Chapter Summaries

Moriarty joined the Hogwarts students as Mahoutokoro’s delegation arrived, recognizing Genya among the Japanese visitors and learning that the school had undergone a major upheaval. The chapter ended with Moriarty identifying the delegation’s newly appointed vice principal as evidence of that change.

• Moriarty found Lilith, Pheobe, Tonks, and dozens of other girls celebrating together at the Three Broomsticks Pub.
• Jericho woke Moriarty to tell him the wizards from Mahoutokoro had arrived, and Moriarty left Violet sleeping in his dormitory.
• Jericho told Moriarty that Ministry officials had found Minister Fudge at Umbridge’s house early that morning.
• Moriarty saw more than fifty Mahoutokoro students in the Great Hall and recognized Genya and his red-robed Elemental Magic supporters.
• Moriarty learned that Mahoutokoro had a purple-haired vice principal, though it had had no vice principal when he visited, and concluded that the school had undergone a complete upheaval.

Dumbledore gathered the other headmasters to discuss the Five Schools Tournament, while Moriarty watched the suspicious new Mahoutokoro vice-headmaster. Jericho’s friendly behavior toward Twin-tails upset Helena and left the Great Hall believing he had found a new love.

• Moriarty sensed that the Purple-Haired Wizard had killed many people, while Dumbledore privately worried that he and Genya might threaten the safety of the tournament.
• Dumbledore asked the headmasters to meet in his office, ordered the professors to join them, and arranged a feast and student guides for the visiting schools.
• Twin-tails greeted Jericho warmly, and the Japanese students soon gathered around him as Ravenclaws confronted him over Helena.
• Penelope asked Moriarty to persuade Jericho to speak with Helena, but Zhang Qiu led Penelope away before she could intervene.
• Helena ran from the Great Hall, and Twin-tails pulled Jericho to the Slytherin table, prompting rumors that he had dumped Helena for a new love.
• Marcus offered to remove the Japanese students from the Slytherin table, while Moriarty noticed that Jericho’s laughter concealed indifference and calculation.

Marcus and the Little Snakes clashed with the Japanese students after Moriarty let Marcus act, but Jericho stopped the battle and declared himself Moriarty’s enemy. Jericho left with the Japanese and United States students, while Helena fled in tears.

• Marcus led more than twenty Little Snakes to confront the Japanese students, and both groups began fighting with spells, Elemental Magic, and Shikigami.
• Marcus released four magical creatures from his leather bag, bringing the Japanese students into further chaos.
• Jericho cast Finite Incantatem, extinguishing the magic and returning Marcus’s creatures to the bag.
• Jericho accused Moriarty of brainwashing his companions and announced that he would overthrow him and take the world with the Japanese and United States students.
• Moriarty challenged Jericho, who left with his followers, and Helena ran away in tears.

Moriarty rallied the Hogwarts students after Jericho joined the Japanese and American students, then helped bring the missing Helena and Ventrue to the Great Hall. Dumbledore announced that the joint education program would be a three-month competition called the Five Schools Tournament, which began immediately.

• Tonks angrily condemned Jericho for breaking Helena's heart, while Moriarty calmed her and urged the students to prove Jericho wrong.
• The students ate breakfast as Jericho sat at the head of a newly conjured fifth table with the Japanese and American students.
• The professors arrived smiling, but Snape's expression darkened when he saw Jericho had left Slytherin.
• Moriarty and Penelope fetched Helena and Ventrue after Dumbledore asked for the two missing students; Ventrue denied knowing the Purple-Haired Wizard.
• Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts, Ilvermorny, Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, and Mahoutokoro would compete in three rounds over three months, beginning at once as the Five Schools Tournament.

The Five Schools Tournament began its three-week evaluation period, making students compete for five representative spots at each school. In Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Violet attacked him, and the chapter ended as a mysterious arm emerged from her shadow while he attempted a Memory Charm.

• Dumbledore and the visiting headmasters announced the Five Schools Tournament, its prize, and the grading system for choosing representatives.
• Violet told Moriarty she would visit his dorm after her Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and Moriarty anticipated trouble with Lockhart.
• Lockhart’s lesson on Kappa turned confrontational when Violet insulted him and unleashed her Blood Clan power in front of the class.
• Violet struck Lockhart with an X-Ray Slash, but he survived by casting Expecto Patronum and then tried to freeze her.
• Violet dodged Lockhart’s spells and charged again, prompting him to use a Memory Charm; as he reached for her, a white arm with purple nails emerged from her shadow.

Violet’s hidden identity as a girl and the appearance of her mother, Princess Bertha Ventrue, were revealed after Violet collapsed, and Moriarty treated her. The next morning, Karkaroff and Madame Maxime moved to block Moriarty from competing in the Five Schools Tournament, leaving Habane Hotaka’s vote decisive.

• Violet exhausted her Magic Power, collapsed, and her Dark Shadow ordered the wizards to take her to Moriarty for treatment.
• Moriarty restored Violet’s Magic Power and mental strength, while the first-years revealed that Ventrue was a girl and the students learned her mother was Princess Bertha Ventrue.
• Lockhart told Moriarty that Karkaroff had scored him poorly to keep him from the tournament, and Moriarty suspected Bertha’s presence had a larger purpose.
• At breakfast, Moriarty stopped the students’ gossip and urged them to prepare for the Five Schools Tournament.
• Karkaroff sought support from Madame Maxime and Habane Hotaka to bar Moriarty from competing, and Madame Maxime sided with him because of pressure from France’s pure-blood families.

Habane Hotaka challenged Karkaroff's attempt to exclude Moriarty from the Five Schools Tournament, while Moriarty strengthened his ties with Krum and planned to develop another Spell with Lilith. Violet left after Princess Mother reminded her of an unfinished task, and Moriarty began preparing for new rivals.

• Habane Hotaka argued that Moriarty should be allowed to compete, forcing Karkaroff to choke on his wine and earning approval from Dumbledore and Dawn.
• Moriarty reassured Krum that Karkaroff's actions would not affect their friendship, and Krum warmly accepted him as a friend.
• Lilith noticed Moriarty's efforts to win Krum over and considered recruiting foreign students for the Justice League, while Violet watched them jealously.
• Princess Mother told Violet she had to complete her task before competing, so Violet left the Great Hall without a word.
• Moriarty sensed a phantom behind Violet and worried about Princess Mother before inviting Lilith to the Room of Requirement to develop Salazar's seventh Spell.

Jericho Blanche faced Snape’s suspicions about his ties to Mahoutokoro, while Snape and Dumbledore reviewed the professors’ student evaluations. Dumbledore concluded that Hogwarts’s five representatives had already been chosen, and the chapter ended with questions about Princess Mother’s presence at Hogwarts and the students’ unusual abilities.

• Snape threatened to use an enhanced Veritaserum on Jericho, who said he intended to represent Hogwarts in the competition and left before Snape could respond.
• Snape reviewed the Potions evaluations, which rated Jericho A Grade/S Grade for his talent and ability to imitate potion brewing.
• Snape delivered the evaluations to Dumbledore, who showed him Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts scores, including SSS Grade for Moriarty and S Grade for Jericho, Selwyn, Tonks, Charlie, and Marcus.
• Snape questioned why Princess Mother had come to Hogwarts, and Dumbledore reasoned that she likely had an important reason and had not harmed any students.
• Dumbledore reviewed McGonagall’s Transfiguration and Flamel’s Alchemy evaluations, noticed Jericho’s progress and Lilith’s dangerous magic, and decided Hogwarts’s five representatives had been chosen.

Hogwarts hosted the Five Schools Tournament representative ceremony, and Durmstrang announced its five student representatives. The ceremony continued as the other schools prepared to name their choices.

• Moriarty and the Little Snakes discussed Minister Fudge, the Malfoys, and the Aurors who would protect the representatives.
• Lockhart welcomed Fudge, the twelve School Governors, and a thirteen-man Auror squad, while Leon secretly passed Moriarty a note.
• Dumbledore began the representative announcements, and Karkaroff named Viktor Krum and Harbormont for Durmstrang.
• Karkaroff named Alert Joe, Annia Nova, and Magalski Brungel as Durmstrang’s remaining representatives.
• Durmstrang’s five representatives changed into their school uniforms, raised their wands, and vowed to fight for the school’s honor.

The schools introduced their student representatives, and Moriarty recognized the Beauxbatons champion Michela Cappe as a likely rival seeking revenge for their past encounter. The other schools presented their students, while Dumbledore delayed Hogwarts’ announcement with a joke.

• Habane Hotaka announced Mahoutokoro’s five representatives, including Tokugawa Yua, and Jericho’s applause for her nearly sparked a clash between the Japanese students and Ravenclaw.
• Lockhart calmed the Great Hall by playing “Song For Anna” and then introduced Madame Maxime and Beauxbatons’ representatives.
• Moriarty recognized Michela Cappe’s arrival as a challenge tied to his victory over French students in the All-Europe Wizarding Duel Competition.
• Madame Maxime announced Beauxbatons’ representatives, including Fleur Delacour and Pheobe, and four girls performed a dance.
• Headmaster Dawn announced Ilvermorny’s five representatives, and Dumbledore joked that he wanted a honey fruit pie before revealing Hogwarts’ students.

Dumbledore announced Hogwarts’ five representatives for the Five Schools Tournament, including Moriarty, Tonks, Charlie, Violet, and Jericho. Jericho’s hostile gesture stirred anger among the students, while Habane Hotaka turned Karkaroff’s sarcastic “Diamond Generation” remark into praise for all twenty-five competitors.

• Dumbledore announced Moriarty Slytherin as Hogwarts’ first representative after revealing his exceptional grades, and Moriarty joined him without speaking.
• Dumbledore named Nymphadora Tonks as the second representative, and Tonks warned Karkaroff she would make any Durmstrang Dark Wizards suffer.
• Dumbledore named Charlie Weasley as the third representative, and Charlie happily greeted Moriarty as a teammate.
• Dumbledore named first-year Violet Ventrue as the fourth representative and explained that her strong grades outweighed her one C, which resulted from her effect on magical creatures.
• Dumbledore named Jericho Blench as the fifth representative, revealing strong course grades but controversial headmaster evaluations; Jericho made a throat-slitting gesture that enraged Hogwarts students.
• Karkaroff sarcastically called Hogwarts’ representatives the “Diamond Generation,” but Habane Hotaka broadened the name to all twenty-five competitors, winning approval from the other headmasters.

After the student representatives were announced and photographed, Moriarty and Lilith noticed Mikhaella approaching Jericho and decided to secretly listen to their conversation. Jericho remained wary of Habane Hotaka, while Mikhaella began plotting against both Moriarty and Jericho.

• Dumbledore asked Rubeus Hagrid to photograph the student representatives, and Hagrid gathered them for a group picture.
• Jericho felt certain that Habane Hotaka was hiding something, then joined the Ilvermorny and Mahoutokoro students celebrating around him.
• Mikhaella reviewed Winnie Bertie's intelligence about Jericho and learned that Jericho had the support of both Ilvermorny and Mahoutokoro.
• Lilith noticed Mikhaella and Winnie Bertie approaching Jericho and hurried to warn Moriarty.
• Moriarty cast a Disillusionment Charm on himself and Lilith so they could listen to Mikhaella and Jericho.

Moriarty and Lilith watched Jericho reject Michela’s attempted alliance, then returned to their seats as Dumbledore announced the Five Schools Tournament’s format and first assessment. The chapter left Moriarty with a system mission to win both the individual and team results in Magic and Creation, or confess to and forcibly kiss Madame Maxime.

• Moriarty and Lilith watched Michela approach Jericho, who dismissed him rather than risk an alliance before learning whether Habane Hotaka was an enemy or ally.
• Michela and Jericho traded insults when Dumbledore began discussing the tournament, and Habane Hotaka revealed that an assessment would include a dungeon-crawling event.
• Moriarty noticed Violet returning to the end of the table as Dumbledore announced that the tournament would have three rounds of individual and team assessments.
• Dumbledore announced that the first assessment, Magic and Creation, would begin at eight o’clock the next morning on the Quidditch Pitch.
• Moriarty received a system mission to take first place individually and lead his team to first place, with a forced confession and kiss toward Madame Maxime as punishment for failure.

A month after the student representatives were chosen, the first round of the competition began at Hogwarts with the theme “My World.” The contestants were left to create their own worlds on a transformed Quidditch Pitch as the judges and audience watched.

• The system issued Moriarty a new mission to make Moriarty confess to Madame Maxime and forcibly kiss her, with an outrageous punishment for failure.
• Students gathered at the transformed Quidditch Pitch, where Dumbledore conjured cubic blocks across five sections and Lockhart announced a creation competition.
• Twenty-five representatives entered to dragon roars, while Marcus told Soldaya that the Flint family had sponsored the dragons.
• Professor McGonagall and Habane Hotaka arrived as judges, and McGonagall energized the crowd in her Gryffindor Quidditch uniform while Habane displayed his Shikigami wings.
• Lockhart announced “My World” as the first-round theme and explained that the contestants were competing for one million Galleons and the title of first league champions.

Lockhart announced a ten-hour competition in which five teams had to create large worlds based on themes hidden in Golden Snitches. The teams learned their themes and began planning, while Moriarty noticed the venue’s unstated spatial constraints.

• Lockhart explained the world-building rules, the ten-hour limit, and the ten possible themes hidden in Golden Snitches.
• Moriarty considered the field’s size and realized that the competition likely tested how contestants understood and used space.
• Lockhart released the Golden Snitches, and Krum, Tokugawa Yua, and Brian flew after them on brooms.
• Mikhaella struck down a Snitch with a spell and revealed Beauxbatons’ theme: toys.
• Moriarty summoned a Snitch directly with his Wand and revealed Hogwarts’ theme: monsters.
• Krum, Tokugawa Yua, and Brian obtained the themes romance, tragedy, and the Wild West for their teams.

The teams began developing worlds around their assigned themes, while Hogwarts appeared to be doing nothing. Charlie revealed that he had built models of ten fire dragons for Moriarty to transform, giving Hogwarts an early lead.

• Brian and Thomas celebrated Ilvermorny's West theme, while students accused the team of rigging the draw after learning Mr. Dawn had proposed it.
• Krum and the Durmstrang team struggled with their romantic love theme, while the headmasters discussed the teams' prospects.
• Pheobe, Mandy, Linda, and Winnie enthusiastically designed a toy world after Mikhaella encouraged Winnie to join them.
• Mikhaella criticized Hogwarts for seeming idle as Jericho lounged, Moriarty and Tonks chatted, and Charlie stacked cubes into towering structures.
• Marcus recognized that Charlie's structures were models of dragons, and Charlie told Moriarty that his work was finished.
• Moriarty used Transfiguration to turn one cube structure into a Chinese Fireball Dragon, thrilling the Hogwarts students and giving their team an early creation.

Moriarty’s team made quick progress on the monster theme while Ilvermorny realized its Western-themed creation had overlooked the Wizarding World. The competition continued with nine hours remaining, and Brian’s team began reconsidering its plan.

• Moriarty conjured a Hebridean Black, while Charlie created three dragons and Tonks prepared to conjure another.
• Violet turned into a coffin and went to sleep, and the audience noticed that Jericho was also sleeping.
• Moriarty asked Tonks to conjure a Hungarian Horntail and said Violet’s nap had given him an idea.
• Brian led Ilvermorny in creating a ranch with cowboys and bandits, but Lockhart pointed out that they needed to account for how wizards would act in the West.
• Brian and Thomas realized Ilvermorny had fallen into a trap of familiar Muggle conventions, while Mr. Dawn suspected Dumbledore had anticipated it.

The judges discussed how contestants should build dynamic worlds around their themes as Lockhart joked with the teams. Mahoutokoro School of Magic led with a war scene, but Tokugawa’s plan to make herself and Jericho Blench wartime lovers threatened to turn their tragedy into a comedy.

• Habane Hotaka and Professor McGonagall advised contestants to understand their themes and make their worlds dynamic, while Lockhart entertained the crowd.
• Krum abandoned his idea to build a romantic Quidditch match after Ailert and Anya criticized it as a hasty approach to love.
• Hubble described conjuring flowers for a girl on their first date, and Lockhart mocked his story as unromantic.
• Moriarty reassured Tonks that she was the first goddess he had truly loved, while Pheobe watched him fondly.
• Habane Hotaka explained that Kuno’s team used Elemental Magic to imitate spell-light and create a dynamic Wizarding War scene.
• Habane Hotaka revealed that Tokugawa wanted to make herself and Jericho Blench wartime lovers who defeated the Dark Wizards and married, while Kuno objected to adding romance to their tragedy.

Lockhart tried to guide the Mahoutokoro team back to the tragedy theme, but Kuno and Twin-tails clashed and the audience turned against her. Habane Hotaka redirected the crowd’s attention toward Moriarty, who recognized the tactic and decided to test him.

• Lockhart warned Twin-tails and the Mahoutokoro team to create a tragedy if they wanted to win, but Twin-tails and Kuno argued over their plans.
• Kuno changed the team’s concept to a wartime tragedy, while Twin-tails refused to participate and Naruko joined Kuno’s group.
• Twin-tails tried to approach Moriarty, but Tonks threatened her, and the audience erupted in abuse after Twin-tails insulted them.
• Fudge declined Rufus Scrimgeour’s offer to send Aurors, while Lockhart and Professor McGonagall prepared to restrain Twin-tails.
• Habane Hotaka proposed drawing the crowd’s attention toward Moriarty, and the plan worked as the audience stopped jeering at Twin-tails.
• Moriarty recognized Habane Hotaka’s maneuver and decided to test him.

Moriarty animated the Hogwarts team’s Fire Dragons with real fire, while Beauxbatons’s attempt to enlarge and animate its toys caused a dangerous explosion. Mikhaella survived, but the blast destroyed the team’s creations and left the competition in disarray.

• Charlie showed Lockhart and Professor McGonagall the Hogwarts team’s Transfigured Fire Dragons, and Moriarty revealed images of legendary creatures that could oppose them.
• Habane Hotaka demonstrated that a Hungarian Horntail’s fireball could burn a sunflower, and Moriarty brought the Fire Dragon clan to life with flames and motion.
• Lockhart excited the audience by speculating about the monsters Hogwarts would create next, then an explosion interrupted him.
• Professor McGonagall examined Mikhaella and used Prior Incantato to discover that his Dark Magic and Engorgement Charm had made a toy’s magic power explode.
• Mikhaella stood up unharmed and apologized after the blast destroyed Beauxbatons’s toys and blocks.