Recaps

Voldemort prepared a ritual inside the Gaunt Shack while Isaac and the Deposit Guarantee Office waited outside for the werewolves to emerge. The werewolves’ attack collapsed immediately, leaving Sirius and the others to identify and question the defeated group.

• Voldemort used Lockhart’s wand to prepare a ritual, while the werewolves watched him cautiously.
• Isaac ordered Sirius Black’s subordinates to prepare as people hurried out of the Gaunt Shack.
• The werewolves charged out and were quickly overwhelmed by spells from the Deposit Guarantee Office wizards.
• Jerry, Sirius, and Lupin were stunned by how weak the werewolves were.
• Sirius’s Hit Wizards identified the defeated werewolves as those who had left Selwyn’s village, and Sirius asked whether they were all there.

Resurrection Stone Voldemort drained the werewolves’ life force to restore his teenage body, but the ritual turned him into a werewolf. Isaac conjured a moon inside the Gaunt Ancestral Home, and the chapter ended as Werewolf Voldemort and Remus Lupin both reacted with alarm.

• Lupin warned the Aurors and Hit Wizards that the missing werewolf leader might be inside the Gaunt Ancestral Home.
• Resurrection Stone Voldemort drained the captured werewolves’ life force and used it to restore his body to a teenager.
• Voldemort absorbed the werewolf life essence, completing the ritual but becoming a werewolf himself.
• Isaac conjured a luminous moon inside the Ancestral House, provoking Werewolf Voldemort to focus his anger on him.
• Werewolf Voldemort and Remus Lupin suddenly reacted to the moon, and Lupin urged Sirius to get away from him.

Isaac used a conjured full moon to trigger the werewolf transformations of Lupin and Voldemort, forcing Voldemort to flee the Gaunt Shack. Afterward, Isaac spoke with Grindelwald, who revealed that his scheme had served more than a prank and was connected to Voldemort’s future.

• Isaac struggled to maintain a magically realistic full moon, which triggered Lupin’s and Voldemort’s werewolf transformations.
• Sirius Black fired a Killing Curse at Voldemort, who escaped as black mist before the curse struck the floor.
• Isaac collapsed from exhaustion, and Jerry helped him rest while the others secured the scene and gathered evidence.
• Isaac met with Grindelwald, who said he had engineered Voldemort’s transformation partly because of Dumbledore’s response to him and partly to affect Voldemort’s future.
• Dumbledore, Cornelius Fudge, Scrimgeour, and a large contingent of Aurors arrived as Grindelwald vanished.

Isaac learned that Voldemort had become a werewolf and used a simulated full moon to begin mastering lunar phase magic with Grindelwald's guidance. Cornelius Fudge found Isaac safe at the Gaunt Shack, and Isaac told him and Dumbledore that Voldemort was now a werewolf.

• Isaac reflected that becoming a werewolf would alienate Voldemort from his former pure-blood supporters and leave him politically weaker than Grindelwald.
• Grindelwald appeared in the Gaunt Shack, tutored Isaac in lunar studies, and helped him make a promising start at a Transfiguration-based ritual that gave him lunar phase magic.
• Cornelius Fudge hurried to check on Isaac and, relieved to find him unharmed, realized how much he depended on Isaac.
• Dumbledore sensed traces of Isaac's magic and praised his spell, while Isaac explained how Transfiguration could form the framework of a larger magical system.
• Isaac told Cornelius Fudge and Dumbledore that Voldemort had returned to life as a fully fledged werewolf, confirming Dumbledore's suspicion.

After Voldemort escaped as a werewolf, Isaac advised Fudge and Dumbledore on how to disclose his return without driving former Death Eaters back to him. Fudge embraced Isaac’s plan, and Isaac returned to the Black Family House to rest while Malfoy and Harry awaited their own surprises.

• Isaac explained to Fudge how Lockhart’s botched ritual left Voldemort a child, and how Isaac’s spell triggered his lycanthropy and forced him to flee.
• Fudge brought Isaac and Dumbledore back to the Ministry to discuss how to respond to Voldemort’s resurrection.
• Isaac proposed announcing a dangerous Dark wizard who had inherited Voldemort’s legacy, while privately telling influential former Death Eaters that Voldemort had returned as a werewolf.
• Fudge praised Isaac’s plan and invited him to go home while he continued discussions with Dumbledore.
• Kreacher took Isaac to the Black Family House, where Isaac told Harry he was exhausted and went to take a hot bath.

Isaac recovered at the Black Family House, where Harry celebrated learning that Sirius Black was his godfather. At Malfoy Manor, Lucius Malfoy grew nervous when Cornelius Fudge and Dumbledore questioned him about the remaining Death Eaters.

• Isaac woke refreshed after Kreacher's potions and joined Harry, Sirius Black, and Lupin downstairs.
• Harry told Isaac that Sirius Black was his godfather and that the Black Family House was his home.
• Isaac encouraged Harry to smile and asked Sirius Black why he was not working at the Ministry of Magic.
• Sirius Black said he had taken leave after handing matters concerning Voldemort to Scrimgeour so he could see Harry off to school.
• Cornelius Fudge and Dumbledore visited Lucius Malfoy and asked what he thought of the remaining Death Eaters.
• Lucius Malfoy insisted that the Ministry had previously ruled he acted under the Imperius Curse and feared Dumbledore's presence.

Dumbledore confronted Lucius Malfoy about Tom’s return to life, leaving Lucius terrified that his connection to the Dark Lord would cost him his life. Lucius tried to secure Dumbledore’s protection by offering help against Voldemort and mentioning Isaac’s recent visit.

• Dumbledore told Lucius Malfoy that Tom had returned to life.
• Lucius Malfoy panicked and worried that Dumbledore would kill him for harboring the Dark Lord in Malfoy Manor.
• Lucius Malfoy considered confessing or lying, but feared either choice would make his situation worse.
• Lucius Malfoy begged Dumbledore to stop Voldemort and offered to donate money to help defeat him.
• Lucius Malfoy told Dumbledore that Isaac had visited Malfoy Manor recently.

Dumbledore and Fudge told Lucius Malfoy that Voldemort had returned as a werewolf, and warned him that the Dark Lord might seek revenge. Lucius learned that Isaac and his allies had driven Voldemort back at the Gaunt Shack.

• Fudge was surprised to hear that Isaac had visited Malfoy Manor, and Lucius tried to signal that he supported Isaac.
• Dumbledore told Lucius that Tom had returned to life the previous night, and Lucius realized this Voldemort was different from the one he had encountered before.
• Fudge explained that hidden Death Eaters had used a Horcrux and Lockhart's sacrifice to resurrect Voldemort, but the ritual had turned him into a werewolf.
• Fudge said Voldemort had escaped the Gaunt Shack before the Aurors arrived and might take revenge on Lucius.
• Dumbledore confirmed that Isaac, Sirius Black, Lupin, and the Wizard Safeguarding Office had driven Tom back at the Gaunt Shack.

Fudge praised Isaac’s role in defeating Voldemort and sought to secure his family’s political future by supporting him. He persuaded Lucius Malfoy to keep his family inside Malfoy Manor, where Lucius asked Dumbledore to become its Fidelius Charm Secret Keeper.

• Fudge told the pure-blood aristocrats that Isaac had played a major role in driving Voldemort away.
• Fudge urged Lucius Malfoy to keep his family at Malfoy Manor while the Ministry hunted Voldemort.
• Lucius agreed to keep every Malfoy inside the manor and asked Dumbledore for help securing its protections.
• Lucius clarified that he wanted Dumbledore to serve as the Secret Keeper for a Fidelius Charm protecting Malfoy Manor's location.

Lucius Malfoy pledged the Malfoy family’s resources to the Ministry and made Dumbledore the Secret Keeper of Malfoy Manor. After Dumbledore and Fudge left, Lucius told Narcissa that the family would now support Dumbledore, while Draco’s old insults about him made Lucius fear Dumbledore might have overheard.

• Dumbledore agreed to Lucius Malfoy’s request and became the Secret Keeper of Malfoy Manor.
• Lucius arranged supplies for Fudge, including potions, herbs, protective gear, and devices for detecting dark magic.
• Dumbledore and Fudge left Malfoy Manor satisfied with Lucius’s support and plans to use the resources to build Ministry support.
• Narcissa asked Lucius whether the family was now siding with Dumbledore, and Lucius declared that they would staunchly support Dumbledore and the Ministry.
• Draco repeated that Lucius had called Dumbledore an old fool, and Lucius nervously checked whether Dumbledore had heard him.

Lucius Malfoy took Draco to his study for a serious father-and-son talk after Draco made a tactless remark. He explained that Dumbledore had never been a powerless old fool, leaving Draco to confront the Malfoys’ mistaken view of the wizarding world and their past allegiance.

• Lucius compared Draco unfavorably with Isaac, then decided he needed to teach his son instead of scolding him.
• Lucius brought Draco to his study, where Narcissa served them drinks and snacks before leaving them to talk.
• Lucius told Draco that his old belief that Dumbledore had lost his ambition was wrong because no one remained who could challenge him.
• Lucius explained that Dumbledore’s return to the Ministry made the Malfoys’ former attitude a taboo, then asked Draco which faction he had served.
• Draco knew Lucius meant the Death Eaters, whose leader was gone and whose supporters had become failures.

Lucius Malfoy explained to Draco that their family needed real positions of power to maintain its influence, since his past as a Death Eater kept him out of Ministry politics. He regretted misusing his Hogwarts governorship and urged Draco not to follow him into the same mistakes.

• Lucius Malfoy asked Draco how pure-blood families could maximize their influence, and Draco suggested forming an alliance like the Malfoy, Goyle, and Crabbe families.
• Lucius told Draco that his past service to the Dark Lord barred him from entering Ministry politics, forcing him to rely on alliances to preserve the family’s influence.
• Draco pointed out that Lucius was a Hogwarts governor, and Lucius explained that governors should support the headmaster rather than try to control Hogwarts.
• Lucius admitted he had been a fool on the Board of Governors and said that true influence required important posts in institutions such as the Ministry, the Wizengamot, or the International Confederation of Wizards.
• Lucius told Draco that he could go no further in life, but he would not push his son into the same mistakes.

Lucius Malfoy told Draco that Voldemort had returned as a werewolf and explained why the Malfoys would not support him. He urged Draco to focus on Isaac at Hogwarts, then began sending invitations to advance the Malfoy family’s interests.

• Lucius Malfoy revealed that Voldemort had returned as a werewolf and explained why the pure-blood families could not safely back him.
• Lucius told Draco to consider the Malfoy family’s future and asked him to focus on Isaac rather than Harry Potter.
• Draco felt relieved that he would not need to seek Harry’s friendship and resolved to grow closer to Isaac in his second year.
• Lucius summoned a house-elf and wrote several invitations to do something for the Malfoy family.

Lucius Malfoy sent invitations to several pure-blood families, and Goyle Sr. and Crabbe Sr. learned they were meant to receive Malfoy Manor’s new address. Corban Yaxley recognized that the address was protected by the Fidelius Charm and wondered what Lucius was hiding.

• Goyle Sr. and Crabbe Sr. mistakenly speculated that the invitation announced a Malfoy family wedding.
• The house-elf clarified that Lucius had invited them to a gathering, and explained that only people with the manor’s address could enter.
• Goyle Sr. and Crabbe Sr. understood that Lucius was giving them the address and promised to attend.
• Corban Yaxley examined his invitation and the separate slip bearing Malfoy Manor’s address.
• Yaxley identified the Fidelius Charm and questioned why Lucius had hidden the manor and whom he feared.
• Yaxley reflected on his loyalty to Voldemort and his distrust of the Malfoys and other former Death Eaters.

Yaxley accepted Lucius Malfoy’s invitation, convinced that the Dark Lord’s return explained Malfoy’s fear and secrecy. At the tea party, Lucius announced that Voldemort had returned to life, and Yaxley eagerly demanded to know where they could find him.

• Yaxley agreed to attend the tea party at Malfoy Manor and imagined arriving with the Dark Lord to impress the other Death Eaters.
• Dumbledore’s Fidelius Charm hid Malfoy Manor’s address, and invitations included directions written by him as Secret Keeper.
• Pure-blood wizards gathered at Malfoy Manor, where Lucius closed the drawing-room doors and announced that the Dark Lord had returned to life.
• The guests reacted with fear and disbelief, while Yaxley praised Lucius for making the announcement and urged him to reveal the Dark Lord’s whereabouts.
• Lucius told Yaxley to calm down and wait.

Lucius Malfoy confronted Yaxley, then told the gathered pure-blood wizards that Voldemort had returned and announced that the Malfoys would hide in Malfoy Manor until Voldemort was destroyed. The others were stunned by how decisively Lucius distanced his family from the Dark Lord.

• Yaxley threatened Lucius Malfoy with the destruction of the Malfoy family if he betrayed Voldemort again.
• Lucius Malfoy smashed his teacup and confronted Yaxley, while Old Goyle and Crabbe Sr. held Yaxley at wandpoint.
• Yaxley backed down, and Nott and Avery urged Lucius to explain what he knew.
• Lucius told the pure-blood wizards that Voldemort had returned through a contingency plan triggered some days earlier.
• Lucius announced that Malfoy Manor would close its doors until Voldemort was utterly destroyed, leaving the other wizards stunned.

Lucius Malfoy told a gathering of pure-blood wizards that Voldemort had become a werewolf and that the Death Eaters should not expect him to rule the coming era. He ordered the remaining allies to hide while the others sought information, and the Daily Prophet soon published a wanted notice for a dangerous werewolf wizard.

• Avery questioned Lucius Malfoy about why he had drawn a line between himself and the Dark Lord.
• Lucius Malfoy revealed that Voldemort’s resurrection had gone wrong and that he had become a werewolf to escape the Ministry of Magic.
• Lucius Malfoy argued that Voldemort was no longer fit to lead the Death Eaters and explained that the Fidelius Charm could keep him from finding their hiding places.
• Lucius Malfoy dismissed the guests but told Old Goyle and Crabbe Sr. to seal their homes and communicate through house-elves.
• The other pure-blood wizards used their connections to investigate Voldemort’s return, and the Daily Prophet published a wanted notice for a vicious werewolf wizard the next day.

After public alarm over the werewolf dark wizard Tom and Voldemort’s legacy, Cornelius Fudge assured the wizarding world that the Ministry could stop him. Pure-blood families learned Voldemort had become a werewolf and withdrew from his cause, leaving the chapter with them resolved to ignore any attempt by him to contact them.

• The wizarding world demanded answers after a werewolf dark wizard stole Voldemort’s legacy and escaped wounded from Ministry personnel.
• Cornelius Fudge held a press conference and promised that the Ministry would find and eliminate the fugitive.
• Old Nott, Old Avery, Yaxley, and other pure-bloods investigated the Gaunt Shack incident and confirmed that the resurrected Voldemort had become a werewolf.
• Yaxley turned against Voldemort, had the Fidelius Charm cast on his ancestral home, and informed Fudge that his family would stay out of any future Death Eater activity.
• Other pure-blood families with dark connections also hid behind Fidelius Charms or fled Britain, intending to leave Voldemort’s messages unanswered.

Fudge was confident that Voldemort’s old Death Eater power base had weakened, while the newly werewolf Voldemort struggled to reconnect with his former followers. The chapter ended as Fenrir Greyback confronted Voldemort and tested how much power he had left.

• Fudge drew confidence from the Death Eaters’ lost support among pure-blood families and from Dumbledore’s expected fight against Voldemort.
• Voldemort read the Daily Prophet, resented that his return was not reported openly, and tried to summon his former followers through their Dark Marks.
• Voldemort discovered that his living followers had hidden themselves from him, apparently using the Fidelius Charm, and vowed to rebuild the Death Eaters without them.
• Voldemort called out an intruder in the forest and recognized Fenrir Greyback, his former ally who had never received the Dark Mark.
• Greyback asked how much power the injured Voldemort retained, and Voldemort attacked him with the Cruciatus Curse.

Voldemort tortured Greyback after the werewolf came seeking an easy victory, then spared him and made him a Death Eater. Greyback accepted the Dark Mark and became Voldemort’s new servant.

• Voldemort used the Cruciatus Curse on Greyback, proving that the Daily Prophet’s report of his serious injuries had not made him weak.
• After nearly half an hour, Voldemort ended the curse and spared Greyback because he needed a follower while his former Death Eaters were in Azkaban.
• Greyback recognized that he could not overpower Voldemort and begged to become his loyal servant.
• Voldemort told Greyback to hold out his arm and branded him with the Dark Mark.

Greyback received Voldemort’s Dark Mark but feared the consequences of becoming a marked Death Eater. When Voldemort questioned how Greyback had found him, Greyback’s explanation led him to realize that Voldemort was a werewolf.

• Greyback reflected that the Dark Mark made him a true Death Eater and feared that Aurors would kill him before he could stand trial.
• Greyback asked Voldemort what they should do next, but Voldemort demanded to know how Greyback had found him.
• Greyback explained that instinct had led him to search where he thought a werewolf dark wizard might be.
• Greyback realized that his reasoning implied Voldemort, who had escaped the Gaunt Shack, was a werewolf.
• Voldemort struck Greyback with a powerful Cruciatus Curse, while Greyback privately marveled at the revelation.

Remus Lupin followed Isaac’s instructions and used a spell to plant a suggestion in Greyback, leading him toward Voldemort’s hiding place. Isaac explained that he expected the coming upheaval in the British Wizarding World to sweep up troublemakers like Greyback.

• Lupin returned to the Black Family House after spending the day away, and Isaac asked whether his assignment had gone smoothly.
• Lupin recalled that Isaac had sent him to find a wizard and magically influence him to go elsewhere.
• Lupin recognized Greyback, the werewolf who had bitten him, and restrained himself from attacking him.
• Lupin secretly placed a psychological suggestion on Greyback, guiding him toward the forest where Voldemort was hiding.
• Isaac told Lupin that the Ministry’s new appointments for werewolves would offer them hope, while Voldemort could keep dangerous werewolves like Greyback in check.
• Isaac predicted that the coming upheaval would ultimately lead to the bad sorts being caught.

Isaac stopped watching Werewolf Tom, reasoning that the Dark Lord would struggle to rebuild his strength and followers, and the new school year began. At King's Cross, Isaac and Harry boarded the Hogwarts Express with Lupin and reunited with Ron and Hermione.

• Isaac decided that Werewolf Tom would face trouble whether he devoured his werewolf followers or tried to build a force from scratch.
• Isaac and Harry arrived at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters with Sirius Black and Kreacher, while Lupin joined them to travel to Hogwarts.
• Lupin explained his concern that Voldemort was still at large and understood that the wizard at the Gaunt Shack was the genuine Voldemort.
• Isaac, Harry, and Lupin boarded the Hogwarts Express, where Ron waved them over and Hermione welcomed their reunion.
• Harry hurried to Ron and Hermione's compartment, and Ron remarked that Harry seemed to have had a good holiday.

Ron and Hermione met Remus Lupin, the newly appointed Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor, whose improved health and appearance reflected better conditions for werewolves. Hermione recognized his name from the Daily Prophet and asked whether he was a werewolf; Lupin confirmed it and explained that he would take Wolfsbane Potion under Professor McGonagall’s supervision each full moon.

• Ron complained to Harry and Isaac that they had gone to Malfoy Manor without him, then met Remus Lupin.
• Isaac introduced Lupin to Ron and Hermione as Hogwarts’ new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor.
• Hermione recalled the Ministry’s Werewolf Special Act and the Daily Prophet’s account of Lupin’s record and appointment.
• Hermione cautiously asked Lupin whether he was a werewolf, and Lupin confirmed that he was.
• Lupin told Hermione that he would drink Ministry-provided Wolfsbane Potion under Professor McGonagall’s supervision on every full moon.

Isaac learned that Percy would stay at the Ministry for another year, studying independently while working toward his N.E.W.T.s, and that Barnaby Hawthorne would remain at Hogwarts as a teaching assistant for Care of Magical Creatures. The chapter left Isaac wondering whether he, too, might be made to finish school early.

• Ron told Isaac that Percy had changed during his Ministry internship and had started giving pocket money to his siblings.
• Isaac reassured Ron that Percy was safe at the Ministry, then learned Percy would not return to Hogwarts because Fudge had extended his internship.
• Ron explained that Percy would study sixth- and seventh-year material independently while working and would become Fudge’s official secretary after passing his N.E.W.T.s.
• Isaac joined his friends and learned Barnaby Hawthorne had stayed at Hogwarts to assist Professor Kettleburn with Care of Magical Creatures.
• Gabriel joked that Professor Kettleburn’s frequent injuries made it seem as though Voldemort’s curse on the subject had failed to kill him.