Chapter Summaries

Hermione freed Loki, took Jane to Svartalfheim, and forced Malekith to extract the Aether, which she turned into the Reality Stone. After Hermione left Loki and Jane to escape the Dark Elves, they were discovered, and a warrior took aim at Jane.

• Hermione told Loki that Frigga was safe, freed him from his cell, and took him with her to collect the Aether.
• Jane slapped Loki for New York before Hermione carried them both to the Dark Elf mothership on Svartalfheim.
• Hermione used the Imperius Curse to make Malekith extract the Aether from Jane, then crushed it into the Reality Stone and added it to her pendant.
• Hermione tore Malekith's soul from his body, made a Horcrux from part of it, controlled the Dark Elf warriors, and left Loki to handle the rest.
• Loki told Jane that Malekith had escaped with the Aether, then created a duplicate to distract the Dark Elves while he freed them.
• Loki fought the pursuing Dark Elves as Jane tried to escape, and one warrior crept behind her and raised his weapon.

Hermione and Loki staged Loki’s death while she sent Jane back to Thor and continued after Malekith. Thor believed Jane’s account and grieved for Loki, while Skye began to suspect Hermione had powers and a connection to Thor.

• Loki shoved Jane out of the way of a Dark Elf’s weapon, and Jane believed he had died saving her.
• Hermione rescued Jane, sent her through a Portal to Earth, then confronted the living Loki and discussed his plan to impersonate Odin.
• Thor reunited with Jane, learned that Loki had supposedly died, and was overwhelmed with grief.
• Skye and Coulson overheard Jane’s account, and Skye questioned Hermione’s unexplained disappearance and apparent powers.

During the Celestial Convergence, monsters poured through portals into the Nine Realms and Malekith arrived with the Aether, overwhelming Thor and the human forces. The Aether’s advance stopped at a mysterious patch of sky, revealing a vast castle behind it.

• Countless wormholes opened above Earth, and monsters from the Nine Realms attacked as Thor and the human forces fought back.
• Coulson told Skye that the Celestial Convergence could not be stopped, while Thor struck down the monsters with lightning.
• Malekith arrived aboard a spaceship with Dark Elf aircraft and revealed that he intended to use the Aether to plunge the Nine Realms into darkness before Hermione returned.
• Malekith blasted Thor aside and used the Aether to disintegrate matter, overcoming the humans’ weapons and Thor’s lightning.
• The Aether failed to consume a patch of sky, and an enormous ancient castle gradually appeared behind it.

Hogwarts appeared through a spatial rift as the Aether spread across Midgard, and Professors McGonagall, Snape, and Flitwick arrived to stop its advance. The professors began reversing the darkness, while Malekith demanded to know what lay beyond the rift.

• Coulson explained that Hogwarts belonged to the Wizarding World, and S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Fury watched the castle appear from the Triskelion.
• Professor McGonagall cast Salvio Hexia, creating a shield that held back the Aether and forced the Dark Elves to the ground.
• Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape, and Professor Flitwick discussed the Celestial Convergence, the Aether, and Hermione's disappearance before joining forces.
• The professors pushed back the Aether's darkness and restored areas it had consumed.
• Malekith demanded to know who the professors were and what lay beyond the Other-Spatial Node, while Jane asked Thor what the node was.

Thor and Coulson sought help from the Hogwarts professors as Malekith spread darkness across the world, but the professors refused to leave the spatial node unless Malekith was killed. The professors then sensed something from Hogwarts Castle.

• Thor explained that the spatial node was an entrance to a much larger space, while Snape destroyed a Dark Elf aircraft and Malekith redirected the Aether around the node.
• Malekith's Aether spread darkness that empowered the Dark Elves, and he blocked Thor's attack and hurled him into a crater.
• Coulson ran toward the professors for help, and Professor McGonagall opened a safe passage through the Aether for him.
• Snape used Legilimency to confirm Coulson was Hermione's acquaintance, but McGonagall said the professors would only act against the Aether after Malekith was killed.
• Fury watched the exchange from S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, then McGonagall, Snape, and Flitwick turned toward Hogwarts Castle after sensing something.

Hermione returned to Hogwarts after being lost across the Nine Realms, where she learned that Malekith had merged with the Aether and was attacking the school. As magical creatures fought the Dark Elves, Hermione prepared to confront Malekith, who declared himself invincible before the professors dismissed him as mentally ill.

• Professor McGonagall told Coulson that Hogwarts would send helpers, and a Great Dragon and other magical creatures emerged to slaughter the Dark Elves.
• Fury watched the creatures devastate the invaders while considering the power of the wizarding world.
• Hermione appeared at Hogwarts, explained that the Celestial Convergence had scattered her across the Nine Realms, and apologized for letting Malekith escape with the Aether.
• Hermione asked Professor McGonagall and the other professors to seal the surrounding space, then promised to kill Malekith.
• Coulson told Skye that Hermione was Miss Wizard, and Skye realized the woman she had befriended aboard the Bus was the legendary witch.
• Malekith boasted that merging with the Aether had made him invincible, but Snape and Professor McGonagall questioned his sanity, and the three professors agreed that he was mentally ill.

Hermione and three Hogwarts professors defeated Malekith and contained the Reality Stone, ending the battle. After the professors returned to Hogwarts with the Stone, Hermione revived Thor, who prepared to return to Asgard to report Loki’s fate.

• The professors trapped the Aether while Hermione stripped Malekith of its armor and killed him with the Killing Curse.
• The professors destroyed the remaining Dark Elves and joined Hermione in compressing the rampaging Aether into the Reality Stone.
• Professor McGonagall warned Hermione that the Ministry feared her growing power before she, Snape, and Flitwick returned to Hogwarts with the Stone.
• Coulson and Fury reflected on Hermione’s feared status in the Wizarding World as she healed the unconscious Thor.
• Thor woke, learned what had happened, and told Hermione he needed to return to Asgard to inform his father about Loki.

After Hermione stopped the Dark Elves’ invasion, Tom revealed how he had secretly staged the convincing Hogwarts and wizard performance. The world reacted to Hermione’s public debut with worship and fear, while Skye celebrated learning that her idol was the witch.

• Thor entered the portal, and the Celestial Convergence’s strange phenomena faded, leaving destruction behind.
• Tom explained that he had used the Infinity Stones to construct Hogwarts and create the actors, while Hermione had repurposed slain dark wizards and consumed Malekith’s Horcrux.
• Hermione asked Tom about the next act, and he confirmed that the Hydra script and actors were ready while they waited for Alexander Pierce to act.
• The world learned that Hermione had other wizards with her, and public opinion split between adoration of her and fear of magical power.
• Skye eagerly questioned Hermione aboard the Bus, learned that wizardry was hereditary, and declared herself Hermione’s number-one fan.

Coulson announced that the S.H.I.E.L.D. Team had located Ian Quinn and was preparing to capture him. Hermione revealed her role in stopping Aldrich Killian and enchanted the team’s guns with Stunning Spells before they moved out on the mission.

• Coulson told the team they had located Ian Quinn and ordered everyone to prepare for his arrest.
• Ward explained Quinn’s Centipede Project, and Hermione learned that the Extremis Virus was part of it.
• Hermione told the team that she, not Iron Man, had defeated Aldrich Killian and his Extremis soldiers.
• Hermione used alchemy and magic to enchant the team’s Sleep Guns so their shots would immediately incapacitate targets.
• Coulson called the team to move out, postponing Fitz’s questions about alchemy until their return.

Hermione helped Coulson and Ward examine a mysterious device, then asked Tony to identify it. The chapter ended when May reported that Skye had been shot and urgently needed treatment.

• Coulson and Ward returned to the Bus with a component recovered during the mission to capture Ian Quinn.
• Hermione operated the holographic table and enlarged the component’s core data storage unit while Coulson and Ward struggled with the controls.
• Hermione called Tony, who identified the component as a wide-area Neurotoxin Dispersal Device capable of rendering people unconscious.
• May told Coulson that the team had captured Quinn but Skye had been shot and needed emergency treatment.

Hermione saved Skye from a gunshot wound and joined Coulson to meet John Garrett and Trip. Garrett learned that Hermione was staying aboard the Bus, then reacted with surprise when Coulson said Skye had fully recovered.

• Coulson rushed to get Skye help, and Hermione used May's coordinates to open a Portal so the injured Skye could be brought to the Bus.
• Hermione removed the bullet and healed Skye's wound, restoring her vital signs and waking her.
• Hermione agreed to join Coulson in questioning Quinn, but Coulson said the interrogation would wait for Fury's arriving colleagues.
• John Garrett and Trip arrived, and Trip recognized Hermione as the legendary Miss Wizard.
• Coulson told Garrett how Hermione had ended up staying aboard the Bus, then explained that Hermione had healed Skye.
• Garrett reacted in shock when Coulson said Skye had been shot in the abdomen but was now fine.

Hermione saved Skye and helped S.H.I.E.L.D. force Ian Quinn to reveal that the Clairvoyant had targeted Coulson to uncover the secret of his resurrection. After Coulson described the Clairvoyant’s uncanny intelligence, Hermione said perfect prediction was impossible even for a seer, then shocked the team by mentioning Gellert Grindelwald’s power.

• Hermione healed Skye, disrupting Garrett’s plan to learn how Coulson had returned from the dead.
• Coulson and the others questioned Ian Quinn, who claimed the Clairvoyant knew all of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s movements.
• Skye entered the interrogation room unharmed, and Hermione revealed herself and threatened to search Quinn’s mind.
• Quinn confessed that the Clairvoyant had used him as a pawn to uncover the secret of Coulson’s resurrection.
• Coulson told Hermione the Clairvoyant seemed able to predict S.H.I.E.L.D.’s actions, but Hermione said such precision was beyond even a natural-born seer.
• Hermione mentioned that Gellert Grindelwald had swept through half the Wizarding World, leaving the team stunned.

Hermione explained that Grindelwald had led a global wizarding civil war and was powerful enough to threaten entire cities, until Dumbledore defeated him. She described how wizards concealed magical disasters from Muggles, and Skye began to question what Hermione meant by calling it the First Wizarding War.

• Hermione identified Grindelwald as the most powerful Dark Wizard of nearly a century earlier, who sought to rule Muggles and overturn wizarding secrecy.
• Hermione said that even she and every Hogwarts professor together could not have defeated Grindelwald at his peak, and described the war as a worldwide wizarding civil war.
• Hermione recounted how Grindelwald nearly destroyed Paris with Fiendfyre, forcing wizards to contain the blaze and wipe the city's residents' memories.
• Hermione explained that the Magical Congress of the United States of America had covered New York in memory-wiping rain after an Obscurial destroyed several streets.
• Hermione wondered whether the Ministry of Magic had stopped erasing memories because she had revealed so much, and Skye asked about the war being called the First Wizarding War.

Hermione ruled out precognition and supernatural surveillance, leading Skye and Coulson to realize the Clairvoyant was likely a high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. mole using stolen information. The discussion turned to GH325, the serum that had revived Coulson, and Hermione said she knew about it.

• Hermione told Coulson that neither a powerful wizard nor an ordinary Clairvoyant could secretly monitor her or predict the future as they suspected.
• Skye proposed that the Clairvoyant had access to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s mission plans and personnel records, and Coulson concluded that a high-ranking agent was a mole.
• Garrett and Ward hid their alarm as Hermione's reasoning threatened to expose their deception, while Garrett remained unsuspected.
• Skye asked Coulson what he would have done without Hermione, and he admitted he would have pursued the serum GH325.
• Coulson explained that GH325 had brought him back to life and that only Director Fury knew the classified details, but Hermione said she knew about it.

Hermione revealed that Skye had Kree ancestry and was an Inhuman, then used the Obelisk to awaken her vibration powers. After helping Skye control them, Hermione returned to Hogwarts, where Snape took her to meet Daily Prophet interviewer Rita Kist.

• Hermione told Coulson that GH325 came from Kree blood and revealed that Skye had Kree genes, identifying her as an Inhuman.
• Skye overheard the revelation, learned that at least one of her parents was an Inhuman, and asked Hermione where she might find them.
• Hermione retrieved S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Obelisk from Nick Fury and awakened Skye's vibration powers.
• Skye tested her new powers against Hermione, who dropped her into the Mirror Dimension for half an hour and then taught her basic control.
• Hermione returned to Hogwarts, where Snape took her to meet Daily Prophet interviewer Rita Kist.

Hermione agreed to an interview with Rita Skeeter, who tried to trap her into giving sensational answers. As Rita accused Hermione of colluding with the Dark Lord, Hermione stayed calm and hinted that Rita’s imagination was limited.

• Snape told Hermione that the Daily Prophet wanted to interview her because her actions at the Ministry had made her famous.
• Hermione found Rita Skeeter interviewing Harry and heard Rita invent a romantic relationship between Harry and Malfoy.
• Hermione entered the interview room and answered Rita’s leading questions about her actions at the Ministry and her visions of the future.
• Rita asked Hermione to respond to Umbridge’s accusation that she had colluded with the Dark Lord.
• Hermione calmly repeated the accusation and told Rita that her imagination was limited.

Hermione told Rita Skeeter an absurd story about being a transmigrator who controlled Voldemort, then grew furious when Rita printed only a distorted version. Hermione arrived at Rita’s home with Gilderoy Lockhart and Ethan Hunt to confront her about the article.

• Hermione claimed to Rita that Voldemort was her subordinate and that she had used knowledge of the books to direct him.
• Rita published an article accusing Hermione of colluding with Voldemort and added that Lockhart was her accomplice.
• Harry and Ron showed Hermione the article, and Hermione complained that Rita had omitted her transmigrator story.
• Hermione decided to confront Rita and correct the article’s details.
• Hermione, Lockhart, and Ethan Hunt appeared in Rita’s living room and accused her of reporting the story inaccurately.

Hermione confronted Rita Skeeter for distorting her account, then confirmed that her claims about colluding with Voldemort were true. After Voldemort revealed himself, Hermione tortured Rita and warned her to report the truth accurately.

• Hermione challenged Rita for omitting parts of her account and adding claims she had not made.
• Hermione told Rita that her suspicions about the Ministry incident and her alliance with Voldemort were correct.
• The disguised young man revealed himself as Tom Marvolo Riddle, whom Rita recognized as Voldemort.
• Rita begged Hermione to spare her and promised to keep silent.
• Hermione cast the Cruciatus Curse on Rita, then told her that accurate reporting mattered.

Hermione forced Rita Skeeter to keep publishing increasingly outrageous stories, then turned her into a Horcrux and left her in Lockhart's hands. Back in the Marvel world, Hermione rescued Natasha and Steve from S.H.I.E.L.D. forces and learned that Hydra had infiltrated the organization.

• Hermione told Rita to keep publishing sensational stories about her and to invent scandals about Ministry officials, while Lockhart explained how the lies would undermine Rita's credibility.
• Hermione pulled Rita's soul from her body, made another Horcrux, and returned her incomplete soul to her body before handing her over to Lockhart.
• Hermione returned to the Marvel world and opened a Portal to rescue Natasha and Steve as an explosion sounded behind them.
• Hermione jokingly guessed that Natasha and Steve had tried to kill Nick Fury, but Natasha explained that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and was hunting them after they uncovered the conspiracy.
• Natasha said Hydra had tried to kill Fury because he had discovered the same secret, and she asked Hermione how she knew about Hydra.

Natasha and Steve discovered that Hermione had mistaken S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Hydra organization for the mythological nine-headed monster, then explained Hydra’s infiltration and Project Insight. Hermione showed little concern about the human conspiracy, and Natasha and Steve left to decide how to handle it themselves.

• Hermione and Natasha realized they had been talking about different Hydras when Hermione described the monster Zeus subdued near Olympus.
• Natasha explained that Hydra was a human secret organization that had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and planned to seize control of the world through Project Insight.
• Hermione dismissed the threat as another group of Muggles trying to rule other Muggles, leaving Steve alarmed and Natasha understanding Hermione’s perspective.
• Steve decided he and Natasha should handle S.H.I.E.L.D.’s internal crisis without asking Hermione to intervene again.
• After they left, Natasha asked Steve what they should do next.