Chapter Summaries

Amosta and Dumbledore began purifying Frank and Alice Longbottom’s damaged minds, erasing the dark magic embedded in their memories before preparing to restore them. Amosta cleansed Frank’s mental world with his Tengshe form, leaving the work of returning the memories still ahead.

• Amosta explained that he and Dumbledore would erase the Longbottoms’ corrupted memories and later restore their memories within their mental worlds.
• Amosta took responsibility for Frank while Dumbledore began working on Alice, and both wizards entered the Longbottoms’ minds.
• Amosta found Frank’s mental world nearly dried up as dark fireballs consumed the sea of his mind.
• Amosta transformed into a golden Tengshe and unleashed a purifying current that erased the malicious forces throughout Frank’s mental world.
• After the last corruption disappeared, the Tengshe vanished and Amosta opened his eyes in the hospital ward.

Amosta and Dumbledore freed Frank and Alice from their mental nightmares and began returning their memories through the Soul Corridor. After entering the strange realm, they faced a path toward a distant source of light that might lead to death.

• Amosta and Dumbledore finished cleansing Frank and Alice's minds, leaving them peaceful and beginning to recover.
• Amosta explained that Frank and Alice could awaken without their memories, but they would have to relearn their lives from infancy.
• Amosta and Dumbledore used their Patronuses to guide the Longbottoms' memories from the Pensieve into their souls.
• Amosta and Dumbledore's consciousnesses entered the Soul Corridor, where a white road appeared beneath them.
• Amosta described the distant light as a possible origin of the soul, while Dumbledore regarded the path with apparent longing.

Amosta and Dumbledore discussed reincarnation and the possibility of souls entering other worlds before using the Soul Corridor to return Frank and Alice’s memories to their souls. The memories sparked new oceans of the mind, and the pair prepared to return to Alice and Frank.

• Dumbledore asked whether reincarnation was possible, and Amosta said he believed souls might cross between worlds, though departed loved ones could be separated by vast distances.
• Amosta and Dumbledore carried Frank and Alice’s memories through the Soul Corridor toward the paired halos.
• Amosta explained that memories needed to reach souls through the corridor to create new personalities, then both men released the memories into the halos.
• Two torrents of color flowed from the halos into Alice’s mental world, where a new ocean of the mind began to form as her soul celebrated her body’s return to normal.
• Dumbledore asked whether Avada Kedavra attacked the Soul Corridor and reflected that Voldemort did not know what he had sacrificed with Horcruxes.
• Dumbledore and Amosta left to answer Alice and Frank’s questions.

Neville woke to find his parents gone from their ward and feared the treatment for the effects of the Cruciatus Curse had gone wrong. After Hermione’s guilt-filled breakfast helped him endure the wait, his parents returned and embraced him.

• Neville woke in the empty ward and panicked when he realized his parents were undergoing treatment.
• Neville feared that the treatment might fail and blamed himself for agreeing to it.
• Neville found the lavish breakfast Hermione had prepared and ate it while crying.
• Hermione, Neville's grandmother, Tonks, Sirius, and Dumbledore returned to the ward as Neville finished eating.
• Neville's parents embraced him, and he threw aside the tray and sobbed in their arms.

After Frank and Alice Longbottom awakened from their long illness, Amosta discovered that his increased soul power had greatly enhanced his perception and magic. The Longbottom family thanked him and reunited in joy, while Amosta prepared to face the challenges ahead.

• Dumbledore stopped Sytaris and the healers from publicizing the Longbottoms’ recovery to avoid overwhelming Hogwarts with desperate families.
• Amosta awoke and found that he could perceive magic clearly and transform a toothbrush cup into a living white snake without using his wand.
• Amosta invited the Longbottom family into his room while Hermione, Sirius, and Tonks waited outside.
• Augusta thanked Amosta and pledged the Longbottom family’s support, and Neville defended him when she joked about him becoming the Dark Lord.
• Frank and Alice expressed their joy at regaining their lives and promised to celebrate every one of Neville’s birthdays as Amosta prepared for future challenges.

Amosta recognized that Neville’s father’s wand had hindered his magic and gave him the Sword of Gryffindor as an alternative magical focus suited to his physical talents. Neville accepted the sword and began considering a new style of dueling that combined magic and martial skill.

• Frank and Alice planned to recuperate at St Mungo’s before traveling, while Neville said he could not return to Hogwarts immediately.
• Neville revealed that he had always used his father’s wand at his grandmother’s request, and Mrs. Longbottom apologized for insisting on it.
• Amosta realized Neville’s difficulty controlling magic might stem from the wand and asked to speak with him alone.
• Amosta gave Neville the Sword of Gryffindor and explained that its mithril blade could resist Charms and serve as a medium for casting them.
• Amosta suggested Neville could develop a distinctive dueling style that combined magic and physical skill.

Neville received the Sword of Gryffindor from Professor Breen and began learning to wield it, while Sirius warned Amosta that Barty Crouch had disappeared and the Ministry might target him. Amosta urged Sirius and Remus to be cautious and assured him that Harry would not face mortal danger.

• Neville successfully cast a powerful Disarming Charm with the silver sword, and Amosta warned him that he needed more practice and a suitable wand.
• Amosta told Neville he could call the sword the Sword of Gryffindor, and Neville vowed to become a great wizard.
• Amosta prepared to return to Hogwarts with Hermione, who packed her belongings before leaving St Mungo's.
• Sirius told Amosta that Barty Crouch's home was empty and that the Ministry was suppressing news of his disappearance.
• Sirius warned that Ministry officials were dissatisfied with Amosta and Dumbledore because Amosta had been the last person to visit Crouch.
• Amosta told Sirius that he and Remus should be careful, but promised Harry would not be in mortal danger.

Amosta and Hermione returned to Hogwarts to a loud welcome, and Hermione reunited with her friends after her recovery. As she settled back in, she concealed what she knew about the attack and showed a more relaxed confidence that surprised Harry and Ron.

• Amosta and Hermione arrived in the Great Hall, where students and professors applauded Amosta for bringing down a dark wizard organization.
• Hermione hugged her Gryffindor friends and accepted congratulations from students across Hogwarts, while Fleur asked Amosta to include her in another adventure.
• Angelina asked Hermione whether the organization had targeted her, and Hermione said she did not know why they had persecuted her.
• Hermione said she needed to catch up on coursework but also asked Angelina about using the prefects' bathroom.
• Harry and Ron noticed Hermione's changed behavior, and Harry suggested she had simply become more confident.

Amosta discussed Neville’s return, Moody’s work in the Forbidden Forest, and the preparations beneath the lake with Dumbledore. As evening fell, Hermione, Harry, and Ron finished training and planned to catch up on Hermione’s missed schoolwork and Neville’s family news.

• McGonagall told Amosta that Filch had inspected recent deliveries and left him a list of prohibited items and disciplinary recommendations.
• Amosta told Dumbledore that Neville planned to return his father’s wand and spend time with his reunited family.
• Moody said the centaurs were guarding the Forbidden Forest while Hogwarts hosted an important event, and Amosta asked about Vitia Creona’s intentions.
• Dumbledore described Moody’s underwater obstacles and worried whether Harry and his friends were ready to face what lay ahead; Amosta reminded him that he had tacitly approved it.
• Hermione, Harry, and Ron finished training, and Hermione planned to wash and catch up on her missed essays before they talked about Neville.

Harry and Ron discussed Hermione’s underwater challenge and guessed what treasure the second task would take from her. Hermione returned from the Prefects’ Bathroom with a plan to use Advanced Transfiguration to become a creature that could breathe underwater.

• Harry and Ron heard Seamus condemn the Dark Wizards sentenced to thirty years in Oxta prison and discussed Muggle executions.
• Harry suggested Hermione might use scuba gear for the second task, while he and Ron wondered what her precious treasure would be.
• Hermione returned to the common room excited and explained that Advanced Transfiguration could let her breathe underwater.
• Hermione rejected scuba gear because it required training and might be forbidden, and Harry told her Cedric wanted to speak with her alone.
• Hermione said a mermaid mural in the Prefects’ Bathroom had inspired her plan.

Amosta arranged for Remus to come secretly to Hogwarts and leaped from the tower to fly over the grounds. He crossed paths with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who were heading to the Black Lake so Hermione could test a way to breathe and swim underwater.

• Amosta inspected Hogwarts mail, continued physical training with the students, and noticed Hermione had become stronger and more capable in dueling.
• Amosta wrote to Remus, asking him to enter Hogwarts secretly before nine the following evening.
• Amosta exchanged a silent glance with Moody through the walls of Moody's office, then waited alone atop a tower as the castle lights went out.
• Amosta leaped from the tower, flew over the grounds, and hovered above the Black Lake.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione paused beneath the Invisibility Cloak after a gust swept past them, then continued toward the lake.
• Hermione explained that she planned to use the Bubble-Head Charm and grow a tail because she was not good at swimming.

Hermione practiced adapting to the Black Lake in her transformed mermaid form while Harry and Ron kept watch. After she returned to the castle, Amosta dove toward the mermaid village and ordered the Giant Squid to stay out of the way during the school event.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione went to the Black Lake at night, where Harry used willow branches to make a safety rope for Hermione.
• Hermione entered the freezing water in her competition outfit, transformed, and cast the Bubble-Head Charm as Harry and Ron held the rope.
• Hermione swam along the shore for an hour before Harry and Ron helped her back toward the castle.
• Amosta left his hiding place and used magic to propel himself across the lake toward the mermaid village.
• Amosta encountered the Giant Squid, learned it had been warned about the school event, and told it to remain in its nest.
• Amosta reached the mermaid village.

Amosta inspected the merpeople village and uncovered an altar hidden beneath the champions’ treasure posts, then concealed it again. Remus and Sirius arrived with MACUSA’s response to their entry application: Amosta could enter after Easter only if he surrendered his wand for the duration of his stay.

• Amosta visited the merpeople village and inspected the posts where the champions’ treasures would be bound.
• Amosta uncovered a Druidic altar buried beneath the lakebed, recognized its connection to Vitia’s arrangements, and buried it again.
• Remus and Sirius arrived at Hogwarts after receiving Amosta’s letter and joined him for tea and snacks.
• Remus told Amosta that MACUSA had approved their entry permits for after Easter on the condition that Amosta surrender his wand and remain wandless while in their territory.

Amosta agreed to MACUSA’s demand that he surrender his wand, while preparing a Polyjuice Potion for an undisclosed purpose. As the second Triwizard task approached, Neville returned to Hogwarts startlingly cheerful, and Dumbledore gathered the tournament officials for a late-night meeting about the champions’ task.

• Remus and Sirius objected to MACUSA demanding Amosta’s wand, but Amosta decided to accept the condition and asked Remus to send a formal reply.
• Amosta gave Remus an opaque bottle containing Polyjuice Potion.
• Neville returned to Hogwarts and astonished Ron, Harry, Fred, and George with his cheerful demeanor during Quidditch drills.
• Dumbledore convened Amosta, Moody, McGonagall, Madame Maxime, Ludo Bagman, and Karkaroff for a late-night meeting before the second task.
• Amosta asked Ludo to explain the task, and Ludo began by asking whether the champions had already worked out what they needed to do.

Amosta explained that the second Triwizard task would require champions to retrieve the people most important to them from the Black Lake. The school representatives approved Cedric Diggory’s chosen person, but Amosta left Hermione Granger’s choice unresolved by asking Professor McGonagall to decide between Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.

• Ludo Bagman told the gathered school officials that they could no longer meet privately with their champions before the second task.
• Amosta explained that the champions would have an hour to retrieve their most precious treasure from the Black Lake, and clarified that the treasures would be people close to them.
• Karkaroff suggested Viktor Krum’s old Nimbus 2001 as his treasure, but Dumbledore and Amosta explained that the task involved people, not possessions.
• Amosta proposed Cho Chang as the person Cedric Diggory would need to rescue, and the officials approved the choice.
• Amosta said Hermione Granger’s closest friends were Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, then asked Professor McGonagall which mattered more to her.

Amosta and the other judges debated whether Hermione Granger’s most important person was Harry Potter or Ron Weasley, while Moody watched Amosta with suspicion. Karkaroff proposed that both boys be taken, then claimed he had another reason for the suggestion.

• Amosta asked McGonagall to explain how important Harry Potter and Ron Weasley were to Hermione Granger, and she said both were among Hermione’s closest friends.
• Madame Maxime noted that Hermione had attended the Yule Ball with Ron, while Ludo Bagman argued Harry would be a more exciting choice for the audience.
• Moody corrected Ludo, explaining that Fleur Delacour had invited Harry only after Hermione had accepted Ron as her date.
• McGonagall rebuked Ludo for treating Harry like a performer and told Dumbledore and Amosta that either boy could satisfy the condition.
• Karkaroff suggested taking both Harry and Ron, provoking outrage from McGonagall and the former Hogwarts Headmasters.
• Karkaroff insisted his suggestion had another reason, and Dumbledore invited him to explain.

The staff debated whom the champions would rescue from the lake, and Amosta proposed allowing Hermione Granger to rescue two people after Karkaroff raised concerns about choosing between her friends. When Karkaroff could not name anyone important to Viktor Krum, Amosta suggested Karkaroff himself.

• Karkaroff argued that choosing only one of Hermione Granger’s closest friends could hurt the one left behind, and Moody accused him of trying to disadvantage Hermione.
• Amosta agreed that Karkaroff’s concern had merit and proposed that Hermione be allowed to rescue two people.
• Madame Maxime named Gabrielle as the person most important to Fleur, and the others accepted her choice.
• Karkaroff struggled to name someone important to Viktor Krum, and McGonagall and Moody rejected his suggestions.
• Amosta said Viktor’s mentor and trusted friend was Karkaroff himself.

Amosta Breen proposed that Karkaroff be chosen as Viktor Krum’s most important person for the second task, forcing the Durmstrang headmaster to take part in the rescue. The group approved the arrangement, and Karkaroff followed them toward the preparations despite sensing impending danger.

• Amosta Breen proposed making Karkaroff Viktor Krum’s most important person in the second task, and Phineas Black, Dippet, and the others supported the plan.
• Karkaroff objected that he was a tournament judge, but Amosta explained that Karkaroff could still score the champions and appear as Krum’s rescue target.
• Madame Maxime asked Ludo Bagman whether the arrangement was permitted, and Bagman said the rules did not prohibit it.
• Amosta asked the eligible attendees for objections, received none, and assigned Bagman to bring the champions’ chosen people to the Great Hall before Amosta sent them to the merpeople.
• Karkaroff asked Dumbledore to ensure his safety underwater, and Dumbledore agreed to cast the spell for him.
• Outside Dumbledore’s office, Karkaroff saw the Black Lake as a deathly abyss and felt disaster approaching before he hurried after the others.

Amosta revealed that Harry, Ron, Cho, Gabrielle, and Karkaroff had been chosen as the treasures the Triwizard champions would retrieve from beneath the Black Lake. He reassured them that they would be kept safe, then led them to change into protective uniforms before the task began.

• McGonagall brought Harry and Ron to the Great Hall, where Dumbledore, Amosta, and others were waiting.
• Madame Maxime arrived with Gabrielle, and Ludo Bagman joined the group.
• Amosta explained that the champions had to retrieve their most precious people from the Black Lake within an hour.
• Bagman told Harry and Ron that Hermione had named them both as her most important people, while Karkaroff had been chosen as Viktor's.
• Dumbledore placed Karkaroff under a protective spell, and Amosta led the summoned people to change into competition uniforms.

Harry and Ron were chosen as Hermione’s two rescue targets, while Gabrielle also prepared to be lowered into the Black Lake. On the morning of the task, Hermione learned that Professor McGonagall had taken Harry and Ron from their dormitory before dawn, leaving her alarmed and uncertain about what had happened.

• Amosta told Harry and Ron that both had been selected as Hermione’s treasures, and Professor Karkaroff had suggested they participate together.
• Harry, Ron, Cho Chang, and Gabrielle changed into competition uniforms before Amosta prepared them for the task.
• Hermione spent a sleepless night worrying about the task and the identity of her treasure, then woke exhausted and hurried to the common room.
• Neville told Hermione that Professor McGonagall had taken Harry and Ron from their dormitory around four in the morning and that they had not returned.
• Hermione turned pale when she learned Harry and Ron had been taken away on the day of the match.