Chapter Summaries

Cedric planned a route through the luck-based match while the judges supplied questions for a random quiz-and-dice machine. Andrew discovered that Mr. LeMei had combined alchemy with steam machinery, and the first round of rolls began as Andrew considered the possibilities for magical technology.

• Cedric assessed the board and told the team to prioritize rewards that could adjust a die roll.
• Irving Fleck declined to go first, so Montague took his place while Cedric and Hermione worked out a route.
• Mr. LeMei explained the rules and used an alchemical machine to draw questions and roll dice for the champions.
• Andrew submitted a tricky Transfiguration question and recognized that steam machinery powered the machine.
• Andrew realized Mr. LeMei had been combining steam technology with alchemy, then returned his attention to the match when Bagman announced the next round.

Montague struggled to advance in the contest while Durmstrang took the lead, but Irving devised a risky plan to exploit the rules and sabotage the frozen grounds. Cedric and Hermione agreed to help buy him time as the Hogwarts team prepared to carry it out.

• Montague repeatedly failed to answer questions, suffered a freezing-water penalty, and slowly fell behind the other champions.
• The Durmstrang champion advanced rapidly, entered the combat zone, and sent an opponent back to the start.
• Irving proposed delaying opponents with quiz duels while he used Ritual Magic to melt the ice beneath the Competition Grounds.
• Cedric approved the plan and assigned Montague to hold up opponents while the others collected rewards and initiated duels.
• Hermione agreed to keep two upper-year opponents occupied in a quiz duel while Irving prepared his spell.

Montague used repeated wrong answers to reach and defeat rival Champions, while Hermione and Cedric advanced rapidly along the track. As Hermione entered the dueling track, Cedric reached Montague and began arguing with him, and Irving finally started moving.

• Montague repeatedly answered questions incorrectly to climb in and out of the Lake, then defeated a Koldovstoretz Champion in a duel.
• Montague agreed to a Potions Knowledge Duel against a Beauxbatons Champion and sent him back to the starting point.
• The third group of Champions entered, and Cedric stopped collecting rewards and moved forward while Hermione answered every question correctly.
• Hermione chose the highest die result three times and became the first Champion to enter the dueling track.
• Cedric reached Montague and began disagreeing with him, while Irving started moving.

Hogwarts' champions used challenges and teamwork to hold off their opponents while Irving completed a ritual that melted the competition grounds and ended the contest. The judges declared Hogwarts the winner, while Karkaroff and Madame Maxime disputed which of their schools should take second place.

• Hermione and Cedric challenged their opponents to Knowledge Duels, while Montague faced two opponents and Irving began an ancient ritual around the Black Lake.
• Montague immediately attacked Krum and eliminated him with a trap, leaving one opponent to defend against him.
• Hermione and Cedric kept their Knowledge Duel opponents occupied as Irving completed his spell.
• Irving cast End of All Spells and melted the magically frozen ice, sending the champions into the lake before Giant Tentacles carried them toward shore.
• Mr. LeMei declared Hogwarts the winner, while Karkaroff and Madame Maxime argued over which school deserved second place.

After Hogwarts won the second task, Andrew discussed the tournament’s future and the importance of funding with Mr. LeMei. Mr. LeMei called Andrew an alchemy master and revealed that continuing his lesson would require Andrew to swear an oath witnessed by the Goblins and several Ministries of Magic.

• Hogwarts won the second task, and Andrew gave his score before following Mr. LeMei to discuss Steam Technology.
• Mr. LeMei asked Andrew what he thought of the task, and they agreed that advertising could fund future tournaments while organizers improved safety and refined the format.
• Mr. LeMei taught Andrew that survival was the most important part of alchemy and magical research, then called him an alchemy master.
• Andrew rejected the title, but Mr. LeMei said it allowed Andrew to conduct certain important alchemical experiments.
• Mr. LeMei told Andrew he would need to swear an oath under his supervision before the lesson could continue, explaining that it was a matter of self-preservation.

Mr. LeMei explained the restrictions on making gold with the Philosopher’s Stone and prepared Andrew to take an oath before teaching him alchemy. He gave Andrew a contract to inspect carefully, leaving him distracted by an impulse to practice Legilimency.

• Mr. LeMei told Andrew that his oath would limit him to producing and releasing ten pounds of gold per year and sharing knowledge of the Philosopher’s Stone with no more than two master alchemists every hundred years.
• Andrew questioned whether the Philosopher’s Stone was unique, and Mr. LeMei explained how difficult it was to create and maintain one.
• Mr. LeMei described the Philosopher’s Stone as both the endpoint of alchemy and a new beginning, then produced an old contract for Andrew to review.
• Mr. LeMei warned Andrew to scrutinize every contract and signature, check for hidden tricks, and sign only after repeated inspections.
• Andrew began practicing Legilimency and struggled to focus while Mr. LeMei urged him to read the contract carefully.

Andrew signed an alchemical contract witnessed by Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall, then followed Mr. LeMei into the inner Alchemy Laboratory to learn the secret of the Philosopher's Stone. Mr. LeMei explained the Stone’s transformative power and connected alchemical principles to Muggle efforts to harness the sun.

• Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall witnessed Andrew and Mr. LeMei complete the contract ritual, which bound Andrew to the agreement.
• After Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall left, Mr. LeMei led Andrew into the inner Alchemy Laboratory to reveal Alchemy’s greatest secret.
• Mr. LeMei described the Philosopher's Stone as embodying transformation and cycles, and said turning iron into gold required a price.
• Mr. LeMei explained that Muggles were trying to harness the sun’s power and noted that the sun existed without any apparent rituals or restraints.

Mr. LeMei taught Andrew the principles behind the Philosopher’s Stone, including the role of wish power, and challenged him to make one himself. He suspended their Alchemy Course while he prepared to restore his face, promising to return before the third match.

• Mr. LeMei demonstrated the creation of an incomplete Philosopher’s Stone and explained how alchemy transformed its ingredients.
• Mr. LeMei explained that a true Philosopher’s Stone required its creator’s magic and wish power, which came from other Wizards’ belief and approval.
• Andrew accepted Mr. LeMei’s explanation of how emotions and connections could influence magic.
• Mr. LeMei destroyed the incomplete stone and assigned Andrew to make his own Philosopher’s Stone.
• Mr. LeMei suspended the Alchemy Course so he could prepare to restore his face, saying he would return before the third match.

Andrew considered whether to pursue the Philosopher's Stone but decided to focus on his current studies and projects instead. After returning to the Common Room, he heard his friends praise Irving and Granger for their performances in the final match.

• Andrew reviewed Mr. LeMei's Philosopher's Stone process and decided not to pursue immortality yet.
• Andrew listed his ongoing goals: testing materials, studying Herbology and Charms, and completing his coursework.
• Andrew planned to compile the first issue of his materials magazine and recruit students to help run it.
• Andrew returned to the Common Room and told Hal and Bell that the judges had no results to discuss.
• Hal and Kevin praised Irving's Ritual Magic and Granger's performance, and Andrew agreed that Granger had earned her success through hard work.

Andrew decided to focus on studying and began spending most of his free time in the Library, while declining to make another Long Dream. As his classmates noticed his new routine, Hal defended his study time and said Andrew had no time to attend the Dream Club’s latest production.

• Andrew told Hal, Kevin, and Hughes that he intended to study rather than start another Long Dream, citing the lack of a suitable script and the risk of complaints.
• Andrew asked Hughes to keep working hard at Magical History, then said he would only study enough to pass that subject.
• Over the next two months, Taylor spent most of his free time in the Library studying books across every subject while continuing to hold his Tea Party.
• Ravenclaw students noticed Taylor’s steady studying, and Hal explained that it supported his work and pointed to the spread of Long Dream techniques and the Dream Club.
• The Dream Club president asked whether Taylor could attend its new Long Dream, but Hal refused the invitation and warned him not to disturb Andrew.

Harry and Ron worried that Taylor taking first place in the exams might upset Hermione, but Hermione said he deserved to win and focused on preparing for the final task. She explained that the task would be a mixed-team contest, leaving her determined to train hard despite her disadvantage as a younger student.

• Harry and Ron worried that Taylor would come first in the exams and wondered whether Hermione would take it badly.
• Hermione gave Harry and Ron stacks of library books and asked them to help her train for the final.
• Hermione said Taylor deserved first place because he worked hard, and she would be angry if he did not come first.
• Ron asked why the Champions' planned training trip to Koldovstoretz had been canceled, and Hermione said the trip had been called off long ago.
• Hermione explained that the Third Task would be a contest between mixed teams, each with a Champion from one of the four schools.
• Hermione said she would focus on practical training, especially dodging and defense, since she could not rely on Taylor to train her.

Andrew and the other Headmasters arranged with Koldovstoretz to obtain Spaceflight materials and test whether magic worked beyond Earth. The materials were secured, but the Aurors found seven tons of documents and blueprints they could not copy quickly.

• Lina summoned Andrew to Professor McGonagall's Office, where he learned that his requested materials had arrived.
• Andrew recalled how a newspaper from Koldovstoretz students had revealed that the Space Shuttle Discovery docked with Russia's Space Station in February 1995.
• Andrew told Dumbledore he wanted Spaceflight plans and equipment to test whether magic worked beyond Earth.
• The four Headmasters agreed that Koldovstoretz would share Spaceflight materials in exchange for Triwizard Tournament concessions, while Koldovstoretz and its Ministry arranged a magic experiment.
• An Auror told Andrew they had obtained the materials but could not bring them back because they comprised seven tons of blueprints and documents.

Andrew asked the Aurors to steal as many space-station blueprints as possible, prioritizing the upcoming experimental module so the wizards could hide enchanted items aboard it. With McGonagall’s support, he offered the Aurors an Order of Merlin and additional funding, while preparations for the space experiment displaced work on the Triwizard Tournament.

• Andrew learned that the blueprints weighed seven tons and told the Aurors to prioritize the experimental module’s plans and launch time.
• Andrew promised Mr. Xavier an Order of Merlin, Second Class, and doubled operating funds to encourage the Aurors to retrieve more documents.
• Mr. Xavier agreed to have his team copy the module’s plans and as many other blueprints as they could while protecting their safety and secrecy.
• McGonagall supported Andrew’s efforts and discussed testing whether magic weakened over great distances.
• Andrew and McGonagall reviewed the enchanted items prepared to be hidden aboard the module, while work on the additional Triwizard Tournament events remained set aside.

Andrew received blueprints for a Muggle space module and began figuring out how the schools could place magical experiments aboard without endangering the mission or breaking the Secrecy Law. He stayed behind to build a model of the module as Professor McGonagall went to ask Dumbledore about his testing plan.

• Andrew noted that the headmasters and tournament organizers had turned their attention to testing magic beyond the planet, leaving the Triwizard Tournament to the Ministry judges.
• The Aurors returned with blueprints and details about the Spectrum experimental module, which was scheduled to launch on May twentieth.
• Andrew and Professor McGonagall discussed where magical test items could go and how to test their effects on electronics without violating the Secrecy Law or disrupting the module.
• Professor McGonagall left to speak with Dumbledore and locked Andrew in her Office to work on the plans.
• Andrew used Transfiguration to begin assembling a one-to-one-hundred model of the module so he could understand its layout and find space for the experiments.

Andrew built a full-size prototype of the space station’s Experimental Module in Professor McGonagall’s expanded office, then showed it to the visiting headmasters. The group concluded that only the Caterpillar could be sent as a test subject and began discussing payload arrangements.

• Professor McGonagall found Andrew assembling modules across her office and agreed to expand and screen off the space so he could keep working there.
• Andrew struggled to interpret the plans but used Transfiguration to build a full-size prototype of the Experimental Module.
• Professor McGonagall had to expand and divide her office to accommodate the prototype.
• Andrew explained to Madame Maxime and Headmaster Vladislav that the module was a non-flying model and that its limited size ruled out larger test animals.
• Madame Maxime said the Caterpillar would have to be the test subject, while Karkaroff asked to buy the prototype and Professor McGonagall refused.
• Dumbledore told the group that he would invite them to observe the experiments when the time came.

Dumbledore gathered Andrew and the other headmasters to watch a televised rocket launch while seeking their help to hunt Voldemort. The launch confirmed that magic remained effective beyond the atmosphere, and Andrew realized Alchemical Life might enable electrical devices to function under protective magic.

• Dumbledore explained that he was developing a costly way to use electrical appliances at Hogwarts and asked the other headmasters to help hunt Voldemort; they agreed, with Hogwarts covering the funding.
• Dumbledore told Andrew that the car that had once brought Harry and Ron to Hogwarts was Alchemical Life and could use its horn and headlights inside the school's protective magic.
• Andrew realized Alchemical Life might explain how electricity could function under protective magic, while Madame Maxime showed interest in the alchemical possibility.
• Andrew, Dumbledore, Karkaroff, and Madame Maxime watched a televised rocket launch and waited for Dumbledore to sense its progress.
• After the broadcast confirmed the launch vehicle had left the atmosphere, Dumbledore reported no significant loss of magical function and declared the experiment's first stage a success.

Andrew and the headmasters discussed the successful experiment and agreed Wizards should develop their own approach to space exploration rather than simply adapt Muggle technology. The schools backed Andrew’s plan and he asked them to help recruit students and provide more resources for materials research.

• Dumbledore assured the headmasters that magic was not confined by the atmosphere, and Karkaroff and Madame Maxime welcomed the experiment’s success.
• Andrew argued that Wizards should study Muggle knowledge but build distinctively magical spacecraft instead of enchanting Muggle designs.
• Dumbledore, Karkaroff, Madame Maxime, and Headmaster Vladislav supported Andrew’s proposal and agreed to pursue magical flight research at their schools.
• Andrew asked each headmaster to teach at the Tea Party, encourage students to study material measurement, and provide more funding and supplies.

Andrew organized support from the wizarding schools to measure magical materials and arranged for Vladislav and Dumbledore to teach at the Tea Party. As students focused on gathering data, Harry and Ron questioned whether the Triwizard Tournament would proceed, while Grindelwald ordered an investigation into recent events in the Muggle world.

• Andrew secured donations and volunteers, and Koldovstoretz sent two professors and promised to send interested students to help measure materials.
• Andrew told Hal that Vladislav would teach a short course at the Tea Party and planned to announce Dumbledore's lesson later.
• Taylor announced that Dumbledore would hold a discussion if enough data for two issues of the Magazine was gathered before the Triwizard Tournament's final event.
• Ron and Harry worried that the Tea Party had overshadowed the tournament and discussed seeking information from Sirius or Hagrid.
• Grindelwald suspected that the headmasters' gathering and Taylor's favorable treatment were connected to the Muggle world, and ordered an investigation.

Students were more interested in headmaster lessons and dream entertainment than the Triwizard Tournament, while Hermione prepared for the Third Task. Andrew and Professor McGonagall discussed falling library use and planned a Ministry-approved dream elective for next year.

• Students discussed Taylor restricting access to Dumbledore's lecture and the planned Dream Replay, while Quidditch broadcasts and Long Dreams distracted many from the Triwizard Tournament.
• Ron invited Harry to watch a Chudley Cannons match, but Hermione urged them to study as she prepared for the Third Task.
• Andrew and Professor McGonagall reviewed Madam Pince's report that library borrowing had dropped by a sixth during exam week.
• Andrew proposed regulating Dream Playback and creating a dream-related elective, and Professor McGonagall agreed to a higher entry standard and a new professor to supervise the Dream Club.

Lina was assigned to draft a Ministry proposal while Professor McGonagall put Andrew in charge of exam supervision and the Dream Weaving competition arrangements. At the tournament, Hogwarts’s Champions used Alchemy items to eliminate their rivals, ending the round with a Hogwarts victory and leaving the final to be decided by drawing lots.

• Professor McGonagall told Lina to draft a proposal for negotiations with the Ministry and assigned Andrew to help supervise the upcoming exams.
• Andrew suggested a Dream Weaving competition for Seventh Year students, and Professor McGonagall asked Lina to arrange it after consulting the New Director.
• Andrew discussed the risks of sending the Alchemy system into space with Mr. LeMei, who hoped to build a Laboratory on the moon.
• Andrew and Mr. LeMei watched Hermione use dirty tactics and Alchemy items to defeat a Beauxbatons student in the tournament broadcast.
• Cedric and Hermione supplied their teammates with Alchemy items, the remaining Champions were eliminated, and Bagman declared the tournament over.