Chapter Summaries

The Champions used different magical methods to navigate the maze, while Hogwarts took an early lead. Nearly an hour into the task, all the Hogwarts Champions had reached the fifth level, with Lovegood getting there first by feeding Bowtruckles Fairy eggs.

• Draco used his version of the Wand-Lighting Charm, while Cedric and Harry used their survival instincts to sustain Patronus Charms and dispel the maze's darkness.
• The Champions entered the maze using varied methods, including enchanted lights, Magical Tattoos, lightning, and Durmstrang's Night Vision Spell.
• Karkaroff protested when Ludo Bagman expressed surprise that he had taught Durmstrang's Champions the Night Vision Spell.
• Nearly an hour later, Ludo Bagman reported that all the Hogwarts Champions had reached the fifth level and that Potter had escaped a group of Bowtruckles unharmed.
• Ludo Bagman explained that Lovegood had reached the fifth level first by feeding Fairy eggs to the Bowtruckles, and Seraphina Piqueri recalled how difficult Bowtruckles could be to deal with.

Vizet reached the Sphinx in the maze, and she gave him a riddle about a lion seeking a forest. The chapter ended before Vizet answered.

• The commentator announced that the maze trap had been repaired and that a Sphinx blocked Lovegood’s path.
• The Sphinx praised Vizet’s speed and asked if he was ready for her riddle.
• Vizet agreed and asked the Sphinx to give him the riddle.
• The Sphinx asked what troubled a roaring grassland king who wanted to find a forest and learn what it could do there.

Vizet solved the Sphinx’s riddle with the answer “owl,” opening the way toward the seventh floor. On the fifth floor, Draco summoned Harry and Cedric with a bright spell so the three Hogwarts Champions could explore the Maze together.

• The spectators debated the Sphinx’s riddle, while Vizet identified “owl” as the answer.
• The Sphinx confirmed Vizet was correct and stepped aside to let him pass.
• Anthony Goldstein, Terry Boot, and Chris Moen explained how the clues pointed to “owl” and the O.W.L. exams.
• On the fifth floor, Draco noticed the Maze’s hedges and cast Lumos Solem to signal his teammates.
• Harry and Cedric saw Draco’s light and ran toward him.

Harry, Draco, and Cedric overcame the fifth level’s obstacles as the audience watched the Champions progress through the Maze. Vizet reached the seventh level and inspected the Trophy, leaving Karkaroff worried that he might destroy it.

• Draco blinded the Dwarf Hogs with Lumos Solem, and Cedric drove them away with a pack of White Hounds.
• Harry used a Repelling Charm to get Cedric across a swamp trap, and Cedric pulled Harry and Draco to safety.
• Uagadou’s Champions crossed the swamp with Nkrumah transformed into an elephant, while spectators discussed Vizet having avoided the trap earlier.
• George, Fred, and Sirius discussed adding a replay function to the Image Projection Screen.
• Ludo Bagman announced that Vizet had reached the seventh level, where he found the Trophy and inspected its magic.
• Karkaroff worried that Vizet might destroy the Trophy, but Dumbledore reassured him.

Vizet calmly inspected the Dark Mark while the other Champions faced magical creatures in the shifting maze. Harry’s group captured an Occamy with a teapot, and the Uagadou Champions drove off a Riem Cattle.

• Vizet checked the Trophy, then sat down to study the Dark Mark stored in his Metal Tag.
• The Uagadou Champions were chased by an Occamy after accidentally crushing its eggs.
• Harry and the Uagadou Champions met while fleeing the Occamy and a Riem Cattle, then agreed to swap opponents.
• Zuri Nkrumah, Kwame Mensa, and Ayo Oluwale attacked the Riem Cattle while Harry, Draco, and Cedric lured the Occamy into a teapot.
• The Uagadou Champions forced the Riem Cattle to retreat.

Harry, Cedric, and Draco advanced through the Maze as the other schools’ Champions reached the Sixth Floor, while spectators realized Vizet was avoiding obstacles by following the Maze’s optimal route. On the next stretch, Harry’s group fought a Blast-Ended Skrewt that proved resistant to their spells.

• Harry’s group and Zuri Nkrumah’s group shared a clue, returned to the Occamy-guarded passage, and climbed to the Sixth Floor before splitting onto separate paths.
• The Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, and Ilvermorny Champions reached the Sixth Floor, while the increasingly difficult Maze injured several competitors.
• Michael and Terry realized Vizet had encountered no Magical creatures, and Madame Maxime concluded he had studied the Maze and was repeatedly choosing its easiest routes.
• Draco’s Reductor Curse barely affected a Blast-Ended Skrewt, which charged at him and Harry despite their attacks.
• Harry used Protego to create distance from the Skrewt, but Draco was knocked backward toward Cedric as the creature approached.

Harry, Draco, and Cedric defeated the Blast-Ended Skrewt by trapping it in vines, tipping it over, and stunning its exposed belly. They continued through the Sixth Floor Maze and found the entrance to the seventh level, but Cedric warned them to watch for traps.

• Cedric trapped the charging Blast-Ended Skrewt in a net of vines while Harry and Draco used the Levitation Charm to lift it.
• When the net began to fail, Harry combined the Obstacle Curse and Reductor Curse to knock the Blast-Ended Skrewt onto its back.
• Cedric opened the vine net, and Cedric, Draco, and Harry stunned the creature by targeting its exposed abdomen.
• The three Hogwarts Champions passed the unconscious Blast-Ended Skrewt and found the staircase to the seventh level.
• Cedric cautioned Harry and Draco to proceed carefully because the Sixth Floor Maze likely held traps.

Vizet reunited with Cedric, Draco, and Harry on the seventh floor, where their accidental touch of the trophy triggered the maze’s collapse. The champions gathered in the Sixth Floor Maze as the creatures withdrew, leaving the tournament poised to become a contest over the trophy.

• Vizet healed Cedric, Draco, and Harry, and explained that their contact with the trophy had triggered the seventh floor’s disappearance.
• Vizet transfigured the thorny hedges into planks, keeping himself, Cedric, Draco, and Harry from falling into the Sixth Floor Maze.
• The maze’s creatures stopped fighting and left, while Hagrid carried away the unconscious Blast-Ended Skrewt.
• Fitzgerald Smith tried and failed to summon the trophy, and Charles Graves urged the champions to approach Vizet’s group openly.
• Harry recognized Hagrid carrying the Blast-Ended Skrewt, and Cedric noticed that the hedges around them had shortened.

As the Maze’s hedges sank and trapped all the Champions together, the schools’ spectators and Champions realized the contest would be decided in a mass confrontation. Viktor Krum put away his Wand and approached Vizet to challenge him to a fair duel.

• Terry Boot and other Hogwarts spectators condemned the rules that had made Vizet and the other Hogwarts Champions targets, while Anthony Goldstein and Chris Moen urged them to trust Vizet.
• Ludo Bagman announced that the Champions would contest victory on the Sixth Floor as the Maze’s hedges came down.
• Draco, Cedric, and Harry recognized that the sealed exits forced the Champions to fight, while Durmstrang’s Franz Schmidt and Maria Wellmann proposed joining the other schools against Vizet.
• Viktor Krum recalled the Quidditch World Cup final, then put away his Wand and walked toward Vizet, leaving Karkaroff stunned.
• Viktor Krum stopped a few meters from Vizet and called for a fair duel.

Viktor Krum challenged Vizet to a duel, explaining that he wanted to face him despite believing victory was nearly impossible. Fleur Delacour proposed a series of one-on-one duels between representatives of each school and Hogwarts, and the Champions agreed to settle the Trophy competition by victories.

• Viktor Krum challenged Vizet to a duel, citing their earlier encounters and promising to withdraw from the later fight for the Trophy regardless of the result.
• Viktor Krum said he would follow accepted dueling conventions and use his knowledge of spells and their counters.
• Fleur Delacour proposed that each school choose a representative to duel a Hogwarts Champion, with further matches deciding who earned the Trophy.
• Charles Graves, the Uagadou Champions, Vizet, Cedric, Draco, Harry, Franz Schmidt, and Maria Wellmann agreed to Fleur Delacour's plan.
• Viktor Krum insisted that he had first challenged Vizet, and Charles Graves told the Hogwarts Champions to choose their opponents.

Fleur Delacour proposed a representative duel for each school, and the audience recognized how the idea could improve Beauxbatons’s standing. Viktor Krum challenged Vizet, but Vizet disarmed him immediately, leaving Krum shaken and the duel over.

• Anthony Goldstein explained to Michael Corner and the other students how Fleur’s proposal could turn Beauxbatons’s disadvantage into an advantage.
• Franz Schmidt started the duel after Viktor Krum asked Vizet not to hold back.
• Viktor Krum cast Bombarda while moving, but Vizet disarmed him and caught his wand before the curse could take effect.
• Franz Schmidt supported the trembling Krum, who said he was fine despite feeling instinctive fear during the duel.
• Vizet returned Krum’s wand, and Krum thanked him and said he had no regrets.

Harry outmaneuvered Charles Graves’s Lightning Attraction Charm and won their duel. The match ended with Harry holding Graves’s Wand.

• Seraphina Piqueri recognized that Graves had used the Water-Making Spell to prepare a Lightning Attraction Charm.
• Seraphina realized Harry had created the flames that scattered Graves’s cloud and disrupted the spell.
• Vizet dispersed the mist, revealing Charles Graves trapped and unarmed while Harry held his Wand.
• Ludo Bagman explained that Harry had used glue to trap Graves before disarming him.

Vizet asked Harry what he knew about mirages and offered to teach him the Mirage Charm. Harry recognized the spell as one Sirius Black had said was used in the Image Projection Screen.

• Vizet asked Harry about optical effects such as a bent-looking straw and a mirage.
• Harry said he had encountered the ideas in Dudley's reading materials but could not explain them.
• Vizet offered to teach Harry the Mirage Charm, a type of Weather Charm.
• Harry recognized the spell and recalled Sirius Black saying the Image Projection Screen used it.

After Cedric defeated Kwame Mensah, he joined Vizet and Draco, who celebrated their growing record of victories. Draco said they could silence Karkaroff by winning every match, prompting laughter from the stands as Karkaroff remained silent.

• Draco hurriedly asked Vizet to teach him the Weather Charm after the match.
• Ludo Bagman announced that Cedric had defeated Kwame Mensah with a Stunning Spell after landing his Hundreds of Missiles Charm.
• Cedric woke Mensah and asked Vizet and the others whether their victories made them champions.
• Draco said they should win every match so Karkaroff would have nothing to criticize.
• Kamba Headmaster and Seraphina Piqueri teased Karkaroff, who folded his arms and stayed silent.

Draco defeated Claudia Laroche in the final duel, securing Hogwarts’ victory in the Five Champions Tournament. The champions arrived at the podium as spectators celebrated, while the other schools’ Champions accepted the result and made their way out of the Maze.

• Fleur Delacour chose Claudia Laroche to face Draco in what was effectively an exhibition match.
• Claudia Laroche tried to counter Draco’s Wand-Lighting Charm with sunglasses, but Draco hit her with the Hundreds of Missiles Charm and then stunned her.
• Draco revived Claudia Laroche, who conceded defeat, while Cedric lifted the Trophy and Harry invited the others to the Champion podium.
• Ludo Bagman announced Hogwarts as the tournament’s winner, and Cornelius Fudge and the Referees left to present the awards.
• Vizet and the other three appeared on the podium as the spectators cheered and set off Magical Fireworks.
• The other Champions sighed, composed themselves, and walked down the staircase from the Sixth Floor of the Maze.

Cornelius Fudge completed the Five Champions Tournament awards ceremony, and Hogwarts students crowded around the champions to celebrate and see the Trophy. As Harry celebrated the end of a dangerous school year, his scar suddenly throbbed, warning that something was about to happen.

• Cornelius Fudge presented Vizet, Draco, Harry, and Cedric with their prize money and posed for a photo before Dumbledore led the adults away from the crowd.
• Hogwarts students surrounded the champions, asking about their tournament feats and passing the Five Champions Tournament Trophy around to hold.
• Vizet spotted Luna and Xenophilius, joined them in the crowd, and told Luna he had chosen the safest route.
• Ron marveled at the champions' prize money while Hermione and Harry reflected on how dangerous the tournament and school year had been.
• Sirius Black promised Harry they would make up for the difficult year during summer vacation, but Harry's scar suddenly throbbed as a warning of impending trouble.

Harry's scar and Karkaroff's Dark Mark began to burn after the Quidditch match, making Harry suspect something was wrong and sending Karkaroff fleeing in fear that Voldemort had returned. Vizet discovered a Dark Mark on his Metal Tag and removed it, but a giant green Dark Mark appeared in the sky.

• Harry's scar began to sting, and Sirius, Ron, and Hermione worried over him and suggested finding Dumbledore.
• Karkaroff felt agony in his left arm and feared Voldemort had returned, then refused Fudge's help and ran toward the ship.
• Vizet's Metal Tag heated up and displayed the Dark Mark, while Xenophilius assumed Karkaroff was trying to frame Vizet.
• Vizet removed the Dark Mark from the Metal Tag as a huge green Skull Head and serpent appeared in the night sky.

A Dark Mark appeared over Karkaroff, terrifying Ministry employees and students as Dumbledore organized the response. Vizet calmed the students and went to investigate, while Lucius Malfoy feared Voldemort might be returning.

• Ministry employees panicked at the Dark Mark, and Old Barty Crouch suspected Karkaroff was its source.
• Dumbledore sent Hogwarts professors to escort students back to the castle and asked the visiting headmasters to rest or stay and help.
• Vizet used the Amplifying Charm to calm the students, then headed toward the Dark Mark to investigate Karkaroff.
• Draco supported a shaken Lucius, who checked his arm for the Dark Mark and feared the worst was about to happen.
• Vizet told Lucius that the Dark Mark he had taken away was useful for research and that he planned to deal with the one in the sky.

Vizet returned to the Quidditch Pitch after revealing his Obscurus, while Dumbledore and Old Barty Crouch failed to remove the unusual Dark Mark in the sky. Cornelius Fudge remembered his past scheme against Vizet and Xenophilius Lovegood, and the chapter ended with Vizet asking Dumbledore whether the Mark could be removed.

• Professor McGonagall questioned Lucius Malfoy about his plans, then led Moody and the other professors back to the Quidditch Pitch, where they learned Vizet had helped control the students.
• Old Barty Crouch stunned Karkaroff and tried unsuccessfully to erase the Dark Mark, and Dumbledore revived Karkaroff and suspected Voldemort had prepared further measures.
• The Ministry employees mistook the black shadow for Voldemort until Dumbledore explained that it was Vizet's Obscurus, and they lowered their wands.
• Cornelius Fudge recalled arranging for Vizet to live with Xenophilius Lovegood in hopes that Vizet would lose control and cause trouble, but Vizet had remained stable and Xenophilius had prospered.
• Vizet re-formed on the lawn, and Seraphina Piqueri remembered that he had held back his Obscurus during the Five Champions Tournament.
• Vizet asked Dumbledore whether the Dark Mark could be removed, and Dumbledore said Old Barty Crouch's previous methods had failed.

Vizet deduced that Voldemort was continuously casting the Dark Mark through Karkaroff, and Dumbledore briefly broke their connection with a Disarming Charm. The Mark returned with a new shape and a glowing figure emerging from it.

• Vizet explained that the Ministry’s usual counter-curse worked on completed Dark Marks, while Karkaroff’s Mark was being continuously cast and caused pain like the Cruciatus Curse.
• Karkaroff confirmed the pain and collapsed, convinced that Voldemort had returned.
• Dumbledore used a Disarming Charm to make the Dark Mark vanish temporarily, and Vizet explained that Voldemort was using Karkaroff like a Wand.
• Karkaroff checked his arm and found the Mark gone, but it quickly reappeared with renewed agony.
• The Mark changed shape into a circle, and a hazy green glow formed at its center as a human figure began to emerge.