Chapter Summaries

Neville secured his position as the D.A. Army’s future leader by defeating every challenger, while Irina joined Harry, Ron, and Hermione in Hogsmeade and secretly arranged for Harry to be separated from them. Linley prepared an Illusion Formation with Dumbledore on the road to the ice cream shop, waiting for Harry to trigger it.

• Linley and Irina announced that Neville had destroyed one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes and would lead the D.A. Army, and Neville defeated more than a dozen challengers to prove himself.
• Irina accompanied Harry, Ron, and Hermione to The Three Broomsticks, where they reminisced about their friendship and Linley.
• Irina secretly replaced Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s Butterbeer with Firewhisky while they were distracted.
• Irina asked Harry to fetch ice cream, and Hermione realized Irina had another purpose but could not stop Harry from leaving alone.
• Linley finished setting an Illusion Formation on the road to the ice cream shop and told Dumbledore it would activate when Harry stepped onto it.

Harry fought Dumbledore, whom the Illusion Formation made appear to be Luke Wood, and defeated him with a concealed Disarming Charm. Linley took the Elder Wand and brought the injured Dumbledore back to Hogwarts, while Harry left believing Luke Wood had escaped.

• Harry entered the Illusion Formation, where Dumbledore appeared as Luke Wood, and the two began dueling.
• Dumbledore continued testing Harry's skill instead of allowing himself to lose, and Harry struck him with a hidden Disarming Charm behind an Explosion Charm.
• Linley trapped Harry in the Illusion Formation, retrieved the Elder Wand, and helped Dumbledore drink a healing potion.
• Dumbledore asked Linley to bring Irina, Minerva, and Severus to his office after the situation in Hogsmeade was settled, and Linley took him to Hogwarts.
• Linley altered the illusion so Harry saw Luke Wood destroy his Wand and Apparate away, then Harry continued toward the ice cream shop.

After spending time with Harry, Hermione, and Ron in Hogsmeade, Irina discovered that Fred and George’s armory had opened a thriving branch managed by Bill. Bill revealed that his share of the branch’s profits could reach two hundred thousand Galleons, then offered to show the group its civilian weapons.

• Irina stayed with Harry, Hermione, and Ron after achieving her goal, and the four enjoyed ice cream before strolling through Hogsmeade.
• Ron spotted a crowded Weasley’s Armory branch, which Irina explained had been made by combining two storefronts.
• Ron recognized Bill behind the counter, and Bill explained that he had returned from Gringotts to manage the branch and help wizards defend themselves.
• Bill said Fred and George would pay him half the branch’s net profit, which could amount to two hundred thousand Galleons that month.
• Bill told Ron that Fred and George had forbidden him from giving Ron any money, leaving Ron devastated.
• Bill offered to introduce the civilian weapons to Irina, Hermione, and Harry, and Irina accepted.

Bill showed Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Irina the alchemical weapons sold at Weasley's Armory and explained how the shop’s enchanted displays automatically restocked. He gave each of them a weapon, and Hermione chose a single-use escape device that could teleport its user to a random location.

• Bill explained that Fred and George’s alchemical display counters replenished themselves from the warehouse when customers took weapons.
• Harry examined the decorative, affordable alchemical firearms, and Bill described the Ceasefire pistol, which fired a Disarming Charm using the wielder’s magic.
• Bill offered to give each of them an alchemical firearm, and Ron eagerly chose an expensive pistol that fired Incendio.
• Hermione asked about the round weapons, and Bill explained how the grenade, stun bomb, and escape round worked.
• Hermione chose an Alchemy Escape Round, which teleported its user to a random location ten kilometers away.

Hermione and Irina chose civilian alchemical weapons at Weasley's Armory, while Linley and Irina later met with Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape. A week later, the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts Castle announced a massive arms purchase, and Irina's early exam applications were approved, though Hogwarts's Anti-Apparition restrictions complicated her Apparition test.

• Hermione chose three Alchemy Escape Rounds, and Irina selected an ice-blue pistol before Bill showed them the branch.
• Irina went to Dumbledore's office, where she and Linley met with Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape; they later left without learning the meeting's purpose.
• The Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts Castle announced a bulk purchase of military alchemical arms from Fred Weasley and George Weasley to defend against Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
• Barty Crouch Sr. approved Irina's requests to take the Apparition exam and N.E.W.Ts early, scheduling her N.E.W.Ts for the end of the school year.
• Professor McGonagall told Professor Copeland that Hogwarts could not lift its Anti-Apparition restrictions and offered to take him and Irina to a location outside the school grounds for the exam.

Irina returned to Hogwarts after passing her Apparition exam and learned that Dumbledore had been murdered, with Snape widely suspected of killing him. The chapter ended with McGonagall confirming Dumbledore’s death and announcing his funeral for three days later.

• Irina completed her Apparition exam with perfect marks and received her certificate.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione told Irina that Dumbledore had been murdered and that Snape had fled Hogwarts.
• Irina rejected the accusation against Snape and went to the Great Hall to question Linley.
• Linley said the Headmaster’s office had been sealed behind a wall and recalled that Dumbledore had been gravely weakened a week earlier.
• McGonagall confirmed that Dumbledore had been murdered and announced his funeral would take place in the Great Hall in three days.

After Dumbledore’s murder, the wizarding world blamed Voldemort or Snape while Hogwarts struggled to uncover what had happened. On the eve of Dumbledore’s funeral, Linley asked McGonagall to let him deliver a eulogy, and mourners gathered in the Great Hall.

• Rumors spread that Voldemort had killed Dumbledore, while Yaxley told Voldemort that Hogwarts also blamed Severus Snape; Voldemort denied killing Dumbledore and called Snape a traitor.
• Linley and Irina failed to enter the sealed Headmaster’s office, and McGonagall said she could not enter without permission and had been away during the murder.
• Barty Crouch Sr. repeatedly asked Linley about Dumbledore’s death, but Linley said he knew nothing.
• Linley asked McGonagall for permission to give a eulogy at Dumbledore’s funeral, and she agreed.
• Mourners from Hogwarts, the Ministry, the Order of the Phoenix, and D.A. gathered in the Great Hall for Dumbledore’s funeral.

At Dumbledore’s funeral, Linley recast his death as a sacrifice that inspired the wizarding world to resist Voldemort and pursue peace. A week later, Barty Crouch Sr. arrived at Hogwarts to read Dumbledore’s will to Linley, Irina, and Harry.

• Merpeople sang a sorrowful elegy in the Black Lake while Hagrid placed a white coffin in Dumbledore’s absence.
• Linley told a story about the fallen “Adam of the Spirit,” portraying Dumbledore as a man who achieved his goal through sacrifice.
• After the funeral, people returned to public life, Weasley’s Armory expanded its weapons orders, Aurors trained with new equipment, and the D.A. Army intensified its Illusion Trial training.
• Phoenix Fawkes circled Hogwarts for a week, singing a mournful elegy for Dumbledore.
• Barty Crouch Sr. brought Dumbledore’s will and bequests to Linley, Irina, and Harry, then began reading it aloud.

Barty Crouch Sr. read Dumbledore’s bequests, including phoenix essence blood for Linley and a final memory for Harry. Harry entered the Pensieve to hear Dumbledore’s last lesson, which began with an apology and an instruction to live on.

• Barty Crouch Sr. gave Linley Phoenix Fawkes’s essence blood, and Linley wondered whether Dumbledore had planned his own death.
• Barty Crouch Sr. gave Irina Lowell Dumbledore’s Magic Notes on the Water Prison Curse and gave Harry a Golden Snitch and a Memory Bottle.
• Barty Crouch Sr. took custody of the Elder Wand on behalf of the Ministry of Magic, and Harry protested before Irina restrained him.
• Linley planned to fuse with the phoenix bloodline, while Irina planned to study Dumbledore’s Water Prison Curse.
• Harry visited Professor McGonagall, entered Dumbledore’s memory in the Pensieve, and heard Dumbledore begin his final lesson by telling him to live on.

Harry learned that he was Voldemort’s final Horcrux and believed he had to die to defeat him. At the Black Lake, Linley and Irina watched as Harry confronted an apparition of himself, which challenged him to consider why he was willing to sacrifice his life.

• Harry left Professor McGonagall’s office in shock after learning that Voldemort’s soul fragment lived within him and that killing Voldemort required his death.
• Harry went to the Black Lake, where Linley created an Illusion Formation and he and Irina concealed themselves.
• Harry encountered a younger version of himself that grew into an adult and told him it reflected what lay within his heart.
• Harry’s double said that he and his past and future selves were ready to leave the magical world forever, calling it the greatest respect they could offer those determined to die.
• Harry’s double recalled his friends and argued that Harry had long put his life at stake, while questioning whether he truly cared about Voldemort’s death or the magical world’s future.

Harry spoke with a vision of himself about using the Golden Snitch and Elder Wand to help his companion kill Voldemort and free Harry from his fate. After the vision vanished, Harry remained alone by the Black Lake, while the Ministry of Magic prepared to move the Death Mantle to its heavily fortified Magic Prison.

• Harry's double told him that the Golden Snitch and Elder Wand could help his companion gain the right to kill Voldemort and let Harry escape his endless struggle through death.
• Harry insisted that he would seize every chance to keep winning, even as his double questioned the cost of the deaths surrounding him.
• Harry's double showed him the deaths of Cedric, Sirius, Dumbledore, Moody, Lupin, Tonks, Fred, and others, but Harry grew more determined to kill Voldemort at the cost of his own life.
• Harry thanked his double, who dissolved before finishing his farewell, and the Illusion Formation vanished as Harry sat beside the Black Lake.
• Barty Crouch Sr. sent the Department of Mysteries' Aurors across Britain to search for Death Eaters, while the remaining Aurors prepared to transport the Death Mantle to the Magic Prison.
• Linley's Space Lockdown Formation and Magic Sealing Barrier protected the Magic Prison and restricted spatial transport and magic within its surrounding area.

Linley and Barty Crouch Sr. used the Department of Mysteries as bait to lure Death Eater spies into stealing the Elder Wand. Madock brought the wand to Voldemort, while Garrett was captured and faced interrogation and punishment.

• Linley’s Mana Suppression Flame and magical contracts helped establish the Magic Prison as a replacement for Azkaban, with the Death Mantle set to serve as its execution method.
• Barty Crouch Sr. arranged to leave the Department of Mysteries apparently undefended so Death Eaters would steal the Elder Wand.
• Madock took the Elder Wand and Apparated away while Garrett stayed behind, but Barty and the Aurors ambushed Garrett and knocked him unconscious.
• Barty ordered Garrett taken for interrogation and said he would face execution or life imprisonment depending on whether he had used an Unforgivable Curse to kill.
• Madock passed Yaxley’s identity check at Avery Manor and presented the Elder Wand to Voldemort as a Deathly Hallow.

Voldemort took the Elder Wand but learned that Severus Snape was its master, so he ordered the Death Eaters to find Snape. He then tasked McNair with recruiting three thousand followers across Europe before the assault on Hogwarts Castle in three months.

• Voldemort took the Elder Wand from Madock and used it to project the Dark Mark across Avery Castle, but sensed that the wand had not fully accepted him.
• Yaxley explained that Voldemort had to defeat the wand's previous master, and Voldemort concluded that Severus Snape had become its master after killing Dumbledore.
• Voldemort ordered Yaxley to send Death Eaters to find and capture Snape.
• McNair reported that his network had failed to locate the Malfoys in the German magical world, and Voldemort told him to set that search aside.
• Voldemort ordered McNair to recruit at least three thousand Death Eaters across Europe before the planned assault on Hogwarts Castle in three months.

Linley brewed a Bloodline Fusion Potion while Irina trained in the Room of Requirement and transformed Dumbledore’s Water Prison Curse into a lethal attack. After experimenting with Ice Magic, Irina created a new spell, Ice Prison Curse Kill.

• Linley began brewing a Bloodline Fusion Potion to strengthen himself before the expected final battle at Hogwarts.
• Irina mastered silent, wandless casting of the Water Prison Curse and made it powerful enough to crush training dummies.
• Irina developed Water Prison Curse Kill, piercing and pinning targets with sharp blades of water.
• Irina experimented with combining Water Prison Curse Kill and Ice Magic, then replaced its water blades with ice blades.
• Irina created the new Ice Magic spell Ice Prison Curse Kill.

Linley completed the Bloodline Fusion Potion with five drops of Fawkes's Phoenix essence blood and drank it to begin merging the Phoenix bloodline into his own. The ritual engulfed him in flames that set his Slytherin dormitory ablaze, and Irina and Professor McGonagall arrived to contain the fire while Linley continued the spell.

• Linley finished brewing the Bloodline Fusion Potion, forming a Bloodline Fusion Formation that condensed the potion into a small vial's worth.
• Linley drank the potion and endured its violent power as he chanted the Bloodline Fusion Spell to merge his wizard and Phoenix bloodlines.
• Flames erupted from Linley's body, shattered the dormitory's Alchemy barrier, and ignited the room.
• Draco fled the Slytherin dormitory and brought Professor McGonagall and Irina to help.
• Irina transformed the dormitory into an ice cellar and stopped the flames from spreading while Linley kept performing the ritual.

After successfully merging with Fawkes’s Phoenix bloodline, Linley revealed that he had gained Fiery Apparition and a healing flame he called Nirvana Fire. He left Irina with the revelation that the flame could heal injuries and purify evil.

• Linley completed the Bloodline Fusion Magic ritual after a day and night, and thanked Draco, Irina, and Professor McGonagall for guarding him.
• Professor McGonagall demanded an explanation for the destroyed Slytherin dormitory, then repaired it after Linley explained the ritual and its source.
• Linley went with Irina to the Room of Requirement, where she showed him her Ice Prison Curse Kill and asked which Phoenix talents he had inherited.
• Linley denied gaining rebirth through fire, then demonstrated Fiery Apparition by vanishing into flames and reappearing dozens of meters away.
• Linley revealed that his Phoenix fire, which he called Nirvana Fire, could heal injuries and purify evil.

Linley demonstrated that his Nirvana Fire could heal both himself and Irina, then used a D.A. Army gathering to steer Harry toward Eri Forest, where Voldemort was believed to be. Harry left Hogwarts alone to seek Voldemort, unaware that Linley had placed a tracking disc on him.

• Linley healed his own cut and Irina’s wrist with Nirvana Fire, confirming that it could heal allies without burning them.
• Irina told Linley that Harry was investigating Voldemort’s whereabouts with the D.A. Army, and Linley planned to lure Harry toward Eri Forest to track him to Avery Manor.
• At the D.A. Army gathering, Linley mentioned Death Eaters operating in Eri Forest, and Harry concluded Voldemort might be there.
• Linley patted Harry’s head and secretly attached a tracking disc while Harry resolved to go after Voldemort alone.
• Harry left the Hogwarts grounds after dark and used Irina’s Apparition Key to vanish.

Harry entered Eri Forest, found Death Eaters searching for a missing giant snake, and learned from one of them how to enter Avery Manor. After killing both men, he continued toward the Death Eaters’ base, accepting that he was now fighting a real war.

• Harry used the Apparition Key to reach Eri Forest, where it turned into an ordinary spoon and left him with no way back.
• Harry heard two Death Eaters complain about searching for a missing snake and fear Voldemort’s growing temper.
• Harry attacked the Death Eaters, killed one with Confringo, and immobilized the other after dodging his Killing Curse.
• Harry used Legilimency on the surviving Death Eater and learned about Avery Manor and how to enter it.
• Harry killed the restrained Death Eater and resolved that mercy in war would be cruelty to himself.

Harry fought and killed five Death Eaters outside Avery Manor, then dispelled its concealment magic. Voldemort and hundreds of figures appeared at the manor, where Voldemort recognized Harry.

• Harry ambushed five Death Eaters searching near Avery Manor and killed two with spells.
• Harry Apparated around the remaining Death Eaters, killed three more, and left no survivors.
• Harry lifted Avery Manor’s concealment magic with his Wand.
• Voldemort and hundreds of figures appeared inside the manor, and Voldemort addressed Harry at the entrance.

Harry confronted Voldemort at Avery Manor and appeared to die under his Killing Curse, but Linley rescued him and explained that the curse had destroyed the Horcrux inside Harry. With the prophecy fulfilled, the world was no longer bound to its predictions, and anyone could now bring about Voldemort’s final death.

• Harry attacked Voldemort’s Death Eaters at Avery Manor with a barrage of Explosion Charms, killing more than ten of them.
• Voldemort struck Harry with a tracking Killing Curse, and Harry fell after welcoming the spell.
• Linley arrived, told Voldemort that he had destroyed his final Horcrux, and escaped with Harry using golden-red flames.
• Linley brought Harry to Hogwarts’s Room of Requirement, where Irina confirmed that Harry’s vital signs remained intact.
• Linley explained that Voldemort’s curse had destroyed the Horcrux in Harry and fulfilled the prophecy, leaving the future no longer foretold.