Chapter Summaries

On the eve of the Triwizard Tournament’s first task, Harry practiced Accio so he could summon Tierra’s magical items during the competition. He finally mastered the spell, while Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel discussed their plans to assess Tierra’s abilities.

• Harry asked Dumbledore to return Tierra’s magical items so he could summon them with Accio during the task, and Dumbledore agreed to place them beside the arena.
• Tierra and Hermione helped Harry practice Accio, but his thoughts kept returning to the dragon and his attempts failed.
• Harry practiced through Divination and late into the night, eventually summoning a collection of objects across the Gryffindor Common Room.
• Dumbledore told Nicolas Flamel that he hoped the first task would reveal Tierra’s abilities, and Flamel said he believed Tierra possessed great strength as Grindelwald’s Holy Son.

At the first task’s drawing, Tierra drew a mysterious dragon model while Harry and the other champions prepared to face their dragons. Newt revealed that Tierra’s opponent was a newly discovered, dangerous Balrog Dragon, but Dumbledore trusted Tierra to handle it.

• Professor McGonagall escorted Harry and Tierra to the champions’ tent and urged them to stay calm during the task.
• Tierra cheerfully ate the refreshments in the tent, while Harry, Fleur, and Krum showed their anxiety.
• Ludo Bagman explained that the champions had to retrieve the Golden Egg and introduced five lots for the drawing.
• Fleur drew a Welsh Green and Krum drew a Chinese Fireball before Tierra pulled a strange dragon model from the bag.
• Newt warned Dumbledore that the Balrog Dragon was savage, intelligent, and breathed exceptionally hot flames, but Dumbledore said he believed Tierra could handle it.

Tierra faced the Balrog Dragon in the first task and discovered that Dumbledore had arranged for him to confront a newly discovered, exceptionally dangerous species. He protected himself from its flames and struck back, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Tierra drew the Number One tag, while Harry drew Number Five, and Bagman told Tierra to enter the arena first.
• Harry wished Tierra luck, and Krum and Fleur also spoke to him before he entered the arena.
• Tierra saw the Balrog Dragon, and Bagman explained that it had powerful flames and granite-like scales.
• The Balrog Dragon engulfed Tierra in golden-orange fire, but Tierra blocked the flames with Nakht's Wall.
• Tierra shattered the protective sphere, knocked the dragon off balance, and leaped forward, shouting, "You—shall not—pass!" as he brought Mad Walker down on its head.

Tierra fought the Balrog Dragon with Nakht’s Wall and brute force until it broke its chain and unleashed its full fury. Protected by a Parasite body, he summoned the Bronze Casket and sent seven golden weapons flying at the dragon as the fight continued.

• Tierra struck the Balrog Dragon and charged into it behind Nakht’s Wall, knocking it down despite its attacks.
• The Balrog Dragon’s flames intensified, and it snapped the chain restraining its right hind leg while Newt Scamander and Nicolas Flamel warned that the danger was escalating.
• Tierra summoned the Bronze Casket, forgot that Nakht’s Wall blocked it, then dispelled the barrier and walked through the dragonfire unharmed.
• Tierra revealed privately that he was fighting in a Parasite body, not his true body.
• When the Balrog Dragon attacked again, Tierra spoke the king-and-sword phrase, triggering seven golden weapons to fly from the Bronze Casket toward the dragon.

Tierra fought the Balrog Dragon with the imperfect Seven Deadly Sins before preparing a dramatic display of Super-Tier Magic. After retrieving the Golden Egg, he summoned a fiery meteor that filled the spectators’ vision, intending to make an unforgettable impression and anchor himself to the three-dimensional world.

• Tierra’s Seven Deadly Sins mostly failed to pierce the Balrog Dragon, though Wrath wounded its wing and enraged it.
• Tierra explained the swords’ limited enchantments and flight control, then isolated himself and the Balrog Dragon behind Nakht’s Wall.
• Tierra paused his incantation to shout for everyone to leave, then lowered Nakht’s Wall briefly to collect the Golden Egg.
• Tierra raised Nakht’s Wall again and chanted for several minutes before declaring, “Super-Tier Magic, Skyfall!”
• A blazing meteor descended from the sky, while Nakht’s Wall shielded the spectators from its intense heat.
• Tierra celebrated the spell and revealed he wanted to create a profound, unforgettable bond that would anchor him to the three-dimensional world.

Tierra defeated the Balrog Dragon by dropping it through a portal, then stopped a meteor with Nakht's Wall and won the first task. Afterward, he reunited with Harry, evaded Rita Skeeter's questions, and agreed to meet the judges over disputes about his score.

• Tierra sent the Balrog Dragon through a hole of light, then blocked the meteor with Nakht's Wall as the arena was devastated.
• Dumbledore called Tierra a monster created by Gellert and asked Newt Scamander to keep an eye on him.
• Tierra returned with the Golden Egg, and Harry congratulated him while recovering from injuries caused by the meteor's impact.
• Rita Skeeter questioned Tierra about his spells, but he dismissed the meteor as a rock summoned with Accio and encouraged Harry to practice.
• Ludo Bagman told Tierra that Karkaroff and Madame Maxime objected to his performance score, while Bagman and Dumbledore supported giving him a ten; Tierra agreed to meet the judges.

Tierra was summoned before the judges and defended his arena magic with implausible spell explanations. Fleur Delacour began her challenge against a Welsh Green, but as she neared the Golden Egg, another meteor appeared overhead.

• Madame Maxime accused Hogwarts of helping Tierra cheat, while Dumbledore called Tierra to explain his magic.
• Tierra claimed he had used the Summoning Charm and a spell he called the Flash Spell, then demonstrated the white barrier by shouting, "You shall not pass!"
• Tierra began chanting "Accio Meteorite" to prove his claims as Fleur Delacour entered the arena to face a Welsh Green.
• Fleur transformed stones into sheep and a crow to distract the dragon and reach the Golden Egg.
• A burning meteor fell just as the crow was about to seize the Golden Egg.

Tierra stopped his meteor from destroying the dragon arena, while Dumbledore arranged for Hogwarts to cover the damage. After Fleur Delacour won the Golden Egg, Tierra met Newt Scamander, who resented him for killing the Balrog Dragon, and Tierra told him the creature had gone to Heaven.

• Madame Maxime begged Tierra to stop, and Tierra used Nakht's Wall to block the meteor and dismiss the barrier after the danger passed.
• Dumbledore asked Tierra to pay for repairs to the surrounding forest and lawn, and Tierra tried to send the bill to Gilderoy Lockhart.
• The meteor's tremors knocked the Golden Egg to Fleur Delacour, who collected it and was declared the winner before Viktor Krum entered the arena.
• Dumbledore introduced Tierra to Newt Scamander, who refused Tierra's handshake and privately mourned the Balrog Dragon Tierra had killed.
• Tierra asked Newt if he was angry about the Balrog Dragon, then claimed the creature had gone to Heaven.

Harry Potter’s dragon trial became a brutal test of Tierra’s remotely controlled magical creations, which killed the Hungarian Horntail while Harry was unconscious inside the armor. Tierra then asked to harvest the dragon’s remains, prompting Dumbledore to knock him on the head.

• Harry summoned the Patriot Armor, Captain America’s Shield, the Infinity Gauntlet, and Stormbreaker while dodging the Hungarian Horntail’s attack.
• Tierra remotely controlled the magical items, equipping Harry and directing him to wound and overpower the dragon.
• Harry’s armor and weapons killed the Hungarian Horntail, then collapsed with Harry into its mangled head.
• Newt Scamander and Dumbledore criticized the violence, while Tierra returned to his parasite body and mourned the dragon sarcastically.
• Tierra asked to collect the dragon’s body parts for research, and Dumbledore knocked him on the head.

After the first Triwizard task, Tierra checked on Harry and learned that Harry and Ron had reconciled. Tierra then returned to the stands, where the scores confirmed his lead and raised suspicions that Voldemort wanted him to win.

• Tierra went to the medical tent with Newt Scamander but stayed outside as Harry and Ron reconciled and Hermione cried.
• Newt caught Tierra trying to walk toward the dragon holding area and redirected him to the stands.
• The judges awarded Tierra forty points, putting him well ahead of Viktor Krum, Harry, and Fleur Delacour.
• Tierra noticed that Barty Crouch’s mind was clouded and suspected he was under the Imperius Curse.
• Tierra recalled Barty Crouch Jr. putting parchment into the Goblet of Fire and realized Voldemort’s side also wanted him to win.

After the first task, Ludo Bagman announced that the second task would take place in three months and that the Golden Eggs held its clue. Harry celebrated with Ron, Hermione, and Tierra, while Tierra secretly altered the path to avoid Hathaway Romanov, who was left searching for him.

• Ludo Bagman congratulated the champions, announced the second task’s date, and told them to open their Golden Eggs for its clue.
• Harry thanked Tierra for helping him, and Ron and Hermione joined Harry and Tierra as they returned to Hogwarts.
• Tierra led Harry and the others to the Owlery so Harry could tell Sirius he had survived the task, and Harry shared Sirius’s warning about Karkaroff.
• Ron helped Harry send a letter to Sirius with Pigwidgeon, then took Harry to the Gryffindor Common Room for a surprise celebration.
• Tierra secretly removed part of the path to Hogwarts, leaving Hathaway Romanov unable to find him and shivering outside the castle.

Tierra and Harry celebrated their victory as Champions in the Gryffindor Common Room, where Harry opened his Golden Egg and revealed a clue to the second task. After learning how the house-elves prepared food for the students, Hermione resolved to fight their exploitation and free their minds.

• Tierra and Harry joined the Gryffindor celebration, and Harry eagerly ate after weeks of fear and sleeplessness.
• Harry opened his Golden Egg, whose shriek startled the gathered students, before Tierra identified its clue as a merman's song about retrieving something precious from the Black Lake.
• George and Fred told Hermione that they got the celebration cake from the kitchens by tickling a pear in a painting to enter.
• Hermione concluded that the house-elves were exploited despite defending their treatment, and declared that she would help liberate them and challenge wizards' feudal ideas.

In December, Harry and Tierra attended Hagrid’s disastrous attempt to make the Blast-Ended Skrewts hibernate, while Newt Scamander revealed that Dumbledore had assigned him to counsel and temporarily guide Tierra. Their awkward conversation was interrupted when Rita Skeeter appeared near the pumpkin patch and Tierra fired a spell at her.

• Harry and Tierra hurried through the winter weather to Hagrid’s class after discussing how Durmstrang’s students would endure the cold.
• Hagrid tried to settle the Blast-Ended Skrewts into padded boxes, but they broke free and rampaged through the pumpkin patch.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, and other students subdued nine Skrewts while Tierra and Newt watched; Harry and Ron then faced the last one.
• Newt told Tierra that Dumbledore had asked him to serve as Tierra’s psychological counselor and temporary guardian for the Triwizard Tournament’s remaining tasks.
• Newt began questioning Tierra about his puberty and mental state, and Rita Skeeter appeared nearby as Tierra fired a red spell at her.

Tierra drove Rita Skeeter away from Newt Scamander by pretending to protect Dumbledore’s secrets, then attended Divination class, where Trelawney delivered a genuine but cryptic prophecy. The chapter ended with Tierra joining Hermione in the library to revise their Magical Life Equality Declaration.

• Tierra lashed Rita Skeeter with a fiery whip and claimed he was protecting Dumbledore’s secrets, causing her to flee.
• Newt Scamander recorded that his first attempt to make contact with Tierra had failed and continued observing him.
• In Divination class, Professor Trelawney entered a trance and prophesied sacrifice, blasphemy, dark power, and a burning giant tree before returning to normal.
• Tierra pondered Trelawney’s genuine but unclear prophecy after class, while Harry and Ron joked about her predictions.
• Hermione invited Tierra to the library to revise the Magical Life Equality Declaration, and he agreed to go with her.

Tierra and Hermione worked on Hermione’s plan to free oppressed beings, while the Yule Ball announcement left Harry and Tierra facing their duties as champions. Tierra ended the chapter by asking Professor McGonagall whether he could invite a male dance partner.

• Hermione revised her plan with Tierra, who agreed to classify magical creatures and assign areas for dangerous ones.
• Tierra and Hermione noticed Viktor Krum hiding in the library while several girls watched him from behind shelves.
• Professor McGonagall announced the Yule Ball and explained that the champions had to open it with their partners.
• After class, Professor McGonagall told Harry and Tierra they had to find dance partners, and Tierra asked if he could invite a male partner.

Tierra tried to name Professor Dumbledore as his Yule Ball dance partner, prompting Professor McGonagall to insist that he and Harry invite girls to avoid gossip. Back in the Great Hall, Hermione asked Tierra whom he planned to invite, and he repeated that he wanted Professor Dumbledore.

• Tierra told Professor McGonagall that he wanted to invite Professor Dumbledore to the Yule Ball.
• Professor McGonagall forbade Tierra from choosing Dumbledore and warned him that envy and rumors could harm him.
• Professor McGonagall ordered Tierra and Harry to find female dance partners, and they reluctantly agreed.
• Harry and Tierra returned to the Great Hall, where Ron asked what Professor McGonagall had wanted.
• Hermione asked Tierra whom he planned to invite, and Tierra firmly answered, Professor Dumbledore.

Tierra invited Dumbledore to the Yule Ball as a joke, then asked Luna Lovegood instead. Luna happily accepted, and her embrace caused fragments of her memories to surge into Tierra’s mind.

• Tierra explained to Harry and Hermione that he wanted to invite Dumbledore because he pitied him as a lonely grandfather figure.
• Tierra presented Dumbledore with a sausage transformed into a rose and invited him to the Yule Ball, but Dumbledore refused.
• Tierra returned to the Gryffindor table and told Hermione he would invite someone very cool.
• Tierra invited Luna Lovegood to the Yule Ball, and Luna eagerly accepted and embraced him.
• When Luna embraced him, fragments of her memories surged into Tierra’s mind.

Tierra learned how Luna Lovegood had been bullied and invited her to the Yule Ball, then used the choice to argue with Hermione about his reasoning. He encouraged Harry to ask Cho Chang, but Harry wondered whether Tierra himself liked her.

• Tierra recalled how Luna's classmates had escalated their mockery into physical bullying, especially after she was rejected by a fifth-year boy for the Yule Ball.
• Tierra invited Luna to dine with him and asked her to be his Yule Ball partner, and Luna happily joined him at the Gryffindor table.
• Hermione challenged Tierra over not asking her first, and Tierra defended his choice by explaining that Luna could not attend the ball without an invitation and had been bullied.
• Harry worried that he still lacked a dance partner, so Tierra suggested he invite Cho Chang, whom Harry had faced in a Quidditch match.
• Harry asked whether Tierra liked Cho Chang, leaving Tierra, Hermione, and Luna staring at him while Ron continued eating.

As Christmas and the Yule Ball approached, Harry struggled to find a dance partner while Hogwarts grew festive and distracted. Tierra stayed busy preparing a Christmas present for Harry, leaving him curious about what he was doing.

• Tierra teased Harry about his worries over the ball and suggested he invite Ginny, while Ron said Ginny had long been interested in Harry.
• Harry spent the week fretting about finding a partner, refused invitations from three girls, and felt awkward about asking anyone himself.
• Tierra spent much of his free time with Luna Lovegood, while Flitwick tried unsuccessfully to learn the spells Tierra had used in the first task.
• Hogwarts decorated the castle for Christmas as students and teachers prepared for the Yule Ball and the visiting Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students.
• Harry noticed Tierra often stayed out all night, and Tierra told him he was preparing a Christmas present for him.

Tierra gave Harry a tarot deck depicting Tierra on every card, along with identical Christmas gifts for everyone at Hogwarts. The chapter ended with the students preparing for the Yule Ball.

• Gryffindor students spent the week before Christmas playing and avoiding Fred and George’s Canary Creams.
• Harry opened Tierra’s gift and found twenty-two tarot cards, each depicting Tierra with his eyes shut.
• Tierra wished Harry a merry Christmas and gave him a cryptic line about madness, wisdom, and reason.
• Harry noticed Ron had received an identical gift, then learned that Tierra had given the same presents to everyone at Hogwarts.
• Tierra invited Harry, Ron, and Hermione to breakfast and reminded them that the Yule Ball was that evening.