Chapter Summaries

Hermione realized the second task required her to rescue Harry and Ron from the Black Lake, then prepared to compete. The task began with Hermione and the other champions diving into the water.

• Hermione rushed from the Gryffindor common room after realizing the second task was underwater, and Neville made her eat before she left.
• Professor McGonagall confirmed that the merpeople had taken Harry and Ron into the Black Lake and that Hermione had to rescue them.
• Hermione reached the lakeside venue and learned that Harry and Ron were likely the two people waiting for her underwater.
• Cedric tried to give Hermione Gillyweed, but she refused because she had her own plan.
• Ludo counted down and started the second task.

Hermione transformed her legs into a fish tail and swam into the Black Lake to rescue Harry and Ron. She found Krum trapped in a fight with a Kappa and watched from hiding, unsure whether to intervene.

• Hermione entered the Black Lake, transformed her legs into a fish tail, and used Lumos to swim toward the lake's center.
• Hermione drove away a school of curious fish and pushed on through the dark water despite her growing fear and exhaustion.
• Hermione heard a disturbance and circled toward it, then hid behind a boulder to observe a champion battling a Kappa.
• Hermione recognized the shark-headed champion as Krum and concluded that the Kappa was trapping him rather than trying to harm him.

Hermione rescued Krum from a Kappa and continued searching for Harry and Ron before the second task’s deadline. She reached the merpeople’s village and found Cho Chang gone, realizing Cedric had already rescued her.

• Hermione turned back to help Krum, but Moaning Myrtle appeared and warned her not to interfere, then pointed her toward Harry and Ron.
• Hermione gave Krum a cucumber, and he wrote his name on it and threw it to the Kappa, which took it and swam away.
• Krum told Hermione to go ahead while he rested, and she continued toward the merpeople’s village.
• Hermione passed listless Grindylows and reached the four wooden pillars, where she noticed Cho Chang was missing and deduced that Cedric had rescued her.
• Hermione swam to the two remaining figures, touched them, and was engulfed by brilliant emerald light.

Hermione, Harry, Ron, Karkaroff, and Gabrielle were transported from the lake to a sinister graveyard, where they argued over whether the competition had taken an unexpected turn. As they explored the graveyard and reached a fork in the path, Ron heard a woman crying and feared it was a ghost.

• Hermione accidentally transported herself, Harry, Ron, Karkaroff, and Gabrielle from the lake to a graveyard by touching Harry.
• Harry and Hermione realized Cedric, Cho Chang, Krum, and Fleur were missing, while Karkaroff accused Professor Breen of changing the competition without permission.
• Ron guessed the graveyard was part of a new stage, but Harry and Karkaroff sensed danger as the group prepared to explore.
• Hermione led the group through the graveyard toward a fork between a path lined with gravestones and a hilltop house.
• Ron heard a woman crying and said it was a female ghost.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Karkaroff followed the cries through a foggy graveyard and found Sparkle beside the tortured Barty Crouch. A pale man and his master emerged from the mist, Harry and Karkaroff were struck by pain, and Barty killed Gabrielle with the Killing Curse.

• Harry persuaded Ron, Hermione, and Karkaroff to investigate the sobbing on the graveyard path.
• The group found Sparkle beside the tortured but living Barty Crouch, and Karkaroff failed to Apparate from the sealed area.
• Crouch recognized Harry and shouted for everyone to run as a pale man emerged from the mist carrying an ugly dwarf.
• The ugly dwarf ordered Barty to deal with the visitors, and Harry collapsed in pain while Karkaroff clutched his arm.
• Barty cast Avada Kedavra and killed Gabrielle.

Hermione recognized Barty Crouch Jr.'s plan to bring back the Dark Lord and fought him to give Ron time to get Harry away. Ron tried to return to help Hermione, but Karkaroff restrained him and revealed his Death Eater past.

• Barty Crouch Jr. placed the dying Mr. Barty Crouch beside Sparkle and announced that the Dark Lord would be reborn.
• Hermione realized Barty Crouch Jr. was the Death Eater behind the Dark Mark at the previous year's Quidditch final.
• Hermione blocked Barty Crouch Jr.'s attacks and drew him away from Harry and Ron while urging them to escape.
• Ron dragged Harry and Gabrielle's lifeless body to Karkaroff and forced him to get up and help them flee.
• Ron handed Harry to Karkaroff and turned to help Hermione, but Karkaroff grabbed him and pressed a wand to his forehead.
• Ron realized Igor Karkaroff had once been a Death Eater.

Harry recovered from Karkaroff’s restraint and joined Ron and Hermione in fighting Barty Crouch Jr., but the three were overwhelmed by the Dark Lord. Hermione and Ron died, leaving Harry immobilized beside their bodies.

• Karkaroff tried to appease the Dark Lord by holding Harry and Ron, but Harry recovered and knocked him down.
• Harry joined Hermione and Ron against Barty Crouch Jr., and their coordinated attacks forced him behind a gravestone.
• Hermione proposed using Sparkle to escape, but refused to summon the House-elf because it might die.
• The Dark Lord stopped Barty Crouch Jr. and immobilized Harry, Hermione, and Ron with overwhelming magic.
• The Dark Lord killed Hermione and Ron with green beams while Harry lay unable to move.

Harry witnessed Barty Crouch Jr. use a dark ritual to resurrect Voldemort after Ron and Hermione were killed. Voldemort returned in a new body, while Harry remained bound to Tom Riddle’s gravestone.

• Harry found Ron and Hermione motionless on the rubble and was left devastated.
• Barty Crouch Jr. dragged Harry to Tom Riddle’s gravestone, bound and gagged him, and prepared a cauldron while Nagini waited nearby.
• Barty placed the dwarf creature into the cauldron and added dust from the grave, his own hand, and Harry’s blood to complete the resurrection ritual.
• Voldemort rose from the cauldron, took a robe from Barty, and fixed his scarlet eyes on Harry.

Voldemort resurrected, restored Barty Crouch Jr.'s severed arm, and summoned his followers and Harry's friends to the graveyard. Harry watched helplessly as Ron, Hermione, Gabrielle, and others were brought before Voldemort, whose Death Eaters began arriving.

• Voldemort mocked Barty Crouch Jr. for losing to the Hogwarts children, then healed his severed arm and praised his loyalty.
• Voldemort activated the Dark Mark on Barty's arm and ordered him to bring Harry's friends and the others to the graveyard.
• Voldemort began telling Harry about his parents and his revenge on his father, Tom Riddle.
• Barty returned with Ron and Hermione's bodies, Old Barty, Karkaroff, and Gabrielle, while Harry struggled against his bonds in grief.
• Voldemort called the arriving shadows his true family as they descended into the graveyard.

Lucius Malfoy realized the Dark Lord had returned and feared the punishment he would face for losing the Dark Lord’s entrusted treasure. To protect Narcissa and Draco, he chose to accept Breen’s support while answering the Dark Lord’s summons.

• Lucius and Narcissa discussed Fudge’s attempt to draw the Malfoys back onto the Hogwarts Board of Governors and the brewing conflict with Breen.
• Lucius saw the Dark Mark on his arm flare, and he and Narcissa realized the Dark Lord was returning.
• Lucius decided the family could neither flee nor safely serve the Dark Lord, who might punish him by targeting Draco.
• Lucius wrote Breen that the Malfoys would follow him and serve as his eyes and ears, then ordered Narcissa to deliver the letter to Hogwarts.
• Lucius put on a black hooded cloak and left to answer the Dark Lord’s summons, telling Narcissa that the Malfoy family had no room to choose.

Voldemort gathered the Death Eaters and explained how Vitia Creona helped him regain his body and arrange Harry’s capture. Harry learned that Hermione had been made a champion because she had tried to protect him, and blamed himself for the deaths that followed.

• The Death Eaters Apparated into the graveyard and knelt before Voldemort, while Malfoy recognized Harry and regretted the Dark Lord’s return.
• Malfoy asked Voldemort how he had returned, and Voldemort described the protection Harry’s mother had left him and how his own curse had rebounded.
• Voldemort revealed that Vitia Creona found him, gave him a potion and a treasure, and helped him contact Barty Crouch Jr.
• Voldemort explained that he changed his plan after his confrontation at the Quidditch World Cup made Dumbledore more watchful of Harry.
• Voldemort said Creona suggested making Hermione a champion after seeing her defend Harry, and Harry realized that his friends had suffered because of him.

Voldemort let the Death Eaters decide Karkaroff’s fate and watched them torture him in the graveyard. Just as Nott joined in, an explosion shattered the scene and Karkaroff vanished.

• Malfoy feared how Creona’s aid had helped Voldemort return and gone undetected at Hogwarts.
• Voldemort freed Karkaroff, who begged for mercy by claiming he had helped bring Harry to him.
• Voldemort accused Karkaroff of betraying the Death Eaters and let them decide whether he lived or died.
• Barty Crouch Jr. began torturing Karkaroff with the Cruciatus Curse, and Lucius and other Death Eaters joined in.
• An explosion erupted as Nott prepared to cast the Cruciatus Curse, and Karkaroff disappeared.

Voldemort healed Old Barty Crouch and forced him to confront his son, Barty Crouch Jr., while mocking his failures and exposing the Death Eaters’ identities. He ordered Barty Jr. to return his father’s wand so the two could duel, leaving Old Barty facing a fight against his own son.

• Nagini swallowed Karkaroff’s lower half while Voldemort announced that Sparkle and Old Barty Crouch would be its next victims.
• Voldemort flung Sparkle aside and healed Old Barty, then made him face Barty Crouch Jr.
• Old Barty condemned his son, and Barty Jr. taunted him for having brought him out of Azkaban.
• Voldemort mocked Old Barty for secretly helping Barty Jr. and revealed the faces of the Death Eaters to him.
• Old Barty admitted his own failings as Voldemort ordered Barty Jr. to return his father’s wand and challenge him to a duel.

Voldemort forced Barty Crouch Jr. to duel his father, while Harry watched the Crouches’ family tragedy unfold. Old Barty saved Sparkle, then killed himself rather than let his son kill him, leaving Barty Jr. raging beside his dying body.

• Voldemort set Old Barty Crouch down and ordered him to duel Barty Crouch Jr.
• Barty Crouch Jr. threw his wand at his father and taunted him as the Death Eaters formed a circle around them.
• Sparkle shielded Old Barty and pleaded with Barty Jr. not to kill his father.
• Old Barty lifted Sparkle away, whispered to her, and flung her clear before raising his wand.
• Old Barty’s spell pierced his own throat, and he told Barty Jr. that he could not kill his father.

After Old Barty Crouch died and Voldemort punished Barty Crouch Jr., Sparkle tried to rescue Harry, who refused to leave. A mysterious altar then lifted Harry and several others, but Voldemort’s attack forced them back and brought the altar crashing down.

• Old Barty Crouch died, and Nagini devoured his upper body while Barty Crouch Jr. watched.
• Voldemort tortured Barty Crouch Jr. for his failure, then stopped and forgave him.
• Sparkle tried to crawl toward Harry to rescue him, but Harry urged her not to save him.
• A glowing altar rose from the ground and enveloped Harry, Gabrielle, Hermione, Ron, and Karkaroff in emerald light.
• Voldemort transformed into black mist and attacked the altar with lightning, forcing the captives back and bringing the altar crashing to the ground.

Voldemort forced Harry into a duel in the graveyard, intending to kill him before the Death Eaters. Harry endured Voldemort’s attacks and defied his attempts to break his will, then launched a spell as Voldemort cast the Killing Curse.

• Voldemort declared that he would kill Harry to prove his power to the Death Eaters.
• Harry stood beside Ron and Hermione’s bodies and refused to bow when Voldemort demanded it.
• Voldemort blasted Harry into a tree stump and then used the Cruciatus Curse while trying to make him answer.
• Harry resisted Voldemort’s command, took cover behind a gravestone, and emerged to cast Expelliarmus against Voldemort’s Avada Kedavra.

Harry’s wand connected to Voldemort’s in a golden net, and their duel summoned echoes of people Voldemort had killed. When Ron and Hermione did not appear among them, Harry realized they might still be alive.

• Harry and Voldemort rose above the graveyard as their wands formed a golden connection that deflected Barty Crouch Jr.’s curse.
• Harry heard Fawkes’s song and Dumbledore’s urging him to keep the connection, then forced a bead of light toward Voldemort’s wand.
• Voldemort’s wand released gray vapor and a smoky hand, followed by the old man Voldemort had killed and Bertha Jorkins.
• Harry noticed that Ron and Hermione had not appeared among the dead and concluded that they might still be alive.

Harry learned that Ron and Hermione were alive because their tracksuits had protected them from the Killing Curse, and that Professor Breen had turned the tracksuits into Portkeys. As Harry escaped the graveyard with the others, Gabrielle revealed herself as Amosta Breen and killed Barty Crouch Jr. before Voldemort could stop their departure.

• Harry's parents appeared from Voldemort's wand and told him Ron, Hermione, and Gabrielle were alive and that Sparkle could take them away.
• Harry broke the wand connection, reached the others, and called Sparkle to transport them, but Barty Crouch Jr. stunned her.
• Harry and the others began glowing as their tracksuits activated as Portkeys, and Harry pulled Sparkle and Old Barty's corpse into the light.
• Barty Crouch Jr. lunged after Harry, but Gabrielle awakened with violet eyes and killed him in a torrent of golden flames.
• Voldemort raised his wand too late as Harry, Gabrielle, Ron, Hermione, Sparkle, and Old Barty disappeared.

Amosta rescued Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Gabrielle from the Black Lake while Sirius and Remus explained that Vitia Creona had revealed Voldemort’s return and been taken to Azkaban. Amosta sent Sirius and Remus to return to Hogwarts secretly and prepared to bring the others ashore.

• Amosta formed a bubble in the lake trench, checked Ron and Hermione, and used magic to alter Gabrielle’s memories.
• Sirius arrived carrying Gabrielle and confirmed that he had hidden her from the searchers in a merfolk house.
• Remus arrived and told Amosta and Sirius that the Ministry had taken Vitia Creona to Azkaban after she revealed Voldemort had returned.
• Remus explained that Fudge had overridden Dumbledore’s objections and forbidden anyone from seeing Creona.
• Amosta told Sirius and Remus to leave the lake secretly and return through Hogwarts’s main gates, then took a letter delivered by a cloaked stranger and prepared to take the others up.

Amosta returned from the Black Lake with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Gabrielle, Sparkle, and Old Barty Crouch, whose death shocked the gathered crowd. He revived the children, and Harry told Dumbledore that Voldemort had returned.

• Amosta brought the missing children and Old Barty Crouch ashore, where Fleur reunited with Gabrielle and the crowd reacted to Crouch's death.
• Amosta told Dumbledore and the others that Crouch was dead but the children were alive, then revived them with his magic.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione realized they had survived, and Harry embraced his friends as Fleur held Gabrielle.
• Professor McGonagall urged the children to rest and be examined, and Harry warned Dumbledore that Voldemort had returned.