Recaps

Tom met an old wizard who claimed to be Salazar Slytherin and offered to teach him the Prehistoric Mysteries, despite William having gained the power in the obelisk. The old man sent Tom to find Harry Potter, whose soul held another fragment of Tom’s, and promised to guide them in seeking the Deathly Hallows in exchange for asking Death for the third one for him.

• Tom saw the obelisk go dark and feared William had taken its power, but the old man told him William had not and offered to teach him himself.
• The old man explained that the Prehistoric Mysteries were hidden in religious texts around the world, though their contents had been altered and only the worthy could understand them.
• Tom asked the old man to teach him, and the old man agreed on the condition that Tom help him ask Death for something.
• Tom said he needed three related or brotherly companions to find Death, and the old man revealed that a fragment of Tom’s soul was attached to Harry Potter.
• The old man promised Tom the obelisk’s power and guidance on the quest for the Deathly Hallows if Tom asked Death for the third Hallow for him, and Tom agreed.

After returning to Hogwarts, William told Dumbledore that he had killed Tom and recovered the Resurrection Stone, which Dumbledore refused to touch because he feared its temptation. They planned how to destroy the last Horcruxes, but the chapter ended with Harry’s approaching sacrifice still uncertain.

• William reviewed his success against Tom with Dumbledore and explained that he had used the Resurrection Stone to summon figures formed from his memories.
• Dumbledore confessed that he could not resist the Resurrection Stone’s pull and told William to keep it from him unless he was about to die.
• William and Dumbledore discussed destroying the remaining Horcruxes, with Snape assigned the Runespoor and Hermione’s group set to retrieve Hufflepuff’s Cup from Gringotts.
• William said he planned to hand Bellatrix over to Neville and Mrs. Longbottom, and Dumbledore praised William for helping Neville grow braver.
• William asked whether Harry was ready to die, and Dumbledore admitted that he did not know but hoped so.

After the Capitol was destroyed, tensions rose between Muggles and wizards in the United States, while Hogwarts erupted over rumors about Harry and Ron. Gryffindor reached the Quidditch final against Ravenclaw, and William prepared his team for the last match of his Hogwarts career.

• Clinton turned his attention toward the wizards, and the Magical Congress of the United States of America prepared for a possible conflict with Muggles and Scourers.
• William asked Professor Babbling to contact Wormtail in Tom's name so he could control all three spies close to Voldemort.
• Rumors spread that Harry and Ron had been caught in a compromising scene, and Harry's decision to replace McLaggen with Ron intensified the gossip and Lavender's anger.
• Katie returned to Gryffindor's team and scored twelve goals against Hufflepuff, carrying the team into the final against Ravenclaw.
• William reminded his teammates that the final was their last match at Hogwarts and marked their brooms with the message, "The last dance!"

William Stark led Ravenclaw to a record-breaking victory over Gryffindor in the final, securing the team’s fourth consecutive Quidditch Cup. After the match, Luna bid farewell to William, Cho Chang, and the graduating veterans as William raised the Cup.

• Luna introduced William Stark and the players with extravagant announcements, while the students filled the stands to honor Ravenclaw’s veteran team.
• Gryffindor focused its defense on William, but Ravenclaw’s Chasers scored early before missed shots and disputed fouls disrupted their attack.
• William broke through Gryffindor’s defense with fast maneuvers and long-range shots, overwhelming the opposing team.
• Cho Chang caught the Golden Snitch as Ravenclaw won by 580 points and claimed its fourth consecutive championship.
• Luna said goodbye to William, Cho Chang, and the veteran Ravenclaw team as William held the Quidditch Cup aloft.

Ravenclaw celebrated its fourth consecutive Quidditch championship, and William took every N.E.W.T. subject while accepting an invitation to set exams for the Wizarding Examinations Authority. At the end-of-year feast, Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts would remain open and urged the graduating students to remember those lost in the wars against Voldemort.

• Ravenclaw celebrated its fourth straight championship, while William’s records cemented his reputation as the greatest player in Hogwarts history.
• William sat every N.E.W.T. subject, including Alchemy, and Professor Marchbanks invited him to work for the Wizarding Examinations Authority or set its exam questions.
• Cho asked William and Hermione to vote for her to join the Order of the Phoenix, and William revealed that he had received an invitation to an International Alchemy Conference in Cairo.
• Dumbledore told the students that Hogwarts would stay open as long as even one student wanted to attend, and said Voldemort still feared to attack the school.
• Dumbledore reminded the graduating students of the many witches and wizards killed in the wars and urged them to let the fallen be their light in the darkness.

After months of training in Constantinople, Tom learned that the city concealed a passage connecting the human world to the Underworld. Slytherin sent him to retrieve a soul fragment and prepare to meet Death.

• Tom explored Constantinople for more than two months, studying religious texts and cultivating himself as Slytherin instructed.
• At Saint Sophia Cathedral, Slytherin told Tom that Jesus had once possessed Death’s goblet, which became the Holy Grail and was later connected to William’s white dragon incident in Venice.
• Slytherin explained that Death had guided wizards through dreams, including Osman I, whose dream led to the conquest of Constantinople.
• Slytherin revealed that the passage to the Underworld lay beneath Constantinople, where Dumbledore and Grindelwald had planned to make a pilgrimage.
• Slytherin told Tom to find a boy, bring the soul fragment to Constantinople, and meet Death.

Hermione and the Order of the Phoenix rescued Professor Charity Burbage from a Death Eater attack, while Voldemort’s attempt to capture her failed. He killed the returning survivor, ordered Snape to investigate the leak and Auckland to hunt the young Order members, then announced he would focus on military affairs, alarming veterans who remembered his disastrous micromanagement.

• Wiggins’s Death Eaters searched Charity Burbage’s home in Oxford, but Hermione, Cho, Cedric, and the twins ambushed them and rescued Burbage.
• Casio escaped to Voldemort’s meeting and falsely claimed Wiggins had died after an ambush by Stark and the Order of the Phoenix.
• Voldemort questioned Casio, detected his lies, and killed him with the Killing Curse.
• Voldemort ordered Snape to investigate how the Order learned of the mission and tasked Auckland with hunting Hermione and the other young Order members.
• Voldemort said he would devote his energy to military affairs, prompting Rookwood to fear a return to Voldemort’s disastrous micromanagement.

Voldemort’s Death Eaters debated the Ministry’s planned summer offensive before he ordered them to make the Hebrides the battlefield and encircle Stark’s forces. He insisted their eight thousand fighters had the advantage over the enemy’s six thousand, then stepped onto the map at Hogwarts.

• Roose Bolton reported that Stark would command the Ministry’s summer offensive and that the battle would take place in the Hebrides.
• Death Eaters from rival factions argued over whether to reinforce Jaehaerys MacFusty or abandon the islands, while MacFusty warned that the young dragons there were valuable.
• Voldemort silenced the argument and confirmed that the Hebrides would be the battlefield.
• Roose Bolton announced that Jaehaerys would hold the islands while Nott led an eastern force and Diram led a western force to converge on Stark’s army.
• Voldemort demanded that his forces drive the Europe Wizard Allied Forces from Britain before autumn and declared that eight thousand fighters gave them the advantage over six thousand.
• Voldemort walked across the map and planted his foot on Hogwarts.

William briefed the allied commanders on a plan to surround and destroy Voldemort’s forces using intelligence from Snape and concealed reinforcements. He ended the meeting by ordering the summer offensive to proceed, while keeping his contingency plan for the Dementors secret.

• William revealed that Voldemort’s forces would be ambushed rather than face the expected attack on the Hebrides, and confirmed that Thunderbirds were due to arrive from North America.
• Madame Cregan said France had prepared a hidden base for the Thunderbirds, and Charlie Weasley promised fifty dragons from the Romanian sanctuary to help regain air superiority.
• William assigned Nott’s Eastern Expedition Corps to attack, with Mormont’s Werewolves encircling the enemy near Helvellyn, and said Centaurs and Acromantulas would counter the mounted Trolls and Orcs.
• Madam Cregan and the other European representatives agreed to intercept the Western Expedition Corps, while Kingsley would lead British Aurors to divide the battlefield.
• After Mr. Weasley warned that thousands of Dementors could enter the battle, William said he had a contingency plan and ordered the allies to destroy Voldemort’s eight thousand Death Eaters.

Hermione brought Professor Burbage safely to the Ministry, where William arranged for her to stay at Hogwarts while she continued writing against Voldemort. As the war neared, William and Hermione returned home, and Hermione asked him to marry her after the summer.

• Hermione rebuffed Percy when he tried to use her to reconnect with William and urged him to visit his mother instead.
• William welcomed Hermione and Professor Burbage, kept Dumbledore’s mission abroad confidential, and told Burbage she could continue publishing her articles.
• William told Hermione that Voldemort’s Trolls had become cavalry, so the Centaurs would have to fight sooner and production of alchemical weapons must speed up.
• William, Hermione, and Anne ate Anne’s successful dinner before William and Hermione went for a walk by the river.
• Hermione asked William to marry her after the summer, and William promised her a grand wedding.

William led the Centaur cavalry toward an ambush on Helvellyn as Voldemort’s army approached through the mountain pass. After the Centaurs attacked the Orcs and Trolls, William watched the Great Fire Star disappear below the horizon.

• The Centaurs stopped to study the Great Fire Star, and Fire Kiss told William her divination foretold slaughter while trying to auction him a fake gold card.
• Fire Kiss explained that Ronan had sold her the card at an inflated price, and William persuaded her to continue helping with his Centaur anatomy research.
• Lupin reported that the Werewolf corps had found Death Eater scouts, and William ordered them killed.
• Nott led a three-thousand-strong army of Orcs and Trolls through Helvellyn, seeking to flank Stark’s forces and avenge his son.
• After a wounded Death Eater arrived, Nott sounded the battle horn and spotted more than a hundred Centaurs on the mountain flank.
• The Centaurs, led by a red Centaur, loosed a volley of arrows at the Orc corps as William watched the Great Fire Star descend.

William’s forces ambushed Nott’s Orcs and Trolls on the narrow mountain path, turning the battle into a slaughter. As Nott sent Death Eaters after the Centaurs, Cedric, Cho, Fluffy, and the Acromantulas struck his forces from behind.

• Ronan and the Centaurs opened fire, while William’s wizards used anti-bolt weapons to deflect the Orcs’ thrown spears.
• Nott ordered the boar cavalry to charge, and the Orc riders crashed through the Trolls blocking the mountain path.
• William rode Mormont into battle with the Werewolves, using the Goblin sword and spells to cut through the Orc cavalry.
• The Centaurs split into two lines along the cliffs and fired on the boar riders, prompting Nott to send Death Eaters against them.
• Cedric and Cho led Fluffy and the Acromantulas in a charge against the Death Eaters’ flank, as the battle became known as the Meat Grinder of Helvellyn.

William joined the Thunderbird Corps on Silver Wing and reached the Hebrides, where the main battle between Giants and dragons raged. After killing Black Death, William confronted Voldemort and challenged him to fight.

• William regrouped with Cedric and Cho, then rode Silver Wing with Phoebe and the Thunderbird Corps toward the Hebrides.
• Phoebe told William they were nearing the battlefield and said she was happy to fight at his side.
• George and Fred spotted the arriving Thunderbirds as Giants and dragons fought across the Hebrides.
• Black Death charged at Silver Wing, but William wounded the dragon, drove the Goblin sword into its head, and killed it.
• William flung Black Death’s head toward Voldemort and challenged the Dark Lord to a fight.

William told Voldemort that his Eastern Expedition Corps had been wiped out, then faced Voldemort’s enormous Giant God Warrior when the Dark Lord’s forces began overwhelming the battlefield. After surviving its attacks, William gathered the storm’s lightning and charged back at Voldemort, taunting him in return.

• William mocked Voldemort with news that the Eastern Expedition Corps had been completely destroyed and claimed Dumbledore was occupied elsewhere.
• Voldemort became enraged, used Dark Magic to fuse his Giant Inferi into a thirty-meter Giant God Warrior, and climbed onto its shoulder.
• The Giant God Warrior attacked William and the battlefield, smashing Giants and causing the fighting to turn into a rout.
• William blocked the Warrior’s foot with a purple-gold barrier, was sent soaring, and Phoebe guided Silver Wing to catch him.
• William drew the storm’s lightning to his wand, descended toward the Giant God Warrior, and taunted Voldemort as he charged.

William destroyed Voldemort’s Giant God Warrior while the allied forces fought on several fronts, but Voldemort revealed that House-elves were bolstering his army at the River Ouse. Dumbledore arrived with foreign reinforcements, and William redirected forces to counter the threat as the battle turned toward an allied victory.

• William called down lightning that destroyed Voldemort’s Giant God Warrior, then continued confronting the Dark Lord.
• Phoebe reported that the European coalition had suffered heavy losses at the River Ouse, and William ordered Madame Maxime to take the battlefield rather than focus on casualty figures.
• Voldemort revealed that pure-blood families’ House-elves had joined his forces, and William identified them as the reinforcements behind the enemy’s sudden strength.
• Dumbledore arrived with more than four hundred wizards from other countries and engaged Voldemort in battle.
• Hermione brought House-elves from the Akali Shop, and William ordered reinforcements sent to the Helvellyn line and River Ouse while another force moved to cut off the Western Expedition Corps.

With Dumbledore’s reinforcements turning the war in the Ministry’s favor, William led the assault on Wyvern Tower and captured the MacFusty stronghold, securing victory in the Hebrides. The chapter ended with the wizarding world learning of the Death Eaters’ defeat and the allied forces cheering Stark’s name.

• A Werewolf tracked down the wounded Nott at Helvellyn and killed him, while Mormont’s forces moved on to support the fighting in the Hebrides.
• William directed the allied forces’ advance toward Wyvern Tower as the defenders’ resistance weakened.
• William sent Giants to smash through the fortress wall, then led the charge into the castle alongside Aurors, Werewolves, and Centaurs.
• Fire Kiss killed the mortally wounded Jaehaerys MacFusty, and William entered the dragon lair and claimed the family’s dragon eggs.
• A surrendered MacFusty wizard blew the Dragon Horn to stop the surviving black dragons from fighting, and William declared victory as the allied forces cheered Stark’s name.
• News that the Hebrides had fallen and the Death Eaters had suffered heavy losses spread across the wizarding world.

The aftermath of the summer offensive established William as the young commander behind a decisive victory, while he arranged the memorial for the fallen at Godric’s Hollow. He brought Gregorovitch to a safe house and asked him to make a convincing, breakable imitation of the Elder Wand to deceive Voldemort, then accompanied Dumbledore to his family’s graves as Harry’s fate drew near.

• The summer offensive ended in a decisive victory for William’s forces, destroying Voldemort’s Troll corps, scattering his vampire army, occupying the Hebrides, and taking control of the skies.
• William arranged for the fallen to be buried and commemorated at Godric’s Hollow, and waited for Gregorovitch to arrive at his safe house.
• William asked Gregorovitch to make a powerful imitation of the Elder Wand that would look ancient and break after use, and Gregorovitch agreed to let Cedric assist him.
• William went to the graveyard, where he found Dumbledore mourning at the graves of Kendra Dumbledore and Ariana and speaking about his grief and fear of returning there.
• William and Dumbledore passed the graves of Ignotus Peverell and James and Lily Potter, knowing Harry was about to face his foretold death.

Harry prepared to leave 4 Privet Drive as the Order of the Phoenix arranged safe passage for the Dursleys and a Portkey for him. As his relatives departed, Petunia gave him a joined photograph of both families, and Harry wept over the home he was leaving and the uncertain future ahead.

• Hedwig dropped owl droppings on Harry's head, snapping him out of his daze as he waited for night to come.
• Harry explained to Vernon that the Dursleys had to go into hiding because Voldemort might target them, and Dudley said he would go with the Order of the Phoenix.
• Hestia and Dedalus arrived to escort the Dursleys, while Hestia gave Harry a Portkey to use if Mad-Eye failed to arrive.
• Vernon said goodbye, and Dudley thanked Harry for saving his life before asking whether they would meet again; Harry promised they would.
• Petunia gave Harry a photograph joining pictures of the Dursley and Potter families, and Harry cried as he faced leaving his home and an uncertain future.

Harry used a Portkey to leave the Dursleys’ home, but arrived in a room where Tom Riddle greeted him and invited him to see Death. Meanwhile, William studied how to make a Deathly Hallow until Dumbledore sent an urgent message that Harry was missing.

• Harry sorted through his belongings, checked the Daily Prophet’s death list, and left alone by Portkey when Mad-Eye failed to arrive.
• Harry landed in an unfamiliar room filled with religious books and incense, where Tom Riddle invited him to come see Death.
• William studied the Book of Alchemy and considered which Deathly Hallow to make from the Elder Wood he had obtained.
• Dumbledore’s silver phoenix Patronus reached William with an urgent message that Harry was missing.

Harry disappeared after using a tampered Portkey, and Dumbledore discovered that Tom had taken him to seek Death. William learned that the entrance to the Land of Death lay in Constantinople, but Dumbledore proposed another way to reach it.

• Moody and the Order searched 4 Privet Drive, deduced that Hestia had been placed under the Imperius Curse, and realized the Portkey had been switched.
• Dumbledore told William that Tom had controlled Hestia, taken Harry, and left a letter explaining his plan to find Death and later help kill Harry as the final Horcrux.
• William learned that Tom intended to use Harry's soul fragment as one of the Three Brothers and seek Death through the entrance in Constantinople.
• Dumbledore said they could not reach Tom in time by traveling to Constantinople, then reminded William of the four golden coffins as a better route into the Land of Death.

William and Hermione traveled to Egypt to find a way to enter the Land of Death and rescue Harry, using William’s invitation to the International Alchemy Conference as cover. In Cairo, conference representative Mirshat met them and revealed that the apartments for attendees had partly collapsed and many wizards were missing.

• William and Dumbledore decided to rescue Harry first and chose Egypt as the route to the Land of Death.
• William and Hermione sailed to Cairo aboard a Gringotts boat with goblins and newly recruited Curse-Breakers.
• Egyptian Aurors inspected the arrivals because William was among them, and William presented his conference invitation.
• Mirshat welcomed William and Hermione, praised William’s article on alchemy and ancient runes, then admitted that the conference apartments had partly collapsed and many attendees were missing.

William traveled to Egypt with a Gringotts party, claiming he would help its Goblins break the magic inside an ancient temple in exchange for their support in the war. He reunited with Bill Weasley in Thebes, where Bill was secretly spying for Dumbledore and William, and prepared to use the Goblins’ excavation as a cover for finding the entrance to the Land of Death.

• William arrived at the site of a collapsed building in Cairo and found that officials had withdrawn rescuers while mourners and influencers gathered there.
• William left Cairo with the Gringotts party and passed the Giza pyramids and the Great Sphinx before continuing to Thebes.
• The newly hired wizards reached the remote ruins near Luxor and Karnak, where Bill Weasley greeted William and Hermione.
• William gave Bill Mrs. Weasley’s letter, which urged him to return home and get married.
• Bill asked why William had come to Egypt, and William said he was helping Gringotts break the magic inside a temple in exchange for wartime support.
• William privately intended to use the excavation to find the entrance to the Land of Death, where he hoped to rescue Harry.

William and Hermione explored an Egyptian wizarding village, haggled over a replica statue of Tutankhamun, and then went to Gringotts for William’s meeting with Mr. Jorah. While waiting, William looked toward the Valley of the Kings and thought about Arya Grindelwald and the rumors surrounding Cleopatra’s tomb.

• William visited the village antiques market and learned that goblins profited from breaking curses, selling replicas, and authenticating treasures.
• William spotted a statue of Tutankhamun hunting a hippopotamus, and Hermione bargained the goblin down from eighty thousand Galleons to ninety.
• William and Hermione entered the Gringotts pyramid, where goblins escorted William to a VIP room to wait for Mr. Jorah.
• William looked across the Nile toward the Valley of the Kings and recalled Dumbledore’s theory that Arya had revealed Cleopatra’s tomb’s location to gain access to it.
• William wondered how Arya was doing and wished he would never have to see her again.

William and Hermione met with Jorah in Egypt, where he blamed Arya Grindelwald and the Muslim Brotherhood for an attack that killed conference attendees. Jorah showed them the Temple of Amun, the ancient school where the Four Founders’ coffins lay and where William hoped to find the Land of Death.

• Jorah welcomed William and Hermione and urged them to examine the Temple of Amun, but William demanded an explanation for the apartment building collapse that had killed many people.
• Jorah said Arya Grindelwald was the likely culprit and claimed the Muslim Brotherhood, founded by Grindelwald’s Acolyte Hassan al-Banna, was connected to the attack.
• William considered Jorah’s explanation plausible and set his concerns aside for the time being.
• Jorah led William and Hermione through a magically protected door and showed them a phantom image of Karnak Temple, the ancient Temple of Amun.
• Jorah explained that the temple had been the world’s earliest school of magic, where the Four Founders had studied, and that their four coffins were there.

William and Hermione’s journey to Egypt brought them to the Temple of Amun, the surviving ruins of the vanished Invisible College, whose protections the Goblins had failed to break. A Goblin-led curse-breaking team entered Karnak Temple and approached the dangerous sanctuary at its heart.

• Bagshot gave Hermione her manuscript about the Invisible College, and William recalled that the Four Founders had come from the mysterious Egyptian school.
• William connected the College’s disappearance to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria and explained why the Temple of Amun remained their destination.
• A Goblin-led curse-breaking team set out for Karnak Temple under cover of night.
• The team passed the sphinx-lined avenue and gateway, where William admired the statue of Ramesses II and Queen Hatshepsut’s obelisk.
• William entered the hypostyle hall with the group, and a Goblin pointed them toward the sanctuary that the Goblins had never managed to open.