Recaps

Ginny, Harry, Ron, and Hermione crossed the desert to reach the Pyramid, where they realized they were trapped in an abnormal realm that prevented most magic from working. Hermione discovered that her Animagus transformation still worked, and she hinted that Jean had told her something about Harry as they planned to climb the Pyramid.

• Ginny told Harry that she had learned a little Dream Realm magic, while Harry silently questioned her explanation.
• Harry and Ron arranged three slow Nimbus 3000 trips to carry all four friends across the desert to the Pyramid.
• Hermione noticed that the sun had not moved and concluded they were outside the real world, where most of their magic could not work.
• Harry found that only his Mind Magic remained usable, and he concealed a thought after his other abilities failed.
• The group searched the Pyramid’s base without finding anything, then decided to climb it.
• Hermione said her Animagus transformation worked and hinted that Jean had told her something about Harry.

Harry revealed that he was an Animagus whose form was a vulture, while Hermione showed that she became a large cat. Searching for a way out of the pyramid, Harry discovered that his vulture form could see a recurring black vapor emerging from a stone block, which Hermione suspected might be connected to souls and sky burial.

• Hermione, Ron, and Ginny learned that Harry had become an Animagus during the summer after his second year, and Hermione transformed into a large cat.
• Harry revealed his vulture Animagus form, and the group laughed at his bald-headed appearance before flying around the pyramid to search for an exit.
• Harry spotted faint black vapor appearing on the pyramid's shadowed side, but the others could not see it when they gathered at the location.
• Ginny suggested that Harry's vulture form might be able to see something the others could not, so Harry transformed again and saw the vapor emerge from a stone block.
• Hermione recalled that some people in the East practiced sky burial and regarded vultures as divine birds that guided souls to Heaven.

Harry discovered hidden ancient Egyptian writing on a stone block and, with Hermione’s help, translated it as a prayer to Osiris. Their attempts to activate it by speaking the prayer failed, and Ginny suggested the writer might have intended it to be read in runes.

• Harry used Magic Perception to see two lines of blood-red writing on the stone block and copied them down for Hermione.
• Hermione identified the writing as ancient Egyptian, then used a dictionary from her bag to translate it as a prayer praising Osiris.
• Hermione, Harry, Ron, and Ginny each tried reciting the prayer, but the stone block did not react.
• Ginny suggested trying the prayer in runes because the person who left the writing might not have been an Egyptian wizard.

Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny opened a hidden passage by reciting an ancient Egyptian prayer translated into runes seven times, then descended into a strange place where magic did not work. Harry suspected Voldemort had created the dreamlike world to hide a Horcrux, and the chapter ended with the group still descending while Hermione scorned Harry and Ron’s confusion about the earth’s depth.

• Ginny suggested that the runic clue might have been left by someone who was not an Egyptian wizard, and Harry translated the prayer into runes.
• Harry recited the prayer seven times, causing a small doorway to appear in the stone, and the four entered it.
• Black Ginny recognized the writing as soul-powered and suspected Voldemort had left it while hiding a new Horcrux.
• Hermione used two flashlights to light the tunnel as the group descended and discussed whether the strange place combined the Dream Realm with reality.
• Harry proposed that Voldemort had hidden a Horcrux there, and the others continued down the passage despite their fatigue.
• Ron wondered whether they had reached the earth’s center, and Hermione disdainfully corrected him while Harry struggled to explain.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville descended into a hidden place where magic worked but Harry could not reach the Dream Realm. They passed through a chamber and corridor filled with unnerving wax figures, then emerged in an underground palace centered on a huge stone sarcophagus.

• Hermione discovered that magic worked again, but Harry could neither summon the McGonagall Bird nor open the Dream Realm Gate.
• Harry and the others entered a vast domed chamber filled with thousands of lifelike wax figures bearing identical smiles.
• The group found a golden door leading to a corridor lined with more wax figures, then followed it to an old wooden staircase.
• Harry opened a door at the bottom of the stairs, and it vanished after the five entered and the mist cleared.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville found themselves in an enormous underground palace with a stone sarcophagus at its center.

Harry and his friends searched an underground burial chamber and found a passage beneath its empty sarcophagus. They descended to a vast pool with no visible exit, and Harry entered the water to investigate.

• Harry and his friends found themselves in a sealed burial chamber and searched for a way out.
• Neville suggested checking the stone sarcophagus, and Harry opened it to reveal a passage leading downward.
• Harry and his friends descended through the passage and reached a large expanse of still, black water.
• After circling the pool and finding only stone walls, Harry concluded they would have to go underwater.
• Harry cast a Bubble-Head Charm and entered the water while his friends waited.

Harry and his friends discovered that the piranhas guarding the water were Inferi created by Bellatrix, and Harry’s Ball Lightning failed to destroy them. As they searched for a way past the shoal, Ron remembered a spell that could make holy water, and Hermione asked Harry whether he knew it.

• Harry escaped the water as Inferi piranhas tore through his Protego Totalum, and Hermione identified them as magically altered fish.
• Neville suggested the fish were Inferi, and Harry and the others concluded that Voldemort was responsible, though Bellatrix had actually created them without knowing they guarded a Horcrux.
• Harry used Ball Lightning to electrocute the water, but Hermione explained that the lightning had not destroyed the undead fish.
• Ron recalled that protective magic could counter Inferi and that a spell could turn ordinary water into holy water.
• Hermione asked Harry whether he knew the spell for making holy water.

Harry and his friends defeated the Inferi piranhas with Holy Water and found a trapped Golden Basilisk in the next chamber. Harry’s Killing Curse bounced off a thin, waxlike coating on the creature, leaving the group to wonder what protected it.

• Harry enchanted the water with vitality magic, dissolving the Inferi piranhas and making the underwater passage safe.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville found another passage beneath the water and entered a small room containing a trapped golden snake.
• Harry spoke to the snake in Parseltongue and learned that it hated humans and was furious at being immobilized.
• Hermione recognized the snake as a Golden Basilisk and pulled Harry back when it used its petrifying magic.
• Harry cast the Killing Curse at the basilisk, but the spell bounced off a transparent coating covering its body.
• Ron and Hermione questioned what kind of protection could stop the Killing Curse, while Harry considered that the coating might not be wizard magic.

Harry identified the golden basilisk’s protection as soul-burning body and explained how Voldemort had combined necromancy and Horcrux methods to preserve its soul and abilities. Unable to connect to the Dream Realm, Harry exposed the apparent Neville beside them as an unknown follower and asked for help.

• Harry recognized the basilisk’s protection as soul-burning body, an ancient sorcery that burned its victim’s soul while protecting it from magic.
• Hermione questioned how the basilisk had survived for a month, and Harry explained that Voldemort had made it an Inferius and used Horcrux methods to keep its soul trapped and burning.
• Harry said ordinary magic would struggle to harm the basilisk and that he could not connect to the Dream Realm, while Ron urged him not to use deity power.
• Harry addressed the figure beside them as a follower rather than Neville, pointing out that Neville had gone home with Mr. Frank and the others.
• Hermione and Ron realized they had overlooked Neville’s absence, while Black Ginny reacted with amusement.

Harry exposed a powerful being disguised as Neville and learned that breaking the magic trapping them required the destruction of a soul. He chose the hidden second soul inside Ginny, and the being drew it out as black mist.

• Harry realized Neville was an impostor after the Left Hand of Chaos and Calamity warned him, and confronted the being.
• The being revealed that he had watched Ron for years and influenced Ron’s growth and talents.
• The being explained that adding a soul to the Golden Basilisk’s soul-imprisoning magic would break it, but destroy that soul in the process.
• Harry restrained Ron and Hermione, chose the hidden soul within Ginny, and asked the being to use it to break the magic.
• The being pulled a black shadow from Ginny, and Ron checked on her after Harry released his restraints.

Harry and the others learned that Ginny had unknowingly shared her soul world with a fragment of Voldemort, formerly known as Tom Riddle. After the being in Neville’s form removed the fragment, it destroyed the Golden Basilisk, leaving behind a Lestrange necklace as it disappeared.

• Ginny recognized the extracted soul fragment as Tom and revealed that it had once been Tom Riddle, prompting Ron and Hermione to identify the name as Voldemort’s.
• Harry explained that he had sensed something wrong with Ginny’s soul, and Ginny connected the fragment to the diary that had possessed her during her first year.
• Ginny recalled that she had released the basilisk and attacked Snape while under the diary’s influence, then worried that Snape might be waking up.
• The being in Neville’s form turned Black Ginny into mist and sent her into the Golden Basilisk, causing the basilisk and its Burning Spirit Body effect to vanish.
• Harry summoned the McGonagall Bird and the Book of Dreams, while Ron spotted a necklace bearing the Lestrange family crest where the basilisk had stood.
• Neville’s fading shadow remarked that the exchange had been pleasant and disappeared, leaving Ron with an unexplained sense of loss.

Harry and his friends returned from Voldemort’s hidden world with a Horcrux, then learned that their disappearance had frightened the Weasley family and Sirius. The adults scolded them, while Dumbledore comforted Ginny and acknowledged that the adults had failed to notice her possession.

• After the deity and Golden Basilisk vanished, Harry recognized the pendant as a Horcrux, and the group sealed it in Hermione’s lead box to take to Dumbledore.
• Harry used the Book of Dreams and the McGonagall Bird to return with Ron, Hermione, and Ginny to their room at Weasley Manor, explaining that they had traveled through a space between the Dream Realm and reality.
• Sirius found the children after the adults had searched the manor for two hours, and Harry learned that Mrs. Weasley had discovered their rooms empty and called everyone to search.
• Harry and his friends described their experience, and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley scolded them for their recklessness while Mrs. Weasley wept as she hugged Ginny.
• Dumbledore reassured Mrs. Weasley that Ginny was not to blame and admitted that the adults had failed to notice her possession; Ron’s remark about Ginny’s behavior earned him another smack from his parents.

Harry and the Order of the Phoenix discussed the recovered Horcrux and Dumbledore’s estimate that Voldemort was trying to overcome the basilisk body’s weaknesses. In Eastern Mongolia, Voldemort completed his transformation with fire crane blood and prepared to return with his weakness removed.

• Harry showed the Order of the Phoenix the Lestrange pendant, and Dumbledore advised waiting before destroying it in case Voldemort had placed an alarm spell on it.
• Dumbledore said Voldemort would likely come to them after finishing research to overcome his basilisk body’s weaknesses, though he was unsure how accurate his estimate was.
• After the meeting, Dumbledore told Elphias Doge that Voldemort’s repeated creation of Horcruxes might have damaged his ability to develop new magic.
• In Eastern Mongolia, Voldemort emerged from the ground after his body had adapted to the fire crane blood he had incorporated to eliminate his weakness to cranes.
• Voldemort declared that no one could stand against him and laughed.

After Voldemort attacked Diagon Alley, Harry and the Order of the Phoenix rushed to Hogsmeade, where Dumbledore confronted him in a fierce aerial battle. Sirius revealed that Voldemort had overcome his weakness to roosters, leaving the Order without an easy way to stop him.

• Hermione woke Harry and Ron with news that Voldemort had attacked Diagon Alley, killing five people and injuring more than thirty.
• Harry and Ron learned from Sirius that three Aurors had confronted Voldemort and apparently failed to stop him.
• Dumbledore sent the Order to Hogsmeade and vanished in a burst of fire with Fawkes.
• Harry traveled with the others to the Hog's Head, where he noticed the pub's standing owner looked strangely familiar.
• Harry saw Dumbledore and Voldemort fighting as two blazing figures in the sky, and Sirius said the Aurors' roosters had no effect because Voldemort had overcome that weakness.

Harry and the others arrived in Hogsmeade, where Jacques Xilieikesi was battling Voldemort in the sky. As Jacques began to falter, Harry discovered that the Hog's Head owner was Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus's younger brother, while Albus stood ready to intervene.

• Harry and the others found Dumbledore watching Voldemort fight Lord Jacques Xilieikesi above the damaged Hogsmeade.
• Madam Rosmerta identified Jacques, and Sirius explained that the famed French Flame was a former head of the Xilieikesi family.
• Harry watched Voldemort overpower Jacques, whose attacks dwindled as he retreated and relied on defensive magic.
• The Hog's Head owner criticized Jacques's chances, and Dumbledore addressed him as Aberforth.
• Harry recognized the man as Albus Dumbledore's younger brother, and Aberforth criticized Albus's judgment as Albus prepared to join the fight.

The battle against Voldemort escalated after Jacques Xilieikesi was struck down and Dumbledore, Harry, and the others joined the fight. Snape arrived to attack Voldemort, who brushed aside his Killing Curse and countered with one of his own.

• The two Jokers watched Voldemort overpower Jacques Xilieikesi, and the Black Joker hinted at a plan involving his uncle.
• Voldemort's Dark Magic broke through Jacques's shield and badly injured him, while Dumbledore and a French wizard rescued him.
• Dumbledore and You Weier Xilieikesi agreed to join forces against Voldemort, and Harry and the others followed them into the battle.
• Voldemort's laughter disoriented the weaker wizards, but Harry and the elite fighters resisted and attacked him.
• Snape appeared beside Harry, wounded Voldemort with Sectumsempra, and declared that Voldemort would die that day.
• Snape cast the Killing Curse at Voldemort, who deflected it into a French wizard and fired a Killing Curse back at Snape.

Voldemort unleashed powerful purple flames and a human-form death gaze against the assembled wizards, killing several and forcing the others to retreat. Harry joined Dumbledore and You Weier in the fight, then used Magic Perception after suspecting Voldemort's magic interfered with spatial magic.

• Sirius shielded Snape from Voldemort's Killing Curse and told him, "We're even."
• Voldemort killed three Ministry members and a French wizard, then targeted Dumbledore with purple flames that resisted Dumbledore's attempt to control them.
• Harry warned the wizards that Voldemort could use the basilisk's death gaze in human form, and Dumbledore ordered anyone without a Holy Spirit Barrier to retreat.
• Voldemort's expanding flames killed two wizards, while Dumbledore defended himself with golden-red flames and Harry absorbed the fire with a Berg's flame worm.
• Voldemort fought Dumbledore while Harry and You Weier continued attacking, but the purple flames blocked most spells and seemed to disrupt Harry's Apparition.
• Harry recalled Hermione and Jacob's earlier difficulty using spatial magic near Voldemort, then activated Magic Perception.

Harry joined Dumbledore and You Weier in attacking Voldemort and discovered that Voldemort’s magical flame contained deity magic runes. He realized Voldemort had absorbed deity power into his own magic, leaving Harry to confront the implications as the battle continued.

• Harry saw that Voldemort’s soul projection had become a winged, blue-black serpent and found that Apparition stopped working near Voldemort’s magical flame.
• Harry joined You Weier and confirmed that Voldemort’s flame, unlike You Weier’s, contained hidden magic runes.
• Harry identified the runes as deity magic runes through knowledge he had received from the King in Yellow.
• Harry connected Voldemort’s altered magic to his past contact with deities and realized Voldemort had assimilated deity power into his magical power.

Harry used the Magic-Devouring Vortex to absorb much of Voldemort's deity-enhanced flames, but the heat inside him forced him to stop. Meanwhile, Jacques Xilieikesi was taken away after the French wizards’ second young master healed him, and the battle against Voldemort continued.

• Harry realized that Voldemort had incorporated the Evil God's power into himself, making him too strong for Dumbledore and the Elder Wand to suppress.
• Harry opened his Magic-Devouring Vortex and directed it at Voldemort's purplish-red flames, absorbing nearly half and allowing other wizards to approach.
• Aberforth watched Harry and criticized Dumbledore for choosing someone like him again.
• The French wizards’ second young master removed the residual Dark Magic from Jacques Xilieikesi's wounds, healed him, and Apparated away with him.
• Harry felt searing heat from the absorbed flames and stopped before he could devour the rest, while two French wizards joined the attack on Voldemort.

Harry released the dangerous magical power he had absorbed by summoning an ancient Lightning Storm, whose lightning formed dragon-like beasts and struck at Voldemort. Voldemort erased the first lightning dragon, then transformed into a giant basilisk as eight more descended.

• Harry absorbed purple-red flames with the Magic-Devouring Vortex, and the heat began burning his insides.
• Snape explained that Harry needed to release the magical power, and Aberforth Dumbledore called out the same advice.
• Harry summoned an ancient Lightning Storm, creating a vast dark red thundercloud and a golden-red lightning dragon aimed at Voldemort.
• Voldemort countered the first lightning dragon with a white pillar of light that Sirius and Lupin identified as an Annihilation Curse.
• Eight more lightning dragons emerged from the cloud, and Voldemort transformed into an enormous basilisk as they descended.

Harry used the Left Hand of Chaos and Calamity to restrain Voldemort after the Dark Lord healed the severe wounds caused by Harry’s lightning. The chapter ended with Voldemort’s body stiffening when Harry’s Runes Lock chains finally touched him.

• Voldemort transformed into a giant basilisk, and his expanded Instant Death Solidification killed several unprotected Ministry wizards.
• Harry’s lightning tore deep wounds into Voldemort, but Voldemort healed them with his purple-red flames and returned to human form.
• Harry abandoned conventional magic and decided to use Runes Lock to restrict Voldemort so Dumbledore could land a decisive blow.
• Harry warned Sirius to prepare to destroy Voldemort’s Horcrux, while Lupin followed Harry to guard him.
• Harry maneuvered close enough for his black rune chains to touch Voldemort, whose body abruptly stiffened.

Harry was caught by Voldemort’s soul projection and woke in a dark place beside a fragment of Rowena Ravenclaw’s consciousness. Rowena explained how Harry’s group had reached her and left him waiting to learn more about the legacies.

• Harry watched curses spread from Voldemort’s soul projection along the Runes Chain, covering his body and causing him to lose consciousness.
• Harry awoke in darkness, approached a bonfire, and recognized the woman beside it as Rowena Ravenclaw.
• Rowena asked about Harry’s time and the Ravenclaw’s Legacy, and Harry explained that Helena had stolen the Diadem before it became a Horcrux.
• Rowena explained that the Diadem’s original requirements involved academic achievement and studying late despite being in love.
• Harry told Rowena that his group had obtained three legacies, or possibly four, and Rowena concluded that a companion had activated the next stage and drawn the legacy holders there.

Harry learned that the Founders’ inheritances contained pieces of Tower Chapters, an ancient Egyptian codex that suppressed divine power, and realized Voldemort had used it to counter his left hand. He began reciting a runic spell that enveloped Hogsmeade in loneliness and invoked the King in Yellow.

• Harry woke after only five seconds and realized Voldemort’s Slytherin inheritance had activated his Ravenclaw inheritance.
• Harry learned that the Founders’ inheritances preserved their interpretations of Tower Chapters and that he now understood more of it than Voldemort.
• Harry recited obscure runes as an ancient aura rose around him, and a feeling of desolate loneliness spread across Hogsmeade.
• Lupin stopped Sirius from touching Harry, while Aberforth tried to reach him and was forced to the ground by Harry’s power.
• Harry completed the chant and called upon the King in Yellow.

Harry summoned the King in Yellow to stop Voldemort, who had unleashed Alvasar’s divine power. The King in Yellow absorbed Voldemort’s power and soul, leaving Voldemort dead, and then gave Harry something that left his expression strange.

• Harry realized Dumbledore may have expected him to use the King in Yellow’s power and began reciting the summoning prayer.
• The King in Yellow appeared, and Voldemort unleashed Alvasar’s full divine power, forcing the wizards around him to the ground.
• The King in Yellow absorbed Alvasar’s power along with Voldemort’s Soul Projection and Magical Flame.
• Voldemort attacked Harry with the Killing Curse, but it rebounded and killed him.
• Sirius destroyed a Lestrange family Horcrux with Fiendfyre as the King in Yellow returned to Harry and placed a mass of silver between his eyebrows before disappearing.
• Harry told Sirius and Lupin that Voldemort was dead and said Voldemort had miscalculated.

Harry used memories from Voldemort’s remaining soul to explain why Voldemort had mistakenly tried to absorb his power and died. Though the Order learned Voldemort was gone, Harry warned them that the Dark Council planned to bring Morgana back, leaving the group facing a new danger.

• Harry explained that Voldemort had mistaken the King in Yellow’s power for Alvasar’s and died trying to absorb it.
• Ron questioned why Harry had not used the deity’s power earlier, and Mrs. Weasley scolded him for dismissing the danger.
• Aberforth condemned Harry and Dumbledore for allowing a student to wield such power, then left the gathering.
• Dumbledore confirmed Voldemort was gone but warned that the Dark Council posed another serious threat.
• Harry revealed the Dark Council intended to resurrect Morgana, and Dumbledore noted that old texts did not prove she was dead.