Recaps

Harry and his friends investigated Draco and the cursed necklace while Voldemort’s attacks brought danger to the Weasleys and a prison break abroad. The stretch ended with Harry preparing to celebrate Ron’s seventeenth birthday as Draco returned to his old swagger.

• Harry discovered that Katie Bell was under the Imperius Curse and removed a deadly jinxed necklace from her possession.
• Harry and his friends watched Draco while studying the Half-Blood Prince’s textbook, and Harry learned that Draco had an unseen accomplice.
• Voldemort’s attacks at Canary Wharf and the Burrow forced Harry and Ron to fight Death Eaters, while Bill suffered severe injuries from Sectumsempra.
• Sirius and Lupin sent the children to Weasley Manor as the adults investigated the attacks, and the attackers later broke everyone out of Inyashadibasta.
• Percy warned Harry that the Imperius Curse had been used in the Ministry, while Harry and his friends suspected the Death Eaters or the Northern Wizard Organization.
• Harry and Hermione questioned whether Draco’s apparent presence at the Slytherin match was genuine, while Neville hinted that something might have happened at home.
• Britney Longbottom refused to cooperate with the Lestranges as Nalan questioned Joker and Ulysses’s plans.
• Draco resumed strutting around Hogwarts after Lucius escaped prison, and Harry prepared a signed Chudley Cannons jersey for Ron’s seventeenth birthday.

Harry entered Draco’s dream and uncovered his plan to use a repaired Vanishing Cabinet to bring Death Eaters into Hogwarts, then escaped a dangerous dream encounter with a mysterious intruder. As the school prepared for an attack that did not come over Easter, Cedric and Rolf gained Hufflepuff’s inheritance together.

• Harry and Jacob Covenas discussed the Dark Council, and Professor McGonagall tightened Hogwarts security after the poisoning of Slughorn and Flitwick.
• Harry summoned a McGonagall Bird and used it to enter Draco’s dream, where Draco admitted poisoning the professors and Harry learned he was repairing a Vanishing Cabinet for the Death Eaters.
• A mental trap in Draco’s dream sent Harry into a replay of his parents’ deaths, but he escaped and discovered Draco’s memories had been altered to hide another accomplice.
• Harry told Dumbledore what he had learned, then faced a black-robed intruder in a desert dream and defeated the creatures and magic used against him.
• Brach and Zou discussed Harry’s escape from Brach’s dream simulation, while Harry later found a mysterious pyramid in the desert dream that he could not enter.
• Harry and his friends watched Draco and guarded the Vanishing Cabinet through Easter, but no Death Eaters arrived, and Harry suggested entering Draco’s dream again to provoke him.
• Cedric and Rolf gained Hufflepuff’s inheritance when they held hands before its statue, and Harry proposed investigating Gryffindor’s inheritance next.

Voldemort’s attack on Hogwarts and the Ministry led Dumbledore and an international coalition to assault the Lestrange graveyard, where they nearly defeated Voldemort before the Dark Council rescued him. The Council revealed its plan to use Voldemort’s body and the Gate of the Other Shore, while Wormtail uncovered a mysterious figure on Thasos Island.

• Harry and the defenders fought off Death Eaters who attacked Hogwarts while Voldemort’s forces raided the Ministry and stole the Gate of the Other Shore.
• Harry and the others learned that Voldemort’s followers had been searching for Ravenclaw’s Diadem and the Sword of Gryffindor, then Jacob Corvinus revealed that he had tracked them to the Lestrange family graveyard in France.
• Dumbledore assembled an international coalition, and Harry joined the assault on the graveyard despite Sirius’s objections.
• The coalition overwhelmed most of Voldemort’s forces, but Voldemort invoked Alvasar’s power before Dumbledore severed his connection to the Evil God.
• Harry and Dumbledore wounded Voldemort, but the Dark Council’s Red King Toreador and Club King Dismask broke the graveyard barrier and escaped with Voldemort and Bellatrix.
• At the Dark Council’s gathering, Dismask immobilized Voldemort, and Red Joker revealed that the Council intended to obtain his forbidden body.
• Red Joker reshaped Voldemort’s body as the Gate of the Other Shore stirred, but Voldemort’s face escaped into the floor and Vivian said they needed seven more wizards to replace the missing soul power.
• Wormtail opened a blood-smeared coffin on Thasos Island and found a hairless, noseless figure with faint scales on its skin.

Harry and his allies uncovered Voldemort’s new Horcrux and faced his renewed assault on Hogwarts, while Voldemort sought a powerful wand and gathered dark forces. Wormtail died in the Forbidden Forest, but Voldemort survived Dumbledore’s attack and released another cloud of poison mist.

• Dumbledore explained that the Ministry’s Gate of the Other Shore led to the Promised Land, Morgana’s prison, while Wormtail restored Voldemort on Thasos Island.
• Daphne revealed that Voldemort had made a new Horcrux, and she and Neville together claimed Gryffindor’s Legacy beneath the full moon.
• Voldemort recovered, killed people in Greece and France, abducted wandmaker Selerus, and chose an elder-wood wand with a Thestral tail hair core before escaping You Weier Xilieikesi and his companions.
• Voldemort attacked Hogwarts during the Wizarding exams, and Dumbledore shielded the Castle while the professors evacuated students and Harry’s group stayed to defend it.
• Inferi, venomous worms, giants, and other dark creatures assaulted Hogwarts, while Harry summoned Shantak and Hagrid arrived with Norberta and other magical creatures to help fight them.
• Harry restrained the giants to draw out the wizard controlling the Inferi, discovered Wormtail, and pursued him into the Forbidden Forest after Wormtail broke his chains.
• Wormtail’s escape left the Inferi sluggish again, and Harry killed him by reflecting his Killing Curse back at him.
• Dumbledore struck Voldemort into a crater, but Voldemort released a poison mist that resisted the defenders’ spells and continued spreading after Professor Sprout’s flowers withered.