Recaps

Harry helped establish R.B. while Umbridge tightened her control over Hogwarts, and he learned that his connection to Voldemort had led him to experience Arthur’s attack through the serpent’s eyes. The Weasleys brought Arthur home to recover, while Lockhart hinted at a dangerous statue and Hermione reunited with Jacob over Christmas.

• Neville cast a powerful Patronus, and Harry saw that Ron’s soul projection was shrouded in black mist and moved in sync with him.
• Harry and Hermione helped establish R.B., where Harry taught Patronus practice and later disarmed Zacharias Smith repeatedly during a lesson on the Disarming Charm.
• Umbridge imposed new restrictions and punishments, but Gryffindor beat Slytherin before Harry and his friends visited the injured Hagrid and heard how he and Madame Maxime had approached the giants.
• Hagrid introduced the Thestrals in the Forbidden Forest, where Umbridge challenged his claims that Hogwarts’s herd was tame.
• After absorbing a silver star in meditation, Harry dreamed he had become a snake and bitten a man, then told Dumbledore he believed the dream showed Arthur being attacked.
• Dumbledore alerted the Weasleys, and Mrs. Weasley confirmed Arthur was in mortal peril before the family found him recovering at St. Mungo’s from venomous snake bites.
• Harry told Hermione and Qiu that the soul fragment in his head had made him experience Voldemort’s snake, while Lockhart later warned him that a strange statue was dangerous and might help him.
• Sirius and Moody took Harry and the Weasley children to visit Arthur, who was discharged to recover at home, while Jacob met Hermione’s parents and described his Ilvermorny graduation.

Harry’s search for Ravenclaw’s Diadem led him to Voldemort’s plans beneath the Ministry, while the students rallied around his account of Voldemort’s return. After investigating the Forbidden Forest and learning about the centaurs’ failed ritual, Harry heard from Professor Gageon that wizards had died seeking knowledge about deities and that he possessed one of two related objects.

• Harry began seeing the Department of Mysteries through a snake’s eyes, and he and his friends connected the visions to the Order’s arrests and Voldemort’s search for something there.
• Harry bought two Dementors for Patronus practice, and Cedric, Fred, and George demonstrated that they could produce corporeal Patronuses.
• Harry realized Ravenclaw’s Diadem might be hidden in the Room of Requirement, but touching it knocked him unconscious and showed him Voldemort threatening Rookwood and Avery over their failure to get something from Bode.
• Hermione helped publish Harry’s account of Voldemort’s return in The Quibbler, and students secretly read it and told Harry they believed him despite Umbridge’s ban.
• Umbridge dismissed Trelawney and brought in Professor Gageon, while Dumbledore’s attempt to appoint Firenze as Divination professor was blocked.
• Harry entered the Forbidden Forest, encountered a Bird-Shaped Man-Eater and Norberta, then followed centaurs to their village and saw their attempt to transform two of them fail.
• Harry told Hermione and Ron about the centaurs’ ritual, and they connected its statue to the memory Yi Qianqian had given Cedric.
• Professor Gageon told Harry that Australian wizards had sacrificed lives seeking knowledge about deities and that Harry had taken one of two objects connected to them, then asked him for the deity’s name.

Umbridge uncovered the R.B. meetings, but Dumbledore drove off the Ministry and left Umbridge struggling to control Hogwarts. Harry and Qiu explored Ravenclaw’s legacy while Harry helped Hagrid maintain the barrier protecting Norberta, and the students turned toward their exams.

• Harry and Qiu collected a pair of connected cabinets in Hogsmeade, then Harry revealed two Dementors at an R.B. Patronus practice meeting where Hermione, Angelina, and Alicia produced corporeal Patronuses.
• Umbridge raided an R.B. meeting and brought its members before Fudge, Scrimgeour, and Dumbledore after Draco found the parchment naming Dumbledore’s Army.
• Dumbledore incapacitated Fudge and the Ministry officials with Fawkes, while Umbridge took over as Headmistress and blocked the R.B. from using the Room of Requirement.
• Fred and George launched a spectacular fireworks prank against Umbridge, and the twins revealed they planned to leave Hogwarts after completing their first phase.
• Harry and Qiu studied Ravenclaw’s Diadem and entered the Chamber of Secrets, where they received Ravenclaw’s knowledge and found a vast cavern beyond the tunnel.
• Harry and Qiu shared their theory about the Founders’ legacies with Hermione, then joined their friends in investigating whether other students could access the remaining legacies.
• Professor McGonagall supported Harry’s ambition to become an Auror despite Umbridge’s objections, while Umbridge struggled to stop the pranks and Gryffindor lost badly to Slytherin.
• Hagrid led Harry, Ron, and Hermione to Norberta in the Forbidden Forest and explained that Dumbledore had missed renewing her protective barrier.
• Harry studied Dumbledore’s Sensory Barrier and created a smaller barrier around Grawp that lasted five days, then arranged for Dobby to help Hagrid care for Grawp and Norberta.
• Harry told Qiu about his work in the forest and learned that Hufflepuff had won the Quidditch Cup as students began preparing for exams.

During the Wizard Level Examinations, Harry and his friends discovered Voldemort’s search for the Prophecy Orb and fought the Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries. The Order arrived, Voldemort confronted them, and Harry survived his Killing Curse.

• Umbridge brought Ministry wizards to Hogwarts, and Harry and his friends watched the Ministry drive Hagrid away and attack Professor McGonagall.
• Harry saw Voldemort and the Death Eaters searching the Department of Mysteries, then gathered his friends to go after them and capture a Death Eater.
• Umbridge tried to stop Harry’s group, but they disarmed her Ministry helpers and flew to the Ministry on Byakhee.
• Harry and his friends found the Prophecy Orb room, where Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange ambushed them and demanded the orb.
• Harry and his friends escaped the Death Eaters through the Department of Mysteries, capturing Rodolphus Lestrange, but the Death Eaters caught up with them in the Ministry hall.
• The Order of the Phoenix arrived and fought the Death Eaters, while Voldemort appeared and demanded the Prophecy Orb from Harry.
• Voldemort attacked the Order with red lightning and Annihilation Waves, but Harry’s Patronus and Professor McGonagall’s stone giants helped protect them.
• Voldemort attacked Harry with a black blade and then cast Avada Kedavra, but Harry stopped the Killing Curse with Maxim Shield.