Chapter Summaries

Umbridge and Fudge moved against Dumbledore’s Army after Ron revealed the group’s location, while Harry and the others practiced inside the Room of Requirement. The chapter ended with Umbridge presenting a second, clear-headed informer.

• Pansy waited with Emily and the other task force members outside Umbridge’s office, where Umbridge emerged with a dazed Ron and ordered Filch to surround the eighth floor.
• Umbridge led Fudge, Dumbledore, and the others from the Headmaster’s Office toward the Room of Requirement after Ron identified Dumbledore’s Army and its meeting place.
• Hannah warned Harry and the group that Filch and the task force had surrounded the area, while Ron and Marietta were both missing.
• Dumbledore challenged the reliability of Ron’s statement and suspected Umbridge had used Veritaserum on him.
• Umbridge announced that she had another informer who was clear-headed.

Umbridge exposed Marietta as the informer and led Fudge to the Room of Requirement, where Dumbledore took responsibility for the D.A. to protect its students. Fudge ordered Dumbledore’s arrest, but Dumbledore made clear he would not come quietly.

• Umbridge revealed that Marietta had informed on the D.A., and Hermione’s jinx branded her face with the word “SNEAK.”
• Dumbledore sent a message to the D.A. members, and Harry led them out of the Room of Requirement as Fudge and Umbridge waited.
• Fudge found the list titled “Dumbledore’s Army,” and Dumbledore claimed he had organized the group to shield the students from blame.
• Harry tried to take responsibility, but McGonagall stopped him while Dumbledore insisted the D.A. was his own creation.
• Fudge ordered Dumbledore to be escorted to the Ministry and sent to Azkaban, but Dumbledore prepared to resist arrest.

Dumbledore defeated the Aurors sent to arrest him, warned Fudge and Umbridge not to punish the students, and escaped Hogwarts with Fawkes. The next day, edited television footage portrayed him as a dangerous conspirator, stirring public suspicion while D.A. members knew he had taken the blame for them.

• Dawlish and the other Aurors tried to arrest Dumbledore, but he shielded himself and incapacitated them while stopping McGonagall from intervening.
• Dumbledore pulled Umbridge before Fudge and warned them not to impose improper punishment on the students; Umbridge and Fudge could only back down.
• Dumbledore healed Marietta Edgecombe’s face, promised not to go into hiding, and vanished with Fawkes.
• Fleur presented edited footage on wizarding television that portrayed Dumbledore as a rebel who had violently resisted arrest.
• Hogwarts students discussed Dumbledore’s flight, while D.A. members understood that he had taken the blame for them and other wizards began to distrust him.

Fleur Delacour announced that seven new Animagi had registered and that Allen Harris would teach Ancient Magic at Hogwarts, stirring public debate and angering Fudge. At Durmstrang, Allen postponed confronting the Monte family, assigned Giants as Karkaroff’s guards, and prepared to take the exchange students back to Britain.

• Fleur Delacour reported that seven Animagi had registered, six of them with the Umbrella Corporation, and revealed Allen Harris’s appointment as Hogwarts’s youngest professor.
• Wizards across Britain debated Dumbledore’s arrest, the new Animagus method, and Allen’s Ancient Magic Class, while Fudge berated Umbridge for agreeing to Allen’s appointment without consulting him.
• Umbridge told Fudge that Allen had appeared in her office as a Phoenix and presented the governors’ signatures, forcing her to accept his conditions.
• Allen told Karkaroff he would postpone dealing with the Monte family and take the exchange students to Britain, leaving Karkaroff to preserve Durmstrang’s forces.
• Allen assigned two Giants as Karkaroff’s personal guards and told him to provide their food and keep them from drinking.

After Dumbledore’s departure, Harry and Ron suspected the Ministry and the Harris family had colluded, while Allen returned to Hogwarts as its new Ancient Magic professor. The Training Class welcomed him with the Omniscience Mark, and Umbridge told him she had been unable to enter the sealed Headmaster’s Office.

• Harry and the D.A. endured Umbridge’s punishment, while Ron and Marietta felt guilty and isolated over their betrayals.
• Harry, Ron, and McGonagall questioned the Ministry’s motives and suspected the Harrises had helped force Dumbledore out.
• Hermione’s Training Class welcomed Allen and the exchange students by casting the Omniscience Mark into the sky.
• Allen embraced Hermione, then Umbridge greeted him warmly and apologized for failing to handle his request.
• Umbridge told Allen she had not touched anything in the Headmaster’s Office because the Stone Beast had barred her from entering.

Allen helped Umbridge enter Dumbledore’s office, where he neutralized its protections and let her take the headmaster’s chair. He then instructed McGonagall to safeguard Dumbledore’s personal belongings, leaving Umbridge too frightened to interfere.

• Allen stunned the portraits in the Headmaster’s Office and brought Umbridge inside, then stopped her from rushing to Dumbledore’s desk.
• McGonagall confronted Allen and Umbridge, while Harry and Ron watched from outside and Harry realized Allen was directing Umbridge.
• Allen dismantled the office’s protective Charms, and Umbridge sat in Dumbledore’s chair as McGonagall and Sprout prepared to leave.
• Allen asked McGonagall to keep Dumbledore’s belongings, explaining that the Ministry had no permit to seize them.
• Umbridge tried to stop McGonagall from taking the belongings but collapsed into the chair in fear after Allen challenged her to seek Fudge’s approval.

Allen challenged Dumbledore’s control over Hogwarts knowledge and criticized his record as headmaster, while defending his plan to teach restricted material. He proposed creating a new course that incorporated Defence Against the Dark Arts content to evade Voldemort’s curse.

• Allen urged McGonagall to gather Dumbledore’s memories, and Hermione brought her an enchanted suitcase at Allen’s request.
• Allen stopped McGonagall from packing Hogwarts books and told the students he would teach some of their contents under strict conditions.
• Allen accused Dumbledore of restricting knowledge and failing to improve Hogwarts graduates’ practical spellwork.
• McGonagall argued that Voldemort’s curse on the Defence Against the Dark Arts post was responsible for declining combat skills, and Allen mocked Dumbledore’s choices of teachers.
• Flitwick tried to ease the dispute, and Allen proposed placing Defence Against the Dark Arts material in a new course to avoid the curse.

Allen accused Dumbledore of restricting students’ education to keep exceptional wizards under control, arguing that Hogwarts had failed to teach them how to defend themselves. He announced that his elective would teach students to use magic, including Dark Magic, responsibly and ended by declaring that he and his allies were prepared to defeat Voldemort if he had returned.

• Allen told McGonagall that Dumbledore had kept the most useful books for himself and had encouraged people to blame Voldemort’s curse for the failures of Defence Against the Dark Arts.
• McGonagall defended Dumbledore’s restrictions as a way to protect students, citing the death of Luna Lovegood’s mother, Pandora, while experimenting with a soul-related spell.
• Allen argued that Dumbledore’s control over knowledge stunted talented students and left graduates unable to defend themselves, pointing to the disappearances of former students.
• McGonagall could not refute Allen’s point and felt guilt over the students who had not learned to protect themselves at Hogwarts.
• Addressing the students, Allen promised to teach magic, including Dark Magic, responsibly so they would have a better chance of surviving encounters with enemies.
• Allen said the Harris Family and Umbrella Corporation were prepared for Voldemort’s possible return, and declared that they would defeat him.

Allen criticized Dumbledore’s failure to provide students with effective Defence training and promised to share powerful charms, winning many students’ support while deepening doubts among Harry and Ron. He then challenged students to spar with the Durmstrang exchange students on Saturday, using only charms taught at Hogwarts.

• Allen’s speech earned applause from many Hogwarts students, persuaded some Hufflepuffs, and further damaged Dumbledore’s reputation, though D.A. members who had seen Dumbledore take blame for them remained skeptical.
• Umbridge asked Allen for permission to publish his remarks in the Daily Prophet, and he agreed, explaining that he respected Dumbledore as a good person even though he did not fear him.
• Ron accused Allen of manipulating people, while Harry weighed Allen’s criticism against his loyalty to Dumbledore and grew wary of students learning Dark Magic.
• Allen sensed Harry and Ron’s thoughts and proposed a sparring match between Hogwarts students and the Durmstrang exchange students, limited to charms taught at Hogwarts.
• Allen scheduled the challenge for Saturday at the Quidditch Pitch and called it his first lesson.

Allen opened Hogwarts’ first public preview lesson in ancient magic on the Quidditch Pitch and announced a duel between his Training Class and students who opposed his course. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley joined the challengers, while Harry resolved to prove that students could defend themselves without dark magic.

• Allen addressed the crowd, presenting the ancient magic course as a way to restore lost knowledge and improve students’ ability to protect themselves.
• Allen summoned Edward Fox, Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, and other Training Class members onto the platform and announced a contest using familiar Hogwarts Charms.
• Harry Potter and Ron Weasley led a crowd of students onto the pitch to challenge Allen’s group.
• Umbridge privately welcomed Allen’s remarks as a convenient excuse for Fudge and the Ministry of Magic.
• Harry decided to prove that students could protect themselves without dark magic and hoped to correct what he saw as Allen’s mistaken decision.

The D.A. members challenged the exchange students, and Draco Malfoy defeated Ron Weasley in a duel by using a penguin Transfiguration to humiliate him. The chapter left Ron coughing and vomiting on the arena floor as Draco taunted him.

• Allen appointed Professor Flitwick as referee for the duels, and Ron Weasley faced Draco Malfoy.
• Draco blocked Ron’s spells with Protego while Ron repeatedly attacked until he was exhausted.
• Draco conjured water, turned mud into a penguin, and used ice to make Ron fall in its path.
• Draco used Densaugeo as the penguin covered Ron in filth, then dispelled the spell and made Ron swallow some of it.
• Professor Flitwick declared Draco the winner and helped undo the Transfiguration while Ron retched.
• Draco taunted Ron by shouting, “Eat shit, Weasley!”

Allen’s combat demonstration exposed Hogwarts students’ lack of practical training and convinced many that his Ancient Magic Class was needed. That night, Death Eaters killed Broderick Bode and set fire to his home, while Rodolphus began attacking neighboring Muggle houses.

• Draco Malfoy defeated Ron Weasley and the Weasley Twins, while Blaise Zabini quickly knocked out Harry Potter.
• Allen arranged a group battle in which his Training Class and the exchange students defeated the Hogwarts challengers through teamwork and practical combat skills.
• Hogwarts students and former opponents recognized the need for Allen’s combat training, and many decided to attend Ancient Magic Class next term.
• Bellatrix Lestrange, Rodolphus Lestrange, and other Death Eaters broke into Broderick Bode’s home after disabling his escape with an anti-Apparition array.
• Rodolphus bound Bode and set him on fire, while Bode realized Lucius Malfoy had previously placed him under the Imperius Curse.
• Rodolphus started setting fire to neighboring Muggle homes, and Bellatrix stopped Lucius from intervening.

Harry’s Occlumency lesson with Snape ended after Harry saw memories of James Potter bullying Snape and learned how close Snape and Lily Evans had once been. The next morning, Rita Skeeter’s article about Dumbledore’s past shook Harry’s faith, and he fled Hogwarts to grieve beside the Black Lake.

• Snape used Legilimency on Harry and criticized him for his anger, sentimentality, and inability to control his mind.
• Harry used Legilimency on Snape and saw James Potter bullying Snape, while Lily Evans defended him before Snape called her “Mudblood.”
• Snape ended Harry’s lessons and ordered him out after Harry saw the painful memories.
• Harry read Rita Skeeter’s Daily Prophet article alleging that Dumbledore had been close to Grindelwald and had plotted to rule over Muggles.
• Overwhelmed by doubts about Dumbledore, his father, and the events of the year, Harry ran to the Black Lake and broke down in grief.

Harry struggled with revelations about Dumbledore and his own failures at Occlumency until Allen helped him reconsider what Dumbledore had done and why. Allen then revealed that Dumbledore’s sister Ariana had been an Obscurial, and Hermione explained the condition as the chapter ended.

• Penelope visited the lakeside picnic, played music for Emily, and flew away on her yellow Vespa.
• Harry told Allen that he could not learn Occlumency and asked whether Rita Skeeter’s accusations against Dumbledore were false.
• Allen explained that Dumbledore had once embraced Dark Magic and sought power with Grindelwald, but later recognized his mistake and changed course.
• Harry accepted Allen’s argument and asked whether Rita had fabricated her claims about Dumbledore’s sister.
• Allen revealed that Ariana had been an Obscurial, and Hermione explained how an Obscurus formed and the danger it posed.

Allen explained Ariana Dumbledore’s fate and his suspicions about Dumbledore to Harry, then challenged Harry to question Gryffindor’s influence and Dumbledore’s teachings. He described his plans for teaching Ancient Magic and creating a wizarding world where students could pursue knowledge and protect themselves.

• Allen told Harry that Ariana’s Obscurus followed a traumatic childhood attack, and that she died during a fight between Albus, Aberforth, and Grindelwald; he suspected Dumbledore’s spell had killed her.
• Allen said Dumbledore likely saw Grindelwald in the Mirror of Erised and argued that Gryffindors often ostracized Harry and others who differed from them.
• Harry recalled how his Gryffindor classmates had opposed him over the Chamber of Secrets, Sirius Black, the Triwizard Cup, and his warning about Voldemort’s return.
• Allen criticized Dumbledore for manipulating Harry, stigmatizing Slytherin, and discouraging the study of Dark Magic, while arguing that magic should be judged by its purpose.
• Allen said his future Ancient Magic course would teach emotion-influencing Dark Magic only to students who had mastered the Patronus Charm.
• Allen reassured Harry that he wanted to protect students and build a wizarding world where they could pursue magical knowledge and live safely and freely.

Fred and George abandoned their plan to sabotage Hogwarts before exams after Allen insisted they finish their N.E.W.T.s. Gryffindor lost the Quidditch final to Ravenclaw, and the chapter ended with Dumbledore visiting Grindelwald in Nurmengard.

• Fred and George discussed leaving school early and turning Gregory the bootlicker's corridor into a Dungbomb swamp, but Allen ordered them to sit their N.E.W.T.s and earn their certificates.
• Allen told the twins he would not interfere with a harmless prank after exams, as long as it did not cross into crime.
• Ravenclaw defeated Gryffindor in the Quidditch final after Cho Chang caught the Snitch, while Harry watched from the stands because Umbridge had banned him from playing.
• Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas blamed Harry's absence for the loss, and Lisa Turpin retorted that Gryffindor might also have lost if Allen Harris had played.
• Harry left the common room to find Ginny, who had been upset by the loss and the complaints about her performance.
• Dumbledore appeared in Grindelwald's Nurmengard cell, where Grindelwald complained about his weight and asked whether Dumbledore had brought him honey.

Harry told Professor McGonagall he wanted to become an Auror, and she defended his ambition against Umbridge while advising him to take Allen Harris's Ancient Magic Class. Allen found no career that suited him, while Luna said the Department of Mysteries interested her.

• Harry told Professor McGonagall he wanted to become an Auror, and she explained the qualifications and combat training required.
• Umbridge argued that Harry's record and poor performance in her class made him unfit to become an Auror, but McGonagall defended him and promised to help him qualify.
• Professor McGonagall advised Harry to take Professor Allen Harris's Ancient Magic Class the following year.
• Allen read through career materials but found no profession appealing and decided he should speak with Professor Flitwick.
• Allen asked Luna about her future career, and she said she wanted to seek out stories from The Tales of Beedle the Bard and was interested in becoming an Unspeakable.

As the O.W.L. exams began, Hermione helped the Training Class prepare while Allen encouraged her and received Luna’s protective Blood Pact pendant. Allen and the other students completed their first exams, and the chapter ended after a difficult Transfiguration practical disrupted by Hannah Abbott’s spell mishap.

• Hermione organized review groups and shared her concise notes while confiscating fake study potions that she said could harm students.
• Luna fastened her Blood Pact, shaped like a Raven Pendant, onto Allen’s necklace as a good-luck charm.
• Umbridge welcomed the examiners, and Griselda Marchbanks questioned her about Dumbledore’s whereabouts before the exams began.
• Allen used silent and wandless casting to perform Charms practical spells, and an examiner praised the cohort’s unusually high number of outstanding students.
• Harry struggled with the difficult Transfiguration theory paper but did well in the practical, while Hannah Abbott transformed her Ferret into flamingos and halted the exam.
• Draco Malfoy calmly transformed his Ferret into a white coffee cup and left the examination room with a bow to the teachers.

During the History of Magic exam, Harry dreamed that Voldemort was torturing Sirius Black in the Department of Mysteries and rushed to warn Professor McGonagall. She agreed to contact the Order of the Phoenix, but Harry remained convinced Sirius was in immediate danger and went to find Ron.

• Harry struggled through the History of Magic exam, then woke screaming after dreaming that Voldemort was torturing Sirius in the Department of Mysteries.
• Umbridge asked Allen to consider Harry for his Ancient Magic elective, but Allen refused to change the class rules; Allen also noticed Umbridge silently insulting Hermione.
• Harry found Professor McGonagall and told her his dream showed Sirius Black captured in the Ministry of Magic.
• McGonagall agreed to contact the Order of the Phoenix and verify whether anyone could reach Sirius, while warning Harry that Voldemort might be creating an illusion.
• Harry dismissed McGonagall's advice and headed for the Gryffindor common room to find Ron and make a plan.

Allen learned from Helena Ravenclaw that Harry’s vision about Sirius had come true, while Harry and his friends broke into Umbridge’s office to reach the Ministry. Flag opened the office door with a Muggle lock-picking trick, and the group entered to find the room apparently empty.

• Helena Ravenclaw confirmed Allen’s suspicions, and he told Hermione to alert his father and coordinate with Penelope.
• Harry told Ron about his dream and decided to reach the Ministry through the fireplace in Umbridge’s office to save Sirius.
• Ginny, Neville, and Flag joined Harry and Ron, with Ginny and Neville agreeing to guard the corridor.
• Harry and Ron failed to open the office door with spells, but Flag picked the lock using a wire transfigured from his hair.
• Harry entered Umbridge’s office with the others, unaware that a black cat on a plate had left its picture.