Chapter Summaries

Sean reunited with the Hebridean Black Dragons during the tournament and befriended them so completely that they gave him the Golden Egg. Afterward, he and Hermione sneaked to the dragons’ guarded holding area to begin an inside-out plan to help the pair escape.

• Sean recognized the Hebridean Black Dragon he had befriended in his first year, and it introduced him to its mate.
• Sean introduced Daisy and Stephanie to the dragons, who brought him the Golden Egg and helped his team earn full marks.
• At the Ravenclaw Common Room, Terry Boot opened the Golden Egg and was overwhelmed by its shrill scream.
• Sean told Hermione he wanted to help the dragons escape, and they used an Invisibility Cloak to scout the guarded clearing.
• After sunset, two dragon roars sounded as Sean revealed his plan for inside-out collaboration.

Sean and Hermione discussed their views on magical creatures and House-elves before Sean approached the Hebridean Black Dragons. After confirming that a black dragon wanted to leave with him, Sean prepared a plan to take the pair despite the MacFasty family's refusal to sell them.

• Sean explained that the MacFasty family guarded its traditions rather than acting out of love for all Fire Dragons, and Hermione questioned her own compassion for them.
• Sean challenged Hermione to let House-elves choose for themselves, and she agreed to learn their views before developing S.P.E.W.
• Sean overheard the MacFasty family members insist that they would never sell a Hebridean Black Dragon, regardless of the family's financial troubles.
• Sean asked one black dragon whether it wanted to leave with him and its mate, and the dragon eagerly agreed.
• Sean outlined a plan to the black dragon, which tried to roar in excitement before remembering his warning and swallowing the sound.

Sean staged an injury to create an alibi, then transformed into a Hungarian Horntail and attacked the MacFasty family’s flying escort to free two caged Hebridean Black Dragons. He and the dragons flew off together, leaving the escort unable to pursue.

• Sean asked the MacFasty family wizards to let him say goodbye to the Hebridean Black Dragons, but they refused.
• Sean arranged for Malfoy to hex him in front of Mr. Bagman, then pretended to recover in the Hospital Wing while Madam Pomfrey kept watch.
• After Madam Pomfrey left, Sean revealed his disguise and flew toward the MacFasty escort carrying the caged dragons.
• Sean transformed into a Hungarian Horntail and attacked the escort, forcing the MacFasty wizards to release the Hebridean Black Dragons.
• The three dragons staged a fight and flew beyond the wizards’ reach, while the MacFasty party returned to Hogwarts for help.

Sean brought Leoreus and Leorea back to Hogwarts and struggled to fit the male dragon into his enchanted ring. The MacFasty family accused Sean of orchestrating their dragon transport’s attack, and Grindelwald arranged a wand examination to test their claim.

• Sean and the two Hebridean Black Dragons nearly collided with a passenger plane before he named them Leoreus and Leorea and flew back to Hogwarts.
• Pablo MacFasty told Professor McGonagall that a wild Hungarian Horntail had attacked the family’s transport and freed their two dragons, concealing that the MacFasty wizards had released them themselves.
• Sean and Pudding pushed Leoreus through the ring entrance, where the dragon joined Sean’s other magical creatures, while Sean returned to the Hospital Wing and resumed his illusion of sleeping.
• The next morning, Pablo accused Sean of arranging the attack, but Professor McGonagall, Madam Pomfrey, and Mr. Bagman defended Sean’s alibi.
• Grindelwald agreed to arbitrate and authorized a Prior Incantato examination of Sean’s wand; Malfoy was brought in to surrender it, but he hesitated.

Sean cleared himself of Pablo MacFasty’s accusations when Malfoy’s wand revealed that Sean had taken the curse meant for Mr. Bagman, forcing the MacFasty family to agree to compensation. Sean later admitted to Grindelwald that he had orchestrated the confrontation, and the chapter ended with McGonagall announcing the Christmas Ball, which left Sean dreading trouble ahead.

• Grindelwald had Malfoy’s wand examined, and Prior Incantato exposed Malfoy’s embarrassing Hair-Regrowth Charm before showing Sean take the Intestinal Cramp Curse meant for Mr. Bagman.
• Mr. Bagman and Professor McGonagall defended Sean, while Grindelwald declared him innocent and held Pablo to the MacFasty family’s promise of compensation.
• Sean told Grindelwald that he had deliberately baited Pablo, used Dave to take the curse, and suspected a connection between the MacFasty family and Durmstrang.
• The MacFasty family left in disgrace, and Grindelwald departed the school the next day as students came to comfort Sean.
• Daisy asked Sean to let her ride a dragon, Hermione was invited along, and Professor McGonagall announced the upcoming Christmas Ball, making Sean realize he had forgotten about it.

Professor McGonagall told the champions they had to find dance partners and open the Christmas Ball, leaving Sean anxious about choosing between Daisy, Hermione, and Stephanie. During ballroom practice, Daisy danced with Sean before bringing him to Hermione, who reluctantly accepted his invitation and learned the steps with him.

• Professor McGonagall announced that champions needed partners and would open the Christmas Ball, and Sean privately asked whether he could avoid finding one.
• Sean worried that choosing Daisy or Hermione would hurt the other, while Ron, Harry, and Neville discussed their own partner troubles.
• Professor McGonagall called Sean forward to demonstrate dancing, then asked him to help teach the students.
• Daisy eagerly danced with Sean and brought him to Hermione, who said she did not plan to attend the ball.
• Sean invited Hermione to dance, endured her stepping on his feet, and helped her learn the steps; Hermione hugged him briefly and declared she had learned.

Sean remained without a partner for the Christmas Ball while Hermione’s mood and behavior seemed to have changed after their dance lesson. On their shared birthday, Sean and Stephanie danced together, and Stephanie ended by telling him that Daisy and Hermione both liked him.

• Sean asked Hagrid about Hermione’s visit to the flower field, but learned only that she had asked who discovered it.
• Harry partnered with Ginny, Ron found Lavender Brown, and Neville agreed to attend with Hannah Abbott, leaving Sean without a partner.
• Sean celebrated his birthday with friends and received a wooden Fire Dragon carving from Capen.
• Sean entered the Room of Requirement to wish Stephanie a happy birthday and found her dressed for a formal celebration.
• Sean changed into dress robes and danced with Stephanie, who said she wanted to remember him before graduating.
• Stephanie questioned whether Sean was attracted to her and told him that Daisy and Hermione both liked him.

Stephanie confessed that she liked Sean and urged him to stop avoiding honest conversations with Daisy and Hermione about the Sins and their relationships. She then offered to help Sean at the Christmas Ball, leaving him wondering what she meant.

• Stephanie told Sean she had reviewed her memories, confessed that she truly liked him, and asked him on a date.
• Sean said he was not ready to define their relationship, and Stephanie asked him to set her feelings aside for the moment.
• Stephanie pointed out that Sean was considering their future but avoiding Daisy and Hermione, and argued that they deserved the chance to choose after learning the truth about the Sins.
• Sean admitted the approaching awakening of the Sins weighed on him, then vowed to shape his own fate and do everything he could.
• Stephanie urged Sean to tell Daisy and Hermione about the Sins, then teased him for not choosing a dance partner and offered to do him a favor at the ball.

Sean accepted Stephanie’s help with choosing a Christmas Ball partner, while Hermione found a partner of her own and Daisy worried that she had been taken. As the ball approached, Professor McGonagall summoned Sean and Daisy and asked whether they had found partners.

• Stephanie offered to handle one of Sean’s potential partners so he could invite the other, then celebrated their shared birthday with him by blowing out the candles together.
• Snape questioned Sean about visiting the underground classrooms, complained that someone had broken into his storeroom, and gave him two potions.
• In the Ring Space, Sean found Leoreus and Leorea playing an airborne ball game with the other Magical Creatures watching.
• Daisy told Sean that Hermione had accepted a dance invitation, and Sean suspected Stephanie’s plan was already taking effect but reassured Daisy that Hermione would reveal her partner before the ball.
• Sean gave Daisy her potion and discussed her Christmas present for Snape, then decided to wait before inviting her to the ball.
• As Hogwarts prepared for Christmas, Professor McGonagall called Sean and Daisy to her office and asked whether either had found a dance partner.

Sean used Daisy’s gift for Snape to keep the professor from targeting him, then spent Christmas preparing for the Yule Ball. He arrived with Daisy and discovered that Hermione’s dance partner was Stephanie, who had transformed herself into a dashing figure in formal robes.

• Sean arranged for Snape to overhear that Daisy had prepared him a Christmas gift, and Snape stopped making trouble for Sean and even awarded him points.
• Sean exchanged Christmas gifts, enjoyed a snowy afternoon with friends, and dressed in the formal robes his mother had commissioned.
• Sean met Daisy in the Ravenclaw Common Room and escorted her to the Yule Ball, while Hermione left to find her own partner.
• At the entrance to the Great Hall, Sean saw the champions and their partners gather, including Hermione paired with Stephanie, who appeared taller and wore formal robes and men's shoes.

Sean and Daisy attended the Christmas Ball, where Stephanie surprised the guests with her striking appearance and danced passionately with Hermione. The evening ended with Grindelwald asking Dumbledore to dance as the crowd cheered.

• Hermione arrived with Stephanie, whose mature, handsome appearance astonished Sean and Daisy.
• The Champions and their partners entered the Great Hall, where Dumbledore welcomed the guests and everyone ordered food from their menus.
• Sean danced with Daisy while Stephanie and Hermione drew the crowd's attention with an exuberant dance together.
• The guests joined the dance floor, where Dumbledore danced with Madame Maxime and Grindelwald danced with Vita Rosier.
• Grindelwald offered his hand to Dumbledore, who accepted amid laughter and cheers.

Grindelwald and Dumbledore shared a joyful dance at Hogwarts' Christmas Ball, while Sean helped them avoid drawing too much attention. Grindelwald gave Sean a living Dragon Heartstring and advised him how to discuss the prophecy without revealing its exact details, and Sean returned to the dance with Daisy.

• Grindelwald and Dumbledore danced together as the students watched, and Sean worried that their private conversation and closeness would attract speculation.
• Sean invited Daisy onto the dance floor, leading the students into a double-circle country dance while Grindelwald and Dumbledore joined the crowd.
• Grindelwald spoke privately with Sean, asked about the future he had hidden away, and gave him a preserved Dragon Heartstring from a powerful mutated Hebridean Black Dragon.
• Grindelwald warned Sean that spreading the prophecy would hasten Pride's awakening and make It stronger, then reminded him he could explain the danger without stating the prophecy exactly.
• Sean returned to Daisy, and they danced together as the Christmas Ball continued.

Hermione, Daisy, and Stephanie deciphered the Golden Egg’s underwater song and prepared for the second task with Sean. At the Black Lake, the Champions learned their teammates had been separated around the lake, and the task began with one hour to recover what had been taken.

• Hermione, Daisy, and Stephanie submerged the Golden Egg in the Prefect’s Lavatory and heard a song directing them to search underwater for something cherished.
• Hermione and Stephanie concluded that the second task would involve Merpeople, the Black Lake, teamwork, and a strict time limit.
• Sean planned underwater strategies with Hermione, Stephanie, and Daisy, prepared Gillyweed for them, and considered how to hinder the other Champions.
• Ludo Bagman told the Champions that their teammates had been taken to different sides of the Black Lake and that each held an item to help identify what had been taken.
• Sean stood at the lakeside with a lens as Bagman started the one-hour second task.

Sean used Shadow Bugs to move through the Black Lake and headed to meet Stephanie, while Daisy summoned Sean’s enormous Grindylow for protection. Sean encountered an unknown sea monster that attacked him with a sonic shriek, forcing him to flee by Trace Flash.

• Fleur, Cedric, and Hugo cast Bubble-Head Charms and entered the lake, while Reinhardt Nott transformed his upper body into a fishlike form and dove in.
• Sean used shark gills, protective spells, and Shadow Bugs to flash through the lake, avoiding Grindylows and sensing Stephanie and Daisy through their Golden Dawn marks.
• Daisy followed Sean’s plan and cast Confringo as a signal, prompting Sean’s enormous pet Grindylow to carry her safely underwater.
• Sean sensed Stephanie’s location and swam toward the lake’s center, where he found a ravine, a shattered skull, and an indistinct creature in the depths.
• The hidden sea monster unfolded, struck Sean with a sonic attack that left him dizzy, and Sean escaped with Trace Flash.

Sean, Stephanie, and Daisy assembled the competition’s three items and discovered that the resulting glasses concealed memories, directing them toward the lake chasm. They found Merpeople guarding Rune Engraved Stones there, while Sean remained puzzled by the disappearance of the Sea Monster he had encountered.

• Sean encountered a dangerous Sea Monster beneath the Black Lake, escaped its sonic attack, and warned Stephanie to stay away from it.
• Dumbledore learned that Hugo Barbarossa had fainted underwater and been rescued by the Merpeople, while Grindelwald criticized Vita Rosier’s teaching.
• Sean reunited with Stephanie and Daisy, and Daisy reported that someone had attacked her while she waited with the Grindylow.
• Sean assembled the frame and Lenses into glasses, then discovered they concealed memories and that wearing them had cost him about a week of memories.
• Sean realized the lost memories pointed toward the Lake Chasm, so he and the two girls rode the Grindylow there and found Merpeople guarding Rune Engraved Stones.
• Sean’s Selma Lake Monster could not detect the Sea Monster, and the Merpeople began singing as the group approached the stones.

The narrator waited for a nucleic acid test while craving grilled sausages, then bought one and discovered it tasted disgusting. The chapter ended with the child beside him crying again and a note that the narrator was taking a day off to soothe his wounded heart.

• The narrator waited in line for a nucleic acid test beside a grilled sausage stall and watched staff help elderly people use their QR codes.
• The narrator noticed a half-eaten sausage in the testing booth and guessed that the young woman administering tests was in a bad mood because she could not eat it.
• After his test, the narrator joined the crying child at the stall, and they each ordered two sausages.
• The narrator let the child pay first, then bought a sausage and eagerly bit into it.
• The narrator found the sausage disgusting, and the child began crying again.

Sean completed the second challenge by using a Grindylow to carry him through the Merpeople Song and retrieve a Rune Engraved Stone. He discovered skulls resembling those associated with the eerie sea monster, then rushed back after Stephanie and Daisy signaled that they were under attack.

• Sean explained that a Confundus Charm could counter the Merpeople Song, then chose to have a Grindylow carry him to the challenge's center.
• The Grindylow carried Sean past the merpeople, and Sean grabbed a Rune Engraved Stone that restored his blocked memory and dispelled the Confundus Charm.
• Sean found a bone mountain and several skulls like the one he had previously found in his ring, whose shape resembled the sea monster's wolf heads.
• The merpeople leader told Sean that Dumbledore had brought them to guard the site and that they had seen no unusual creatures there; Sean collected part of the bone mountain in his ring.
• Sean saw the agreed signal from Stephanie and Daisy, hurried back, and found them defending themselves against incoming spells and columns of water.

Sean, Daisy, and Stephanie faced a hidden attacker beneath the lake, whose Obscurus-powered spell struck Stephanie after Daisy froze in fear. Stephanie soon recovered, revealing she had survived by storing several Ultimate Shield Charms in her wand.

• Daisy overwhelmed the concealed attacker with spells while Stephanie stood guard and Sean hurried toward them.
• The attacker unleashed a powerful Obscurus spell, and Stephanie shielded Daisy from its direct hit.
• Daisy summoned a silver Fire Dragon Patronus as Sean brought Stephanie into an air bubble, treated her with a Healing Potion, and tried to comfort Daisy.
• Stephanie regained consciousness and reassured Daisy that she was safe.
• Stephanie revealed that she had prepared several Ultimate Shield Charms in advance, crediting her skill as Ollivander's granddaughter.

Sean suspected that an attacker had used Obscurus magic against Daisy and Stephanie during the underwater task, but his search of the lake found no trace of them. After the task, he connected the ambush of Hugo to the same plot and began to suspect Reinhardt Nott.

• Sean realized Stephanie had been struck by the force of her own defensive barrier rather than directly hit by the Obscurus spell, and confirmed that she was recovering.
• Sean suspected Peter Pettigrew or the unknown Dark Wizard who had cursed Daisy, then burned away the seaweed bed with an Obscurus-empowered phoenix, but the attacker escaped.
• Sean, Daisy, and Stephanie completed the second task first and earned forty-nine points, while the other teams received their scores.
• Madam Pomfrey examined Stephanie and found only minor bruising, while Hugo remained unconscious after being ambushed on his way to meet the other Newmontgard Champions.
• Sean reasoned that Hugo’s attacker was likely connected to the attack on Daisy and identified Reinhardt Nott as his leading suspect.

Sean questioned the Merpeople about the attacks in the Black Lake and focused his suspicions on Durmstrang’s Leon Schneider. After learning that Durmstrang was preparing something dangerous for the final task, Sean searched for another way to investigate, while Hugo woke and began describing his attacker.

• Sean questioned Murcus about the Champions’ movements during the lake task, and her account left Leon Schneider as the only person unaccounted for during both attacks.
• Sean gave Murcus a crate of whisky and asked her to investigate the Bone Mountain at the bottom of the lake.
• Karkaroff told Viktor Krum, Reinhardt Nott, and Leon Schneider to cooperate in the final task, while Reinhardt discussed using a dangerous plan against Wallerup.
• Leon returned to his room and summoned mist-like black particles after hearing that the final task arena would be hidden from Dumbledore.
• Sean’s Occamy, Naja, could not get past the Defensive Spells on Durmstrang’s ship, so Sean abandoned the idea of setting it on fire and went to make a plan.
• Hugo woke in the Hospital Wing, and after regaining his clarity, he told Sean that something had been off about his attacker.