Chapter Summaries

Hermione met Dumbledore on the Astronomy Tower and asked him to help her find Nicolas Flamel to repair a damaged alchemical item. Dumbledore took her to Godric's Hollow, where she met his brother, Aberforth Dumbledore.

• Hermione searched the Headmaster's Office for information about Nicolas Flamel but found nothing.
• Dumbledore summoned Hermione to the Astronomy Tower, where he explained that Newt and Thena were searching for Credence.
• Hermione asked Dumbledore to tell her where Nicolas Flamel was so he could repair her damaged alchemical item.
• Fawkes arrived and told Dumbledore that someone wanted to meet Hermione before they discussed finding Flamel.
• Dumbledore took Hermione to a house in Godric's Hollow and introduced her to his brother, Aberforth Dumbledore.

Aberforth and Ariana thanked Hermione for saving Ariana and Credence, while Dumbledore explained how her arrival had changed their family’s fate. Dumbledore then asked Hermione how many years in the future she came from.

• Aberforth knelt to thank Hermione for saving Ariana, and Dumbledore explained that Hermione had taken an Avada Kedavra meant for her decades earlier.
• Hermione remembered the incident and angrily learned that Grindelwald had cast the curse, vowing to take revenge on him.
• Aberforth brought Ariana’s ghost to meet Hermione, and Ariana thanked her for giving her ten more years with her brothers.
• Dumbledore revealed that Hermione had also saved Credence from Grindelwald after learning he was Aberforth’s son.
• Dumbledore asked Hermione how many years in the future she was from.

Hermione revealed to Dumbledore that she had traveled seventy years from the future, and he explained how he had deduced her secret. After leaving Godric’s Hollow, Dumbledore gave Hermione a way to find Nicolas Flamel in Paris, then began to make another request.

• Dumbledore asked Hermione how many years in the future she came from, and she answered that it was seventy years.
• Dumbledore explained that he had suspected time travel because Hermione had left no trace, looked unchanged, knew Hogwarts and Fawkes, and called him Headmaster.
• Hermione confirmed she was a genuine Gryffindor and shared a few harmless details about the future with Dumbledore, Aberforth, and Ariana.
• Hermione and Dumbledore left Godric’s Hollow at dawn and returned to Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore said he opposed Gellert’s extreme ideals and gave Hermione the address of Nicolas Flamel’s secret residence in Paris, along with a token.
• Dumbledore began to make Hermione another request, prompting her to suspect he intended to enlist her help.

Hermione agreed to help Dumbledore find Newt and Thena in France, then accompanied him to confront Ministry Aurors who demanded he oppose Grindelwald. She destroyed the Ministry’s surveillance bracelets and revealed herself in the Great Hall.

• Dumbledore told Hermione that Newt and Thena had gone missing in France while tracking Credence, and asked her to find and protect them.
• Professor McGonagall warned Dumbledore that Travers and a group of Aurors had arrived at Hogwarts, and Hermione insisted on witnessing their meeting.
• Travers accused Dumbledore of helping Newt leave for France and demanded that he fight Grindelwald.
• Dumbledore refused, and Travers exposed images of his past with Grindelwald before ordering him to wear Ministry surveillance bracelets.
• Hermione burned the bracelets with Black Flame, then appeared on a Great Hall roof beam and challenged Travers about the Ministry’s treatment of Dumbledore.

Hermione confronted Dumbledore and the Ministry officials over their restraint in fighting Grindelwald, then overwhelmed the Aurors who tried to arrest her. After Dumbledore stopped her from choking Leta, a young Auror recognized Hermione from a top-secret bulletin sent by the Magical Congress of the United States of America.

• Hermione criticized Dumbledore for refusing to use his power decisively against Grindelwald, and Dumbledore stayed silent.
• Travers called Hermione the Dark Lord and attacked her with Incarcerous, but she shattered the ropes, blasted him onto a table, and took his wand.
• When Travers ordered two Aurors to seize her, Hermione unleashed her magic and pinned the Ministry personnel to the floor.
• Hermione lifted Leta by the throat until Dumbledore told her to stop, then threw Leta back to the male Auror and released the pressure.
• A young Auror recognized Hermione and told Travers that the Magical Congress of the United States of America had sent a top-secret bulletin about her two weeks earlier.

Travers recognized Hermione as the witch who had fought Grindelwald and tried to recruit her to the Ministry’s cause, but Dumbledore stopped her from rejecting him outright. After Hermione began considering her own plan to confront Grindelwald, Theseus Scamander arrived to thank Dumbledore for saving Leta.

• Travers recalled the secret bulletin about Hermione’s attack on the Magical Congress and her fight with Grindelwald.
• Travers apologized to Hermione and offered Ministry support if she would help bring down Grindelwald.
• Hermione considered Travers’s offer, but Dumbledore advised her not to make the Ministry an enemy.
• Hermione guessed Dumbledore wanted her to face Grindelwald and began forming a plan of her own.
• Theseus Scamander arrived and thanked Dumbledore for saving Leta.

Hermione explained why she despised Leta Lestrange, then tracked Newt and Thena to Paris and discovered they had been ambushed. She disguised herself as Credence and waited for their attacker to approach, leaving him ready to lead her to Newt and Thena.

• Dumbledore asked Hermione why she disliked Leta, and Hermione listed Leta’s past actions and her family’s history.
• Hermione used a Portal to reach Paris and found that the magical mark she had placed on Newt had vanished.
• Hermione recreated the alley’s recent events and saw a Black man ambush Newt and Thena, disarm them, and take their wands.
• Hermione recognized the attacker as a descendant of the family harmed by Leta’s father and decided to use herself as bait.
• Hermione disguised herself as Credence and wandered Paris until the Black man approached and offered to take her to her birth parents.

Hermione rescued Newt and Thena from Yusuf Kama’s trap after he used an illusion to lure them into captivity. She freed them and prepared to interrogate Kama, who refused to explain why he wanted Credence dead.

• Old Black attacked the apparent Credence with a barrage of spells, but the figure vanished as an illusion and Hermione revealed herself.
• Hermione twisted Yusuf Kama’s wrist, suppressed his magic, pinned him to a wall, and shattered the cage holding Newt and Thena.
• Newt and Thena told Hermione that Kama had tricked and ambushed them while they were tracking Credence in Paris.
• Hermione, Newt, and Thena tried to question Kama about his motives, but he remained silent, and Hermione said she liked tough cases.

Hermione tortured Kama with a magically transformed whip, healing him between lashes until he confessed why he had captured Newt and Thena and planned to kill Credence. After learning Kama was bound by an Unbreakable Vow, Hermione realized she had forgotten she could use Legilimency, and Kama cried himself unconscious.

• Hermione transformed Kama's wand into a whip and repeatedly lashed him, healing his injuries with Episkey between attacks.
• Kama surrendered and explained that his dying father had bound him by an Unbreakable Vow to kill Corvus Lestrange's long-lost son, Credence, or die himself.
• Kama admitted he had trapped Newt and Thena because they were also searching for Credence, but he had not planned to kill them.
• Newt and Thena pointed out that Hermione could have used Legilimency to inspect Kama's memories, and she admitted she had forgotten.
• Kama broke down crying after Hermione's admission, and she lowered him from the wall and promised him fried chicken.

Hermione, Newt, and Thena learned that Credence was Dumbledore’s nephew and found him working at a Paris magic circus. When the circus owner refused to sell the woman trapped in a cage, Hermione declared her free and unlocked the cage.

• Hermione revealed that Credence was not a Lestrange, so Kama’s Unbreakable Vow had no target; Kama broke down after learning the real heir had died decades earlier.
• Hermione, Newt, and Thena went to a hidden magical district in Paris to search for Credence.
• Hermione led them to a circus tent, where they found Credence beside a cage holding a beautiful young Asian woman.
• Hermione told Credence they had come to take him away, and he insisted that the woman come with them too.
• When the circus owner refused to sell the woman, Hermione pointed her wand at the cage and cast Alohomora.

Hermione and her companions freed Nagini from the circus by bluffing the owner into fleeing, then learned that Nagini was a Maledictus who could transform into a snake. As they prepared to leave with her, the sky darkened and black curtains rose around them.

• Hermione claimed that she and her companions were Ministry officials and frightened the circus owner into abandoning the circus.
• The owner ordered everyone to pack up and fled, leaving Nagini free from her cage.
• Nagini introduced herself and pleaded with Hermione not to arrest Credence, and Newt reassured her that they were his friends.
• Nagini revealed that she was a Maledictus by transforming into a giant viper, then changed back exhausted.
• Hermione invited Nagini to leave with them, but the sky darkened and black curtains appeared from every direction.

Hermione brought Newt, Thena, Credence, and Nagini to meet Nicolas Flamel, who examined her damaged Time-Turner and said he could repair it for a seventy-year journey with enough temporal energy and a stabilizing power source. The Time Stone supplied the temporal energy, and Hermione ended the chapter by producing a second Philosopher’s Stone.

• Grindelwald summoned his followers and lured Credence to the Lestrange Family Tomb with a message about his origins, and Hermione agreed to go with him after a visit elsewhere.
• Hermione led the group to Nicolas Flamel, who recognized her damaged Time-Turner and learned she had been stranded seventy years in the past.
• Nicolas Flamel said he could repair the Time-Turner but needed immense temporal energy and a compatible power source to withstand Hermione’s magic.
• Hermione gave Nicolas Flamel her green Time Stone, which contained enough temporal energy for the journey.
• Nicolas Flamel proposed using his Philosopher’s Stone to stabilize the device, but said he needed a second one, so Hermione placed an identical red stone on the workbench.

Hermione learned that Grindelwald had used Credence as bait to lure her to the Lestrange family cemetery and recruit her. She refused to be intimidated and revealed that Credence was Albus Dumbledore’s nephew.

• Nicolas Flamel agreed to repair Hermione’s Time-Turner within two months, using the Philosopher’s Stones to stabilize its magical circuit, and kept the Time Stone to extract its temporal energy.
• Hermione led Newt and the others into Grindelwald’s gathering, where she realized that Grindelwald had made her his real target and used Credence as bait.
• Grindelwald introduced Hermione to his followers and offered her power, resources, and a position equal to his own if she joined him.
• Hermione refused Grindelwald’s offer, and he warned that Credence could die if the gathering turned into a fight.
• Hermione revealed to the crowd that Credence was Albus Dumbledore’s nephew, stunning the gathering and Credence.

Hermione forced Grindelwald to spare Credence, then summoned Dumbledore after Grindelwald threatened Newt. She trapped Grindelwald, Dumbledore, and herself in a Mirror Dimension and offered to discuss a proposal.

• Hermione argued that killing Credence would destroy Grindelwald’s bond with Dumbledore, and Grindelwald agreed to spare Credence but threatened to kill Newt.
• Theseus rushed to protect Newt as Aurors and Pure-Blood Party members raised their wands, while Hermione failed to Apparate through Grindelwald’s barrier.
• Hermione opened a Portal to Hogwarts, and Dumbledore stepped through to face Grindelwald.
• Hermione folded the cemetery into a Mirror Dimension, isolating the group from the crowd, and Grindelwald admitted they had lost.
• Hermione explained that the Mirror Dimension contained them and hid them from outside observers, then proposed a private discussion with Grindelwald and Dumbledore.

Hermione proposed that Grindelwald join her and adopt cooperation between wizards and Muggles, challenging his belief in wizard superiority and his plan to strike first. Grindelwald admitted he feared Muggle weapons, while Hermione argued that war could devastate the small wizarding population; she could not guarantee her approach would succeed but promised to do everything she could to prevent wizards from being wiped out.

• Hermione offered Grindelwald an alliance on her terms, with him joining her plan for wizard-Muggle cooperation.
• Grindelwald rejected cooperation, insisting that Muggles were inferior and unworthy of wizards.
• Hermione challenged Grindelwald's claim of wizard superiority by pointing out that Muggles ruled the world and were developing weapons powerful enough to threaten wizards.
• Grindelwald realized Hermione knew about the coming war and admitted that he feared the rise of Muggle power.
• Hermione warned that a war would cost the wizarding world far more than it could afford because its population was small, and Grindelwald acknowledged her argument.
• Hermione admitted she could not guarantee her plan would work but promised to do everything she could to prevent wizards from being hunted to extinction.

Hermione persuaded Dumbledore and Grindelwald to join her plan to avert war and transform the Wizarding World by warning them of the deaths and permanent estrangement their current path would bring. When Grindelwald asked about the organization backing her, Hermione revealed that the Witch Cult consisted only of herself.

• Hermione told Dumbledore that she would leave Grindelwald unchecked if he rejected her plan, forcing him to confront the risks of both choices.
• Hermione argued that resistance and deaths were unavoidable and warned Dumbledore and Grindelwald that they would eventually fight and separate forever without her help.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald agreed to join Hermione's plan, and Grindelwald asked what organization stood behind her.
• Hermione named the Witch Cult and revealed that she was its only member, shocking both men.

Hermione persuaded Grindelwald to join the Witch Cult as her second-in-command and planned to purge disloyal members of the Pure-Blood Party. Vinda Rosier swore loyalty to Hermione, and the group prepared to confront Grindelwald's followers.

• Hermione proposed absorbing the Pure-Blood Party into the Witch Cult and appointing Grindelwald second-in-command, provoking his anger.
• Grindelwald agreed to join after Hermione accused him of clinging to the top job.
• Hermione warned that the Pure-Blood Party needed a purge and said she had a plan requiring Grindelwald and Dumbledore's cooperation.
• Grindelwald accepted the purge and began listing conditions for joining the Witch Cult.
• Vinda feared she would be purged, but Grindelwald affirmed her loyalty and told her to pledge herself to Hermione.
• Vinda swore loyalty to Hermione, who prepared to lead the group outside and show the followers what a Witch could do.

Hermione faced Grindelwald in a duel after negotiations failed, while Dumbledore confined the onlookers between rings of fire. As the battle escalated and Grindelwald summoned a blue fire dragon, Hermione prepared to reveal her power.

• Newt relayed Dumbledore’s message that Grindelwald was negotiating with the Witch, and the gathered Aurors and Pure-Blood Party waited for the outcome.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald emerged from the negotiation, and Hermione agreed to fight Grindelwald after he refused to abandon his plans.
• Grindelwald surrounded Hermione with blue Fiendfyre, while Dumbledore trapped the onlookers inside a larger ring of orange-red fire to prevent them from interfering.
• Hermione and Grindelwald exchanged powerful spells, and Dumbledore shielded the trapped crowd from the dangerous aftershocks.
• Grindelwald formed a blue fire dragon above Hermione, and Hermione prepared to show the Wizarding World her power.

Hermione unleashed her ancient magic against Grindelwald, forming a colossal blue-flame asteroid that he could not stop. She broke it apart before it struck Paris and declared Grindelwald defeated.

• Grindelwald sent his blue fire dragon at Hermione, who held it back with a shield until Dumbledore's barrier cracked and the flames began spreading.
• Dumbledore urged the gathered Ministry and Pure-Blood Party wizards to combine their spells to contain the flames, while he stayed out of the fight because of the blood pact.
• Hermione used ancient magic to pull earth, buildings, and the Fiendfyre into a massive sphere above Paris, destroying the Blue-Flame Demon Dragon in the process.
• Hermione hurled the blue-flame asteroid toward the ground, but Grindelwald's spells failed to stop it and he fell to one knee.
• Hermione reversed gravity, shattered the asteroid in midair, and told Grindelwald that he had lost.

Hermione defeated Grindelwald in a devastating battle, after which he secretly declared his allegiance to her and reshaped the Pure-Blood Party into the Witch Cult. The chapter ended with Hermione ordering her new followers to betray Grindelwald.

• Hermione used her Planetary Devastation spell to defeat Grindelwald, who conceded the battle.
• Theseus ordered the Aurors to arrest Grindelwald, but Grindelwald raised a dome of blue flames and sealed himself, Hermione, and his surviving followers inside.
• Grindelwald told his followers that the battle had been staged and announced that he was joining the Witch Cult, with Hermione as its Supreme Witch.
• Grindelwald explained Hermione's plan to end secrecy, cooperate with Muggles, and infiltrate the Wizarding World, winning the surviving followers' support.
• Grindelwald renamed the Pure-Blood Party the Witch Cult, and its members hailed Hermione as their leader.
• Hermione issued her first command to the Witch Cult: betray Grindelwald.