Recaps

Harry and his schoolmates reached the Hall of Prophecy, where Harry took a Prophecy Orb bearing his name and triggered a Death Eater ambush. Lucius Malfoy revealed that Sirius had never been captured, and the students fought back as Malfoy ordered his followers to block the exits.

• Luna led Harry, Ron, Ginny, Cho, Cedric, Fred, and George to the Hall of Prophecy, but they found no sign of Sirius or Voldemort.
• Ron spotted a Prophecy Orb labeled with Harry's name and a date from about sixteen years earlier, and Harry picked it up despite Luna's warning.
• Lucius Malfoy and the Death Eaters appeared, demanded the orb, and revealed that the claim about Sirius had been a trap.
• Malfoy threatened to kill the students unless Harry handed over the orb, while Cho, Cedric, Fred, and George pretended to consider surrendering.
• Fred and George pulled the students down and launched spells and exploding bombs, filling the room with fog and chaos.
• Malfoy cleared the fog and ordered the Death Eaters to block the door and stop anyone escaping.

Cho and the others were driven into a desperate last stand by Malfoy’s Death Eaters in the Hall of Prophecy. Cho used Annie’s locket to summon Grawp, who attacked the Death Eaters as Lucius fled.

• Cho, Cedric, the twins, and the others fought twelve Death Eaters while Harry and Ron were injured.
• The group chose to use Annie’s locket after the twins warned that they could no longer hold the enemy back.
• Cho wrapped the locket around a glass orb, and Cedric threw it toward the Death Eaters to stop the fighting.
• Grawp emerged from the locket, demanded to know where Hagrid was, and hurled a Death Eater into the wall.
• Grawp charged the Death Eaters and crushed another with his blade, while Lucius turned and fled.

William negotiated with Malfoy after he and the other Death Eaters took Harry and Ron hostage, allowing them to leave with the Prophecy Orb under a magical oath. The chapter ended with William fighting off the remaining Death Eaters and preparing to hide Grawp, while revealing that Malfoy had walked into a larger trap.

• Grawp emerged from Anne's pendant and fought the Death Eaters, giving Harry, Ron, Cedric, Cho, George, and Fred a chance to retreat.
• Harry picked up the pendant and Malfoy, Goyle, and Crabbe emerged from it, taking Harry and Ron hostage and demanding the Prophecy Orb.
• William, still under the effects of the Polyjuice Potion, arrived as Anne and offered Malfoy the Prophecy Orb in exchange for Harry and Ron, with both sides bound by a magical oath.
• Malfoy accepted the bargain, took the Prophecy Orb, and released Harry and Ron before fleeing with Goyle and Crabbe.
• William revealed that the escape was part of a trap for Voldemort, then fought the remaining Death Eaters and prepared to put Grawp away.

Malfoy escaped the Department of Mysteries with the Prophecy Orb but was captured by the Order of the Phoenix at the Ministry atrium. Voldemort arrived to confront William, who destroyed the Orb and taunted him about his resentment of Dumbledore.

• Malfoy reached the atrium in the elevator and surrendered when the Order of the Phoenix blocked his way.
• Mr. Weasley took Malfoy's wand, demanded to know where his children were, and punched him after learning Ron had a broken leg.
• William gave the Prophecy Orb to Mr. Weasley, then told Kingsley that the Death Eaters were subdued in the Department of Mysteries.
• Voldemort appeared in the atrium, demanded the Prophecy Orb, and attacked William after William shattered it and said the prophecy was in his head.
• Voldemort animated a golden statue and accused Dumbledore of using students as bait, while William animated a centaur statue to stop it.
• William dodged Voldemort's attacks and taunted him about whether he had once wished Dumbledore would be his father.

William confronted Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic, trading taunts and powerful spells while protecting Harry and the others. Dumbledore and Ministry officials arrived, William transported his companions away, and Voldemort declared the Second Wizarding War.

• William mocked Voldemort as they fought, deflecting his lightning attacks with wind magic and striking back with a compressed-air sea eagle.
• Voldemort threatened William's friends and relatives, then tried to kill him from behind with the Killing Curse, but Fawkes helped William escape the attack.
• William and Voldemort locked their Killing Curses together as Voldemort tried to tempt William with power and influence.
• Dumbledore and Ministry officials arrived through the fireplaces and attacked Voldemort, who vanished before reappearing in the hall.
• William used the rings Anne had given them to transport Harry, Cho, Cedric, and the twins away before Voldemort could possess Harry.
• Voldemort faced William, Dumbledore, and the Ministry officials, then declared the Second Wizarding War.

After Voldemort fled the Ministry, William declined to attend the press conference and returned to the Department of Mysteries with Dumbledore. Dumbledore led him to the Death Chamber to discuss a threat beyond the coming war, then asked whether he remembered four coffins in Hogwarts’s underground palace.

• Voldemort fled after confronting Dumbledore and William, while the gathered wizards panicked at seeing him return.
• William told Dumbledore that Amelia Bones would face an assassination attempt if she became minister, and Dumbledore promised to consider who could protect her.
• William and Dumbledore returned to the Department of Mysteries, where Kingsley and the Order of the Phoenix searched for hidden Death Eaters and escorted prisoners away.
• Dumbledore led William to the Death Chamber and told him he needed to discuss Death, whose future concerned him more than the war with Voldemort.
• Dumbledore asked William whether he remembered the four coffins in Hogwarts’s underground palace.

William and Dumbledore discussed the founders’ disappearance and the archway’s connection to the River Styx. They concluded that three founders had crossed the river to seek Death and later sent a coffin to bring Hufflepuff to them, but William had no way to repeat their journey.

• Dumbledore told William that a coffin had emerged from behind the archway a thousand years earlier, prompting Hufflepuff to leave Hogwarts with it.
• Dumbledore explained that the archway led to the River Styx, whose voices tempted people with the presence of their dead loved ones.
• Dumbledore reasoned that entering the river alive would likely be fatal, while William realized he heard no voices because he had not lost someone most important to him.
• William and Dumbledore connected the founders’ Deathly Hallows in The Last Supper painting to their knowledge of Death and the tale of the Three Brothers.
• William and Dumbledore concluded that Ravenclaw and the other two founders had crossed the River Styx, then sent a coffin to bring Hufflepuff to them, though William did not know where the coffin was.

William learned from Dumbledore that the Department of Mysteries had been studying Prehistoric Mysteries, an ancient power no modern wizard could use, and heard about a locked room with no known key. After avoiding Scrimgeour and discussing Harry’s future with Dumbledore, William returned to find Hermione and Anne asleep in his office.

• Dumbledore explained that the knowledge needed to use Prehistoric Mysteries had been lost, though the Department of Mysteries had studied its effects in several rooms and found a locked room no one could open.
• Scrimgeour arrived at the Department of Mysteries to seek William’s support, but William chose not to meet him and expected Bones to move him away from the Auror Office.
• Dumbledore told William that Harry no longer needed to learn Occlumency because Voldemort would avoid their mental connection after losing twelve servants and failing to obtain the Prophecy Orb.
• Dumbledore decided to tell Harry the prophecy, believing Harry needed to understand that only he or Voldemort could survive.
• William used a Portkey to return to his office, where he found Hermione and Anne asleep and carried them to his bed before settling down on the sofa with the cats.

After Voldemort attacked the Ministry, the Wizarding World learned that war had begun, while Hogwarts students responded with excitement before turning their attention to exams. Harry struggled with guilt and discovered that Dumbledore’s encouragement had left him with almost no exam preparation.

• Horace read that Voldemort had attacked the Ministry and immediately decided to move.
• Madam Bones confirmed on the Wizarding Wireless News Broadcast that Voldemort had led Death Eaters into the Ministry and declared war after Stark fought him off.
• Rita reported that Stark had defeated Voldemort, captured twelve Death Eaters, and deserved another Order of Merlin.
• Hogwarts students flocked to William’s classes after hearing of the war, but soon focused on final exams and O.W.L. Exams.
• Hermione prepared confidently for her O.W.L.s while Harry and Ron recovered in the Hospital Wing from their injuries.
• Dumbledore comforted Harry, who then resolved to study but realized exams were two days away and he had forgotten what he had learned over Easter.

Bones became Minister and pursued the trials of Fudge, Umbridge, and the captured Death Eaters, while Hogwarts finished exams and celebrated the end of the school year. Ravenclaw won the House Cup, and Snape prepared to teach Defence Against Dark Magic as a substitute next term.

• Bones defeated Scrimgeour in the election and took office, then began addressing the previous Ministers’ crimes.
• Fudge and Umbridge were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, while the eight surviving Death Eaters also received life sentences.
• Hermione completed eleven O.W.L. subjects, while Ron confidently predicted he had earned the highest marks in eight subjects.
• Hogwarts held its end-of-year feast, where Ravenclaw won its sixth consecutive House Cup.
• Snape learned that Dumbledore had agreed to let him teach Defence Against Dark Magic as a substitute the following term, and the twins brought alcohol to celebrate the departing students.

William traveled back to Hogwarts with the students while Professor Flitwick guarded the train, and he read reports about the Ministry and the war. The journey ended with Hermione telling him that Professor Babbling wanted him to go to the United States because the Snakewood at Ilvermorny was about to blossom.

• Professor Flitwick guarded the Hogwarts Express, while students crowded around William and rented neighboring compartments from George, Fred and Lee.
• William read the Daily Prophet as Hermione tried to contact Professor Babbling, and Cedric told Cho he planned to open a custom wand shop.
• Harry and Ron fought with Malfoy's trio, and Cedric, the twins and the others rushed out to help them.
• Hermione sealed the compartment and told William that Professor Babbling had reported the Snakewood at Ilvermorny was about to blossom and wanted him to go to the United States soon.

Voldemort punished Narcissa for Lucius’s failures by forcing her son Draco to become a Death Eater and assign him an impossible mission. The chapter ended with Voldemort branding Draco with the Dark Mark.

• Voldemort confronted Narcissa about Lucius’s capture, the failed mission, and suspicions about the Malfoy family’s loyalty.
• Narcissa swore allegiance and offered to join the Death Eaters, but Voldemort demanded that Draco serve in Lucius’s place.
• Voldemort revealed that Draco had been hiding nearby under an Invisibility Cloak and asked him to become the youngest Death Eater.
• Voldemort ordered Draco to kill Dumbledore and Stark.
• Voldemort carved the Dark Mark into Draco’s left arm, and Draco screamed in pain.

Voldemort held a strategy meeting and weighed Jaehaerys MacFusty’s proposals for using dragons against his enemies. He ordered attacks on the Ministry’s dragon sanctuaries and set plans in motion to kill Bones, influence the next Minister for Magic, and capture Ollivander and Florean Fortescue.

• Voldemort welcomed Jaehaerys MacFusty to the meeting, and Jaehaerys offered sixteen Hebridean Blacks and wizard-dragon knights to support the Death Eaters.
• Jaehaerys proposed taking Romania’s dragon sanctuary, but Dolohov argued that the distance and opposition from nearby countries made the plan too costly.
• Jaehaerys suggested targeting the Goblins’ dragon facility and the Ministry’s dragon sanctuaries, and Voldemort ordered an attack on the Ministry’s sanctuaries while leaving the Goblins alone for now.
• Yaxley reported that he had taken control of Herbert Chorley, and Voldemort ordered Dolohov to ambush and kill Bones while Yaxley sought to control Thicknesse as a candidate for Minister for Magic.
• Voldemort ordered Rookwood to capture Ollivander and the owner of Florean Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlour because he wanted to find the legendary wand.

William and Hermione visited Prime Minister John Major at Number Ten Downing Street to arrange a meeting with the new Minister for Magic. William revealed that he had personally sent Fudge to prison, leaving Major uneasy about the young wizard.

• Major questioned whether William and Hermione were really wizards, and William proved his magic by turning a teacup into a mouse for Humphrey the cat to chase.
• Major offered William dried meat for Humphrey and asked to postpone the meeting so he could speak with Clinton, but William insisted the discussion concerned Britain's security.
• Major asked what Fudge wanted, and William told him Fudge had been removed and imprisoned after committing numerous offenses.
• Major asked whether the new minister, Madam Bones, was difficult to deal with, and William explained that he—not Bones—had put Fudge in prison.

William and Hermione escorted Minister Bones to meet Prime Minister Major and discussed ways to protect the Ministry and wizarding homes from Death Eaters. As they left, William discovered that Herbert Chorley was under the Imperius Curse and warned that an ambush was nearby.

• William questioned Prime Minister Major during their conversation and learned that Major recognized him from his rescue work in Vienna.
• Minister Bones met Major, and Hermione suggested using Thief's Downfall while Bones asked about Akali's Mystery Shop's home maps.
• William offered to provide the Ministry with a defensive map for free, and Bones invited Hermione to work as an intern assistant in her office.
• William noticed Herbert Chorley acting strangely, used Legilimency, and warned that Chorley was under the Imperius Curse and an ambush was nearby.

William rescued Minister Bones from a Death Eater attack at Number Ten Downing Street, then took her and Hermione to Buckingham Palace to draw in more Death Eaters. As reinforcements arrived, William prepared to face them in the opening battle of the Second Wizarding War.

• William killed three Death Eaters who attacked Bones at Number Ten Downing Street and revealed that Herbert Chorley had been controlling Bones under the Imperius Curse.
• Bones agreed to serve as bait so William could kill the Death Eaters who came after her, and Hermione chose a nearby location with few Muggles.
• William Apparated with Bones and Hermione to Buckingham Palace, where Bones contacted the Aurors and the Order of the Phoenix.
• William cast the Dark Mark in the sky as a signal for reinforcements, prompting Dolohov and Yaxley to send Death Eaters toward Bones.
• More than ten Death Eaters appeared at Buckingham Palace, and William walked toward them as both sides' reinforcements approached.

William unleashed his full combat skill against the Death Eaters attacking Buckingham Palace, killing many and forcing the survivors to flee. As Yaxley rejoiced at the sound of a horn, Hebridean Blacks and wizard dragon riders appeared overhead and set fire to the gilded statue of Victoria.

• Dolohov ordered the Death Eaters to charge William and kill Bones, but William killed several attackers while moving through their ranks.
• William used the Death Eaters’ own spells against them, including an Anti-Apparition Jinx that trapped one wizard as a Killing Curse struck his comrade.
• William summoned gray sea eagles and used them to unleash a wave of Killing Curses, killing or knocking down many Death Eaters.
• Yaxley fled and watched the surviving Death Eaters lose courage and run from William.
• A horn sounded, and seven or eight Hebridean Blacks with wizard dragon riders appeared over Buckingham Palace.
• The lead dragon breathed fire and brought down the gilded statue of Victoria.

William realized that the Death Eaters’ attack on London was meant to draw attention away from their assault on the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary, as MacFusty riders and dragons devastated Buckingham Palace. Hagrid and the Giants arrived to support the defenders, bringing down a dragon and allowing William to capture Giggs MacFusty.

• William and Hermione suspected the Death Eaters had attacked the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary while drawing the Ministry and Order of the Phoenix toward London.
• Giggs MacFusty rode a Hebridean Black dragon and directed it and the other dragons to attack Buckingham Palace.
• Hagrid arrived with more than a dozen Giants, who joined the battle against the Death Eaters and dragons.
• William greeted Ygritte and asked her to bring down Giggs’s dragon, so she ordered her brother Hodor to attack.
• Hodor grabbed the dragon’s tail, seized its wings, and slammed it to the ground, while William bound Giggs with ropes.
• The Giants prepared to bring down the remaining dragons as William remarked that the Death Eaters had brought them dragons.

After the battle in London, William became celebrated as a war hero while the Death Eaters’ attacks on dragon sanctuaries revealed that neither side had won. Retaliations escalated the conflict, and William turned his attention to the Werewolves as an ally he had placed in France arrived in the United Kingdom.

• The Giants were distracted by a Muggle helicopter, allowing several black dragons to escape, while William kept the five dragons they captured.
• The Ministry sent Obliviators to alter Muggle memories of the destruction in London, and Prime Minister Major faced blame from opposition parties.
• The Daily Prophet praised William and Hermione for protecting Minister Bones but concealed the Death Eaters’ successful raids on two dragon sanctuaries.
• Voldemort punished Yaxley after the failed attack, while Jaehaerys discovered that his son Giggs was missing.
• Fenrir Greyback led the Werewolves in a massacre, and Voldemort unveiled Giant Inferi in a battle that inflicted heavy losses on the Ministry.
• The Aurors raided known Death Eater homes, Dementors spread across major cities, and William focused on the Werewolves as his contact from France arrived in Britain.

Fenrir Greyback demanded to become a real Death Eater, but Scabior blamed him for a failed mission and told him to capture Remus Lupin for Voldemort. Scabior then assigned Greyback and a French werewolf group to attack a hidden St Mungo's branch, leaving Greyback eager to work alongside Mormont.

• Greyback complained to Scabior that he and his werewolves had suffered losses while remaining loyal, yet Voldemort still had not made him a Death Eater.
• Scabior blamed Greyback's werewolves for leaking information about their attack on a Muggle village and accused Remus Lupin of spying for the Order of the Phoenix.
• Greyback agreed to capture Lupin and hand him over to Voldemort, who hoped to exchange him for captured Death Eaters.
• Scabior ordered Greyback and his werewolves to attack a hidden St Mungo's branch in southwest Somerset alongside Mormont's French werewolves.
• Greyback became excited at the thought of Mormont and the werewolves under her command.

Greyback exposed Lupin as an Order spy and confined him, while Mormont asserted her authority over the French werewolves. After leaving Greyback’s den, Mormont found William waiting in her room and submitted affectionately to him.

• Greyback’s men seized Lupin, and Greyback revealed that a spy within the Order had exposed him; Lupin suspected Snape and was locked in a cage.
• Greyback tried to assert control over Mormont and the French werewolves, but Mormont’s subordinate challenged her authority on his behalf.
• Mormont transformed into a snow wolf, killed the dwarf who had insulted her, and left with her followers while Greyback watched.
• Mormont sensed William in her room and approached him in wolf form, rubbing against him as he stroked her fur.

William revealed that he had secretly built Mormont’s French Werewolf force and arranged for Greyback to lead his army into a trap at a hidden St Mungo’s branch. As Greyback’s Werewolves entered the canyon, William appeared and rode Mormont into a charge.

• William recalled how he had helped Mormont build her Werewolf force and arranged for her to cross into Britain and infiltrate the Death Eaters.
• Mormont showed William the Goblin Gem that let her transform outside the full moon, and he told her to keep it and warned that he had come to deal with Greyback.
• Greyback led his Werewolf army toward the hidden valley branch of St Mungo’s, confident that his forces could overwhelm the hospital.
• The French Werewolves blocked the canyon exit, and William appeared among the trapped army.
• William mounted Mormont in her direwolf form, drew his sword, and charged Greyback’s forces.

William led Mormont and the French Werewolves in a battle against Greyback’s forces, killing Greyback after thwarting his attempt to escape and launch a surprise attack. Lupin arrived at the canyon and found William resting beside Mormont amid the aftermath.

• William and Mormont charged into Greyback’s forces, killing Werewolves as Greyback tried to escape through the canyon.
• William’s goblin sword pierced Greyback, but Greyback pretended to be dead and fired an Avada Kedavra at him.
• William blocked the curse with a severed Werewolf head, then killed Greyback with his sword.
• William returned to the battle while the surviving French Werewolves cleared the battlefield.
• Lupin arrived at the canyon and found William resting beside Mormont, who was guarding him.
• William told Lupin that he had wiped out Greyback and all the Werewolves under his command.

William Stark wiped out Greyback and his Werewolves, then told Lupin that the victory had ended his need to remain undercover. The chapter ended with William ordering a mound of Werewolf heads displayed as a warning and news of his triumph spreading through the United Kingdom.

• William Stark reassured Lupin that he was unharmed and showed him Greyback's severed head.
• Lupin told William how Greyback had bitten him as a child and thanked him for killing Greyback.
• William said the Wizarding World needed sweeping reform, and Lupin pledged to help him win the war.
• William explained that Snape had exposed Lupin to Voldemort as part of the plan to lure the Werewolves into an attack.
• William ordered Mormont to make a mound from the Werewolves' heads and have the Daily Prophet publicize it as a warning to Death Eaters.
• At the end of July, news of William's victory spread, and his fame surpassed Dumbledore's.

William’s hard line against Voldemort’s supporters strengthened the Order of the Phoenix’s position as the war briefly quieted. William and Hermione secretly left England and arrived in Massachusetts, where they traveled toward Mount Greylock.

• William ordered the French Werewolves who had sided with the Death Eaters buried in a corpse mound, warning others that joining Voldemort meant death.
• The Ministry appointed William a full Auror and Hermione an assistant in Bones’s office, signaling its understanding with the Order of the Phoenix and boosting Bones’s approval rating.
• Voldemort learned that the French Werewolves he had recruited had been Stark’s people, and his setbacks made him increasingly furious, though he did not act rashly.
• While the war entered a lull, William and Hermione slipped away from England and traveled to Massachusetts under the identity Darren Targaryen.
• William and Hermione left Boston in a carriage drawn by four Aethonans and headed west toward Mount Greylock.