Chapter Summaries

Voldemort attacked Dumbledore and Hogwarts with increasingly powerful magic, exploiting the chaos to keep Dumbledore on the defensive. After Dumbledore rescued Quirrell and pursued him, Voldemort concluded that Wizet had not returned and continued adjusting his plans to suppress Dumbledore.

• Voldemort grew furious that Dumbledore had advanced farther along the path of magic and attacked him with the Killing Curse.
• Voldemort intensified his assault on the battlefield with a crimson meteor, forcing Dumbledore to use several crystalline shields to stop it.
• Voldemort struck at Dumbledore from behind with the Killing Curse, but a crude shield blocked it and shattered.
• Voldemort cast a Blasting Curse at Quirrell, whose golden shields failed, but Dumbledore arrived and extinguished the flames.
• Dumbledore pursued Voldemort again, while Voldemort reasoned that Wizet had not returned and decided he could continue plans to suppress Dumbledore.

Voldemort expected Herpo’s Dark wizards to overwhelm Hogwarts, but discovered that the allied forces had turned the battle against them. As Dumbledore defended the battlefield from Voldemort’s attacks, Voldemort unleashed a fiery serpent at him.

• Voldemort anticipated that Herpo’s Dark wizards had already subdued Hogwarts’ teachers and students and planned to use them to make Dumbledore beg for mercy.
• Quirrell hurled a crimson spear at Voldemort, who casually destroyed it before sending a powerful wind blade toward the battlefield.
• Dumbledore intercepted the wind blade with a silver shield, then Voldemort looked down and saw Hogwarts’ allies suppressing Herpo’s Dark wizards.
• Voldemort saw that the Dark wizards had been disarmed, the Trolls had fallen, and most of the magical creatures he had brought had been defeated.
• Voldemort blasted Quirrell away and sent a giant serpent of fire diving toward Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore raised a blue wall of fire to meet Voldemort’s fiery serpent.

Voldemort endured a lightning strike from Wizet and a barrage of spells from Hogwarts defenders, but escaped when his magical shield began to crack. Dumbledore landed exhausted and wounded, then received healing Phoenix Tears from Fawkes.

• Voldemort spotted three phoenixes healing and bolstering the defenders, while two students attacked Dark wizards with Magic Fireworks.
• A powerful lightning bolt struck Voldemort, forcing him to use a new wand and a massive silver shield to withstand it.
• Barty Crouch Jr. fired a Blasting Curse at Voldemort, prompting the Hogwarts defenders to unleash a torrent of spells.
• Voldemort's magical energy field began to crack under the combined attacks, so he fled downward as a red beam pierced and destroyed it.
• Dumbledore and Quirrell landed after the battle in the air, and Minerva McGonagall supported the wounded Dumbledore.
• Fawkes shed Phoenix Tears onto Dumbledore's wound, and Dumbledore said he felt much better.

Voldemort unleashed a deadly spell across the battlefield, and Dumbledore prepared to sacrifice himself to stop it. Gellert Grindelwald appeared beside him and blocked the attack, leaving Voldemort demanding to know who he was.

• Voldemort cast a vast electrical net over the battlefield, and the professors moved to shield the students.
• Dumbledore resolved to give everything to his next spell, despite his weakened state and readiness to die.
• A towering wall of blue flames rose before Dumbledore and collided with Voldemort's spell, plunging the battlefield into a silent white void.
• Gellert Grindelwald appeared before Dumbledore and explained that he had come to help solve his problem.
• The world regained its color, and Voldemort saw Grindelwald beside Dumbledore and asked who he was.

Gellert Grindelwald intervened in the battle at Hogwarts and revealed that he intended to oppose Voldemort, though he kept his identity ambiguous. After Voldemort challenged him, Grindelwald attacked him with blue flames and a falling black tower, then Voldemort destroyed the tower and flame bird before diving toward Dumbledore.

• Newt Scamander and Tina Goldstein recognized Grindelwald from his distinctive blue flames and worried about the power he displayed.
• Anthony Goldstein identified Grindelwald and reassured a Ministry of Magic employee that he was helping them.
• Grindelwald described himself as a prisoner, demon, or penitent and asked Dumbledore whether he should reveal his identity.
• Grindelwald told Voldemort he would oppose him to protect the cage confining him.
• Grindelwald surrounded Voldemort with blue flames and sent a black tower crashing down on him.
• Voldemort blasted apart the tower, extinguished Grindelwald's flame bird, and dove toward Dumbledore.

Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, and the other wizards fought Voldemort, whose black mist and powerful spells repeatedly repelled their attacks. Fred and George’s Troll Dungbombs caught Voldemort off guard, but he retaliated by blasting their Flying Broomsticks, engulfing them in fire.

• Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald attacked Voldemort while the other wizards tried to break through his black mist and silver shield.
• Dumbledore wounded Voldemort’s left shoulder, and Voldemort unleashed magical ripples that the miniature tower blocked.
• Gellert Grindelwald struck Voldemort’s shield with a sword of blue flame as Dumbledore attacked from the flank, but Voldemort’s black mist drove them back.
• Fred and George dropped Troll Dungbombs onto Voldemort, making him plunge into the foul-smelling cloud and retch.
• Voldemort pointed one wand at Gellert Grindelwald and swung the Yew Wand at Fred and George, causing their Flying Broomsticks to explode and engulfing them in fire.

After the Flying Broomstick exploded with Fred and George aboard, Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald attacked Voldemort in grief and fury. Harry confronted Voldemort, who bound him and cast the Killing Curse, leaving Harry's fate unresolved.

• The Flying Broomstick exploded, and the Weasleys and their friends believed Fred and George had been killed.
• Dumbledore attacked Voldemort with lethal intent while Gellert Grindelwald helped pin him down.
• Voldemort broke free of their combined assault and taunted Dumbledore as his strength began to wane.
• Harry shouted at Voldemort, who saw his chance and used a surge of magic to break Dumbledore and Grindelwald's spells.
• Voldemort bound Harry's feet and cast Avada Kedavra at him.

After Fred and George’s sacrifice, Harry blamed himself for the devastation at Hogwarts and charged Voldemort, determined to end the conflict. Their spells collided in a golden beam, and both wands began to tremble.

• Harry saw Fred and George’s flames and resolved to defeat Voldemort, even at the cost of his life.
• Harry ran toward Voldemort, evading Hermione and Ron as they tried to stop him.
• Voldemort restrained Harry and cast the Killing Curse, but Harry answered with Expelliarmus.
• Harry’s Disarming Charm met Voldemort’s Killing Curse, and the spells turned brilliant gold as both wands trembled.

Harry and Voldemort’s twin wands connected in a Flashback Charm, leaving Voldemort vulnerable while Dumbledore and the others attacked him. As Voldemort’s defensive wands began to run out, Fred and George’s voices came from above.

• Harry and Voldemort’s wands became linked by golden light, lifting them into the air as Harry mirrored Voldemort’s movements.
• A Phoenix song sounded, and Harry sent a glowing bead into Voldemort’s Yew Wand.
• Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald identified the effect as the Flashback Charm of twin wands, and Dumbledore urged everyone to attack Voldemort.
• The Weasley family and others fired spells at Voldemort while he used new wands to shield himself.
• Voldemort accused Dumbledore of using a despicable method, and Mrs. Weasley and Arthur Weasley recognized Fred and George’s voices overhead.

Fred and George returned unharmed after pretending their Flying Broomsticks had been destroyed, then joined the attack on Voldemort. Dumbledore and Grindelwald intensified their assault, while Barty Crouch Sr. looked for a way to use the controlled Dark wizards against Voldemort.

• Fred and George reunited with the Weasleys and explained that they had used a Flight Charm after deliberately letting their Flying Broomsticks get hit.
• Fred and George promised to sponsor Gryffindor with new Flying Broomsticks, then joined the others in aiming their wands at Voldemort.
• Dumbledore fired a golden phoenix-shaped blast that shattered one of Voldemort's shields.
• Grindelwald attacked Voldemort's defenses with a flaming longsword and miniature towers while Voldemort angrily replenished his shields.
• Barty Crouch Sr. assessed the battlefield and considered using the controlled Dark wizards to help exhaust Voldemort's wands.

Barty Crouch Jr. helped John Dawlish persuade Dark wizards to sign Magical Contracts and turn against Voldemort, leaving Voldemort overwhelmed by their attacks. As Voldemort tried to command Snape through a soul fragment, everyone suddenly turned to look at a moon that seemed to come alive and grow larger.

• Barty Crouch Sr. ordered John Dawlish to recruit Dark wizards by offering leniency to those who signed Magical Contracts and attacked Voldemort.
• Barty Crouch Jr. joined Dawlish and used his Dark Mark and past service to Voldemort to persuade wavering wizards to switch sides.
• A group of Dark wizards signed Magical Contracts and joined the attack on Voldemort, who cursed Barty Crouch Jr. for betraying him.
• Voldemort sent a soul fragment to Snape and ordered him to kill Dumbledore and Grindelwald, but Snape did not respond.
• Voldemort, Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and the other wizards stopped fighting and turned toward a moon that seemed to come alive and grow larger.

Selina Pendragon captured Adley Pratt, who revealed that Herpo had destroyed his Horcrux and was hiding at a location he identified. Selina gathered her companions and warned them that Herpo planned to summon My Lord through a sacrifice, as in the Paris Region Incident.

• Selina Pendragon chased down Adley Pratt and captured him after taunting him into slowing down.
• Adley Pratt said Herpo had destroyed his Horcrux and pointed Selina toward Herpo's location.
• Selina contacted her companions while Adley Pratt described where Herpo was hiding, then silenced him when he kept cursing.
• Sebastian Saru, Ominis Gaunt, and Anne Saru arrived and confirmed that the location was among the strongholds they had not yet searched.
• Selina told her companions that Herpo intended to make My Lord descend through a sacrifice like the Paris Region Incident.

Selina Pendragon interrogated Circe and Adley Pratt, learned Herpo’s reported location, and led companions toward it despite Ominis Gaunt’s warning about the seer. As Herpo sacrificed more Horcruxes and awaited My Lord’s arrival, My Lord appeared and wondered whether Wizet Lovegood had truly come from the future.

• Adley Pratt accused Herpo of betraying the Isaiah Society by sacrificing his Horcrux, and Circe revealed that Herpo’s followers were willing to turn against him over the Horcruxes.
• Selina Pendragon sank Adley Pratt and Circe into the ground after confirming that they had given the same location for Herpo.
• Selina Pendragon led some companions toward the location, shielded them from a magical attack, and ordered them to restrain enemies when possible.
• Herpo continued sacrificing Horcruxes as reports arrived that the Guardians were rapidly defeating his defenses and allies.
• My Lord appeared before Herpo, surveyed the surroundings, and wondered whether Wizet Lovegood was from the future.

My Lord possessed Herpo’s body, then used a skeleton to take on a new form and set his sights on Hogwarts. Selina Pendragon and her companions found Herpo’s ruined sacrifice chamber and learned that he had been betrayed and killed.

• My Lord chose Herpo as a substitute body and promised to use it to kill Voldemort at Hogwarts.
• My Lord drove Herpo’s soul from his body, devoured his consciousness, and made him the first sacrifice to his faith.
• Selina Pendragon and her companions saw fallen enemies collapse into boneless heaps as the moon’s influence seized those nearby.
• My Lord merged with a glowing skeleton and vanished, saying his true body still needed to return.
• Selina Pendragon’s group reached Herpo’s sacrifice chamber, found its Horcruxes destroyed, and used Sebastian Saru’s Apparition Trace to witness My Lord taking Herpo’s body.
• Ominis Gaunt speculated that My Lord was heading to Hogwarts, and Sebastian Saru led the group there to investigate.

Voldemort believed the abnormal moon made him uniquely able to move, but Harry, Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and the others resumed fighting him. Grindelwald told Voldemort that he was not special at all.

• Voldemort dodged Harry's Disarming Charm and was shocked that Harry could move under the abnormal moon.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald attacked Voldemort while Grindelwald's miniature tower shielded Harry from Voldemort's Killing Curse.
• Harry, Hermione, Ron, the Hogwarts students, Neville, and Anthony joined the attack on Voldemort.
• Voldemort accused Barty Crouch Jr. of betraying him, but Barty said he had also been unable to move when the moon first changed.
• Grindelwald told Voldemort that he was ordinary and not special.

During the battle, Voldemort was thrown into confusion when Grindelwald and Fred and George demonstrated that they could fly, allowing the others to attack him. A Skeleton Figure then appeared behind Voldemort and erased the incoming spells, turning the moon unsettlingly pale and drawing its attention to Dumbledore.

• Grindelwald and Fred and George taunted Voldemort by flying, leaving him stunned long enough for the gathered fighters to attack.
• Voldemort recovered and renewed his protective magic, declaring that killing everyone would still make him the most special.
• Mrs. Weasley pulled Fred and George back as a sinister Skeleton Figure appeared behind Voldemort and swallowed every incoming spell.
• Harry noticed that the moon seemed bigger, and Draco, Cedric, and Cho Chang agreed that it had grown slightly.
• The Skeleton Figure recognized something in Dumbledore's hands, then curled a finger as Dumbledore sensed unprecedented danger.

My Lord reclaimed the Elder Wand, destroyed the wands held by the gathered wizards, and invaded Voldemort’s soul. Voldemort’s Soul Maze failed to slow My Lord, leaving Voldemort terrified as My Lord moved through it.

• The Elder Wand flew from Harry’s grip to My Lord, and Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald recognized him as their Lord.
• My Lord fused the Elder Wand with his finger and turned everyone else’s wands, including Voldemort’s Yew Wand, into ash-gray powder.
• My Lord dismissed Voldemort as a lower-ranked being and entered the depths of his soul by probing his spiritual awareness.
• Voldemort revealed that he had built a Soul Maze based on Wizet’s to protect himself and eventually attack Wizet.
• My Lord dissolved the Soul Maze’s walls simply by touching them, and Voldemort’s confidence gave way to fear.

Voldemort found that “My Lord” could easily breach his Soul Maze and could not be reached through the Squib Army. “My Lord” left after sensing a power that could harm him, and Selina Pendragon arrived at Hogwarts and called him Grindelwald.

• “My Lord” identified the Soul Maze’s connection to the Squib Army and explained that its magic was based on his own work.
• Voldemort tried to summon the Squib Army’s power but discovered he could not contact them.
• “My Lord” sensed a power capable of harming him and vanished from the Soul Maze, leaving Voldemort behind.
• Selina Pendragon and her companions arrived at Hogwarts and asked Grindelwald what was happening.
• Barty Crouch Sr. reached for a wand he no longer had, while Mrs. Weasley stopped Fred and George from approaching Grindelwald.

After the wizards’ spells failed against “My Lord,” Selina Pendragon reported that Herpo had summoned him and been killed without resisting. Dumbledore and Grindelwald feared “My Lord” could erase every wand, and the chapter left them confronting a moon that had grown to twice its size as Dumbledore questioned how Herpo died.

• Gellert Grindelwald urged the wizards to focus on defeating “My Lord” instead of debating whether they could harm him by talking about him.
• Selina Pendragon cast the Killing Curse at “My Lord,” but it vanished harmlessly, and the others’ spells failed as well.
• Dumbledore explained that “My Lord” had destroyed their wands, so he told everyone to find replacements among the defeated Dark wizards.
• Selina Pendragon said Herpo had sacrificed his followers to summon “My Lord,” who then killed Herpo while he remained fanatical and apparently unaware.
• Gellert Grindelwald and Dumbledore warned that “My Lord” might erase wands everywhere, while Dumbledore noted his influence was still affecting the frozen wizards.
• Harry pointed out that the moon had grown to twice its size, and Dumbledore asked Selina Pendragon how Herpo had died.

Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald concluded that the moon might be “My Lord’s” true body and that Herpo had been devoured as a temporary vessel. They sought ways to stop “My Lord” from reaching the moon, but conventional magic failed, leaving them to consider unfamiliar magic and war magic.

• Selina Pendragon recalled that “My Lord” had devoured Herpo, prompting Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald to suspect that the moon was his true body.
• Ominis Gaunt and Gellert Grindelwald explained the moon’s immense magical power, while Dumbledore theorized that it had been exiled to separate it from “My Lord’s” soul.
• Gellert Grindelwald used a puddle of Selina Pendragon’s mead to look at the moon, but the attempt made his eyes bleed before a Phoenix’s tear eased his pain.
• Dumbledore tried a spell against “My Lord,” saw it vanish, and concluded that conventional magic was unlikely to work.
• Selina Pendragon offered to take control of Voldemort’s Squib Army and use it for war magic, while Gellert Grindelwald proposed finding a kind of magic “My Lord” did not know.