Chapter Summaries

Allen attended the Wizengamot trial of Barty Crouch and helped secure early release for him and most of the other surrendered escapees. After Albert told him that Abraxas Malfoy was near death, Voldemort raged at his followers over their repeated failures, including two wizards killed with a pencil.

• Allen joined the Wizengamot as it tried Barty Crouch and six other prisoners who had surrendered after escaping Azkaban.
• Amelia Bones supported early release for Crouch, and Allen raised his hand, prompting enough other members to do the same for a majority vote.
• The Wizengamot released most of the prisoners and reduced the sentence of a bald wizard whose prank had killed several Muggles.
• After the trial, Albert told Allen that Abraxas Malfoy was near death, and Allen said he would contact Lucius and Draco.
• At a meeting in the Malfoy estate, Voldemort berated Travers for failed operations and tortured him after hearing that a Muggle-born had killed two of his men with a pencil.

Voldemort rejected Lucius Malfoy’s suggestion to ambush Allen Harris at St. Mungo’s and ordered him to meet Allen instead. Allen visited the ill Abraxas Malfoy, who sent the others away so he could speak with his guests privately.

• Voldemort ordered Yaxley to attack Muggles and assigned Rabastan Lestrange to take Gilderoy Lockhart along.
• Lucius Malfoy told Voldemort that Allen would visit St. Mungo’s, but Voldemort warned against an ambush and ordered Lucius to receive Allen and report back.
• Allen arrived at St. Mungo’s with Luna and Hermione; Hermione stayed outside while Allen and Luna entered the Malfoys’ private ward.
• Lucius and Draco greeted Allen, who met the severely ill Abraxas Malfoy at his bedside.
• Abraxas asked Narcissa to fetch food and wine from the manor and sent Draco to escort Luna away from the ward.

Allen met with the dying Abraxas Malfoy, assured him that Lucius would be protected, and gave him a map to the genuine Hand of Vecna. After leaving St. Mungo’s, Allen recognized a chain of ominous clues in the name of a hospital ward and began to suspect that Sirius Black was in danger.

• Abraxas confronted Allen about Lucius’s secret role and asked what the Malfoy family could offer to keep his son alive.
• Allen promised to help protect Lucius from You-Know-Who and gave Abraxas a map to the genuine Hand of Vecna.
• Allen reunited with Hermione, Luna, Draco, and the Umbrella team in the hospital tearoom, then declined Draco’s invitation to the Malfoy manor.
• Hermione described patients in the hospital wards, and Otto Skorzeny and Ramona Rosier explained the story behind the Dangerous Dai Llewellyn Ward.
• Allen connected the ward’s name and its association with serious bites to Sirius Black, while Luna told him that his understanding of fate helped him see its patterns.

Draco returned to find Lucius questioning Abraxas about whether he had offended Allen, while Allen, Luna, and Hermione explored the Tower’s storage room and discovered Luna had trapped a Phoenix in its rebirth cycle. Allen then opened the Pet Space door, preparing to face the magical creatures he had neglected for years.

• Draco found Lucius helping Abraxas back into bed, and Abraxas dismissed Lucius’s belief that Ministry positions alone gave the Harris Family its power.
• Allen, Luna, and Hermione examined extinct magical plant seeds Luna had preserved, and Luna gave them to Hermione for planting.
• Luna revealed that the flame in the storage room was a Phoenix she had trapped in an endless rebirth-through-fire cycle.
• Hermione urged Allen to try befriending the Phoenix, while Luna warned that it pecked hard and pointed out the Tower’s room for magical creatures.
• Allen felt guilty about neglecting Gaia, Tina, and his other magical creature friends, then opened the Pet Space door.

Allen reunited with Gaia, Tina, and the other magical creatures after they initially mistook him for a Dark Wizard. He apologized for staying away and promised to keep their sanctuary accessible and let them meet his family and friends.

• Gaia and the other creatures attacked Allen until they recognized him, then joyfully crowded around him.
• Tina knocked Allen off balance and later dropped him toward the ground, where Gaia caught him.
• Gaia tearfully asked why Allen had stayed away, and he apologized and explained that danger in the wizarding world had kept him from visiting.
• Tina told Allen that his friends needed more than a safe place and deserved to know what he was thinking.
• Allen promised not to close the door again and offered to introduce the creatures to his family and friends and arrange safe outings.

Penelope and the Umbrella Squad stopped a Death Eater attack on Hungerford Bridge, while Rabastan Lestrange’s team unleashed a devastating hurricane on Lancaster. A few days later, Cornelius Fudge visited his former office and met Owen Harris, who had to delay speaking with him.

• Penelope and the Umbrella Squad used an Anti-Apparition Array to trap the Death Eaters at Hungerford Bridge, killing two and capturing one.
• Allen’s warning had allowed Aurors to guard London landmarks, preventing the Death Eaters’ planned attacks there from causing major casualties.
• Rabastan Lestrange and his team, including Gilderoy Lockhart, conjured a hurricane that devastated Lancaster and injured or trapped Muggle residents.
• Aurors arrived in Lancashire, but Rabastan Lestrange and the other Death Eaters escaped by Apparition before the storm could be dispelled.
• Cornelius Fudge went to his former office at the Ministry of Magic, where Owen Harris greeted him and said he would have to wait while Owen handled an International Confederation of Wizards warning.

Owen Harris addressed the International Confederation of Wizards’ warning about Death Eater attacks on Muggles, while Cornelius Fudge considered the political effect of his speech. Fudge went to arrange a meeting with the Muggle prime minister, who reluctantly agreed to see him.

• Owen Harris told Cornelius Fudge he would give a live speech about the warning and asked him to wait in the minister’s office before they met the Muggle prime minister with Allen.
• Fudge read a newspaper account of the Ministry’s efforts against Death Eaters and watched Owen’s televised speech promising protection for wizards and some help for Muggles and Squibs.
• Fudge recognized that Owen’s speech could improve his standing with British wizards while presenting the International Confederation of Wizards as opposed to their interests.
• Owen returned and sent Fudge ahead to arrange the meeting while he went to find Allen in the Department of Mysteries.
• The Muggle prime minister tried to delay the meeting, but the portrait relayed Fudge’s request and told him his other engagements had been postponed, so he agreed to meet Fudge.

Cornelius Fudge told the Prime Minister that Voldemort had returned, his Death Eaters had caused the Lancashire disaster, and Dementors were spreading despair. Owen Harris arrived as the new Minister for Magic with his son Allen, and the meeting ended with the revelation that the Prime Minister’s secretary was a Russian wizard protecting him.

• Fudge told the Prime Minister that Voldemort had returned and that Death Eaters had created a magical hurricane and attacked London landmarks.
• Fudge explained that Dementors had deserted their prison and were spreading mist, then revealed that Owen Harris had replaced him as Minister for Magic.
• Owen and Allen Harris arrived, and Allen locked the office door to prevent interruptions.
• Allen warned that the Prime Minister could have been placed under the Imperius Curse without Long-Eye’s protection.
• The Prime Minister learned that his secretary, Christopher Lee, was actually the Russian wizard Vladimir Bordlovsky.

Allen, Owen, and Fudge met with the British prime minister, reassuring him that the Ministry was protecting him and that Allen could defend both worlds from Voldemort. Allen gave the prime minister an Omniscient Badge and used Legilimency to learn how Muggle authority was organized, leaving him confident that the greater obstacle to ending the Statute of Secrecy lay with the International Confederation of Wizards and other wizarding nations.

• Allen explained that Long-Eye was using the alias Christopher Lee, and Owen assured the prime minister that the Auror had been assigned to protect him.
• Fudge and Owen warned the prime minister about Voldemort, then presented Allen as the wizard who had driven him from the Ministry and helped foil attacks on London.
• The prime minister accepted Allen's offer to protect him and carried an Omniscient Badge that could reveal his location and let him contact Allen.
• Allen used Legilimency to learn that the prime minister held key Muggle authority and concluded that the International Confederation of Wizards and wizarding nations were the main obstacles to breaking the Statute of Secrecy.

Voldemort ordered his followers to gather information about the Devil Grand Duke and prepare a strike against the Harrises, while forcing Pansy Parkinson to choose between assassinating Allen Harris or Dumbledore. At Hogwarts, Snape treated Dumbledore’s cursed hand after Dumbledore destroyed Marvolo Gaunt’s ring, and estimated that he had about three years to contain and remove the curse.

• After watching ordinary wizards praise Owen Harris, Voldemort ordered his followers to research the Devil Grand Duke, capture Mudbloods for a sacrifice, recruit foreign wizards, and prepare to make the Harrises pay.
• Voldemort tortured Old Parkinson and ordered Pansy Parkinson to assassinate either Allen Harris or Dumbledore to save her father.
• Pansy decided that she would try to assassinate Dumbledore, and Voldemort ordered Snape to teach her Occlumency during the summer holidays.
• Snape arrived at Dumbledore’s office with a golden potion and treated the curse on his hand, which Dumbledore had injured while destroying Marvolo Gaunt’s ring with the Sword of Gryffindor.
• Snape estimated that Dumbledore had roughly three years to suppress the curse and potentially remove it completely.

Snape learned from Dumbledore that Harry carried a fragment of Voldemort’s soul and would have to die by Voldemort’s hand for Voldemort to be defeated. The revelation left Snape horrified, but his Patronus showed that he still loved Lily and remained bound to her memory.

• Dumbledore refused Snape’s appeal to spend three years healing and explained that he intended to stop Voldemort before the war dragged on.
• Snape told Dumbledore that Voldemort had forced Pansy Parkinson to choose between attacking Dumbledore and Allen, and was recruiting Dark Wizards while planning attacks abroad.
• Dumbledore asked Snape to kill him when the time came and to tell Harry about Voldemort’s vulnerability only when Voldemort began protecting Nagini.
• Dumbledore revealed that a fragment of Voldemort’s soul had attached itself to Harry on the night Voldemort killed Lily, and said Harry had to die by Voldemort’s own hand.
• Snape condemned Dumbledore for raising Harry to die, then cast a silver doe Patronus; when Dumbledore recognized it as Lily, Snape replied, “Always.”

Allen Harris rejected Babajide Akingbade’s request for Britain to devote resources to Muggle society and challenged his criticism of British secrecy enforcement. Meanwhile, Harry met Albus Dumbledore as planned at the Underground station and left the pub to join him.

• Allen and Lenn saw Goyle Gregory in the Ministry hall, where Lenn explained that Gregory had refused the Harris Family’s offer of surrender because he feared Voldemort’s suspicions.
• Rita Skeeter introduced Allen and Lenn to International Confederation of Wizards president Babajide Akingbade, who invited Allen to discuss Britain’s responsibilities toward Muggles.
• Allen told Babajide that Britain would prioritize wizarding security, then cited Uagadou’s alleged breaches of the Statute of Secrecy in rebuttal to his warning.
• Allen warned Babajide that he could pursue an investigation of Uagadou and left the reception room, telling Rita to report their conversation without embellishment or omissions.
• Harry waited for Dumbledore at a pub, noticed him through the window, and left to meet him beside a perfume advertisement.

Dumbledore took Harry to find Horace Slughorn, who had been hiding from the Death Eaters, and persuaded him to return to Hogwarts. On the way back to The Burrow, Harry considered Allen’s approach to magic and reassured Dumbledore that he would decide for himself whether to take Allen’s course.

• Dumbledore admitted that he had overlooked ways to get Harry to Arthur Weasley after the attack, then took Harry to Budleigh Babberton.
• Dumbledore and Harry found Slughorn hiding as an armchair in a wrecked cottage and restored the room together.
• Slughorn told Dumbledore that the Death Eaters had been trying to recruit him and worried about the conflict involving Allen Harris and the International Confederation of Wizards.
• Slughorn reminisced to Harry about Lily and showed him photographs of his former students, including Regulus Black.
• Dumbledore left without pressing Slughorn further, and Slughorn ran after them and agreed to return to Hogwarts on his own terms.
• Harry told Dumbledore he might take Allen’s course and promised to think independently before deciding; Dumbledore took him to The Burrow, where Harry saw the girl he missed.

Lenn showed Allen the magically enhanced Bentley 8 Litre he had chosen, and Allen tested it by flying to The Burrow with Penelope. After they narrowly avoided a helicopter, Allen asked to meet Penelope’s parents, and she refused because they looked down on wizards, but Allen said he would arrange the meeting.

• Lenn explained the Bentley 8 Litre’s enchantments and proposed testing it before seeking approval for Enchanted Cars.
• Allen and Penelope set off for The Burrow in the car, while Luna and Helena stayed behind.
• Allen comforted Penelope when she tried to follow Emily’s advice, and they kissed in the flying car.
• Allen swerved to avoid a Muggle helicopter, then restored the car’s course.
• Penelope told Allen that her lawyer parents disliked wizards and refused to meet him, but Allen said he would make arrangements for them to meet.

Allen and Penelope visited The Burrow, where the Weasleys welcomed them and shared news about the family’s improving fortunes. Arthur had been promoted to lead a new Ministry department, while Allen and Penelope privately knew the move had cleared the way for the Harris Family to take control of his former office.

• Allen and Penelope arrived at The Burrow in Arthur Weasley’s modified flying car, and Arthur eagerly asked Allen how it performed.
• Allen greeted the Weasleys, gave Hermione a bit of toothpaste from the corner of her mouth, and reassured her that her O.W.L. results would find her.
• Penelope confronted Tonks about her feelings for Remus Lupin, and Tonks left The Burrow soon afterward.
• Allen brought thoughtful gifts for the Weasleys and praised Fred and George’s joke-products business as a worthwhile investment.
• Molly announced that Arthur had been promoted to lead the Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects.
• Allen and Penelope privately recognized that Arthur’s transfer had cleared his former Ministry post for the Harris Family’s future plans involving Umbrella.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione received their O.W.L. results, and Hermione joined Allen in earning twelve Outstanding grades. Allen and Hermione persuaded Arthur Weasley to formally consult for Umbrella Corporation on adapting Muggle items for wizarding use, while Penelope’s attempt to spy on them with the twins’ binoculars ended in a cloud of black smoke.

• The owls delivered the O.W.L. results, and Harry and Ron discovered they had passed all subjects except Divination and History of Magic.
• Hermione opened her results and found twelve Outstandings, matching Allen’s results.
• Allen and Hermione asked Arthur Weasley to formally advise Umbrella Corporation on modifying Muggle items for wizards.
• Arthur accepted the consulting role after Allen and Hermione explained how it could help the wizarding world and the Weasley family.
• Penelope used George and Fred’s binoculars to watch Allen, Arthur, and Hermione in the garden, then vanished into a cloud of black smoke when the prank device went off.

After Penelope Clearwater was injured by a Weasley prank, Allen took her home and used the journey to discuss training Death Knights and a mission to study African wandless spellcasting. Their plans paused when Allen received a message from Aunt Josephine and decided they needed to return to the Ministry of Magic.

• A Weasley prank prop gave Penelope Clearwater a black eye, and Allen led her away from The Burrow before the Weasleys could punish Fred and George.
• Allen drove Penelope back, teased her about looking like a panda, and healed her black eye after she relaxed and playfully fought him.
• Penelope told Allen that some Death Knights were learning to blend into modern life, though most still needed extensive training.
• Allen asked Penelope to lead the Umbrella Squad and Red Umbrella Department forces to Uagadou to study and collect African gesture-based spellcasting techniques for Hogwarts students.
• Allen felt his Perception Mark heat up, received a message from Aunt Josephine, and turned back toward the Ministry of Magic.

Allen and Luna collected the Banshee Blair for research into restoring Helena’s senses, and Allen then examined a captured Lethifold at the Ministry. He learned why his family had delayed their Animagus transformations and ended the chapter holding the restrained creature.

• Luna forced the imprisoned Banshee into her pouch, and Josephine Harris explained that the witch had been named Blair and had killed three Muggles.
• Josephine told Allen that staff had captured a Lethifold after it attacked Nosmore Calisis, and Allen agreed to inspect it.
• Josephine revealed that Owen had delayed the Harris family’s transformations to avoid attracting suspicion, and Allen thanked her for the explanation.
• Calisis recounted how his colleagues had saved him from the Lethifold with a Patronus Charm.
• Allen enveloped the Lethifold in silver light, rolled it up with his bare hands, and held it fast.

Allen and Luna studied the Banshee Blair and began experimenting on Peeves to learn how his abilities might help Helena. While the research continued, Voldemort's Death Eaters prepared to kidnap someone abroad, with Rabastan Lestrange warning Gilderoy Lockhart not to compromise the operation.

• Allen locked the Lethifold away and studied Blair with Luna, whose screams killed the Acromantulas in the room.
• Allen collected the Acromantulas' souls, and he and Luna discussed teaching Helena a Banshee-like scream for self-defense.
• Allen found Peeves near Filch's office and brought him to the Tower for experiments, where Peeves weakened after leaving Hogwarts.
• Luna explained that Peeves was a psychic presence born with Hogwarts and would reappear there if he vanished outside the castle.
• Rabastan Lestrange struck Lockhart for attracting a security inspector's attention and ordered him to erase witnesses after the next day's kidnapping operation.

As the Death Eaters’ actions abroad sparked international disputes, Allen and Luna continued researching Peeves and used stored soul energy to help Helena touch physical objects. The chapter ended with Helena successfully embracing Allen and Luna in a newly solid form.

• Foreign Ministries of Magic sought Britain’s aid or blamed it for the Death Eaters’ crimes, while Owen Harris and Allen rejected their demands and strengthened Auror patrols.
• Babajide Akingbade urged Britain to pursue the Death Eaters, and Owen Harris publicly questioned his competence as the wizarding world grew more chaotic.
• Allen and Luna studied Peeves’s ability to reappear after dispersing and concluded that soul energy could help Helena imitate his ability to interact with the physical world.
• Allen and Luna used nearly half the soul energy in a wand to make Helena more substantial, and she briefly touched and lifted Allen’s crystal ball before losing concentration.
• Helena focused again, solidified her form, and embraced Allen and Luna, lifting both of them off the ground.