Chapter Summaries

Neville and Draco fought to exhaustion while the judges watched, and Fleur led the Beauxbatons team into the battle to target Slytherin. Just as Neville prepared to join them against Draco, Astoria stunned Ciana, disrupting the apparent alliance.

• Neville and Draco continued their savage duel, prompting Dumbledore and the other judges to worry, but Amosta insisted that no one would die.
• Fleur persuaded Viktor and the other champions to enter the fight, with her team moving to help Neville and Viktor’s group heading toward Cedric’s opponents.
• Neville assessed that his exhausted team could not defeat Slytherin alone, but he and Draco rose and charged at each other again.
• Fleur’s team emerged and demanded that Malfoy return their School Emblem, making Neville think they would help him defeat Draco.
• Astoria suddenly sprang up and stunned Ciana as she charged toward Malfoy.

Astoria revealed that she had survived Neville’s attack by pretending to be unconscious, but the Slytherins were soon surrounded by Diggory’s, Krum’s, and Fleur’s teams. Draco refused to surrender and led a coordinated attack, while Luna’s timely Protego shield saved two Durmstrang champions but Lancadel was blasted away.

• Astoria told the Slytherins that her Protego had blocked most of Neville’s spell and that she had pretended to be unconscious while waiting for an opening.
• Fleur demanded Beauxbatons’ School Emblem, but Draco refused as Diggory pointed out that the Slytherins had lost their numerical advantage.
• Viktor emerged with his Durmstrang team and joined Diggory’s and Fleur’s group in confronting the remaining Slytherins.
• Draco, Pansy, Blaise, and Astoria refused to surrender and attacked the three surrounding teams with five coordinated spells.
• Luna cast Protego to shield the Durmstrang champions, allowing Viktor to knock Poliakov aside, while the blasts hurled Lancadel away.

Slytherin and the other champions’ teams fought a desperate melee, with Fleur’s dance restoring her allies while Astoria and Poliakov fell. Draco nearly defeated Neville, but Harry intervened with a Disarming Charm, leaving Draco incapacitated.

• Viktor knocked out Beauxbatons’ remaining champion’s assistant, and Slytherin struck again to eliminate one of Durmstrang’s assistants, igniting a full battle between the teams.
• Nott attacked Luna and Cedric while Blaise pressured Fleur, and Cedric helped Fleur evade Blaise’s attacks.
• Fleur danced to strengthen her allies, prompting Slytherin to target her while Neville and the others shielded her.
• Poliakov fell to Draco’s venomous snake, and Astoria collapsed after enduring Neville’s magic and Viktor’s attacks.
• Draco grabbed Neville’s collar and aimed a spell at his throat, but Harry’s Disarming Charm tore Draco’s wand from his hand and left him numb and stiff.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione arrived on Thestrals and gained control of the battle between the Hogwarts teams, Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, and Slytherin. Draco accepted that Slytherin would stop fighting and declared that the others had passed the first trial.

• Harry disarmed Draco from the air, and he, Ron, and Hermione revealed that they had tamed wild Thestrals in the Forbidden Forest.
• Ron demanded the School Emblems, while Fleur challenged Viktor over his claim that he had lost his emblem.
• Cedric explained that Slytherin had fallen into Harry and Neville's trap before Beauxbatons and Durmstrang joined the fight against them.
• Harry returned Draco's wand and offered Slytherin the choice to stop fighting or face the combined champion teams.
• Draco picked up his wand and told the others that they had passed the first trial.

The four champion teams learned that defeating Slytherin, not collecting School Emblems, was the true condition for passing the trial, and their combined efforts had fulfilled it. After the injured contestants were taken for treatment, the remaining champions recovered and prepared to enter the next challenge.

• Draco explained that the teams had passed the first round by defeating Slytherin and signaled Slytherin's withdrawal.
• Hermione realized that all four teams had contributed to Slytherin's defeat and met the real condition for victory.
• Snape and the other professors treated and removed the injured contestants, while Neville and Luna chose to remain in the competition.
• Draco returned Beauxbatons' School Emblem to Fleur and revealed that the School Emblems opened the next challenge.
• The four School Emblems transformed into gates, and Neville shared healing leaves while Ron shared food with the contestants.
• After half an hour of rest, the four teams gathered before the portals to begin the next challenge.

Hermione, Harry, Ron, and the other contestants found themselves on a floating platform beneath a starry sky, with a glass walkway over a dark abyss leading toward a distant glowing object. As the teams debated the risk of hidden attackers, Neville decided to make the first attempt.

• Hermione and the others entered a stone door and appeared on a floating platform with the other surviving contestants.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked over the platform’s edge and saw a turbulent darkness far below.
• Fleur pointed out transparent glass panes beneath the platform, and the contestants realized they formed a walkway toward a glowing object.
• Hermione, Fleur, and Ron warned that hidden attackers might knock contestants from the narrow walkway and force them out of the competition.
• Neville got up and volunteered to try the glass walkway, despite Cedric’s warning that the situation was unclear.

Harry and Neville tested the glass walkway, but Neville fell when his panel shattered, and the champions discovered their wands no longer worked. Hermione and Fleur suspected that each pair of panels offered one safe path and one that would break, leaving the group to figure out how to cross.

• Harry volunteered to step onto the glass walkway with Neville, and their companions prepared to defend them.
• Harry and Neville landed safely on their panels, but Neville's glass shattered and he fell into the darkness.
• Cedric pulled Harry back onto the platform, while Fleur discovered that their wands could only produce weak sparks.
• Hermione and Fleur concluded that each pair of glass panels contained one solid panel and one that would break.
• Ron wondered how they could cross the walkway to reach the glowing object.

After Neville’s sacrifice, the seven remaining contestants realized the glass walkway required a way to test its panels safely. Hermione and Fleur began crossing together, and their first attempt succeeded when Hermione pulled Fleur back from a false panel.

• Harry suggested the group search for a hidden route or clues, but the seven found no alternative path.
• Viktor proposed having one person test each panel while someone on a safe panel held them back if it broke.
• Hermione refused to let injured Luna take the risk, and Fleur volunteered to test the walkway with Hermione holding her.
• Fleur and Hermione climbed onto the first glass panel, then Fleur cautiously tested the next one.
• When Fleur's panel shattered, Hermione hauled her onto the second step, and the panel held them both.

Hermione and Fleur led the group across Professor Breen’s dangerous glass walkway, but the safe panels began shattering behind them as the challenge’s time limit ran out. With the glowing goal still far away, the group hurried onward, abandoning their careful method for a desperate attempt to reach it.

• Fleur and Hermione found safe panels, allowing Luna, Viktor, Cedric, Harry, and Ron to follow onto the walkway.
• The group crossed more than a dozen steps, and Hermione refused Luna’s offer to take over because Luna was injured.
• Fleur chose a wrong panel, and Hermione pulled her onto the safe one before another crack sounded from the darkness.
• Hermione realized that the panels they had passed were breaking and guessed that the challenge had a time limit.
• Cedric urged everyone to hurry, and Hermione told the group to choose the right steps rather than proceed cautiously.
• A panel five spaces behind Ron crumbled into the abyss as the group pressed onward.

Harry, Ron, and the others struggled across shattering glass panels as Hermione and Fleur tried to find a safe route. Ron sacrificed himself to save Harry, but Fleur discovered that the shooting stars in the sky revealed which panels were safe, giving the survivors a way forward.

• Hermione and Fleur led the group across the panels while Luna realized that the glass shattered every twelve seconds and wrong choices cost the same amount of time.
• As Ron faced elimination, Harry offered to share his panel, but Ron blocked him and fell into the abyss rather than risk dragging Harry down.
• Cedric pulled Harry back from the edge, and Hermione and Fleur continued guiding the remaining group forward.
• Fleur noticed a pattern in the shooting stars and safely stepped left twice without Hermione's protection.
• Fleur told the group to go left when two shooting stars crossed the sky and right when one appeared, revealing Amosta's hint.

After Fleur discovered how to cross the glass walkway, the teams reached a platform holding a single key and learned they could use their wands. Harry and Cedric rejected a fight over the key and agreed it should go to Fleur, while Viktor vowed to keep competing for Durmstrang.

• Fleur led the teams across the final stretch of the glass walkway to a platform holding a glowing torch-shaped light.
• Harry comforted Hermione over Ron's sacrifice, and Hermione resolved to keep competing.
• Professor Breen announced that the contestants could use their wands, prompting the teams to guard against one another over the single bronze key.
• Harry proposed that Fleur take the key because her insight had saved the teams, and Cedric agreed.
• Viktor also supported Fleur receiving the key but declared he would continue fighting for Durmstrang's victory.

After the champions took the first key, they entered a freezing snowfield, where Harry, Hermione, and the others found Red Stones that protected them from the cold. They gathered around a huge block of ice that appeared to contain the second key, while four stone doorways waited nearby.

• Fleur took the ancient bronze key after the other champions agreed to give it to her, and a stone door appeared on the platform.
• Harry and Hermione struggled against the deadly cold in the snowfield until Viktor called out that smashing Red Stones would provide warmth.
• Harry and Hermione broke Red Stones and were surrounded by warm red smoke that shielded them from the cold.
• Harry and Hermione joined the other teams at a towering black object surrounded by four stone doorways with transparent vortices.
• Harry brushed snow from the object, and Hermione melted more of it to reveal an enormous block of ice that appeared to hold the second key.

Hogwarts, Durmstrang, and Fleur’s team discovered a second key frozen inside an indestructible block of ice, then entered separate trials to find a way to retrieve it. Harry and Hermione found themselves in an icy arena facing two enormous creatures, and Hermione felt Harry’s rope jerk as he approached them.

• Fleur withdrew from the contest after noting that she already had a key.
• Hermione realized that spells and magical fire could not damage the ice, so the teams agreed to search the stone doors for a way to melt it.
• Cedric, Viktor, and Harry and Hermione each entered a different door, leaving Fleur outside.
• Harry and Hermione emerged in a frozen arena and spotted two huge, human-shaped silhouettes in the distance.
• Harry tied a rope around his waist and approached the creatures alone, but the rope suddenly jerked, prompting Hermione to pull him back.

Harry and Hermione discovered two stone giants made by Professor Breen and worked out how to move across the ice after the Red Stone’s warmth wore off. Hermione then devised a battle plan to confront the monsters.

• Harry told Hermione that Professor Breen had Transfigured stones into two giants that stood on oval stone bases.
• Harry and Hermione realized the Red Stone’s warming effect had expired and hurried out of the arena as Viktor, Cedric, and Luna also emerged from their trials.
• Harry and Hermione replenished their warmth with Red Stones and returned to the arena, where Hermione enchanted spikes onto their shoes to help them walk on the ice.
• Hermione examined the Stone Monsters and their surroundings, then told Harry she had a battle plan.

Harry and Hermione’s plan to trap the Stone Monster failed when it attacked them with volleys of rocks and a huge block of ice. They escaped through the Teleportation Stone Gate and saw Viktor’s and Cedric’s teams emerge from their own trials, all battered and exhausted.

• Harry and Hermione prepared a trap, replenished the warmth around them, and provoked the Stone Monster with a Disarming Charm before running toward the portal.
• The Stone Monster awakened, targeted Harry with volleys of rocks, and Hermione slowed them with Impedimenta while Harry defended himself with Protego.
• Hermione tried to draw the Stone Monster’s attention, but it instead tore up a huge block of ice and hurled it at them.
• Harry and Hermione fled toward the Teleportation Stone Gate and were blasted out of the Secret Realm by the impact.
• Viktor’s team emerged bloodied and with torn uniforms, while Cedric and Luna came out soaked and freezing; Harry and Hermione realized their trials had differed.

Harry and Hermione returned to the Secret Realm and used Hermione’s analysis of the Stone Monster’s attack patterns to devise a strategy. They brought down one Stone Monster by attacking its supporting leg from the arena wall, but the challenge remained unfinished.

• Hermione proposed that the Stone Monsters were stationary, focused on whoever attacked them, and followed a predictable attack pattern.
• Harry and Hermione climbed the arena wall and found a position where they could avoid the stone eggs by lying down.
• Harry drew the Stone Monster’s attention while Hermione attacked its supporting leg, then they alternated attacks as it switched targets.
• Hermione dodged the Stone Monster’s thrown ice blocks while Harry continued damaging its leg.
• After four rounds of attacks, the Stone Monster’s leg gave way and its body collapsed into rubble, prompting Harry and Hermione to cheer.

Harry and Hermione defeated a Stone Monster, but it revived in a berserk state and forced them to flee the Secret Realm. Back outside, the teams agreed to cooperate on clearing a challenge and use a lottery to decide who would keep the key.

• Harry and Hermione saw the defeated Stone Monster’s remains glow and reassemble, then raced for the Teleportation Stone Gate as it attacked them with huge blocks of ice.
• Harry and Hermione escaped through the gate just before an ice block struck its frame, then reunited with Fleur, Viktor, Cedric, and Luna outside.
• Hermione learned the others had also failed to clear their challenge, and the teams sat together to consider what to do next.
• Viktor proposed that the teams cooperate to clear a challenge, then make two fake copies of the key and draw lots for the real one.
• Harry and Hermione agreed to Viktor’s plan, and Cedric and Hermione exchanged a glance before they accepted cooperation.

Harry, Hermione, Viktor, Cedric, and Luna compared the challenges in their Secret Realms while searching for one they could clear to obtain something that would melt the ice blocks. The group inspected Harry’s and Viktor’s realms, then arrived at Cedric and Luna’s lake challenge, whose hazards remained unexplained.

• Harry and Hermione showed the group two Stone Monsters and explained their attack patterns and how defeating one caused it to recover and go berserk.
• Viktor suggested the Stone Monsters might need to be defeated simultaneously, and Hermione worried that doing so would consume too much time and magical power.
• Viktor showed the group a lighthouse-defense challenge where waves of Transfigured ice creatures attacked the lighthouse and his goal was to keep it standing until its candle burned down.
• Cedric and Luna showed the group a dark lake challenge where they had to follow an orange light in a boat while facing whirlpools, crosswinds, and underwater attacks.

Harry, Hermione, Fleur, Cedric, Luna, and Viktor joined forces to challenge the Giant Twin Stone Monsters again. Viktor and Fleur used the monsters as shields to make them attack each other, and the group claimed the item that could melt the ice blocks.

• Hermione proposed skipping Cedric's Speedboat Leap challenge and trying the Stone Monsters again, and the others agreed.
• Fleur joined the group, and Hermione split the six into teams led by herself and Harry.
• Viktor suggested making the Stone Monsters attack each other, and Hermione realized the plan could work.
• Viktor and Fleur baited the Stone Monsters into hurling stone eggs at one another while hiding behind them.
• The Stone Monsters shattered, and a crimson item that could melt the ice blocks appeared in the arena.
• Harry looked at Hermione, who angrily asked what he was looking at, and the group laughed.

Fleur’s crimson light melted part of the ice sealing the key, but a second light had no effect, so the champions went to Viktor’s Secret Realm to defend its lighthouse. Hermione organized their defenses and replenishment plan, and the chapter ended as Viktor returned to the platform and she shouted, “Pull!”

• Fleur touched the crimson light to the ice block, which melted until the light ran out, leaving the key sealed inside.
• Viktor and Fleur returned to the Stone Monster Secret Realm and obtained another crimson light, but it did not melt the ice further.
• Viktor explained the waves of attackers in his Secret Realm, and Hermione realized the red mist would last less than ten minutes.
• Hermione and the other Hogwarts students planned the defense while Fleur and Viktor guarded the lighthouse, Luna patrolled, and Harry, Hermione, and Cedric covered the paths.
• Hermione built funnel-shaped barricades and arranged for one champion to stay behind while the others replenished their red mist energy.
• Viktor returned to the stone platform, and Hermione shouted, “Pull!”