Recaps

Regulus returned from France, visited Andromeda and Ted, and resumed his life at Hogwarts before deciding to invoke the Family Vengeance Contract against the Rowle family. The arc leaves him at the Malfoy wedding, where Bellatrix’s arrival draws attention after Lestrange Manor’s destruction.

• Regulus left the French estate in Felix’s hands, visited Andromeda and Ted in Paris, and promised to protect Andromeda’s unborn daughter, Nymphadora.
• Regulus awakened Baruk beneath the Himalayas, completed the asteroid, and departed Earth after reaching into Grindelwald’s prophetic vision and extending his life.
• Regulus returned to Hogwarts, tested his friends’ training, helped Lily improve her dueling, and completed his second year before telling Dumbledore he had decided about killing.
• Regulus allowed Sirius to stay with the Potters for the holidays, then returned to Grimmauld Place and announced that he planned to invoke the Family Vengeance Contract against the Rowle family.
• Regulus explained Dolphin Rowle’s past schemes to Orion, who agreed to support the challenge and assigned Regulus to lead the Black family’s retainers.
• Regulus attended the Malfoy wedding with Orion and Walburga, reassured Narcissa before the ceremony, and watched Bellatrix Lestrange arrive with volatile, restrained Magic Power.

Regulus invoked the Black family’s ancient contract against the Rowles and destroyed their estate, then fought and killed Dag Rowle after he transformed into a Black Mist. He returned to Grimmauld Place to recover as Orion handled the aftermath and the house disappeared behind its concealment magic.

• Regulus warned Lucius and Narcissa that the Black family would act during the holidays, then publicly declared war on the Rowles through the Family Vengeance Contract.
• Orion registered the contract with the Wizengamot despite Barty Crouch’s objections, and the Black family prepared for the war as families and observers reacted.
• Regulus took the Black family’s ancestral wand and left Grimmauld Place with Silas Croft and the retainers to attack Rowle Manor.
• Regulus destroyed Rowle Manor with a Disintegration Charm, then fought Dag Rowle as the Black family retainers battled the survivors.
• Dag Rowle transformed into the Black Mist, but Regulus weakened it with the Black Wand and Grey Matter before erasing it with Fiendfyre shaped by Saiph.
• Regulus pulled Dolphin Rowle from the ruins and killed him, then rested while the Black family’s retainers searched the estate and recovered its valuables.
• Regulus returned to Grimmauld Place, where Walburga welcomed him, and recovered as Orion managed the Rowle family’s assets and political affairs.
• After five days of visitors and letters, concealment magic hid 12 Grimmauld Place from the outside world, leaving Regulus and Baruk inside the quiet house.

After recovering from his isolation, Regulus traveled to Norway as Geralt and sought an alliance with the Giants by showing them stories about strategy and neutrality. His visit left him with new insight into balancing body and Magic Power, while Dumbledore sought Newt’s help understanding the Starry Sky Kite Patronus.

• The Ministry presented a draft agreement for Pure-blood families, while the Sacred Twenty-Eight stayed silent and Voldemort examined the Wasteland’s traces before connecting its White Line to Regulus’s will.
• Dumbledore invited the recovered Regulus to Norway, where Geralt joined Fabian and Gideon to oversee two Rowle mines and meet the Giants.
• Geralt avoided conflict with Avery’s group, scouted the organized Giant settlement with Fabian and Gideon, and planned a story-projecting Alchemy plate to make his case to them.
• Geralt showed Hrogar stories about Giant strategy and neutrality, warned that both wizarding factions wanted to use the Giants, and offered to exchange the plate for knowledge of Giant Magic Power.
• Geralt fought Hilder in the Giants’ Training Ground, studying his attacks and the way he redistributed Magic Power before ending the bout and explaining his purpose to Fabian and Gideon.
• Geralt concluded that Giant bodies and Magic Power developed in balance, and Dumbledore later discussed Geralt’s restraint with Hrogar and Hilder and heard Hrogar’s story of Sky Bird.
• Dumbledore visited Newt, who explained that a Starry Sky Kite Patronus reflected a life resonating with freedom and overcoming obstacles, and agreed to share his records to help Regulus prepare.

Geralt completed his training with Hild and learned that Dumbledore had arranged their encounters, while Regulus welcomed Nymphadora, reconnected with Sirius, and confronted a presumptuous Death Eater at Malfoy Manor. The arc ended with Lucius promising to explain the Rook family’s actions and Regulus offering to teach Lucius and Narcissa’s future child.

• Geralt refined his Magic Power synchronization and fused Betelgeuse and Bellatrix into a dark purple blade before fighting Hild, whose final strike was stopped by Hrogar and Dumbledore.
• Geralt learned that Dumbledore had arranged his battles with Hild, discovered she was Hrogar’s child and Dumbledore’s student, and offered her his hand.
• Regulus visited Andromeda in Paris as she gave birth to Nymphadora, whose birth absorbed Bellatrix’s Guardian Mark and whose Magic Power resonated with Regulus’s Protection mark.
• Regulus met Alphard, then visited Sirius in Godric’s Hollow, tested Sirius with a Transfigured dungeon, and praised his escape before inviting him to learn Regulus’s manor-destroying spell.
• Regulus visited the Potters, saw that Sirius was happy with them, and gave Charlus his Gringotts key to cover Sirius’s expenses.
• At Lucius’s banquet, Regulus challenged Augustus Rook for demanding the Black family’s allegiance to The Master and reminded the Death Eaters that the Rowle family had been destroyed.
• Lucius took responsibility for explaining the Rook family’s actions, and Regulus promised to teach Lucius and Narcissa’s future child magic.