Recaps

Vaughn and Dumbledore’s plan to draw Quirrell into the trials ended with Harry confronting Voldemort in the World Within the Painting and Vaughn defeating Quirrell’s body. Afterward, Vaughn moved to expand the Werewolf Affairs Committee and build work for werewolves, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione began preparing for their exams.

• Vaughn taught Fred and George to improve their electrical equipment, then helped Slytherin defeat Gryffindor in the Quidditch final as Harry, Ron, and Hermione investigated Quirrell.
• Dumbledore and Vaughn left Hogwarts to lure Quirrell toward the Philosopher’s Stone, but Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed Quirrell into the trials and entered the World Within the Painting.
• Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Quirrell faced the painted world’s Fairy Tale Town and chess trials, where Ron sacrificed himself to give Harry a chance to win.
• Harry and Hermione pursued Quirrell through the painted world, where Voldemort emerged from him and the dragon’s pendant reversed time before Vaughn confronted Voldemort.
• Vaughn defeated Quirrell’s body and drove Voldemort’s soul fragment away, while Harry, Hermione, and Ron recovered in the hospital wing.
• Vaughn explained Voldemort’s return to Harry, healed his wounds with Snape’s help, and recruited Hermione to work for the Werewolf Affairs Committee over the summer.
• Vaughn brought Lupin to meet Muggle precious-metals experts, arranged for Lupin to lead their trading work, and announced he would run for WAC president.
• Harry and Ron studied late with Hermione’s help as Dumbledore watched them before Fruit Tea sent him away.

Vaughn expanded WAC’s influence while uncovering Voldemort’s Horcruxes and confronting threats in Azkaban and among Greyback’s followers. As the WAC conference approached, he captured werewolves but Greyback escaped, while Fudge’s maneuvering set the stage for a dangerous notebook to reach Harry.

• Vaughn helped stage the Hogwarts films, passed his exams at the top of his class, and visited the crooked tower near Ottery St Catchpole.
• Vaughn brought Hermione and the Grangers to The Burrow, then exposed Gilderoy Lockhart’s thefts and memory tampering before the Wizengamot and secured Lockhart’s detention in Azkaban.
• Vaughn joined WAC’s preparations, investigated Horcrux clues with Dumbledore, revealed the Ravenclaw Diadem’s location, and helped recover the truth about Tom Riddle’s murder of the Riddle family and theft of the Gaunt Ring.
• Vaughn inspected Azkaban, showed Sirius that Peter Pettigrew was alive, and strengthened Sirius’s defenses against Dementors.
• Vaughn killed the six Dark wizards who had attacked William and James, then investigated possible Dark Magic contamination in his memories with Hermione.
• As the WAC conference neared, Vaughn ordered John Baird to monitor Greyback, while Lupin, Mundungus, and Phil Travers captured several of Greyback’s followers but failed to find Greyback.
• Fudge sought Lucius Malfoy’s support against Vaughn, and Draco overheard his parents decide to send a notebook to Harry as Dobby saw dark mist and a shadow rise from it.
• Vaughn ordered WAC to interrogate its captured werewolves without killing them, while Dumbledore warned him to be cautious around delegation leader Babajide Akingbade.

Vaughan founded WAC and traveled to North America to study werewolves and build alliances, where he uncovered the Scourers’ connection to artificial magic and the region’s political conflict. The arc left Isabella captured and under rescue, Vaughan’s allies converging on Boston, and the Dreamcatcher spreading across the city.

• Vaughan won unanimous support to become WAC president after presenting his plans for werewolf aid and international cooperation.
• Vaughan sailed for America with the delegation, transformed Umbridge into a toad, and began researching captive werewolves aboard the Queen Mary.
• Vaughan recruited Matthew into WAC and investigated the Scourers, sharing evidence of their attack on Isabella’s safe house with Akinbade.
• Vaughan captured Bruce Essex and entered his memories, learning about the Secret Brotherhood and the persecution that fueled its hatred of pure-bloods.
• Vaughan discovered that DeSantis had approached Essex about seizing him and his werewolves, while Dumbledore sought Grindelwald’s advice about DeSantis and the amber light marking his approach to death.
• Vaughan rejected the Magical Congress’s demand for control of WAC North America and allied with Akinbade to investigate whether the Scourers were products of magical research.
• Kingsley pledged support to Vaughan, while Nymphadora and Lupin went undercover at a Boston protest as Vaughan sensed someone watching the city.
• Georgi captured Isabella, but werewolf wizards attacked the base and took prisoners as Vaughan learned his allies were heading to Boston and the Dreamcatcher spread over the city.

Vaughan’s investigation of the Boston conflict exposed a conspiracy involving the Graves family, the Scourers, and a secret artificial-wizard project, while Grindelwald’s connection to DeSantis emerged. As factions maneuvered over the missing Congress members and WAC, Vaughan sent Kingsley and Umbridge on a new mission and Congress descended into renewed infighting.

• Michael Graves and Josiah Parker weighed a plan to use Third Salem as bait while Lupin and Kingsley investigated the group, and Akinbade told Vaughan about the Wilkinson Prophecy.
• Oliver Greenwell delivered five dragons to Vaughan, who developed Dimensional Gate and continued his experiments on dragon magic.
• Lupin, Kingsley, and Tonks traced a planned handoff of Scourers documents to William Clinton, but an explosion devastated the Auror operation and the three recognized an attempt to provoke war.
• Donald and Jacob Graves fought Jack Graves and the family traitors as Jack’s nuclear bomb threatened the Dreamcatcher, until Vaughan arrived and entered Jack’s mind.
• Vaughan uncovered the secret No-Maj laboratory and its failed artificial-wizard experiments, then confronted Grindelwald, who appeared as DeSantis in Jack’s mindscape.
• Vaughan contained the lifeform controlling Jack and left Donald to report the battle, while Dumbledore and Snape considered Grindelwald’s declining power and the possibility that DeSantis was connected to him.
• Vaughan refused a commission from the minor families, while Donald warned him about suspected memory magic and Vaughan urged Donald to consider a new path for himself and the Graves family.
• Vaughan questioned Essex about DeSantis as Kingsley and Umbridge set out with Williamson and Dawlish, while Congress’s private meeting over WAC and its missing members broke into renewed argument.