Recaps

Vaughn used the inquiry into Azkaban and Sirius Black’s escape to expose Fudge’s failures and secure political leverage. He also advanced his plans for the Eight-Wizard Tournament and gained Ministry approval to use willing Muggles in WAC’s Potion Exchange Event, while Matthew prepared to lure Greyback in Ireland.

• Vaughn revealed Peter Pettigrew’s survival to Dumbledore and Snape, then asked Dumbledore to reshape the Painted World for visiting Young Wizards and accepted Fleur’s Book of Abraham the Jew.
• Vaughn maneuvered Scrimgeour into reopening the Werewolf Parade Incident case, while he and Dumbledore worked to pressure the Pure-blood Families and counter the North American wizards.
• Vaughn presented evidence of Azkaban’s security failures to the Wizengamot, and Sirius escaped using a Wand stolen from the Ministry delegation.
• Scrimgeour accused Amelia of helping Sirius escape, but her witnesses established her alibi and revealed that Fudge had refused her demand that the delegation surrender their wands.
• Vaughn explained to Dumbledore that he had used the inquiry to expose Ministry failures and provoke Fudge, while his Persona Armor on Sirius let him pass information to the fugitive.
• Vaughn demonstrated the Thousand Illusion Spell and outlined a plan to use the Eight-Wizard Tournament’s young participants as test subjects for contract-based Ritual Magic, alarming Dumbledore about the Statute of Secrecy.
• Amelia suspended Fudge from political activity after Vaughn accused him of abusing his authority, and Vaughn secured Fudge’s signature on a permit to use Muggles in WAC’s Potion Exchange Event.
• Matthew told Francois that WAC had obtained the permit, and the two prepared to use Muggles as bait to lure Greyback and his Werewolves.

Vaughn captured Greyback’s legion, advanced the Wolfsbane Potion and the Potion Exchange, and maneuvered political and magical factions around Voldemort’s return. Harry learned Sirius had been framed and accepted him as his godfather and guardian, while the interschool Faction Clash began.

• Vaughn lured Greyback and nearly five hundred werewolves into a WAC trap, captured them, and arranged for Greyback to be tortured after the legion’s raid was stopped.
• Vaughn revealed his Wolfsbane Potion Version 2.1 and developed the Trial Battlefield to bring magical schools together, while Harry and Draco investigated the Diary and Voldemort’s plans.
• Vaughn and Dumbledore met Agamemnon as Pure-blood leaders sacrificed twenty-seven family members in a ritual to create Ghosts and search for Voldemort.
• Vaughn disclosed to Aberforth that Dumbledore had found Voldemort’s cursed Resurrection Stone, then explained that Sirius’s staged duel was meant to alarm Pure-bloods and push them toward Voldemort.
• Rita Skeeter and Corban Yaxley publicly confirmed that Peter Pettigrew had betrayed Harry’s parents and framed Sirius.
• Lupin and Sirius told Harry that Peter had disguised himself as Scabbers and escaped, and Sirius revealed that he was Harry’s godfather and offered to take him away from the Dursleys.
• Harry publicly declared that he believed Sirius and would capture Peter, while Central Qi Refinement Academy won the first Faction Clash and Vaughn welcomed the schools’ growing rivalry.

Vaughn pursued alchemical training, expanded WAC through the International Werewolf Association, and staged a public defeat to draw out his enemies. Meanwhile, Harry discovered his connection to Voldemort and Hermione learned why Vaughn had tarnished his reputation, though his rejection left her hurt.

• Vaughn became Nicholas Flamel’s apprentice, and Nicholas agreed to travel through Aether in his place until Vaughn reached the Legendary Wizard level.
• Harry and Ron entered Dumbledore’s Pensieve, where Vaughn’s memory revealed that Voldemort had made Harry a Horcrux and linked their minds.
• Vaughn recruited Corban as an informant inside the Pure-blood Alliance and arranged for Pandora to take the Defense Against the Dark Arts post while helping break Voldemort’s curse.
• Vaughn established the International Werewolf Association and warned Dumbledore that he had deduced Dumbledore planned to die so Voldemort’s curse would rebound from Harry.
• Harry released his Occlumency and saw Voldemort with Peter Pettigrew, while Vaughn investigated the attacker who had tried to kill Isabella and suspected the culprit was not Igor Karkaroff.
• At WAC’s assembly, Lucius’s faction secured restrictions on new committee members, but Vaughn used the dispute to win WAC’s independence and establish a Ministry department to liaise with it.
• Vaughn admitted to Hermione that he had deliberately damaged his reputation to keep Fudge’s faction and the Pure-blood Families from regaining power before Voldemort returned, then refused her attempt at further intimacy.
• Vaughn used Lucius’s pressure as cover to change WAC’s leadership, while Hermione interpreted Snape’s question about asphodel and wormwood as a reference to regret over Harry’s mother.

Vaughn and the students raced to find the Diary and Colin Creevey as Voldemort’s attack on Hogwarts unfolded, ending in Voldemort’s resurrection and a duel with Vaughn. Afterward, Vaughn learned more about his Path of Legends, helped Dumbledore locate the remaining Horcruxes, and Voldemort prepared to seek allies abroad.

• Vaughn instructed the Irish Confederation Branch to spread a dying man's prophecy among Muggles, while Voldemort gathered his followers and planned to recover the Diary.
• Harry warned Ron of Voldemort’s imminent return, and Ron, Hermione, and their allies searched for Colin Creevey and Peeves while trying to keep Snape under watch.
• Vaughn coordinated defenses as Death Eaters attacked Azkaban and other locations, then fought off North American wizards who had targeted the Scamanders.
• Harry and his friends discovered that a Basilisk was behind the attacks, found the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, and entered to rescue Creevey.
• Snape and Voldemort confronted the group in the Chamber, Draco joined the fight, and Peter used Harry’s blood to restore Voldemort to a living body.
• Vaughn entered the Chamber, rescued Harry and the others, then fought Voldemort as the ancient Chamber was damaged and mysteriously rewound.
• Vaughn recovered in the hospital wing, learned from Dumbledore how a wizard became a Legend, and revealed the locations and protections of Voldemort’s Cup and Locket Horcruxes.
• Vaughn ended the house-elves’ strike and returned to his laboratory, while Voldemort told the Death Eaters he would seek American allies once Nagini and Peter recovered.