Chapter Summaries

Sirius Black explained Barty Crouch’s ruthless rise during Voldemort’s reign and how Crouch sent his own son to Azkaban. He suspected that Crouch had uncovered a conspiracy connected to Harry’s place in the tournament, and that Peter Pettigrew had returned to Hogwarts.

• Harry asked why someone might have targeted Barty Crouch, and Sirius said Crouch’s illness was suspicious.
• Sirius described how Crouch used harsh measures against suspected Death Eaters and sent Sirius to Azkaban without trial.
• Sirius recounted how Crouch allowed his son to be tried and sent him to Azkaban, where the Dementors soon silenced him.
• Sirius urged Harry to approach Crouch after he recovered, believing Crouch might know why Harry had been chosen for the tournament.
• Sirius reasoned that killing Crouch would risk attracting Dumbledore’s attention and suspected Peter Pettigrew had returned to Hogwarts.

Tierra returned to Hogwarts after leaving money for the Chinese couple who had once helped him, then dealt with a cursed letter that injured Ron. He secretly removed the curse as a worm and asked Ron to keep his ability hidden.

• Sirius told Harry and Ron that the Marauder's Map had flaws and might not reveal Peter Pettigrew, while Tierra sensed Pettigrew was still at Riddle Manor and identified three Death Eater marks at Hogwarts.
• Tierra left thirty thousand pounds at the Chinese restaurant where he had once worked, took Hermione home through The Gate, and returned to Hogwarts without meeting her parents.
• Hermione greeted Harry and Ron at breakfast, and Tierra's arriving owls brought him several letters; when Ron opened one, a curse covered his hands with painful sores.
• Hermione read the letter's insults, and Tierra claimed he would take Ron to the Hospital Wing while asking Harry and Hermione to alert a professor.
• Tierra secretly took Ron to the dormitory and pulled a fat worm from Ron's hand, curing him, then asked Ron to hide his ability to turn curses into worms.

Tierra joined Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures lesson, where the students met Nifflers and competed to find buried gold. After Tierra revealed that Buckbeak was alive, Hagrid thanked him and Harry and Hermione, and Tierra asked Hagrid for two Nifflers.

• Tierra made Ron promise to say a potion had put him to sleep while his injured hand healed, then headed to class.
• Hagrid introduced the students to Nifflers and set them loose to dig up buried gold coins.
• Tierra arrived late and explained that Ron was recovering after drinking a potion.
• Harry and Hermione told Hagrid that Ilseberg had sent them a letter containing Bubotuber Pus and had received a hundred-point deduction and three weeks of detention.
• Tierra revealed that Buckbeak was alive and described his life in hiding, making Hagrid cry with gratitude.
• Tierra told Hagrid they were friends and asked him for a male and a female Niffler.

Tierra endured a flood of rumors about his supposed relationship with Dumbledore, while Harry repeatedly defended him and Hermione urged him to respond. Tierra realized that Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel, and others were letting the gossip spread to encourage his Godhood Ascension Ritual, leaving him as their unwitting test subject.

• Hagrid promised Tierra he could take as many Nifflers as he wanted after class, and Tierra took two.
• Malicious letters and Howlers spread rumors about Tierra and Dumbledore, forcing Harry to repeatedly deny the claims.
• Tierra beat a Beauxbatons senior who propositioned him, while Hermione scolded Tierra for ignoring the gossip and continuing to eat.
• Tierra suspected Draco Malfoy was fueling the rumors but wondered why Dumbledore was allowing them to spread.
• Tierra overheard Madame Maxime call Nicolas Flamel her mentor and heard them discuss anchors, puppets, and death.
• Tierra concluded that Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel, and Madam Rosier wanted him to test the Godhood Ascension Ritual first.

Tierra continued his relentless research while Harry, Ron, and Hermione waited for news about Mr. Crouch and the Triwizard Tournament’s final task. Late one night, Viktor Krum pulled Tierra into a classroom.

• Tierra accepted that Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel, and Madam Rosier had seen through his intentions, then watched the moonlit sky above the Great Hall.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione sent Percy a letter asking whether anything unusual had happened to Mr. Crouch, and Percy replied that Crouch was recovering and still sent instructions by owl.
• Harry kept sending food and updates to Sirius while preparing for the third task, whose details the champions’ headmasters had kept secret.
• Tierra spent his days researching on a barren planet, used a Time-Turner to extend his working time, and built sanctuaries for the Nifflers and the Balrog Dragon.
• Viktor Krum ran into Tierra on the stairs, grabbed him, and pulled him into a small classroom.

Viktor Krum asked Tierra why Hermione had grown cold toward him, and Tierra reassured him that she was stressed about exams. After Krum left feeling they had become friends, Tierra reflected on adulthood, self-identification, and his resolve not to date minors.

• Viktor Krum stopped Tierra in an empty classroom and asked why Hermione had seemed cold toward him since Easter.
• Tierra told Krum that Hermione was irritable during exam weeks and claimed she had praised Krum as considerate and mature.
• Krum thanked Tierra, praised his hard work, and wished him luck and success in love before leaving in better spirits.
• Tierra realized Krum now considered him a friend and wondered how easily the younger wizard had changed his opinion.
• Tierra reflected on the imbalance between adults and minors, his own blurred sense of identity, and how Hermione's anger reminded him of his mother.

After The Daily Prophet reported that Barty Crouch had gone missing, Hermione asked Tierra whether they should investigate. Tierra assigned her to look into the disappearance, and she accepted the mission.

• The Daily Prophet reported that Barty Crouch had vanished after rambling about Bertha Jorkins, the Dark Lord, and the Death Eaters.
• Ron complained that Percy had shared information about Barty Crouch with Doris Freeman but not with his own brother.
• At breakfast, Harry and Ron said Tierra had been absent from the dormitory and that they did not know where he was.
• Hermione found Tierra working in the History of Magic classroom and told him about Barty Crouch's disappearance.
• Tierra asked Hermione to investigate the case, suggesting she gather information from Professor Moody, and Hermione agreed.

Barty Crouch was found murdered beside the Beauxbatons carriage, prompting Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge to visit Hogwarts and argue against canceling the Triwizard Tournament. Disguised as Gilderoy Lockhart, Tierra proposed that the killer had displayed the body to distract everyone from a larger conspiracy.

• Fleur Delacour discovered Barty Crouch's dried corpse beside the Beauxbatons carriage, and Hagrid's account spread news of the murder throughout Hogwarts.
• Students sent letters to their parents, and Cornelius Fudge returned to Hogwarts with Kingsley Shacklebolt, Dolores Umbridge, and Gilderoy Lockhart.
• Dumbledore connected Barty Crouch's death to Bertha Jorkins's disappearance and the Dark Mark at the Quidditch World Cup, then urged Fudge to cancel the Triwizard Tournament.
• Fudge rejected Dumbledore's concerns and suggested Crouch might have dried himself out, but Dumbledore argued that the spell required deliberate effort.
• Tierra, disguised as Gilderoy Lockhart, reasoned that the killer had preserved and conspicuously placed Crouch's body to divert attention from a greater conspiracy, then asked Moody to judge his analysis.

Dumbledore tried to recruit Gilderoy Lockhart as Hogwarts’ security consultant, but Tierra refused and left after meeting with Fudge and Moody. Tierra planned to use Fudge’s future requests for propaganda to shift The Daily Prophet’s influence to The Quibbler while strengthening his anchors before pursuing godhood.

• Moody suspected Gilderoy Lockhart of knowing too much, while Fudge insisted that Barty Crouch’s death was an accident and that the Triwizard Tournament would continue.
• Harry arrived at Dumbledore’s office, and Fudge concealed his argument with Dumbledore while greeting him warmly.
• Dumbledore asked Gilderoy Lockhart to stay at Hogwarts as a security consultant, but Tierra refused and Apparated away.
• Tierra intended to use Fudge’s future commissions to build his influence and transfer The Daily Prophet’s credibility to The Quibbler.
• Tierra planned to spend the next term stabilizing his anchors before beginning the Path to Godhood.

As the third task approached, Harry struggled with nightmares, painful scar episodes, and uncertainty about what awaited him in the maze, while Tierra tried to reassure and protect him. On tournament night, Harry reunited with the Weasleys and the other champions’ families, then arrived at the maze as Bagman prepared to explain the rules.

• Harry dreamed that Voldemort spared Wormtail after learning that someone who should not have appeared was dead, and his scar burned painfully when he awoke.
• Harry found Dumbledore’s Pensieve and saw memories revealing that Karkaroff, Snape, Bagman, and Barty Crouch Jr. had been connected to the Death Eaters.
• Tierra gave Harry a Lucky Golden Coin, a reworked Troll Amulet that could resist magic, and reminded him that the tournament prize money would belong to whichever of them did not lift the trophy.
• Tierra visited the History of Magic exam room and distracted the students by inspecting their papers, while Harry sat his exam.
• Harry met Mrs. Weasley and Bill in the champions’ meeting room, and they told him that Percy was under pressure over Mr. Crouch’s death and that Fudge had taken Crouch’s judging position.
• Tierra hurriedly gave letters to Fleur and Viktor before Harry and the other champions reached the maze, where Bagman began introducing the final task.

At the third task briefing, Dumbledore imposed restrictions and monitoring measures aimed at Tierra, then sent the champions to change into supplied clothes and wands. As Tierra prepared to change under Moody’s supervision, Moody cast the Imperius Curse on him.

• Ludo Bagman explained that the champions would race through a maze to reach the Triwizard Cup, entering in order of their rankings.
• Nicolas Flamel arrived to watch Tierra compete, and Dumbledore announced rules banning large-scale destructive spells and outside magical items.
• Dumbledore revealed that Flamel had made the champions’ wands to monitor their magic, and that the judges would track each champion during the task.
• Dumbledore assigned Hogwarts professors to accompany the champions into separate changing rooms, where they would receive competition clothes and wands.
• Tierra put his wand in a box and turned to change, but Moody flashed white light and cast Imperio on him.

Tierra delayed entering the Triwizard Tournament maze to perform an absurd dance, then said goodbye to Harry and went inside. As the hedge entrance sealed, Dumbledore realized the significance of Tierra’s Tarot card, and countless versions of The Fool opened their eyes.

• Ludo Bagman announced the champions’ scores and staggered their maze entry times, with Tierra scheduled to enter first.
• Tierra refused to enter immediately, transformed his wand into a staff and his uniform into colorful clothing, then danced for about ten minutes as the crowd booed.
• Tierra hugged and kissed Harry, wished him a long and happy life, and entered the maze.
• The maze entrance sealed behind Tierra, and Dumbledore turned to The Fool card in the Tarot deck Tierra had given him.
• Tierra opened his eyes on The Fool card, followed by hundreds of multicolored Tierras appearing across other Tarot decks.

Tierra transformed through a succession of Tarot-like forms as he fought his way through the maze, while Harry was swept along by a mysterious hurricane and saw the other champions trapped by summoned creatures. Tierra reached the trophy but left it untouched, turned to face the maze, and sounded a bone horn as The Judge opened his eyes.

• Tierra summoned earth, wind, water, and fire creatures, then transformed through The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, and The Emperor.
• Outside the maze, Nicolas Flamel and Dumbledore sensed alarming magical fluctuations from the Crystal Ball while Cornelius Fudge questioned them.
• Harry entered the maze, parted from Viktor Krum, and was carried by a hurricane past burned corpses and past Fleur Delacour and Krum, who were trapped by water and earth creatures.
• Tierra reached the Sphinx near the trophy, transformed into The Sun, and frightened her into fleeing.
• Tierra reached the trophy without taking it, drew a bone horn and sword from his body, and sounded the horn as The Judge opened his eyes.

Harry and Tierra were transported by the Triwizard Cup to a graveyard, where Wormtail used dark magic and Harry’s blood to resurrect Voldemort. Voldemort returned, while Tierra remained under the Imperius Curse and watched from the gravestone’s shadow.

• Harry and Tierra grabbed the Triwizard Cup together and were transported to a graveyard far from Hogwarts.
• Harry recognized the graveyard and tried to pull the motionless Tierra back toward the Cup, but his scar erupted in pain.
• Wormtail bound Harry to Tom Riddle’s gravestone and prepared a cauldron while a snake circled nearby.
• Wormtail placed Voldemort’s infant-like body in the cauldron, then used Tom Riddle’s bone, his own hand, and Harry’s blood in a resurrection ritual.
• Voldemort rose from the cauldron in a restored body as Wormtail dressed him.

Voldemort revived himself, summoned the Death Eaters, and confronted them over their years of abandoning him. After Lucius Malfoy pointed out Tierra’s past service to Voldemort, Voldemort approached Tierra, and Harry shouted for him to stop.

• Voldemort inspected his restored body, revived the Dark Mark on Wormtail’s arm, and declared that his followers would feel the summons.
• Death Eaters Apparated into the graveyard, knelt before Voldemort, and formed a circle around him, Harry, Tierra, and Wormtail.
• Voldemort accused the Death Eaters of abandoning him and tore off the masks of several followers, including Lucius Malfoy.
• Lucius begged Voldemort for forgiveness and reminded him that Tierra had supplied materials while Voldemort possessed him.
• Voldemort approached Tierra and began threatening him, but Harry shouted for him not to touch Tierra.

Voldemort forced Harry to duel him in the graveyard while holding Tierra captive, but Tierra intervened when their spells met. Harry escaped with Tierra’s body by activating the Triwizard Cup Portkey, leaving Voldemort behind.

• Voldemort declared that Tierra would serve as his prophet and ordered Wormtail to free Harry and return his wand.
• Voldemort tortured Harry with the Cruciatus Curse and tried to control him with Imperius, but Harry resisted and refused to obey.
• Harry hid behind a gravestone, then stood to face Voldemort and fired Expelliarmus as Voldemort cast Avada Kedavra.
• Tierra ran into the collision of the spells, was struck by both, and asked Harry to take him home as he died.
• Harry summoned the trophy and used it as a Portkey to escape with Tierra’s body while Voldemort failed to stop him.

Harry returned from the maze holding Tierra’s apparently dead body, and the crowd learned that Voldemort had returned. The chapter ended with several Tierras from different times appearing near the Forbidden Forest to arrange the funeral deception.

• Harry clutched Tierra’s body and mourned him after the Portkey brought them back to the stadium.
• Fleur Delacour and Hermione screamed when they saw Tierra, and Dumbledore took his body from Harry.
• Harry told Dumbledore and Cornelius Fudge that Voldemort had returned as the crowd spread word of Tierra’s death.
• A man disguised as Gilderoy Lockhart rushed to Tierra’s body and claimed to be his father.
• Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel prepared to move Tierra while Dumbledore ordered Harry to stay with the crowd.
• Several Tierras from different points in time arrived near the Forbidden Forest and discussed who would play the corpse and Gilderoy Lockhart.

Tierra returned from apparent death and explained to Dumbledore how he had become a demon, revealed the organization’s plans and progress toward raising a god to protect the Wizarding World, and described how he could destroy Voldemort’s Horcrux inside Harry without harming him. He asked Dumbledore to arrange a funeral at midnight so everyone at Hogwarts would remember him.

• Tierra climbed out of the coffin and waited in Dumbledore’s chair until Dumbledore returned to the office.
• Tierra told Dumbledore that he had died but survived by transforming himself into a demon with help from Salazar Slytherin.
• Tierra revealed that the second-year attacks had been a cover for creating The Inheritor and Parasite, two parts of the Godhood Ascension Ritual.
• Tierra explained that his organization planned to raise a god to find a new home for humanity beyond Earth as the Muggle world advanced.
• Tierra told Dumbledore that his work could destroy Voldemort’s Horcrux inside Harry without harming Harry and had already doomed four Horcruxes.
• Tierra asked Dumbledore to give him a funeral at midnight so everyone at Hogwarts would remember him.

At Tierra’s funeral, Viktor Krum read a letter in which Tierra delivered nine prophecies and explained his wishes for his friends. Meanwhile, Tierra emerged on the Moon and began the alchemical ritual he had prepared to ascend to godhood.

• Dumbledore gathered the wizards in the Great Hall beside Tierra’s coffin, and Viktor Krum read the funeral letter Tierra had entrusted to him.
• Tierra stepped through a Gate onto the Moon, where he arranged his three pathways within the alchemical ritual and positioned himself at its center.
• Tierra’s letter revealed that Voldemort had returned, identified Harry as the one destined to defeat him, and warned Harry about Dementors and escaped Death Eaters.
• Tierra predicted Hogwarts would face a pink toad, Dumbledore’s temporary removal, Hagrid’s danger, and Trelawney’s persecution, and he told Hermione to prepare Dittany Potion.
• Tierra predicted Ron and Hermione would become prefects and warned Draco Malfoy to seek help with a future deadly task.
• Tierra left his tournament winnings to invest in Fred and George Weasley’s joke shop and asked his friends to remember him.

Dumbledore honored Tierra at the Hogwarts feast while the real Tierra began his Godhood Ascension Ritual on the moon. A future Tierra observed the ritual and explained how his intact self-perception would restore his mind after ascension.

• Dumbledore asked the Great Hall to toast Tierra and observe three minutes of silence, while Tierra appeared and sat beside Harry.
• At midnight, Tierra removed his Time-Turner and used it, the Philosopher’s Stone, and a half-dead Phoenix as part of the ritual before the Sword of Gryffindor pierced his heart.
• A second Tierra emerged from the black compartment as the first Tierra’s body, Spiritual Dimension, and Mental Dimension collapsed, beginning the Godhood Ascension Ritual.
• The ritual condensed Tierra and its contents into a point, which then exploded into countless versions of Tierra spreading across the alchemical array.
• The future Tierra recorded the ritual’s purpose and explained how his own complete self-perception would reconstruct his Mental Dimension, unlike Merlin’s reliance on others’ perceptions.