Recaps

Will pursued research into magic, souls, and Scrimgeour’s curse while preparing to leave Hogwarts after Christmas. As Dumbledore’s forces trapped Death Eaters and Voldemort tasked Will with transporting students, Will recognized Knockturn Alley’s growing power and set out toward several unfinished plans.

• Will established a Tower Library and Fund, then showed Draco a memory and gave him a Core Medal with an allowance.
• Scrimgeour sought help for his cursed hand as Will consulted Grindelwald about magic’s response and experimented with the curse’s effects on souls and flesh.
• Will reassured Harry after Sophie Roberts ended their relationship, then began exploring whether grafting and magical reconstruction could help Scrimgeour.
• Will discussed the Horcrux hunt with Dumbledore, attended Slughorn’s Yule Ball with Sylvia, and privately promised Draco he would be cleared before graduation.
• Dumbledore’s forces ambushed the Death Eaters at the Appleby family’s decoy hideout, captured the survivors, and learned from Dolohov that Ministry contacts Aldrich and Atwood had helped arrange the mission.
• Will agreed to attend Rodney Sinclair’s Louisiana gathering, visited Hobart, and met Voldemort, who tasked him with using a silver-snake Portkey to transport Hogwarts students.
• Will told Lucius he understood his attempt to protect Draco and would keep quiet, then surveyed Knockturn Alley and entered a darker passage to find Dark Wizards.

Will advanced the Magical University project, strengthened his influence over the Wizard God’s followers, and prepared a hidden laboratory to study Voldemort’s curse. Meanwhile, Dumbledore told Harry he was an accidental Horcrux, and Harry’s confrontation with Snape ended with Will stopping him.

• Will captured Scourers in Louisiana and sent Samuel G. Cohog evidence of their activities while helping the Wizard God’s congregation feel healed and blessed.
• Will’s Charisma abilities reached their limit and upgraded his Magic-Blessed Body, after which he stabilized his influence and studied Voldemort’s Soul Studies research.
• Will told Dumbledore and Snape that Voldemort had made six Horcruxes and that the ring he wore held the remaining one, while Dumbledore arranged for Frank Longbottom to impersonate him.
• Will mastered Apparition in his first lesson, then objected when Dumbledore asked him to help Harry face death and made Neville the Secret Keeper of a hidden refuge beneath the High Tower.
• Dumbledore revealed to Harry that Voldemort’s soul fragment had attached itself to him, and Harry accepted that he might have to die before leaving determined to confront Voldemort.
• Will and Dumbledore visited Grindelwald to discuss soul studies and possible changes to the Infinite Cage, while Scrimgeour assigned Ludo Bagman and Cedric Diggory roles in overseeing the Magical University project in Austria.
• Will built and fortified the Underground High Tower, experimented on cursed Dark Wizards, and concluded that Voldemort’s curse eroded the soul through the body and magical structure.
• After Slughorn invited Will to dinner and Will helped Sylvia in Potions, Harry charged Snape after Snape insulted James, and Will immobilized Harry before he lost consciousness.