Recaps

Tony introduced Peter Parker as Spider-Man to Hermione, who learned that Thor had returned to Asgard with Banner and disappeared from contact. Suspecting a crisis there and worrying about Hela, Hermione decided she needed to investigate, while Pepper arranged a formal dinner for the group.

• Peter volunteered his identity as Spider-Man, and Tony explained that he had recruited the high school student for the airport fight.
• Hermione asked why Tony had not called Thor, and Tony said Thor had returned to Asgard with Banner and stopped responding to attempts to reach him.
• Hermione suspected Asgard faced a major crisis and considered the danger Hela could pose, deciding she needed to investigate after preparing.
• Pepper took Hermione to change, while Tony told Peter to put on a formal suit for dinner.
• Tony, Pepper, Hermione, and Peter ate at a luxurious Manhattan restaurant, where Hermione eagerly dug into the food and wine.

Tony and Pepper arranged dinner to introduce Peter to Hermione, but Hermione showed little interest in him until she asked to meet his single aunt, May Parker. Peter mistook the request for romantic interest, while Tony and Pepper suspected Hermione had another motive.

• Hermione ate most of the dinner while Tony and Pepper asked Peter about his school, hobbies, and friends, and Peter nervously answered their questions.
• Hermione pointed out that Tony had already asked Peter about his background before giving him the suit, ending their attempt to steer the conversation toward romance.
• Peter grew discouraged as Hermione ignored him, while Tony and Pepper worried that she showed no interest in dating.
• After finishing her meal, Hermione asked Peter to take her to meet May and told him to call her Hermione.
• Peter became convinced Hermione secretly liked him, but Tony and Pepper suspected her request had a different purpose.

Hermione visited Tom’s replica of the Wizarding World in the Marvel Universe and reviewed its construction, staffing, and his progress. She put Dumpling in charge of operations and warned Tom that a major operation against the Ministry of Magic was coming soon.

• Hermione arrived at the isolated site and found Tom building a near-perfect replica of the Ministry of Magic.
• Tom reported that the magical schools, trading districts, and other locations were built, but the world still lacked enough people; he also revealed that his training had brought him to level five.
• Hermione told Tom to stay away from the Ministry for now because she planned to move against it, and explained that Lockhart was protecting his permanent Auror post.
• Hermione transferred operational information to Dumpling and ordered her to manage the Wizarding World and Witch Cult while blocking Tony Stark from access.
• Tom told Hermione that Wanda was training with Agatha, and Hermione promised to gather the Sin Archbishops for a major operation in the next few days.

Hermione returned to Hogwarts and found Dumbledore under Ministry house arrest in the Astronomy Tower. She met him there, and their reunion revealed that seventy years had passed for Dumbledore while only a few days had passed for her; she then asked why he had willingly allowed himself to be confined.

• Hermione slipped through Hogwarts's heightened security and overheard students say Dumbledore had returned and been arrested by the Ministry.
• Hermione entered the guarded Astronomy Tower and found Dumbledore living comfortably under house arrest.
• Dumbledore explained that he had deduced Hermione destroyed his ward at Nurmengard and returned to Hogwarts so she would learn where to find him.
• Hermione revealed herself and addressed Dumbledore as Albus, prompting him to recognize her as the girl who had disappeared from his life seventy years earlier.
• Hermione told Dumbledore that only a few days had passed for her and asked why he had volunteered for house arrest.

Hermione decided to draw Fudge and his supporters to Hogwarts by using Dumbledore as bait. Dumbledore left the Astronomy Tower and met the gathered students in the Great Hall, where Umbridge confronted him.

• Dumbledore explained to Hermione that he had stayed confined to protect Hogwarts and avoid weakening the wizarding world while Voldemort gathered strength.
• Hermione summoned a silver bird to draw Fudge, Umbridge, and their allies to Hogwarts, and Dumbledore recognized that she planned to use him as bait.
• An Auror warned Umbridge that Dumbledore had left the Astronomy Tower and gone to the Great Hall, so she ordered the Aurors to gather and followed him there.
• Students from all four houses gathered around Dumbledore in the Great Hall, while Harry, Ron, and Draco watched from the front.
• Umbridge entered with the Aurors and challenged Dumbledore, who calmly told her he had been comfortable in confinement.

Dumbledore confronted Umbridge after she tried to send him back to his quarters, and Fudge arrived at Hogwarts with a large Auror force to enforce his confinement. Fudge dismissed Dumbledore’s warning that Voldemort had returned and threatened to imprison the Order of the Phoenix and endanger Hogwarts’ students if Dumbledore refused to cooperate.

• Umbridge told Dumbledore that he should not appear in public and ordered him to return to his quarters.
• Dumbledore challenged Umbridge to explain why he was confined despite not being under arrest, and his presence made her and the Great Hall fall silent.
• Cornelius Fudge entered with a large contingent of elite Aurors and told Dumbledore to return to the Astronomy Tower while the Ministry investigated him.
• Dumbledore warned Fudge that Voldemort had returned and was gathering Death Eaters, but Fudge called it a lie and insisted Voldemort had been killed by the Witch.
• Fudge threatened to send the Order of the Phoenix to Azkaban and warned that Hogwarts’ students would suffer if Dumbledore refused to cooperate.

Dumbledore confronted Fudge in the Great Hall and revealed a spare wand he had taken from Grindelwald. As the students united in support of Dumbledore, Fudge prepared to order an attack, but Dumbledore challenged him to explain the rumors behind his actions.

• Dumbledore drew a spare wand taken from Gellert Grindelwald, and Fudge accused him of threatening the Ministry of Magic.
• Fudge tried to use the students as a reason for Dumbledore not to fight, but Fred and George rallied the school against the Ministry and Fudge.
• Harry and Ron joined the Weasley Twins, and students from all four Houses shouted together for Dumbledore and demanded that the Aurors leave Hogwarts.
• Fudge blamed Umbridge for the students' defiance, then decided he could not retreat and prepared to order his Aurors to attack.
• Dumbledore asked Fudge whether rumors that he had tried to kill the Witch were his only excuse for entering Hogwarts and imprisoning him.

Hermione returned to Hogwarts in the middle of the Ministry’s attempt to arrest Dumbledore, forcing Fudge to retreat from his accusations. When Fudge blamed the Daily Prophet for spreading rumors about her death, Hermione claimed she really had colluded with Voldemort.

• Fudge refused to accept Dumbledore’s innocence and demanded that he surrender his wand, while Dumbledore said he had evidence.
• Hermione appeared on the Great Hall dais in a burst of black-and-red particles, and the students erupted in celebration at the Witch’s return.
• Dumbledore asked Fudge whether Hermione counted as credible evidence, and Fudge immediately declared Dumbledore innocent and tried to leave.
• Hermione stopped Fudge and asked whether he had been telling people she was dead.
• Fudge blamed the Daily Prophet for the rumors and insisted the Ministry had been deceived, so Hermione solemnly said she really had colluded with Voldemort.

Hermione confronted Fudge over the Ministry’s rumors about her death and Dumbledore, then used her overwhelming magical power to challenge him publicly. Fudge ordered the Aurors to attack her and fled toward the doors as they raised their wands.

• Hermione exposed Fudge’s double standard and accused the Ministry of starting rumors about her and Dumbledore.
• Hermione unleashed a terrifying display of magic in the Great Hall and told Fudge she needed no evidence because she was a Witch.
• Hermione asked the students whether the Ministry had spread the rumors, and Harry, Ron, and the others loudly agreed.
• Fudge called the students’ response rebellion and ordered the Aurors to seize Hermione.
• The Aurors reluctantly raised their wands while Fudge backed toward the doors to escape.

Hermione defeated over a hundred Ministry Aurors with a single Disarming Charm while Dumbledore protected the students behind a barrier. As the students celebrated, Lockhart arrived with Aurors escorting a woman in a green coat, and Fudge saw him as a possible savior.

• Dumbledore isolated the students from the battle so Hermione could act freely.
• The Aurors attacked Hermione with a barrage of spells, but she blocked them with a barrier.
• Hermione sent a red beam through the Aurors’ combined shield, disarmed them, and knocked them all down.
• The students cheered for Hermione, including the Slytherins.
• Lockhart entered the Great Hall with several Aurors and a woman in a green coat, and Fudge reacted with joy.

Lockhart exposed Umbridge’s role in spreading false stories about Hermione and framing Dumbledore, while Fudge tried to escape blame. Umbridge then accused Fudge of ordering the scheme, leaving the crowd in an uproar.

• Fudge begged Lockhart to break through Hermione and Dumbledore’s barrier, offering him a promotion and the future ministership.
• Lockhart instead bowed to Hermione and introduced Rita Skeeter, whom he had brought from the Daily Prophet.
• Rita confessed that Umbridge had threatened and blackmailed her into publishing false claims about Hermione’s death and Dumbledore’s involvement.
• Fudge kicked Umbridge and blamed her for the scheme, then begged Hermione and Dumbledore to accept his apology and promised compensation.
• Umbridge accused Fudge of ordering the plot and approving oppressive school rules, provoking jeers from the crowd.

Lockhart exposed Fudge’s role in framing Dumbledore with a recording of Fudge ordering Umbridge to spread the lie. As the Aurors abandoned Fudge and rallied behind Lockhart, Lockhart declared he would resign and face judgment for secretly surveilling his superior, but an Auror defended him.

• Fudge demanded proof that he had ordered Umbridge to frame Dumbledore, and Umbridge could not provide any.
• Lockhart produced a projection orb recording Fudge instructing Umbridge to smear Dumbledore and promising her a promotion.
• Lockhart proclaimed that he would arrest even the Minister for Magic in the name of justice, earning applause from the Hogwarts crowd.
• Lockhart urged the Aurors to join the lawful side, and they left Fudge to stand behind him.
• Lockhart admitted he had secretly surveilled Fudge and said he would resign and submit to the Wizengamot, but an Auror insisted he had done nothing wrong.

Lockhart ordered the Aurors to arrest Fudge and Umbridge after Hermione, Dumbledore, and Lockhart rejected Fudge’s authority. Dumbledore explained that Voldemort still had Horcruxes, and Hermione insisted that Umbridge remain behind as Fudge was taken away.

• The Aurors praised Lockhart, Hermione, and Dumbledore, then Lockhart ordered them to seize Fudge and Umbridge.
• The Aurors bound Fudge and Umbridge, and one silenced Umbridge when she screamed at them.
• Fudge claimed only the Wizengamot could authorize his arrest, but Lockhart said his exposed crimes would cost him his office and send him to Azkaban.
• Fudge accused Dumbledore of plotting to remove him, but Dumbledore denied wanting the ministerial position and explained that Voldemort still had Horcruxes.
• Fudge accepted defeat and allowed the Aurors to lead him away.
• Hermione stopped the Aurors and ordered them to take Fudge but leave Umbridge behind.

Hermione punished Umbridge after the Ministry revoked her appointment and left Hogwarts, then announced Dumbledore’s return as Headmaster. The students celebrated the Witch and Dumbledore as the Great Hall fell silent about Umbridge’s fate.

• Lockhart and the Aurors claimed Umbridge had resisted arrest and been killed, then revoked her appointment as acting Hogwarts Headmaster and escorted Fudge away.
• Umbridge begged Hermione to spare her, but Hermione said she had already given her a chance and cast the Cruciatus Curse.
• Hermione repeatedly tortured Umbridge, then destroyed her body with an ice-blue flame that turned it to scattering powder.
• Dumbledore removed the spatial lockdown and visual barrier, and the students found the Great Hall’s front empty without asking about Umbridge.
• Hermione announced that Dumbledore would resume his position as Hogwarts Headmaster, and the students cheered for him and the Witch.

After Dumbledore’s return and the Ministry’s defeat, Hermione reunited with Harry, Ron, and Draco at Hogwarts. She bet Harry that Snape would keep teaching Potions, while Luna watched Hermione’s return in quiet relief.

• McGonagall, Sprout, and Flitwick entered the Great Hall and learned that Hermione had defeated the Aurors and Dumbledore had returned as headmaster.
• Harry, Ron, and Draco thanked Hermione for freeing Hogwarts from Fudge and Umbridge, and Harry predicted that Dumbledore would expel Snape.
• Hermione wagered that Snape would remain at Hogwarts, offering Harry, Ron, and Draco a month without classes or homework if Harry won, but asking Harry to test her potions if she did.
• Harry accepted the bet, while Draco guessed Hermione had a hidden plan and silently warned Harry’s fate.
• Luna appeared beside Hermione, remembering how she had defended Hermione during her absence and waited for her return.

Hermione returned to Hogwarts and was celebrated for saving the school, then joined Dumbledore and Snape in the restored Headmaster’s Office. She teased Snape about hiding his concern for Harry until he nearly lost his temper.

• Hermione thanked Luna for waiting for her and promised to take her somewhere secret, which delighted Luna.
• Professor McGonagall awarded Hermione five hundred points for Gryffindor, while Flitwick and Professor Sprout envied that she was not in their Houses.
• Dumbledore took Hermione to the restored Headmaster’s Office, where Snape had removed Umbridge’s decorations and the three shared their familiar meeting.
• Hermione asked Snape why he had avoided the Great Hall and teased him about enduring humiliation while pretending to serve Umbridge.
• Hermione nearly revealed Snape’s feelings for Harry, then mocked him for hiding alone until his anger made a tooth crack.

Dumbledore told Snape and Hermione about the Gaunt family ring, a destroyed Horcrux still protected by a dangerous curse, and asked Hermione to help retrieve another possible Horcrux. He also asked Snape to brew powerful Veritaserum for a Slytherin who might know how many Horcruxes Tom had made, while Hermione apologized to Snape and hinted at a gift.

• Dumbledore explained that he had found and destroyed the soul fragment in the Gaunt family ring, but sealed the cursed ring because he could not remove its Dark Magic.
• Dumbledore said he knew of a place that might hold another Horcrux and needed Hermione's help to overcome its defenses.
• Dumbledore asked Snape to brew potent Veritaserum for a Slytherin who might know how many Horcruxes Tom had created but had altered his own memory.
• Snape suggested using Legilimency or the Imperius Curse, but Dumbledore said he wanted to persuade the man before resorting to methods that could damage his mind.
• Snape scolded Hermione for disappearing without warning, and Hermione apologized and promised him a grand gift.

Hermione confronted Dumbledore about the sealed Resurrection Stone, and he revealed he had possessed it for decades. He led her beneath Hogwarts’s Library to meet Gellert, leaving Hermione before the Mirror of Erised in the hidden basement.

• Hermione deduced that the sealed box contained the Resurrection Stone, and Dumbledore confirmed the seal was meant to suppress it.
• Dumbledore asked where Hermione had gone after returning from the past, and Hermione admitted she had come back over a year late because of a Time-Turner date-setting mistake.
• Dumbledore revealed he had possessed the Resurrection Stone for decades and said Gellert might best explain its significance.
• Dumbledore led Hermione through the Library’s hidden side door and down to the basement, where she saw the Mirror of Erised.

Hermione reunited with Grindelwald in a hidden world inside the Mirror of Erised and learned that the Witch Cult had quietly infiltrated much of the Wizarding World. She then heard how Grindelwald and Dumbledore had removed the curse and destroyed the Horcrux on the ring containing the Resurrection Stone.

• Hermione and Dumbledore entered a vast Mirror World hidden inside the Mirror of Erised.
• Dumbledore explained that he and Grindelwald had anchored the world inside the mirror, where Grindelwald had lived for decades.
• Grindelwald welcomed Hermione and told her that the Witch Cult controlled more than half the Wizarding World through secret allies and infiltrators.
• Grindelwald explained that the Witch Cult would remain undercover until Hermione gave the final command.
• Dumbledore showed Grindelwald the ring, and Grindelwald described how he and Dumbledore had spent three days breaking its curse and destroying the Horcrux.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald explained why they had been unable to stop Voldemort: Grindelwald had been trapped inside the mirror for twenty-seven years by a threat he could not face. Grindelwald revealed that Death had appeared when he and Dumbledore gathered the three Deathly Hallows.

• Dumbledore explained that the Resurrection Stone had been hidden in the Gaunt ring, which was also one of Voldemort's Horcruxes.
• Hermione asked why Dumbledore and Grindelwald had not joined forces to defeat Voldemort, and Dumbledore said they could not.
• Grindelwald told Hermione that he had spent twenty-seven years inside the mirror because exposing his magic outside would get him killed.
• Grindelwald explained that he and Dumbledore had gathered the three Deathly Hallows in Godric's Hollow twenty-seven years earlier.
• Grindelwald revealed that Death had appeared when the three Hallows resonated in his hands.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald told Hermione how a shadow resembling Death had hunted Grindelwald for twenty-seven years, forcing him to hide inside the Mirror of Erised. Hermione recognized the shadow’s power as ancient magic and identified a Link mark above Grindelwald, then said she knew how it tracked and silenced him.

• Grindelwald recounted how the shadow had sealed his magic and pursued him while ignoring Dumbledore and the Deathly Hallows.
• Dumbledore explained that he had hidden Grindelwald in a Mirror Dimension anchored inside the Mirror of Erised, where Grindelwald had remained for twenty-seven years.
• Dumbledore described his failed attempts to fight the shadow and explained how he had separated and secured the three Deathly Hallows.
• Hermione examined Grindelwald with magic and recognized the power sealing his magic as the ancient magic Silence.
• Hermione used ancient magic to see a glowing Link mark above Grindelwald and told Dumbledore and Grindelwald that she knew how the shadow tracked and silenced him.

Hermione used Ancient Magic to remove the seal and tracking mark that had trapped Grindelwald and sealed his magic for twenty-seven years. She explained how she recognized the shadow’s spells, while Dumbledore and Grindelwald wondered whether the shadow was Death.

• Hermione carefully used her Silence and Link abilities to break the seal and tracking mark on Grindelwald.
• Grindelwald regained access to his magic, summoned Fiendfyre, and thanked Hermione.
• Hermione explained that the shadow had used Ancient Magic, identifying the seal as Silence and the tracking mark as a variation of Link.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald realized their years of research had failed because they had been investigating Ancient Magic without its inheritance.
• Grindelwald asked why the shadow wanted him dead, and Dumbledore suggested that it might be Death.

Hermione theorized that the Deathly Hallows summoned a powerful being called Death, then asked Dumbledore to investigate the vanished Transfer Student, whom she suspected was connected to ancient magic and the shadow. Dumbledore recalled that the Transfer Student disappeared from Hogwarts before graduating, suggesting something had ensured no information about his fate survived.

• Hermione suggested that possessing all three Deathly Hallows activated ancient spells that sealed the holder's magic and marked them for Death to find.
• Hermione concluded that Death's power was far beyond hers and considered whether advanced ancient magic unlocked abilities such as tracking across distance and space.
• Hermione asked Dumbledore to investigate the former ancient-magic inheritor who entered Hogwarts as a fifth-year more than a century earlier.
• Hermione connected the Transfer Student, Death, and ancient magic, noting that the Map Chamber's Guardians had vanished and only a book remained.
• Dumbledore recalled that the Transfer Student had disappeared before graduating, and suspected that something had ensured no trace of what happened was left behind.

Hermione, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald agreed to investigate the hidden threat and quietly begin unifying the Wizarding World. Grindelwald escaped the Mirror World after twenty-seven years, while Hermione discovered he had watched her as a child; Snape remained Hogwarts’s Potions professor, costing Harry his bet.

• Dumbledore and Grindelwald agreed to investigate the transfer student, consult Phineas Nigellus Black’s portrait, and keep the shadow secret.
• Hermione proposed quietly consolidating the Wizarding World’s resources before making a public announcement after Voldemort’s Horcruxes were destroyed.
• Grindelwald passed through the Mirror of Erised and escaped the Mirror World after twenty-seven years.
• Hermione realized Grindelwald had watched her from inside the mirror when she was twelve, and Dumbledore admitted Grindelwald had slipped Harry the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Hermione encountered Harry, Ron, and Draco, then told Harry that Snape had not been sacked and that Harry had lost their bet.

After learning that the Grim Reaper threatened Earth, Hermione decided to travel to Asgard with several Witch Cult Sin Archbishops and prepared alchemical robes with Luna. In the Marvel Universe, she summoned Agatha, Wanda, Tom, and Kaecilius to join her.

• Harry accepted that Snape had shielded him from Umbridge and agreed to test potions for Hermione.
• Hermione resolved to seek soul energy in Asgard and bring several Witch Cult Sin Archbishops because she feared she could not handle the danger alone.
• Luna met Hermione at the Room of Requirement, where Hermione noticed Luna had reached level four magic power.
• Hermione and Luna made six alchemical robes, then crossed into the Marvel Universe and arrived at the Ministry of Magic headquarters.
• Hermione activated her apple mark, and Agatha, Wanda, Tom, and Kaecilius received her summons.