Chapter Summaries

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.

After the Order discussed the Dark Council, Dumbledore decided not to intervene in Northern Europe and planned to rest at the Manor. Harry helped Hermione restore her parents’ memories, then returned with Ron to Privet Drive, where Aunt Petunia and Dudley welcomed him in their own ways.

• Dumbledore said he would leave the Dark Council alone unless its Ministries requested help, and explained that he needed time to recover after fighting Voldemort.
• Dumbledore invited Snape to discuss next year’s classes, while Harry privately hoped Snape would not teach seventh year.
• Harry offered to undo the Memory Magic on Hermione’s parents and removed their memory seals, reuniting the Grangers with Hermione.
• Harry and Ron Apparated to Privet Drive so Harry could tell the Dursleys he was safe.
• Aunt Petunia concealed her delight at Harry’s return, while Dudley rushed over and hugged Harry so tightly that Ron had to warn him to let go.

Sirius and Professor Babbling told Harry that the Dark Council had abducted Jacques Xilieikesi and revealed that Ulysses Xilieikesi and German Deputy Minister Longlia Longbottom were among its leaders. Babbling asked Harry to use the Dream Realm to track the Council, offering her blood as a marker because she was related by blood to one of its members.

• Sirius told Harry that the Dark Council had abducted Jacques Xilieikesi.
• Babbling explained that Ulysses Xilieikesi was the Black Joker and that Longlia Longbottom, a German Deputy Minister of Magic, appeared to lead the Council.
• Babbling revealed that she was a devotee of Cyaegha, a deity whose powers did not extend strongly into the Dream Realm.
• Babbling asked Harry to help locate the Dark Council by using the Dream Realm and a marker she could provide.
• Babbling offered her blood, explaining that she and one of the Dark Council's members were sisters by blood.

Morgana overwhelmed the Dark Council after they summoned her, but Harry called on the mysterious woman with the complete Tower Chapters, who resealed Morgana. Twenty years later, Harry and his family saw Bell off to Hogwarts, and Kayla worried about the Sorting Ceremony.

• Ulysses summoned Morgana through a constructed body, and she recognized the Dark Council's sealing formation as a contingency against her.
• Ulysses ordered the Dark Council to seal Morgana, but she evaded the spell, darkened the island, killed a vampire member, and drained the others' magic and souls.
• Morgana severed Babbling's connection to her deity and disabled Harry's Left Hand of Chaos and Calamity, but Harry used the Tower Chapters to challenge her and draw the mysterious woman to the island.
• The woman broke Morgana's barrier and resealed her, after which the Dark Council fell apart and peace returned to the Wizarding World.
• Twenty years later, Harry, Qiu, their children, and the Weasleys gathered at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters to send Bell to Hogwarts.
• Kayla asked Harry what would happen if she were sorted into each Hogwarts house, and Harry joked that he might transfer her if she ended up in Slytherin.