Chapter Summaries

Harry woke anxiously on the morning of his Ministry of Magic hearing, but Dumbledore unexpectedly sent word that he could not attend and left Kyle to defend him. Kyle arranged for Snape to take his place and hinted that they planned to cause trouble at the Ministry.

• Harry woke early and worried about his hearing, while Arthur explained that it would be held in Amelia Bones's office.
• Tonks complained that Akatsuki's requirements were too demanding after Kyle made her pass an extensive course and exam before joining.
• Kreacher delivered Dumbledore's letter saying he could not attend Harry's hearing and was entrusting the defense to Kyle.
• Kyle asked Snape to defend Harry, then secretly told him they were planning to cause trouble at the Ministry of Magic.
• Snape agreed to take the case with a cold smile.

Kyle and the Four Troublemakers infiltrated the Ministry of Magic by disguising themselves as employees and forcing their way through the Floo Network. After Kyle’s cover nearly slipped, he brought a balding wizard into a restroom and emerged with the man wearing an Akatsuki ring.

• Harry learned Snape would defend him and kept his objections to himself.
• Kyle and the Four Troublemakers used Trace Reveal and Human Transfiguration to disguise themselves as Ministry employees.
• Kyle located the Ministry headquarters through its Floo Network and dragged the group into a fireplace passage.
• The group arrived in the Ministry’s grand hall, where a balding wizard mistook Kyle for someone else.
• Kyle took the balding wizard into a restroom, and the wizard emerged wearing an Akatsuki ring marked with the Chinese character for Zero.

Kyle and the Four Troublemakers infiltrated the Ministry of Magic to target Fudge’s supporters, while Kyle disguised himself as Arios Butch to reach Amelia Bones. He incapacitated Bones, took her place, and hid her in an enchanted filing cabinet as the operation continued.

• Kyle used Tonks’s employee list to plan an attack on Fudge’s supporters, sparing Percy because he was still family.
• The Four Troublemakers split up across the Ministry to plant Fred’s Blasting Clay at the targets’ workstations.
• Kyle went to the Magical Law Enforcement Department and entered Amelia Bones’s office while disguised as Arios Butch.
• Kyle incapacitated Amelia Bones, transformed himself to look like her, and hid her in an expanded filing cabinet.
• Kyle sealed the cabinet, expecting Amelia to take hours to escape and the group to finish its work before then.

Kyle, disguised as Amelia Bones, defied Fudge’s attempt to move Harry Potter’s trial to Courtroom Ten and held it in the Director’s Office instead. He began questioning Harry about his alleged underage magic, then unexpectedly asked what made Dumbledore like him so much.

• Percy told Kyle that Fudge had moved Harry’s trial to eight o’clock in Courtroom Ten, but Kyle ordered that it remain in Amelia Bones’s office.
• Kyle sent an employee to bring Harry and his defender to the office, while Harry arrived at the Ministry with Snape and learned that the trial time and location had changed.
• A Magical Law Enforcement employee told Harry and Snape that Amelia Bones was holding the trial in her office, so Snape took Harry there instead of to Courtroom Ten.
• Kyle began Harry’s trial, cited the prior warning for illegal magic and the lack of evidence of a battle at Privet Drive, and noted that a teacher had opposed expelling him.
• Kyle asked Harry what had made Albus Dumbledore like him so much, leaving Harry and Snape bewildered.

Kyle, disguised as Amelia Bones, tried to sentence Harry to death for casting a Blasting Curse, while Snape challenged the verdict. Fudge arrived and ordered Harry and Snape to attend a proper Wizengamot trial, making Kyle’s rulings invalid.

• Amelia Bones questioned Harry about Dumbledore’s favor, and Kyle accused him of deliberately casting a modified Blasting Curse to take revenge on the Vernon family.
• Kyle threatened to use Veritaserum, then declared Harry guilty and sentenced him to death, ordering the interrogators to carry it out immediately.
• The interrogators pointed out that the Ministry had abolished the death penalty, and Kyle ordered them to use a Dementor’s Kiss instead.
• Snape shielded Harry and argued that the likely penalties were having his wand snapped and being expelled from Hogwarts.
• Fudge entered with the female toad and Percy, then told Harry and Snape that only a Wizengamot trial could issue a legally valid judgment and ordered them to Courtroom Ten.

Snape defended Harry at the Wizengamot by arguing that he had used the Blasting Curse under duress, then embarrassed him by reading his love letter and exposing intimate items from his room. Witness testimony about the attack secured Harry’s acquittal, but Kyle’s disguised presence left Fudge in danger as the hearing ended.

• Fudge opened the hearing and tried to convict Harry, while Snape presented a defense prepared by Dumbledore.
• Snape read Harry’s love letter to Ginny aloud, and Kyle magically restrained Harry when he tried to stop him.
• Snape displayed intimate evidence from Harry’s room, arguing that Harry had not been planning to threaten his relatives.
• Two Shadow Division wizards testified that an attack had taken place on Privet Drive, and the Wizengamot declared Harry innocent.
• Snape hurried Harry out of the courtroom while Kyle, disguised as Amelia Bones, fixed his gaze on Fudge.

Kyle disguised himself as Amelia Bones, killed Fudge with two Killing Curses, and escaped the Ministry under the guise of Voldemort. Back at Black Old House, the group learned that Fudge had been assassinated, and McGonagall said they needed to inform Dumbledore.

• Kyle struck Fudge with two Killing Curses, then used Fiendfyre to protect himself from the Aurors.
• Kyle revealed his disguise as Amelia Bones, transformed into Voldemort, burned Fudge's body, and escaped the Ministry as black smoke.
• Snape brought Harry back to Black Old House, where Harry sat crying while Snape appeared pleased with the trial's outcome.
• Mr. Weasley arrived and told the Order that Fudge had been killed by two Killing Curses and that Voldemort was believed to be the assassin.
• McGonagall said they needed to write to Dumbledore.

The Order of the Phoenix discussed the Ministry of Magic’s future after Fudge’s assassination and chose to support Barty Crouch for Minister, while Dumbledore decided to establish the Konohagakure Daily. After the meeting, Dumbledore gave Kyle his Gryffindor prefect badge and questioned him about Hannah Abbott, prompting Kyle to flee.

• The Order of the Phoenix members concluded that the suspicious methods used in Fudge’s assassination did not resemble Voldemort’s, and several silently suspected Kyle.
• Mr. Weasley explained that Rufus Scrimgeour and Barty Crouch were the leading candidates for Minister, and the Order decided to support Barty.
• Dumbledore chose to establish the Konohagakure Daily because the Order lacked an effective publicity channel.
• Dumbledore gave Kyle his prefect badge and confirmed that Hermione was Gryffindor’s female prefect and Hannah Abbott was Hufflepuff’s.
• Dumbledore asked Kyle what was going on between him and Hannah, and Kyle denied any romance before vanishing from the room.

Penelope received her admission letter to Nurmengard’s inaugural advanced wizarding program, along with textbooks and a Little Demon King Learning Machine. The recommended reading list of more than two hundred books, which could appear in monthly exams, abruptly dampened her excitement about university.

• Penelope shared breakfast with her parents, who had settled in Konoha Village and opened the protected Ichiraku Restaurant.
• A flock of owls delivered Penelope’s Nurmengard admission letter and a large package to the Kriwatt residence.
• Penelope read that Gellert Grindelwald had admitted her to the inaugural advanced wizarding program, starting September 1.
• Penelope unpacked the learning machine and textbooks, finding works authored by Gellert Grindelwald, Albus Dumbledore, and Kyle Grindelwald.
• Penelope discovered that more than two hundred recommended books had been loaded onto the learning machine and could supply bonus questions for monthly exams.
• More than four hundred other prospective Nurmengard students received the same materials and felt their excitement collapse.

Penelope arrived at Nurmengard and discovered that new students had to take entrance exams to determine their ranks rather than join Hogwarts-style houses. The chapter ended as the two-hour written examination began, with students facing ranks that controlled their allowances and access to school resources.

• Penelope received a Deathly Hallows badge that transformed into a Portkey and transported her from Konoha Village to Nurmengard.
• Konan led Penelope and the other first-years into Nurmengard's lavish Great Hall, which reminded Hogwarts graduates of Hogwarts.
• Colin Farrell explained that Nurmengard sorted students into five ranks based on their abilities and entrance examination scores.
• Colin revealed that students' ranks determined their allowances and access to books and materials, and announced written and practical exams.
• Colin started the two-hour written examination by replacing the students' tableware with question papers.

Nurmengard’s new students completed written and practical entrance examinations before learning their results and tier assignments. Penelope placed first, Fleur Delacour came second ahead of Charlie Weasley, and the students followed the Saints to dormitories arranged by year and college rather than tier.

• Kyle’s shuffled written exam papers and hidden surveillance cameras caught students who tried to cheat, while the written examination lasted two hours.
• The freshmen completed practical examinations in Charms, Transfiguration, and Potions, which ran from one until six in the evening.
• Grindelwald opened the dinner banquet briefly, and Colin Farrell announced that results and tier assignments were posted outside the Great Hall.
• The students checked the notice board and learned that Penelope placed first and Fleur Delacour placed second, ahead of Charlie Weasley.
• The Saints led the students to dormitories grouped by year and college, since Nurmengard’s tiers could change after monthly examinations.

Kyle arrived at Hogwarts on the modified Thunderbird Lan after attending Nurmengard’s feast, then reunited with Hermione and entered the Great Hall. There, he revealed that he had killed Fudge, leaving Hermione to realize the public story about the former Minister might be false.

• Kyle rode Lan from Nurmengard to Hogwarts and landed beside the castle entrance in front of the arriving students.
• Kyle sent Lan back into the sky, then repaired the scorched lawn with magic.
• Kyle met Hermione at the entrance, and they joined the students heading into the Great Hall.
• Kyle noticed Umbridge among the staff and said he would have killed her if he had known she was Hogwarts’ new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Hermione cast a soundproof barrier and asked whether Kyle had killed Fudge, then recalled the Grindelwald family’s skill at impersonation.

At Hogwarts’s opening feast, Dumbledore introduced Umbridge as the new Dark Arts Defence professor, Slughorn as the Potions professor, and Snape as the professor of a new Magical Offence and Defence course. Umbridge realized that Snape’s course covered the very material she was meant to teach, leaving her wondering what purpose she served.

• After Fudge’s death, Umbridge arrived at Hogwarts without new Ministry instructions and sat disheartened at the staff table.
• The Sorting Hat sang a lengthy song, and the first-years endured it before the Sorting Ceremony began.
• Dumbledore announced that Slughorn would resume teaching Potions and Snape would teach Magical Offence and Defence.
• Dumbledore explained that Snape’s new course would cover attacking opponents with spells and defending against their attacks.
• Umbridge realized that the new course covered Dark Arts Defence and wondered whether she had been appointed merely as a disposable figure.

Dumbledore announced Hogwarts’s new learning machines, practice room, duel arena, and participation grading system. After he delayed curfew, excited students headed to try the new facilities beside the Hospital Wing.

• Dumbledore distributed Little Tyrant Learning Machines and explained that Hogwarts students could use them while enrolled but would have to return them after graduation.
• Dumbledore announced the Magic Practice Room for all students and the Wizard Duel Arena for third-years and above, with House Points awarded for high rankings.
• Dumbledore explained that the Magic Question Bank on the learning machines would also rank students and award House Points for strong academic performance.
• Dumbledore announced participation grades based on assignments and classroom performance, leaving Harry and other Gryffindors worried about their grades.
• Dumbledore delayed curfew by an hour, and students left the Great Hall to visit the practice room and duel arena beside the Hospital Wing.

Students gathered in Hogwarts’ new Wizard Duel Arena, where Kyle prompted George and Fred Weasley to demonstrate a duel. After showing how their intense fight and the arena’s training facilities worked, Kyle encouraged students to practice, and Neville Longbottom quietly resolved to improve.

• A Shadow Division wizard explained how students could reserve duels, but no one volunteered until Kyle pushed George and Fred Weasley to demonstrate.
• George and Fred were assigned to Platform One, and the arena’s other platforms sank away so the expanded stands could hold the gathered students.
• George and Fred exchanged powerful nonverbal spells, turning flames into a fire dragon and tornado before Kyle stopped the evenly matched duel.
• Kyle told the students that magical progress depended on theoretical study and practical training, and pointed them toward the learning machines and practice rooms.
• Neville Longbottom clenched his fists and shifted from confusion to determination as Kyle left.

Neville asked Kyle to help him become a Jinchuriki so he could avenge his parents by killing Bellatrix Lestrange, Rodolphus, and Rabastan. Hermione suggested that Neville could use a magical creature that obeyed him, and Kyle seized Leifu as a possible candidate.

• Neville told Kyle he wanted to become a Jinchuriki and kill the three Death Eaters who had tortured his parents.
• Kyle agreed to help Neville gain the strength to kill his enemies, without promising to give him a Tailed Beast.
• Kyle told Hermione about Neville's request while thinking over how to help him.
• Hermione reminded Kyle that Cedric became a Jinchuriki despite fusing with the Hydra's bloodline because Xin Ya obeyed his Parseltongue commands.
• Kyle realized Neville might become a Jinchuriki if a magical creature obeyed him, then used Accio to pull Leifu toward him.

Kyle arranged to modify Neville’s toad Leifu and planned to collect him that afternoon. Meanwhile, Snape began teaching Magical Offense and Defense by dismissing the students’ defensive magic textbook and announcing that the course would focus on fighting with magic.

• Kyle caught Leifu with magic, told Neville he would modify the toad, and arranged to meet him that afternoon.
• Fifth-year Hufflepuff and Gryffindor students gathered in Snape’s dark, unsettling Magical Offense and Defense classroom.
• Snape ordered the students to put away their copies of Wilbert Slinkhard’s defensive magic textbook.
• Snape dismissed their previous studies and declared that they would learn how to fight using magic.
• Snape returned to the front of the classroom and told the students to take out their wands.

Snape taught the students nonverbal defensive magic after finding that most already knew Protego. Kyle transformed Leifu into a giant toad and gave Neville a toad clan Summoning Scroll, leaving Neville about to sign it in blood.

• Snape assessed the students, then taught them nonverbal Protego practice in attacking and defending pairs.
• Kyle skipped Slughorn's Potions lesson and used Dark Arts modifications to enlarge Leifu and transform other creatures in his suitcase.
• Kyle showed Neville the enormous Leifu, and Neville overcame his fear enough to call out to his frog master.
• Kyle sealed Leifu into Neville and summoned Gama Hiro and Gama Ken to demonstrate the toad clan's Summoning Scroll.
• Neville offered Kyle gold for the scroll, but Kyle took only two Galleons and told Neville to sign his name in blood.

Kyle planned to turn the Ryūchi Cave Summoning Scroll into a Portkey and give it to Harry as a Christmas gift, while Hogwarts students faced heavier workloads and new monthly exams. The chapter ended with the library packed as students struggled to keep up with their assignments.

• Kyle planned to build a fake Ryūchi Cave in the Alps, set the scroll's destination there, and create challenges for Harry.
• Kyle reflected that Ron's affinity for slugs might have made him suited to the Shikkotsu Forest scroll, but Ron had already become the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Hogwarts fifth-years endured a full schedule of classes, and Professor Flitwick assigned them a test with over a hundred questions through the Little Tyrant Learning Machine.
• Professor McGonagall announced that students in fifth year and above would take monthly exams, with report cards mailed home.
• By the second night of term, students had filled every seat in the library as professors assigned heavier workloads.

Hogwarts students struggled with overwhelming online and essay homework, forcing Gryffindor and Hufflepuff to cancel their Quidditch tryouts. After the Weasley Twins and other students begged him, Kyle agreed to speak with the professors about reducing the workload.

• The students spent their first weekend buried in assignments from the Little Tyrant Learning Machine and traditional essays, leaving no time for Quidditch tryouts.
• The Weasley Twins confronted Kyle in the Great Hall and begged him to take back the learning machine, but his ghostly blue flame repelled them.
• Kyle told the twins they could simply skip their homework and blamed Professor McGonagall for the continuous assessment system.
• The Weasley Twins explained that skipping homework would lower their marks and bring trouble from their mother.
• Kyle saw that students including Hermione wanted the workload reduced, so he agreed to talk to the professors.