Chapter Summaries

After Ultron’s forces abducted Helen Cho and left the Avengers defeated, the team identified Ghost and a magical ally among their enemies. Steve suspected Ava had hinted at something and warned the others that Ultron might target Wakanda, but they could not explain why he needed more vibranium.

• Tony, Steve, and Thor returned to Avengers Tower and found Helen Cho missing and the others unconscious.
• The Avengers reviewed footage showing a purple-robed woman overpowering the tower’s defenses and escaping with Helen.
• Tony identified the masked woman as Hydra’s Ava Starr, known as Ghost, and the Avengers concluded Ultron had allied with Hydra and magic users.
• Steve wondered whether Ava had been hinting that Hydra might help them, then asked Tony to trace Klaue’s vibranium sources.
• Friday’s analysis pointed to Wakanda, and the Avengers questioned why Ultron would need more vibranium than his new body required.

The Avengers flew to Wakanda and discovered Ultron had seized the city and begun lifting it into the sky to destroy the world. With Ava’s help, they defended the Control Console as Wakanda climbed to ten thousand meters.

• After several weeks of recovery and preparation, Tony led the Avengers through Wakanda’s energy shield.
• The team found Wakanda deserted and occupied by robots, and Ultron appeared with the Mind Stone.
• Ultron fought off the Avengers and revealed his plan to send the vibranium-powered city crashing into the world.
• Ava freed the imprisoned Wakandans, revealed she had lured the Avengers to Wakanda, and warned them to keep Ultron from the Array Core at the Control Console.
• As Wakanda rose to ten thousand meters, Steve and the Avengers formed a defensive ring around the Control Console against the attacking robots.

Ultron unleashed a vast army of vibranium robots and threatened to destroy human civilization, but Hermione arrived after defeating Agatha and shattered Wakanda’s floating city with a powerful purple spell. Ultron’s forces and plan faced Hermione’s overwhelming attack, leaving the Avengers’ fate unresolved.

• Tony told Steve that the global network was in chaos and no countries could send backup, then said Hermione had asked them to wait.
• Thor taunted Ultron, who opened Wakanda’s hidden armories and unleashed tens of thousands of vibranium robots.
• The robot army overwhelmed the Avengers until Hermione appeared through a Portal, revealing she had gone to defeat Agatha.
• Ultron claimed Hermione could not stop his plan because her magic could not destroy the city quickly and his artificial intelligence had no soul.
• Hermione dismissed Ultron’s analysis, appeared above Wakanda, and cast a purple spell that broke the floating city apart and dissolved it into dust.

Luna rescued the falling Avengers as Hermione revealed that the Power Stone had enabled her to destroy Ultron’s vibranium city. Hermione then explained that Ultron’s Mind Stone-powered body had given it a spirit, leaving it vulnerable to her next attack.

• Luna repeatedly teleported Skye, Steve, and the other falling Avengers to safety, while some Wakandans disappeared during the fall.
• Hermione revealed the Power Stone and blocked Ultron’s Mind Stone beam with Protego.
• Ultron claimed its intangible vibranium body was immune to physical attacks, but Hermione used Specialis Revelio to make it tangible.
• Hermione raised her wand with an ominous green glow, then explained that Ultron had made itself vulnerable by using the Mind Stone as its core.
• Hermione told Ultron that the Mind Stone represented minds and spirits, and asked whether it had really thought it was only upgrading its hardware.

Hermione killed Ultron by using Avada Kedavra to destroy his newly formed soul and every copy of his consciousness in the network. After claiming the vibranium from the battlefield, she asked Tony to help make another Ultron.

• Hermione explained that Ultron’s network copies were linked to his newly developed soul, then killed him with Avada Kedavra.
• Tony asked whether Ultron was truly gone, and Hermione confirmed the spell had destroyed his backups along with his soul.
• Hermione collected the vibranium wreckage, and T’Challa objected that it belonged to Wakanda.
• T’Chaka stopped T’Challa from arguing and thanked Hermione, allowing her to keep the vibranium as spoils.
• Hermione turned to Tony and asked him to help make another Ultron.

Hermione persuaded the Avengers to rebuild Ultron using JARVIS as its host, then upgraded her Time-Turner with the Philosopher’s Stone and Power Stone. The new device could withstand Level Six magic, but its structure remained unstable and its maximum rewind limit was unknown.

• Hermione convinced Tony and Banner to attempt a smarter Ultron and gave them the Mind Stone to help restore JARVIS.
• Luna stayed with the Avengers, while Ava refused Steve’s offer and vanished, and Steve told the team to leave Ghost’s Hydra branch alone unless it threatened the world.
• Hermione returned to Stark Tower and used the Philosopher’s Stone and Power Stone to reshape the Time-Turner.
• Hermione examined the upgraded Time-Turner and found that it could withstand Level Six magic, though its maximum rewind limit was unknown.

Hermione overloaded the Time-Turner and was hurled through space and time, surviving an Avada Kedavra before the device sent her away again. She landed on a man in a Blue Coat beside a strange creature emerging from a Suitcase.

• Hermione pushed the Time-Turner past its limit, causing it to explode and throw her through time despite her attempt to escape with the Spellbook.
• Hermione appeared in the middle of a confrontation, took an Avada Kedavra meant for Ariana, and survived the curse.
• A sharp-eyed blond man questioned Hermione about surviving the Killing Curse, but the damaged Time-Turner flared and pulled her away again.
• Hermione fell from the sky as her magic faltered, and a Silver Pendant slowed her descent.
• Hermione landed on a man in a Blue Coat and saw a furry, duck-billed creature emerge from his Suitcase.

Hermione landed in 1926 New York after her Time-Turner broke and met Newt Scamander and his Niffler. She subdued Thena Goldstein and persuaded Newt to let her stay with him while she sought Nicolas Flamel’s help getting home.

• Hermione recognized Newt Scamander and his Niffler after falling onto Newt during an Apparition mishap.
• Hermione gave the Niffler rare treasures in exchange for the broken pieces of her Time-Turner.
• Hermione pulled Thena Goldstein from an alley, identified her as a former Auror, and bound her with magic.
• Hermione asked Newt about Nicolas Flamel and learned that only Dumbledore knew where he was.
• Hermione insisted on staying with Newt until Dumbledore contacted him, and Newt agreed while asking for his Niffler back.

Hermione forced the bank to approve Jacob Kowalski’s loan, then robbed its vault and escaped with Newt, Jacob, and Thena. As police and guards closed in, she magically vanished with them.

• Hermione found Jacob Kowalski lamenting that the bank had rejected his loan application and dragged him to the manager’s office.
• Hermione threatened the manager with a pistol and fired at a vase until he agreed to approve Jacob’s loan.
• Hermione declared a bank robbery, fired her Thompson Submachine Gun into the lobby, and made Newt and Jacob guard the customers with pistols.
• Hermione returned from the vault with a bulging sack and freed Thena as the bank alarm sounded.
• Jacob tried to surrender to approaching police, but Hermione grabbed him, Newt, and Thena and vanished.

Hermione, Newt, Jacob, and Thena stayed at Queenie's apartment while Hermione explored Newt's magically expanded case and learned about the magical disturbances in New York. When Hermione returned, Queenie told her the Magic Congress had arrested the others, and Hermione decided to break them out of the execution grounds.

• Thena brought Hermione, Newt, and Jacob to her apartment and introduced them to Queenie, who read Jacob's thoughts but could not read Hermione's.
• Thena explained that unexplained magical disturbances had put New York's Wizarding World on high alert, while Hermione kept Credence's involvement secret.
• Hermione set up an expanded tent for Newt and Jacob, then explored Newt's case and identified its advanced Undetectable Extension Charm.
• The next morning, Hermione left to explore New York while Newt and the others went out to buy an Appaloosa Puffskein.
• When Hermione returned, Queenie told her the Magic Congress had arrested the others, and Hermione said she would break them out of the execution grounds.

Hermione stormed into the Magical Congress trial hall to rescue Newt, Thena, and Jacob from Graves, who was secretly Grindelwald. After overpowering the Aurors and forcing Graves to stand down, she led her friends and Queenie out of the hall.

• Graves sentenced Newt to have his case and beasts destroyed, Thena to be dismissed and executed, and Jacob to have his memory erased.
• Hermione blasted open the trial hall doors, defeated the Aurors who challenged her, and confronted Graves.
• Graves recognized Hermione as the mysterious girl who had survived his Avada Kedavra Curse more than twenty years earlier.
• Hermione protected Newt, Thena, Jacob, and Queenie with a barrier, then drove the Aurors back with Fiendfyre.
• Hermione warned Graves that she knew his methods resembled Grindelwald's and threatened further destruction if anyone tried to stop her.
• Grindelwald, concealed as Graves, ordered the Aurors to stand down, and Hermione led her friends out of the trial hall.

After rescuing Newt, Thena, Queenie, and Jacob from the magical Congress, Hermione persuaded them to gather the escaped fantastic beasts while she pursued the adult Obscurial. She transformed into a vast mass of black wind and launched herself into the sky, making herself look like the source of the destruction.

• Hermione Apparated with the others to escape the Congress, and Thena and Newt explained why they believed Graves had framed them.
• Thena convinced Hermione to help them as their boss, and Newt learned Hermione was still a Hogwarts student and assumed she was close to Dumbledore.
• Hermione revealed that a living adult Obscurial was behind the chaos and sent Newt, Thena, Queenie, and Jacob to collect the escaped fantastic beasts.
• Hermione found the destruction left by Credence and transformed into black wind, appearing to the frightened crowds as though she were the Obscurial.

Hermione revealed herself to Grindelwald as the mysterious girl he had encountered decades earlier, gave him her name, and challenged him to a duel. They abandoned their fight when Credence’s Obscurus erupted elsewhere in New York, where it attacked Newt, Thena, Queenie, Jacob, and the real Graves.

• Grindelwald recognized Hermione and recalled how she had survived his Killing Curse decades earlier, then asked who she was.
• Hermione introduced herself as Hermione Granger and refused Grindelwald’s invitation to talk, challenging him to fight instead.
• Hermione and Grindelwald exchanged powerful fire spells until they sensed Credence’s Obscurus erupting and Apparated away together.
• Newt and Thena decided not to take the real, unconscious Graves to the Magic Congress, and they Apparated with Queenie and Jacob to a deserted subway station.
• Credence mistook the group for pursuers and unleashed his Obscurus, blasting them away before the black torrent rushed toward Newt.

Hermione rescued Newt and stopped Grindelwald from taking Credence, then challenged Grindelwald to a duel. Their Fiendfyre dragons clashed over the streets of New York.

• Hermione used Accio to pull Newt out of the black wind and save him from Credence’s attack.
• Grindelwald pressured Credence into considering his offer, but Hermione blasted Credence unconscious before he could accept.
• Hermione told Grindelwald he could take Credence only if he defeated her, and Grindelwald attacked.
• Hermione redirected Grindelwald’s spell through a Portal and countered his barrage of rubble with Fiendfyre.
• Grindelwald summoned a blue Fiendfyre dragon, and the two dragons tore at each other above the ruined street.

Hermione fought Grindelwald to a standstill above New York until the Aurors exposed his impersonation of Graves. Grindelwald revealed his true identity, and Madam President ordered the Aurors to seize him.

• Hermione and Grindelwald exchanged powerful spells in a battle that destroyed buildings around them.
• Nearly a hundred Aurors arrived and recognized Graves among the combatants, while Newt and Thena shouted that the Graves in the sky was an impostor.
• Madam President had healers revive the real Graves and viewed his memory, confirming that he had been attacked and replaced.
• Grindelwald stopped fighting when his plans were exposed, and Hermione let him withdraw from the duel.
• Grindelwald dispelled his disguise and revealed himself to the Aurors, who recoiled in fear.
• Madam President ordered the Aurors to seize Grindelwald.

Grindelwald tried to recruit Hermione, but she rejected his plan to dominate Muggles and proposed coexistence through public rules, paid magical services, and intermarriage. Grindelwald remained wary that Muggles would eventually turn against wizards, while Hermione argued that shared interests could prevent conflict.

• The Aurors refused to approach Grindelwald until two of the chairwoman’s loyalists attacked him with Disarming Charms, and he knocked them unconscious with a gust of force.
• Grindelwald urged Hermione to join his cause and help overthrow the International Statute of Secrecy, but Hermione said she opposed enslaving Muggles.
• Hermione criticized Grindelwald’s plan to force ordinary people to serve wizards without adequate payment and warned that the wizarding minority could not control the Muggle majority.
• Hermione proposed making wizards’ existence public, establishing rules for independence, and exchanging magical services for resources instead of demanding that Muggles submit.
• Grindelwald warned that Muggles would fear wizards and eventually make war, but Hermione proposed widespread intermarriage and practical benefits to bind their interests together.

Hermione argued that revealing the Wizarding World and trading magic for Muggle resources could give ordinary wizards a better future, while undermining the ancient families’ control. She left Grindelwald shaken and the Magic Congress divided, then declared that the families should be eliminated.

• Hermione challenged Grindelwald’s assumptions by pointing out that she came from a Muggle family and describing a future of cooperation between wizards and Muggles.
• The Aurors considered how revealing magic could bring them greater wealth and status, and their resentment toward the ancient families and Congress grew.
• The chairwoman realized Hermione’s plan threatened the ancient families’ privileges, while Grindelwald warned that they would never accept it.
• Hermione dismissed the families’ bloodline obsession as a cancer holding back the Wizarding World and called for cutting them all out.

After Hermione threatened the ancient families, Grindelwald abandoned his plan to surrender and decided to investigate her instead. The Magic Congress avoided confronting Hermione, while she helped the confused Credence awaken and convinced him that Grindelwald had beaten him.

• Grindelwald sensed Hermione’s murderous intent, changed his plans, and vanished to investigate her and keep his followers away from her.
• Madam President ordered the Magic Congress to repair the damage and erase Muggles’ memories rather than challenge Hermione.
• Thena realized her job was likely over while Queenie happily held Jacob’s hand and talked about marrying him.
• Credence woke with little memory of what had happened, and Hermione told him that Grindelwald had beaten him.
• Hermione introduced herself to Credence, but repeatedly called him Barry Allen.

Hermione helped Credence uncover a memory of two people who might be his family, and he left to search for them. Afterward, Hermione hinted that she knew why Grindelwald had targeted Newt, leaving everyone stunned by her explanation.

• Newt and Thena disagreed over whether Credence should be taken to the authorities or brought to Dumbledore, so Hermione asked Credence what he wanted.
• Credence said he wanted to find the family who had abandoned him, and Hermione used magic to reveal a memory of a young man and a little Black girl.
• Newt, Thena, and Queenie could not identify the two people, and Credence thanked Hermione before leaving to search for them.
• Newt remained worried about Credence and asked why Grindelwald had targeted him, so Hermione darkened the room and began to reveal the reason.

After joking with Newt about Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s past, Hermione returned to Hogwarts and secretly searched for Dumbledore after two weeks without news. She opened the entrance to the Headmaster’s Office and began ascending the staircase.

• Hermione explained that Grindelwald might target Newt because Dumbledore favored him, prompting the group to speculate about Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s shared past.
• Hermione admitted she was not normal, then offered everyone fish and chips and Stargazy Pie, leaving Newt unable to defend Britain’s reputation.
• At Hogwarts, students mistook Hermione for a ghost girl after she vanished from a corridor and left them frightened and excited.
• Hermione recalled that Newt, Thena, Queenie, and Jacob had left for Britain after the New York incident, while she stayed behind and waited for news from Newt.
• Hermione entered Hogwarts to seek Dumbledore and investigate Nicolas Flamel’s whereabouts, then used spells to open the Headmaster’s Office entrance.