Recaps

John discussed the Avengers’ divide and international politics with Mycroft, then returned to Hogwarts as exam week began. Hogwarts prepared for its final Quidditch match against Durmstrang while Beauxbatons taunted the team after its earlier loss.

• Mycroft and John discussed the Sokovia Accords, Ross’s political ambitions, Wakanda, and John’s knowledge of the wanted man Lies.
• John warned Mycroft that Lies was dangerous despite having no magic or superpowers, then left the club for Hogwarts.
• John examined a living substance in a bottle sent by his father and watched students sit their exams.
• John saw Stella and Lewis writing confidently, Alice checking her completed work, and Stephens returning to Quidditch training after finishing his exams.
• Hogwarts ranked third behind Durmstrang and Beauxbatons, with its final match against Durmstrang still to come.
• Beauxbatons taunted Hogwarts and told the team to prepare to cry.

Hogwarts prepared to face Durmstrang in a Quidditch match that could determine the Inter-School League standings, while Stella and Lewis remained tense over Professor Wick’s scheme. The match began with Durmstrang scoring first, and Hogwarts tried to stick to Wood’s tactics.

• Wood obsessed over the need to score two hundred points against Durmstrang and nearly handed in a blank exam paper.
• Hagrid worried that Beauxbatons might hand Durmstrang the championship, and John urged him to trust Madame Maxime’s love of Quidditch.
• Alice helped Stella and Lewis, who had not spoken for days, as the three students gathered to watch the match.
• Wood led the Hogwarts team onto the pitch, where a large crowd had gathered after exams ended.
• Durmstrang scored the first goal, but Wood encouraged his players to stay steady and follow their practiced tactics.
• The Hogwarts Chasers fought to regain the Quaffle as the Slytherin Beaters harassed Durmstrang with Bludgers.

Hogwarts battled Durmstrang for hours, with Wood defending and Stephens distracting the opposing Seeker before catching the Golden Snitch. Hogwarts temporarily took first place, but the team faced an uncertain final standing before the Beauxbatons match.

• Wood's saves and Hogwarts's attacks gradually erased Durmstrang's lead as the team cheered him on.
• Stephens used a Wronski Feint to mislead the Durmstrang Seeker and buy Hogwarts more time, though their collision nearly threw him from his broom.
• As Wood's defense weakened in the fourth hour, Stephens chased the Golden Snitch and used a Wick Curve to catch it, ending the match at 430-250.
• Hogwarts moved temporarily into first place by eighty points, but Stephens's broom snapped when he landed and the team worried Beauxbatons could overtake them.
• John applauded the team, and Wood praised his players for their effort as they accepted the crowd's support.

Beauxbatons battled Durmstrang in the final Starry Sky Cup match, resisting Aude Ollie’s Decapitation Tactic and taking a narrow lead despite worsening weather. The Golden Snitch appeared, and Aude spotted it first, leaving the match unresolved.

• Mr. Edgar comforted Durmstrang’s defeated players, while Madame Maxime urged Beauxbatons to crush their arrogant opponents in the final.
• Wood attracted interest from the Chudley Cannons, and scouts also considered Stephens promising but still inexperienced.
• John asked Hulk who he supported, and Hulk chose Beauxbatons because Hagrid hated Beauxbatons.
• Aude Ollie began the match arrogantly, but Beauxbatons resisted her tactic and eventually took a twenty-point lead.
• Stormy weather disrupted the match, but Madam Hooch continued play after a timeout.
• When the Golden Snitch appeared, Aude Ollie spotted it before Beauxbatons’s Seeker.

Hogwarts won the Starry Sky Cup, while Hagrid’s quarrel with Madame Maxime left him heartbroken. John decided to use Obelisk Transit Technology to connect their homes, but first he began helping Hagrid extend his cramped hut.

• Aude Ollie caught the Snitch, but Beauxbatons' Chasers scored a late goal, leaving Hogwarts the Starry Sky Cup champion.
• Draco presented the trophy to Wood, and John photographed Wood celebrating with his teammates as his father watched proudly.
• Madame Maxime stormed out of Hagrid's hut after Hagrid bragged about Hogwarts, leaving Hagrid confused and miserable.
• Pheobe explained to John that Madame Maxime wanted to spend time with Hagrid in person, not just exchange letters.
• John planned to use Obelisk Transit Technology to connect Hagrid's home with Madame Maxime's, but found Hagrid's hut too cramped and began extending it.

John finished resolving the Wild Hunt threat, watched Hagrid and Madame Maxime reconcile, and said farewell as Hogwarts's school year ended. He stayed behind instead of boarding the train, intending to find Lies and confirm his suspicions about fate.

• Hagrid, Hulk, and Grawp helped build Hagrid's house, and Pheobe cleaned and decorated it before urging Hagrid to invite Madame Maxime over.
• John created a Scenic Portal linking Hagrid's house to an Obelisk so Madame Maxime could visit, and Hagrid won her back with a candlelit dinner and a small key.
• Hufflepuff won the House Cup, and the students prepared to leave Hogwarts as Dorian chose Auror training and Case earned an O in Transfiguration after becoming an Animagus.
• Madame Maxime said goodbye to Hagrid, while John farewelled his friends and wished Stella a happy holiday.
• John stayed behind rather than board the train and set out to find Lies and confirm his suspicions about fate.

Peter trained with Shang-Chi to improve his fighting skills while trying to hide his activities from May. The next day, he encountered armed robbers wearing superhero masks and moved to stop them.

• Peter escaped May's questions about his loans and slipped out to visit Shang-Chi in his Spider-Man suit.
• Shang-Chi showed Peter a technique his mother had taught him, using Peter's strength against him during their training.
• Peter hurried home, stopped a car thief on the way, and narrowly avoided May discovering he had been out.
• Peter and Ned planned to visit Peter's home to look at new LEGO, but Peter spotted masked robbers using strange weapons to rip open an ATM.
• Peter moved to stop the robbers and protect the scattered money.

Peter stopped robbers wielding an unusual weapon, then Ned discovered that Peter was Spider-Man. Meanwhile, Skrulls flooded New York’s black market with weapons until a blind man calling himself Lies took control of them, while Darcy faced trial for bringing Nick Fury to the Plymouth Settlement and revealed Fury wanted to meet Snake Lady.

• Peter webbed and fought the robbers, whose weapon overheated and nearly burned down the bank, before he wrapped them up for the police.
• Peter returned home in his Spider-Man suit, and Ned recognized him as Spider-Man; May found Peter undressed and misunderstood the situation.
• Black Runner bought a gravity-bullet weapon from two Skrulls selling advanced guns to stir up chaos in New York.
• Lies killed one Skrull, threatened the other, and declared that he was their new boss.
• At the Wizard Supreme Arbitration Court, Darcy defended taking Nick Fury to the Plymouth Settlement and said Fury had wanted to meet Snake Lady.

Darcy was sentenced to ten years in Azkaban after failing to explain the flaw in the anti-Wizard weapons, while John investigated the weapons and his mysterious variants. At Kamar-Taj, John learned that the variants might be part of the world’s fate and decided to stay to uncover their purpose.

• Darcy claimed Nick Fury had told him the anti-Wizard weapons had a fatal flaw, but he could not identify it, and Aldrich sentenced him to ten years in Azkaban.
• Aldrich warned John that criminals in New York were using the weapons to breach magical defenses, and John suspected Hydra might be distributing them.
• John visited Kamar-Taj, where he found Stephen Strange learning magic and discussed the Ancient One’s approaching death and destiny.
• John told the Ancient One about Godslayer, the replacement, and Lies, and they considered whether the variants’ arrivals were part of the world’s fate.
• John decided to stay at Kamar-Taj to investigate the variants and read forbidden books about fate in the library.

John’s visit to Kamar-Taj coincided with Stephen’s rapid magical progress and a dangerous fascination with forbidden books about fate and time. After Stephen’s study of prophecy left him mystically unhinged, he turned his attention to the Eye of Agamotto and took it from the Library.

• John studied books on fate and prophecy in Kamar-Taj’s Library while Stephen secretly used Portal Magic to enter and borrow books.
• John caught Stephen reaching through a Portal for his book and warned him that it concerned prophecy and fate, not what he needed.
• John’s reading triggered precognition, so he put away the fate book and began studying a forbidden book about time.
• Stephen secretly took the fate book and became mystically unhinged, prompting the Ancient One to bury him in snow until he stopped fixating on prophecy.
• Stephen later read the Book of Cagliostro, spotted the Eye of Agamotto in the Library, and took the Time Stone’s vessel.

Stephen experimented with time magic in the Book of Cagliostro and nearly disrupted the timeline before John stopped him. John received the Book of the Vishanti from the Ancient One, while an invasion struck the Library as he arrived.

• Stephen used time magic on an apple, restored torn pages, and opened a space-time disturbance before John shut it down.
• John warned Stephen about the danger of recklessly pursuing knowledge, and Wong and Mordo learned that Stephen had nearly scrambled the timeline.
• John asked the Ancient One why she had let Stephen encounter the Eye of Agamotto, and she explained that he needed to learn caution as a potential Sorcerer Supreme.
• The Ancient One gave John the Book of the Vishanti, hoping its white and defensive magic would steer him away from darkness.
• After Wong and Mordo explained the sorcerers' mission to Stephen, intruders attacked Kamar-Taj through the London Sanctum, and a magical shock wave swept through the Library as John arrived.

John visited the Vishanti to seek answers about fate, but Oshtur urged him to search the universe and Agamotto said fate depended on whether he obeyed or resisted. Meanwhile, the Ancient One lay dying after Kaecilius stabbed her, and Stephen pursued her astral form as John arrived with the Book of the Vishanti.

• John opened the Book of the Vishanti and used magic to create a mirror-like portal to the Vishanti's dimension.
• John asked the Trinity of the Vishanti about fate, and Oshtur advised him to journey through the universe while Agamotto said fate depended on whether he obeyed or resisted.
• John considered traveling through the Nine Realms and left the Library with the Book of the Vishanti.
• Stephen rushed the wounded Ancient One to a hospital, then projected his astral form and followed her drifting soul.
• The Ancient One told Stephen she had grown tired of looking into the future and had chosen him as her successor.
• John's voice reached them, and the Ancient One recognized him as the Wizard King.

The Ancient One chose to die after centuries of protecting Earth, trusting Stephen to become Sorcerer Supreme and hoping her death would awaken his resolve. In astral form, she told John that death was an uncertain journey taken after laying down one’s burdens.

• John reflected on how Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel, Albus Dumbledore, and Gellert Grindelwald had each sought or faced death for different reasons.
• The Ancient One concluded that Stephen could become a steadfast Sorcerer Supreme and that John’s love for his family and friends kept his ambition from endangering the world.
• The Ancient One embraced death as a final lesson for Stephen, while John witnessed her choice with the Book of the Vishanti in his hands.
• At the hospital, John found the Ancient One and Stephen in astral form and asked what death was.
• The Ancient One described death as a sudden, uncertain journey and held Stephen’s hand while reaching toward John.

After the Ancient One died, John absorbed the Dark Dimension’s energy and confronted Dormammu for control of its throne. Their battle left Dormammu unable to kill John and fearing that he would be replaced as king of darkness.

• The Ancient One passed the Sorcerer Supreme title to John before dying, leaving Stephen grieving.
• The Bicorn amulet cracked as dark energy flooded into John, strengthening him without harming him.
• Kaecilius and his Zealots attacked the last Sanctum, and Wong was buried beneath the rubble before Stephen and Mordo arrived.
• Stephen reversed time with the Eye of Agamotto, while John faced Dormammu inside the Dark Dimension.
• John and Dormammu exchanged attacks, but John continually regenerated as the dimension’s dark energy sustained him.
• Dormammu realized that John could take his place as king and asked what he wanted.

John battled Dormammu and negotiated for access to the Dark Dimension, while Stephen Strange entered the realm intending to trap Dormammu in a time loop. The chapter ended with Dormammu weighing John's proposed terms: he would keep the dimension but let John use its power and stay out of John's universe.

• John challenged Dormammu to share the Dark Dimension, and Dormammu eventually called a halt to their battle.
• Stephen entered the Dark Dimension, used a looping time spell, and tried to bargain with Dormammu.
• Dormammu repeatedly killed Stephen, who returned each time, until John interrupted the cycle to resume negotiations.
• John told Dormammu he could keep the Dark Dimension if he let John use its dark energy and stayed out of John's universe.
• Stephen realized John was negotiating with Dormammu as an equal, while Dormammu considered the offer.

John reached a binding agreement with Dormammu to draw energy from the Dark Dimension, then helped Stephen end Kaecilius’s attack and used space-time magic to restore the fallen. He left the remaining city repairs to the wizards after finding traces of an old friend in the Dark Dimension.

• John forced Dormammu to sign a Gate of Matter contract granting him access to the Dark Dimension’s energy, while Dormammu angrily killed Stephen repeatedly.
• Stephen told John he hoped the power would never be used against Earth, and John warned that anyone who came after him could face it.
• Kaecilius’s Zealots were pulled toward the Dark Dimension, and Mordo left after criticizing Stephen for breaking the laws of nature.
• John restored the fallen with space-time magic and assigned the gathered wizards to repair the ruined city.
• John told Stephen that darkness could be used to protect others, then vanished after discovering traces of an old friend in the Dark Dimension.

John went into space and sensed the White Wolf’s presence, then returned to the Wizarding Kingdom to gather what he needed for a dangerous spell. He completed the spell and vanished into a strange space of mirrors, where he approached a wooden door and answered an unseen teacher.

• John reflected on the White Wolf and Thor’s efforts to prevent Ragnarok, then flew into space and felt an impending danger.
• John fell into the sea near Bikini Bottom, returned to shore, and learned from MOSS that the Wizarding Kingdom’s network was under attack.
• John traveled back to the Wizarding Kingdom and broke a fragment from the ice sculpture on the Magic Tower’s Throne.
• John sent Riddle away and combined magic power, souls, time, and a curse to cast a spell that pulled him into another space.
• John saw mirrors, a burning oak tree, and a young wizard studying alchemy before approaching a wooden door and calling the aged voice his teacher.

John met Nicolas Flamel in the Gate of Matter and exchanged dark energy for the Casket of Ancient Winters. He fused two Caskets into the true artifact, claimed it as his own, and returned to the Magic Tower, where he asked where Basil had gone.

• John reunited with his teacher, Nicolas Flamel, who warned him about the fire tree and urged him not to treat death as a release.
• John entered the Silver Gate and traded dark energy drawn from Dormammu’s Dark Dimension for the Casket of Ancient Winters.
• John merged the two Caskets, used the mark over his heart to establish himself as the true Casket’s master, and considered using it against the White Wolf.
• Nicolas Flamel and his wife watched John’s gift transform their barren world into an Ideal Land.
• John returned to the Magic Tower, greeted Riddle, and asked where Basil had gone.

Peter was followed by Basil, an owl that attacked Flash at school, while Peter hoped to attend Liz Toomes’s party. At the party, Liz welcomed her Uncle Ferdinand, and Peter discovered that Michelle Jones had fed Basil.

• Basil followed Peter for days and flew into PE class, kicking Flash and slapping Coach Wilson with a wing before flying away.
• Peter told his classmates he had met Spider-Man through the Stark internship program, and Liz invited him to her party.
• Adrian Toomes worried about Liz’s party and asked Ferdinand to keep the boys away from her.
• Peter and Ned arrived at the Toomes house, where Ferdinand showed up in a blue sports car and Liz greeted him as her uncle.
• Ferdinand took over the party music, and Peter spotted Michelle Jones holding food after noticing Basil had a dried fish in its beak.

At a school party, Basil repeatedly attacked people who approached Peter, including Flash, while Michelle realized the owl was trying to play matchmaker. Michelle persuaded Basil to stop targeting Peter’s friends, though Basil’s intentions toward Peter remained unclear.

• Peter asked Michelle whether she had been feeding Basil, and Michelle explained that she had met the owl and named her Bad Temper.
• Flash mocked Peter and Ned, but Basil flew in through the open window and beat Flash while the partygoers mistook the commotion for part of the music.
• Basil flew toward Ned, prompting him to run, but stopped before attacking him; Peter wondered why she targeted people near him but not Michelle.
• Michelle went outside and told Basil that she could not force Peter and Michelle together or attack people who approached Peter.
• Basil nodded after Michelle asked her to stop attacking Peter’s companions, and Michelle offered her dried fish.

Peter left the Toomes party when his Spider-Sense warned him of danger and was chased by two armed men using stolen Chitauri technology. Ferdinand helped him escape, and Peter changed into Spider-Man to confront a pursuing Flying Soldier, whose weapons left him scrambling for a defense.

• Basil snatched Michelle’s dried fish, while Peter noticed the owl watching something and hurried outside.
• Ferdinand learned from Adrian that Damage Control had been robbed, then saw armed men attack Peter with stolen weapons.
• Ferdinand rammed one attacker with his car and drove Peter away as another pursued them on an Antigravity Aircraft.
• Peter changed into his Spider-Man suit and webbed the Flying Soldier out of the sky, but the man cut through the webbing with Arm Blades.
• Peter grabbed a trash can lid for protection, and the Flying Soldier drove both Arm Blades through it.

Peter and Ferdinand survived a Skrull’s explosive attack and learned that Lies had targeted Peter by name. After Ferdinand revealed that John Wick had acted as Peter’s godfather, Peter followed the traced phone signal to a slaughterhouse.

• Peter webbed the flying Skrull, but Ferdinand crashed a sports car into him and knocked him unconscious.
• Ferdinand answered the Skrull’s phone and handed it to Peter, who dodged the phone bomb when his Spider-Sense warned him.
• The Skrull activated his weapons and sacrificed himself in a blast that destroyed the car and stripped away the surrounding ground and walls.
• Peter learned from Ferdinand that John Wick had acted as his godfather, then left the party to pursue Lies.
• Peter followed Karen’s traced signal to a slaughterhouse and crawled along the ceiling inside.

Peter pursued Lies to a cold storage room and was tricked into believing its door was rigged to a bomb near Liz's House, so he stayed trapped as he froze. Tony remotely controlled the Red and Gold Armor to rescue him, revealing there had been no bomb and no Lies outside.

• Peter found Lies's phone in the cold storage room, but Lies shut the door and locked him inside.
• Lies claimed that damaging the room would trigger a bomb at Liz's House, and Peter refused to break out because his classmates were there.
• Peter discovered a signal jammer, then endured five hours of freezing temperatures while the suit's heating system kept him alive.
• Tony remotely sent the Red and Gold Armor to cut through the door, and Peter panicked, believing he had triggered the bomb.
• Tony showed Peter that there was no bomb or Lies outside, then explained that he had tracked Peter and controlled the armor over Wi-Fi.

Peter remained convinced that he had seen Lies, while Adrian discovered the weapons used unstable Magic Crystals. Basil gave Peter a feather and mobilized New York’s birds to search for Lies.

• Tony dismissed Peter’s sighting of Lies as possibly one of the many impostors, but Peter found a card marked “Prey” at the slaughterhouse and became certain Lies had been there.
• Peter returned to the party, lied to Michelle about where he had gone, and went home feeling weighed down by the threat to those around him.
• Adrian told Ferdinand that the weapons used Magic Crystals and could overheat and explode; Ferdinand suspected Damage Control was also being targeted for its crystals.
• At school, Basil gave Peter a white feather, then flew to the Statue of Liberty and directed owls to send birds across New York to hunt for Lies.

Peter followed Basil’s magical feather to a weapons deal and discovered that Lies was preparing a major operation involving the Staten Island Ferry. After Peter was caught, Robert intervened, leaving Peter free to pursue the larger threat.

• Peter visited Ferdinand at Taran Industries, learned that black-market weapons used Magic Crystals that could explode when overloaded, and realized Lies could cause chaos in New York.
• Basil’s feather led Peter to a rooftop where the owl showed him men connected to the earlier attack on Peter making a deal.
• Peter followed the men in a taxi driven by Robert and infiltrated their warehouse through a ventilation duct.
• Peter overheard the men discuss a major ferry deal and learned that Lies would handle it personally at the Staten Island Ferry.
• The manager’s Gravity Gun pulled Peter down, but Robert disabled the weapon with a book and freed him.
• Robert fought the remaining criminals while Peter left to stop the ferry deal.