Chapter Summaries

Amosta discovered that intruders had destroyed his hotel villa and burned his safety proposal, apparently to stop Hogwarts from hosting the Triwizard Tournament. He suspected the other schools but found no proof, then accepted that Fleur might be inviting him to stay at the Beauxbatons villa.

• Amosta searched the ruins and found evidence that several attackers had used a powerful Blasting Curse before vanishing.
• Amosta determined that the attackers had burned his safety proposal and destroyed his Monitoring Mirror, likely to conceal their traces and prevent Hogwarts from hosting the tournament.
• Amosta decided to leave the villa in ruins and ask the hotel for another room.
• Amosta met Madame Maxime and Fleur, then claimed his room had been wrecked by an accident while he experimented with magic.
• Madame Maxime explained that the fully booked hotel could not provide another room, and Fleur invited Amosta to stay at the Beauxbatons villa.

Hermione Granger prepared to lead the military training course in Professor Breen’s absence, despite fearing that the Slytherins would challenge her authority. She announced that she, Neville Longbottom, and Luna Lovegood would supervise training and ordered the students to form up.

• Hermione worried that the class would fall apart, while Harry, Ron, and the twins offered ways to help her handle trouble.
• Hermione refused to call on Sirius or abuse her authority, and Ron stayed behind as the others left for class.
• Hermione and the Gryffindors met Luna on the way to the classroom, where students from the other Houses gathered for Professor Breen’s expected lesson.
• At 7:59, Hermione signaled the Gryffindors to form up, then told the class that Professor Breen had left Hogwarts and appointed her, Neville, and Luna as teaching assistants.
• Hermione ordered the students to arrange themselves into formation and begin training.

Hermione tried to take charge as a teaching assistant, but a clash between Gryffindor and Slytherin students spiraled into a fight. She silenced the classroom with the suits of armor and challenged Malfoy and the other doubters to a contest.

• Hermione instructed the students, but the Slytherins refused to follow her and Pansy mocked her appearance.
• Harry defended Hermione, provoking Malfoy, while Fred and George fought Marcus Flint and Ginny attacked Malfoy with a spell.
• Hermione seized control by ordering the suits of armor to advance and aim Dungbombs at the students.
• Hermione confronted Malfoy, who argued that Professor Breen had chosen the wrong teaching assistants.
• Hermione challenged Malfoy and everyone else who doubted the assistants to a contest.

Hermione challenged Malfoy to a contest over the teaching assistants’ performance, and Neville found the courage to face him. The six began racing through Dungbomb attacks, where Neville surged ahead and Luna showed remarkable stamina.

• Hermione challenged anyone questioning the teaching assistants to beat Cedric’s two-hundred-foot mark, and Neville agreed to compete against Malfoy.
• Malfoy chose Crabbe and Nott to face Hermione, Neville, and Luna, with any member of the losing team forced to resign as a teaching assistant.
• Luna volunteered to referee, and Cedric started the contest as the six raced through the Dungbomb course.
• Neville accelerated past the others and deflected a Dungbomb into another, splashing Crabbe in the eyes and prompting Pansy to demand Neville’s disqualification.
• At the one-hundred-and-fifty-foot mark, most competitors were struggling, while Luna remained an exception.

During the final contest, Luna dodged every Dungbomb, Neville helped Draco reach the finish, and Hermione kept pushing forward despite her pain and exhaustion. Draco conceded that Hermione had won just before she fainted, leaving the outcome of her teaching assistant position settled in her favor.

• Harry noticed that Luna had avoided every Dungbomb, while Pansy accused her of cheating and Harry demanded evidence.
• Draco was struck by several Dungbombs and crawled toward the finish, but Neville kicked the incoming attacks aside and helped him up.
• Draco pointed out that Hermione still had to resign as teaching assistant because she had not finished before him.
• Hermione continued crawling toward the finish, driven by her wish to prove that Muggle-born wizards could achieve greatness through hard work.
• Draco shouted that Hermione had won, and Hermione smiled before fainting.

After someone destroyed the villa where the tournament organizers were staying, Amosta, Barty Crouch, and Ludo Bagman debated suspects and worried about the security plan. Amosta revealed that he could recreate the plan from memory, then focused on Ludo as the other man turned pale.

• Amosta spent the night in a tent after learning that every hotel room had been booked.
• Barty Crouch questioned whether Beauxbatons had been involved in the destruction of the villa and considered several possible culprits.
• Amosta told Barty that he had suspected him but had since ruled him out, just as Ludo Bagman arrived from a night of carousing.
• Ludo and Barty worried about how to investigate the attack and restore the security plan before the tournament.
• Amosta used his memory and magic to reproduce the plan on hundreds of sheets of parchment, then noticed Ludo's whitening lips.

Amosta repaired the Triwizard Tournament security plan and revealed that his damaged Monitoring Mirror might have recorded who sabotaged it. Barty agreed to pursue the culprits after Hogwarts secured the tournament, while also proposing the mirror as a security feature despite Amosta's lack of money for patent fees.

• Amosta rewrote the destroyed security plan, and Barty and Ludo praised his work.
• Amosta produced his damaged Monitoring Mirror, which Barty recognized as a device capable of monitoring and recording people who entered the room.
• Amosta said he would need a week to repair the mirror, and Barty planned to wait until after the hearing before sending Rufus's men after the saboteurs.
• Ludo acted exhausted and left the room after Amosta and Barty questioned his unusual behavior.
• Barty proposed including the Monitoring Mirror in the security plan, and Amosta warned that he could not afford the patent fees.

Amosta and Barty worked on a Tournament of Champions safety proposal that featured the Monitoring Mirror, while Barty left to resolve the invention’s legal matters. As Amosta slept, goblins arrived, bound him, and took him to Bana to investigate the Mirror and tamper with his mind.

• Amosta added the Monitoring Mirror’s abilities and benefits to the safety proposal he and Barty were drafting.
• Barty left for the Ministry and asked for half a day to handle the Monitoring Mirror’s legal approvals and patent matters.
• Amosta fell asleep in the room after revising the proposal late at night.
• Gingo and nearly thirty goblins appeared and surrounded the sleeping Amosta, then took the proposal to inspect it.
• Gingo rejected Ladi’s suggestion to kill Amosta and decided to take him to Bana for interrogation and mind tampering.
• The goblins bound Amosta, checked for other Monitoring Mirrors, and teleported away with him.

Gingo brought the supposedly unconscious Amosta Breen to Gringotts headquarters, where Mr. Bana ordered him interrogated and warned Gingo against disobeying orders. Amosta revealed he had been awake all along, trapped the goblins in the chamber, and began fighting them.

• Gingo explained to Mr. Bana that he had brought Amosta Breen back because Ludo Bagman claimed an Alchemical Device had recorded their operation.
• Mr. Bana reprimanded Gingo for risking a confrontation with Dumbledore, then ordered the goblins to interrogate Amosta, erase his memories, and return him.
• Amosta stood behind Gingo and the others and asked Mr. Bana for a private conversation.
• Mr. Bana ordered the goblins to kill Amosta, but Amosta's Repelling Magic Ring hurled Gingo, Ladi, and the attackers away.
• Mr. Bana tried to escape, but Amosta's Fiendfyre sealed the chamber, and Amosta killed a charging goblin with a stone spear.

Amosta Breen defeated Gerson Bana’s goblin enforcers and forced Bana to negotiate instead of risking a renewed war between wizards and goblins. Bana began explaining how Cuthbert Carrow and Ludo Bagman approached him, leaving the details of their scheme unrevealed.

• Amosta killed or incapacitated nearly all the goblin enforcers with stone spears and Fiendfyre, then asked Gerson Bana if they could talk.
• Bana recalled the destructive fire he had witnessed in Paris half a century earlier and recognized the danger of Amosta’s Fiendfyre.
• Amosta told Bana he did not intend to massacre Paris but would not hesitate to start hostilities unless Bana revealed the deal with Ludo Bagman.
• Bana agreed to explain that Cuthbert Carrow had visited him eight months earlier and introduced Ludo Bagman, who had drawn Carrow into the affair.

Amosta Breen uncovered how Ludo Bagman and Cuthbert Mokridge had used Gringotts to gamble on the Triwizard Tournament’s host school, while goblin Gerson Bana had stolen Hogwarts security plans to support the scheme. With the betting pool exceeding two million Galleons, Amosta weighed how to contain the scandal and punish those responsible; Bana offered compensation.

• Bana explained that Bagman and Mokridge had each wagered their fortunes on Hogwarts hosting the Triwizard Tournament.
• After learning Amosta would represent Hogwarts, Bagman and Mokridge tried to move their bets to Beauxbatons, then borrowed fifty thousand Galleons from Gringotts and bet that on Beauxbatons.
• Amosta accused Bana of betraying Hogwarts for his own financial interests, and Bana fell silent.
• Bana revealed that the betting pool had grown to more than two million Galleons, leaving Amosta concerned about the fallout if he overturned it.
• Amosta considered how to deal with Bagman and Mokridge without sending them to Azkaban and derailing the tournament.
• Bana admitted the goblins had committed a crime and offered to pay compensation to appease Amosta and Hogwarts.

Amosta confronted Gerson Bana over the goblins’ wager and accepted a list of bettors in place of gold. After healing two wounded goblins and setting terms for secrecy and repayment, he prepared to leave, and Bana asked whether goblins could become his friends.

• Amosta rejected Gerson Bana’s offer of gold, and Bana gave him a list of wizards who had bet on the Triwizard Tournament.
• Amosta found that Yoshabell Draegen had wagered eight thousand Galleons on Durmstrang, giving him potential leverage against Vip Draegen.
• Amosta agreed not to pursue the goblins’ involvement in the wager if they stopped interfering with Hogwarts, then healed Gingo and Ladi.
• Amosta told Bana to recover Ludo Bagman and Cuthbert Mokridge’s loans from the betting pool, hand over their Hogwarts wagers, and keep the night’s events secret.
• Gerson Bana asked Amosta whether goblins could become his friends.

Amosta considered how to build influence in preparation for Voldemort’s return and planned to strengthen his position within the Ministry. The chapter ended with Amosta rescuing Alger on the Draegen family’s property and confronting Vip Draegen.

• Amosta decided that he needed greater influence before war with Voldemort and believed he and Dumbledore would have to resolve their differences in approach.
• Amosta planned to support Amelia Bones as Minister after Fudge left office and considered how to use Ludo Bagman and Cuthbert Mokridge.
• Alger wandered into a dangerous stretch of the stream while chasing fish, alarming Camilla and the other children.
• Amosta appeared beside the river and rescued Alger from the water.
• Vip Draegen arrived, saw Amosta holding Alger, and demanded to know what he was doing.

Amosta visited Vip Dregge after saving his grandson and returned eight thousand Gold Galleons that Vip’s wife had left at Gringotts. He used Vip’s wife’s potential involvement in Karkaroff’s betting scheme to press him for an impartial decision on the Triwizard Tournament host, then left hoping they might become friends someday.

• Amosta read the newspaper while Vip brought him breakfast and demanded that he leave after eating.
• Amosta placed a pouch of gold on the table, and Vip accused him of trying to bribe a review committee member.
• Amosta explained that the eight thousand Gold Galleons belonged to Vip’s wife, Yoxabel, and revealed that he knew of Karkaroff’s attempt to draw her into betting on Durmstrang.
• Vip realized that exposing the scheme could ruin his standing, and he asked Amosta what he wanted.
• Amosta asked Vip to judge the choice of Triwizard Tournament host fairly, then left after suggesting they might become friends in the future.

After two months in Paris settling the Triwizard Tournament, Amosta returned to an empty Hogwarts and learned of the upheaval caused by Sirius and the Slytherins. As a storm gathered, Dumbledore warned that darkness was stirring and asked Amosta to remain silent if he noticed certain events at Hogwarts next school year.

• Amosta helped settle the Triwizard Tournament arrangements in Paris while Cuthbert Carrow retired and Ludo Bagman withdrew from the preparations.
• Gryffindor won the Quidditch final, and Sirius later emptied Slytherin's hourglass after catching students disguised as Dementors; a clash with Snape followed, and Sirius resigned.
• Amosta returned to Hogwarts after the exams and walked by the Black Lake with Dumbledore, who said Sirius had gone to speak with Harry's Muggle guardians.
• As thunderclouds gathered over Hogwarts, Dumbledore told Amosta that darkness was beginning to stir and asked him to stay silent if certain things happened at the school next year.

Amosta and Dumbledore discussed Voldemort’s growing power and Dumbledore’s belief that he might use Harry to regain a body. Dumbledore asked Amosta for help protecting Harry, while Sirius reported that he had confronted the Dursleys and was ready to leave.

• Dumbledore told Amosta that Snape had sensed Voldemort growing stronger through the Dark Mark and that Voldemort was likely receiving help.
• Amosta and Dumbledore considered how Voldemort might restore his power, and Amosta concluded that Harry could be involved.
• Dumbledore admitted that Harry might be in danger and asked Amosta to help keep him safe; Amosta said he admired Dumbledore’s resolve.
• Dumbledore asked Amosta to avoid disturbing the prisoners in Azkaban, and Amosta agreed.
• Sirius told Amosta that he had threatened the Dursleys to protect Harry and said he was ready to leave.

Amosta and Sirius traveled by ferry toward the Shetland Islands as part of their search for Azkaban, which Sirius believed lay somewhere in the North Sea. During a violent storm, Sirius revealed how he had survived at sea after escaping Azkaban, and he spotted the island where Old Fisherman John had rescued him.

• Sirius received Remus's letter saying he would soon leave St. Mungo's, and Sirius visited him before departing with Amosta.
• Amosta and Sirius traveled from London to Aberdeen and boarded a ferry for the Shetland Islands.
• Amosta used two Confundus Charms on a sailor to get past him and reach Sirius on deck during the storm.
• Sirius told Amosta how he had survived weeks at sea after escaping Azkaban and explained that Old Fisherman John had rescued him.
• Sirius spotted a light on the island where John lived and exclaimed that the island was right there.

Sirius and Amosta visited Old John, the former lighthouse keeper who had once saved Sirius’s life. Amosta told John they planned to put out to sea, and John warned them that a typhoon could strike at any time.

• The chapter recounted Old John's wartime service, his return to the Shetland Islands, and how he came to live in the lighthouse.
• Old John woke to knocking, grabbed his hunting rifle, and opened the door to find Sirius and Amosta.
• Amosta and Sirius chatted with Old John over tea, and Sirius thanked him for saving his life.
• Amosta told John that they intended to put out to sea, and John warned them the season was dangerous because a typhoon could arrive at any time.

Amosta brewed a potion to heal Old John’s long-standing leg injury and warned Sirius that their planned trip to Azkaban could be dangerous. Sirius chose to go with him anyway, and they prepared Old John’s fishing boat for a two-week voyage.

• Amosta completed a healing potion while Sirius helped gather ingredients, and he said Old John’s leg and other old injuries should recover over ten days.
• Sirius fed the potion to Old John, thanked him for his kindness, and imagined living beside him after Harry grew up.
• Amosta admitted he was investigating something at Azkaban and warned Sirius that the danger might be beyond even his or Dumbledore’s control.
• Sirius accepted the risk, saying he trusted Harry to face life and would rather die gloriously at sea than spend his life only caring for him.
• At dawn, Amosta used magic to prepare Old John’s fishing boat for their voyage, while Sirius urged him to leave soon.

Harry endured an isolated summer at the Dursleys, who stopped mistreating him materially but treated him as if he did not exist. With Sirius and Professor Breen missing and his letters unanswered, Harry was left alone at Privet Drive, where the Dursleys excluded him from dinner with Aunt Marge.

• Harry watched neighborhood children play and reflected on how the Dursleys had changed their treatment of him over the summer.
• Harry remembered refusing Ron’s offer to have Mr. Weasley take him away because he expected Sirius to collect him.
• Harry worried that Sirius and Professor Breen might be in danger after Hedwig repeatedly failed to find Sirius.
• Harry rushed downstairs when the Dursleys left, then found Aunt Petunia’s note saying they had gone to dinner with Marge without him.
• Harry angrily crumpled Aunt Petunia’s note and threw it onto the floor.