Chapter Summaries

Luna showed Hermione a report confirming that her parents, Xenophilius and Pandora Lovegood, had discovered and researched the Crumple-Horned Snorkack, prompting Ravenclaw students to launch odd experiments. Hermione conceded Luna had been right about the discovery but still doubted Nargles and Joy Bugs, and the chapter ended with her suspecting Ryan had hidden himself to leave her comforting Luna.

• Ryan observed Dumbledore and Riddle misinterpreting Harry’s transformation as a normal change caused by puberty.
• Luna handed Wayne a newspaper report describing the discovery of the Crumple-Horned Snorkack and the reserve named after Xenophilius and Pandora Lovegood.
• Ravenclaw students reacted indignantly to the report and began conducting unusual magical experiments.
• Hermione conceded that Luna had been right about her parents’ discovery but said she still did not believe in Nargles or Joy Bugs.
• Luna embraced Hermione, and Ryan revealed himself after deliberately hiding so the two girls would forget he was there.
• Hermione accused Ryan of using his concealment trick again, but she found she could not bring herself to be angry with him.

Voldemort arrived at the island fortress in Antonin Dolohov’s body and found that his followers had killed the prisoners he hoped to recruit. He ordered them to fortify the island and buy him a year to complete his resurrection.

• Voldemort discovered that Mulciber and Son, Little Crouch, Bellatrix, Travers, and the Lestranges had killed the other prisoners.
• Voldemort explained that Arthur Weasley had become Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and that the dead prisoners had been potential allies.
• Voldemort told his followers to activate the fortress’s magic and combine it with the Dementors to create an impregnable base.
• Voldemort revealed that Dumbledore had created a younger version of him, brought Grindelwald out of Nurmengard, and gathered allies at Hogwarts and Durmstrang.
• Voldemort said Azkaban, the corpses, and the Dementors would aid his resurrection, which he expected to complete in one year.

Ryan explained why Voldemort had chosen Azkaban as the base for a year-long resurrection ritual, despite the risks of being trapped there. Voldemort began chanting the lengthy incantation as his subordinates modified the prison.

• Ryan explained that Azkaban’s concealment spells, buried wizard remains, ancient Dementors, and accumulated negative emotions fulfilled Voldemort’s resurrection requirements.
• Ryan recounted how Voldemort’s failed plans and losses forced him to rely on Quirrell, Peter Pettigrew, Barty Crouch, and Walton Macnair before choosing Azkaban.
• Voldemort judged that the prison could help him resurrect more powerfully, but recognized that the year-long ritual would leave him vulnerable to Dumbledore and the others.
• Voldemort solemnly began chanting the lengthy incantation before the subordinates he had taught to alter Azkaban.

Ryan watched Voldemort begin a resurrection ritual as Azkaban vanished beneath the North Sea, while news of the island’s disappearance reached Hogwarts. Neville learned the news was true and became visibly upset in Charms class.

• Ryan saw Antonin Dolohov's version of Voldemort reduced to ashes, then watched Voldemort's resurrection ritual begin as Azkaban sank beneath the waves.
• Dumbledore sensed that Azkaban had vanished, and students at Hogwarts discussed the missing island.
• Harry suspected Voldemort was involved and decided to ask Hagrid about it after class.
• Professor Flitwick confirmed to Neville that Azkaban had disappeared, though the Ministry had not announced it.
• Neville spent the rest of Charms class distracted and red-eyed, worrying Harry and Ron.

After Neville fled class, Harry and the others asked Ryan why Neville was acting strangely, and Ryan explained that Neville’s parents had been driven mad and their attackers were imprisoned in Azkaban. Ryan showed them a photograph of the original Order of the Phoenix and recounted the deaths and disappearances of its members.

• Harry asked Hermione to bring Ryan to him, and Ryan appeared after Hermione called him over.
• Ryan explained that Neville’s Auror parents had been driven mad, their achievements and compensation had been buried, and the culprits were imprisoned in Azkaban.
• Ron suggested the Ministry might have let Azkaban be destroyed to avoid expenses, while Harry argued Neville might want revenge and Hermione insisted the law should decide punishment.
• Ryan told Hermione that Neville should decide how to handle his parents’ suffering, then showed the group a photograph of the original Order of the Phoenix.
• Ryan identified Marlene McKinnon, Benjy Fenwick, Edgar Bones, Caradoc Dearborn, Gideon Prewett, Fabian Prewett, and Dorcas Meadowes, describing how they died or disappeared.

After seeing photographs of Neville's family, Harry and Ron criticized the Ministry's treatment of Death Eaters and decided to ask Hagrid about Azkaban. Draco explained how pure-blood connections affected justice and revealed that the Azkaban crisis had kept Flint from targeting Ravenclaw's new Keeper, leaving the match free of his interference.

• Ryan told Ron that Ron's mother had kept quiet about her brothers because losing her family had hurt too much, and Hermione recognized Neville's mother in the photograph.
• Harry said he wanted to kill his enemies himself, while Ron urged him not to risk confronting Voldemort and Harry insisted he would be ready after taking the potion.
• Ryan and Hermione vanished, and Harry pulled Ron toward Hagrid's hut to ask about Azkaban as Ron planned to write to his father about the Death Eaters.
• Draco joined them and argued that pure-blood families used their influence to escape punishment for Unforgivable Curses.
• Draco revealed that the Flint family had been distracted by a relative in Azkaban and could no longer interfere with Richard House's father's work, so Flint would not threaten Ravenclaw before the match.

Harry visited Hagrid after avoiding him because Hagrid’s presence triggered an overwhelming instinctive fear, and learned more about Hagrid’s new abilities and the living fire Hephaestus. The visit ended with Harry questioning how precisely Hephaestus could imitate different creatures.

• Harry recalled Ryan’s explanation that his changing body and the soul fragment from Riddle had made his instincts more active, though he suspected Ryan had left something unsaid.
• Harry arrived at Hagrid’s hut and froze at the sight of Hagrid, who could now sense people without looking and control nearby objects.
• Hagrid said Dumbledore had warned him not to give too many objects complete life, since doing so might turn him into a Squib; Hephaestus had only increased his appetite.
• Hagrid showed the others his restored wand and explained that Hephaestus could choose what it set on fire and could imitate people and animals.
• Hephaestus explained that it could not speak while imitating creatures that could not speak, and Hagrid said it had taken the forms of Fang, himself, Ron, and Draco.

Draco connected the strange disappearance of Azkaban to Voldemort, while Harry realized Dumbledore had deliberately allowed Voldemort’s resurrection so Riddle could kill him. At the Black Lake, Dumbledore told Riddle and Snape that the prophecy had another interpretation, then began reciting its full text.

• Draco remembered that Harry had come to see Hephaestus and linked the missing Azkaban to Voldemort’s earlier dream.
• Hagrid said Dumbledore had described the situation as harmless and urged them not to worry.
• Harry realized Dumbledore had planned Voldemort’s resurrection so Riddle could kill him without damaging the Horcrux magic.
• Riddle challenged Dumbledore over his belief in the prophecy, and Dumbledore said the events followed another interpretation of it.
• Dumbledore told Snape that Aberforth had thrown him out before he heard the whole prophecy, then began reciting it to Riddle and Snape.

Dumbledore explained that Riddle was a composite being formed from Voldemort, Harry’s power, and other magic, leaving Riddle furious and Snape devastated. Ryan discussed Dumbledore’s suspicions with Kate, then showed her the Death Eaters stranded on an island and surviving by fishing.

• Dumbledore told Riddle that Harry’s power had helped create him and that he was both like Voldemort and Harry without being either one entirely.
• Riddle rejected Dumbledore’s explanation, while Snape lay on the ground in despair.
• Kate asked Ryan whether Dumbledore had been talking about him, and Ryan said Dumbledore might have considered using him against Voldemort.
• Kate asked whether Harry would enter the next Triwizard Tournament, and Ryan left the possibility open.
• Ryan showed Kate the Death Eaters fishing on an isolated North Sea island, where Voldemort’s resurrection ritual required them to conserve magic.

During the Slytherin-Ravenclaw Quidditch match, Ron asked Ryan for advice about getting along with girls and admitted he was interested in Lavender Brown. Ryan recalled Ron’s past treatment of her and noticed Lavender watching Ron from the Gryffindor stands.

• Ryan sat with Luna and Ginny at the Quidditch match, while Ron took the empty seat beside him and asked where Hermione was.
• Fred and George flew over the stands to advertise Mist Potion, while Professor McGonagall tried and failed to catch them and Lee Jordan announced their promotion.
• Ron told Ryan that he wanted advice because Harry and Draco had girlfriends and he was the only single member of the Hogwarts Trio.
• Ron confessed that he liked Lavender Brown, and Ryan saw her glancing toward Ron as she watched the match.

Ryan cast a guided prophecy on Lavender Brown during the Ravenclaw–Slytherin Quidditch match, showing her an alternate timeline in which Ron became her boyfriend. After waking, Lavender was unsure whether she had dreamed or prophesied, while Parvati urged her to seek Professor Trelawney.

• Ryan watched Lavender admire Ron and sent an invisible speck of light to her forehead.
• Lavender relived how she had grown interested in Ron and imagined telling him her feelings after the match.
• Lavender saw an alternate timeline where Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville were in Gryffindor and Ron became her boyfriend before their relationship ended painfully.
• Parvati shook Lavender awake, and Lavender described the visions she had seen.
• Lavender doubted the visions were a true prophecy, while Parvati excitedly asked what Lavender had seen about sixth year.

Harry caught the Golden Snitch and won the Quidditch match for Ravenclaw, while Ron panicked over Lavender’s apparent rejection. Ryan agreed to let Neville learn from Hermione’s Magic Book, then challenged him to choose a suitable spell from its cards.

• Harry caught the Golden Snitch, giving Ravenclaw victory as the crowd applauded.
• Ron asked Ryan what to do after he believed Lavender had rejected him.
• Parvati warned Lavender against Ron, but Lavender changed the subject to her dream of Snape teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts.
• Hermione explained that Neville had seen her practicing magic from Ryan’s gift and asked Ryan to teach him as he had taught Harry.
• Ryan opened Hermione’s Magic Book and presented Neville with its spell cards, waiting to see what he would choose.

Neville used the Point Me Spell to choose the Sword Card, which gave him a Lightsword shaped by Ryan’s magic. Ryan explained that Neville’s hidden power let him escape reality and reject magic, and the chapter left Hermione wondering what Neville would do with that ability.

• Neville used the Point Me Spell to find the power that suited him and chose the Sword Card.
• Ryan explained that the Lightsword was a magical, conceptual blade that would disappear after Neville rested.
• Luna recognized that Neville had been thinking about his mother, and Ryan stopped Hermione from questioning him about it.
• Ryan told Hermione that Neville’s power came from his parents’ madness and his belief that he was a Squib.
• Ryan said Neville could withstand multiple spells without reacting, while Hermione stopped in shock.

Ryan explained how Neville could use the Lightsword Spell to destroy incoming magic with his body, while discussing how Harry, Neville, and Ryan might each develop different ways to oppose Voldemort. Meanwhile, Parvati and Lavender found the entrance to Professor Trelawney’s classroom, where Lavender remained uncertain about what her dream meant for her relationship with Ron.

• Ryan told Hermione that Neville could use his specialized magic and the Lightsword Spell to destroy spells that struck his body, though doing so could exhaust him.
• Ryan speculated that Neville would need years of practice to master this ability and compared the different combat paths suited to Harry, Neville, and himself.
• Parvati led Lavender through Hogwarts in search of Professor Trelawney’s Divination Classroom, despite Lavender’s growing exhaustion and doubts.
• Parvati and Lavender discovered the silver ladder and trapdoor marked with Sybill Trelawney’s name.
• Lavender wondered whether her dream meant she should stay away from Ron, since the Ron she knew seemed different from the one in the dream.

Lavender visited Professor Trelawney with Parvati and scrutinized the Divination teacher’s theatrical performance, suspecting she was a fraud. Trelawney interpreted Lavender’s dream as a warning from her Sight but had not yet explained whether Lavender should avoid Ron.

• Lavender and Parvati entered Trelawney’s strange, dimly lit classroom and met Professor Trelawney.
• Lavender noticed signs that Trelawney had been waiting nearby and concluded that the teacher was putting on an act.
• Parvati was captivated by Trelawney and revealed details about Lavender’s dream while asking about taking Divination.
• Lavender pretended to be impressed, and Trelawney seemed to mistake her for someone else who was trying to stand out.
• Parvati asked whether Lavender should keep away from Ron, and Trelawney said the dream was a warning from Lavender’s Sight.

Lavender sought Trelawney’s advice about whether to pursue Ron, and Trelawney encouraged her to face romance bravely before unexpectedly making a prophecy about Midsummer and the return of the woman who gave a boy power. Ryan explained Lupin’s lycanthropy to Luna and, jealous of her sympathy for him, decided to find a way to remove werewolves’ contagiousness and make their condition like an Animagus’s.

• Lavender asked Trelawney whether she should get involved with Ron, and Trelawney urged her not to make a decision she would regret.
• After Lavender and Parvati left, Trelawney suddenly delivered a prophecy about Midsummer, the Resurrection Stone, a boy who would escape the Dark Lord three times, and a woman returning to the living.
• Ryan noticed the prophecy from beside the Whomping Willow and told Luna that Remus Lupin was a werewolf.
• Ryan explained how lycanthropy worked, why werewolves were shunned, and that intelligent wolf pups lived in the Forbidden Forest.
• Luna expressed pity for Lupin, and Ryan resolved to find a spell that would remove werewolves’ contagiousness and make lycanthropy like an Animagus transformation.

Harry wondered why The Daily Prophet had not reported on Azkaban as Ron and Ginny discussed the news he had missed. Ron revealed that Draco and Pansy had left to get engaged, and Ginny pointed out that Professor Riddle’s views were apparent in his books before the Prophet finally arrived.

• Harry, Ginny, and Ron discussed Lavender and Parvati visiting the Divination professor, and Harry questioned whether the professor’s predictions were accurate.
• Harry worried that The Daily Prophet had kept silent about Azkaban, and Ron suggested asking Lupin or Draco what they knew.
• Ron revealed that Draco and Pansy had gone to get engaged, explaining that some Parkinson relatives did not want the Weasleys and Potters there.
• Ginny suggested Professor Riddle might have killed young Ministry officials with anti-Muggle views, and Ron recalled a report about Finnidax Dax breaking up with his Muggle-born girlfriend.
• Ginny spotted a gray owl carrying The Daily Prophet as it circled down toward Harry.

Harry, Ron, and Ginny read a report about Fenrir Greyback, a spell that lets werewolf patients control their transformations and stop infecting others. Ron saw a business opportunity in helping patients learn it, and planned to use Lupin’s connections to find them.

• Harry read The Daily Prophet and The Quibbler’s joint report announcing that Xenophilius Lovegood had uncovered Fenrir Greyback.
• The report explained that werewolf patients who learned the magic could transform into wolves without losing their minds or infecting others, and that Wolfsbane Potion helped them master it.
• Harry and Ron told Ginny that Lupin had rejected Tonks because he was a werewolf, and Ginny became absorbed in imagining their romance.
• Ron proposed finding werewolf patients and helping them learn Fenrir Greyback, arguing that the business could earn Galleons for Lupin and Tonks’s future marriage.

Ginny used a Zara Tribe bat ritual to locate Lupin in the Forbidden Forest, where he was meeting with werewolves and discussing Fenrir Greyback. Harry and Ron planned to contact him through Hagrid, while a face in Lupin’s fire briefly spoke to him before vanishing.

• Harry, Ron, and Ginny discussed finding Lupin to learn about Fenrir Greyback, Tonks, and what had happened in Azkaban.
• Ginny summoned a magical bat by calling Lupin’s name, and it flew to him in the Forbidden Forest.
• Ginny received the bat’s images and learned that Lupin was in a cave with werewolves discussing Greyback and Snape’s Wolfsbane Potion.
• Harry suggested using Hagrid to communicate with Lupin rather than waiting for him at Hagrid’s hut.
• A face appeared in Lupin’s campfire and asked him to describe the bat, then vanished when it noticed Harry and the others were there.

Ginny revealed her Variant Bat-Bogey Hex, and Lupin explained that Dumbledore had been monitoring the North Sea and that Harry was safe from Voldemort entering his mind. Ron learned Hagrid could communicate telepathically and defended his plan to turn Hagrid’s ability into a profitable service.

• Ginny used her Variant Bat-Bogey Hex to find Lupin, and Lupin credited the Ravenclaw's Diadem for her and Ron’s recent magical discoveries.
• Lupin told Ginny that things between him and Tonks were moving in a good direction, then said Dumbledore and the Ministry were watching the North Sea with alchemical devices.
• Harry warned Lupin that Voldemort might peer into his mind, but Lupin said Voldemort would be overwhelmed by Harry’s magic if he tried.
• Hagrid revealed that he had gained the ability to communicate telepathically after merging with the Forbidden Forest, and Ron realized Hagrid had shared his thoughts with Harry.
• Hagrid explained that he had worried Ron might offend Lupin, while Ron defended his proposal to publicize Hagrid’s ability to animate enchanted objects as a business.