Chapter Summaries

Tierra and his friends exchanged Christmas gifts before preparing for the Yule Ball, while Tierra’s Tarot Cards served as backups for his life-or-death attempt to reach godhood. The group dressed for the ball and met their partners at the staircase.

• Tierra arrived at breakfast as students examined the Tarot Cards he had made as anchors and resurrection backups for his godhood ritual.
• Harry gave Tierra medicinal ingredients, Hermione gave him Quotations from Chairman Mao, and Ron gave everyone Dungbombs; Mrs. Weasley also sent them sweaters.
• Hermione left to prepare for the ball, and Ron called after her to ask who she was going with.
• Tierra, Harry, and the other boys dressed for the ball, with Ron trying to alter his dress robes and Tierra wearing an elaborate golden-embroidered robe.
• Tierra, Harry, and Ron went downstairs and found Parvati, Padma, and Luna waiting at the staircase.

Tierra escorted Luna to the Yule Ball and reassured her that they were already friends. As the champions gathered to enter the Great Hall, Hermione descended the stairs transformed by her elegant hair and pale purple-blue gown, drawing hostile looks from several students.

• Tierra dressed Luna in a starry shawl and told her they had been friends since they first met.
• Tierra, Harry, Ron, and their dates waited in the Entrance Hall, where they saw Fleur arrive with Roger Davies and the Durmstrang students enter.
• Professor McGonagall called the champions forward and told them to wait until the other students were seated.
• Viktor Krum nervously asked Tierra where Hermione was, and Tierra pointed out her arrival.
• Hermione descended the stairs in an elegant gown, then passed into the Great Hall amid hostile looks from the Krum Fan Club and Pansy, while Ron ignored her.

At the Yule Ball, Tierra and Luna awkwardly danced together before taking a break, while Harry and Ron sat out and watched their partners dance. Tierra left the story by inviting Padma and Parvati to join him and Luna on the dance floor.

• The champions and their partners entered the Great Hall, where Harry sat beside Percy, who announced he had become Barty Crouch's personal assistant.
• After dinner, Dumbledore cleared the tables, and Professor McGonagall opened the dance as the Weird Sisters began to play.
• Tierra reassured a nervous Luna, and they danced clumsily together while laughing at their mistakes.
• Tierra and Luna took a break, while Harry left the floor with Parvati and Ron sat beside him, annoyed as Hermione danced with Krum.
• Tierra returned with Luna and invited Padma and Parvati to dance with them.

Tierra danced with Luna, Parvati, Padma, Hermione, and Astoria Greengrass at the Yule Ball while the Weird Sisters played. After Astoria kissed him and returned to her partner, Tierra continued wishing people that madness would depart and reason endure.

• Tierra danced with Luna, then with Parvati and Padma, and whispered his unusual wish to each of them.
• Tierra asked Hermione to tango, and they stumbled through the dance before Viktor Krum took Hermione's hand.
• Tierra danced with Astoria Greengrass, who praised his meteor spell and kissed him on the cheek.
• Astoria returned to her partner, and Tierra called after her with his wish for madness to depart and reason to endure.

At the Yule Ball, Tierra danced with students and professors, including a tipsy Professor McGonagall, who scolded him through a waltz lesson. As the Great Hall emptied, he ended the night dancing badly with Harry, and they exchanged a bow.

• Tierra invited Vivian Cooper to dance, then asked Hannah Abbott, Cho Chang, Ginny Weasley, Laura Madley, Fleur Delacour, Professor Sprout, Professor Trelawney, and others.
• Professor McGonagall accepted Tierra's invitation, praised him affectionately, and hugged him while telling him that his happiness mattered most.
• Professor McGonagall called Tierra's dancing terrible and firmly coached him through a waltz before declaring that he danced wonderfully.
• With few people left in the Great Hall, Tierra dragged Harry into a clumsy dance, and the two boys laughed at their mistakes.
• Tierra and Harry bowed to each other and repeated Tierra's phrase, "May madness depart, and may reason endure."

After the Yule Ball, Tierra transformed his appearance into Gellert Grindelwald’s and invited Dumbledore to dance. Dumbledore accepted, and they danced until dawn before Tierra’s illusion faded and he wished Dumbledore a Merry Christmas.

• Ron and Hermione argued over Hermione spending time with Krum, and Hermione stormed away.
• Tierra stayed in the Great Hall and asked Dumbledore to dance, but Dumbledore initially refused.
• Tierra spoke in a voice that awakened Dumbledore’s memories of Gellert Grindelwald.
• Dumbledore took Tierra’s hand, and they danced together without music as the remaining students watched and eventually left.
• Near dawn, Tierra ended the dance, let the Grindelwald illusion fade, and wished Dumbledore a Merry Christmas.

After Christmas, Harry struggled to understand the Golden Egg’s clue while refusing to ask Tierra for help. When Rita Skeeter published a scandalous story about Tierra and Dumbledore, Tierra revealed that he had staged the image by making Dumbledore see Grindelwald from his memories, then saved the article beside a photograph of them together.

• Hermione, Ron, and Tierra discussed Hagrid’s possible giant heritage, and Hermione argued that fear of giants was prejudice.
• Harry repeatedly opened the Golden Egg and tried to decipher its wailing, but chose not to ask Tierra for the answer.
• At breakfast on the first day of term, Harry found students staring at him and read Rita Skeeter’s article alleging an improper relationship between Tierra and Dumbledore.
• Tierra explained that his Spiritual Dimension had made Dumbledore see Grindelwald while everyone else saw Tierra, allowing Rita Skeeter to photograph their dance.
• Tierra folded the newspaper and placed it in a tin box beside a photograph of himself and Dumbledore on a cruise ship.

Harry went to Hogsmeade without having solved the Golden Egg, but Tierra told him how to uncover its clue. Back at Hogwarts, Tierra refused to help with the next task and urged Harry to figure out how to pass it himself.

• Hermione asked Harry why he was going to Hogsmeade instead of studying the Golden Egg, and Harry falsely claimed he had worked out its meaning.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Tierra saw Viktor Krum dive into the lake, and Tierra realized Harry still had not solved the egg’s secret.
• Tierra told Harry to submerge the Golden Egg in water before opening it so he could understand its message.
• After they returned from Hogsmeade, Harry invited Tierra to use the Prefects’ Bathroom, but Tierra refused and insisted Harry handle the second task himself.

Harry learned from the Golden Egg that the second task would take place underwater and that he had an hour to retrieve something, while Tierra continued checking Merlin’s Godhood Ascension Ritual calculations. As the task drew near, Dumbledore summoned Newt Scamander and hinted that he wanted to release Newt’s aquatic creatures into a lake.

• Harry submerged the Golden Egg and heard its song describing an underwater search and a one-hour time limit.
• Moaning Myrtle told Harry that Tierra had asked her to tell him to prepare for the second task on his own, so Harry went to the library to research.
• Tierra used a distant library and a Time-Turner in the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets to verify and improve Merlin’s Godhood Ascension Ritual calculations.
• On February twenty-third, the day before the second task, Dumbledore summoned Newt Scamander and asked about his Horned Serpents and Kelpies.
• Dumbledore suggested that Newt let the creatures swim in a real lake, and Newt warily asked what Dumbledore was planning.

On the night before the second task, Harry searched desperately for a way to survive underwater but refused to ask Tierra for help. Tierra eventually arrived with Gillyweed, given to him by Little Barty Moody, and offered Harry a way forward that was not a spell.

• Tierra chose a magic to prepare for the next day's event.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione searched the library for an underwater spell, but Harry insisted on solving the task himself.
• Fred and George summoned Ron and Hermione to Professor McGonagall's office, leaving Harry to keep searching alone.
• Harry returned to the Common Room and searched books until he believed he could not complete the task.
• Tierra came to comfort Harry and showed him a clump of seaweed, which he identified as Gillyweed.
• Tierra explained that Little Barty Moody had given him the Gillyweed after Harry, Ron, and Hermione missed him in the library.

Harry began the second task of the Triwizard Tournament by eating Tierra’s Gillyweed and swimming into the lake, while Tierra stayed on shore for afternoon tea. After twenty minutes, an elderly voice spoke behind Tierra.

• Tierra was pleased that Dumbledore was absent and confirmed he had not arrived at the judges’ platform.
• Tierra gave Harry a hot-water bottle before Ludo Bagman started the task.
• Harry ate the Gillyweed, grew gills and webbed hands and feet, and plunged into the lake.
• Tierra summoned a table, tea, and cakes, then calmly drank tea beside the lake.
• After twenty minutes, an elderly voice sounded behind Tierra.

Tierra discovered that Luna Lovegood was his hostage and used Mad Walker to part the Black Lake and raise the ruins holding her and the other hostages. He freed them and invited Luna back to shore for tea and pastries.

• Tierra learned from Dumbledore that Luna Lovegood was his hostage, then summoned Mad Walker and called out to the lake.
• Tierra used Mad Walker to divide the Black Lake, revealing the ruined city and the four hostages: Luna Lovegood, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and an unfamiliar little girl.
• Tierra raised the ruins and moved them to his platform while the champions and spectators watched in shock.
• Tierra severed the ropes binding the hostages and offered Luna his hand, inviting her to shore for hot tea and pastries.

Tierra rescued Luna, Ron, Hermione, and an unidentified girl, then restored the Black Lake after dramatically splitting its waters and moving the merfolk village. Madame Maxime and Karkaroff protested his overwhelming magic, while Dumbledore struggled to explain it and called Tierra over.

• Tierra warmed and dried Luna, Ron, Hermione, and an unidentified girl, then served them tea and cake as they watched the Black Lake split apart beneath a raging storm.
• Tierra dismissed the magic and restored the lake, while Dumbledore realized he would have to answer for Tierra's display.
• Madame Maxime accused Hogwarts of cheating and threatened to complain to the International Magical Association, while Karkaroff made a barbed remark about Tierra.
• Dumbledore offered Madame Maxime an improvised explanation about Tierra's diligence and asked Mr. Bagman to call Tierra over to explain his magic.

Tierra defended his use of powerful magic during the second task by claiming he had only used the Bubblehead Charm and Transfiguration Spell, while blaming the other champions for failing to act. After Dumbledore sent him away from the judges' stand, Tierra threw Rita Skeeter into the lake when she tried to interview him.

• Tierra argued with Madame Maxime, insisting he had used only the Bubblehead Charm and Transfiguration Spell and had waited twenty minutes for the other champions.
• Harry, Fleur, and Viktor returned to shore and found the hostages safe, while Hermione explained that Tierra had caused the storm and waves.
• Rita Skeeter questioned the champions and hostages, and Viktor shoved her away while Fleur protected her sister and Luna.
• Dumbledore ended Tierra's argument with Madame Maxime and sent him back to shore, promising to handle the matter himself.
• Rita rushed to question Tierra about his magic and relationships, and Tierra threw her over his shoulder into the lake.

After the judges settled the dispute over the second task, Dumbledore announced that the task would not be scored and that the third task’s rules had been revised and would remain secret until shortly before it began. Tierra left Harry with his Gillyweed symptoms by kicking him back into the lake.

• Tierra repeatedly kicked Rita Skeeter into the Black Lake until Dumbledore arrived, then pulled her out and joined the other champions.
• Dumbledore said the judges had agreed not to score the second task and had made an Unbreakable Vow to keep the revised third-task rules secret.
• Ludo Bagman announced that the final task would take place on the evening of June twenty-fourth and that champions would learn its details that day.
• Harry asked Tierra to end his Gillyweed symptoms, but Tierra pretended he could not help and kicked Harry back into the water.

Tierra revealed to Harry that he could use the forbidden Dark Magic known as Flesh Magic, and Harry promised to trust him. The two explored the Black Lake together before returning to shore with a secret to keep.

• Tierra joined Harry underwater and used Flesh Magic to grow gills and webbed limbs.
• Tierra told Harry that Flesh Magic was Dark Magic and made him promise to remember that Tierra was neither good nor bad.
• Tierra led Harry on a tour of the Black Lake, where they saw the Slytherin Common Room through its window and a merpeople village.
• As their Gillyweed began to wear off, Tierra and Harry headed for shore, and Tierra asked Harry to keep their exploration secret.

Harry and Ron met Sirius at his hiding place near Hogsmeade and brought him food, while Tierra led Hermione through The Gate to a surprise. The chapter left Tierra and Hermione arriving at an unknown destination.

• Ron embellished his story about being held underwater until Hermione challenged him, and he returned to the hypnotized version.
• Harry received Sirius's letter arranging a Saturday meeting near Hogsmeade and decided to visit him with Ron.
• Harry and Ron followed Sirius, disguised as a Black Dog, through a cave where Buckbeak was waiting.
• Sirius transformed back into his human form, thanked Harry for the food, and explained he had been living on rats.
• Tierra led Hermione across the Hogwarts grounds, then asked her to close her eyes and took her through The Gate.

Tierra inducted Hermione into the Tarot Society and introduced her to its members, including Dobby, Gilderoy Lockhart, and Salazar Slytherin. He ended by naming the three members who were absent, including the society’s leader, Gellert Grindelwald.

• Tierra brought Hermione through the Gate to the Tarot Society’s library and welcomed her as its newest member, the High Priestess.
• Gilderoy Lockhart and Dobby greeted Hermione and introduced themselves as the Lovers and the Star.
• Tierra introduced Salazar Slytherin as the Pope, and Lockhart explained how Slytherin had survived as a Basilisk before regaining his sanity.
• Hermione shook Slytherin’s hand while Tierra translated his greeting and privately exchanged Parseltongue remarks with him.
• Tierra named the absent members Xenophilius Lovegood and Nazan Olympia, then revealed that Gellert Grindelwald was the Tarot Society’s Holy Father, Mr. World.

Tierra introduced Hermione to the Tarot Society’s Tower, where she could access knowledge directly from books, and demonstrated his spatial magic. By immersing Hermione in his power, he established an anchor for his Godhood Ascension Ritual.

• Tierra told Hermione that the library was the Tarot Society’s meeting room and that she could return using her Hanged Man card.
• Tierra explained that visitors to the All-Knowing Land received a mark that let them gain a book’s essential knowledge by touching it, and he invited Hermione to browse the library.
• Tierra said his innate spatial magic let him bypass Hogwarts’ Apparition restrictions, then used his power to make Hermione experience space and cosmic creation in a vision.
• Tierra identified himself as the Holy Son, The Hanged Man, the inheritor of knowledge, and the mage of space before ending the display.
• Tierra recognized that Hermione’s visit had established an anchor for the staircase in his Godhood Ascension Ritual.

Tierra took Hermione through a Gate to London’s Chinatown for lunch and planned to send her home to see her parents. Meanwhile, Sirius warned Harry and Ron that Barty Crouch might have been cursed, linking his illness to the suspicious events surrounding the Triwizard Tournament.

• Tierra brushed Rita Skeeter, disguised as a beetle, off Hermione’s hat and left her behind in The Inheritor.
• Tierra brought Hermione to Chinatown in London and offered to take her for Chinese food before sending her home to visit her parents.
• Sirius finished the food Harry and Ron had brought him and said Harry’s letter made the Triwizard Tournament seem increasingly suspicious.
• Harry read Rita Skeeter’s report about him and Tierra, then saw a newspaper article reporting Barty Crouch’s mysterious illness and Bertha Jorkins’s disappearance.
• Ron said Percy believed Crouch had fallen ill from overwork, but Sirius argued that Crouch had too little work for that explanation to make sense.
• Sirius suspected that someone had cursed Crouch and deliberately caused his illness, possibly as part of an attempt to harm Harry.