Chapter Summaries

Sean showed Capen and Milani around Diagon Alley and introduced Capen to the Dawn Project, an interest-free student loan and scholarship program backed by the Wizarding Charitable Association. At Ollivanders, Capen and Milani began choosing wands, while a rude boy interrupted and insulted Capen for carrying a Dawn Card.

• Sean took Capen and Milani through Diagon Alley and explained the Dawn Project's loans, discounts, scholarships, and career support to Capen.
• Capen agreed to sign up for the Dawn Project after seeing its benefits, and Sean reflected on how the program could build the Wizarding Charitable Association's influence over generations.
• Sean brought the two students to Ollivanders, where Capen and Milani began trying wands and Sean spoke with Stephanie about the shop's Dawn Card discount partnership.
• A boy and his father entered Ollivanders, refused to wait, and the boy insulted Capen as a poor slob after noticing his Dawn Project card.

Sean Wallop watched Stephanie confront Mr. Lestrange and his arrogant son at Ollivanders, where they were trying to intimidate the shop and its customers. Mr. Lestrange fled after recognizing Sean, and Stephanie realized his fear came from Sean’s reputation for the Hogsmeade attack; Capen and Milani then received their wands.

• Stephanie explained that Mr. Lestrange used his Ministry position to hassle Ollivander over wand regulations.
• Young Lestrange insulted Capen and tried to pressure Milani into giving him her contact information, while Mr. Lestrange demanded priority service.
• Stephanie threatened to close Ollivanders rather than yield, and Young Lestrange foolishly offered to save the shop if she would date him.
• Mr. Lestrange invoked a search warrant to target Sean, but he recognized Sean and hurried out with his son.
• Stephanie connected Mr. Lestrange’s fear of Sean to the Hogsmeade attack and the Guard Corps, calling Sean’s widespread reputation good news.
• Capen and Milani each found a wand, and Stephanie called Capen over to speak with her after escorting the group outside.

Sean taught Capen and Milani lessons about confidence and understanding people, then helped them prepare for Hogwarts. On the Hogwarts Express, the children found a compartment and saw Sean greeted by a crowd of admiring students.

• Sean told Capen he had delayed intervening against Young Lestrange so Capen could learn about confidence, strength, and respect for the Ollivander family.
• Sean taught Capen and Milani lessons about human nature, and they wrote down what they had learned at Florin's Ice Cream Parlor.
• Sean explained that Young Lestrange could be a test of how Capen dealt with people, and recalled using physical persuasion when other methods failed.
• Sean took Capen and Milani shopping and gave Capen a brown screech owl named Leon.
• Capen and Milani arrived at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, boarded the Hogwarts Express, and received help with their luggage from the Weasley brothers.
• After the train began moving, Capen and Milani saw Sean surrounded by admiring students, and he noticed them and walked over.

Capen and Milani traveled to Hogwarts on the train, where Capen reflected on Sean Wallop’s guidance and discussed magic with Milani. Henry Lestrange confronted them in their compartment, and Capen calmly asked what he wanted.

• Sean greeted Capen and Milani, then left to continue checking on the first-years aboard the train.
• Milani and Capen discussed Sean’s summer lessons, which had taught Capen to think carefully, understand people, and explore the principles of magic.
• Sean, Hermione, and Daisy ate snacks and joked about Sean’s admirers before Hermione urged Sean to resume their prefect duties.
• Henry Lestrange entered Capen and Milani’s compartment with two boys, ignored Milani’s demand that he leave, and said he was interested in both of them.
• Capen reasoned that Lestrange had returned because he believed Sean would not protect Capen, then calmly asked Lestrange what he wanted.

Capen Roman faced Young Lestrange after the boy insulted him and Sean Wallop, then used a Recording Pen to expose Lestrange’s lies to a group of third-year students. The seniors took Lestrange and his two lackeys away, while Capen explained to Milani that he had gone along with their intervention.

• Young Lestrange provoked Capen and insulted Sean Wallop, hoping to make Capen attack him first.
• Capen drew his wand to defend Sean Wallop, but third-year students led by Bram Laid opened the compartment door before the confrontation escalated.
• Young Lestrange claimed Capen had attacked his lackeys, but Milani contradicted him and Capen played a Recording Pen recording of Lestrange’s insults.
• Capen used spells to subdue Young Lestrange and his lackeys as Bram Laid and the other third-years turned against them.
• Bram Laid ordered the students to take Young Lestrange and his lackeys away, and Capen told Milani he had simply gone along with the seniors’ intervention.

Capen and Milani prepared to deal with Young Lestrange without relying on Sean, while Hogwarts welcomed its new students and began the school year. The chapter ended as Dumbledore introduced Alastor Moody as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

• Capen regretted losing his temper with Young Lestrange, but Milani encouraged him, and the two decided to face the boy’s likely retaliation together.
• Hermione told Sean that third-years had jinxed three first-years on the train, and Sean explained the grudge between Capen and Young Lestrange.
• Sean, Hermione, and Daisy returned to Hogwarts, where their friends discussed their new roles as Ravenclaw prefects.
• Henry Lestrange was sorted into Slytherin and went to Malfoy, while Milani and Capen were sorted into Ravenclaw.
• Dumbledore welcomed the students, opened the feast, and introduced Alastor Moody as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

At Hogwarts’s opening feast, Dumbledore announced that the Four-School Tournament would be held there, and students learned that the Wizarding Charitable Association had donated six thousand Galleons to sponsor it. Sean revealed to Hermione and Daisy that his father had made the donation, leaving the school buzzing about the tournament and the association.

• Sean and Daisy discussed Moody’s appointment as Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, while Sean watched him for signs that he was Barty Jr. in disguise.
• Dumbledore announced that the Four-School Tournament would take place at Hogwarts, with Champions chosen on Halloween Eve and a prize of three thousand Galleons for each member of the winning team.
• Dumbledore credited the Wizarding Charitable Association’s anonymous chairman with donating six thousand Galleons to the tournament.
• Students connected the association to the Dawn Project and praised its founder as Hermione and Daisy realized Sean was involved.
• Sean told Hermione and Daisy that his father had donated the money, and the narration explained that Mr. Wallop hoped to support his son and pave the way for his younger daughter.

Sean learned that Dumbledore had created a demanding certificate to let exceptional students aged fifteen to seventeen enter the Four-School Tournament, and he decided he wanted to compete. After falling asleep at Hogwarts, Sean had another blurry, unsettling dream featuring a clear full moon and a shadow crossing the sky.

• Allen Wallop abandoned his hopes of joining Hogwarts' School Board for now and began asking about a position at Newmontgard instead.
• Dumbledore announced that Tournament entrants generally had to be at least seventeen, but eligible younger students could qualify through a strict certificate system.
• Harry and Ron discussed finding a way around the age limit, while Neville warned them not to defy Dumbledore's rules.
• Sean's Ravenclaw roommates urged him to enter the Tournament, and Sean decided he would compete despite not knowing who the other Hogwarts Champions would be.
• The next morning, Sean remembered another dream of immense pressure, weakening life, and a clear full moon beneath a vast shadow, and wondered whether it was an omen.

Sean and Hermione joined Newt and Hagrid for the first outdoor Care of Magical Creatures lesson, where Hagrid revealed Blast-Ended Skrewts bred with West. Newt explained that the creatures had been stabilized, but Sean could not communicate with one because it had no eyes, and he later took several small ones for research.

• Hermione teased Sean about Professor Trelawney’s grim interpretation of his dreams as they walked to Hagrid’s hut.
• Newt and Hagrid showed Sean and Hermione a Blast-Ended Skrewt, and Newt revealed that Hagrid had bred it with West’s help.
• Newt explained that the Blast-Ended Skrewts were dangerous but had been bred past their original tendency to explode as they grew.
• Sean tried to communicate with a Blast-Ended Skrewt but learned from Hagrid that it had no eyes and relied on sensory organs in its legs.
• Hagrid presented over a hundred small Blast-Ended Skrewts to the class, and Sean asked to keep several for research.

Sean tried and failed to communicate with his rapidly growing Blast-Ended Skrewts while pursuing information about the Nott family through Draco Malfoy. As the Four-School Tournament’s guests prepared to arrive, Sean said he planned to compete, and Hogwarts decorated the Great Hall for their arrival.

• Sean spent three days handling the Blast-Ended Skrewt hatchlings but could not establish a way to communicate with them.
• Sean asked Draco Malfoy to learn about Theodore Nott and the Nott family’s history, and Malfoy agreed to make inquiries.
• The Blast-Ended Skrewts grew to two feet long, while Malfoy rebuilt his friendship with Theodore and began steering their conversations toward family history.
• Sean and Hermione read the notice announcing the Four-School Tournament guests’ arrival on October 30, and Sean said he wanted to participate.
• On October 30, Sean and the other students found the Great Hall decorated with Hogwarts house banners for the arriving schools.

Hogwarts welcomed the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang delegations with spectacular arrivals, while Sean watched their leaders and students closely. A fire dragon appeared in the storm, then vanished to reveal an old man greeting Hogwarts.

• Professor McGonagall ordered the students into neat lines and led them outside to await the visiting schools.
• Madame Maxime arrived with Beauxbatons in a huge flying carriage pulled by twelve winged horses, and Fleur Delacour and Gabrielle drew the students' attention.
• Durmstrang rose from the Black Lake aboard a ship, and Sean recognized its headmaster Karkaroff as a Death Eater connected to the Returners.
• Ron and other students recognized Viktor Krum, while a crew-cut Durmstrang boy provoked Sean with a throat-slashing gesture.
• A sudden storm and a blazing fire dragon startled the crowd before the dragon disappeared and an old man stepped out of the flames, laughing about Hogwarts.

Newmontgard arrived at Hogwarts under the leadership of a Grindelwald impersonator, and the visiting schools presented dramatic displays at the welcome feast. Dumbledore introduced the tournament officials and explained how the twelve Champions would be selected, then revealed the Triwizard Cup.

• A Grindelwald impersonator arrived with Newmontgard, where Sean greeted the Golden Dawn members and spotted Morgans Daniels among the delegation.
• Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, and Newmontgard entered the Great Hall with elaborate magical displays, and Dumbledore welcomed their Champions.
• Sean discussed Fleur, Gabrielle, and Krum with Fred, George, and Hermione, who noted that Fleur and Krum appeared to have already graduated.
• Amelia Bones and Ludo Bagman joined the feast, and Dumbledore explained the tournament's teams, points, and impartial Champion selector.
• Dumbledore opened a box and revealed the Triwizard Cup, a wooden goblet filled with blue-white flames.

Sean stopped Harry from trying to bypass the Age Line, then met Grindelwald, who confronted Dumbledore over Sean’s eligibility for the Triwizard Cup. The next morning, students from the visiting schools and Cedric entered their names, while Stephanie asked Sean whether he would compete.

• Fred and George gave Harry an Ageing Potion, but Sean warned him against trying to cross Dumbledore’s Age Line, and Harry decided not to enter.
• Sean discovered that Grindelwald was controlling a Polyjuice-disguised Saint and watched Grindelwald argue with Dumbledore over Sean’s age and tournament eligibility.
• Grindelwald accused Dumbledore of unfairly arranging the rules for Sean, then stormed off after Dumbledore repeatedly called Sean an outstanding Hogwarts student.
• Krum and Fleur led Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students in submitting their names to the Triwizard Cup, and Cedric entered amid cheers.
• Stephanie asked Sean whether he was entering the competition.

Students entered their names for the Four-School Tournament, and the Triwizard Cup selected Champions from Durmstrang, Beauxbatons, Newmontgard, and Hogwarts. After Fred Weasley was named as Hogwarts’s third Champion instead of Sean Wallop, the Cup unexpectedly produced another parchment bearing Sean’s name.

• Stephanie, Fred Weasley, and George Weasley entered their names into the Triwizard Cup, while Charlotte teased Colton about Sean’s chances.
• Dumbledore announced the Champions from Durmstrang, Beauxbatons, and Newmontgard, including Viktor Krum, Fleur Delacour, Morgens Daniels, and Hugo Barbarossa.
• The Cup chose Cedric Diggory and George Weasley as Hogwarts Champions, then selected Fred Weasley instead of Sean.
• As the Great Hall reacted to Fred’s selection, the Triwizard Cup flared red again and produced a parchment naming Sean Wallop.

Sean Wallop, Stephanie Ollivander, and Daisy Potter were unexpectedly chosen by the Triwizard Cup, creating a fifth competing team alongside the four schools. The judges ruled that the three had to compete under the Cup’s magical contract, and the Champions learned the first task would take place on November twenty-fourth.

• Dumbledore announced Sean Wallop as an additional Hogwarts Champion, and Karkaroff protested that the selection was unfair.
• The Triwizard Cup produced slips naming Stephanie Ollivander and Daisy Potter, who both joined Sean despite Daisy insisting she had never entered.
• Ludo Bagman introduced the three newcomers to the existing Champions, and Fleur, Karkaroff, and Madame Maxime objected to Hogwarts gaining extra competitors.
• Grindelwald proposed that the three join the competition because someone had tampered with the Cup, and the judging panel voted to accept them as a new team.
• Bagman explained the tournament rules and announced that the first task would be held on November twenty-fourth; Sean wondered who had arranged the selections.

Sean and Stephanie discussed tournament preparations while Hermione struggled with feeling left out, and Stephanie advised Sean to involve her more. Sean then joined the Champions for wand inspections and interviews, where Rita Skeeter reacted stiffly to seeing him.

• Daisy declined a Hiccuping Potion and stayed behind with Hermione while Sean went to seek tournament advice.
• Hermione privately worried that she was being edged out of Sean and Daisy's circle, while Daisy noticed her bad mood.
• Sean met Stephanie in the Room of Requirement, and they reviewed past Triwizard Cup events and possible challenges involving Magical Creatures.
• Hermione encountered Sean and Stephanie after they left, and Stephanie later urged Sean to include Hermione more instead of hiding his meetings from her.
• Snape criticized Sean's unfinished Strong Fire-Resistance Potion before a younger student summoned Sean for the Champions' procedures.
• Sean arrived for wand inspections and interviews, where Rita Skeeter turned rigid when she recognized him.

Rita Skeeter recognized Sean Wallerup as the boy who had imprisoned her while she was disguised as a beetle, and she conducted his interview in terror. At the wand inspection, Sean worried that Mr. Ollivander would discover his modified wand, while Stephanie offered to hint to her grandfather about it.

• Rita Skeeter saw Sean and recalled how he had trapped her in a bottle for days, leaving her frightened of him.
• Sean followed Skeeter into a private room, where she nervously interviewed him and her enchanted quill filled the article with extravagant praise.
• The Champions gathered as Dumbledore introduced Mr. Ollivander, who would inspect their wands before the tournament.
• Sean recalled that he had replaced his original wand with a modified oak wand containing Unicorn Hair, Phoenix Feather, and a lake monster fang, and feared Ollivander might recognize it.
• Stephanie told Sean she would hint to her grandfather, then handed Ollivander her self-made wand, which he praised for its craft and power.

After the wand inspections and publicity surrounding the Four-School Tournament, Sean encouraged Daisy as the Champions gathered for the first event. Mr. Bagman arrived to announce the challenge but had not yet revealed what it was.

• Mr. Ollivander examined Sean's wand and helped conceal that Sean had replaced his original wand, while Stephanie explained her wandmaking methods to Daisy.
• Sean and Stephanie agreed to help their friends modify their wands once they were more skilled.
• Rita Skeeter's flattering Daily Prophet article and student-made badges embarrassed Sean, so he paid for badges featuring all six Hogwarts Champions.
• On the day of the first event, Professor Flitwick led Sean, Daisy, and Stephanie to the tent and urged them to put their safety first.
• Sean reassured the nervous Daisy, and Snape, Hermione, and Stephanie showed their support before the competition began.
• Mr. Bagman entered the tent carrying a purple cloth bag and five colored Magical Ropes to explain the first event.

Sean and the other champions learned that the first task required them to bind an increasingly agitated Cockatrice before retrieving Golden Eggs guarded by Fire Dragons. As the earlier teams competed, Sean discovered he would face the Cockatrice after its madness had accumulated through repeated failures, but remained confident as his team prepared to enter.

• Mr. Bagman announced the two-stage task, and the champions drew their order of appearance and Fire Dragon assignments.
• Sean learned his team had drawn two aggressive Hebridean Black Dragons likely to be in their breeding season, but he stayed calm and advised the other teams about their dragons’ weaknesses.
• Cedric’s team, Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, and Newmontgard each entered the arena and completed the task while Sean waited.
• Hermione returned and told Sean that the organizers had kept the same Cockatrice for every team.
• Sean explained that the Cockatrice’s madness and aggression had built up with each team’s attempt, then stood ready to lead his team into the arena.

Sean Wallerup and his teammates faced a raging Cockatrice and two Hebridean Black Dragons in the tournament arena. Sean subdued the Cockatrice with powerful Transfiguration, then unexpectedly calmed the charging male dragon by recognizing it as an old friend.

• Sean explained the Cockatrice’s dangers to Daisy Potter and Stephanie Ollivander as it charged, then caught it in a giant stone hand conjured from the earth.
• Sean tied a bow around the stone hand and led Daisy and Stephanie toward the arena’s Fire Dragons.
• Two Hebridean Black Dragons spotted the Champions and attacked, with the enraged male charging straight at Sean.
• Sean stood still as the male dragon lunged, but it lowered its head and rubbed against his hand instead of biting him.
• Sean greeted the dragon as an old friend, stroked its snout, and punched it on the nose as it roared happily.