Recaps

Douglas allied with the Ashen Claw Tribe, trained its werewolves, and defeated the Red Moon Brotherhood’s attackers while binding Valerius into his service. As factions in Italy and the Vatican maneuvered around him, Fenrir Greyback arrived to face Lupin, who challenged him without a wand.

• Douglas uncovered a plot involving Isabella’s attempts to contact Marco, then offered the Ashen Claw Tribe help in exchange for its aid against Fenrir Greyback.
• Douglas healed the tribe’s wounded with a restorative stew, and Marco pledged the Ashen Claw Tribe’s support while Lupin helped train its members.
• Douglas equipped the tribe, prepared the Throat of Echoes with an illusion barrier, and lured Greyback’s allies toward the cavern.
• Valerius arrived with the Red Moon Brotherhood, but Douglas pursued and captured him, then forced him to sign a contract and join his research team.
• Douglas killed Totem and the attacking Red Moon werewolves with lightning, while the Ashen Claw members revealed the dead wolves’ past abuses.
• Douglas ordered the dead buried beneath a gravestone advertising his werewolf cure, as Italy’s Ministry, the Vatican, and Lorenzo weighed how to respond to his growing influence.
• Greyback crossed the Alps and reached the graves of the slain werewolves, while Lorenzo chose not to intervene and a Vatican elder directed Greyback toward Lupin.
• Lupin confronted Greyback, put down his wand, and revealed the stronger body Douglas had trained and reshaped.

Douglas helped Lupin defeat Greyback and protect the Ashen Claw Tribe before joining Bill in Egypt to investigate Ankh-Ka’s tomb. They survived its curses, secured the site for Hogwarts, and returned to Cairo to connect with Sirius.

• Lupin killed Greyback in a fight, and Douglas urged him to guide the werewolves before a Church creature appeared and Douglas trapped it with his Bouncing Ball.
• Douglas told Isabella to inform Lorenzo that the Ashen Claw Tribe was under his and Dumbledore’s protection, then traveled to Egypt to meet Bill.
• Bill introduced Douglas to the coded tale of Ankh-Ka and led him to the hidden tomb in the Dahshur Dunes.
• Douglas and Bill solved the seven jars’ emotional lock and opened the passage, but the Word of Forgetfulness began erasing Bill’s memories.
• Ankh-Ka’s shadow revealed that he had split his soul into seven pieces and tried to reunite them, then activated a deadly curse formation.
• Douglas trapped Ankh-Ka’s shadow in his ring and proposed turning the dangerous tomb into an overseas Hogwarts teaching site.
• Douglas and Bill altered the tomb’s defenses and password, sealed its entrance, and planned to tell the Egyptian Ministry and the goblins that Hogwarts would take over.
• Back in Cairo, Douglas and Bill connected a Two-Way Mirror to a Muggle computer and spoke with Sirius in London.

Douglas advanced the werewolf academy, expanded Hogwarts’s international agreements and prepared students for growing dangers as the new term began. The arc left the first-years learning to cooperate across house lines while Douglas examined Snape’s transformed Potions laboratory and its experimental equipment.

• Douglas opened an intercontinental meeting, heard Lupin’s report on the Wolfsbane Potion and academy, and agreed that the werewolves needed patience and stronger foundations.
• Douglas and Bill negotiated with Hassan and Imani over Ankh-Ka’s tomb, trading information and rights to smaller tombs for Hogwarts’s responsibility for the curse field, then signed a three-party agreement with Egypt and Uagadou.
• Douglas visited the Burrow, gave gifts to the Weasleys, Hermione, and Ginny, and offered Harry curse-breaking help for Godric’s Hollow and new materials for his studies.
• Douglas visited Silvermane Academy, watched Lupin teach werewolf students, and approved Fred and George’s low-cost Nightmare device and their proposed electrical weapon project.
• Douglas and Dumbledore discussed the World Cup riot, Peter’s whereabouts, and Moody’s arrival, then began the school year with new Academic Affairs Office rules, examinations, and the Triwizard Tournament announcement.
• Moody challenged Douglas’s approach to student safety, but Douglas and Sirius discovered that Moody had evaded the Marauder’s Map and arranged special clothes for Sirius and Lupin.
• Older students drew first-years from all four houses into dawn runs, while Moody and student assistants strictly supervised the Paper B examinations.
• Lupin placed the first-years in mixed groups, taught them to trust and cooperate through team exercises and camping, and pushed Derrick Flint to rely on Stephen Caldwell.
• Douglas observed Snape’s redesigned Potions laboratory, where Snape demonstrated new equipment and challenged Douglas, who precisely cut a mandrake rootstock before considering how the Dark Spectrum Mirror might examine spells.

Douglas strengthened Hogwarts’ students and defenses while investigating Voldemort’s plans and helping Hermione rally the House-elves. As the Triwizard Tournament drew near, Harry’s amulet failed, Douglas replaced it, and the visiting schools’ arrival was announced.

• Douglas taught sixth-years nonverbal Shield Charms, while Hagrid introduced a new, edible Blast-Ended Skrewt whose stable magical patterns intrigued Fred and George.
• Moody challenged Douglas to a duel, and Douglas defeated him before giving him plans for a mechanical leg.
• Hermione launched a House-elf tea party and cooking competition, but Moody’s questions about Winky’s memories of the Quidditch World Cup alarmed her and Harry.
• Douglas tracked Wormtail near the Lovegoods and stopped him from entering their protected yard, then warned Arthur and Molly that Voldemort had returned and learned Percy was secretly gathering intelligence.
• Voldemort blamed Wormtail for the failed attempt and planned to use the Triwizard Tournament to take Harry from Dumbledore.
• Douglas introduced Valerius as his teaching assistant, and Valerius quickly defeated students in a combat exercise as the tournament drew near.
• Harry’s Wooden Plaque failed after his scar hurt and he had a strange dream, so Douglas gave him a Jade Plaque that eased his pain and kept his nightmares away.
• Ron read that Beauxbatons and Durmstrang would arrive on October thirtieth.