Chapter Summaries

Harry learned what Dementors were from Hermione and met Remus Lupin on the train to Hogwarts. At the feast, Dumbledore announced Sirius Black's escape and gave Hermione a Time-Turner, while Hermione later told Luna she had fought aliens over the holidays.

• Hermione explained that Dementors fed on happiness and could suck out a person's soul, and Harry introduced himself to Remus Lupin, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Harry learned that Lupin had been a friend of his father as they traveled to Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore announced that Sirius Black had escaped Azkaban and that Dementors would guard Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore gave Hermione a Time-Turner, and she learned through the Spellbook that it could rewind time by up to 48 hours but could withstand only magic at level 2 or below.
• Hermione met Luna outside Dumbledore's office and said she had stirred up trouble and fought aliens over the holidays.

Hermione attended Professor Trelawney’s tea leaf divination class, where Trelawney saw a death omen in Harry’s cup and predicted a great ghostly dog. Hermione challenged Trelawney’s claim that precise predictions were impossible and began using her wand and memories with the crystal ball.

• Hermione chatted with Luna about fighting aliens and promised to take her along if needed.
• In Divination class, Ron found a rat-shaped pattern in his tea leaves, and Trelawney interpreted it as misfortune.
• Trelawney saw a great ghostly dog in Harry’s cup and warned that it foretold death.
• Hermione said precise predictions were possible, borrowed Trelawney’s crystal ball, and drew silver strands from her temple toward it.

Hermione’s prophecy showed Voldemort rising from a cauldron, terrifying the students and leaving Professor Trelawney shaken. Snape showed the vision to Dumbledore, who feared it was accurate but learned Hermione had given no details about when or where Voldemort would return.

• Hermione’s prophecy revealed a figure transforming in a cauldron into Voldemort, and Harry recognized him as the students panicked.
• Hermione asked Trelawney whether the prophecy was accurate, while Trelawney muttered in disbelief.
• Snape rushed into Dumbledore’s office and showed him the crystal ball containing the prophecy.
• Snape worried that Hermione’s prophecy meant Voldemort would return and feared what she might do next.
• Dumbledore asked whether Hermione had given a time or place, and Snape said she had left without explaining further.
• Dumbledore recognized Hermione’s extraordinary talent, while Snape admitted he could not deny it.

Dumbledore and Snape worried that Hermione’s prophecy would draw the Ministry’s attention and spark a clash with her. In Defense Against the Dark Arts, Malfoy’s Boggart took Hermione’s form, then turned into a strangely sweet version of her after he cast Riddikulus, leaving the real Hermione furious.

• Dumbledore told Snape that Hermione might have foreseen Voldemort’s return long ago and warned that the Ministry might investigate her prophecy.
• Dumbledore worried that Hermione would clash with Ministry officials, and Snape feared she might turn the Ministry upside down.
• Lupin taught the class about Boggarts and asked Malfoy to face the creature in the wardrobe.
• The Boggart became Hermione, prompting the students to laugh when Malfoy revealed his deepest fear.
• Malfoy cast Riddikulus, turning the Boggart Hermione into a soft, sweet version that left the class amazed and Malfoy confused.
• The real Hermione glared at Malfoy, her face turning Hulk green with anger.

Hermione destroyed the Boggart with Avada Kedavra, alarming Lupin and leaving Draco frightened by her teasing threat. At Stark Tower, Happy showed Hermione Pepper with a stranger demonstrating a brain hologram, and Hermione eagerly anticipated Tony being cheated on before Happy asked her to magically incapacitate the man.

• Hermione cast Avada Kedavra on the Boggart, destroying Lupin's teaching aid and shocking Lupin and the students.
• Hermione teased Draco about his attraction to cute girls and threatened to make him as cute as he wanted.
• Harry told Lupin that Hermione was always like this and that he would get used to Gryffindor's ways.
• At Stark Tower, Happy pulled Hermione aside to watch a stranger demonstrate a brain hologram to Pepper in Tony's office.
• Hermione reacted excitedly to the possibility that Tony would be cheated on, and Happy asked her to make the stranger unable to perform.

Hermione returned to Stark Industries and interrupted Aldrich Killian’s meeting with Pepper, while Happy tried to stop her from attacking him. Killian mistook Hermione for Tony and Pepper’s daughter, then reconsidered his plans, and Tony woke from a nightmare that night.

• Happy urged Hermione to use magic to drive away the man meeting with Pepper, but Hermione stopped before attacking him.
• Hermione entered Pepper’s office, where Pepper warmly welcomed her and postponed the meeting with Aldrich Killian.
• Hermione recognized Killian as the villain from Iron Man 3 and watched him leave Stark Tower.
• Killian mistakenly concluded that Hermione was Tony Stark and Pepper’s illegitimate daughter and decided to adjust his plan.
• Tony woke suddenly at his Malibu villa, sweating and gasping after a nightmare.

Tony dreamed that Hermione destroyed the world, but Hermione dismissed the idea when Pepper told her about it. The morning ended with Maya Hansen arriving at Tony’s villa just as armed helicopters launched missiles at it.

• Tony woke from a nightmare and accidentally triggered the Iron Man Armor’s defense system, which seized Pepper until he dismantled it.
• Tony told Pepper he had dreamed that Hermione destroyed the world, and Pepper tried to reassure him.
• The next morning, Hermione worked on metal and potions while Tony and Pepper joined her for breakfast.
• JARVIS announced Maya Hansen’s arrival, and Maya entered the villa carrying a briefcase.
• Maya spotted two armed helicopters and incoming missiles outside the window, then the missiles struck the villa.

Hermione rescued Pepper and Maya from a missile attack on Tony's villa, then went to Kamar-Taj to ask the Ancient One for the Time Stone. The Ancient One offered to give it to her if she waited until the Ancient One left the universe or completed two tasks, beginning with finding a successor for the Sorcerer Supreme.

• Missiles struck Tony's villa, and Hermione shielded Pepper and Maya before Apparating them to safety at a nearby cliff.
• Hermione crushed the attacking helicopters, and Maya recognized her as Miss Wizard from the Battle of New York.
• Hermione returned to the villa but could not find Tony, though she believed his armor had carried him away alive.
• Pepper left to contact S.H.I.E.L.D., while Hermione went to Kamar-Taj to speak with the Ancient One.
• The Ancient One said Hermione could obtain the Time Stone by waiting until she left the universe or by completing two tasks, the first being to find a promising Sorcerer Supreme successor.

Hermione accepted the Ancient One’s conditions for receiving the Time Stone and borrowed the Eye of Agamotto to charge her Time-Turner. As she left the library, she caught Kaecilius secretly studying the forbidden Book of Cagliostro.

• The Ancient One told Hermione that she had to bring Strange to Kamar-Taj and eliminate Dormammu to earn the Time Stone, and Hermione accepted after arranging to borrow the Eye of Agamotto.
• Hermione used the Eye of Agamotto to charge her Time-Turner, which could then withstand magic up to level five but could rewind time by only thirty minutes.
• Hermione noticed Kaecilius sneaking into the library and studying the Book of Cagliostro, which contained a ritual for contacting the Dark Dimension.
• Hermione startled Kaecilius, who relaxed when he realized she was not Wong or Mordo, while Hermione suspected the Ancient One already knew about his forbidden studies.

Hermione defeated Kaecilius after he attacked her in the Mirror Dimension and exposed the cost of the dark power he had borrowed from Dormammu. As Kaecilius confessed that he had sought immortality, Hermione offered to grant it herself.

• Kaecilius trapped Hermione in the Mirror Dimension and attacked her, but she paralyzed him with a spell and beat him with an alchemical hammer.
• Hermione broke the Mirror Dimension, and Kaecilius collapsed from the backlash, unable to understand how she had overcome his borrowed power.
• Hermione explained that Dormammu’s dark power was corroding Kaecilius’s soul and draining his life as repayment for the power he had borrowed.
• Kaecilius admitted that he had followed Dormammu in pursuit of immortality and feared he was dying.
• Hermione told Kaecilius that she could give him immortality.

Hermione turned Kaecilius into a soul bound to a photograph and ordered him to gather Dormammu’s followers and summon their master. Back in New York, she defeated an A.I.M. kidnapping squad, controlled its surviving Extremis soldier, and was taken toward Aldrich Killian aboard a freighter.

• Kaecilius accepted Hermione’s offer, and she separated his soul from his body and bound part of it to a photograph.
• Hermione instructed Kaecilius to gather Dormammu’s followers, destroy the Three Sanctums, and summon Dormammu.
• Hermione returned to Tony’s villa, where armed soldiers attacked her on Aldrich Killian’s orders.
• Hermione burned the soldiers with a phoenix-shaped fire spell, leaving only their Extremis-enhanced leader alive.
• The surviving soldier admitted Aldrich Killian had sent him, and Hermione placed him under the Imperius Curse and ordered him to take her to Killian.
• Aboard a freighter, Aldrich Killian was told that his men had brought the target.

Aldrich Killian kidnapped Hermione, mistook her for Tony Stark’s daughter, and used her to lure Tony into a confrontation. Hermione had already taken control of the Extremis soldiers, leaving Killian to face Tony while she watched and ate an apple.

• An Extremis soldier brought Hermione to Aldrich Killian, who assumed she was Tony Stark’s daughter and let her have an apple.
• Tony Stark and Rhodey arrived with Iron Man armors, and Killian told Tony he wanted revenge for being snubbed years earlier.
• Killian revealed Hermione and threatened her, but Tony denied she was his daughter and refused to surrender.
• Killian ordered his Extremis soldiers to kill Hermione, but they ignored him, prompting him to suspect Tony had interfered.
• Killian attacked Tony after activating the Extremis Virus, and Tony donned his armor to fight back while Hermione watched.

Hermione used powerful magic to defeat Aldrich Killian’s Extremis soldiers and turned the fight in Tony Stark’s favor. After Tony’s Mark 42 malfunctioned, Hermione made him beg for her help before confronting Killian.

• Rhodey tried to lead Hermione to safety, but she stayed behind and magically knocked out an Extremis soldier.
• Tony asked Hermione for help after JARVIS reported that the Iron Legion was badly damaged, and Hermione summoned a tornado that swept away the Extremis soldiers.
• Killian recognized Hermione as the Wizard, and Tony struck him while he was distracted.
• Tony claimed he could finish Killian without Hermione, but the Mark 42 tripped and fell apart before it could assemble around him.
• Hermione started to leave, then returned after Tony begged her to deal with Killian.
• Killian admitted that he had lost to luck as Hermione approached him.

Hermione burned Aldrich Killian alive, while a staged robbery left Stephen Strange with a severely injured wrist. At Hogwarts, Hermione watched the Quidditch match, but her presence frightened Slytherin players into mistakes as Gryffindor took the lead.

• Hermione killed Aldrich Killian with Fiendfyre, shocking Rhodey and reminding him of the magic used against the Chitauri.
• Stephen Strange was robbed in an alley; the robber stabbed his wrist while taking his watch, then reached a corner where Hermione’s green light silenced him.
• Hermione attended Hogwarts’s Quidditch match as a spectator after the other houses withdrew rather than face her on the pitch.
• Marcus stopped his charge against Angelina when Hermione stood up, letting Angelina score for Gryffindor.
• A Slytherin player flinched when Hermione drew her wand and was struck in the face by a Bludger.

Hermione disrupted the Quidditch match from the stands while Gryffindor scored, then saved Harry and Malfoy when Dementors knocked Harry from his broom. After learning Malfoy had caught the Snitch, she summoned countless Patronuses and sent them to hunt the Dementors around Hogwarts.

• Hermione frightened the Slytherin players by throwing tools at them, while Madam Hooch refused Marcus's complaint because Hermione had not cast a spell.
• Dementors attacked Harry as he chased the Golden Snitch, and he fell unconscious from his broom.
• Malfoy caught the Snitch, then abandoned it to dive after Harry, but both fell toward the ground.
• Hermione cast Arresto Momentum and caught Harry and Malfoy before they hit the ground.
• Malfoy told Hermione that Dementors had attacked Harry and revealed he had the Golden Snitch.
• Hermione conjured countless different Patronuses and ordered them to hunt every Dementor around Hogwarts, explaining that her complicated feelings made her Patronus change repeatedly.

After Hermione’s Patronuses destroyed the Dementors, Dumbledore warned her that the Ministry might question her about her prophecy and assigned Snape to accompany her. The chapter ended with Hermione asking Snape whether Dumbledore had leverage over him, and Snape refusing to answer.

• Draco Malfoy said he had saved Harry to repay Harry for clearing him of suspicion of murder, while Hermione recalled her Patronuses after they destroyed the Dementors.
• Madam Pomfrey sent Harry and Malfoy to the Hospital Wing, and Ron, Neville, and Seamus asked for checkups after suffering mysterious injuries.
• Dumbledore told Hermione he would report the Dementors to the Ministry, but Hermione said she would kill any more that were sent to Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore warned Hermione that the Ministry might question her about her prophecy and explained that Fudge wanted to suppress anything that threatened his reelection.
• Dumbledore assigned Snape to accompany Hermione to the Ministry, and Hermione asked Snape if Dumbledore had something on him; Snape told her to stop asking.

Hermione met a Ministry delegation at Hogwarts, where she rebuffed Dolores Umbridge’s attempts to put her in her place. The visit ended with Lockhart introducing the newly recruited Auror Ethan Hunt.

• Snape pulled Hermione from Defense Against the Dark Arts class and escorted her to meet Ministry visitors.
• Hermione greeted Lockhart, ignored Umbridge’s offered handshake, and challenged her criticism of Hogwarts.
• Umbridge tried to belittle Hermione’s status, but Snape defended Hermione and said Dumbledore highly valued her.
• Lockhart introduced Ethan Hunt as a new Auror and corrected him about his own deputy-head title.

Hermione, Snape, Umbridge, Lockhart, and Tom traveled to the Ministry of Magic after Lockhart stopped Umbridge from threatening Hermione. Minister Fudge welcomed Hermione in his office, where she asked him to get to the point.

• Hermione recognized that the Auror Ethan Hunt was Tom, who had gained a new identity through Soul Shaping.
• Lockhart challenged Umbridge’s threats against Hermione, and Umbridge backed down while privately vowing revenge.
• The group left Hogwarts for the Wizarding Underground Station, with Tom Apparating alongside Lockhart.
• At the Ministry, its employees greeted Lockhart warmly while showing Umbridge little affection.
• Fudge welcomed Hermione to his office and offered her pumpkin juice, which she replaced with apple juice.
• Hermione asked Fudge to stop the pleasantries and explain why he had invited her.

Hermione refused Fudge’s demand to retract her prophecy, and Umbridge began interrogating her as a suspect in spreading rumors about Voldemort’s resurrection. As two Aurors pressured Hermione to write a confession, she accepted Umbridge’s quill, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Fudge showed Hermione the crystal ball image of Voldemort’s resurrection and urged her to retract the prophecy or provide more details.
• Hermione mocked Fudge’s demand, and he threatened that she could be expelled, banned from magic, or confined if she refused to call the prophecy a rumor.
• Umbridge entered with two Aurors and formally accused Hermione of spreading frightening rumors about the Dark Lord’s resurrection.
• Snape, Lockhart, and Tom waited with Fudge outside Hermione’s room, while Snape denied that he had come to protect her.
• Umbridge threatened Hermione with force and ordered her to write down how she had fabricated the rumors, and Hermione accepted the quill.

Hermione exposed Umbridge’s torture quill and attacked her, then unleashed Fiendfyre against the Aurors in the Ministry of Magic. The Ministry descended into chaos as Fudge confronted Hermione, who showed no intention of holding back.

• Hermione identified Umbridge’s enchanted quill as a torture device and destroyed it.
• Umbridge attacked Hermione with Incarcerous, but Hermione burned the rope, suspended Umbridge, and wounded her with Sectumsempra.
• Two Aurors attacked Hermione, and she summoned a fiery serpent that overwhelmed their spells and set the room ablaze.
• The Fiendfyre burst into the reception room, where Fudge, Snape, and others saw Umbridge bleeding and the Aurors pinned beneath the flames.
• More Aurors arrived and attacked Hermione, but her Fiendfyre swallowed their spells and pinned them as the Ministry fell into chaos.
• Fudge accused Hermione of using dark magic inside the Ministry, while Hermione decided she would no longer hold back.