Irina defensive alchemical equipment, while Sirius Black activated Green's Alchemical Signal Jammer.
• Irina confirmed that the alchemical headsets worked despite the jammer disrupting the Two-way Mirror, then said the group could depart.

Linley and the others arrived at Gringotts, where a crowd had gathered to demand the Dark Lord’s Horcrux. The group entered the bank to retrieve it, stopping at the warning on its silver door.

• Newt used a timed Portkey to bring Linley, Irina, Dumbledore, Green, and himself to Diagon Alley outside Gringotts.
• The five found wizards protesting and demanding that Gringotts hand over the Dark Lord’s Horcrux.
• The crowd recognized the five and cheered when Dumbledore confirmed they had come for the Horcrux.
• Linley and Irina entered through Gringotts’ bronze doors and read the warning engraved on the silver door.

Dumbledore, Linley, Irina, and Green fought their way into Gringotts to destroy a Horcrux while Sirius reported that the Ministry had learned of the robbery. Barty Crouch Sr. delayed the Ministry’s response, noting that over two hundred wizards supported Dumbledore’s mission.

• Dumbledore unleashed the Fire God's Path in Gringotts and said he had come to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes for peace in the wizarding world.
• Linley suppressed the goblins’ alchemical crossbow bolts, and Irina disabled the crossbowmen with Ziwei Cold Stars.
• Green drove the goblin defenders back toward the underground vaults while Linley placed surveillance spheres around the hall.
• Sirius Black warned the group that the Ministry had learned of the robbery, and Barty Crouch Sr. promised to delay its response.
• Barty Crouch Sr. pointed out that over two hundred wizards had gathered outside Gringotts to support Dumbledore’s effort to destroy the Horcrux.

As Linley and his companions tried to reach the Lestrange Family vault, Green worked to crack the Alchemy Minecart’s controls while goblins attacked them. The goblins brought out a powerful Alchemy Redcoat Cannon, and Linley called on Dumbledore to stop them as the chapter ended with the weapon shielded by goblin barriers.

• Barty Crouch Sr. told Scrimgeour to delay sending Aurors to Gringotts until the robbery was nearly over, so the Ministry could appear to uphold the law.
• Linley revealed the Alchemy Minecart’s hidden formations and asked Green to crack its operating permissions while the others defended it.
• Goblins switched to high-explosive arrows and blasted the rock ceiling, but Dumbledore sent the falling stones back at them.
• The goblins deployed their Alchemy Silver Shields to protect themselves and brought out an Alchemy Redcoat Cannon that Linley feared could threaten a Demon King level wizard.
• Linley sent Ziwei Heavenly Fire toward the cannon and shouted for Dumbledore to stop the goblins, who raised blue energy barriers around their weapon.

Linley used the Mana Suppression Scepter to neutralize a powerful alchemy shell as he and his companions escaped the goblins’ attack aboard an Alchemy Minecart. At Hogwarts, Harry struggled through his History of Magic exam before mysteriously passing out.

• Professor Dumbledore combined his Water Prison Curse with Linley’s Ziwei Heavenly Fire, overwhelming the goblins’ shields and killing many goblins.
• Green led Linley, Irina, Newt, and Professor Dumbledore onto the Alchemy Minecart and raced deeper underground as the goblins fired the Alchemy Redcoat Cannon.
• Linley activated the Mana Suppression Scepter, disabling the minecart’s booster and suppressing the alchemy shell’s energy before it could destroy them.
• Green recognized the shell as a weapon likely made by the goblins’ Great Alchemist, while the furious leading goblin blamed their enemies for its failure.
• Harry struggled to answer his History of Magic exam questions and eventually passed out.

Harry relived Voldemort torturing Sirius in a dream before waking in the Great Hall. Meanwhile, Green and Linley reached the Thief's Downfall in Gringotts, where Green began cracking its variable Alchemy Formation as Linley and Irina prepared their star-based magic.

• Harry dreamed he was Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries, torturing Sirius Black for the prophecy.
• Harry woke screaming on the Great Hall floor, his scar burning.
• Green regained control of the Alchemy Minecart and guided the group toward the Lestrange Vault.
• Green stopped the minecart before the Thief's Downfall and examined its changing Alchemy Formation.
• Green began cracking the variable formation while Linley and Irina summoned Ziwei Heavenly Fire and Ziwei Cold Star.

Linley and his companions destroyed the pursuing goblins’ minecarts while Green dismantled the Thief’s Downfall, then continued toward the Lestrange Vault. At Hogwarts, Harry discovered that the people he trusted were gone and was left unsure what to do.

• Linley and Irina blocked the route behind them with fire and ice while Linley planted explosive formations on the track.
• Linley detonated the traps, destroying the leading goblin minecarts and causing a massive pileup.
• Green dismantled the Thief’s Downfall, and an enraged goblin captain ordered his forces to bring down a dangerous shell despite a warning.
• Linley and the others boarded an Alchemy Minecart and continued toward the Lestrange Vault.
• Harry left his examination and rushed to the hospital, where Madam Pomfrey told him Professor McGonagall had been sent to St Mungo’s.
• Harry realized Dumbledore, McGonagall, Irina, and Linley were all unavailable, leaving him with no one he could rely on.

After a vision of Sirius Black being tortured by Voldemort, Harry became desperate to rescue him, while Ron and Hermione suspected Voldemort was manipulating the dream and Harry’s emotions. The chapter ended with Harry rejecting Ron’s plea to stay rational.

• Madam Pomfrey told Harry that students had attacked Minerva McGonagall, and Harry left the hospital wing in a panic.
• Harry told Ron and Hermione that he had dreamed Voldemort kidnapped and tortured Sirius Black, and insisted they had to save him.
• Hermione reminded Harry that Irina had warned him that unusual dreams might be Voldemort’s trap, and Harry admitted the vision had lasted longer than usual.
• Harry feared that ignoring the vision could cost him his godfather and cried that he could not gamble with Sirius Black’s life.
• Ron warned Harry that Voldemort’s soul fragment might be affecting his emotions, but Harry angrily demanded how he was supposed to stay rational.

Harry saw Voldemort torturing Sirius Black in the Department of Mysteries and decided to organize a rescue. A failed attempt to reach Sirius through a Two-way Mirror convinced Harry that Sirius had been captured, and Hermione began gathering allies.

• Hermione calmed Harry and heard his vision of Voldemort torturing Sirius Black near the end of the ninety-seventh row in the Department of Mysteries.
• Ginny and Luna entered the classroom, and Hermione suggested recruiting them because they had passed Linley's high-difficulty Illusion Trial.
• Harry used his Two-way Mirror to contact Sirius, but Green's Alchemical Signal Jammer at 12 Grimmauld Place blocked the connection.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione mistook the failed connection as proof that Voldemort had captured Sirius, though Sirius was safe at headquarters.
• Harry agreed to assemble a rescue group with Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Luna, and Hermione suggested recruiting Irvin Fleury.

Harry gathered a group of D.A. members to rescue Sirius Black from the Department of Mysteries, and Irvin tested Harry’s plan for reaching the Ministry. The group prepared to travel through Umbridge’s office fireplace, equipped with protective rings from Linley.

• Harry told Irvin, Astoria Greengrass, Neville Longbottom, Ady Reaver, and Elsa Jones that Sirius Black had been captured and asked them to help rescue him.
• Irvin tried to contact Linley with a Two-way Mirror, but the Alchemical Signal Jammers prevented the connection, so he supported Harry’s plan and left Linley a message.
• Astoria, Ady, and Elsa agreed to join the rescue, and Irvin challenged Harry to find a way to reach the Ministry without using their Apparition Keys.
• Harry proposed using the Floo Network fireplace in Umbridge’s office to travel directly to the Ministry’s entrance hall, and Irvin approved the plan.
• Irvin gave the group nine single-use Anti-Curse Rings crafted by Linley, and Harry led them toward the Department of Mysteries.

After breaking into Umbridge’s office, Harry’s group used Floo Powder to travel to the Ministry of Magic. In Gringotts, Irina approached a chained fire dragon while Linley protected her from its flames, hoping to subdue it and test her path toward Demon King level.

• Andy blasted open Umbridge’s office door with Bombarda, and Irvin confirmed that its fireplace could be used.
• Harry found Umbridge’s hidden Floo Powder, shared it with the group, and traveled first to the Ministry of Magic.
• Linley’s group encountered a chained fire dragon in Gringotts, and Linley dismantled its flames with his magic.
• The chapter revealed that Linley had reached Demon King level and that Irina needed a life-or-death battle to advance.
• Newt asked Irina to handle the dragon, and she approached it while Linley neutralized its fire before gently stroking it.