Chapter Summaries

Linley fought Voldemort while the defenders turned the ground battle in Hogwarts’s favor, but Voldemort’s attacks and the bloody Dark Mark left Linley gravely wounded above the castle. The chapter ended with the decisive duel still unresolved and Linley badly injured.

• Voldemort attacked Linley with poisonous mist and Star Power, forcing Linley to retreat and fight back using the Star Origin.
• Hogwarts professors, the Order of the Phoenix, and D.A. elites defeated their opponents as Centaurs and House-elves joined the battle against the Death Eaters.
• Voldemort trapped Linley in an Avada Lightning Net while Linley’s Mana Suppression Flame failed to hold it back.
• Linley activated the Mana Suppression Scepter, destroying the lightning net but suppressing his own magic power and causing him to fall.
• Voldemort escaped the scepter’s range and struck Linley with two streams of black mist, gravely injuring him and leaving two dark marks on his back.

Irina returned in time to save Linley from Voldemort’s Killing Curse and unleashed her furious ice magic against him. Linley quickly healed and rejoined the fight, using Nirvana Fire to heal the Hogwarts defenders and cleanse them of the Dark Mark’s effects.

• Irina arrived beside the gravely wounded Linley and froze Voldemort’s Killing Curse before removing the Dark Arts from Linley’s back.
• Irina attacked Voldemort with thousands of ice blades and the purple-gold Ziwei Cold Star, forcing him to endure its full force in black-smoke form.
• Voldemort re-formed with less than a third of his smoke remaining and realized he would soon face both Irina and Linley.
• Linley emerged from golden-red flames with his injuries healed and told Voldemort he had never fought alone.
• Linley sent a phoenix of Nirvana Fire through the battlefield, healing the defenders, restoring some of their magic, and erasing the Dark Mark’s harmful effects.

More than two hundred Aurors led by Barty Crouch Sr. joined the battle and helped the Hogwarts forces wipe out Voldemort’s Death Eater army. Professor McGonagall reported zero deaths and injuries at Hogwarts, and Neville credited the D.A. badges Linley had given its members with saving lives.

• Barty Crouch Sr. led more than two hundred Aurors into the battle, where their Killing Curses killed over a hundred Death Eaters.
• The Aurors joined the Hogwarts professors, the Order of the Phoenix, and D.A. in killing the remaining Death Eaters and wiping out Voldemort’s army.
• Barty Crouch Sr. asked Professor McGonagall about Hogwarts’s casualties, and she reported zero deaths and zero injuries.
• Neville showed Barty Crouch Sr. and Professor McGonagall his shattered D.A. badge and explained that the badges blocked spells and could transport wearers away from Killing Curses.

After Hogwarts defeated Voldemort’s Death Eaters, Linley’s Nirvana Fire healed the wounded while the survivors prepared for the battle in the sky to end. Voldemort sacrificed his lifespan to increase his power, and Linley and Irina attacked him with layered flames and spatially cutting frost, but he defended himself and froze Irina’s strike against his barrier.

• Barty Crouch Sr. asked about Hogwarts’s wounded, and McGonagall explained that Linley’s Nirvana Fire had healed everyone and restored some of their strength.
• Barty Crouch Sr. declared the ground battle over and ordered the survivors to clean the battlefield while they awaited the duel between Voldemort, Linley, and Irina.
• Voldemort, enraged by the destruction of his Death Eater army, vowed to destroy the wizarding world and rebuild paradise among the ruins as a blood-red glow surrounded him.
• Linley and Irina realized Voldemort was sacrificing his lifespan for temporary power, and Linley launched a layered pillar of fire while Irina struck from behind with Purple-Gold Moonlight.
• Voldemort shielded himself with black smoke, withstood Linley’s flames, and deflected Irina’s spatially cutting strike before its explosion froze his barrier.

Voldemort attacked the D.A. Army and other wizards on the ground to prove Linley and Irina could not stop him. Linley intercepted the Explosion Charm and was gravely wounded, while Irina launched a furious spear attack at Voldemort.

• Linley and Irina's fire and ice attacks canceled each other out and failed to break through Voldemort's black smoke shield.
• Voldemort fired a devastating Explosion Charm at the wizards gathered before Hogwarts Castle.
• Linley used Fiery Apparition to intercept the spell and shielded the blast with his alchemical barrier, Mana Suppression Flame, and Ziwei Heavenly Fire.
• The explosion shattered Linley's defenses and drove him into the ground with life-threatening injuries, which his Nirvana Fire began to heal.
• Voldemort mocked Linley for risking himself to save the wizards, and Irina appeared behind Voldemort and thrust her Ice Crystal Spear at his heart.

Irina unleashed a powerful ice attack against Voldemort after he injured Linley, then trapped them in an ice domain and overwhelmed him with rapid spear strikes. Voldemort landed a cursed blow on Irina, but a silent black spear pierced his abdomen from behind.

• Irina struck Voldemort from behind with her Ice Crystal Spear and followed with another attack that sent him flying and wounded him.
• Voldemort realized Irina's strength had surged with her rage over Linley's injury and evaded her next spear thrust.
• Irina created an ice domain that enhanced her abilities and launched hundreds of rapid spear attacks at Voldemort.
• Voldemort countered with black smoke and struck Irina's abdomen with a curse while she focused on attacking.
• Irina summoned Ice Chainmail, but the curse caused her unbearable pain as Voldemort gloated over her condition.
• A silent pitch-black spear appeared behind Voldemort and pierced through his abdomen.

Linley unleashed Fiendfyre and a devastating Cruciatus Curse against Voldemort, then joined Irina to pursue him with coordinated spear strikes. As Voldemort tried to escape Hogwarts with long-distance Apparition, Linley sealed the space above the castle.

• Linley struck Voldemort with Fiendfyre and a powerful Cruciatus Curse, leaving him badly injured and afraid.
• Linley released his negative emotions, healed Irina with Nirvana Fire, and prepared to fight beside her.
• Linley and Irina repeatedly Apparated after Voldemort and thrust their spears at him as his power faded.
• Voldemort realized he could not win and began preparing a long-distance escape.
• Linley formed a Space Lockdown Formation over Hogwarts Castle as Voldemort started to Apparate away.

Linley and Irina killed Voldemort after destroying all his Horcruxes, ending the war and lifting Irina’s curse. As dawn broke over Hogwarts, the survivors celebrated the victory, while Professor McGonagall summoned Linley and Irina to her office in three days.

• Linley showed Voldemort the remains of every Horcrux, and he and Irina destroyed Voldemort with Fiendfyre and ice.
• With Voldemort dead, Irina’s curse vanished, and the wounded were sent to St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
• Linley told Barty Crouch Sr. to announce the war’s end and suggested that D.A. Army become the model for a new wizarding force.
• Irina thanked D.A. Army for its part in the victory, and Linley promised to recommend that its members be given a place in the Ministry of Magic.
• Professor McGonagall asked Linley and Irina to meet her in three days, while Lupin and Harry reflected on the end of the war and the chance to live freely.

After the war, Linley and Irina forged a Blood Pact to let their flames and ice work together without canceling each other out. They tested the pact’s magic, and the chapter ended with fire and ice dancing together without harm.

• Barty Crouch Sr. announced Voldemort’s defeat, and the wizarding world celebrated while Weasley’s Armory gained customers.
• Linley told Irina that their flames and ice had weakened each other when they fought Voldemort.
• Irina realized a Blood Pact could distort the physical conflict between their magic and let it merge.
• Linley and Irina cut their palms, clasped hands, and forged a Blood Pact, which Linley set into a pendant for Irina.
• Linley and Irina tested the pact as their flames and ice surrounded them without harming either of them or canceling each other out.

Linley and Irina formed a Pact of Mindscape, then met Professor McGonagall and discovered they had erased the same memories from their time in Dumbledore's office. After restoring them, they learned Dumbledore had less than two months to live because a curse was spreading through him.

• Linley explained the Pact of Mindscape to Irina, and they joined their Heart Blood and completed the pact.
• On the third day after the war, Linley and Irina met Professor McGonagall, who asked whether they had lost memories.
• Linley and Irina realized they had both forgotten what happened during their visit to Dumbledore's office.
• Professor McGonagall returned the Cloud Sync Memory Bottles containing the memories Linley and Irina had entrusted to her.
• In the recovered memories, Snape examined Dumbledore's spreading curse and said he had less than two months to live.

As Dumbledore prepared for his death from Voldemort’s curse, Linley proposed using a Time Stop Formation to preserve him until Voldemort was defeated. The group planned to fake Dumbledore’s death and make Snape take the blame so their scheme could draw Voldemort into attacking Hogwarts.

• Dumbledore entrusted Hogwarts and his belongings to Professor McGonagall, offered Irina his Magic Notes, and left Fawkes to Linley.
• Professor Snape admitted he would stay at Hogwarts to protect Harry, despite resenting Dumbledore for using him.
• Linley explained that Voldemort’s death would end the curse on Dumbledore and suggested stopping time around Dumbledore until Voldemort was defeated.
• Irina pointed out that Voldemort needed to be lured into attacking Hogwarts, and Linley proposed using the Time Stop Formation to buy time.
• Professor Snape agreed to maintain the formation while the others planned to announce Dumbledore’s death and blame Snape for his assassination.

Linley, Irina, Snape, and Professor McGonagall carried out a plan to hide Dumbledore and erase their own memories until Voldemort was defeated. After reclaiming their memories months later, Linley and Irina returned to wake Dumbledore and found Snape exhausted from maintaining the Time Stop Formation.

• Linley explained that they would seal their memories and asked Professor McGonagall to safeguard them as the keeper; she agreed, and Dumbledore accepted the plan.
• Linley set up the Time Stop Formation around Dumbledore, and Snape used Sand of Time to freeze Dumbledore, his thoughts, and the curse within him.
• Linley and Irina cut their memories into Cloud Sync Memory Bottles, which Professor McGonagall kept before sending them to their dormitories.
• Months later, Linley and Irina reclaimed their memories, and Professor McGonagall led them back into the Headmaster's office.
• Linley told the exhausted Snape that Voldemort was dead and their plan had succeeded, and Professor McGonagall summoned a House-elf to take Snape to rest.

Linley woke Professor Dumbledore from the Time Stop Formation and helped him recover after Voldemort’s defeat, prompting celebrations across the British wizarding world. Meanwhile, the American Magical Congress prepared to use its ten-thousand-strong Mechanical Army to conquer the wizarding world.

• Linley removed the Time Stop Formation and Professor Dumbledore purged the curse from his body.
• Linley told Professor Dumbledore about his Phoenix abilities, while Irina demonstrated the Water Prison Curse Kill and Ice Prison Curse Kill she had developed.
• Professor Dumbledore announced his return, and the British wizarding world celebrated his recovery.
• Josue told Ares Craig that the American Magical Congress had assembled ten thousand Mechanical Soldiers and was ready to act.
• Ares declared that the American Magical Congress would unite the wizarding world under its rule, while Josue warned that dark undercurrents were already surging.

Josue and the American Magical Congress planned to use the Wiltshire Great Explosion Incident as a pretext to attack the British wizarding world. A week later, Barty Crouch Sr. warned Linley, Irina, and Dumbledore that more than ten thousand American wizards had gathered at the border, leaving them facing a new threat to their hard-won peace.

• Josue urged the American Magical Congress to target the British wizarding world and promised to give Mechanical Soldier Number One Demon King level combat power.
• Josue proposed using the Wiltshire Great Explosion Incident to justify sending troops against Britain, dismissing Voldemort as a convenient scapegoat.
• Barty Crouch Sr. told Linley, Irina, and Dumbledore that the American Magical Congress had sent over ten thousand well-trained wizards to the British border.
• Linley and Irina concluded that the American Magical Congress was using the Secrecy Law as a pretext for conquest, and Irina vowed not to let it destroy their peace.

Linley persuaded Barty Crouch Sr. to make the D.A. Army the British wizarding world's legal army while Aurors faced the American Magical Congress at the border. The Goblins then launched a rebellion, seized much of Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley, and left the British Ministry facing a crisis on two fronts.

• Linley told Barty Crouch Sr. to hold the border against the American Magical Congress and proposed recognizing the D.A. Army as a legal wizarding force.
• Barty Crouch Sr. established the Wizarding Army Operations Department, made the D.A. Army the Ministry's army, and appointed Neville Longbottom as an instructor and wartime general.
• Barty Crouch Sr. sent nearly two-thirds of the Aurors to the border, where they clashed with the American Magical Congress's Mechanical Army.
• The Goblins at Gringotts seized the moment to revolt, using alchemical firearms to occupy two-thirds of Diagon Alley and all of Knockturn Alley.
• The Goblins killed hundreds of wizards and looted shops, while Weasley's Armory distributed weapons so civilians could resist.
• Fred and George learned of the rebellion before the Ministry and recognized the danger it posed to the British wizarding world.

More than two thousand wizards fought the goblins in Diagon Alley, suffering heavy losses as the goblin army pressed toward Weasley's Armory. When a goblin commander ordered an Alchemy Redcoat Cannon to fire on them, an unseen force disabled it and a golden beam destroyed it.

• More than two thousand wizarding civilians gathered at Weasley's Armory to help Fred and George stop the goblins from escaping Diagon Alley.
• The goblins and wizards exchanged fire, and nearly two hundred civilians died while the goblin army suffered no casualties.
• Fred and George contacted Linley and Irina with a Two-way Mirror as they watched the battle and grieved for the fallen wizards.
• A goblin commander ordered his soldiers to bring out Master Arnold's Alchemy Redcoat Cannon and fire it at Weasley's Armory.
• An invisible ripple extinguished the cannon's magic, then a golden beam flew in and blasted the Alchemy Redcoat Cannon apart.

Lynn arrived in Diagon Alley and used the Mana Suppression Scepter against the goblin rebellion, but Arnold revealed that his alchemical equipment could resist the effect with power from beyond this world. The battle between the wizards and goblins became more evenly matched as casualties mounted on both sides.

• Lynn appeared above Diagon Alley and destroyed the goblins’ heavy weapons with the power of the stars.
• Lynn attacked the goblin army with Ziwei Heavenly Fire, but Arnold struck him with a golden beam and interrupted the attack.
• Arnold declared that he had preserved most of his alchemical weapons and led the goblins in a prepared holy war.
• Lynn activated a new Mana Suppression Scepter, but Arnold’s equipment retained some power by using the power of the stars as its energy source.
• Lynn kept the suppression field active, and gunfire began causing casualties among the goblins trapped within it.
• The fighting in Diagon Alley shifted from a one-sided slaughter to an even contest between the wizards and goblins.

Ele bic led the American Magical Congress's ten-thousand-strong Mechanical Army across the British border and attacked the defenders. Astoria shielded the Aurors and D.A. Army with a blood-colored barrier while Irvin struck back with lightning, until Elebic dispelled his storm.

• After receiving news of the Goblin Rebellion in Diagon Alley, Elebic ordered the Mechanical Army to attack the British wizarding world.
• Scrimgeour and Neville led the British defenders, including the Aurors, D.A. Army members, Irvin, and Astoria, in facing the invading army.
• The Mechanical Soldiers fired thousands of golden beams, and the defenders' Protego Maxima shattered under the barrage.
• Astoria raised a blood-colored barrier that absorbed the remaining beams but weakened her as it protected everyone.
• Irvin summoned thunderclouds and blasted hundreds of Mechanical Soldiers into ash.
• Elebic dispersed Irvin's thunderclouds with a wave of magic from his alchemical metal Wand.

Elebic revealed himself as a Demon King level wizard and overwhelmed Astoria and Irvin on the battlefield. Scrimgeour and the Aurors tried to protect them, but Elebic ignored a Killing Curse and redirected his attack to slaughter the Aurors as his golden beam continued toward the helpless pair.

• Elebic's Disarming Charm overwhelmed Astoria's Blood Blades, grievously injured her, and broke her Wand.
• Irvin held Astoria and recognized that Elebic was a Demon King level wizard, while Neville prepared to call Hogwarts for help.
• Elebic cast an enormous golden beam at Irvin and Astoria and raised an Anti-Apparition Charm over the battlefield.
• Scrimgeour attacked Elebic with a Killing Curse as more than thirty Aurors cast Protego Maxima to shield Irvin and Astoria.
• Elebic remained unharmed by the Killing Curse and split his golden beam to strike down the Aurors, while the remaining beam continued toward Irvin and Astoria.

Irina arrived on the battlefield and stopped Elebic’s golden beam from killing Irvin and Astoria. As she challenged Elebic, D.A.’s Army and the Aurors fought the American Mechanical Army, whose alchemical chips made their heads their weak point.

• Irvin’s Pocket Anchor summoned Irina, whose frost froze and shattered Elebic’s golden beam.
• Irina declared that she would fight Elebic while the others drove the invading American Wizarding Army from their territory.
• Andy, Neville, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the other fighters attacked the Mechanical Soldiers, discovering that destroying the alchemical chips in their heads could kill them.
• The Aurors targeted the Mechanical Soldiers’ heads, while D.A.’s Army used Sectumsempra, Blood Blades, and Thunderbolts to destroy them.
• Irina sensed that Elebic’s power came from an Alchemy Formation, but found his fighting style rigid and lacking the experience expected of a Demon King level wizard.