Chapter Summaries

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.

Ginny sensed Black Ginny’s discomfort after Sirius destroyed Voldemort’s Horcruxes, while Black Ginny privately considered Voldemort’s likely death and her own escape from their shared body. In France, Harry and Sirius discovered Wormtail had escaped, and Dumbledore questioned why the Dark Council had rescued Voldemort only at the last moment.

• Ginny sensed Black Ginny’s discomfort, and Black Ginny admitted that things connected to her had been destroyed without revealing they were Voldemort’s Horcruxes.
• Black Ginny realized the Horcruxes had been destroyed and thought Voldemort would truly die if he was killed, then turned her attention to escaping Ginny’s body.
• Harry and the others found that Wormtail was missing from the captured and dead Death Eaters, and a divination reading indicated that he was still alive.
• Sirius cursed Wormtail for escaping again, while Lupin tried to stop him from setting a bad example for Harry.
• Dumbledore wondered why the Dark Council had waited until Voldemort was nearly dead to rescue him and Bellatrix.

After Voldemort escaped badly injured, Dumbledore met with Harry and the Order to discuss the Dark Council and the stolen door beneath the Ministry. He revealed that it was the Gate of the Other Shore, a gateway to the Promised Land, which had become a prison for a mysterious being, and began to explain its connection to Morgana.

• Scrimgeour returned to Britain dissatisfied that Voldemort had escaped, but noted that most of Voldemort’s forces had been destroyed and resolved to watch the Dark Council.
• Dumbledore reassured the Order that Voldemort was seriously injured and that the Dark Council might not be helping him.
• Moody raised the stolen door beneath the Ministry, and Dumbledore agreed to explain its secret.
• Dumbledore told Harry and the Order that Gates of the Other Shore were gateways to other worlds, and that the Ministry’s door led to the Promised Land.
• Dumbledore explained that the Promised Land was the Goblin Witch’s world and had become a prison for a very unusual being, then asked whether everyone knew Morgana.

Harry learned from Hermione that the Promised Land was a magical otherworld tied to Morgana, and that Merlin had imprisoned her there behind a sealed gate. He showed Hermione and Ron the Sword of Gryffindor, while on Thasos Island Wormtail completed a ritual that brought Voldemort’s body to life.

• Hermione explained that the Promised Land was an otherworld whose demonic power had given rise to Werewolves and vampires, and that Morgana and Cliodna were connected to it.
• Harry told Hermione and Ron that Dumbledore had said the Promised Land was Morgana’s prison, and they wondered why the Dark Council wanted the Gate of the Other Shore.
• Harry revealed the Sword of Gryffindor, which Dumbledore had lent him, and warned Ron not to touch its venomous blade.
• On Thasos Island, Wormtail chanted a ritual beside Voldemort’s lifeless body as a cloud of smoke hovered over it.
• Wormtail’s ritual restored color and movement to Voldemort’s body, and the smoke entered its mouth before Voldemort opened his inhuman eyes.

Harry and his friends failed to awaken Gryffindor’s legacy in the Forbidden Forest, then encountered Daphne Greengrass, who confessed that Voldemort had controlled her and used her to contact Draco. She revealed that his Imperius Curse had stopped working and began warning them that Voldemort had made a Horcrux.

• Harry and his friends tried several combinations with the Sword of Gryffindor at the centaur settlement, but none of them could affect Gryffindor’s statue.
• On their way back from the Forbidden Forest, Harry and his friends found Daphne speaking with Hagrid at the Quidditch pitch.
• Daphne admitted that Voldemort had placed her under a modified Imperius Curse and used her as his contact, including to arrange her approach to Neville.
• Daphne told Harry and the others that the Imperius Curse had stopped working after Voldemort’s defeat, suggesting he could no longer maintain it.
• Daphne warned Harry and his friends that Voldemort had made something called a Horcrux.

Daphne told Harry and the others that Voldemort had made a new Horcrux, a necklace with a bird-shaped pendant, after she sensed it through his modified Imperius Curse. She then admitted Voldemort had ordered her to approach Neville, but confessed she had wanted to get close to him herself, leaving Neville stunned as Harry urged him to follow her.

• Hermione realized Daphne meant Voldemort had made a new Horcrux, and Daphne explained that the modified Imperius Curse let her sense significant things he did.
• Daphne said she had sensed Voldemort making a Horcrux just before Easter ended and had glimpsed a necklace with a bird-shaped pendant.
• Harry and the others discussed whether the pendant might be Ravenclaw's, while Daphne learned that Voldemort had made Horcruxes before.
• Daphne explained that Voldemort had stopped giving her orders after Draco repaired the Vanishing Cabinet and that she had learned about Horcruxes from her family's records.
• Neville asked Daphne whether Voldemort had ordered her to approach him, and she admitted it but said she had also wanted to get close to him herself.
• Daphne ran toward the Castle, and Harry kicked Neville and told him to follow her.