Chapter Summaries

Fudge unexpectedly strengthened his position by turning the tournament into a source of chaos, while the judges prepared another round inside Ideal Land and Ted discovered new otherworldly knowledge. The chapter ended with a disguised Death Eater answering Voldemort’s summons.

• Fudge used the tournament, crackdowns, and Ministry politics to tighten his hold over most departments and regain confidence about reelection.
• Pilis Thurman proposed holding the fifth round in Ideal Land, and the judges agreed to keep challenging the champions’ teamwork.
• Ted discussed an alliance with Fleur and Krum, while Hermione blocked Ellie and Fleur from embracing him and later demanded reassurance from him.
• Ted redeemed the Space Capsule Development Notes and received knowledge of Space Capsules and a Dragon Ball Radar.
• The judges began building the fifth round, Professor Gellert earned the Durmstrang students’ respect by correcting their Dark Magic practice, and Ted suspected his motives.
• A disguised man in Southampton felt Voldemort’s Dark Mark flare and summoned his wand to answer his master.

The judges announced a fifth Seven Schools Tournament round in a custom Ideal Land game where champions had to build armies, contend with one another, and defeat the Demon King. Ted entered the game and fled from a pack of wolves, while other champions began recruiting troops and suffering losses.

• After struggling to learn rune coding, the judges used the Map Editor and Creative Workshop to create the tournament's fifth-round game.
• Dumbledore announced that the twenty-one remaining champions would gather resources, recruit troops, and defeat the Demon King, while defeating champions could let them claim their assets.
• The champions entered the map, where Ted discovered his limited starting resources and fled from six wolves, including a Level 2 wolf.
• The judges' hidden time-acceleration feature sped up the game, while Ted realized Kappa had already copied it and recalled Draco's plan to steal a Time-Turner.
• The first monster attacks injured several champions and killed one Russian contestant, while Krum defeated three monsters and Ron recruited troops after finding a mill.
• By the second day, Ron had recruited Level 2 Gnolls, and two unlucky champions ambushed one another and died together.

The champions fought across the map as Ted joined the Demon King's army and used its strength to eliminate rivals before secretly reuniting with the survivors. The champions stormed Demon King Castle and defeated the Demon Lord, though Ted died blocking the Demon Lord's final strike.

• Ron built a large army, Hermione captured a defended castle through careful tactics, and Fleur used her Charm Spell to recruit troops cheaply.
• Neville fell into the underground world and joined the Underground Dwarf Tribe, Jerry was transformed into a demon and inducted into the hell faction, and Harriett became chieftain of a Barbarian Tribe.
• Malfoy and Harriett lured a Durmstrang champion into a trap, while Ted joined the Demon King's army and led attacks that eliminated several champions.
• Ted persuaded Fleur and Hermione to join him, then secured Demon King reinforcements to defeat Krum and his allied champions.
• Neville, Ron, Harriett, and Malfoy united their forces, while Jerry opened Demon King Castle's gates for their assault.
• Ted and the other turncoats coordinated spells to weaken the Demon Lord and his army, allowing the champions to win; Ted died protecting Hermione and Fleur from the Demon Lord's strike.

Ted narrowly won the fifth level of the Seven Schools Tournament, and Hogwarts retained all its champions as the other teams lost contestants. He then joined Harriett and Hermione at St. Mungo’s for the birth of Sirius and Olivia’s son, while realizing he needed to resume the search for Voldemort’s Horcruxes.

• The judges awarded Ted 7.7 points, placing him first, while Neville came second, Ron third, Fleur fourth, and Hermione fifth.
• The tournament standings left all Hogwarts champions in contention, and Ted received the rewards for completing the sixth mission before triggering the next level, an endurance challenge.
• Harriett told Ted that Olivia was about to give birth, and Ted, Hermione, Harriett, and Professor McGonagall went to St. Mungo’s Hospital.
• Sirius and Olivia welcomed a healthy son named James Regulus Black, with Lupin agreeing to be his godfather.
• Ted remembered Regulus’s sacrifice and began planning how to find and destroy Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes without letting Dumbledore obtain the Resurrection Stone ring.

The author described struggling to write despite knowing the plot, spending hours procrastinating before producing 1,700 words. The chapter ended with the author joking that writing had become a painful illness.

• The author spent the day lying around, sleeping, using a phone, and eating instead of writing.
• The author opened the computer at six, procrastinated, and eventually wrote 1,700 words by eleven thirty.
• The author considered finding an easy, low-paying job where they could write while working.
• The author described their low expenses and fantasized about being paid to live in the wilderness for a year.
• The author wondered what to do about their lack of motivation and joked that writing made them suffer.

Ted investigated Voldemort’s missing Horcruxes and located the cave where Regulus had sacrificed himself to steal the locket. He arrived there with Sirius, Lupin, Dumbledore, and Kreacher, who learned the truth about Regulus as they prepared to cross the cave’s pool.

• Ted sent Barty Crouch Jr. to search the Gaunt house, where Barty found evidence that someone had recently removed the Resurrection Stone ring.
• Barty investigated Riddle Manor and found traces suggesting Voldemort had visited alone, without a snake or servant.
• Ted asked Lupin to locate the seaside cave, and Lupin found it by tracing the location of the orphanage where Voldemort had lived.
• Ted told Lupin about Voldemort’s return and Horcruxes, and Lupin urged him to tell Sirius about Regulus.
• Ted, Lupin, Sirius, Kreacher, and Dumbledore entered the concealed cave, where Sirius and Kreacher grieved over Regulus’s sacrifice beside a pool and battered boat.

Ted and Dumbledore recovered Regulus’s body from Voldemort’s cave and retrieved the note he had left behind. Back at school, the champions learned that the sixth Seven Schools Tournament round would be the Endless Tower, a solitary endurance trial beginning in three days.

• Ted used a flying carpet to take Dumbledore, Sirius, Lupin, and Kreacher across the cave lake to the stone basin holding Voldemort’s potion.
• Ted fed the potion to a Fishman, allowing Sirius to retrieve the imitation locket and Regulus’s note while Ted left a new note inside for Voldemort.
• Dumbledore surrounded the island with fire as Ted released Little Soft, and Sirius and Kreacher identified Regulus among the Inferi before the group destroyed the rest.
• After returning to school, Ted reassured his friends about the tournament, and Ron and Jerry said they were already proud of how far they had come.
• Dumbledore announced the Endless Tower, a separate climbing challenge where each champion would fight increasingly difficult monsters without supplies other than a wand.
• Ted and his friends prepared for the trial by practicing spells to heal injuries and restore stamina, with the competition set to begin three days later.

Ted raced ahead through the Endless Tower, defeating its monsters with efficient magic while the other champions faced increasingly difficult battles and drained their strength. As the remaining competitors struggled to keep climbing, Ilvermorny's last champion kept pace with Ted and Krum after gaining the Magic Power of their defeated teammates through Ritual Magic.

• Ted entered the Endless Tower and quickly cleared its first six floors, dispatching slimes, an Angry Bird, Skeleton Soldiers, a Goblin, and a Chocobo.
• Ted reached the seventh floor ahead of the other champions, while Ron revealed his Kamen Rider Armor to fight the magical armor.
• The champions fought through Goblins, Fishmen, an Eight-Eyed Spider, skeletons, a carrion worm, and a wraith; the spider and wraith eliminated champions who were caught off guard.
• Harriett, Neville, Hermione, Malfoy, Krum, and Fleur relied on their special abilities as fatigue and Magic Power loss made each new floor harder.
• Fleur charmed several monsters into following her, and Madame Maxime stopped Karkaroff from getting her strategy declared cheating.
• Ilvermorny's Hook-Nosed Professor revealed that the school's champions had used Ritual Magic to transfer the defeated contestants' Magic Power to their last remaining champion, who now kept pace with Ted and Krum.

Ted overwhelmed the monster-filled tower stages, using powerful magic and a fused black dragon Patronus to defeat a Hungarian Horntail before surrendering when two more appeared. He finished first, and seven champions qualified for next month’s finals, though Hermione was unhappy with the results.

• Ted defeated a Mountain Troll by freezing the ground beneath it, while other champions struggled against the monsters and some were eliminated.
• Ted burned a group of Kobolds with Flame Impact, and the remaining champions faced increasingly dangerous creatures that eliminated Malfoy, Jerry, Hermione, Ron, and others.
• Neville defeated a Lich, but Harriett, Neville, Fleur, Krum, and Billy were later eliminated as the monster stages continued, leaving Ted as the sole champion climbing.
• Ted defeated a Beholder with a Blizzard, then fused with his black dragon Patronus and pummeled a Hungarian Horntail into defeat.
• The judges opened a stage containing two Hungarian Horntails, prompting Ted to surrender and ending the competition.
• Ted took first place, Billy placed second, and Krum, Fleur, Neville, Harriett, and a South American champion also qualified for the finals; Hermione was unhappy.

After Hermione was eliminated from the tournament, Ted comforted her and celebrated learning how to make magic cards, while the final stage approached amid Easter festivities and a renewed Death Eater plot. The Seven Schools Tournament’s battle-royale finale began, and Ted used Little Soft to devour the maze’s animated hedge wall.

• Hermione accepted her elimination but cried over losing to Fleur, and Ted comforted her by picking her up and kissing her.
• Ted received his rewards for the Endless Tower, learned the Light Protecting Sword magic-card method, and considered turning his spells into cards.
• Ted’s Easter performance sent Hogwarts students dancing, while Fleur tried to spend time with him and Hermione kept close watch.
• A Death Eater gathered recruits under the revived Dark Lord’s orders, and the judges announced a final battle royale with seven champions and shrinking grounds.
• On May 23, the seven champions entered the maze, and Ted sent Little Soft into an animated hedge wall, which the creature began devouring.

The champions battled monsters and one another in the final Shrub Maze round, where Harriett, Neville, and Luli were eliminated. Krum tracked down Ted and challenged him to a wizard’s duel, leaving their confrontation about to begin.

• The champions entered the maze and fought its monsters as the shrinking boundaries pushed them toward the center.
• Billy defeated Harriett after a prolonged, destructive duel, and Harriett’s protective device teleported her away.
• Luli tricked Neville with a feigned injury and a cloud of powder, but Fleur ambushed Luli and eliminated her.
• Krum used a brass tracking compass to find Ted, then openly challenged him to a wizard’s duel.

Ted defeated Krum after Krum unleashed a dangerous, twisted form of magic that Ted's Black Dragon Patronus devoured. As the judges prepared to remove Krum, Billy revealed an Obscurus, leaving Dumbledore and Gellert alarmed and uncertain about how he had acquired it.

• Ted watched Harriett and Neville lose their matches, then faced Krum in the maze.
• Ted evaded Krum's spells and drove him across the arena with a barrage of elemental attacks.
• Krum unleashed a dark, monstrous power that formed a swarm of beasts, but Ted's Black Dragon tore it apart and devoured the black matter.
• Ted signaled the judges to take the unconscious Krum away after the dark markings vanished from his body.
• Billy arrived and began convulsing as an Obscurus emerged from him, prompting Dumbledore to identify it and Gellert to question how Billy had become an Obscurial.

Ted trapped and dismantled Billy’s Obscurus using Hogwarts’s ancient magic network and an Alchemy Array, then defeated Fleur when she tried to seduce him into lowering his guard. The tournament continued with Ted as the last champion standing.

• Billy’s Obscurus erupted, and Dumbledore refused to let the judges intervene because the Goblet of Fire’s contract bound the champions.
• Ted lured the Obscurus away from the castle, trapped it in an Alchemy Array, and experimented with ways to counter it.
• Ted used Magic Conversion to break down the Obscurus into Magic Power and emotional energy, though Billy was carried away unconscious and might never wake up.
• With the shrinking zone at its limit, Fleur emerged from hiding and attacked Ted, who froze her and admitted her defeat seemed inevitable.
• Fleur tried to seduce Ted as a last gambit, but Ted resisted and removed her protective device, teleporting her out of the match.

Ted won the Seven Schools Tournament, but the celebration was interrupted when Dumbledore confronted the disguised Voldemort over the artificial Obscurus and the harm done to Ilvermorny's students. Professor Gellert joined Dumbledore against Voldemort, and the chapter ended as his blue-flame serpent attacked.

• Ted eliminated Fleur after pretending to be overcome by her Charm, securing the tournament championship while Fleur accepted second place.
• Hogwarts celebrated Ted's victory, and Hagrid invited Madame Maxime to share a drink.
• Hermione stopped Fleur from following Ted as he went to investigate Billy's artificial Obscurus and the fate of Ilvermorny's delegation.
• Ted arrived to find Dumbledore fighting the Hook-Nosed Professor, who revealed himself as Voldemort after killing and impersonating the real professor.
• Voldemort admitted through his actions that he had used the Ilvermorny students' contracted Magic Power to create an artificial Obscurus and had drained the remaining students.
• Professor Gellert joined Dumbledore, and his blue-flame serpent devoured Voldemort's three-headed fire snake before charging at him.

Ted created a Mirror Hogwarts to contain the battle between Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Voldemort without damaging the real school, but Voldemort escaped after fighting them. The attack left Karkaroff dead and Uagadou’s headmaster injured, while Fudge publicly cast doubt on Dumbledore’s account and shifted blame toward him.

• Ted activated Hogwarts’s magical defenses and overlaid the garden with Mirror Hogwarts so the three wizards could fight without harming the real school.
• Grindelwald and Dumbledore battled Voldemort, who held his own with powerful spells as the virtual grounds were devastated.
• After deciding to retreat, Voldemort broke through Mirror Hogwarts, escaped as Black Smoke, and left a Dark Mark in the sky.
• At the banquet, the students panicked as professors found Karkaroff dead and Uagadou’s headmaster badly injured; Dumbledore said Voldemort had attacked.
• Fudge dismissed the claim that Voldemort had returned and told Ministry staff that Dumbledore was likely using Voldemort to conceal the truth.

Fudge learned that Azkaban had been breached just as Voldemort discovered his Slytherin’s Locket was a fake and rushed to punish Karakatus Burke. The next morning, Ted read reports of Karkaroff’s death, the prison escape, and the destruction of Borgin and Burkes, while the Seven Schools Tournament’s rewards left him with a new trial card.

• Fudge began drafting an article blaming Dumbledore for the Hogwarts deaths and disappearance, but his subordinate reported that Azkaban had been invaded and all its prisoners had escaped.
• A skeletal Death Eater led Dark Wizards to Azkaban, where they killed the guards, broke through the prison’s protections, and freed the prisoners, including imprisoned Death Eaters.
• Voldemort returned to his secret base to retrieve Slytherin’s Locket, found a fake bearing a note from Karakatus Burke, and flew toward Knockturn Alley in a rage.
• Ted received the Seven Schools Trial card and chose to rest rather than use it before preparing for its seven stages.
• The next morning, Anzu brought Ted The Daily Prophet, whose headlines reported Karkaroff’s death, the Azkaban breakout, and the destruction of Borgin and Burkes with its owner killed.

Voldemort discovered that his locket and diary Horcruxes were gone, tortured Lucius for the diary, and spared him because he still needed the Malfoy family. As Voldemort’s return stirred political denial and Dumbledore drew Ted further into the crisis, Dumbledore revealed that Voldemort had taken Slytherin’s Serpent Wand from Ilvermorny.

• Voldemort searched Borgin’s memories for the missing Horcrux, then killed him after Borgin recalled Voldemort’s time working at the shop.
• Voldemort went to Malfoy Manor and cast the Cruciatus Curse on Lucius when he learned the diary had ended up with Dumbledore, but he decided not to kill him.
• Neville and Harriett read the names of the Azkaban escapees and were enraged, while Ted considered how the public and Minister Fudge were denying Voldemort’s return.
• Dumbledore summoned Ted, discussed Voldemort’s return and the political situation, and warned him not to trust Gellert’s claims of a greater good.
• Dumbledore told Ted that Voldemort had taken Ilvermorny’s Serpent Tree and now wielded the Serpent Wand once used by Slytherin.

Ted spent his experience points to strengthen his magic before joining his companions at the Order of the Phoenix’s first meeting in ten years. Dumbledore confirmed Voldemort had returned, explained how they had discovered his Horcruxes, and urged the Order to find and destroy them.

• Ted spent 152,100 experience points to advance his Wizard class twice and raise Magic Penetration by two levels.
• The visiting schools left Hogwarts, and the students began their holidays after the Seven Schools Tournament disrupted the school year.
• Dumbledore summoned Ted and his companions to the Order of the Phoenix’s meeting, and they traveled to its secret base in southern London.
• Dumbledore told the reunited Order that Voldemort had returned and that war was imminent.
• Dumbledore described Voldemort’s diary Horcrux and explained that they had to find and destroy every Horcrux to prevent his resurrection.

After Voldemort’s resurrection, Ted and the Order of the Phoenix prepared for the coming conflict while Ted considered how to counter the Ministry’s denial of Voldemort’s return. The chapter ended with strange new terrain and creatures appearing around the world, signaling that a third large-scale Celestial Conjunction might be beginning.

• The Order of the Phoenix members shared dinner after Snape left, while Ted worried that Voldemort was stronger and more dangerous than before.
• Ted explained that Nicolas Flamel had considered death a natural part of life, and Dumbledore’s allies began investigating Voldemort’s Horcruxes and school days.
• Ted decided to use The Quibbler and possibly magical radio to spread the truth, since Fudge controlled The Daily Prophet and denied Voldemort’s return.
• A mountain appeared in Switzerland, where half-orcs attacked a nearby town before local forces drove them back with modern weapons.
• Strange terrain and creatures appeared in more than twenty locations worldwide, leading the International Confederation of Wizards to suspect a third large-scale Celestial Conjunction.

As the Third Celestial Conjunction brought widespread terrain changes and growing panic, Ted accelerated work on a magic radio network to share information and prepare people for Voldemort. Voldemort’s Death Eaters were quietly building influence in Norway, while Grindelwald contacted Ted and hinted at a future in which wizards would have to fight.

• Governments and wizards struggled to conceal the Third Celestial Conjunction’s widespread changes, while Ted continued investigating the cause and focused on the threat from Voldemort.
• Ted recruited Gnome craftsmen at Iron Hammer Fortress, built a modular magic radio, and distributed a hundred sets to friends and classmates.
• Hermione used the password to tune in to Ted’s Anti-Voldemort Channel and listened to its first broadcast with her mother.
• Voldemort’s Death Eaters recruited followers in Norway under the name Revival Society and infiltrated local wizarding institutions as Celestial Conjunctions fueled worldwide unrest.
• Ted managed panic and misinformation on the Ideal Land Forum until an owl delivered a Two-way Mirror from Grindelwald.
• Grindelwald told Ted he had seen a possible future in which all wizards would have to take up their wands and fight, and he began sounding Ted out about his plans.