Recaps

Hogwarts and Beauxbatons students clashed in a brawl after tensions over Quidditch training boiled over, while other schools showed their own rivalries. Half a month later, the Starry Sky Cup began with eleven teams entering the pitch.

• Wood stopped a Gryffindor Chaser from starting a fight after Beauxbatons used a Confundus Charm on the Quaffle, but he later traded insults with Aude Ollie and the Beauxbatons students.
• Wood, Stephens, and other Hogwarts players fought Beauxbatons students until Professor McGonagall separated them, then reprimanded the fighters and John.
• Beauxbatons students pretended to be injured, but Madam Pomfrey saw through them and gave them bitter medicine.
• Durmstrang and Castelobruxo students glared at each other while their headmasters and the headmaster of Ta Lo discussed barbecue.
• The Starry Sky Cup began with eleven teams entering the Quidditch Pitch, and Hagrid bought Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans from a student vendor.
• Hulk tried a bean with an unfamiliar flavor and reacted with helpless rage.

Hogwarts began its Starry Sky Cup campaign against Beauxbatons, with fourth-year Seeker Stephens Diggory facing professional player Aude Ollie. Hogwarts took an early lead, but Beauxbatons changed tactics to defend against Wood’s attempt to widen the score gap.

• The captains drew lots, pairing host Hogwarts with its old rival Beauxbatons for the opening match.
• Wood and Aude Ollie shook hands before Madam Hooch started the match, and Stephens Diggory flew high to search for the Golden Snitch.
• A Bludger bloodied a Ravenclaw player, who refused to leave the match, and Slytherin retaliated against Beauxbatons with a Bludger attack.
• Gryffindor’s Chasers scored first, giving Hogwarts a ten-to-zero lead, before Beauxbatons used its Trident Tactic to score past Wood.
• Wood recognized Beauxbatons’ plan to rely on Aude Ollie and ordered Hogwarts to attack aggressively and widen its lead.
• Beauxbatons abandoned the Trident Tactic and switched to a defensive two-Chaser formation.

Hogwarts battled Beauxbatons as Seeker Stephens faced professional Aude Ollie’s decapitation tactic and Wronski Feint. Stephens pursued the Golden Snitch despite his injury, while the score shifted in a tense match that remained undecided.

• Macmillan identified Beauxbatons’ defensive formation as preparation for a Seeker-focused decapitation tactic, and Stephens steadied himself to track the Snitch.
• Ollie used a Wronski Feint to send Stephens crashing near the stands, but Stephens returned to the match despite his injured arm.
• A Ravenclaw Chaser scored in the seventieth minute, and when the Golden Snitch appeared, Stephens and Ollie raced after it.
• Hogwarts scored again after a Slytherin Beater damaged a Beauxbatons Chaser’s broom, bringing the score to 180-100.
• Ollie struck Stephens’s injured left hand during their pursuit and kept him from breaking past her as they chased the Snitch.
• A Beauxbatons Chaser scored past Wood, narrowing the lead after Hogwarts had added another goal.

Stephens caught the Golden Snitch with a daring Wick Curve, winning the match for Hogwarts despite his damaged hand and uncontrollable broom. As he fell, Draco Malfoy rescued him, then insulted the players on both teams.

• Stephens and Ollie pursued the Golden Snitch through the stands and across the pitch, with Stephens pushing himself harder while Ollie held back to avoid injury.
• Stephens overtook Ollie and caught the Golden Snitch with three fingers before pulling his broom into a nearly right-angled climb that Macmillan called the Wick Curve.
• The match ended with the score at 330-130, and the spectators realized Stephens could not control his upward-flying broom.
• Draco Malfoy borrowed Wood's broom, caught the falling Stephens, and brought him safely to the ground.
• Stephens tried to thank Draco, but Draco criticized his flying and told the players to practice more, provoking the crowd.

Draco Malfoy arrived at Hogwarts and infuriated students and visiting headmasters with his insults and arrogance. He stopped when John warned him that Mr. Greengrass was coming, then reunited with Little Dragon at the Stars Society, where the two struck matching poses.

• Draco missed the opening Drawing Ceremony after his son accidentally hit him with Levicorpus.
• Draco praised Alice while putting down her classmates, and John reminded him to stop talking nonsense.
• Draco's insults enraged the visiting headmasters, and the Beauxbatons headmaster ended up spending three days in the Hogwarts Hospital Wing after another encounter with him.
• Draco fell silent when John told him Mr. Greengrass was coming.
• At the Stars Society, Little Dragon climbed onto Draco's head, and the pair posed with matching disdainful expressions.

During an Avengers operation in Lagos, Wanda redirected a bomb to save people on the ground, but the blast killed eleven Wakandans and left her shaken. Rumlow claimed the recovered bioweapon for Watson Wick, and the chapter ended with Watson preparing it as a gift for his son.

• Steve led the Avengers against mercenaries stealing a red-liquid bioweapon from a Lagos research institute, and the team recovered it.
• Wanda diverted a bomber’s explosion away from civilians, but the blast struck a nearby building and killed eleven Wakandans.
• Rumlow confronted the Avengers and claimed the bioweapon as property belonging to his employer, Watson Wick, whose assassins backed him up.
• Wakanda’s king condemned the Avengers at the United Nations over the deaths in Lagos.
• Rumlow delivered the bioweapon to Watson, who said his son would find it interesting.

As Hogwarts students and visiting schools were driven into increasingly punishing study schedules by John’s guidance, the Avengers struggled with guilt over Wakanda’s accusations and Wanda’s role in the tragedy. Vision arrived with news that Secretary of State General Ross was bringing the Sokovia Accords.

• Lewis and Stella competed to become Gryffindor’s top student, while Alice worked harder to protect her own standing.
• John revealed that he had based the children’s study plans on Percy Weasley’s, and Draco resigned himself to Alice’s grueling schedule.
• Stark announced the September Foundation’s student research funding program, while John’s study schedules spread to visiting schools and caused widespread distress.
• Steve comforted Wanda over Wakanda’s accusations and told her that trying to save everyone could leave them unable to save anyone.
• Vision phased in and warned the Avengers that General Ross had arrived with the Sokovia Accords.

Secretary Ross presented the Sokovia Accords to the Avengers, dividing them over whether to accept government oversight. As the Avengers prepared to decide, John and Percy planned the Wizarding Kingdom’s first appearance at the United Nations meeting, with John choosing to stay away and let his reputation unsettle the delegates.

• Secretary Ross told the Avengers that they must sign the Sokovia Accords at the Vienna meeting in three days or retire.
• Vision argued that superheroes might cause more catastrophes by inviting challenges, while Tony supported accepting limits and Steve opposed making the Avengers a political tool.
• Natasha said she missed John, and Steve received a message as Tony and Natasha debated the accords.
• At the Quidditch Pitch, Percy told John he would attend the United Nations meeting with Penelope, and John assigned the Silencers to accompany them.
• John decided not to attend the meeting, saying his absence would frighten the delegates more, while Durmstrang defeated Koldovstoretz by catching the Golden Snitch.

The Wizarding Kingdom made its first public appearance at a United Nations conference on the Sokovia Accords, with Gilderoy Lockhart drawing attention away from the delegation. Percy Weasley rejected Natasha Romanoff’s attempt to gauge the kingdom’s position and insisted that wizards would meet other nations as equals.

• Gilderoy Lockhart arrived at the conference in a flashy suit and distracted reporters from the Wizarding Kingdom’s delegation.
• Percy Weasley reprimanded Lockhart for lingering outside and reminded him to speak only when addressing the public.
• Natasha Romanoff asked Percy whether the Wizarding Kingdom supported the Sokovia Accords, and he pointed out the suspicion directed at wizards because Wanda Maximoff was a witch.
• Percy warned Natasha not to mistake the Wizard King’s friendliness toward her for authority over the kingdom, then left to speak with the delegation.
• Penelope discussed the coming questions with Percy, who said the Wizarding Kingdom would stand as an equal among nations.

As Stephen Strange begged John to heal his hands, John sent him toward a place where he could seek strength instead. At the United Nations, Percy defended Wanda and the Wizarding Kingdom, while T'Challa watched with interest.

• Stephen Strange found John in Vienna and pleaded for help healing his trembling hands, prompting Lockhart to direct him to John.
• John gave Stephen an address and money, telling him to become strong and pursue the chance to protect himself and his loved ones.
• At the United Nations, a representative blamed Wanda Maximoff for the Lagos casualties and called for stricter oversight.
• Percy rejected the accusation against Wanda and argued that Wizards were not gods and that criminals should bear the blame.
• Percy described the Wizarding Kingdom as a nation of Wizards from many countries and promoted its engagement with the wider world.
• T'Challa took an interest in Percy as he spoke about the Wizarding Kingdom.

John stopped a bomb from destroying the United Nations meeting, where Percy and Wakanda’s delegation were attending. After the attack was linked to the Winter Soldier, Percy ordered the Silencers to find the culprit, while Pheobe sent Helmut Zemo to help.

• John noticed a suspicious television station van outside the United Nations building and contained its explosion before it could cause major damage.
• Percy shielded himself and the Wizarding Kingdom’s delegation from the blast, and the Silencers appeared to protect them.
• Percy learned the bombing was connected to the Winter Soldier and ordered the Silencers to investigate and bring the culprit to him.
• Natasha told Percy that Wakanda’s king had been injured and that a task force was moving to arrest Barnes, while Percy warned that the Wizarding Kingdom would act on its own.
• Pheobe told Percy she had sent Helmut Zemo to help with the situation.

Steve found Bucky in Romania and tried to protect him from arrest, but Zemo and the Silencer captured Sam and helped bring the fleeing heroes into custody. In Berlin, Steve faced John, who reminded him that he had threatened to kill Bucky if they met again.

• Steve found Bucky in Romania, and Bucky said he recognized Steve from a museum exhibit but did not remember their past.
• The Silencer attacked Sam and handed him over to Zemo, while Steve and Bucky fought their way past special forces and fled with T'Challa in pursuit.
• Police and Rhodey arrested Steve, Bucky, T'Challa, and Sam after Zemo revealed Sam was bound and in his custody.
• Zemo used a Temporary Floo Network Setter to travel to Berlin, where Bucky was detained and Steve's shield and Sam's wings were confiscated.
• John confronted Steve in Berlin and recalled that he had promised to kill Bucky if he saw him again.

John confirmed that Bucky had been framed in the Vienna bombing, but insisted he still had to answer for his past crimes, while Hydra’s surviving members pursued the Winter Soldiers in Siberia. As the Avengers split over the Accords, the Children of Miracle prepared to confront Steve and Falcon, and Night Ghost vanished to hunt them.

• John met Zemo, confirmed Bucky had not carried out the Vienna bombing, and ordered the Silencer to track down Hydra members named in Bucky’s journal.
• John said Bucky would still have to answer for his crimes, while Zemo revealed Hydra planned to recover the Winter Soldiers in Siberia.
• Bucky escaped after an impostor posing as a psychological doctor cut the power, and Steve and Falcon disappeared with him; John used Bucky’s blood to locate their destination through magic.
• Steve refused to sign the Sokovia Accords, and Tony promised Ross he would bring Steve and the others back.
• Guardian persuaded Martha to send the Children of Miracle Six after Steve and Falcon, and Martha agreed to protect the world and her students.
• Night Ghost left the Mind Egg Chamber to hunt, and Ivan discovered that Dax and a new set of vibranium throwing knives were missing.

Peter continued learning to use his powers responsibly while Tony Stark visited him and asked about Germany. In Wakanda, Percy urged T'Challa to build an alliance with the Wizarding Nation, and T'Challa agreed to discuss it with his father after taking revenge on those responsible.

• Shang-Chi reminded Peter to control his strength and emotions, and Peter left without telling Ned about his identity.
• Tony Stark visited May, claimed Peter's Taran Foundation grant had been approved, and took Peter aside to ask whether he had ever been to Germany.
• Percy gave T'Challa a Daydream Charm to soothe his ailing father, the old king.
• Percy warned T'Challa against relying on the Avengers and proposed deeper ties between Wakanda and the Wizarding Nation.
• T'Challa said he would speak to his father about the alliance after taking revenge on those who deserved it.

Percy left Natasha waiting while a disguised man uncovered Hydra’s Siberian Winter Soldier base and Darren prepared to demonstrate his new Yellow Suit to the military. As the Miracle Six set out to capture Steve Rogers, Steve gathered allies and headed for the airport, where Tony was waiting.

• Percy used a Disillusionment Charm to pass Natasha unnoticed, leaving her worried about the Wizarding Kingdom’s Silencers.
• A disguised man killed people at a Hydra base, found a codebook and footage of the Winter Soldier killing Howard Stark, and left for Siberia.
• Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross asked Darren to arrest Steve Rogers, and Darren shrank himself using the newly tested Yellow Suit.
• Guardian led the Miracle Six into Germany, where Martha used Rogers’s blood to locate him and Gentleman drove with Martha and Delfi to pursue him.
• Steve learned from Bucky that Hydra planned to release more Winter Soldiers in Siberia, then recruited Barton, Wanda, and Scott while recovering weapons and arranging a helicopter.
• Steve headed to the airport, where Tony and his people were waiting.

Steve and Tony’s factions clashed at the airport while the Miracle Six entered the fight and waited for an opening. As the confrontation escalated, Vision arrived to strengthen Tony’s side, and Darren secretly targeted Scott.

• Tony, Steve, and their allies began fighting at the airport, while Peter joined Tony’s side and helped confront Steve’s group.
• Guardian directed the Miracle Six to the airport, where Gentleman and Delfi fought Sam and Bucky as they tried to escape.
• Steve’s group fought Tony’s allies, including Rhodey, Black Panther, and Natasha, while Wanda and Barton also faced Tony.
• Two men fleeing the airport ran into Steve’s group, and the Miracle Six gathered with Gentleman and Delfi to watch the factions prepare for another clash.
• Guardian decided the Miracle Six would wait until both sides were distracted, while explosives remained on apron five.
• Darren used his shrinking suit to move across the battlefield and locked onto Scott.

Darren and the Avengers fought at the airport as Steve and Bucky tried to escape, but Maniac detonated an explosion at Landing Pad Five. The Miracle Six claimed responsibility and announced their authority to arrest Steve, while the Avengers reacted in rage and a new sound came from the ruins.

• Darren attacked Scott while Peter, Steve, Bucky, T'Challa, Wanda, Natasha, and Barton fought at the airport.
• Scott grew giant to help Steve and Bucky escape, while Wanda tried to stop the collapsing landing pad and Natasha turned against T'Challa to help Steve.
• Steve and Bucky entered the plane and found Maniac waiting inside; he detonated an explosion that flattened Landing Pad Five.
• Maniac emerged from the wreckage as Guardian introduced the Miracle Six and claimed they had authority to arrest Steve and Barnes.
• Sam and Barton reacted furiously, Tony stared at Maniac in shock, and a new sound came from the ruins.

Steve and Bucky survived the explosion, but Tony’s team confronted them at the airport and a three-way battle erupted among the Avengers and the Children of Miracle. As the fighting turned against Steve’s side, Night Ghost appeared and struck at Steve.

• Bucky and Steve climbed from the rubble alive, while Natasha and T’Challa also survived after the Witch rescued them.
• Tony demanded that Steve surrender and cooperate with the investigation, but Steve refused, and the airport battle began again.
• Cowboy and Barton fought a sharpshooter duel, which ended with Barton pinning Cowboy beneath a falling lamppost.
• Darren severed Bucky’s metal arm, while Natasha struggled against T’Challa and Gentleman and Maniac attacked Sam.
• Tony blasted Steve away and drove Guardian back, but a throwing knife struck Steve’s shield before Night Ghost appeared with a blade.

The battle at the airport left both superhero teams battered, while Zemo realized a fifth party was exploiting the conflict to destroy the Avengers and target the Wizarding Kingdom. John reunited with Martha and protected her as five mysterious figures emerged to attack the exhausted heroes.

• Night Ghost, Guardian, and the other fighters clashed with Tony and Steve's teams, leaving members of all three groups injured or incapacitated.
• Darren and T'Challa captured Bucky and Natasha, and Steve called for Bucky and Natasha to be freed while Tony urged him to surrender.
• Zemo concluded that the Winter Soldiers were a distraction and suspected a fifth party intended to destroy the age of superheroes.
• John found Martha, learned she had stayed to care for the school and its students, and gave her a protective necklace.
• Five people appeared at the airport as the exhausted superheroes watched, and a white-haired man declared that chaos lasted longer than order.

Darren and Guardian’s forces pushed Steve’s team toward surrender, but Pietro freed Bucky and Natasha before an unknown attacker sent an explosive passenger plane toward the airport. Tony, Vision, and Sam rushed to save its 150 sleeping passengers as the attacker gave them three minutes to stop the plane.

• Darren revealed that he was working on a military superhuman project, while Night Ghost rejected Steve’s authority and claimed to fight for justice.
• Steve assessed his team’s injuries and planned to seize a fighter jet, but he refused to surrender and began a third round of fighting.
• Night Ghost overwhelmed Barton until Pietro arrived, rescued Bucky and Natasha, and freed them from their restraints.
• Guardian called Tailor, only to learn from an unknown voice that Tailor had been incapacitated and that the attacker wanted a world without superheroes.
• A passenger plane flew toward the airport, and Tony, Vision, and Sam discovered 150 sleeping passengers aboard before the attacker announced that explosives would detonate on touchdown in three minutes.

Tony and the other heroes rescued passengers from a hacked plane carrying explosives, but Mr. Lies turned the rescue into another trap. As five Winter Soldiers attacked and an electric arrow disabled Vision, the heroes faced a new fight with Sam's fate unknown.

• Tony, Vision, Wanda, Delfi, and the other heroes evacuated passengers from the plane while Wanda and Delfi raised a barrier against the explosives.
• Vision cut away the plane section holding the explosives, and Guardian helped shield the heroes from the blast; Tony reported that the plane had landed safely.
• Mr. Lies called the heroes, shot Sam out of the sky, and announced a hostage contest with fifty passengers in the heroes' hands and a hundred in his.
• Five Winter Soldiers arrived, and Bucky recognized them as Hydra's former weapons.
• Mr. Lies urged Tony to abandon the fight, then had a Winter Soldier strike Vision with an electric arrow that disrupted his body.

The Silencers joined the battle and defeated the Winter Soldiers, but Lies exposed Bucky as the killer of Tony’s parents and Steve as someone who had concealed the truth. Tony and Steve fought until Steve shattered Tony’s armor reactor, while Lies left the scene and pressed a detonator.

• Wanda defeated the Winter Soldier attacking Vision, but the Silencers soon entered the battlefield and killed the remaining Winter Soldiers.
• Zemo told Steve he would be arrested, then heard Lies claim that the hostages were safe and receive an address from him.
• Lies sent Tony a video showing Bucky killing Howard and Maria Stark, and Tony confronted Steve, who admitted he had known Bucky was responsible.
• Tony attacked Bucky, and Steve fought Tony to protect him; with Bucky’s help, Steve broke Tony’s chest reactor and disabled his armor.
• Lies watched the heroes turn against one another, left through a shop doorway, and pressed a detonator, declaring that they could all die.

John confronted Lies in the Mirror Dimension, learned that Lies claimed to serve fate by restoring balance, and then tracked him through MOSS. John returned to the airport, stopped Bucky and Steve, and helped the authorities surround the superheroes.

• John questioned Lies in the Mirror Dimension, but Lies claimed fate had brought him there to correct changes and preserve balance between good and evil.
• John tested Lies's claim of immortality with his wand, and Lies fled into the abyss before John closed the Mirror Dimension and crushed the Detonator.
• John asked MOSS to locate Lies, then used the network to track him despite Lies shutting off his devices.
• John returned to the airport and struck Bucky and Steve with a bolt of red light to stop them from leaving.
• John told Zemo that Lies was nowhere near his house, then faced T'Challa and noted that special forces and the Bomb Squad had arrived.
• Heavily armed special forces surrounded the superheroes, while Tony told John he should have announced his arrival.

After the Avengers split over Steve Rogers and Bucky, John visited the imprisoned heroes and challenged their choices, while the political fallout continued. He healed Peter, promised to send him home, and left to help with the airport damage and medical response.

• Thaddeus Ross faced pressure over the Avengers’ defections, while Percy’s backing kept Wanda and Pietro out of detention and rescued superheroes received treatment.
• John visited Steve, Barton, Scott, and the other prisoners, arguing that they had acted without backing and that Bucky should answer for his crimes.
• John confronted Natasha about whether she was Natalie or Natasha, then left the Raft Prison with Percy.
• John found Peter trying to hide his superhero identity from May, healed him, and told him to prepare an excuse before going home.
• John left to help wizards respond to the destroyed airport and provide medical treatment.

After the Civil War fallout, the Wizarding Kingdom gained a formal role in supervising superheroes while John considered the danger posed by Lies and other variants. The chapter ended with Sam, Wanda, and Pietro appearing at the Raft to help Steve escape.

• Tony asked John about Lies, and John described him as a scheming man who claimed to be Fate’s emissary and carried a Key that could open any door.
• The United Nations passed the Sokovia Accords, and the Children of Miracle signed them as the Avengers faced public distrust and Steve’s team awaited trial.
• John found Godslayer among the international fugitives and worried that multiple dangerous variants were converging under Fate’s influence.
• John visited his school, appointed Martha deputy headmistress, and arranged for Dax to train the superhuman students.
• The Wizarding Kingdom secured a place on the superhero oversight committee, while Bucky was handed over to Wakanda and T’Challa prepared to inherit the throne.
• Sam arrived at the Raft with Wanda and Pietro, and Steve smiled when he heard Sam call out to him.