Recaps

Hermione was astonished to learn that Cedric and Rolf had tried together, while Ron suggested bringing Rolf into their secret group. Hermione blushed as she considered the possibilities for obtaining Gryffindor's legacy.

• Hermione reacted with disbelief when she heard that Cedric and Rolf had tried together.
• The group accepted that Cedric and Rolf had experimented after Luna suggested it.
• Ron enthusiastically suggested adding Rolf to their special group.
• Hermione wondered about possible combinations for obtaining Gryffindor's legacy and blushed at the thought of a handsome, cheerful face.
• Ron noticed Hermione's red face and asked what was wrong.

Harry and the others saw the Dark Mark above Hogwarts, then watched flames engulf the castle as the Ministry of Magic came under attack elsewhere. Beneath the Ministry, Allen Dismask and the Dark Council found the Gate of the Other Shore.

• Harry used contract magic to coordinate with nine others, then hurried toward the main building after spotting the Dark Mark.
• Fires broke out across Hogwarts while Ron questioned why the professors and Order of the Phoenix had not stopped the attackers.
• Rufus Scrimgeour led Ministry personnel in a fighting retreat against Dark Wizards and dark creatures that had infiltrated the Ministry.
• Amelia Bones, Sirius, and Order of the Phoenix members joined the Ministry battle, leaving Hogwarts exposed to invasion.
• Allen Dismask, Ilhaus Brunei, William Dorom, Rasconi Forsell, and other Dark Council members entered the Department of Mysteries and searched its doors.
• Dismask opened the room containing a tattered veil and identified the solitary doorway as the Gate of the Other Shore.

Dismask and six Wizards used Sixfold Annihilation to lift the Gate of the Other Shore and its stone platform from the floor. Dismask summoned a huge Bone Dragon to carry it away, and the group prepared to conceal their escape through the underground railway.

• Dorom confirmed that the Gate of the Other Shore was the reason the United Kingdom's Ministry of Magic had been built there, and Dismask urged the Wizards to begin their rehearsed spell.
• The six Wizards formed a six-pointed-star Magic Array while Dismask cast a spell that lifted the gate and its stone platform inside a gray spherical net.
• Brunei approached the gate but stepped back after Dorom warned him about Sixfold Annihilation and its danger to living creatures and magic.
• Dismask drank a potion and summoned a Bone Dragon over thirty meters long, explaining that its undead nature would let it carry the gate despite Sixfold Annihilation.
• Dismask asked the six Wizards to maintain a Confundus Charm canopy around the Bone Dragon, then proposed escaping through the underground railway to avoid damaging the building.

Harry and the Hogwarts professors fought Death Eaters who had set magical fires and attacked the castle with powerful spells. Harry helped defeat Rodolphus Lestrange, while other Death Eaters remained at large.

• Harry jumped from a corridor window and joined Lupin in investigating the fires.
• Professor McGonagall summoned house-elves to fight the flames, while Professor Flitwick explained that ordinary spells could not extinguish them.
• A hidden attacker fired a Killing Curse at Professor McGonagall, and she raised a stone wall to block it.
• The attacker triggered an Earthquake Spell, which Professor Flitwick countered before it could damage Hogwarts.
• Harry ran toward a battle and stunned a cloaked Death Eater who had been fighting Madam Hooch and Professor Sinistra.
• Harry revealed the unconscious man as Rodolphus Lestrange, whom he recognized from their previous encounter.

Harry realized the Death Eaters had entered Hogwarts to search for something and led the others to the Room of Requirement, where he joined a fight against Bellatrix and the Carrow siblings. Meanwhile, three Death Eaters incapacitated Professor McGonagall in the Headmaster's Office, but a mysterious golden-red-haired girl appeared and attacked them.

• Harry captured Rodolphus Lestrange and learned that Professor Lupin and Professor Flitwick had encountered Antonin Dolohov, who escaped.
• Harry suspected the Death Eaters were searching for an object and opened the Room of Requirement, where he found Professor Vector, Madam Pomfrey, Dobby, and another house-elf unconscious.
• Harry joined Ron, Lavender, Draco, and Yi Qianqian in their fight against Bellatrix Lestrange and the Carrow siblings, while Professor Lupin and Professor Flitwick arrived to help.
• Three Death Eaters defeated Professor McGonagall in the Headmaster's Office and began searching for what the Dark Lord wanted.
• A golden-red-haired girl appeared in the office and petrified one of the Death Eaters with a powerful spell.

Ginny and Black Ginny defeated three Death Eaters who had ambushed Professor McGonagall while searching the Headmaster's Office for a sword. After Ginny revived McGonagall, the professor praised her for outsmarting their enemies.

• Black Ginny petrified one Death Eater, let another's Killing Curse pass through her, and stunned him with a counterattack.
• Black Ginny broke the last Death Eater's dark magic with an Ice Blade Charm, then blasted and petrified him.
• Ginny took control, confiscated the three Death Eaters' wands, stunned them again, and bound them with ropes.
• Ginny revived Professor McGonagall and gave her a Restorative Potion.
• Professor McGonagall learned that Ginny had defeated the attackers and praised her for using an ambush.

Harry chased Bellatrix after she escaped the Room of Requirement, then realized the Death Eaters had used the attack to search for Hogwarts treasures, including the Sword of Gryffindor. He found Professor McGonagall and Ginny had defeated three Death Eaters, and Dumbledore arrived to take charge as the search for remaining attackers continued.

• Bellatrix escaped Harry's Silver Light Net as black smoke, and Harry pursued her but lost her through a broken window in the dark.
• Harry deduced the Death Eaters had used fires and an Earthquake Curse as distractions while Bellatrix's group searched for the Horcrux in the Room of Requirement.
• Harry remembered Voldemort also wanted the Sword of Gryffindor and hurried with Ron and Cedric to the Headmaster's Office.
• Harry, Ron, and Cedric found Professor McGonagall and Ginny with three bound Death Eaters, and Professor McGonagall revealed Ginny had subdued them after she injured them.
• Harry reported that Rodolphus and the Carrow siblings had been captured, while Bellatrix and Dolohov escaped; Professor McGonagall explained Satima had been knocked unconscious before sending a warning.
• Dumbledore arrived by Floo, summoned Fawkes, and vanished with the phoenix to deal with the remaining danger.

The Death Eaters used an attack on the Ministry of Magic to distract from their assault on Hogwarts, where they sought Ravenclaw’s Diadem and the Sword of Gryffindor. Their plan was exposed and costly, though Dolohov and Bellatrix escaped, leaving Voldemort with fewer options and both sides aware they had underestimated their opponents.

• Voldemort’s forces attacked the Ministry of Magic, stole the mysterious door from the Death Chamber, and caused heavy casualties before the Order of the Phoenix and Madam Bones helped repel them.
• Dolohov emerged from the Vanishing Cabinet, took down Professor Vector and a house-elf, and joined Bellatrix in overpowering Dobby after he sent a warning.
• Captured Death Eaters revealed that Voldemort had sent them to find Ravenclaw’s Diadem and the Sword of Gryffindor, after learning several of his Horcruxes had been compromised.
• Voldemort’s inspection of the Gaunt family ring had triggered Sirius’s concealed trap, badly injuring him and keeping him inactive for a long time.
• Rabastan Lestrange and two Death Eaters ambushed Professor McGonagall, but Ginny defeated them; five Death Eaters were captured while Dolohov and Bellatrix escaped.

After the Death Eaters’ failed attack, Dumbledore left Draco under watch without confronting him, and Draco grew increasingly frightened and suspicious. Harry and the others turned their attention to the unknown accomplice and questioned why Voldemort wanted the Sword of Gryffindor, wondering if he planned to make another Horcrux.

• The professors discovered that the Death Eaters had sent a magical device through the closed Vanishing Cabinet to open it from the Hogwarts side.
• Dumbledore took no action against Draco for a week, which left Draco panicked and wondering whether Voldemort had lost faith in him.
• Alice Natalie’s pursuit of Ron stalled as the holidays ended and students prepared for exams.
• Harry and his friends found no leads on the unidentified person who had been with Draco and Pansy at the Christmas feast.
• Yi Qianqian asked why Voldemort wanted the Sword of Gryffindor, and Hermione wondered if he intended to make another Horcrux.

Harry and his friends discussed whether Voldemort might make another Horcrux, then focused on exams and Quidditch as Hermione grew anxious over Jacob Covenas’s disappearance. Cedric summoned them to meet Dumbledore about important news, leaving them without knowing what had happened to Jacob.

• Harry, Hermione, and Ron considered whether Voldemort might make another Horcrux after failing to obtain the Sword of Gryffindor.
• As exams approached, Harry spent much of his time reassuring an increasingly nervous Qiu.
• Harry let Qiu catch the Golden Snitch in the Gryffindor-Ravenclaw match, and later helped comfort her after she objected to his pity.
• Harry and Ron learned that Jacob Covenas had stopped writing to Hermione and had been missing since the night the Death Eaters invaded.
• Cedric told Hermione that Dumbledore wanted to see her and said Harry and the others could come because there was important news.

Jacob Corvinus told Dumbledore and a group of Ministry officials that he had discovered where Voldemort and his followers were hiding. The news raised hopes of a coordinated assault, but the unusual nature of the hiding place left the plan complicated.

• Harry and the others arrived at Dumbledore’s office and found Jacob Corvinus injured and waiting with several professors.
• Sirius, the Longbottoms, Ministry officials, Tonks, and Moody came through the Floo Network for Dumbledore’s confidential meeting.
• Moody said the Ministry could not yet be sure everyone was trustworthy, so few people had been invited.
• Dumbledore asked Jacob to explain his discovery, and Jacob said he had found Voldemort’s hiding place.
• The attendees recognized that the five foreign Ministries could help capture Voldemort, but Jacob’s discovery came with a complication: the hiding place was unusual.

Jacob tracked the Death Eaters from Hogwarts to France and spent nearly three weeks searching for their hiding place without notifying the French Ministry of Magic. He finally found their trail but was discovered by another group watching them, and a fight left him injured.

• Voldemort and the Death Eaters hid in the sealed French Lestrange family graveyard, which Rabastan could open with his pure blood.
• After the attack over the Easter holidays, Jacob followed Dolohov from Hogwarts through several Apparition jumps into France.
• Jacob lost Dolohov near London and chose not to contact the French Ministry of Magic, fearing Voldemort or the Dark Council had informants there.
• Jacob remained in France for nearly three weeks, breaking the rules because he wanted to help Hermione and keep Voldemort from harming her family.
• Jacob discovered traces of the Death Eaters, but another group secretly watching them spotted him, and a fight left him injured.

Harry and the Order of the Phoenix planned a multinational operation to attack Voldemort and the Death Eaters at Père Lachaise Cemetery, while debating whether Harry and the other young wizards should join. Dumbledore approved Harry’s participation, and the forces prepared to assemble in Paris that night as Harry worried the Dark Council might exploit the battle.

• Jacob told Harry that the Dark Council seemed to be watching the Death Eaters, and Harry explained that the two groups had separate agendas despite working together.
• Sirius argued that Harry and the other young wizards should stay behind, but Harry insisted he would go, and Dumbledore agreed to let him join.
• Cedric, Yi Qianqian, and Hermione volunteered, but Dumbledore explained that the operation already had more than enough people and sent Hermione and the others back to the Common Room.
• Dumbledore secured support from five countries’ Ministries of Magic, assembling nearly two hundred elite wizards to surround the cemetery and restrict spatial magic.
• Harry warned that the Dark Council might wait until both sides were weakened before attacking, but Scrimgeour and Bones were willing to proceed.
• Dumbledore told everyone to be careful as they waited in his office for the operation to begin.

Harry and the Order of the Phoenix joined the international wizarding teams gathering before an operation, where they learned of the formidable Italian deputy minister Saklan Oscilia. The chapter left the assembled group preparing to fight alongside Dumbledore.

• Dumbledore led Harry, Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, and the others through a magically connected fireplace to the international gathering point.
• Harry spotted Kingsley and learned that the Italian delegation included Saklan Oscilia, a powerful wizard who had once defeated a group of Dark Wizards alone.
• Lupin, Moody, and Hestia explained Oscilia's reputation and his position as deputy minister of Italy's Ministry of Magic.
• Dumbledore greeted the foreign leaders, and Oscilia asked him to call him Saklan before introducing himself to Harry.
• Oscilia called Harry pretty, prompting Harry to withdraw his hand and mutter that Oscilia was a poser; Yi Qianqian teased him as Cedric intervened.

Harry and a coalition of six countries’ Ministries of Magic entered the Lestrange family tomb to launch a surprise attack on Voldemort and the Death Eaters. After Dumbledore dispelled the barriers protecting the tomb’s inner hall, the coalition stormed in and the battle began.

• More than two hundred Ministry wizards gathered in France and sealed the graveyard against Apparition and escape.
• Dumbledore used Telepathic Magic to ask Harry if he was prepared for brutal fighting, and Harry said he had killed a werewolf wizard before.
• The French Ministry personnel led the coalition to the Lestrange family tomb, where Dumbledore dispelled its concealed barrier with the Elder Wand.
• Harry and the others followed the tomb’s passages to a circular hall protected by another barrier, which Dumbledore opened.
• Bellatrix realized that the Barrier Magic had been broken, and the six countries’ forces entered the hall as fighting erupted.

Harry entered the enormous arena and found the Ministry of Magic Alliance overwhelming Voldemort’s forces. Voldemort was turning the fight against more than a dozen powerful wizards, but Harry saw that his side was nearly defeated and wondered whether he had any role left to play.

• Harry entered the arena and saw the Alliance fighting Voldemort’s forces, with more than half the black goblins already fallen.
• Harry recognized Voldemort and watched him withstand attacks from Saklan Osgilia, Scrimgeour, Bones, and other powerful wizards.
• Bellatrix Lestrange, Antonin Dolohov, and Wormtail proved able to hold out against groups of attackers, while the other Death Eaters and creatures were mostly killed or wounded.
• Harry realized Voldemort was gaining ground with powerful area spells, but his followers were nearly beaten.
• Harry noticed that Dumbledore had not joined the fight and concluded that the Alliance had so many people that he might have no chance to act.

Voldemort’s ancient black-starlight spell wounded several Ministry allies, but Saklan Oscilia struck him with a twisting red lightning bolt during the spell’s brief recovery window. As Bellatrix and Dolohov rushed to help Voldemort, Sirius and Lupin intercepted them with spells designed to overcome Enchanted Body potion enhancements.

• Voldemort unleashed black starlight that pierced and killed several allied wizards before his body briefly stiffened.
• Saklan Oscilia sent red lightning through a gap in Voldemort’s magical protection and made him grunt in pain.
• Bellatrix and Dolohov broke away from their opponents and charged toward Voldemort, but Sirius and Lupin blocked them.
• Lupin’s modified Stunning Spell broke Dolohov’s elbow and hurled him backward.
• Sirius attacked Bellatrix with a Sword Beam Charm powerful enough to cut through a body enhanced by Enchanted Body potion.

Saklan Oscilia, Sirius, Lupin, and an international coalition overwhelmed Voldemort’s forces, but Voldemort unleashed Annihilation Wave and wiped out many of his attackers. With his escape blocked, Voldemort cut his hand and began a new attack as the chapter ended.

• Saklan Oscilia struck Voldemort, while Lupin and Sirius brought down Rodolphus and Bellatrix as they tried to reach him.
• Voldemort unleashed Annihilation Wave, turning eleven nearby wizards to ash before a dozen skilled wizards countered it with Finite Incantatem.
• The allied forces subdued or killed most of the Death Eaters, vampires, werewolves, and Black Goblins, leaving only Dolohov able to fight beside Voldemort.
• Voldemort discovered that he could no longer Apparate and, after accusing his opponents of underestimating him, cut open his left hand and made his blood float before him.

Voldemort used the power of Alvasar to unleash a soul-rending roar and stop a barrage of spells, revealing that he had drawn on an evil god's power. As the wizards struggled against him, Harry activated Magic Perception to examine that power.

• Voldemort sent beads of blood across the ceiling, forming a magic array, and Harry warned everyone to get away from him.
• The array released a soundless roar that caused pain and confusion, while Harry resisted it and Dumbledore recognized Alvasar.
• More than thirty wizards attacked Voldemort, but their spells burst apart in midair without any visible shield.
• Harry suspected Voldemort was using a deity's power and activated Magic Perception to look at it.

Harry used Magic Perception during the battle and saw the deity projection empowering Voldemort, as well as Dumbledore’s immense soul projection. Dumbledore demonstrated a spell that severed Voldemort’s connection to the deity, leaving Voldemort exposed to a barrage of attacks.

• Harry activated Magic Perception and saw an enormous deity projection enveloping Voldemort and blocking the wizards’ spells.
• Harry discovered he could look at the deity projection without collapsing, then saw Dumbledore’s golden flames and towering amber soul projection.
• Dumbledore asked Harry whether he could see the projection and explained that severing Voldemort’s connection to the Evil God could counter its power.
• Dumbledore cast a spell that made the deity projection shudder and dissipate.
• More than thirty spells struck the unguarded Voldemort almost simultaneously.

Dumbledore severed Voldemort’s connection to Alvasar, leaving him exposed to the wizards’ attacks. As Dumbledore and Voldemort clashed, Dumbledore told Harry the time had come to take Voldemort down.

• Dumbledore’s spell broke Voldemort’s connection to Alvasar, and a barrage of spells struck Voldemort without visibly injuring him.
• Voldemort’s body developed porcelain-like cracks that revealed darkness beneath, and he accused Dumbledore of reaching a new realm of power.
• Lupin killed Dolohov while stopping him from reaching Voldemort, and Sirius destroyed five Horcruxes with Fiendfyre.
• Voldemort attacked Dumbledore with a green spell, and Dumbledore met it with a golden-red spell as their magic held in a deadlock.
• Dumbledore told Harry to take Voldemort down.

Harry struck Voldemort with the Annihilation Curse and Fiendfyre, but Voldemort escaped the graveyard after a lightning attack shattered the barrier and two allies rescued him. The Six-Nation Magic Alliance was left behind with Voldemort still alive.

• At Dumbledore's command, Harry hit Voldemort with the Annihilation Curse, punching a hole through his chest as Dumbledore destroyed his wand, arm, and half his shoulder.
• Harry cast Fiendfyre, but Voldemort transformed into black liquid, dodged the flames, and used Bellatrix as cover while fleeing upward.
• Harry pursued Voldemort as he struck the golden barrier around the graveyard, which held while the black liquid began to lose blood.
• Scrimgeour urged the wizards to attack, but black clouds gathered overhead and dozens of red lightning bolts shattered the barrier.
• A blond man in black robes and a white-haired man in a dark red tailcoat appeared, seized Voldemort and Bellatrix, and escaped before the wizards' spells could reach them.

After the Dark Council rescued Voldemort and Bellatrix from the Ministry of Magic Alliance, Dumbledore took Harry back to Hogwarts while the others handled the aftermath. At a Dark Council gathering, Red Joker revealed they had known about the ambush, then the Council restrained Bellatrix and immobilized Voldemort.

• Harry recognized Red King Toreador and Club King Dismask as the Dark Council members who had rescued Voldemort and Bellatrix.
• Dumbledore reassured Harry and returned with him to Hogwarts, leaving the Ministry of Magic Alliance to clean up the destroyed cemetery in Paris.
• Red Joker welcomed Voldemort and Bellatrix to a gathering of the Dark Council, where many masked members had assembled.
• Bellatrix accused the Council of withholding its knowledge of the ambush, and Red Joker said their cooperation agreement did not require them to share intelligence.
• Black Joker Ulysses bound Bellatrix with golden chains, while Dismask used a bone-shaped wand and a prepared spell to immobilize Voldemort.

Voldemort realized Dismask had used his hair in the resurrection ritual to secretly gain control over his body. The Dark Council began the second stage of its plan, revealing that it wanted Voldemort’s body for a greater purpose as a strange archway appeared.

• Voldemort realized Dismask’s modifications to the resurrection ritual had allowed Dismask to immobilize and control him.
• Dismask boasted that he had spent a long time preparing to control Voldemort, while Toreador and the other Dark Council members teased him.
• Red Joker toasted the plan’s success with the Dark Council and summoned an elaborate magic array and a stone archway.
• Red Joker told Voldemort the Dark Council had schemed to obtain his forbidden body, which could be brought to life only by a wizard like him.
• Black Joker interrupted Red Joker as the appointed time arrived, and Red Joker turned to begin the next step.

Red Joker transformed Voldemort’s damaged body into a beautiful female vessel while Voldemort’s soul escaped, forcing the Dark Council to reconsider their ritual. Far away, Wormtail returned to a blood-smeared coffin containing a strange, scaly humanoid body.

• Red Joker used magic to heal and reshape Voldemort’s body as the Gate of the Other Shore stirred.
• Voldemort’s eyes turned black, and a face formed from smoke escaped into the floor despite Dismask’s control of his body.
• Red Joker explained that Zou had foreseen uncertainty, and Vivian said she needed seven more wizards to complete a substitute for the missing soul power.
• Black Joker agreed to gather forty-nine wizards, and Red Joker finished shaping the body into a lifeless, beautiful woman as the gate swayed.
• Wormtail appeared in a basement on Thasos Island, opened a blood-smeared coffin, and revealed a hairless, noseless figure with faint scales on its skin.