Chapter Summaries

After her punishments repeatedly backfired, Umbridge recruited Cedric as a spy and learned about the students’ countermeasures, but her attempt to use that information failed. With Fudge’s appointment making her High Inquisitor official, she turned her attention to dismissing Snape.

• Umbridge returned to teaching and tried punishing Cho with magical mirrors, but the light rebounded on her and sent her back to the Hospital Wing.
• As students found countermeasures at Akali's Mystery Shop, Umbridge stopped punishing them and tried to recruit Cedric through private talks.
• Cedric agreed to spy for Umbridge and told her the twins carried badges, so she searched them during detention.
• Umbridge used a magic eraser on the twins, but the punishment rebounded and left her face raw because the students’ items were now disguised as buttons or Galleons.
• Cedric told Umbridge he knew where the items were made and could lead her there, while Umbridge learned she had been appointed High Inquisitor and decided to fire Snape.

On Halloween, William read about Fudge appointing Umbridge High Inquisitor and attended Trelawney’s Divination lesson to watch her inspection. Umbridge arrived to evaluate Trelawney, who tried to cover her nerves with an invented illness and silently cursed Umbridge.

• Professor Flitwick told William and Hermione that he planned to search Hagrid’s pumpkin patch for Halloween decorations.
• William read Rita’s report about Stark fighting Death Eaters and Voldemort uprooting a weeping willow, then learned that Umbridge had been appointed High Inquisitor.
• Cho read aloud a passage criticizing Dumbledore’s staffing choices, including William’s Ancient Runes teaching, and William joked that he might be fired.
• Cedric told William that their plan would give Umbridge an unforgettable Halloween Feast.
• Umbridge inspected Trelawney’s Divination class, and Trelawney nervously claimed she had predicted she would catch a severe cold.

During a Divination lesson, Professor Umbridge questioned Trelawney about her qualifications and demanded a prediction. Trelawney foresaw yellow, disgusting danger surrounding Umbridge, while William joked about the ominous reading of his own Fool card.

• William and Cho practiced tarot readings, and William drew The Fool card.
• Cho interpreted the card as a sign of wisdom, strength, and good fortune for William.
• Trelawney gave a darker reading, warning that William's power without intelligence would lead to his death.
• Umbridge interrogated Trelawney about her appointment, Seer ancestry, education, and paid club.
• Umbridge demanded a prediction, and Trelawney warned that yellow, disgusting danger surrounded her.
• Cho told William that Trelawney's prediction would come true that night, and William praised The Fool.

After Umbridge targeted Trelawney and planned to oust McGonagall, Cedric lured her to William’s trap in Moaning Myrtle’s Bathroom. William stunned Umbridge and prepared to alter her memory, while Cedric asked to forget their encounter in the secret passage.

• Students praised Trelawney for her prediction about Umbridge, while Umbridge planned to establish her authority by targeting McGonagall next.
• Umbridge questioned students about McGonagall but found them full of praise for the deputy headmistress and learned she had taught at Hogwarts for thirty-nine years.
• Cedric told Umbridge that William and the others were making a magical item against her, then led her through a secret passage toward their supposed hideout.
• In the passage, Umbridge grabbed Cedric and made advances toward him, and Cedric endured them while regretting bringing her along.
• Cedric led Umbridge into Moaning Myrtle’s Bathroom, where William stunned her with Stupefy.
• William said he would alter Umbridge’s memory and replace Cedric in it, and Cedric asked William to cast Obliviate on him as well.

Hogwarts held a Halloween Feast without Umbridge, who woke trapped in a bathroom and was drenched in an eruption of sewage. As students returned from the feast, Umbridge faced the prospect of them finding her covered in filth.

• Dumbledore began the Halloween Feast while Umbridge remained absent, and the students enjoyed the meal and a ghostly entertainment program.
• Umbridge woke in a locked bathroom stall without her wand and realized Peeves had lured her there before knocking her unconscious.
• Moaning Myrtle refused to fetch Dumbledore and told Umbridge she could escape through the toilet pipes to the Black Lake.
• The toilet erupted with sewage, covering Umbridge as she clung to the stall door.
• Umbridge heard students returning from the Great Hall and feared they would discover her covered in filth.

Cho framed the foul stench from a flooded bathroom as luosifen, and Malfoy broke open the door, releasing a torrent of sewage that swept him and Umbridge into the filth. After Dumbledore cleaned the floor, Umbridge blamed Peeves for the attack.

• Cho called the terrible smell luosifen and offered to have some sent to the students after recalling how Bobocha had put cat litter in her bowl.
• Filch arrived at the bathroom and warned whoever was inside to surrender and release Professor Umbridge.
• Malfoy ordered Goyle and Crabbe to break down the bathroom door, unleashing filthy water that knocked him into the flood.
• William raised a barrier as Umbridge swam through the sewage and then pretended to faint while the students watched.
• Dumbledore cleaned the floor and questioned Umbridge, who accused Peeves of attacking her.

Umbridge remained isolated while Peeves was blamed for her attack, and Hogwarts buzzed with rumors as the opening Quidditch match approached. William prepared to lead Ravenclaw against Gryffindor, but Hermione challenged him to stay with her the night before the game.

• Madam Pomfrey sent Umbridge to a remote attic, where Umbridge called for Auror protection and accused Peeves of trying to harm her.
• Peeves insisted he had not attacked Umbridge, while students blamed him and rumors also branded Ron his accomplice.
• Snape enjoyed serving as Defense Against the Dark Arts substitute, while McGonagall refused William's attempt to resign and promised to make his position permanent.
• As November began, Ravenclaw prepared to face Gryffindor in the Quidditch opener, with William favored as the strongest Chaser and the other houses scheming for their preferred outcome.
• Snape obstructed Gryffindor's preparations, while William kept Ravenclaw's training steady and recalled honing his skills against professional teams.
• After teaching William Occlumency on the eve of the match, Hermione invited him to stay in the Room of Requirement, and he accepted her challenge to prove his endurance.

William and Anne prepared for the Quidditch match between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor as Ron grew anxious over Slytherin's taunts. The match began with William missing his opening shot, and Hermione proudly claimed she had stopped him.

• Anne asked William if he was nervous and complained that Hermione was still asleep before her first match.
• Luna said she would support Ravenclaw, while Cho and Cedric handed out luosifen to students.
• Malfoy and Montague taunted Ron with a Weasley Is Our King badge, leaving him shaken before the match.
• William led Ravenclaw onto the pitch, where he and Angelina shook hands before the teams took off.
• William's opening shot missed, and Hermione watched from the Gryffindor stands and said she had stopped him.

William led Ravenclaw’s comeback against Gryffindor, repeatedly exploiting Ron’s mistakes as the Slytherins’ mocking song rattled him. Cho caught the Golden Snitch, ending the match with Ravenclaw ahead.

• William missed three shots, but Angelina seized the opportunity and Anne scored twice to give Gryffindor an early lead.
• William blocked Anne’s shot, then drove past Ron to score and began leading Ravenclaw’s comeback.
• William tied the score at 70:70 after turning aside a Bludger and scoring a free throw.
• The Slytherins sang about Ron, who became distracted and passed the Quaffle to William, allowing Ravenclaw to take the lead.
• Harry stopped watching for the Snitch as Ron let another shot through, and Cho caught the Golden Snitch.

After Gryffindor lost to Ravenclaw, a brawl and Umbridge’s new decrees disrupted Hogwarts Quidditch and student groups. William found Ravenclaw’s team blocked from reforming and decided to force Umbridge to approve it.

• Cho caught the Golden Snitch and secured Ravenclaw’s victory while Ron’s poor goalkeeping contributed to Gryffindor’s defeat.
• Malfoy taunted Harry and the Weasleys, sparking a fight between Gryffindor and Slytherin students that Dumbledore stopped by deducting two hundred points from each house.
• Umbridge banned Harry and the twins from Quidditch under Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four, then disbanded student organizations under Educational Decree Number Twenty-Five.
• William learned Umbridge had approved the Slytherin and Gryffindor teams but left Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff’s applications pending; Cedric said Umbridge seemed to be hinting that he should spy for her.
• When Cho worried that Ravenclaw could not play matches underground, William said he would use extraordinary measures to give Umbridge a reason she could not refuse.

Umbridge tried to secure her future by enforcing Educational Decrees, but a silent threat involving her stolen Ministry decorations terrified her into approving William’s Quidditch team. William kept his secret intensive class protected, and Hagrid returned at the end of November.

• Umbridge reasoned that Fudge was likely to fall and decided that opposing Dumbledore and Stark might help her prosper under Voldemort, while Aurors guarded her at Hogwarts.
• Umbridge found her favorite cat plates transformed into skulls on her bed, along with a newspaper clipping about the Educational Decrees, and feared that Stark or Granger could reach her anywhere.
• After a day, William returned to Umbridge, who approved the Ravenclaw Quidditch team and treated him more humbly.
• William maintained protections for Akali’s Intensive Class, including hidden classrooms, a Wizard-Banishing Charm, and cursed agreements students had to sign.
• Hagrid returned at the end of November.

Hagrid secretly returned to Hogwarts with his injured giant half-brother hidden in the Forbidden Forest, then tried to conceal his mission from Harry and Ron. He revealed that he had gone to find the giants and confirmed William had fought them in the Alps, but he left the details of the battle untold.

• Hagrid returned to his cabin after hiding his giant brother in the Forbidden Forest and found that Cedric and Cho had cared for the room.
• Harry and Ron visited Hagrid and saw that he was badly injured, but he refused to explain what had happened.
• Hagrid treated his injuries with dragon meat from Akali's Mystery Shop and told Harry and Ron that Phoebe managed its Paris branch and had an assignment from William.
• Hagrid admitted that he had gone looking for giants and found them in the mountains.
• Hagrid confirmed that William had fought the giants in the Alps, killed several, saved wizards, and snapped a mountain peak in half.

Hagrid told Harry and Ron how William killed Golgomath and drove off the Giants during the mission in the Alps. William and Hermione arrived at Hagrid’s hut, and Harry and Ron tried to sneak back to overhear their Order of the Phoenix business but were chased away by Fang.

• Hagrid recounted how he and Olympe found the Giants and offered their chief Karkus a gift prepared by William.
• Hagrid described how Golgomath killed Karkus and his Death Eaters pursued Hagrid and Olympe.
• William held off the Giants, killed Golgomath, and triggered an avalanche that collapsed Jungfrau.
• William and Hermione arrived at Hagrid’s hut, where Hagrid tried to send Harry and Ron away from the confidential discussion.
• Harry and Ron returned under the Invisibility Cloak to listen, but Fang spotted them and chased them toward the castle.

Hagrid confessed that he had brought his Giant brother Grawp to Britain and pleaded for him to be protected, while William and Hermione worried about the danger he posed near Hogwarts. Hermione realized Voldemort was likely collecting the dead Giants to create a Giant Inferi army.

• Hagrid told William and Hermione that he had smuggled Grawp back to Britain and hidden him in the Forbidden Forest.
• Hagrid explained that he had brought Grawp because the other Giants bullied him, but Hermione warned that Grawp could endanger Hogwarts students.
• William learned that Ygritte had gone to Beauxbatons and that Madame Maxime had left Hagrid and Grawp during the journey.
• Hagrid reported that Death Eaters were stirring up conflicts among Giant tribes, causing more Giants to die.
• Hermione asked about the Giant corpses, then realized Voldemort intended to raise them as an army of Giant Inferi.

Voldemort berated the Death Eaters for failing to carry out their plans and set urgent tasks for Christmas. He planned to attack Arthur Weasley and leave Britain to create Giant Inferi and kill Karkaroff, demanding results from his followers before he returned.

• Yaxley reported that the Dementors would release the Death Eaters in Azkaban no earlier than March, so Voldemort offered them France in exchange for freeing his servants by Christmas.
• Malfoy and Avery told Voldemort they had placed Broderick Bode under the Imperius Curse to obtain the item he wanted, and Voldemort threatened them with Azkaban if they failed again.
• Voldemort ordered an attack on Arthur Weasley at Christmas to distract the Order of the Phoenix while Malfoy and Avery pursued the Prophecy Orb.
• Peter Pettigrew admitted he had not found Rita Skeeter, and Voldemort tortured him before ordering him to kill her and deliver her head to Stark.
• Voldemort announced that he would leave Britain to create an army of Giant Inferi and visit Durmstrang to bring back Karkaroff's head, then demanded good news from the Death Eaters upon his return.

William told Dumbledore that Voldemort might be raising Giant Inferi, and Dumbledore sent wizards to the Alps while Hagrid prepared to bring the Giants to Britain. Back at Hogwarts, Hagrid resumed teaching Care of Fantastic Beasts and introduced his sixth-year class to an Erumpent.

• William warned Dumbledore that Voldemort could be stealing Giants' bodies to make Inferi, and Dumbledore sent wizards to the Alps.
• William planned to hide Hagrid's brother in an expanded cave in the Forbidden Forest while Hagrid recovered at Hogwarts.
• Umbridge returned to teaching and began inspecting professors, choosing Hagrid as her first target.
• Hagrid told William and Cho he had been visiting Grawp and getting beaten, and Cho joked that she could play a suona at his funeral.
• Hagrid led his sixth-year class to a clearing, attracted a huge Erumpent with musk, and introduced the creature to the students.

Umbridge interrupted Hagrid’s Care of Magical Creatures lesson and provoked an Erumpent into charging her after she covered herself in mating musk. William cut off the beast’s horn and stopped Umbridge from pulling it out, leaving her in pain and terrified that it would explode.

• Umbridge arrived to inspect Hagrid’s lesson and mocked him in her notes while he answered her questions with stories about past Defense Against the Dark Arts professors.
• Hagrid explained that Erumpent musk could calm the beast, but Umbridge rubbed an entire bottle onto her arm.
• The Erumpent charged Umbridge and impaled her from behind, injecting its explosive fluid as it carried her forward.
• William cleared the students from the path, formed a stone slide, and cut off the Erumpent’s horn with a silver sword.
• William warned Umbridge not to pull the horn out because it would explode, and she froze in tears.

Umbridge suffered a succession of accidents at Hogwarts, beginning with an Erumpent horn lodged in her and continuing through dangerous lessons and pranks. She was sent to St Mungo’s just before Christmas, where she would spend the holiday.

• Students carried Umbridge to the Hospital Wing with an Erumpent horn protruding from her buttocks, and Luna identified it as a Crumple-Horned Snorkack’s horn.
• Madam Pomfrey bought dissolving potion from William at a high price and removed the horn after a lengthy operation.
• William secretly hid Hagrid’s Erumpent after driving it away during class, preventing Hagrid from being blamed for its escape.
• Umbridge was injured in Sprout’s greenhouse and then badly scalded when Neville’s cauldron exploded during Potions class.
• Peeves allied with the twins to torment Umbridge with pranks, and she was sent to St Mungo’s shortly before Christmas.

William’s Defence Association held its final tutoring session before Christmas, bringing together students and helpers amid festive decorations and playful mistletoe antics. The session began as the students arrived, while Ron’s poor Quidditch form and Harry’s disappointment over Cho’s Christmas plans left awkwardness in the group.

• William’s Defence Association attracted many students, and Hermione, Cedric, Cho, and others helped teach the crowded class.
• Luna warned that Nargles lived in mistletoe, and Anne kissed Hermione before the group began playfully tussling.
• Cho, Cedric, the twins, and Ginny arrived and said Andrew Kirke and Jack Sloper had become substitutes for Gryffindor’s struggling Quidditch team.
• Harry and Ron arrived, and the group fell silent when Ginny’s recent criticism of Ron collided with Luna humming “Weasley Is Our King.”
• Cedric changed the subject by asking about Christmas plans, and Harry felt miserable because Cho had agreed to visit Cedric’s home.
• William stood at the lectern and prepared to begin the session as the assembled students watched him admiringly.

William led practical combat lessons, where Neville improved through repeated fights and the students practiced accuracy and footwork. After class, William learned from Little Black Robe that the Death Eaters were breaking out of prison that night, and he went to meet Bellatrix.

• Neville fought William, practiced the Spiral Water Arrow Spell, and heard that his accuracy and footwork still needed work.
• William and the other skilled students coached the class in practical combat while Harry watched and Ron admitted he had neglected practice.
• Cedric asked William for help confessing to Cho, and William arranged for them to tidy the classroom together beneath the mistletoe.
• William ended the lesson for the Christmas holidays, while Harry left with Ron and Fred and George stayed to spy on Cedric and Cho.
• William learned from Little Black Robe that the Death Eaters were breaking out of prison and went to pick up Bellatrix.