Chapter Summaries

S.H.I.E.L.D. captured Loki, but Thor revealed that Loki planned to invade Earth with the Chitauri in exchange for the Tesseract. Hermione identified the alien army and its leader, giving the team intelligence as they prepared to face the threat.

• Fury welcomed Banner to S.H.I.E.L.D., while Tony protested that Hermione had joined the mission, and Sitwell reported that they had located Loki.
• Steve and Tony went after Loki, but Natasha reported that Thor had taken him; Tony and Steve later returned with Loki in custody after Thor agreed to come with them.
• Thor greeted Hermione and apologized for their earlier conflict, while Steve wondered why so many people seemed to know her.
• Thor told Steve that Loki had allied with the Chitauri to obtain the Tesseract and conquer Earth.
• Hermione explained that the Chitauri were an invasion-minded alien race led by the Other and had no fixed homeworld.

Hermione explained that activating the Tesseract had broadcast its location across the universe, likely drawing the Chitauri and other threats to Earth. After examining Loki’s Scepter, she revealed that it contained the Mind Stone and identified the Tesseract as the Space Stone.

• Hermione described the Chitauri as numerous but technologically limited, with Leviathans as their strongest frontline weapons.
• Hermione told Fury that activating the Tesseract without magical protection had sent a signal throughout the universe and warned that the Chitauri might be only the first wave.
• Fury brought Loki’s Scepter to Hermione, whose Spellbook identified it as a vessel carrying the Mind Stone.
• Hermione explained that the six Infinity Stones embodied the forces of space, time, reality, power, soul, and mind.
• Hermione revealed that Loki’s Scepter contained the Mind Stone and that the Tesseract was the Space Stone.

Hermione explained the Infinity Stones and their vessels to the S.H.I.E.L.D. team, then visited Loki in his cell after agreeing to help free Barton. Loki asked whether she had obtained the scepter, and Hermione confirmed that she had.

• Hermione explained the Infinity Stones’ vessels, including the Tesseract, Loki’s scepter, and the Eye of Agamotto, while admitting she did not know where the Soul or Power Stone was.
• Natasha asked whether Barton could be saved, and Hermione promised to free him from Loki’s control the next time they met.
• Banner argued that finding the Tesseract was the priority, and Tony joined him in discussing the energy needed to open a spatial portal.
• Hermione lent the scepter to Banner for analysis, then wandered around the Helicarrier and went to see Loki.
• Hermione Apparated into Loki’s cell and created a barrier to prevent anyone from hearing or seeing them.
• Loki asked Hermione whether she had obtained the scepter, and she nodded.

Loki told Hermione how he had joined Thanos and the Chitauri, then sought her assurance that she would help avert Ragnarok and save Asgard and Frigga. On the Helicarrier, the Mind Stone Scepter fueled a growing argument until an attack shook the ship, leaving Fury to rush away while Hermione remained protected by her Magic Shield.

• Loki recounted his journey through the Void and asked Hermione if she could save Asgard, Frigga, and secure him the throne; Hermione promised help in exchange for his obedience.
• Hermione entered the laboratory and found Tony and Fury arguing over S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Tesseract weapons program, while Thor blamed the weapons for drawing Loki and the Chitauri to Earth.
• Hermione sensed the Mind Stone Scepter influencing everyone's tempers and realized Loki was using it to provoke conflict.
• When Dr. Banner held the Scepter, Hermione slapped his hand and ordered him not to touch it, prompting Tony to explain that she was the team's defense against Hulk.
• Tony and Steve argued about who was more capable, then an explosion damaged the Helicarrier and sent several people tumbling.
• Fury recognized that the Helicarrier was under attack and hurried away as Hermione stood unharmed inside a Magic Shield.

Hulk rampaged aboard the Helicarrier until Hermione frightened him into jumping off, while she rescued Tony from Engine Three after Steve failed to stop the attackers. The carrier remained in danger because Hermione’s spell stopped the engine Tony had repaired, and another engine had been sabotaged.

• Hulk lost control and fought Thor, growing stronger as the battle continued.
• Hermione approached Hulk, who fled from her and jumped off the Helicarrier; Fury and Hill learned what had happened.
• Tony repaired Engine Three and asked Steve to pull a lever so he could escape its blades, but Steve was occupied exchanging fire with mercenaries.
• Hermione defeated the mercenaries with Incendio, stopped Engine Three’s blades with Arresto Momentum, and pulled Tony free with Accio.
• Fury reported that Barton had taken out another engine, and Tony realized Hermione’s spell had erased the rotation he needed to get Engine Three working.

Hermione saved the Helicarrier by levitating it and magically repairing its engine, then freed Barton from Loki’s control. When the Mind Stone scepter went missing, Hermione confronted Fury and ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to get to work finding it.

• Hermione stopped the Helicarrier from falling and used Reparo to restore its destroyed engine.
• Hermione used the Imperius Curse to overwrite Loki’s control of Barton, then lifted the spell and freed him.
• Barton realized the scepter was missing, and Fury confirmed that it had been stolen.
• Hermione confronted Fury over the missing Mind Stone, and Fury promised S.H.I.E.L.D. would search for it and provide her with magical materials.
• Hermione cracked a magical whip beside Fury and ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to get to work.

After Coulson was killed and Loki escaped with the scepter, the Avengers regrouped and confronted Loki at Stark Tower as he opened a portal for the Chitauri invasion. The Avengers began fighting the invading army as a gigantic creature emerged from the portal.

• Hill discovered that Loki had escaped, Thor had been dropped from the Helicarrier, and Coulson had been mortally wounded.
• Fury and the others mourned Coulson while Hermione vanished, and Fury prepared the team for the approaching Chitauri attack.
• Steve, Natasha, Barton, and Tony set out for Stark Tower, where Tony confronted Loki.
• Loki's scepter failed to control Tony, and Loki hurled him through a window as the portal opened above Stark Tower.
• Tony, Thor, Hulk, Steve, and Natasha fought the Chitauri as an enormous creature began emerging from the portal.

The Avengers struggled to contain the endless Chitauri invasion and were nearly overwhelmed as the city lost hope. Hermione arrived and unleashed lightning, ice, and Fiendfyre, wiping out the Chitauri forces while the portal remained open.

• Steve assigned the Avengers roles as they faced the Leviathan and the Chitauri pouring through the portal.
• Thor struck the portal with lightning while Hulk attacked a Leviathan, but the Avengers grew exhausted and suffered heavy losses.
• Natasha warned that they had to close the portal as civilians despaired and the heroes could barely hold the line.
• The Ancient One told Hermione to leave the New York Sanctum before the battle reached it.
• Hermione appeared over the battlefield, took over the fighting, and blasted the Chitauri with ancient lightning, freezing magic, and Fiendfyre.
• Hermione's magic destroyed the Chitauri army, though the portal remained open.

Hermione returned to the battlefield and used powerful magic to wipe out a wave of Chitauri, then revealed the cabbages she had grown at Hogwarts as her next weapon. As another Chitauri force poured through the Portal, she sent her living Biting Cabbages into the fight.

• Hermione’s magic left civilians, the Avengers, Fury, and Hill stunned as she destroyed a wave of Chitauri.
• Loki contacted the Other and demanded more troops, prompting the Other to send additional Chitauri warships through the Portal.
• Hermione reunited with the Avengers and explained that she had returned to Hogwarts to collect supplies before the Chitauri arrived.
• When more Chitauri soldiers and Leviathans emerged, Hermione emptied her backpack and revealed a mountain of cabbages she had grown at Hogwarts.
• Hermione revealed that the cabbages had sharp-toothed mouths and ordered her Biting Cabbages to attack.

Hermione’s Turnip Army slaughtered the Chitauri forces while Loki kept persuading the Other to send more troops through the portal. After the Other ran low on reinforcements, Loki blamed the Chitauri for their defeat and ranted about the Avengers and the turnips.

• Hermione ordered her turnips to attack the Chitauri soldiers and Leviathans, while the Avengers watched in horror.
• Natasha asked Hermione whether the turnips might attack them, and Hermione warned everyone to keep their distance when the plants were hungry.
• Loki repeatedly told the Other that Earth was nearly defeated, persuading him to send wave after wave of Chitauri reinforcements.
• Civilians stopped hiding and watched the fighting as the turnips continued devouring the arriving troops.
• The Other demanded to know what was happening and said only one wave of troops remained.
• Loki and the Other argued, and Loki blamed the Chitauri’s weakness and listed the Avengers and turnips that had overwhelmed them.

The Other unleashed the Chitauri’s elite troops, forcing the Avengers to seek a way to stop the invasion. Hermione refused to close the Portal and killed every marked Chitauri with a linked Avada Kedavra curse.

• The Other accused Loki of betraying him and ordered the elite Chitauri to kill Loki and the Avengers.
• The Avengers found the elite Chitauri’s armor and weapons too powerful, so Tony proposed using Loki’s Mind Stone Scepter to close the Portal.
• The Avengers reached Stark Tower, where Loki surrendered the Scepter and offered no resistance.
• Hermione stopped Natasha from closing the Portal and declared that the invaders would not escape Earth.
• Hermione marked the Chitauri with curses and cast Avada Kedavra, killing them all at once.

Hermione explained that her Avada Kedavra Curse had instantly killed the remaining Chitauri, then harvested their souls and raised her magic to level five. When Fury warned that a nuclear bomb was headed for Manhattan, Hermione transformed it into a small white bird before Tony could send it through the portal.

• The Avengers examined the Chitauri corpses as Hermione explained that the Avada Kedavra Curse killed its targets instantly and was forbidden dark magic.
• Hermione saw that the portal had stopped producing enemies and used the Spellbook to raise her magic from level four to level five with the harvested soul energy.
• Fury warned the Avengers that a nuclear bomb would reach them in two minutes, and Tony flew upward to divert it through the portal.
• Hermione appeared beside the bomb and cast Flavido, transforming it into a small white bird.

Hermione turned the nuke into a dove, closed the portal, and used Legilimency on Fury to learn who had authorized the strike. She confronted the World Security Council, killed one member, and took Gideon Malick away to question him above the city.

• Hermione transformed the nuke into a white dove, and Natasha closed the portal with the Mind Stone Scepter and the Tesseract.
• Hermione appeared in the Helicarrier Control Hall and used Legilimency on Fury to uncover the council members behind the launch order.
• Hermione Apparated to the World Security Council and killed a balding council member who challenged her.
• The other council members identified Gideon Malick as one of the two people who approved the launch, and Hermione twisted his limbs and took him away.
• Hermione suspended Gideon Malick above the city and asked why he had wanted to nuke Manhattan, but he stayed silent.

Hermione exposed Gideon Malick's plan to sacrifice civilians and let the enraged crowd kill him, then joined the Avengers in dealing with Loki and claiming the Infinity Stones. The chapter ended with Hermione holding the newly revealed blue gem after taking the Tesseract, which Odin had agreed to lend her after repairing the Bifrost.

• Hermione tortured Gideon Malick until he confessed that he had planned to use a nuclear bomb against the aliens and the heroes, accepting civilian deaths as necessary sacrifices.
• Hermione released Gideon Malick to the crowd, which beat him to death while the Avengers watched without objecting.
• Tony suggested celebrating with shawarma, but Steve reminded the group that Loki was still at Avengers Tower.
• Loki surrendered to Thor, and Hermione shattered the Mind Stone Scepter's casing and placed the Mind Stone in her necklace.
• Thor told Hermione that Odin would lend her the Tesseract after using it to repair the Bifrost, and Hermione took it and broke its casing to reveal the blue gem.

Hermione healed the Avengers after the Chitauri invasion, but future versions of Tony and Steve arrived with Doctor Strange to kill her as a child and prevent a catastrophic future. Tony’s Killing Curse missed, and Hermione realized they had come from the future and demanded to know what had happened.

• Hermione placed the Space Stone into the necklace beside the other gem.
• Strange brought future Tony and Steve back to the day of the Chitauri invasion and said Hermione had become a dark Witch who would destroy the universe.
• Tony hesitated to use the Elder Wand and its sealed Avada Kedavra curse to kill young Hermione, but finally agreed it was their only chance.
• Hermione healed the Avengers, and Thor secured Loki’s return to Asgard under the condition that Odin give him a fair trial.
• Hermione noticed that Tony and Steve seemed different, then recognized the Elder Wand when Tony fired a green Killing Curse that missed her.
• Strange appeared, and Hermione deduced that the visitors were future versions of Tony and Steve before asking what had happened in the future.

Hermione drove off Strange and his companions before they could kill her, learning that they feared a Golden Apple. Later, she took the Avengers to the shawarma restaurant where she had once worked, and its owner recognized her as the young wizard who fought the aliens.

• Hermione tried to read Strange and the others’ minds, but Strange used the Time Stone to take them away before she could uncover their secrets.
• Hermione recalled seeing Strange fear a Golden Apple and suspected it was connected to the trouble her future self had faced.
• Tony and the others returned, and Hermione concealed what had happened before they went to the Shawarma Palace.
• Elvin welcomed Hermione and revealed to the Avengers that she had worked at his restaurant and once drew crowds with her shawarma.
• Elvin recognized the Avengers, realized Hermione was the young wizard from the alien battle, and Hermione confirmed it.

Hermione helped Fury attempt to resurrect Coulson with GH325, then explained that the Infinity Stones had torn apart his soul. She used magic and a Horcrux to reassemble the fragments and woke Coulson, who convulsed in agony as his soul stabilized.

• Hermione restored Elvin's shop and used magic to prepare shawarma, prompting the Avengers to shout that it should contain no kale.
• At a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base, Fury ordered the medical staff to inject GH325 into Coulson, but the serum only made his finger twitch.
• Hermione explained that Loki's scepter had torn Coulson's soul apart and offered to summon and reassemble its fragments, warning Fury that Coulson might not return unchanged.
• Fury chose to proceed, and Hermione used Coulson's Horcrux to piece his soul back together and restore it to his body.
• Coulson woke screaming and convulsing, and Hermione told Fury that the pain would ease once his soul stabilized.

Tom Marvolo Riddle revealed himself to Alexander Pierce as a representative of the Ministry of Magic and said he wanted to discuss Hermione Granger. Meanwhile, Hermione and Tom used Lucius Malfoy to lure the wanted Dark Wizard Lester into a trap and kill him, leaving Lucius bound more tightly to Hermione’s group.

• Hermione used Obliviate to stop Coulson’s screams and put him to sleep.
• Tom appeared in Alexander Pierce’s office, magically restrained him, and identified himself as a Ministry of Magic official seeking to discuss Hermione.
• Lucius lured Lester to a graveyard, where Tom and Hermione ambushed him.
• Tom killed Lester after Hermione prevented him from using magic, and Hermione chided Tom for nearly letting him escape.
• Lucius reflected that Hermione had cleared Draco’s name and strengthened the Malfoy family’s standing, but he felt trapped in her group.

Hermione destroyed Lester's corpse to conceal that he had been killed by the Avada Kedavra Curse, then met the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Remus Lupin, on the Hogwarts Express. After Harry and Ron joined them, the train stopped in darkness as a chilling black figure entered their compartment.

• Hermione blasted Lester's corpse apart and told Tom to take the remains to Lockhart, who had become a celebrated Ministry Auror and bestselling author.
• Hermione boarded the Hogwarts Express and recognized Remus Lupin as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Lupin told Hermione that Dumbledore had named her his teaching assistant, and she silently resented being assigned the job again.
• Harry and Ron found Hermione, and Lupin briefly opened his eyes when he heard Harry before pretending to sleep.
• The train jolted to a halt, the lights went out, frost covered the windows, and a black figure drifted into the compartment.

Hermione killed a Dementor with a powerful, reshapeable Patronus after it attacked Harry on the train. Harry regained consciousness and, after Hermione teased him about receiving a kiss from Lupin, learned that the kiss had come from the Dementor.

• A Dementor attacked Harry and began draining his happy memories.
• Hermione summoned a silver otter Patronus, trapped the Dementor in a sphere of light, and crushed it.
• Lupin checked that Harry was unharmed and praised Hermione’s remarkable Patronus Charm.
• The other Dementors fled, and Harry slowly regained consciousness.
• Harry feared Lupin had given him mouth-to-mouth, so Hermione teased him before clarifying that the kiss had come from the Dementor.