Recaps

William and Hermione diverted to the Louvre, prompting Cregan to surround the museum and search for them and Scamander’s suitcase. Cregan found only a mocking note in an ordinary suitcase, and he ordered the Muggle president to put William and Hermione on the wanted list as their whereabouts remained unknown.

• William and Hermione told Apache to take them to the Louvre, then got out and headed inside.
• Apache reported their change of plans and the suitcase to Odom and Cregan, who recalled the Aurors from Lyon Avenue and ordered them to surround the Louvre.
• Cregan used his position at the Seventh Bureau to get Louvre security to track William and Hermione to a restroom in the Grand Gallery.
• Cregan and four Aurors broke into the restroom and found it empty except for an ordinary suitcase containing a note that read, “William and Hermione were here!”
• Cregan ordered a search of the Louvre and told someone to ask Mitterrand to put William and Hermione on the Muggle wanted list.

William and Hermione escaped the Louvre by hiding in the Safety Watch and reached Place de la Bastille, where they planned to go to the Minotaur Bar under disguise. William revealed that he intended to use Tom Riddle’s hair for Polyjuice Potion, while Hermione teased him about his collection of disguises.

• The Niffler delivered the Safety Watch to William and Hermione, and William rewarded it with a glass marble disguised as a diamond.
• William and Hermione discussed how they had used the Niffler and Occamy to escape the Louvre after discovering they were wanted by the French Ministry of Magic.
• William suggested they use Polyjuice Potion to reach the bar, and they returned to the Safety Watch to prepare their disguises.
• Hermione complained that William kept transforming her into Costa, so he handed over the remaining strands of Costa’s hair.
• William revealed that his disguise was Tom Riddle and explained that he had also collected hair from Minister Fudge for future use.
• Hermione called William wicked, and he accepted it as a compliment.

William and Hermione went to a Paris criminal bar to learn where the Mysterious Circus was performing, but the proprietor tried to have them captured. They escaped after fighting the bar’s dark-wizard patrons, leaving Tom’s name behind as a challenge.

• William and Hermione entered the Minotaur Bar and found their wanted posters accusing them of attacking Cregan.
• The proprietor served William eggnog laced with Amortentia, but he noticed the potion and asked where to find the Mysterious Circus.
• The proprietor gave William a flyer for the circus’s hidden location, then ordered the patrons to seize him after he provoked her.
• William and Hermione fought off the bar’s wizards with an Occamy, a Niffler, and their wands, while several patrons fled.
• William and Hermione Apparated away with two wands, and William hoped the Paris underworld would spread Tom’s name.

William and Hermione followed a magical flyer to the Mysterious Circus in Place Cachée, where they discovered abused magical creatures and a captive Werewolf. Nagini attacked the circus owner during a fire and escape, and the Werewolf left Skender alive before disappearing.

• William gave the Niffler Leprechaun-made gold coins to stop it demanding its stolen Galleons back.
• William and Hermione followed an Ashwinder’s trail to the Mysterious Circus and saw its hybrid performers and creatures.
• Skender presented a young Werewolf as an attraction and whipped her after she transformed beneath the full moon.
• Nagini bit Skender, panic spread through the crowd, and a fire broke out as Fantastic Beasts escaped.
• William and Hermione blasted open the Werewolf’s cage and Apparated away as Nagini fled.
• The Werewolf went to Skender, left a bite mark on his arm instead of killing him, and walked away.

William and Hermione visited the dying Vinda Rosier, who asked them to stop Arya from exposing the wizarding world and starting a war. In Arya’s room, Hermione discovered that Arya planned to drop an atomic bomb on Paris, while William found that Norbert was missing from Newt’s case.

• William and Hermione met Vinda Rosier, who explained that Arya had stolen Newt’s case and agreed to let them take it from Arya’s room.
• Vinda asked them to stop Arya’s plan to expose the wizarding world and pass her letters to Grindelwald; Hermione pocketed the letters.
• Vinda, who was dying, imagined Grindelwald approaching and murmured his name.
• William searched Newt’s case and found that Norbert was missing, while Hermione studied Arya’s records.
• Hermione told William that Arya planned to drop an atomic bomb on Paris.

William discovered that Arya had been tracking him and appeared to be seeking a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, possibly to attack Paris. He warned the French Ministry of Magic, then Hermione refused to leave Paris despite William’s concern for her safety.

• William examined Arya’s newspaper collection and concluded she had likely obtained a nuclear weapon amid Ukraine’s turmoil and planned to use it in Paris.
• William sent a warning about Arya to the French Ministry of Magic and left the house with Hermione.
• William told Hermione that Nagini was living in Newt’s suitcase, and Hermione asked what he would do if she suffered a Blood Malediction.
• William carried Hermione to the top of the Eiffel Tower, where she asked whether he wanted her to leave Paris.
• William told Hermione he wanted to take her to Lyon for safety, but Hermione insisted on staying because she could help.

William Stark entered the French Ministry of Magic and demanded to negotiate with Cregan, the head of its Department of Magical Law Enforcement. He refused to discuss anything until he had seen Newt, and Cregan ordered an Auror to bring Newt from prison.

• Costa brooded over William and rejected Anderson’s invitation to dinner.
• William arrived, teased Anderson, and claimed to be the wanted criminal William Stark representing the British Wizengamot.
• William told Anderson to summon Cregan, and Anderson went to fetch the Aurors.
• More than a dozen Aurors surrounded William, who announced that he had come to negotiate with Cregan.
• William insisted on seeing Newt before speaking, and Cregan agreed to have him brought from prison.

William and Hermione went to the French Ministry of Magic to rescue Newt, but Hermione’s assault on Cregan’s office triggered the Ministry’s alarms. William’s Polyjuice disguise was exposed as he faced four Aurors while holding Newt.

• Cregan told William that the Ministry was keeping Paris’s atomic bomb crisis secret and asked him for information about Arya.
• William refused to help the French authorities and said he had come to save Newt from the Ministry’s prison.
• Hermione revealed herself in William’s place, attacked Cregan’s office with prank products and magical plants, then escaped on an Occamy.
• Cregan took Newt from the Aurors and ordered them to support him after claiming William had attacked his office.
• The Ministry’s security sprinklers washed away William’s Polyjuice disguise, revealing him to the four Aurors as William Stark.
• William drew his wand and prepared to fight the Aurors in French.

William and Hermione carried out their plan to free Newt from the French Ministry of Magic, fighting their way through the prison and escaping with him. They left the Ministry on Newt’s Kelpie with Matagots in pursuit, then caught three shrunken Matagots outside.

• Hermione impersonated William to lure Cregan away while William, disguised as Cregan, went to rescue Newt.
• William defeated four Aurors, freed Newt, and told him Paris was facing a looming magical disaster.
• William reunited with Hermione, and the Occamy accidentally pinned Newt beneath its enormous body.
• Newt released his Kelpie, Kha'Zix, and the three rode it through the Ministry while William and Hermione blasted a hole in the wall.
• The Kelpie broke through the Ministry’s glass roof, and William and Hermione caught three Matagots that had shrunk to the size of house cats.

William and Hermione raced toward Notre-Dame de Paris after Nicolas saw a prophecy of Arya and a nuclear blast, while Newt alerted the Ministry. Arya summoned a dragon and brought down the Eiffel Tower, leaving Paris facing her promised fireworks display.

• Nicolas contacted William through the Safety Watch and showed him a vision of Arya atop a dragon as a mushroom cloud rose over Paris.
• William identified Notre-Dame de Paris as Arya’s likely target, and Newt returned to the French Ministry to raise the alarm.
• William and Hermione flew toward Notre-Dame on the Kelpie, tying themselves together so William could Apparate them away if danger struck.
• Arya summoned a Norwegian Ridgeback from the Seine, and the dragon emerged to obey her.
• Arya rode the dragon as it damaged the Eiffel Tower until the landmark collapsed, then announced that Paris would have fireworks.

William and Hermione raced to Notre-Dame de Paris to find the atomic bomb predicted by Nicolas Flamel, while Arya Grindelwald attacked the city with a dragon. They failed to locate the bomb, and as Notre-Dame burned, a mushroom cloud appeared above Arya just as the prophecy had shown.

• Three French Aurors chased William and Hermione but were thrown into the Seine when a dragon smashed their broomsticks.
• Newt told Cregan that Nicolas Flamel had prophesied an atomic bomb would explode at Notre-Dame de Paris and that William and Hermione had gone there to find it.
• Cregan redirected the Aurors from pursuing Arya Grindelwald to protecting Notre-Dame de Paris.
• William and Hermione crashed through Notre-Dame’s rose window and searched the cathedral for the atomic bomb, but William’s Summoning Charm found nothing.
• William and Hermione flew out of the burning cathedral as Arya stood atop the dragon and a mushroom cloud rose above her, matching the prophecy.

Arya Grindelwald used magical projections to argue that Muggle population growth, resource depletion, and nuclear weapons threatened wizards and the planet. She called for drastic measures to limit Muggle numbers, leaving William and Hermione confronting the truth of her motives as Paris faced destruction.

• William saw a mushroom cloud but realized he and Hermione were watching Arya’s memory projected through a skull pipe.
• Arya showed the gathered wizards the destructive power of nuclear weapons and said they could also destroy wizards.
• Arya presented a population-growth chart and warned that Muggles would exhaust resources, damage the environment, and drive magical creatures toward extinction.
• Arya argued that unchecked population growth would lead to devastating wars and said wizards had to limit Muggle numbers to survive.
• Minister Randall Tully denounced Arya, while Hermione asked William whether her claims were true, and William confirmed the population curve was real.

Arya tried to recruit William into an alliance to destroy the Muggle threat, but William and Hermione opposed her as she attacked Paris. Arya vanished after revealing that she had chosen to destroy the city because Vinda had lived there, leaving William and Hermione to face the conflict ahead.

• Arya used lightning against the Aurors while William shielded Hermione and fought Norbert from atop the Kelpie.
• William gathered rain and wind into a tornado and hurled it at Arya, who destroyed it with a bolt of purple lightning.
• Arya asked William to join her and argued that Muggle technology would eventually make the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy collapse.
• Hermione stood beside William as Arya asked for Vinda's letters to Grindelwald, but Hermione refused to hand them over.
• Arya said Vinda's death had left her with no one, then vanished after declaring that she had chosen to destroy Paris because Vinda had lived there.

William and Hermione stopped Arya’s nuclear attack on Paris by petrifying Norbert, whose body contained the bomb, before he crashed into Notre-Dame Square. The city was saved, and William and Hermione kissed as the celebrations began.

• Hermione realized Arya had hidden the nuclear bomb inside Norbert, and William devised a plan to stop it.
• Arya ordered the cursed Ukrainian researchers in Turin to detonate the bomb, starting a thirty-second countdown.
• William and Hermione reached Norbert’s head and used the juvenile Basilisk’s gaze to petrify the dragon and disable the bomb.
• William and Hermione escaped Norbert’s fall on the Kelpie as the dragon crashed into Notre-Dame Square without causing a nuclear explosion.
• The wizards celebrated Paris’s survival, and William kissed Hermione.

At a French Ministry of Magic press conference, Cregan explained the Paris attack and faced questions about Arya, the nuclear threat, and the Ministry’s pursuit of William and Hermione. William publicly backed Cregan’s account after the Ministry paid him and Hermione ten thousand Galleons and gave them Norbert’s corpse.

• Cregan blamed Ukraine for the lost nuclear bomb, denied Grindelwald’s involvement, and said Aurors were pursuing Arya.
• Cregan said Swooping Evil venom would erase Muggles’ memories and announced a donation drive to rebuild Paris.
• Rita Skeeter challenged Cregan over the Ministry arresting Newt and issuing warrants for William and Hermione.
• Cregan claimed the warrants were a ruse to lure Arya, and William publicly confirmed the story.
• William and Hermione accepted ten thousand Galleons and Norbert’s corpse from the Ministry in exchange for helping conceal the truth.

At a press conference, Cregan announced that William and Hermione would receive France’s First Class Medal of Valor for saving Paris. Sophie Costa then accused William of kissing her and rejecting her, creating a public scandal that damaged his reputation.

• Rita questioned Cregan over the Ministry’s failure to warn or evacuate the public before Arya’s attack, and Cregan struggled to defend his decisions.
• Cregan ended the question-and-answer session and announced that William and Hermione would receive France’s First Class Medal of Valor.
• Sophie Costa presented William and Hermione with bouquets, then whispered to William about meeting privately to discuss their supposed kiss.
• Costa accused William of kissing her, calling him a scumbag, slapped him, and ran out in tears as reporters photographed the scene.
• William denied Costa’s claims to Hermione, who said she believed him before teasing him about French girls.

Newt left Paris for the United Kingdom, while William and Hermione were approached by Rita, who offered to defend them in the press. William refused to discuss his deal with the French Ministry of Magic but gave Rita a different exclusive: Sirius Black had escaped from prison.

• William and Hermione saw Newt off at the airport, where he said Babbling was watching Tom in the United States.
• Rita transformed from a beetle and followed William and Hermione to a café by the Seine.
• Rita argued that Cregan had arranged the flower incident to shift attention from the Paris crisis and offered to interview William.
• William refused to reveal details of his deal with the French Ministry, and Hermione rejected Rita's attempt to profit from their relationship.
• William told Rita that Sirius Black had escaped from prison.

Rita learned that Sirius Black had escaped and prepared to expose the Ministry’s cover-up, while William explained that Fudge’s neglect and preparations for the Quidditch World Cup left no resources to pursue Black. At Hogwarts, Snape rejected Dumbledore’s request to protect Harry and swore to kill Black, asking for lilies on his grave if he died.

• Rita learned from William that Sirius Black had escaped and decided to return to Britain to report the story.
• William told Hermione that Fudge habitually ignored crises and that Ministry workers were occupied preparing for the Quidditch World Cup.
• Snape confronted Dumbledore and insisted he would pursue Black to avenge Lily rather than protect Harry.
• Dumbledore reminded Snape that Harry was Lily’s son, but Snape called Harry a substitute and refused to care for him.
• Snape stormed out after destroying a table, saying he would kill Black and asking Dumbledore to place lilies on his grave if he died.

William and Hermione reunited with Roy and Iris in Biarritz, where their parents confronted them about their role in the Paris crisis. At the hotel, Anne greeted William and Hermione with a skinny black dog, and William eyed it with a suspicious idea.

• Iris drove Roy, William, and Hermione along the Biarritz coast while William and Hermione pretended to discuss summer homework.
• Roy stopped the car and demanded that William and Hermione explain why the papers had called William the Chosen One of Paris.
• Hermione showed Roy and Iris the two Medals of Valor awarded to them by the French Ministry of Magic.
• Roy warned William that Lyanna was angry about the Paris events and told him to prepare for her reaction.
• William and Hermione reached the hotel, where Anne hugged William, scolded Hermione for leading him astray, and checked whether she was hurt.
• William noticed that Anne's black dog was extremely skinny and wondered if it had heatstroke.

William returned to the seaside hotel with Hermione, where Lyanna scolded him for his recent exploits and Anne told him how she had taken in a stray dog named Dahei. After dinner, William began writing to his friends, but Hermione arrived with news from her father just as Roy knocked at the door.

• Lyanna tugged William's ear and reprimanded him for saving Paris and taking Hermione along, then welcomed Hermione warmly.
• Roy and Lyanna discussed reports that William had played with a French girl's feelings, and Lyanna insisted Roy confront him after dinner.
• Anne explained that she had found Dahei abandoned at the harbor, and William offered to take responsibility for the stray dog's care and neutering.
• The group ate Chinese mitten crab and planned to explore the shore at low tide the next morning.
• William began writing letters to his friends after bathing, but Hermione came to his room and started to relay something her father had told her.
• Roy knocked at William's door before Hermione could finish speaking.

Roy visited William late at night and asked whether he truly liked Hermione; William described why she mattered to him. After Roy left, Hermione confessed that she had impersonated William and kissed Costa, and William forgave her while asking her not to lie again.

• Hermione panicked when Roy arrived, so William cast the Disillusionment Charm on her before letting Roy into his room.
• William told Roy that the rumors about Sophie Costa were false and described how he had come to like Hermione.
• Roy urged William to cherish Hermione and left to report back to Lyanna.
• William removed Hermione's Disillusionment Charm, and Hermione confessed that she had transformed into him and kissed Costa.
• William asked Hermione not to lie to him again and returned the parchment she had left at the Louvre, which read, “William and Hermione were here!”

William, Hermione, and Anne were caught by a sudden storm and towering waves while gathering crabs and shells on the French coast. William rescued the exhausted black dog, and the group headed back to the hotel as strange weather left William and Hermione suspicious.

• William and Hermione collected crabs while Anne gathered shells and stones, and the black dog rested after being worn out by Anne.
• The dog began barking as a huge wave advanced through the mist, but William, Hermione, and Anne Apparated safely to the road.
• The black dog was swept into the water, and William transformed into a sea eagle and repeatedly tried to carry him out until he rescued him.
• A fierce wind and torrential rain forced William, Hermione, and Anne to head for the hotel under umbrellas.
• Anne mentioned that an aurora had appeared over France on their first night, making William and Hermione suspect the strange weather had another cause.
• The black dog followed at a distance and concluded that William was an exceptionally advanced young wizard.

William, Hermione, and Anne sent letters from a wizarding post office in Biarritz before spending the day at the beach, where William showed off his swimming skills and rested with the Sorting Hat. William woke to find a little girl who looked like Phoebe staring at him.

• William and Hermione sent letters, while Anne wrote to her friends and Hagrid and included a false account of Norbert's death.
• William impressed beachgoers with his swimming, declined offers to teach and train him, and helped Hermione practice.
• William relaxed with the Sorting Hat, which discussed creating a second hat and said Slytherin's Wand could help with the necessary soul magic.
• William fell asleep to the Sorting Hat's singing and woke when ice water hit his face, finding a little girl who looked like Phoebe beside him.

William Stark playfully argued with Gabrielle Delacour before Phoebe arrived and joined him for a private conversation at the beach. Gabrielle was left asking whether Azkaban was Hogwarts’s best house after the Sorting Hat confused her.

• William teased Gabrielle about splashing water on him, and she tried to headbutt and bite him before he stopped her from falling.
• Phoebe arrived, scolded Gabrielle for playing with a magical bubble gun around Muggles, and made her apologize to William.
• William warned Gabrielle she could be expelled for using magic in public, then distracted her by sending her to play with Dahei.
• Phoebe and William sat together and discussed their meeting, her control over her allure, and the people on the beach who were affected by it.
• Gabrielle called over that the Sorting Hat had told her she could be sorted into Azkaban and asked William whether it was the best house.

William joked to Gabrielle about Azkaban and Dementors while Hermione struggled with swimming and grew jealous of Phoebe. The sky darkened as a swarm of Dementors descended on the beach and headed toward the Muggles, with several approaching William directly.

• William described Azkaban as a luxurious school where Death Eaters received Dementor bodyguards, and Gabrielle asked for one of her own.
• Hermione failed to swim while Anne showed off, and Hermione grew upset after noticing Phoebe on the beach.
• Anne offered to help Hermione dress up and borrow Lyanna's jewelry that night.
• The sky darkened, and William rescued Hermione from deeper water before Apparating with her, Anne, and their families to the beach.
• More than a hundred Dementors swept toward the beach, and several bypassed the crowd to approach William.