Chapter Summaries

Voldemort’s attack sparked a massive battle between the Dark Wizards and the defenders, while Dumbledore unleashed his power and killed Barty Crouch Jr. Zhang Xiao realized their families were still in the Spectator Stand and sent his friends to find them as Rainwater organized the house-elves to evacuate the wounded and Muggles.

• Voldemort taunted Dumbledore about the massacre and the use of Muggle weapons, but Dumbledore attacked and annihilated Barty Crouch Jr.
• The Aurors and wizards raised a defensive barrier against the Death Eaters, and Voldemort and Dumbledore took their fight into the sky.
• Giant fighters in goblin armor broke through the defenders’ barrier, turning the clash into a chaotic melee with heavy casualties on both sides.
• Zhang Xiao spotted his friends fighting and warned them that their families were still in the Spectator Stand.
• Zhang Xiao gave the young wizards protective talismans and sent them to find their families, while he told Rainwater to gather the house-elves and evacuate the wounded and Muggles.

Malfoy and Lucius chose to stay and fight while the Church and Morgan family completed a secret plan around a ritual that gave a child extraordinary powers. The Church sealed the battlefield inside a vast barrier, and Morgan ordered the next stage of the attack as the trapped fighters realized they could no longer escape.

• Malfoy refused Narcissa's pleas to leave, and Lucius shed his cloak, drew his Serpent Staff, and charged onto the battlefield.
• Ossis showed Morgan and Rockefeller that the Sacred Reincarnation Ritual had restored Morgan's grandson Jeffett, who remembered his past and demonstrated magical powers.
• Morgan and Rockefeller agreed to join forces with the Church, and Ossis signaled the Church's leaders to begin their operation.
• Twelve cardinal high priests and thirty-six Grand High Priests raised a barrier of white light around an area of roughly three square kilometers, preventing Apparition and trapping everyone inside.
• Morgan confirmed the Church's plan to clear nuclear radiation and ordered the use of the M388.

Ossis’s plan to annihilate the wizards with an M388 nuclear shell began, but Dumbledore used powerful magic to contain the blast. As the Church prepared an artillery follow-up, Voldemort attacked the Dumbledore protecting him with a Killing Curse.

• Ossis watched the attack unfold and planned for the Church to use the explosion to destroy the Wizarding World and seize power.
• America secretly warned other nations that criminals were about to detonate a stolen M388 in New Jersey, prompting them to redirect military satellites toward the area.
• Zhang Xiao learned from Zhang Chengdao that a nuclear bomb was incoming, warned Dumbledore, and buried nearby wizards and their families underground for protection.
• Dumbledore trapped and gradually erased the nuclear fireball with a vast net of magical light, while Nicolas Flamel recognized that Dumbledore had become the most powerful wizard in history.
• Ossis ordered Morgan to begin the next stage, and the self-propelled artillery prepared to fire as Zhang Xiao watched from underground.
• Voldemort suddenly cast Avada Kedavra at Dumbledore, who was still shielding everyone from the blast.

Dumbledore contained the nuclear blast but was badly burned after Voldemort attacked him, and he entrusted Zhang Xiao with protecting everyone before collapsing. Trapped behind the Light Curtain, Zhang Xiao confronted Voldemort, exposed and destroyed his Horcruxes, and prepared to kill him.

• Dumbledore blocked Voldemort’s Killing Curse, swallowed the nuclear blast, and fell from the sky, where Zhang Xiao caught him.
• Zhang Xiao and Madam Pomfrey treated Dumbledore as Voldemort mocked him and Zhang Xiao accused Voldemort of acting out of fear and jealousy.
• Dumbledore warned Zhang Xiao that the Church had sealed the Light Curtain, then asked him to take the Elder Wand and protect everyone with a Disarming Charm.
• Zhang Xiao confronted Voldemort, revealed that he knew about the Horcruxes, and displayed the Diary, Hufflepuff’s Cup, Slytherin’s Locket, Ravenclaw’s Diadem, and Resurrection Stone.
• Zhang Xiao crushed the sphere containing the extracted Horcrux soul and declared that he would kill Voldemort.

Zhang Xiao fought Voldemort as artillery scattered the gathered wizards into smaller battles, until Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, and Snape arrived to join the fight. With Dumbledore gravely injured but stabilized, Zhang Xiao headed back into the battle as Grindelwald left Nurmengard.

• Zhang Xiao used the Elder Wand to attack Voldemort while Voldemort realized his Horcruxes had been found and feared for Nagini.
• Heavy artillery struck the battlefield, scattering the wizards, and Voldemort disabled Muggle electronics and sealed the prison airspace.
• Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick arrived with Snape, then fought Voldemort while Flitwick urged Zhang Xiao to help elsewhere.
• Snape treated Dumbledore and carried him with Madam Pomfrey to safety; Zhang Xiao sent young wizards and their families to the protected hole.
• Zhang Xiao charged at giants in Goblin Armor with a Silver Spear, while Grindelwald left Nurmengard after seeing Dumbledore's condition.

Ossis and Morgan ordered a ground assault on the wizards, deciding to sacrifice their forces and broadcast the battle to turn the world against them. As the fighting intensified, Zhang Xiao hunted giants, Dudley prepared to enter combat, and Grindelwald asked Nicolas Flamel for a potion to restore his youth.

• Ossis explained the Church’s history and its alliance with Muggle elites, then argued that the wizards had to be wiped out before they grew stronger.
• Morgan and Rockefeller agreed to send in their troops and start a live broadcast showing soldiers being killed by wizards.
• Edward ordered the Demon Hunters to prepare, while Zhang Xiao killed two more giants and counted his eighth and ninth kills as Voldemort fought Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick.
• Dudley’s superior ordered Squad 113 to hold the wizards back and create openings for American troops to shoot them.
• Grindelwald asked Nicolas Flamel for a potion that could briefly restore him to his prime, and told Dumbledore that he feared nothing.

Grindelwald drank a potion that restored his youth, took the Elder Wand from Zhang Xiao, and confronted Voldemort while Dumbledore lay gravely wounded. As the battle spread across the battlefield, Harry led a group out to protect the shelter, Malfoy stayed behind to guard it, and Dudley’s squad advanced with armed soldiers.

• Nicolas Flamel warned Grindelwald about the potion’s unbearable pain, but Grindelwald drank it and regained his youthful strength.
• Zhang Xiao fought off Death Eaters and giants before Grindelwald arrived, took the Elder Wand from him, and turned to face Voldemort.
• Voldemort overwhelmed McGonagall and Flitwick, but Grindelwald intervened and challenged him with blue Fiendfyre against Voldemort’s crimson flames.
• Snape prepared Wolfsbane Extract to suppress the curse destroying Dumbledore, while Harry decided to leave the shelter after Death Eaters searched for the wounded wizard.
• Harry, Sirius, and the young wizards attacked the Death Eaters; Malfoy stayed behind with Hermione to guard the shelter, and Malfoy’s pistols helped defeat the attackers.
• Dudley and the Demon Hunters advanced alongside armed soldiers as gunfire and spells spread across the battlefield, and Zhang Xiao turned toward the sound.

Zhang Xiao discovered that the Demon Hunters and American soldiers were systematically encircling and slaughtering the wizards, and realized magic alone could not stop them. He rose into the sky and began gathering power as a new sun blazed above the battlefield.

• Television crews rushed toward the battlefield, but Nancy’s broadcast van stalled inside the anti-electronics field, where a man in a white Priest's Robe offered help.
• North American stations aired footage that framed the attacks as an effort to eliminate monsters and exposed viewers to the unexplained battle between ordinary-looking people and their enemies.
• Zhang Xiao broke through suppressive gunfire, defeated a squad of Demon Hunters and American soldiers, and took the Demon Hunters’ weapons and gear.
• Zhang Xiao studied the Demon Hunters’ spell-resistant equipment and exceptional combat abilities, then sensed that the encirclement threatened to kill more than seventy percent of the wizards.
• Zhang Xiao decided to stop the encirclement, rose into the sky, and caused a new sun to blaze above the battlefield.

Zhang Xiao used talisman wings to scatter disorientation charms across the battlefield, disrupting the allied forces and turning the fight into chaos. As the charms failed to reach Grindelwald and Voldemort’s duel, Zhang Xiao prepared a lightning-charged hammer in case he had to intervene.

• Zhang Xiao summoned enormous wings of talisman scripts and spread disorientation charms across the battlefield, disrupting formations and undermining the Church’s claims that the wizards were demons.
• Harry encountered a Death Eater in the mist, disarmed and stunned him, then broke his wand.
• Sirius defeated two Death Eaters, transformed into a dog, and recognized Peter Pettigrew by his scent.
• Neville identified the mist as the effect of disorientation talismans and heard Bellatrix Lestrange laughing nearby, then reached for the sword Zhang had given him.
• Zhang Xiao observed Grindelwald and Voldemort’s duel and noticed Grindelwald weakening, so he fused his Golden Brick with his wand to make a lightning-charged hammer.

Zhang Xiao disrupted the Death Eaters while the battle’s confused participants scattered, and the people watching struggled to salvage their plans. Dudley rescued Harry from Demon Hunters and revealed himself as Big D, leaving the cousins face to face after years apart.

• Zhang Xiao used the returning Thunderstruck Wood Wand and Golden Brick to kill a Death Eater with a thrown hammer.
• Ossis explained that purifying the confusion would destroy the Sacred Canopy, while Rockefeller urged Morgan to turn the public against wizards.
• Harry fought a group of Demon Hunters, disarming one before more arrived and joined the attack.
• Dudley wandered alone through the battlefield until he found Demon Hunters cornering Harry, his cousin.
• Dudley blocked a Demon Hunter’s sword, drove the others away, treated Harry’s wound, and revealed himself as Big D.

Harry and Dudley reunited and set out to find Petunia, while Sirius confronted Peter Pettigrew and killed him after learning he had betrayed James and Lily out of fear. The chapter ended with Sirius grieving the friends they had lost.

• Dudley told Harry he had become a Demon Hunter to avenge Vernon, and Harry agreed to help him.
• Harry told Dudley that Petunia was also at the gathering and was safe in an underground shelter.
• Harry summoned his Patronus to guide him and Dudley through the fog toward their friends.
• Sirius confronted Peter, who pleaded that Voldemort had forced him to betray James and Lily.
• Peter attacked with a powerful explosion spell, but Sirius anticipated it, disarmed him, and tortured him with the Cruciatus Curse.
• Sirius reflected on Peter’s betrayal, then cut Peter’s throat and killed him.

After killing Wormtail, Black noticed that his dog form let him see through the mist and went looking for the separated young wizards. Neville was trapped by Bellatrix and three other Death Eaters until Dudley arrived with Harry and a stag, interrupting Bellatrix's Killing Curse.

• Black killed Wormtail, transformed into a dog, and realized the mist had vanished from his sight.
• Black spotted Zhang Xiao attacking Death Eaters and ran off to search for the separated young wizards.
• Neville discovered that Bellatrix had used the Dark Mark to gather Rabastan Lestrange and the Carrow siblings around her, and fought off their coordinated attacks with his longsword.
• Bellatrix taunted Neville about his parents' torture and pressed him with spells until he considered using the pill hidden in his sword's pommel.
• As Bellatrix fired the Killing Curse at Neville, a second silver longsword intercepted it, and Dudley emerged from the mist with Harry and a great-horned stag.

Dudley and Neville confronted Bellatrix Lestrange after she mocked Dudley's father, while Harry fought the Carrow siblings. Dudley and Neville killed Bellatrix with a coordinated sword attack, leaving Harry still battling the Carrows.

• Bellatrix recognized Dudley as Vernon’s son and mocked his father, provoking Dudley to decapitate Rabastan.
• Bellatrix attacked Dudley, but he deflected her spells and retreated to Harry and Neville.
• Harry agreed to draw the Carrow siblings away while Dudley and Neville fought Bellatrix.
• Neville shielded Dudley from Bellatrix’s corrosive spell, and the boys trapped her at close range.
• Neville struck Bellatrix in the chest, and Dudley punched her from behind before both boys stabbed her through the neck.

Harry, Neville, and Dudley continued through the fog after Bellatrix’s death, while Zhang Xiao learned that Sirius had killed Peter Pettigrew and sent him to try to help Dumbledore. Voldemort nearly killed Grindelwald, but Zhang Xiao’s lightning-wreathed hammer struck Voldemort as he cast the killing curse.

• Harry held off the Carrow siblings with Disarming Charms, then found Neville and Dudley standing over Bellatrix’s body.
• Harry explained that his Patronus had guided him through the fog, introduced Dudley to Neville, and the three followed the Patronus onward.
• Zhang Xiao met Sirius, who told him he had killed Peter Pettigrew and wanted to find Harry amid the chaos.
• Sirius told Zhang Xiao that Snape and Madam Pomfrey were keeping Dumbledore stable while Snape brewed a potion to suppress the curse.
• Zhang Xiao suggested Sirius’s black dog form might help suppress Dumbledore’s curse, then hurried toward Grindelwald’s battle after seeing Fiendfyre fill the sky.
• Voldemort tortured the weakening Grindelwald and raised his wand to kill him, but Zhang Xiao’s lightning-wreathed hammer struck Voldemort in the face.

Zhang Xiao faced Voldemort after Grindelwald fell, sending the injured old wizard to safety and clearing the battlefield mist so others could see. Voldemort publicly challenged Zhang Xiao, who drew the Golden Talisman Script and asked whether Voldemort would truly stand still and let him attack.

• Zhang Xiao struck Voldemort with his hammer and shielded himself from Voldemort's counterattack, but had to retreat when Voldemort unleashed a destructive time-stopping spell.
• Zhang Xiao checked that the unconscious Grindelwald had survived, then used a stretcher to send him toward the Underground Cave for treatment.
• Zhang Xiao dispelled the battlefield mist and told Harry, Neville, and the others that Grindelwald had fought Voldemort while McGonagall and Flitwick were injured.
• Zhang Xiao sent Grindelwald away and walked back toward Voldemort, telling Neville that he was the strongest person left who could fight him.
• Voldemort announced that Dumbledore and Grindelwald had fallen, then challenged Zhang Xiao to fight before the assembled wizards and Death Eaters.
• Zhang Xiao took the Golden Talisman Script from his Heaven and Earth Bag and asked Voldemort if he meant his offer to stand still while they attacked.

Zhang Xiao activated the Daoist Order’s sole Heavenly Court petition talisman, summoning repeated lightning strikes against Voldemort. After Voldemort used people as shields and fled the bolts, the gathered wizards turned on him, and a fourth strike hit while he stood stunned.

• Zhang Xiao activated the golden talisman, and the Heavenly Court’s storm spread across the sky as Zhang Chengdao and Li Qingshu realized their son was in danger.
• The Old Celestial Master refused to let Zhang Chengdao and Li Qingshu use Great Relocation to reach Zhang Xiao, assuring them that Xiao Xiao would not die.
• The talisman’s heavenly decree identified Zhang Xiao as an Inspection Commissioner and authorized the Jade Palace of the Divine Firmament to cleanse the world of Voldemort.
• Voldemort fled the first lightning bolt, then survived another by using dozens of people as a human shield, but the strike charred one of his arms.
• Voldemort repeatedly seized people to block the lightning, while the wizards and Death Eaters began fleeing and resisting him; a fourth bolt struck as Voldemort stood stunned.

Voldemort survived the Celestial Masters' lightning strike and challenged Zhang Xiao to become his servant, but Zhang Xiao resisted and fought him at full power. As Zhang Xiao's strength began to fail, the clash of their spells swallowed him in a blazing sphere.

• The Old Celestial Master explained that only four of the five intended thunderbolts had formed, leaving Voldemort alive.
• Voldemort used silver magic to replace his charred arm and leg, then offered Zhang Xiao power in exchange for his allegiance.
• Zhang Xiao refused Voldemort's offer, and Voldemort attacked him with a Fire Serpent.
• Zhang Xiao activated his Clear-Minded State, broke free of Voldemort's restraint, and met his spell in a fierce clash.
• As Zhang Xiao's power waned, Harry, Neville, and the others ran toward him, and the enormous sphere of light swallowed him.

Voldemort’s attack left Zhang Xiao apparently dead, but the Longbottoms and other allies rushed to protect him as he underwent a mysterious transformation. Immersed in blissful white light, Zhang heard memories and voices calling his name and finally opened his eyes.

• The Ancient Oath Magic shielded Zhang Xiao from Voldemort’s attack, and the Longbottoms charged forward to defend him.
• Harry, Hermione, Cedric, Malfoy, McGonagall, Flitwick, and the House-elves attacked Voldemort, forcing him onto the defensive.
• Glove Lady watched Zhang’s transformation from the Room of Requirement and reflected that she had entrusted the future to him.
• Voldemort summoned Fiendfyre as his Death Eaters abandoned him, then paused to recover amid the flames.
• Zhang drifted through warm white light and nearly lost himself in it until familiar voices recalling his past called him back, and he opened his eyes.

After a mysterious orb restored Zhang Xiao and unlocked his memories, he returned to the battle with Voldemort at full strength. As their duel raged through the sky, Zhang Xiao told Harry he planned to lure Voldemort down and switch places with him when Voldemort cast the Avada Kedavra Curse.

• Zhang Xiao realized the orb came from Glove Lady and that his worldwide reputation had anchored his existence, then absorbed the orb's light and prepared to face Voldemort.
• Voldemort overwhelmed the defenders and taunted Harry, but Zhang Xiao revived in a blaze of golden light and healed the wounded.
• Zhang Xiao confronted Voldemort and fought him as an equal, using talisman scripts and elemental magic to counter his attacks.
• Voldemort took the fight into the sky, and Zhang Xiao pursued him with his Flying Sash, spear, and Wind-Fire Wheels.
• Zhang Xiao secretly told Harry he would lure Voldemort to the ground, provoke him to cast the Avada Kedavra Curse, and switch places with Harry.

Zhang Xiao and the defenders defeated Voldemort after Nagini’s death exposed him to his own Grim Reaper spell. As Hogwarts celebrated, Dumbledore told Zhang Xiao to leave Hogwarts and explore the world, while promising he could always return.

• Zhang Xiao provoked Voldemort and asked Harry to trust him, then directed Neville to destroy Nagini, the snake Voldemort had summoned.
• Voldemort unleashed a Grim Reaper formed from Killing Curse magic, and Zhang Xiao sent Harry and the black Diary into its scythe.
• Neville killed Nagini with his Longsword, breaking Voldemort’s protection; the Grim Reaper then struck Voldemort, whose body crumbled into ash.
• Zhang Xiao helped Harry up and announced victory as the defenders celebrated Voldemort’s defeat across the wizarding world and among Muggles.
• Dumbledore urged Zhang Xiao to leave Hogwarts and explore the world, telling him that Hogwarts would always welcome him back.