Chapter Summaries

Wanda, Vision, and JARVIS traveled by the Albatross to Wizard City, where Wanda’s Ring guided her toward the Wizard King’s Magic Tower. JARVIS had to stop as the city’s magical network threatened to assimilate him, and Wanda and Vision found a dragon relief sculpture watching them as they continued alone.

• JARVIS explained that the Albatross had kept running through the years of Eternal Sleep, and Wanda, Vision, and JARVIS boarded it for the Wizarding Kingdom.
• Wanda briefly dreamed of Diagon Alley, where a dazzling light seemed to cause pain in her finger before she woke aboard the train.
• JARVIS described how the wizards defeated Thanos and how magic later grew to dominate technology, politics, and the law.
• The Albatross carried them through the fog and into Wizard City, where JARVIS warned that the magical network would assimilate him if he went farther.
• Wanda followed the Ring’s guidance toward the Magic Tower with Vision, and a dragon relief sculpture on the tower’s wall moved and stared at her.

Wanda and Vision fought the three Dragons guarding the Magic Tower while Wizard City began collapsing after Vision shut down its magic-power device. Wanda reached the tower and found the sleeping Wizard King, Wong, but a hidden figure confronted her before she could act.

• Wanda and Vision trapped the fire-breathing Dragon in a self-restoring building, then entered the Alchemy Department and witnessed memories of Silencers seizing its Mobius Strip device.
• Vision shut down the device, halting Wizard City's expansion, and drew the Dragons away while Wanda carried its purple gem toward the Magic Tower.
• The three Dragons attacked Vision as Wanda reached the tower, opened its doors with magic, and escaped inside just before a wave of darkness arrived.
• Wanda climbed the seemingly endless staircase and found Wong on the Throne, gaunt and asleep, with a second ring of the Nine Rings beside him.
• When Wanda picked up the ring, her own ring glowed, and a Wand emerged from the darkness and pressed against her back.

Wanda and Vision encountered Gellert Grindelwald in the High Tower, where he revealed that their world was real and began telling them how he came to be there. Grindelwald’s story ended with him discovering a ring in the brief sunlight that reached his hidden tower.

• Grindelwald appeared before Wanda, read her mind, and pushed her from the High Tower, but she returned with Vision and the three dragons.
• Grindelwald ordered the dragons to stand down and introduced himself as Gellert Grindelwald.
• Wanda noticed Grindelwald wore a Nine Rings ring and asked why he had escaped eternal sleep.
• Grindelwald used smoke to show Wanda and Vision his defeat by the Wizard King and the curse that left him trapped in a shadowed High Tower.
• Grindelwald recalled that he realized the world had changed after a ring fell into the sunlit gap in his tower.

Grindelwald revealed that the Wizard King was trapped in an endless dream and that Wanda could only stop Eternal Sleep by killing the body sustaining it. After learning why Neville Longbottom died, Wanda and Vision descended the collapsing High Tower and returned the gemstone to JARVIS.

• Grindelwald explained that the Planner, Dreamwalker, and Critic were the three heads of an incomplete Runespoor, and that the Wizard King had chosen to remain asleep in a dream.
• Grindelwald told Wanda and Vision that the Wizard King could not awaken without the Critic, leaving them to kill the Wizard King's body or let Eternal Sleep consume the universe.
• Wanda asked why Neville Longbottom died, and Grindelwald said Neville chose death as a warning that magic could not rule people's hearts.
• Grindelwald explained that Neville's death briefly sobered the Stars, but their factions and self-interest ultimately pulled them apart without the Wizard King as their hub.
• Wanda and Vision left the High Tower and found Mark 42 fading on a bench in the collapsing Wizard City.
• Vision placed the round gemstone into the reactor in JARVIS's chest, and JARVIS asked whether they had succeeded.

Wanda and Vision escaped the sinking Wizard City and awoke from a month-long sleep, though they could not remember their dream. Vision joined the Avengers, who accepted a mission in Lagos, while Hogwarts students continued clashing over Quidditch rules.

• JARVIS said goodbye to Wanda and asked her to give his regards to Mr. Stark as Wizard City sank beneath the water.
• Wanda used her magic to help bring about Wizard City's collapse, then returned to her own world with Vision.
• Pietro, the Avengers, and Natasha watched over the sleeping Wanda and Vision until they finally woke up, unable to remember their dream.
• Wanda noticed an unexplained feeling toward Vision and a faint ring-shaped mark on her hand before bathing with White Bear.
• Vision officially joined the Avengers, and Steve accepted Hill's mission to stop mercenaries from seizing a dangerous biological weapon in Lagos.
• At Hogwarts, John and Neville discussed the Koldovstoretz students' oversized broomsticks as another clash broke out between Beauxbatons and Hogwarts.

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.