Recaps

William returned to Ravenclaw’s Quidditch team for a match against Gryffindor, while Harry hoped McLaggen would knock William and Dean out of play. Luna’s distracted commentary turned the opening moments into a comedy as the match began.

• William entered the pitch to cheers, and Cho was relieved to return to playing with him on Ravenclaw’s team.
• Harry planned to rely on McLaggen’s reckless play to injure William, then decided he also wanted Dean knocked out after seeing him with Ginny.
• McLaggen threw magnesium powder into the air, and Snape accidentally got it in his eyes and deducted thirty points from Gryffindor.
• William rallied Ravenclaw before the match, while Harry reluctantly repeated McLaggen’s advice about flying out of the sunlight.
• After Madam Hooch started the match, Luna misidentified players during her commentary, and Anne stole the Quaffle from William.

During a Quidditch match, William repeatedly outplayed McLaggen, whose reckless fouls and anger put his own teammates in danger. The match ended with McLaggen hitting Harry in the nose with a Bludger, while Ravenclaw held a commanding lead.

• Luna’s commentary mocked McLaggen as William scored seven goals in a row.
• McLaggen lunged at Bradley and poked him in the eyes, drawing only an ordinary foul from Madam Hooch.
• After Bradley returned with injured eyes, William carried Ravenclaw’s attack while McLaggen repeatedly hurled the Quaffle at him and struck Gryffindor teammates, including Dean.
• William scored his twelfth goal, and Harry argued with McLaggen before resuming his search for the Snitch.
• McLaggen took Coote’s Beater’s bat and hit a Bludger that struck Harry on the bridge of his nose.

William set records during a disastrous Quidditch match, then developed the Communication Mirror as the war spread and Akali’s magical products gained popularity. As Voldemort pursued Grindelwald and the Elder Wand, William also learned that Professor Slughorn was dying.

• William broke his single-game scoring record as McLaggen’s play injured five students, including Harry, and Gryffindor lost another hundred points after students beat McLaggen.
• William created the Communication Mirror so Ministry officials could work remotely, while Akali’s Family Map and other products spread across the Wizarding World.
• William learned that Voldemort was pressing Grindelwald for a meeting and seeking Gregorovitch, apparently because he believed Gregorovitch had the Elder Wand.
• Professor Babbling told William that the Snakewood flowers would wither around Easter, offering a chance to obtain Slytherin’s Wand, while Tom focused on strengthening the Scourers.
• William received startling news that Professor Slughorn was dying.

With Slughorn absent and Snape temporarily teaching Potions, Harry told William that he suspected Malfoy had poisoned Slughorn. Harry also admitted he had bluntly demanded Slughorn’s real Horcrux memory, prompting William to realize Slughorn was likely avoiding him; Harry planned to keep attending Slughorn’s parties to win him over.

• Rumors spread that Slughorn had become gravely ill after drinking fake medicinal liquor, and Snape returned to teach Potions in his place.
• William learned from the House-elves that Slughorn was still eating plenty of sweets, easing his worries about the professor’s condition.
• Harry approached William and accused Malfoy of poisoning Slughorn, citing his recent suspicious behavior and earlier attacks at Hogwarts.
• William asked Harry about Dumbledore’s task, and Harry explained that he had directly asked Slughorn about Horcruxes and demanded the real memory, causing Slughorn to flee.
• Harry proposed attending Slughorn’s parties to gain his trust, while William advised him to tell Dumbledore that Slughorn was already dead.

Slughorn avoided Harry and Dumbledore after refusing to hand over his memory, but Hagrid’s invitation to Aragog’s funeral drew him out of his office. William joined Slughorn and Hagrid on the way to the burial site deep in the Forbidden Forest, which William called one of the Wizarding World’s safest places.

• Slughorn hid in his office, pretending to be ill so he could avoid Harry and Dumbledore and keep his memory secret.
• Hagrid sent Slughorn a letter saying Aragog had died and inviting him to the funeral.
• Slughorn decided to attend, hoping to obtain Acromantula venom, and prepared for the funeral with two bottles of wine.
• Slughorn met William and Hagrid outside Hagrid’s Hut, and William said he had arranged to attend because Aragog and his family had helped him.
• William told Slughorn they would bury Aragog deep in the Forbidden Forest and called it one of the Wizarding World’s safest places.

William, Hagrid, and Slughorn brought Aragog into the Forbidden Forest for burial, but Acromantulas ambushed them and dragged Slughorn to their hidden hollow. There, Slughorn came face-to-face with a young Tom Riddle standing atop a Basilisk.

• William and Slughorn accompanied Hagrid into the Forbidden Forest to bury Aragog, while Slughorn secretly collected Acromantula venom.
• Hagrid lowered Aragog into the grave, and Slughorn began delivering a eulogy.
• Acromantulas sprang from the rocks, ensnared Slughorn and Hagrid, and dragged Slughorn away after injecting him with venom.
• The spiders carried Slughorn to a hollow where countless Acromantulas bowed before a Basilisk with a young wizard standing on its head.
• Slughorn recognized the young wizard as Tom Riddle, whom he had not seen for nearly fifty years.

William staged Slughorn's apparent death to extract his memory of Tom asking about Horcruxes, then shared it with Dumbledore. The memory revealed Tom's interest in splitting his soul into seven pieces.

• Tom appeared as his sixteen-year-old self and told Slughorn that his help had led to the creation of Horcruxes.
• Tom ordered the Basilisk to bite Slughorn, leaving him apparently dying from spider and snake venom.
• William and Hagrid arrived, and Slughorn gave William the memory before losing consciousness.
• William revealed that the attack had been staged with Hermione, the Acromantulas, the Basilisk, and his own disguise as Tom; Fawkes's tears would save Slughorn.
• William watched Slughorn's memory with Dumbledore, where Tom asked whether making seven Horcruxes would make him more powerful.

William and Hermione returned to Ilvermorny to tend to the Snakewood, but learned that the Strategic Scientific Reserve had been arresting wizarding families and that Ilvermorny would replace Hogwarts in the revived Inter-School Potions Championship. The chapter left William facing a growing American conflict and an unexpected international school competition.

• Dumbledore suspected that Voldemort’s Runespoor was his sixth Horcrux, while William’s destroyed Horcruxes and remaining targets made destroying the Slytherin Ring and breaking the Horcrux connection urgent.
• William and Hermione left Hogwarts before Easter and traveled to Ilvermorny, where William sensed the school’s grim atmosphere.
• Professor Babbling told William and Hermione that the Scourers had helped the Strategic Scientific Reserve illegally arrest wizarding families since Christmas.
• Professor Babbling announced that Ilvermorny would host the Easter Inter-School Potions Championship alongside Koldovstoretz, Mahoutokoro, and Uagadou.
• Hermione questioned why Ilvermorny had replaced Hogwarts, which had traditionally competed in the championship.

William learned that Ilvermorny and its allies were guarding the snakewood tree, while Tom prepared to lead the Scourers in an assault on the United States Capitol to find a hidden treasure. The chapter ended as Tom sent the Scourers to storm the Capitol, intending to destroy Washington after they seized it.

• Babbling told William and Hermione that Ilvermorny had offered snakewood leaves as a prize to secure an alliance protecting the tree.
• Babbling explained that a Pukwudgie, professors from three schools, and Aurors guarded the snakewood at Ilvermorny.
• William told Hermione to wait for Tom to act, believing Tom would find a way to pursue Slytherin’s Wand.
• In Washington, Tom gathered the Scourers and ordered them to storm the United States Capitol.
• Tom watched the Scourers leave and thought that the hidden treasure inside the Capitol had finally opened its doors to him.

William reluctantly helped oversee Ilvermorny’s Potions tournament, where he watched the contestants and caught students stealing ingredients. The competition was interrupted by news that Tom and the Scourers had nearly captured the Muggle Capitol building.

• Headmaster Eulalie Hicks assigned William to help oversee the Potions tournament at Ilvermorny.
• William stood by the gold-plated cauldron prize and watched contestants identify and prepare magical ingredients.
• William noticed students in pink robes secretly taking ingredients, including African Tree Snake skin.
• Gray Potter arrived with Aurors, spoke privately with Eulalie Hicks, and left with them.
• An unknown girl pulled William aside and told him that Tom had led the Scourers in an attack on the Muggle Capitol building and had nearly taken it.

William, Hermione, and Babbling worked out why Tom had seized the United States Capitol and suspected he was pursuing Prehistoric Mysteries while also planning to steal Slytherin’s Wand. Babbling stayed behind at Ilvermorny and gave William her cherished amulet to help locate Prehistoric Mysteries as he and Hermione headed toward the Magical Congress building.

• William considered how Tom had used the Scourers to attack the United States Capitol and questioned what his real goal was.
• Babbling told William that wizards kept watch on the Muggle government from offices inside the Capitol.
• Hermione recalled that the Magical Congress had once been housed in the Capitol, and William connected it to Tom’s earlier search at Appalachia Wizarding Prison, another former headquarters.
• William concluded that Tom’s commotion might draw Ilvermorny’s Aurors away so he could return and steal Slytherin’s Wand.
• Babbling chose to stay at Ilvermorny and gave William her treasured amulet, asking him to protect it while he and Hermione searched for Prehistoric Mysteries.

William and Hermione went to the Blind Pig in Brooklyn to meet Babbling’s contact and find a way into Washington, where the Scourers had nearly taken over the Capitol. The bar’s owner turned out to be Trene, an old acquaintance of William’s, who did not recognize the pair because they were disguised with Polyjuice Potion.

• The chapter described how Babbling had killed the Blind Pig’s former owner, Gnarlak, and placed her people in control of the bar.
• William and Hermione traveled to the Blind Pig as Babbling’s contingency for gaining access to the unrest in Washington.
• William presented the doorman with a blood-marked gold card, and the doorman let the disguised pair inside.
• William and Hermione entered the bar owner’s office and discovered that its proprietor was Trene.
• William reminded Trene that she still owed him a large magical boat from their time together in Venice.

William and Hermione reunited with Trene, who had come to the United States to help Babbling, and learned she knew a hidden route into the Capitol. With the Capitol surrounded by Muggle troops and Scourers, the three entered the Library of Congress to reach the passage connecting it to the building.

• William recognized Trene and realized Babbling had recruited her separately after he had refused to involve her in dangerous work.
• Trene told William and Hermione that she had agreed to help Babbling because the work sounded interesting, then changed the subject to their reunion.
• William, Hermione, and Trene saw that tanks guarded the Capitol and that its entrances were sealed against Apparition.
• Trene led William and Hermione to the Library of Congress, explaining that a hidden corridor beneath Independence Avenue connected it to the Capitol.
• The three Apparated to the Library of Congress, opened its bronze entrance, and entered the illuminated hall.

William, Hermione, and Trene infiltrated the Capitol through the Library of Congress to find another entrance to the old Magical Congress, whose usual passage was guarded by Muggle troops and Scourers. As Trene and Hermione entered a hidden passage beneath the Capitol dome, William noticed something at the Washington Monument, then rushed inside after hearing a cry.

• Trene led William and Hermione through the Library of Congress and its underground passage into the Capitol rotunda.
• The group found the Mayflower painting entrance guarded by armed Muggle troops and Scourers, so Trene signaled for them to go upward.
• Trene opened a secret passage beside The Apotheosis of Washington, a mural that concealed the old Magical Congress entrance.
• Trene entered the passage first, and Hermione followed while William stayed behind to look toward the Washington Monument.
• William noticed something astonishing in the distance, then rushed into the passage when someone cried out.

Tom failed to find the Prehistoric Mysteries in the Capitol and ordered the S.S.R to destroy the building, hoping the explosion would reveal them. William investigated the Capitol with Hermione and Trene and suspected Tom had searched in the wrong place again.

• Tom reviewed Slytherin's Prophecy and remained unable to locate the Prehistoric Mysteries in the Capitol.
• A Scourer reported that his search had found no markings, so Tom ordered the Scourers to make the S.S.R raze the Capitol with Muggle bombs.
• William rushed to Hermione and Trene after hearing cries and learned they had met the ghost Pierre L'Enfant, whom Trene paid with spirit money.
• William assigned Trene to monitor the S.S.R and Hermione to track the Scourers, then said he would search for the Prehistoric Mysteries.
• Hermione realized William suspected Tom was not in the Capitol, and William said Tom had likely got the location wrong again.

William used Babbling’s amulet to search the former Capitol site and confirmed that the Prehistoric Mysteries were not there. After the Capitol was destroyed in an explosion, William, Hermione, and Trene headed for Ilvermorny to confront Tom, who had gone to seize Slytherin’s Wand.

• William examined Babbling’s warm amulet and recognized its shape as the Egyptian Symbol of Life, then held it near his heart as she had instructed.
• The amulet let William perceive events across the Capitol, including Aurors fighting Scourers, Hermione interrogating a Scourer, and Trene approaching Muggle troops planting C4.
• William’s attempt to extend his vision toward the Washington Monument drained his magic, but he confirmed the Prehistoric Mysteries were not hidden at the Capitol and withdrew from the amulet’s strange state.
• Muggle soldiers detonated the bombs planted throughout the Capitol, destroying the building in a massive explosion as William, Hermione, and Trene watched from the Washington Monument.
• William told Hermione they were going to Ilvermorny because Tom had gone there to seize Slytherin’s Wand, and said it was time to settle things with him.

Tom revealed that he had arranged multiple attacks to weaken Ilvermorny's defenses so he could take the snakewood, and he asked Babbling to help. Babbling agreed, intending to use the opportunity to obtain Slytherin's Wand before handing it over to Tom.

• Headmaster Eulalie Hicks learned that the Scourers were approaching Ilvermorny and ordered the professors to evacuate students and organize the school's defenses.
• Hicks sent Fontana to recruit professors from the other three schools to defend the grounds and passages.
• Tom told Babbling that he had obtained the Prehistoric Mysteries and asked her to help him take Ilvermorny's snakewood.
• Babbling warned Tom that the Scourers would not be enough to defeat the combined defenders, so Tom revealed that he had placed the professor leading Uagadou's group under the Imperius Curse.
• Babbling agreed to retrieve the snakewood while planning to get Slytherin's Wand before giving it to Tom.

Uagadou students turned against Ilvermorny, helping the Scourers and routing the Japanese wizards from Mahoutokoro. Headmaster Hicks asked Professor Targaryen to protect the Snakewood, revealing that removing it would trigger Greylock's volcanic eruption and destroy Ilvermorny.

• A group of Mahoutokoro wizards headed for the grounds, where Ichiro Nemoto dismissed concerns about the Scourers and planned to rely on Uagadou students for protection.
• Uagadou students transformed into animals and ambushed the Japanese wizards, injuring many and tossing Ichiro Nemoto aside.
• Fontana told Hicks that Uagadou had joined the Scourers, its students were rampaging as Animagi, and the Mahoutokoro wizards had been wiped out.
• Hicks summoned Professor Targaryen and asked her to guard the Snakewood from anyone trying to take it.
• Hicks revealed that the Snakewood kept the active volcano beneath Ilvermorny from erupting, and removing it would destroy the school.

William learned that taking Slytherin’s Wand could trigger the volcano beneath Ilvermorny, threatening everyone at the school. Babbling proposed putting the Snakewood to sleep and burying it again, while Hermione and William offered ways to persuade Tom and accelerate the tree’s regrowth; William then recognized a prophecy about magma destroying Ilvermorny.

• William returned to Babbling with Hermione and gave her back her pendant as Babbling explained that Tom had used Uagadou Animagi to create chaos at Ilvermorny.
• Babbling revealed that the Snakewood rooted beneath the school was holding back an active volcano, which could erupt if the wand was removed.
• Babbling proposed using Parseltongue to put the wand to sleep and rebury it after Tom severed his connection to the Horcruxes, but Hermione warned that Tom might refuse and magma could erupt within hours.
• Hermione said she had an idea for persuading Tom, and William offered to use the power of time to make the buried Snakewood take root faster.
• As Babbling prepared to take the wand from a Pukwudgie, William recalled Trelawney’s prophecy about magma destroying a school and realized it referred to Ilvermorny.

William and his allies attacked the Pukwudgie guarding the Snakewood, and Babbling used Parseltongue to persuade him that she could prevent the volcano from erupting. William took Slytherin's Wand, unlocked the Book of Alchemy, and prepared to find Tom.

• William surprised the Pukwudgie with a lightning spell, but the creature fought back with fire and a poisoned arrow.
• Hermione and Trene helped subdue the Pukwudgie while Babbling threatened to destroy the Snakewood and spoke to him in Parseltongue.
• Babbling withered the Snakewood, and William snapped off its root to obtain Slytherin's Wand, which bore a living Basilisk.
• William used Slytherin's Wand to unlock the Book of Alchemy and saw phantoms of numerous Deathly Hallows.
• William remembered Grindelwald's warning not to gather a complete set of three Hallows from one story, then decided to find Tom.

Tom agreed to help William save Ilvermorny after the volcano began erupting, hoping to win influence over the school’s students and make William its next headmaster. William secretly intended to betray Tom, while Tom planned to use Slytherin’s Wand against Voldemort before building his own power.

• The volcano erupted and shattered Ilvermorny’s shield, prompting William to demand that Tom help save the students.
• Tom realized that Ilvermorny’s young wizards could become future followers and help him gain control of the Magical Congress.
• Tom offered to help William stop the eruption if William could become headmaster and let Tom pursue his plans.
• Tom said he would use Slytherin’s Wand to sever the Horcruxes’ connection, then return it by planting the Snakewood again.
• William watched Tom walk toward a cave and swore on Voldemort that he would betray him.

Tom severed the links between his soul and his remaining Horcruxes, but William revealed that he had impersonated Targaryen and killed him. After confirming Tom was dead, William took the wand and Resurrection Stone and flew toward Ilvermorny, while a mysterious old man appeared beside Tom’s body and vanished with it.

• Tom used Slytherin’s Wand to sever all the remaining Horcrux connections to his soul.
• At Hogwarts, Harry accidentally used Levicorpus on Ron, then felt something inside him being severed and collapsed in pain.
• William met Tom outside the valley and urged him to go to Ilvermorny to save the students before the volcano erupted.
• William stabbed Tom with a Goblin sword and struck him with a spell, then revealed that he had always been Targaryen and had fooled Tom.
• Tom died, and William took Slytherin’s Wand and the Resurrection Stone before flying toward Ilvermorny as a sea eagle.
• A mysterious old man appeared by Tom’s body, and both he and the body vanished.

As Ilvermorny’s volcano erupted, William returned and used the Slytherin wand and stored time magic to grow the Snakewood and halt the disaster. He then went with Hermione and Trene to the Washington Monument, where Babbling’s pendant revealed the lost power of Prehistoric Mysteries.

• As magma broke through Ilvermorny’s defenses, Hermione and Trene trusted that William would return, while the Pukwudgie prepared to sacrifice his life to delay the eruption.
• William arrived, gave the Slytherin wand to Babbling, and poured stored time magic into it until it grew into a great tree.
• William left Babbling to explain the restored Snakewood to Headmistress Hicks and borrowed her amulet to search for Prehistoric Mysteries.
• William, Hermione, and Trene reached the Washington Monument and used Babbling’s pendant to make the obelisk resonate with its hidden power.
• Runes appeared around the glowing monument, and William recognized it as the source of the lost power he had been seeking.

William recognized a Slytherin Statue on the Washington Monument and concluded that the power hidden there was probably a trap rather than Slytherin’s legacy. He explained to Hermione that Corvinus Gaunt may have fabricated the Chamber of Secrets Sanctuary and falsified records to lure people toward the Prehistoric Mysteries and Slytherin’s wand, leaving William unwilling to take the power.

• William spotted a monkey-faced Slytherin Statue on the Washington Monument and identified the monument as the likely hiding place of the Prehistoric Mysteries.
• Hermione suggested taking the entire monument back to the United Kingdom, but William refused because he suspected the power was a deception.
• William recalled Professor Babbling’s lesson that mistranslating Ancient Runes had led Corvinus Gaunt to depict Slytherin with a monkey’s face.
• William told Hermione that the Chamber of Secrets and Basilisk were real, but Tom’s Sanctuary inside the statue was probably fabricated and falsely attributed to Slytherin.
• William reasoned that Gaunt may have planted misleading notes to lure seekers toward the Prehistoric Mysteries and wand, and decided not to touch the power.

Tom awoke in the Capitol Library after an old man saved him from his wounds and learned William had found the Prehistoric Mysteries beneath the Washington Monument. The old man revealed that he was Salazar Slytherin, Tom’s ancestor and the author of the prophecy.

• Tom drifted through the void, then awoke with a chest wound in the Capitol Library.
• An old man told Tom that William had stabbed him and explained that he had saved him with Snakewood leaves and potions.
• Tom learned that William had found the Prehistoric Mysteries, which lay at the Washington Monument rather than the Capitol.
• The old man recited the prophecy and explained that “the place where the nation was founded” referred to the Muggles’ nation.
• The old man told Tom that he had written the prophecy and revealed in Parseltongue that he was Salazar Slytherin.