Recaps

Hogwarts announced the return of the Triwizard Tournament as Amosta trained students in duelling and demonstrated a mental-world teaching method. He and Dumbledore began planning an alchemical Learning Machine, while Hermione sought another chance for Ron and discovered a House-elf in danger.

• Dumbledore asked Amosta to announce the Triwizard Tournament, and Amosta introduced the competition and its age restriction before Moody arrived as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.
• After Moody attacked Draco, Amosta drove him back and McGonagall punished both Draco and Harry, while Amosta challenged Moody’s conduct.
• Amosta explained to Harry and Hermione that the Ministry concealed Voldemort’s strength, then began teaching students duelling magic through an accelerated mental world.
• Moody demonstrated the Unforgivable Curses in class, and Amosta explained how they worked and described possible ways to resist or evade them.
• Dumbledore and the Hogwarts staff examined Amosta’s mental-world lessons, then he and Dumbledore planned an alchemical Learning Machine and discussed Neville’s parents.
• Hermione asked Amosta to let Ron and the others return to his class, but he refused and told her not to take responsibility for their choices.
• Hermione heard cries from a sealed classroom, learned that a House-elf was struggling to give birth, and offered to find Hagrid as Amosta prepared to help.

Hermione rescued Regga’s newborn and founded S.P.E.W., while Amosta worked to free Remus, establish an alchemical workshop, and pressure the Ministry over a scheme involving wizard estates. The arc ended with Amosta returning to Hogwarts as the visiting schools and Triwizard Tournament approached, and agreeing to guard the Goblet of Fire.

• Amosta and Hermione helped Regga deliver her newborn, and Hermione became Dom’s master after covering the elf with her robe.
• Hermione founded S.P.E.W. and recruited students to campaign for House-elf rights, while Dom stayed with Hagrid and rapidly organized his hut.
• Amosta learned that Remus had been arrested during an investigation of Floo-Pow and arranged to buy time while he pursued the case.
• Amosta struck a deal with Gerson Bana for a broom-maintenance workshop and asked the goblins to investigate the sale of assets belonging to wizards who died without heirs.
• Amosta visited Lucius Malfoy, asked him to stage trouble at a Malfoy workshop, and then gave Rita Skeeter a list exposing the division of seized estates.
• Amosta presented his Star of the East Learning Machine to Fudge, used the ensuing meeting to raise Rita’s list, and helped trigger an investigation while Remus was released.
• Amosta set Remus up to manage the workshop, where Remus welcomed Gingo and the staff before planning a trip to Italy.
• Amosta told Remus and Sirius that the Triwizard Tournament’s first event would be held on November twenty-fourth, then returned to Hogwarts and agreed to guard the Goblet of Fire.

Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrived at Hogwarts for the Triwizard Tournament, while Amosta uncovered a disguised impostor and a plot involving Barty Crouch. The Goblet unexpectedly selected Hermione as a fourth champion, forcing her into the competition and leaving Harry determined to investigate who had targeted her.

• Beauxbatons arrived in a winged carriage and Durmstrang came across the Black Lake as Hogwarts prepared to host the Tournament.
• Amosta and Dumbledore watched Fleur cross the Age Line and enter her name, while Karkaroff accused them of possible foul play and warned Viktor Krum against them.
• Amosta and Dumbledore discovered that the Moody entering the Goblet was Vitia Creona in disguise, and they suspected Voldemort was using Barty Crouch to support the champion selection.
• A Blast-Ended Skrewt injured Fleur in Hagrid’s pumpkin patch, and Amosta took her to the Hospital Wing before she returned to the Beauxbatons carriage.
• The Goblet selected Viktor Krum, Fleur Delacour, and Cedric Diggory, then named Hermione Granger as a fourth champion.
• Hermione denied entering her name, but Crouch ruled that she had to compete, and Amosta accepted a plan to let Hogwarts have two champions by averaging Hermione’s and Cedric’s scores.
• Amosta and Dumbledore suspected Vitia Creona had targeted Hermione to draw Harry into the Tournament, while Professor McGonagall and Harry reassured Hermione that she had not entered her name.
• Harry decided to write to Sirius about his suspicion that Snape had tampered with the Goblet, and he later protected Hermione when Viktor Krum approached her in the library.

Hermione faced hostility as she prepared for the Tournament, while Harry and Ron’s jealousy-fueled tension erupted into a fight. Harry and Hermione uncovered evidence linking Karkaroff to the attempt to enter Hermione in the Goblet, and Moody began watching him and Snape.

• Harry and Hermione helped Krum research past Tournament tasks, then faced hostility over badges mocking Hermione until Professor Breen stopped the dispute and assigned teams for combat practice.
• Professor Breen defeated the student teams in his mindscape, warning them to treat battle seriously and improve their teamwork.
• Sirius told Harry and Hermione that Karkaroff had been a Death Eater and warned that Death Eaters might be growing active again.
• Harry confronted Ron over his jealousy, and the argument became a fight in the rain that ended when Hagrid pulled them apart.
• Hagrid helped Harry understand that Ron had long felt overlooked, while Hermione refused to let Dom risk his life helping with the Tournament.
• Amosta docked Harry and Hermione points for sneaking out and sent them to deliver a dress to Fleur as Harry’s apology.
• While hiding beneath the Invisibility Cloak, Harry and Hermione overheard Snape accuse Karkaroff of stealing ingredients that could be used to make Polyjuice Potion and question him about Hermione’s selection.
• Moody confronted Snape and Karkaroff, then heard Harry and Hermione’s account and promised to watch both men.