Recaps

William fought Voldemort through thousands of time loops, uncovered how Harry and others had died, then left the loop to rescue Harry and organize resistance. The story ended with Voldemort rebuilding his forces and ordering Karkaroff’s assassination while William and Hermione headed toward a conference near Nurmengard.

• William fought Voldemort across repeated loops, testing poisons, spells, and other strategies while traveling with Hermione and preserving memories of their years together.
• William uncovered Barty Crouch Jr.’s role in Harry’s disappearance and learned from Dumbledore that Voldemort’s soul fragments had made Harry a Horcrux, though Lily’s protection might let Harry survive Voldemort’s attack.
• William left the loop with a plan to capture Crouch and alert the Ministry, then freed Harry at the graveyard and fought Voldemort until a signal drove the Death Eaters away.
• When Fudge refused to acknowledge Voldemort’s return, Dumbledore restarted the Order of the Phoenix, while William arranged for Sirius to impersonate Karkaroff and lead Durmstrang.
• Snape returned to Voldemort as a spy and gave him William’s antidote formula, while Voldemort ordered Malfoy and Avery to steal the Prophecy Orb about himself and Harry.
• Hermione won the Triwizard final, and Dumbledore publicly announced Voldemort’s return and praised William for rescuing Harry and fighting Voldemort.
• As William and Hermione traveled toward a conference near Nurmengard, Tom restored his sixteen-year-old body and planned to take Wormtail to America.
• Voldemort recruited Gray Rosier, sought Goblin support, and ordered the Carrows to kill Karkaroff at Durmstrang and return with his skull.

William and Hermione joined the effort to expose Voldemort’s return, then traveled to Austria to investigate Grindelwald’s escape. After finding that Grindelwald was seeking Gregorovitch, they prepared to go to Salzburg.

• Umbridge persuaded Fudge to recruit Percy as an informant, and Fudge moved to strip Dumbledore of his international position rather than surrender his ministry post.
• William brought Hermione and Anne to the Order’s meeting, where he urged its members to fight the Ministry’s cover-up and shape public opinion about Voldemort’s return.
• Dumbledore assigned William to deliver letters to influential wizards, while the Order organized secret shifts to protect Harry and counter Voldemort’s growing alliances.
• William and Hermione searched Grimmauld Place for Regulus’s locket, then joined Sirius and Hagrid aboard the ship and sailed to Azkaban, where William faced the Dementors.
• William and Hermione reached France, where William recruited allies for a campaign involving French Werewolves and told Cregan that Voldemort had returned.
• At the international congress in Vienna, William and Hermione went to Nurmengard to visit Grindelwald, but found his cell empty and discovered that he had escaped.
• Umbridge tried to extradite William and Hermione, so they escaped Vienna with Mera Picquery’s help and learned from Cedric that Grindelwald’s visitor had left wand residue.
• William and Hermione traced Grindelwald’s search to Gregorovitch, then learned from Missandei Habsburg-Lorraine that she knew where Gregorovitch lived and planned to travel to Salzburg.

William and Hermione uncovered Grindelwald’s pursuit of the Elder Wand, then fought the North Sea Kraken and exposed Voldemort’s role in the Vienna attack. As the International Confederation of Wizards sent them to investigate the Giants, William reached Fridwulfa’s settlement while Hagrid and Maxime faced danger in Karkus’s tribe.

• William and Hermione questioned Gregorovitch about the Elder Wand, and William saw a memory of young Grindelwald stealing it.
• Grindelwald attacked Gregorovitch’s decoy and fought William, then returned to help William freeze the North Sea Kraken as it ravaged Vienna.
• Hermione escaped Umbridge with Gregorovitch, and William and his companions fled to Nurmengard as Grindelwald revealed his plan to trap the Kraken.
• William identified Voldemort as the force behind the Vienna attack, while Dumbledore returned as acting president of the International Confederation of Wizards and explained that Corvinus Gaunt had released the Kraken.
• The Confederation sent William, Hermione, and Missandei to investigate Giants in the Alps, where they found Durmstrang’s ship buried in snow and learned Giants had taken Sirius and the students.
• William killed the Giants who attacked Ygritte and Hodor, then followed them to their settlement and met Fridwulfa, who questioned whether her people should trust Dumbledore or Voldemort.
• After Ygritte led William toward news of a fight in Karkus’s tribe, Hagrid and Maxime tried to enlist Karkus’s cooperation, but Golgomath attacked him and Death Eaters found Hagrid and Maxime.

William defeated Golgomath’s Giants in the Alps, then returned to Britain with Hermione as Voldemort’s return and Ministry corruption came to the fore. Hermione was cleared at trial, but Snape’s defense left Harry humiliated, while Fudge continued tightening his grip on the Ministry.

• William entered the Giants’ cave alone, then fought Golgomath while Hagrid, Maxime, Sirius, and the students escaped, and he killed the Giant as Jungfrau collapsed.
• William and Hermione searched for survivors, then left Switzerland after arranging for Fridwulfa’s Giants to oppose Voldemort and Ygritte to study at Beauxbatons.
• Anne found Kreacher’s locket, and William destroyed the Horcrux inside it with Little Grey Robe, who identified Bellatrix as the person connected to Hufflepuff’s Cup.
• After Dementors attacked Harry, William sent friends to bring him from the Dursleys, while the Ministry summoned Hermione to answer for assaulting Umbridge and three Aurors.
• William defended Hermione in Courtroom Ten, where evidence showed that Umbridge had cast the Cruciatus Curse and Hermione had been protecting Missandei, and the Wizengamot declared Hermione innocent and ordered Umbridge to stand trial.
• At Harry’s hearing, Snape used Harry’s unsent letter to Cho and his private notes to humiliate him, leaving Harry distressed and considering whether to leave Hogwarts.
• Rita published articles and photographs exposing Voldemort’s return, while Fudge called them fake and pressured the Daily Prophet to stop, and the Order learned that Fudge was returning Umbridge to work and had reassigned three Aurors.