Chapter Summaries

Su Ming gave Hermione Miracle Serum, granting her a Healing Factor, and guided her through studying at seven magical schools at once with the Time-Turner. After the exams, he appeared outside the Ravenclaw Common Room and offered to take her somewhere exciting.

• Hermione chose Miracle Serum over SSS Serum, and Su Ming administered it to her at the weapons shop.
• Hermione endured the painful enhancement, learned to block out the pain, and tested her Healing Factor by cutting Su Ming's arm.
• Su Ming guided Hermione through classes at several magical schools, where she learned new magic and became a respected student despite challenges.
• Hermione continued excelling at Hogwarts while keeping the secret of her studies and the Time-Turner's effect on her age.
• After the exams, Su Ming appeared outside the Ravenclaw Common Room and asked Hermione if she wanted to go somewhere exciting.

Su Ming took Hermione to Grimmauld Place to meet Sirius, who thanked her for clearing his name and offered his help. Su Ming revealed that he had found something concerning one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes and asked Sirius to bring out the house-elf or arrange for Dumbledore to let them inside.

• Su Ming led Hermione from Hogwarts to Grimmauld Place, where he explained that Sirius had become Harry Potter’s guardian after his name was cleared.
• Sirius appeared and thanked Hermione for saving him from Azkaban, then offered her help and gifts.
• Sirius explained that he could not invite them into his home because it was serving as the Order of the Phoenix’s headquarters under the Fidelius Charm.
• Su Ming asked Sirius to bring out the house-elf or have Dumbledore let them inside so they could discuss a discovery concerning one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes.

Su Ming brought Hermione to Grimmauld Place to find Slytherin’s Locket and used the wait for Sirius to discuss Dumbledore, Voldemort, and the Order of the Phoenix. He left Hermione with a blunt lesson: rather than run from people who obstructed her, she should use her skills to remove the obstacle.

• Su Ming took Hermione to Grimmauld Place, where Sirius told them to wait before vanishing across the street.
• While they waited, Su Ming described the Order of the Phoenix as Dumbledore’s informal group and criticized the Ministry for leaving its members to fight Voldemort.
• Su Ming explained that Dumbledore had felt responsible for Voldemort’s rise but had not sought foreign help because of his own reluctance, Voldemort’s isolationism, and the Ministry’s insistence on handling the conflict alone.
• Hermione suggested that she might go abroad if people became jealous and held her back.
• Su Ming rapped Hermione on the head and told her to use her skills to get rid of those causing her trouble.

Su Ming told Sirius that Regulus may have been misunderstood and revealed that Kreacher knew how he died and where his body was. The chapter ended with Sirius ordering Kreacher, as the Black family's Inheritor, to tell him everything about Regulus.

• Sirius brought Kreacher to meet Su Ming and Hermione, then silenced the elf as he insulted them.
• Sirius described how his family had celebrated Regulus joining the Death Eaters and disowned him for opposing Voldemort.
• Su Ming suggested that Regulus, like Sirius, may have been misunderstood, and said Kreacher knew the truth about his death.
• Kreacher refused to reveal Regulus's secret, and Hermione restrained him with a wandless Full Body-Bind Curse when he tried to hurt himself.
• Sirius commanded Kreacher in the name of the Black family's Inheritor to tell him everything about Regulus.

Su Ming, Hermione, Sirius, and Kreacher reached the sea cave where Voldemort had hidden a Horcrux and worked their way through its magical traps. At the entrance to the hidden chamber, Su Ming used his own blood to activate Voldemort’s blood-sealed stone.

• Su Ming identified the sea cave on the Isle of Man as the place where Voldemort had hidden a Horcrux.
• Su Ming, Hermione, Sirius, and Kreacher flew to the cave and entered its narrow passage, where Su Ming blocked the magical traps.
• Hermione used Finite Incantatem on a massive boulder and revealed that it concealed an archway.
• Sirius recognized that the stone required blood to open, and Su Ming cut his arm and sprayed blood across it.

Su Ming brought Hermione and Sirius to the black lake where Regulus had died, and turned the search for the relic into a combat exercise for Hermione. As Hermione fought the Inferi and searched for Regulus, Su Ming and Sirius watched from safety and began discussing her codename.

• Su Ming led Hermione, Sirius, and Kreacher through the silver doorway to the cavern and explained that the relic lay beyond the black lake.
• Kreacher panicked at the sight of the lake and Sirius froze him before he could hurt himself.
• Su Ming threw a stone into the lake, drawing out the Inferi, and told Hermione to fight them while searching for Regulus.
• Hermione fought off the Inferi with her shotgun, wand, and blades as she tried to identify Regulus among the corpses.
• Sirius watched Hermione's battle, then sat with Su Ming to smoke and discuss her strength and possible codename.

Sirius found Regulus's body in the cave and learned how his brother had stolen Voldemort's locket Horcrux before dying. Su Ming prepared to retrieve the locket from the potion-filled basin as Sirius grieved and blamed Regulus for not surviving.

• Hermione defeated an Inferius, and Sirius identified its body as Regulus by finding the Black family crest in its clothing.
• Sirius wept over Regulus's body and had Kreacher take it home, then thanked Su Ming for helping him find his brother.
• Su Ming explained Voldemort's potion trap and how Kreacher escaped after being abandoned in the cave.
• Kreacher recounted how Regulus replaced Voldemort's locket with a fake and ordered him to hide and destroy the real Horcrux.
• Sirius argued that Regulus should have found a way to survive, while Hermione and Su Ming explained the pressure and danger he had faced.
• Su Ming landed beside the stone basin and prepared to drink the potion so they could retrieve the locket.

Su Ming destroyed the basin in the cave and returned Regulus’s locket and letter to Sirius, then asked him to let the group borrow Harry. Sirius remained uncertain about the dangerous plan but agreed to let Su Ming handle Regulus’s funeral.

• Su Ming cut the basin apart with his anti-magic greatsword and handed Regulus’s fake locket and final letter to Sirius.
• Sirius read Regulus’s signature, mourned his brother, and thanked Su Ming and Hermione.
• Su Ming asked Sirius to let them borrow Harry and explained that Voldemort’s use of Harry’s blood would make a future Killing Curse destroy the Horcrux fragment while allowing Harry to return from Limbo.
• Sirius hesitated over the plan and said he needed time to consult Dumbledore and Lupin.
• Sirius mentioned the robbed wizarding cemetery, and Su Ming offered to arrange Regulus’s discreet funeral, which Sirius accepted.

After the battle, Deathstroke sent a shaken Hermione back to Ravenclaw while he sought help with the locket. Harry spent a miserable holiday at the Dursleys’ until Sirius arrived to take him to his brother’s funeral, leaving with Harry for Diagon Alley and Professor Wilson.

• Deathstroke sent Hermione to the Ravenclaw Common Room to reflect on the people she had killed, then planned to find an expert to handle the locket.
• Harry waited at the Dursleys’ for a letter from Ron and recalled that Dumbledore had forbidden him from moving in with Sirius.
• Sirius visited Harry through the Floo Network and invited him to attend his brother’s funeral, explaining that Professor Wilson and Miss Granger had helped find the body.
• Harry agreed to go, and Sirius cleaned his clothes with magic before they prepared to leave for The Leaky Cauldron and Diagon Alley.
• Harry saw the Dursleys frozen at the breakfast table, and Sirius admitted he had used Petrificus Totalus to stop them from screaming.

Harry and Sirius visited Wilson's Alchemical Automatic Wand Shop, where Harry and the Weasley children tried guns in the basement. Meanwhile, Su Ming and Sirius finalized plans for Regulus's funeral and prepared to bury him in a Muggle cemetery.

• Harry heard wizards praising Hermione's achievements and avoided asking Sirius how she had attended seven schools at once.
• Sirius brought Harry to Wilson's shop, where Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick, and the Weasleys had gathered.
• Ron took Harry and Ginny to the basement shooting range, where Harry tried firing a pistol and hit a target.
• Su Ming told Sirius that the Principal had approved his plan, and they waited for Lupin and the others before settling Regulus's funeral.
• Sirius questioned whether a Muggle cemetery was the best place for Regulus, and Su Ming promised him a grand, private funeral.

Sirius and the others held Regulus’s funeral in a church cemetery, where a Ghanaian team performed a lively dancing procession at the family’s request. The mourners joined in, turning the burial into a cheerful send-off that suited Regulus’s love of lively occasions.

• Hermione arranged a church service by telling the Chaplain that Regulus had been a devout believer who had lived abroad.
• After the relatives placed flowers in Regulus’s coffin, the Chaplain let a Ghanaian team take over the ceremony.
• The six pallbearers lifted the coffin onto their shoulders while their leader started cheerful music, and they danced out of the church.
• The team performed elaborate dance moves with the coffin as they made their way toward the grave.
• Dumbledore, Sirius, Flitwick, Ron’s family, and other mourners joined the dancing, pleased that the funeral let them honor Regulus without pretending to grieve.

Harry spent his summer living happily in Diagon Alley, where Ron enthusiastically planned a future in magical coffin-dancing. At Wilson Automatic Wand Shop, an old wizard introduced Harry to firearms and showed him a Chocolate Frog card portraying Hermione Granger as a celebrated adult witch.

• Ron told Harry he would lead a cheerful coffin-dancing funeral for him and planned to start a coffin-carrying team after graduation.
• Dumbledore tacitly allowed Sirius to rent Harry a private room at The Leaky Cauldron, where Harry spent his summer exploring Diagon Alley.
• Harry worried about what he would do after graduating and briefly considered joining Ron's coffin-carrying business.
• An old man at Wilson Automatic Wand Shop invited Harry to the shooting range and taught him about Muggle firearms.
• The old man gave Harry a Chocolate Frog card describing Hermione Granger's many future achievements, leaving Harry stunned.

Harry received photographs of his parents from the old man at the wand shop and went to sleep feeling safe. Meanwhile, Su Ming and Grindelwald discussed their plan to free Wormtail from Azkaban and use him to lead Voldemort where they wanted.

• The old man advised Harry to ask his enemies about his strengths, gave him magazines, and later gifted him photographs of Lily and James.
• Harry treasured the photographs of his parents, tucked them beneath his pillow, and fell asleep.
• At the wand shop, Grindelwald questioned Su Ming about obtaining the Potters’ photographs, and Su Ming explained how he found them and described James and his friends’ school behavior.
• Su Ming and Grindelwald discussed Wormtail’s betrayal and his history of being bullied by James, Sirius, and Lupin.
• Su Ming prepared to break Wormtail out of Azkaban so he could guide Voldemort into their trap, while Grindelwald planned to tamper with Harry’s dreams.

Harry struggled with repeated memories of James and Sirius bullying Snape, then went with Sirius and the Weasleys to the Quidditch World Cup. He remained troubled during the match, determined to apologize to Snape himself after confirming what was happening with his photograph and dreams.

• Harry asked Sirius whether the photograph showed his parents and whether he had bullied Snape; Sirius admitted that he and James had played cruel pranks at school.
• Harry told Sirius that he had been reliving the bullying as memories in his dreams, but Sirius defended the Marauders’ actions and said Snape had joined the Death Eaters.
• Harry reflected on how the Marauders’ bullying might have driven some students toward resentment, while the lightning scar on his forehead throbbed.
• Sirius and Harry went to the Quidditch World Cup, where Sirius’s cousin Narcissa greeted them and Lucius mocked Arthur Weasley.
• Draco taunted Harry and the Weasleys, but Harry’s listless response unsettled Draco; the match began as Harry sat distracted by thoughts of Snape and resolved to apologize to him.

After Ireland beat Bulgaria, Harry and his friends tried to sleep, but panic erupted when the Dark Mark appeared over the campsite. Sirius led them through the chaos, then turned toward the Hogwarts crest, hoping Dumbledore was there.

• Ireland won the Quidditch match by ten points despite Krum catching the Snitch, and Harry returned to the tent feeling foggy and distracted.
• Sirius woke Harry to screams outside, and Harry joined the Weasleys as people fled through the burning campsite.
• A glowing Dark Mark appeared in the sky, and Sirius told Harry to lead the others toward the eastern woods while the adults investigated.
• A Deathly Hallows Symbol appeared over the woods, and Sirius warned that Grindelwald was there too before pulling the group back to find shelter.
• A Hogwarts crest appeared in the northern sky, and Sirius led Harry and the others toward it.

Hermione organized the Hogwarts students, graduates, and foreign visitors into a defensive position while Harry joined his classmates and Su Ming treated the crisis as a training exercise. The Death Eaters appeared to the west as the defenders prepared to face them.

• Hermione rallied the gathered people, arranged defenses and medical care, and directed students and visitors to prepare for battle.
• Black students transformed into upright half-beasts and armed themselves with weapons from Professor Wilson, while some foreign students brought tanks and other weapons.
• Harry persuaded Ron and the others to take up their wands and join their classmates.
• Su Ming explained to Sirius that Hermione had chosen to organize the resistance herself and that the crisis was part of her training.
• The Death Eaters appeared to the west, wearing black robes and masks as they advanced toward the defenders.

Harry and Ron hid as Death Eaters attacked, but Hermione led Koldovstoretz students in tanks and overwhelmed the attackers with artillery. The chapter ended with Hermione ordering a prisoner-taking charge while Harry concluded that the tanks were more useful than wands.

• Harry and Ron took cover from the Death Eaters, and Ron worried aloud about what he would leave behind if he died.
• Harry told Ron that the students’ Muggle weapons could keep the Death Eaters at bay until reinforcements arrived.
• Hermione ordered the students to fire their magically modified Iron Wall tanks at the approaching Death Eaters.
• The tanks’ live shells blasted the Death Eaters off their feet and left them unable to fight, though Hermione saw that no one had been killed.
• Hermione ordered a charge to capture prisoners, and African and Japanese students rushed forward as Harry told Ron the tanks were more useful than wands.

After the attack, Hermione organized the survivors while Dumbledore failed to find Grindelwald, and the Ministry struggled to investigate the casualties and missing people. At Hogwarts, Dumbledore announced that the Triwizard Tournament would expand into a Ten-School Tournament, beginning there that year.

• Hermione returned empty-handed after the Death Eaters escaped through prepared Key to the Door devices, and Su Ming assigned her to count, comfort, and resettle the survivors and organize guards.
• Dumbledore searched the forest for Grindelwald but found no trace of him, then returned to Hogwarts and met with the Ministry of Magic.
• The Daily Prophet reported four Muggle-born wizards killed, thousands of other casualties and missing people, and no progress in the Death Eater manhunt.
• Luna told Hermione that her father had published her warning about the attack in The Quibbler and that Ministry officials had searched their home; Hermione promised to vouch for Luna's family.
• Dumbledore announced that the Triwizard Tournament would become the Ten-School Tournament, with ten schools participating and Hogwarts hosting the first event, leaving Ron stunned.

Hermione learned that the Wilson Cup would choose the ten most charming students from each school for an international tournament at Hogwarts, and Su Ming confirmed that she and Harry already had places reserved. As Hermione watched Harry by the Black Lake, Draco crept toward him, while Su Ming suggested the boys’ rivalry began when Harry chose Ron over Draco as a friend.

• Students read the tournament rules, learning that ten schools would send contestants to Hogwarts and compete for substantial prizes.
• Cho Chang, Hannah, Luna, and Susan asked Hermione to find out how students would be selected, so Hermione went to question Su Ming.
• Su Ming told Hermione that the Wilson Cup would select the most charming students and explained that Hogwarts was hosting the tournament partly to restore Britain’s reputation.
• Hermione worried that Voldemort and the Death Eaters would disrupt the event, and Su Ming revealed that she and Harry already had places reserved.
• Su Ming pointed out Harry sitting across the lake as Draco crept toward him, then explained that Draco had once wanted to be Harry’s friend before Harry chose Ron.

Harry struggled with recurring dreams in which he experienced Snape’s torment at the hands of the Marauders, and he kept the dreams secret from the professors. At the Black Lake, Draco took the photograph of Harry’s parents and questioned him about it.

• Harry dreamed repeatedly of being Snape as the Marauders tormented him, while Dumbledore and Lily treated Snape kindly.
• Harry secretly showed the photograph to Dumbledore and several professors, who confirmed it was ordinary and showed his parents; Snape silently stared at Lily.
• Harry learned about the Ten-School Tournament but chose not to sign up, then went to the Black Lake with the photograph.
• Draco snatched the photograph and taunted Harry, but Harry calmly asked him to return it.
• Harry told Draco that the people in the photograph were his parents.