Chapter Summaries

Dylan studied the collective desire powering the Projection Screen and realized how individual will could flow with consensus magic. As the other Champions faced Grindylows, the spectators watched their progress and noticed that the Black Lake Mermaids had changed.

• Dylan used a spell to strengthen his soul perception, resisted the spectators' collective desire to see the competition, and uncovered how consensus magic guided and amplified the Projection Screen.
• Ludo Bagman reported that Dylan had stopped moving, while Karkaroff and Madame Maxime hoped he was recovering; Dumbledore suspected he was studying magic and predicted a surprise.
• Ravenclaw students Michael Corner, Anthony Goldstein, and Terry Boot speculated about why Dylan had stopped, and Bagman showed Harry, Cedric, and Draco encountering four Grindylows.
• Draco's protective magic deflected a Grindylow's spikes, and he joined Harry and Cedric in driving the creatures away.
• Michael noticed that the Mermaids in the image looked neater and had shinier scales than before, then angrily challenged Anthony after Anthony teased him about searching for female Mermaids.

Durmstrang’s Champions Franz Schmidt and Maria Vilman became hostages after losing their wands, leaving Viktor Krum to attempt a guarded rescue. Meanwhile, the other teams advanced to the Second Task’s final trial, where Harry dodged a Mermaid’s spear as enemies closed in.

• Ludo Bagman revealed that Durmstrang’s Champions had taken the wrong wands, and Karkaroff accused the organizers of cheating before Madame Maxime reminded him that the rules had been agreed upon.
• Bagman explained that injured Champions were healed by the Mermaids and taken hostage, while Krum approached the Mermaid Village but fled after a Grindylow detected him.
• Bagman reported Beauxbatons’ strong progress and Hogwarts’ growing points, while Harry and Cedric discussed how the bracelet’s orange glow signaled the trial was nearing completion.
• Lob Worms, Mermaids, and Grindylows attacked Harry, Cedric, and Draco when their bracelets turned orange, and Bagman identified the assault as the Second Task’s final trial.
• Harry drove back one Grindylow and escaped two others by stepping on their heads, then collected points as they fought each other.
• Harry sensed danger behind him and twisted aside just in time to dodge a Mermaid’s spear.

Harry, Draco, and Cedric struggled against Mermaids, Grindylows, and Lob Worms in the lake, and Harry offered to distract the creatures so his companions could escape. Draco instead revealed a powerful version of the Wand-Lighting Charm that blinded their attackers, though the chapter left the trio’s escape unseen.

• Harry was pursued by two Mermaids and Grindylows, and one Mermaid’s spear injured his foot as he tried to reach Draco and Cedric.
• Draco and Cedric broke free of the Grindylows and rescued Harry, but the creatures regrouped under the Mermaids’ direction and tightened their encirclement.
• Harry proposed drawing the creatures’ attention so Draco and Cedric could escape, but Draco rejected the plan and announced his own.
• As the Mermaids and other creatures closed in, Draco told Harry and Cedric to shut their eyes and cast an exceptionally powerful Wand-Lighting Charm.
• The intense light blinded the Mermaids and Grindylows and disrupted the Curtains’ image transmission, while Dumbledore told Karkaroff he would discuss compensation with the Mermaids’ leader, Mercurius.

Draco, Harry, and Cedric escaped the Mermaids with Draco’s enhanced Light-Illuminating Charm and planned their next move as the lake’s final test neared. Meanwhile, Dylan experimented with Consensus Magic, briefly disrupting the spectators’ Curtains and devising a new way to influence collective perception through the lake creatures.

• Draco used the Light-Illuminating Charm to overwhelm the Mermaids and Grindylows, then led Harry and Cedric to hide among water plants.
• Cedric treated Harry’s injured foot, and the three discussed the bracelets, the approaching Mermaid attack, and a plan to stay together while collecting more light points.
• A Mermaid patrol spotted the trio, but the creatures halted when the spectators’ Curtains suddenly switched to Dylan, who had just cast a spell.
• Gabriel Grim, Lupin, and Sirius noticed the Curtain anomaly and speculated that Dylan’s magic had affected the transmission.
• Dylan studied how Consensus Magic worked through collective will and considered letting the lake creatures observe events to alter or strengthen the existing consensus.

Dylan used the Marking Spell as a fulcrum to influence Cognitive Magic, drawing the lake’s creatures toward him and freezing many of them as they approached. After ending the spell and nearing the required score for the Second Task, he considered using Cognitive Magic to make the creatures see the sky.

• Dylan chose the Marking Spell for a low-risk experiment and cast it on himself while merging his will with its magic.
• Dylan realized that Potion ingredients and Ritual Magic mediums could help him understand and guide the collective will behind Cognitive Magic.
• The altered spell made the lake’s creatures focus on Dylan and swim toward him, while Harry, Cedric, and Draco took advantage of the distracted Grindylows to pursue light points.
• Krum saw the creatures abandon their patrols near the Mermaid Village and cautiously approached the stone pillars, fearing a trap.
• Ludo Bagman and the spectators watched as creatures gathered around Dylan and froze among ice flowers, while Dylan’s bracelet’s light shifted toward red.
• Dylan ended the Marking Spell, noted that he was close to completing the trial, and wondered what would happen if he used Cognitive Magic to show the creatures the sky.

Dylan used the spell Separate Left and Right with Cognitive Magic to divide the Black Lake and create a passage through it. The astonished spectators cheered his name, while Anthony hinted to his friends that he knew something about Dylan’s feat.

• Dylan chose the old spell Separate Left and Right and used Cognitive Magic to push the lake water aside.
• Ludo Bagman, Barty Crouch Sr., and Dumbledore watched Dylan raise his wand but could not identify the magic he was casting.
• Dylan swept his wand in both directions, splitting the Black Lake and exposing a long passage of muddy lakebed.
• The stunned spectators erupted into cheers as Ludo Bagman declared that Dylan’s feat would be remembered.
• Terry Boot, Anthony Goldstein, Chris Moen, and Michael Corner discussed Dylan’s achievement, and Anthony began hinting at information he had heard from his great-great-uncle.

Dylan completed the Second Task by splitting the Black Lake, freezing the attacking Grindylows, and earning a perfect score. Meanwhile, Harry, Draco, and Cedric found themselves surrounded by Grindylows and Mermaids after the creatures recovered and tracked them through the water plants.

• Anthony told Chris and Michael that Dumbledore and Anthony's great-granduncle had once created a fog covering London.
• Dylan reunited the divided lake, froze the charging Grindylows, and completed the trial when his bracelet turned dark red and transported him to shore.
• Ludo Bagman announced Dylan as the first Champion to finish the Second Task and praised his performance as perfect.
• Harry, Draco, and Cedric pursued the unsettled Grindylows, but the Mermaids regrouped and ordered the creatures to attack them.
• Draco cramped while the trio retreated into water plants, but the Grindylows tracked them down and the Mermaids closed in again.

Harry, Draco, and Cedric completed the Second Task by using Draco’s Light-Illuminating Charm to expose the lake creatures and collect enough light points. They were transported to the Hogwarts School Hospital, where they learned Dylan had split the Black Lake with powerful magic and was recovering under Madam Pomfrey’s care.

• Harry spotted a second group of mermaids and Grindylows closing in, and urged Draco to cast the Light-Illuminating Charm again.
• Draco’s spell made the lake creatures turn away, allowing Harry, Draco, and Cedric to hit more Grindylows with Extraction Spells and turn their bracelets crimson.
• The three boys vanished as the mermaids threw their tridents, then landed in the School Hospital after the bracelets transported them from the lake.
• Dylan conjured a cushion to catch Draco, and Harry realized the boys had arrived at Hogwarts’ School Hospital.
• Madam Pomfrey treated Draco’s muscle spasm and ordered Dylan to rest, explaining that he had split the Black Lake with powerful magic.
• Harry asked Dylan about splitting the lake, and Dylan said he had used difficult-to-control tricks involving Cognitive Magic.

Harry, Cedric, and Draco recovered in the Hospital Wing while the judges watched Fleur Delacour and her Beauxbatons companions fight the Mermaids and Grindylows. Beauxbatons completed the trial, and Ludo Bagman announced that Harry, Draco, and Cedric had completed it five minutes earlier.

• Madam Pomfrey gave Harry, Cedric, and Draco Awakening and Invigoration Potions, and Draco struggled with their taste.
• Ludo Bagman switched the Curtain to show Fleur Delacour and her companions under attack, while Madame Maxime watched anxiously.
• Fleur freed Lefebvre from the Grindylows and used a Dancing Steps Charm enhanced with Mental Magic to control the Mermaids.
• Fleur and her companions drove away the remaining Grindylows, and their bracelets turned deep red to mark their completion of the trial.
• Ludo Bagman received word that Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, and Cedric Diggory had also completed the trial five minutes earlier.

The judges finalized the Second Task scores, awarding Beauxbatons and Hogwarts seventy points, Durmstrang forty-four, and Dylan Hawkwood seventy. Ludo Bagman went to the School Hospital to announce news about the Third Task, but Madam Pomfrey stopped him for disturbing the patients.

• Barty Crouch Sr. reminded the judges that scores showing excessive favoritism could be invalidated, and Karkaroff regretted his earlier bias while complaining about Maria Vilman and Franz Schmidt.
• Ludo Bagman announced Beauxbatons' seventy points, Durmstrang's forty-four points, Hogwarts' seventy points, and Dylan Hawkwood's seventy points.
• Fred, George, Neville, and Ron discussed Karkaroff's favoritism and the Champions' scores as spectators cheered the results.
• Ludo Bagman entered the School Hospital and began to introduce the Third Task, but Madam Pomfrey interrupted him and reminded him to let the patients rest.
• Ludo Bagman apologized to Madam Pomfrey for shouting in the hospital.

Ludo Bagman announced the Second Task scores and the date for the Third Task, while Hogwarts students celebrated the Champions’ return. Dumbledore investigated the Mermaids’ recovery and suspected Dylan had intervened, as Voldemort used Dylan’s feat to instruct Barty Crouch Jr. about his ambitions and wizarding superiority.

• Ludo Bagman announced that Dylan Hawkwood, Hogwarts' Three-Person Team, and the Beauxbatons Champions each earned seventy points in the Second Task, and that the Third Task would take place on June twenty-fourth.
• Madam Pomfrey examined the Champions and let them leave the School Hospital, and Hogwarts students welcomed them with a feast in the Great Hall.
• Gabriel Grim met with Dylan Hawkwood to discuss the Curtain’s magical improvements, production, and promotion before leaving to advance their cooperation.
• Snape gave Dumbledore a Potion for the Mermaids’ injured eyes, but Dumbledore explained that their eyes had recovered without it and suspected Dylan had caused their recovery.
• Barty Crouch Jr. watched a Pensieve memory of Dylan Hawkwood splitting the Black Lake, and Voldemort urged him to broaden his knowledge and remember that wizards and Muggles were fundamentally different.

Voldemort agreed with Barty Crouch Jr.’s speculation that Dylan had found a powerful magical item at the bottom of the Black Lake, and Barty urged an attack on the Department of Mysteries to seize its artifacts. At Hogwarts, Fred and George searched for students’ hair so they could disguise themselves, but Luna guessed their plan, and the twins ended by wondering why they could not find any of Dylan’s hair.

• Barty Crouch Jr. proposed that Dylan had used a hidden magical item to split the Black Lake, and Voldemort praised his reasoning about Hogwarts’s secrets.
• Barty Crouch Jr. told Voldemort that Durmstrang’s mobile magical ship had once belonged to the Department of Mysteries and suggested targeting the Ministry to obtain its artifacts.
• Fred and George searched the Mystic Corridor’s rubbish for strands of hair while Luna, Neville, and Hannah watched and asked what they were doing.
• Luna inferred that Fred and George planned to use the hair to transform into other students and avoid Professor McGonagall, and the twins admitted she was right.
• Fred and George explained that Professor McGonagall had scolded them for overfeeding their Puffskeins and neglecting their studies, then wondered why they could not find any of Dylan’s hair.

Fred and George tested Polyjuice Potion made with collected hairs, then turned their attention to a strange effect from Filch’s Fake Wand during a nighttime chase. Filch discovered the Twins had made the wand, while Dylan arrived to investigate its unexpected magic.

• Fred and George confirmed that the collected hairs belonged to Neville and Hannah, then discussed using Dylan’s hair-clearing spell to develop easier-to-maintain Puffskeins.
• Dylan approved Fred and George’s Puffskein ideas before Filch chased the Twins through the Hogwarts corridors after curfew.
• Filch used the Fake Wand’s Scourgify spell, which unexpectedly covered the floor with water and foam and caused Fred and George to slip and fall.
• Dylan hurried to the scene to help the Twins and investigate why the Fake Wand had produced an unintended effect.
• Fred and George told Filch that they had made the Fake Wand and admitted they had sought him out for fun during their nighttime outings.

Dylan investigated why Filch’s Scouring Charm had created soapy foam that trapped Fred and George, while Filch briefly hoped the magic meant he had become a wizard. The chapter ended with Dylan explaining a spellcasting trick that could make Scourgify work better against stubborn stains.

• George and Fred revealed that they had made the Fake Wands themselves after Dylan designed the first ones, and they teased Filch about his double chin.
• Dylan explained that Filch’s unusual Scouring Charm had created slippery soapy water specifically to trap Fred and George, then cleared the puddle with his own Vanishing Spell.
• Filch tried to cast Vanish with the Fake Wand, but the spell failed, leaving him disappointed that he had not become a wizard.
• Dylan questioned Filch and learned that the Scouring Charm began producing foam after a deep cleaning in late October, when Filch had been thinking about cleaning agents and bubbles.
• Dylan explained that Scourgify could be treated as meaning detergent, a trick that made the spell more effective against stubborn stains.

Dylan investigated why Filch, a Squib, could perceive Hogwarts and Dementors, then completed an improved Wolfsbane Potion formula and went to show it to Professor Snape. The chapter ended with Snape meeting Dylan at his office and greeting him with a disdainful “Hmph!”

• Dylan examined Filch’s fake wand and determined that its service life had expired, while Filch explained that his thoughts and dreams had influenced its bubble-producing magic.
• Dylan questioned Filch about his first visit to Hogwarts and whether he had seen Dementors, concluding that Squibs perceived magic differently from Muggles.
• Dylan spent several days in the Suitcase laboratory refining the Wolfsbane Potion and completed an improved formula.
• Dylan went to Professor Snape’s office to show him the formula, but found the office empty before Snape arrived and gave him a curt “Hmph!”

Dylan, Harry, Cedric, and Draco learned that the Third Task would feature dangerous magical creatures and discussed ways to handle them as they headed to the Quidditch Pitch. They left knowing the task would be harder than expected, with Draco advising them to avoid any Re'em.

• Dylan, Harry, Cedric, and Draco gathered in the Entrance Hall and discussed the Quidditch Pitch as a possible venue for the Third Task.
• Hagrid revealed that the task would include Re'ems, Blast-Ended Skrewts, Nundus, a Sphinx, and Buckbeak, then warned Harry to keep the information secret.
• Hagrid told the group that the Fire Dragons had been returned to Romania after Bane and the other Centaurs objected to keeping them near Hogwarts.
• As the group walked to the Quidditch Pitch, Cedric warned that the creatures would make the task difficult, and Dylan suggested provoking a Nundu's heads into fighting each other.
• Dylan proposed using a Tracking Charm or floating dust and paper to locate invisible Blast-Ended Skrewts, and Harry committed the methods to memory.
• Draco advised the group to detour if they encountered a Re'em.

Dylan, Harry, and the other Champions arrived at the Quidditch Pitch, where Ludo Bagman explained that Beauxbatons’ Alchemy would create a maze for the Third Task. The Champions learned the rules and that they would need to hold the trophy for five minutes before its Portkey magic activated, as a Durmstrang Champion began asking about what could happen during that wait.

• Dylan, Harry, and their companions discussed Magical Creatures they might encounter before reaching the Quidditch Pitch.
• Harry noticed strange markings across the grass, and Dylan identified them as a Beauxbatons Alchemy Formation designed to create the maze.
• Ludo Bagman welcomed the Champions and announced that the Third Task would take place in a three-dimensional maze with the trophy at its highest level.
• Bagman explained that Champions could not damage the maze or use flying magic or items, prompting the others to look toward Dylan.
• Bagman said the maze would contain traps and Magical Creatures, and that the trophy had to be held for five minutes before its Portkey activated.
• A Durmstrang Champion asked Bagman whether Champions could do something while holding the trophy during those five minutes.

Ludo Bagman explained the Third Task’s rules, including attacks between Champions, permitted Dark Magic, penalties, and maze entry conditions. Back at Hogwarts, Filch rushed to Dylan with Mrs. Norris and revealed through his joyful reaction that he had finally cast magic.

• Ludo Bagman told the Champions that they could attack one another during the Third Task and use some Dark Magic, provided they could undo its effects afterward.
• Dylan clarified the counter-curse principle, and Bagman explained penalties for violations, entry order, separate maze entrances, and the restriction to carrying wands.
• Bagman said Dylan would need two other people to lift the trophy and promised to confirm whether they could be Champions from any team.
• The Champions discussed the dangers of the maze as they returned to Hogwarts, and Harry began to ask Dylan a question in the Entrance Hall.
• Filch hurried up clutching Mrs. Norris and told Dylan he had finally achieved his wish, and Dylan congratulated him for successfully casting magic.

Filch discovered that Dylan’s help had let him cast magic, even without a wand, and asked to pursue becoming a true wizard. Dylan warned that the formula was still dangerous, while Dumbledore encouraged Filch to remain at Hogwarts; Harry then returned to the Common Room.

• Filch demonstrated that he could cast the Bubble-Producing Charm with his wand, astonishing Harry, Cedric, and Draco.
• At Dylan’s suggestion, Filch cast the charm using an ordinary branch, revealing that he could perform wandless magic.
• Draco asked about Dylan’s method and its cost, and Dylan explained that the ritual’s potion ingredients were inexpensive but the formula for becoming a true wizard remained dangerous and under research.
• Filch offered to risk his life testing the formula, but Dylan urged him to consider Mrs. Norris and refused to proceed until it was safe.
• Dumbledore arrived with Treacle Tarts and reminded Filch that Hogwarts needed him; Dylan stayed to chat with Dumbledore while Harry went to the Common Room.

Dylan discovered a sinister magical thread linking Harry’s scar to Voldemort after Harry collapsed in pain, then joined Harry, Draco, and Cedric for dueling practice. Their opening exchange ended with Harry dispelling a transformed giant sword and Dylan reflecting Cedric and Draco’s spells, leaving the duel underway.

• Dylan found Harry writhing in pain and used a pale-blue spell to suppress his suffering.
• Dylan examined the Marauder's Map, found Voldemort was not nearby, and saw an ink-green thread extending from Harry's scar.
• Harry recovered, and Dylan joined Harry, Draco, and Cedric for a practice duel that began with a stone tossed into the air.
• Cedric, Draco, and Harry raised shields and attacked Dylan together as the stone transformed into a giant iron sword above Harry.
• Harry used Expelliarmus to turn the sword back into a stone, while Dylan reflected Cedric and Draco’s spells and forced them to dodge.