Recaps

Vaughn used the Azkaban inspection and Sirius’s escape to expose Fudge’s failures and advance Amelia’s position, while he pursued international magical reforms and experiments. Fudge was suspended and signed Vaughn’s permit, as Matthew prepared to lure Greyback’s werewolves in Ireland.

• Vaughn secured Dumbledore’s agreement to release Peter Pettigrew and learned that Pheobe had brought him The Book of Abraham the Jew.
• Vaughn maneuvered Scrimgeour into reopening the Werewolf March Case and used the Ministry’s Azkaban inspection to expose its failures.
• Vaughn accused Azkaban’s management before the Wizengamot, while Sirius escaped using Fudge’s wand and declared that Peter’s time was up.
• Vaughn helped Amelia disprove Scrimgeour’s accusation that she aided Sirius, then revealed to Dumbledore that he had used a Personality Armament to guide Sirius.
• Vaughn pursued the Eight-Champion Tournament and demonstrated the Thousand Illusions Charm, explaining that he wanted contractual magic to impose restraints and eventually lift the Statute of Secrecy.
• Vaughn planned to obtain Ministry approval for experiments involving werewolves, Dark wizards, and Muggles, with the Muggle volunteers receiving shelter and food.
• Vaughn prosecuted Fudge before Amelia, secured his suspension, and obtained a backdated permit after promising to support one of Fudge’s allies as acting minister.
• Matthew told François that C had secured Ministry permission, and the two prepared to proceed with their plan to draw Greyback’s werewolves together.

Vaughn dismantled Greyback’s werewolf force while advancing his plans for the Trial Space and the fight against Voldemort. Harry learned that Sirius was innocent and his godfather, then accepted Sirius as his legal guardian.

• Vaughn brought Greyback’s Army and the Irish Muggles to the Trial Space, where C’s werewolf wizards tortured Greyback, while news of Wolfsbane Potion 2.1 spread.
• Vaughn showed Lupin that Peter Pettigrew was hiding as Scabbers and revealed that he had arranged Sirius’s escape, then met Sirius and explained that Peter had to remain alive as bait for Voldemort.
• Vaughn and Dumbledore prepared the Trial Space as a battlefield for nine school teams, while Harry and Draco learned that the Death Eaters were searching for the Diary to resurrect Voldemort.
• Jacob and the pure-blood families sacrificed twenty-seven relatives in a ritual to create ghosts that could search for Voldemort, while Vaughn and Lupin staged a fight to pressure the Death Eaters.
• Vaughn told Aberforth that Voldemort had made the Resurrection Stone a Horcrux, and Aberforth confronted Dumbledore about using it to reach Ariana.
• Rita Skeeter’s article reported Sirius’s duel and Peter’s betrayal, and Hagrid brought Harry, Ron, and Hermione to C’s office to meet Lupin and Sirius.
• Lupin and Sirius told Harry the truth about his parents’ betrayal, and Sirius revealed that he was Harry’s godfather and legal guardian, which Harry gladly accepted.
• The Central Qi Training Academy won the first Potions Exchange faction clash as Harry, Ron, and Hermione returned from meeting Sirius.

Vaughn advanced his alchemy studies and political plans while investigating the attack on Isabella and drawing Voldemort’s attention. The Wizengamot granted C autonomy, Harry found Peter through his link to Voldemort, and Hermione left the Laboratory after Vaughn rejected her kiss.

• Vaughn met Nicolas Flamel, who agreed to teach him alchemy and warned him not to roam the aether before becoming a Legendary Wizard.
• Harry learned from Dumbledore’s memory that he was a Horcrux, then used his connection to Voldemort to see Peter alive and learn that Voldemort was watching Vaughn and DeSantis.
• Vaughn built support for the International Werewolf Association, recruited Pandora to take over the Defence Against the Dark Arts post, and asked Dumbledore to reconsider his plan to die after Harry mastered the Elder Wand.
• Li Nanyu showed Vaughn a reconstruction identifying the attacker as someone resembling Igor Karkaroff, and Vaughn concluded that the man had likely been impersonated.
• Vaughn staged public opposition to himself at C’s Second General Assembly, and the Wizengamot approved C’s autonomy and created a Department of Werewolf Affairs Exchange and Cooperation.
• Vaughn told Amelia and Dumbledore that he had drawn attention to himself to lure Voldemort out and obtain the Diary while testing whether notoriety increased his system gains.
• Hermione visited Vaughn in the Laboratory, but he turned away when she tried to kiss him, and she left feeling rejected.
• Vaughn held a closed C assembly to add five non-werewolf committee members, while Hermione researched asphodel and wormwood and connected Snape’s question to regret and sorrow.

Vaughn and the Hogwarts students tried to stop Voldemort’s return, but Voldemort regained his body and escaped after battling Vaughn in the Chamber of Secrets. Vaughn then pursued knowledge of legendary magic and prepared for the next stage, while Voldemort planned to leave England and seek allies.

• Vaughn arranged to spread a fabricated prophecy among Muggles as Voldemort prepared to recover the Diary, and Harry learned through his connection to Voldemort that the Death Eaters were mobilizing.
• Harry and Ron enlisted Hermione, Fruit Tea, Fred, and George to find Colin Creevey and Peeves before Snape could reach the Diary, while Vaughn positioned allies and anticipated attacks on Azkaban and C.
• Vaughn rescued Newt and Tina from North American attackers, and Dumbledore left to help contain the Azkaban riot as Jacob Rosier’s breakout failed.
• Harry and his friends discovered the basilisk’s route through the pipes and opened the Chamber of Secrets, where they found Colin and faced Voldemort, Snape, and the Death Eaters.
• Peter used Harry’s blood to restore Voldemort, but Vaughn entered the Chamber, rescued Harry and the others, and fought Voldemort until he escaped as black mist.
• Vaughn recovered in the hospital wing, then discussed legendary magic with Dumbledore and revealed that he had the locket while Hufflepuff’s Cup was in Bellatrix Lestrange’s vault at Gringotts.
• Vaughn ended the house-elves’ strike and returned to his Laboratory, while Voldemort told Lucius, Corban, Jacob, and Snape that he would leave England and seek allies among the Yankees.