Chapter Summaries

Jon recalled an awkward moment with Astoria and heard about Professor Moody turning a Slytherin student into a ferret after catching him attacking a Gryffindor from behind. During Potions class, Astoria's mistakes ruined their Shrinking Solution, and Snape punished Jon; Jon suspected something was wrong with Snape.

• Jon remembered Hagrid interrupting his time with Astoria and failing to catch up with her afterward.
• Moody turned a Slytherin student into a ferret for attacking a Gryffindor from behind, earning Hufflepuff students' approval.
• Jon arrived early for Potions class, where Astoria sat beside him and struggled to brew Shrinking Solution.
• Astoria apologized to Jon for the previous day, but Snape interrupted their conversation and inspected their failed potion.
• Snape gave Jon detention and took twenty points from Hufflepuff, while Jon wondered why Snape seemed unusually off.

Jon received Snape’s detention assignment, then attended Moody’s first Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson, where Moody taught the class about Inferi, Fire-Drake, and Blood Curses. The lesson ended with Moody describing how a Blood Curse could transform a wizard into a monster.

• A Slytherin Prefect delivered Snape’s note ordering Jon to gut horned toads for detention on Saturday night.
• Students gathered eagerly outside Moody’s classroom, and Moody began his first lesson by explaining that he would teach them for one year.
• Moody showed the class an Inferius and explained how Dark magic created it, along with its weaknesses to fire and light.
• Moody presented a mass of raging flames as Fire-Drake and warned that it could burn its summoner and devastate a city.
• Moody corrected Zacharias Smith’s guess that a woman transforming into a Giant Spider was an Animagus, identifying it as a Blood Curse that could consume a wizard’s soul.

After Moody’s lesson, Jon decided to seek knowledge about Dark magic cautiously and took Zacharias Smith’s abandoned Animagus guide to return it. In Ancient Runes class, Professor Babbling introduced the subject’s connection to ancient Norse magic, while Jon noticed a strange illustration in his textbook.

• Jon concluded that Moody could teach him about Dark magic but chose to keep his distance, and he realized Dumbledore had hidden the Library’s Dark magic books.
• Zacharias showed Jon an Advanced Transfiguration Guide he had borrowed to study becoming an Animagus, then gave up after finding the process too difficult and asked Jon to return it.
• Jon went to Ancient Runes class and spoke with Luna Lovegood, who said she had heard ancient magical scripts might conceal a spell.
• Professor Babbling began the first lesson by explaining the theory that modern magic originated in ancient Norse magic and that Runes might preserve traces of it.
• Jon noticed an illustration of a bound man hanging upside down in the contents of A Guide to Magical Pronunciation as Professor Babbling read an ancient Norse poem about Odin and the Runes.

Jon avoided Natalie Pavlova so he could enter the Room of Requirement, where he found Zacharias Smith’s bookmarked copy of Advanced Transfiguration Guide. The book’s warning about the dangers of becoming an Animagus left him thinking about the subject.

• Jon met Natalie Pavlova on the eighth floor and heard that she was enjoying life at Hogwarts.
• Jon made an excuse to leave Natalie near Professor Flitwick’s office and returned to the Room of Requirement.
• Jon found Advanced Transfiguration Guide among his books and opened it to Zacharias Smith’s bookmark.
• Jon read the chapter on Animagi, including its warnings about the risks and the need to register with the Ministry of Magic.

Jon served detention in Snape’s office by dissecting Bohemian horned toads, then helped Snape with a Wolfsbane Potion and learned about the personal “sequence” required to brew advanced potions. Snape agreed to give Jon detention once a week.

• Jon arrived at Snape’s office for detention and was ordered to remove the hearts and livers from a barrel of Bohemian horned toads.
• Jon used scalpels sent by Eric to dissect the toads efficiently, and Snape watched with surprise.
• Snape examined Jon’s scalpel, cut his finger on its blade, healed the wound, and accepted the scalpel and spare blades Jon offered.
• Snape showed Jon how he brewed Wolfsbane Potion and explained that advanced potions required each wizard to discover a personal final-step sequence.
• Jon asked Snape for detention more often, and Snape agreed to assign him dirty work once a week.

As Hogwarts prepared for the Triwizard Tournament, Jon and the other students waited outside to welcome the visiting Beauxbatons and Durmstrang delegations. The guests arrived an hour late, and Jon finally headed back to the Great Hall for dinner.

• Jon kept busy with his studies, helped Snape process potion ingredients, and tried to avoid Natalie's harassment.
• Hogwarts announced that Beauxbatons and Durmstrang would arrive on October 30, and the school prepared for the Tournament.
• Jon and the Hufflepuffs gathered outside with the other Houses to welcome the delegations, but the guests arrived late.
• Madame Olim Maxime arrived with the Beauxbatons students in a flying carriage drawn by winged Silver-maned horses.
• Igor Karkaroff arrived with the Durmstrang students aboard a ship that surfaced from Hogsmeade Lake, and the students recognized Viktor Krum.
• Jon returned to the Great Hall with the others at seven o'clock, relieved that he could finally eat.

Jon tried to impress Beauxbatons Headmistress Madame Maxime so he could build connections and eventually transfer to her school. After he demonstrated his French and magical skill, a portrait reported the encounter to Dumbledore, while Phineas Black condemned him.

• Dumbledore announced the Triwizard Tournament rules, including the age requirement, the entry deadline, and the three tasks judged by points.
• Jon learned that the Beauxbatons students were staying in Ravenclaw Tower and set out to meet Madame Maxime.
• Jon deliberately collided with Madame Maxime, spoke French to her, and impressed her by effortlessly casting Accio.
• A portrait reported Jon’s encounter to Dumbledore, and Phineas Black called for Jon to be expelled.
• Delis Derwent bound Phineas Black with conjured ribbons and socks after Dumbledore ordered him to be quiet.

Jon and Astoria visited the Goblet of Fire before heading toward the Forbidden Forest, where they encountered Hermione recruiting members for S.P.E.W. The chapter ended with Astoria fiercely opposing Hermione’s campaign for House-elf rights.

• Jon arrived at the Great Hall, learned which students had entered the Goblet of Fire, and received Snape’s detention instructions from Astoria.
• The Beauxbatons students submitted their names, and a silver-haired girl’s apparent Veela charm affected the boys until Jon used Occlumency.
• Jon and Astoria agreed to bet on whether Cedric would become Hogwarts’ champion, then set off to visit the Bowtruckles.
• Jon and Astoria met Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who invited them to join S.P.E.W.
• Astoria argued that House-elves enjoyed serving wizarding families and that Hermione’s proposed reforms would insult them, while Hermione accused wizards of oppressing elves.

Jon comforted Astoria after her argument with Hermione, then served detention in Snape’s office while the Goblet of Fire selected the Triwizard champions. The chapter ended as Dumbledore read the parchment naming Hogwarts’ Champion but froze before announcing it.

• Jon comforted Astoria after she argued with Hermione about House-elves and considered the elves potential allies.
• Jon and Astoria spent over an hour feeding Bowtruckles in the Forbidden Forest before parting at the castle.
• Jon went to Snape’s office for detention and began processing Indian Black Eels while Snape attended the Halloween feast.
• Dumbledore announced Viktor Krum as Durmstrang’s Champion and Fleur Delacour as Beauxbatons’ Champion.
• Dumbledore caught the parchment naming Hogwarts’ Champion, then froze as he read it.

Harry Potter and Jon Hart were both named Hogwarts Champions, but Jon remained unaware of the uproar while serving detention in Snape’s office. Hannah Abbott found him covered in blood with a black eel around his neck and fled in terror, leaving the Great Hall confused as someone pounded on Jon’s office door.

• Dumbledore announced Harry Potter as a Champion, then read Jon Hart’s name from the Goblet of Fire, but Jon was absent.
• Snape explained that Jon was in his office serving detention, where he had been collecting Indian Black Eel blood.
• Hannah Abbott arrived to summon Jon and screamed when she found him covered in blood beside eel corpses with an eel coiled around his neck.
• Jon mistook Hannah’s frightened explanation for news that Harry was the fourth Champion and refused to leave detention, so Hannah ran back to the Great Hall.
• Bagman tried to introduce the missing Champion, but Hannah rushed in and told Professor Sprout that Jon was playing with snakes.
• Jon continued killing and bottling the last black eel as someone pounded on the office door.

Jon Hart was dragged from Snape’s office to the Great Hall and discovered that the Goblet of Fire had chosen him as Hogwarts’ fourth Champion. He asked Dumbledore if he could forfeit the Triwizard Tournament.

• Professor Sprout blasted open Snape’s office door and hurried Jon to the Great Hall while he carried a bottle of Black Eel Blood.
• Portraits of Hogwarts’ former headmasters and headmistresses discussed Jon’s absence and waited for him to arrive.
• Jon entered the Great Hall covered in blood, and Mr. Bagman announced him as Hogwarts’ second Champion and the fourth Champion overall.
• Jon dropped the bottle of Black Eel Blood on Mr. Bagman and realized that someone had entered his name in the Goblet of Fire.
• Professor Sprout guided Jon to the dais, where Jon asked Dumbledore whether he could find another Champion or let him forfeit.

Jon and Harry were named as Hogwarts Champions in the Triwizard Tournament, and the adults concluded that someone had manipulated the Goblet to target Harry. Jon admitted he had entered his own name as a joke, but Dumbledore still punished him, leaving him facing detention every Sunday.

• Dumbledore told Jon that Champions could not withdraw, and Jon joined Harry, Viktor Krum, and Fleur Delacour in a small room.
• Ludo Bagman explained that Hogwarts had two Champions and said the rules required them to compete; Fleur and Jon argued that they were too young.
• Snape cleaned the Black Eel Blood off Jon, while McGonagall argued that Hogwarts was disadvantaged by having underage Champions.
• Jon admitted he had put his name into the Goblet of Fire as a paper airplane, and Moody claimed someone had bewitched the Goblet to target Harry.
• Moody's theory persuaded Madame Maxime and Karkaroff to leave with Fleur and Krum, while Harry returned to bed.
• Dumbledore docked Hufflepuff one hundred points and assigned Jon Sunday detention after learning he already had Snape's detention on Saturday.

After Jon became Hogwarts' Triwizard Champion and lost Hufflepuff one hundred points, he reassured Astoria and met her by Hagrid's hut. Astoria reminded him of their bet and began to reveal the condition he had to accept.

• Ernie told the Hufflepuffs that Jon was the ninth student in Hogwarts history to lose his House one hundred points without being expelled.
• Jon explained to his excited housemates how he had entered the Triwizard Tournament, and Cedric encouraged him to win glory for Hufflepuff and Hogwarts.
• Astoria sent Jon a note asking to meet, and Jon arranged to see her by Hagrid's hut at nine the next morning.
• Astoria met Jon, checked that he was safe, and said she would ask her mother about the First Task.
• Astoria reminded Jon that their bet meant he had to agree to one condition because Cedric was not Hogwarts' Champion, then started whispering what she wanted.

Jon disappointed Astoria by declining her request to visit Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop on the first Hogsmeade Saturday, then heard Hagrid’s vague warning about the First Task. Back in the Hufflepuff common room, he received support from his housemates and learned that a first-year Gryffindor girl was looking for him.

• Astoria asked Jon to take her to Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, but Jon said he was busy that Saturday, and she ran back to the castle in tears.
• Fang blocked Jon as he tried to follow Astoria, and Hagrid dragged him into his hut.
• Hagrid warned Jon that the First Task would involve a large, dangerous magical creature and told him to seek help if he was in danger.
• Jon returned to the Hufflepuff common room and sent Astoria a letter explaining why he could not go to Hogsmeade with her.
• Zacharias Smith showed Jon enchanted support badges made with Cedric Diggory’s help, and the Hufflepuffs encouraged Jon before Eloise Midgen told him a first-year Gryffindor girl was looking for him.

Jon received a note from Dumbledore summoning him to the Headmaster’s office, where Dumbledore asked him to search through a memory in the Pensieve. They entered a memory from Dumbledore’s youth, at the foot of the Krkonoše Mountains in Poland, where a young man was waiting.

• Natalie Pavlova gave Jon Dumbledore’s note, which summoned him to his office at seven with the password “Milk Toffee.”
• Jon and Natalie walked toward the Eighth Floor, where they encountered Astoria Greengrass looking as though she had been crying.
• Jon arrived at Dumbledore’s office, where Dumbledore revealed a Pensieve and asked him to help search for something.
• Dumbledore poured a memory into a vial, and he and Jon entered it together.
• Jon found himself beside a young man reading on a country lane at the foot of the Krkonoše Mountains in Poland, where Dumbledore said he had been waiting for a friend.

Dumbledore showed Jon a memory from his youth, when Nick Leyme recruited him to investigate a mysterious creature blamed for sinking ships in the Black Sea. The pair followed its tracks into the Krkonoše Mountains, suspecting a huge dragon, and set off to find it.

• Dumbledore recalled leaving Godric's Hollow after losing most of his family and postponing his appointment as a Hogwarts teacher.
• Nick Leyme met young Dumbledore and led him up a mountain after learning that Muggle ships had been mysteriously destroyed.
• Nick Leyme explained that he suspected a large magical creature because he had found claw marks on a shipwreck and heard local legends of a dragon.
• Young Dumbledore told Nick Leyme that he had studied dragons and planned to research dragon blood for his N.E.W.Ts.
• Nick Leyme and young Dumbledore followed the creature's tracks into the mountains.

Jon watched Dumbledore’s memory of discovering a huge dragon with Nick Leyme, who later defeated it and captured its Young Dragons. Back in Dumbledore’s office, Dumbledore explained that the dragon became known as the Ukrainian Ironbelly and ended Jon’s detention.

• Nick Leyme and young Dumbledore followed enormous footprints to a cave and used potion to lure out the creatures inside.
• Several Young Dragons emerged, followed by a giant gray fire dragon that descended from the sky.
• Young Dumbledore distracted the dragon with a transformed falcon, struck at its eyes, and Apparated away with Nick Leyme.
• Dumbledore told Jon that Nick later defeated the dragon and they captured the Young Dragons, identifying the species as the Polish Ironbelly Dragon.
• Dumbledore explained that the species was later renamed the Ukrainian Ironbelly Dragon and said Jon’s detention was over.

Jon was summoned from Herbology for the Triwizard champions’ interviews, wand inspections, and photographs. After Ollivander inspected Jon’s unusual wand and secretly noted something about it, Jon left the classroom while Rita Skeeter kept Harry behind for another portrait.

• Zacharias Smith and Ernie Macmillan stayed close to Jon, limiting his chances to visit the Room of Requirement or see Astoria.
• A Ravenclaw first-year summoned Jon from Professor Sprout’s Herbology class to a fourth-floor classroom for the champions’ photographs and wand inspections.
• Rita Skeeter interviewed the champions but focused most of her attention on Harry Potter until Dumbledore escorted her out.
• Mr. Ollivander inspected the champions’ wands, then paused after taking Jon’s wand and secretly slipped a piece of Parchment into his pocket.
• Ludo Bagman arranged group photographs, and Jon left the classroom while Rita Skeeter pulled Harry back inside for an individual portrait.

On his first Hogsmeade visit, Jon disguised himself with Polyjuice Potion and watched Astoria meet her mother, learning that four dragons would be used for the Triwizard Tournament’s First Task. He then went to The Three Broomsticks and borrowed its fireplace, leaving his next move unclear.

• Third-year students excitedly planned their Hogsmeade visits, while Jon said he had something to do there.
• After passing Filch’s checks, Jon separated from the other students, drank Polyjuice Potion, and entered Hogsmeade disguised as a tall, golden-curled man.
• Jon saw Astoria meeting Mrs. Diana Greengrass at Madam Puddifoot’s, where Mrs. Greengrass said she would oversee the four dragons until after the First Task.
• Mrs. Greengrass told Astoria that the dragons were in the Forbidden Forest and offered to take her to see them, but Astoria declined.
• Jon went to The Three Broomsticks, drank Butterbeer, and asked Madam Rosmerta to use her fireplace.
• Madam Rosmerta allowed Jon to use the fireplace and told him where the Floo Powder was; Jon entered the back room.

Jon met Captain Malashenko in London to receive a detailed map of Little Hangleton and gave him further instructions. As the First Task approached, Jon learned that the champions would face fire dragons and hurried to prepare.

• Jon received Malashenko’s map of Little Hangleton, marked Riddle House and the graveyard, and gave Malashenko a new assignment and a gold bar.
• Jon returned to Hogwarts just before the midnight deadline and told Zacharias he had visited the Shrieking Shack.
• Jon learned that Madeleine Yaxley had wanted to speak with him, but he had already left the common room.
• Harry told Jon that the First Task involved four fire dragons and retrieving their eggs, then went to speak with Moody.
• Jon ran to the Room of Requirement to prepare for the First Task.