Chapter Summaries

Moody taught the students about the Unforgivable Curses and demonstrated the Cruciatus Curse on Neville, provoking Professor McGonagall to confront him. That evening, Harry told Charles about his recurring headaches and Dumbledore’s plan for him to study Occlumency with Snape, while Charles revealed he had been tasked with grading homework.

• Moody asked for a volunteer to experience the Cruciatus Curse, and Neville stepped forward despite Hermione trying to stop him.
• Moody cursed Neville, who collapsed in pain, and Charles gave him a bottle of chilled Happy Water after Harry and Dean helped him back to his seat.
• Moody explained Avada Kedavra and the other Unforgivable Curses, then pointed out that Harry was the only known person to have survived the Killing Curse.
• Professor Delacour told Charles that Neville had gone to the Hospital Wing and that Professor McGonagall had argued with Moody after learning what happened.
• Harry told Charles that his summer dizziness seemed connected to Charles’s spellcasting and that Dumbledore wanted him to learn Occlumency from Snape.
• Harry and Seamus learned that Charles had been assigned to grade the students’ homework, and Harry asked him for full marks.

Charles visited the Centaur tribe and learned that Twilight had a suitor whom he would be asked to approve at the spring equinox ceremony. Later, the Ministry and Phoenix Logistics chose Snape as the sole available subject for a dangerous study of how to break the Dark Mark, and Snape chased Charles with a blade.

• Hermione asked where Charles was, and Seamus explained that Charles had gone to St. Mungo's to take the first dose of the Werewolf Antidote.
• Charles delivered supplies to the Centaurs, and the Great Elder told him that Twilight had a suitor and needed his consent for their spring equinox ceremony.
• Charles met Twilight's shy suitor at the feast, then returned to Hogwarts the next morning smiling about her having a boyfriend.
• After receiving an owl letter, Charles spent the day on company and Ministry business and learned that Snape would be studied to find a way to break the Dark Mark.
• The next morning, Hogwarts students saw Snape chasing Charles with a blade.

Charles established a private alchemy laboratory at Hogwarts and learned that Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students would soon arrive for the Triwizard Tournament. At Malfoy Manor, Voldemort heard rumors about his relationship with Charles and ordered Crouch to keep his distance from him.

• Dumbledore persuaded Snape to join Charles's research group as a subject, and Charles later proposed capturing two Death Eaters as a control group.
• Dumbledore approved Charles's request for a long-term alchemy laboratory in a remote Hogwarts tower, which Charles had Dobby prepare and furnish.
• Charles learned that Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students would arrive on Friday, then teased Daphne about girls and was kicked by Hermione after commenting on her appearance.
• At breakfast, Ron questioned why Charles had said Hermione used to be more beautiful, making Harry choke on his milk.
• Lucius told Voldemort that captured World Cup attendees had been sent to Azkaban and that Hogwarts had announced the Triwizard Tournament.
• Voldemort learned that Charles had given Draco ten thousand Galleons and told Lucius to warn Crouch not to get too close to Charles or meddle unnecessarily.

Charles greeted the visiting Durmstrang and Beauxbatons delegations, reunited with his vampire pen pal Erika, and watched Viktor Krum greet Hermione. The Beauxbatons students arrived without Gabrielle, leaving Charles alarmed and wondering where she was.

• Cho Chang thanked Charles for calling her the prettiest girl at Hogwarts, and he jokingly asked her to buy him a drink at Honeydukes.
• Fred, George, Katie, and Alicia teased Charles about teaching them how to talk to girls, while Charles noticed McGonagall's unfamiliar earrings.
• The Durmstrang delegation arrived aboard an ancient ship that rose from the Great Lake, and Charles embraced his pen pal Erika.
• Hermione and the others saw Charles's close reunion with Erika, while Viktor Krum recognized Hermione and greeted her.
• Madame Maxime arrived with the Beauxbatons delegation in a carriage pulled by winged horses, but Charles could not find Gabrielle among the students.

At the Triwizard Tournament welcome dinner, Viktor Krum asked Charles to help a werewolf girl receive trial treatment. Charles proposed applying for an extra treatment spot through a small country with no werewolves, and Krum agreed to seek help from its officials.

• Charles introduced Pheobe to Erika, who became flustered by Pheobe's beauty, and Erika told Charles that Krum urgently wanted to ask him for a favor.
• Pheobe explained that Gabrielle's planned visit had been canceled after the danger at the Quidditch World Cup, but that she would come for Christmas instead.
• At the dinner, Erika revealed she was a vampire to the curious Gryffindors, while students at Ravenclaw asked whether she or Pheobe was Charles's girlfriend.
• Krum told Charles that his teammate's fiancée had been bitten by a werewolf and captured by the Ministry, and asked whether she could receive a trial-treatment spot.
• Charles warned that giving Bulgaria an extra spot could cause diplomatic disputes and shortages, then suggested applying through a country without werewolves.
• Krum agreed to contact officials in those countries, and Charles suggested Fred and George help deliver letters by owl.

At the Hogwarts feast, Peeves sang a prophecy about the Triwizard Tournament that left students and guests fearing someone would die. Charles questioned who had prompted the prophecy and how much his memories could still be trusted, before a purple notebook beside his bed began flashing and ringing.

• Charles served Erika food while Pansy and Daphne wondered whether she was his girlfriend, and Malfoy boasted to Helen about receiving ten thousand Galleons from Charles.
• Dumbledore explained the Triwizard Tournament entry rules and presented the Goblet of Fire.
• Peeves sang a prophecy that mentioned a wandering snake, someone's return from the abyss, and the tears of a loved one, then told Dumbledore that someone had asked him to deliver it.
• Charles watched the guests' reactions as Dumbledore dismissed Peeves's song as troublemaking, then considered the prophecy and Moody's changed circumstances in his bedroom.
• A purple-covered notebook beside Charles's bed began ringing and flashing.

Charles introduced the new Communication Notebook, which let users chat instantly and offered features for homes and workplaces. As Harry and Seamus helped promote it, Charles arranged with Pheobe to shop for evening gowns the next day.

• Charles gave Harry and Seamus Communication Notebooks as Christmas presents and showed them how to add friends and chat.
• Harry and Seamus tested the notebooks, discovered their features, and learned that the home-use model cost six Galleons while the Ministry would buy official models.
• Charles explained the notebook's planned upgrades and commercial strategy, then recommended Dobby's and Vernon's accounts to Harry.
• Seamus and Harry asked which girl Charles planned to visit in Hogsmeade, and Charles sent them to promote the notebooks in exchange for restaurant vouchers.
• Charles told Pheobe about Erika's family situation and asked her to help choose evening gowns at Elegant Brand Wizard Clothing Store; Pheobe agreed to meet him at breakfast.

Charles recruited a diverse group of famous and ordinary wizards to promote his Communication Notebook, including Krum, Dumbledore, and Kingsley Shacklebolt. After the advertisements were completed and posted in Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley, crowds began gathering at Dancing Grass Restaurant.

• Pheobe fed Erika breakfast while Charles showed Krum the Ministry's agreement to help treat werewolves.
• Charles recruited Krum as a personal spokesperson, then signed up Pheobe, Erika, Ron, Cedric, Cho Chang, Malfoy, Dumbledore, Professor Delacour, and others.
• Charles gathered the spokespeople and company employees at Farbaton Castle, where photographers took advertisements tailored to each person's image.
• Fudge visited the photo shoot, and Charles recruited Kingsley Shacklebolt as an additional spokesperson.
• Charles completed a group advertisement showing twelve spokespeople using Communication Notebooks around a rotating Earth, and Fudge was impressed by Charles's connections.
• The advertisements appeared across Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley, drawing people toward Dancing Grass Restaurant.

Ginny joined Hermione and their friends at the launch of Charles’s Communication Notebook, where a lottery let them win vouchers and choose customized covers. Meanwhile, Pheobe helped Erika pick a formal dress paid for by Marlene, and Erika pressed Pheobe about her relationship with Charles.

• Hermione took Ginny to Honeydukes, and they saw posters advertising Charles’s Communication Notebook around Hogsmeade.
• Seamus led Hermione, Ginny, and Neville to the notebook launch, where Setina Worbeck demonstrated the product and Charles held a signing ceremony with Fudge, Dumbledore, and the St. Mungo’s director.
• Fudge won a twelve-Galleon voucher on the spinning wheel, then Ginny, Hermione, and Neville won vouchers of their own; Hermione gave hers to the others.
• Harry, Seamus, Hermione, and Ginny chose notebooks with animated covers, while Ron borrowed money from Fred and George to afford one.
• Malfoy arrived with the fourth-year Slytherins and offered to pay for their purchases.
• Pheobe took Erika to choose a formal dress funded by Marlene, and Erika asked Pheobe how far she and Charles had gone.

After Draco Malfoy was attacked with the Cruciatus Curse, Charles practiced defenses against it with Eleanor and met Durmstrang student Helen. That night, he discovered Helen confronting Karkaroff and the two students who had attacked Malfoy, leaving him suspecting a hidden connection.

• Two attackers ambushed Draco Malfoy in Hogsmeade, repeatedly used the Cruciatus Curse on him, and left him unconscious; a witness later alerted the authorities.
• Charles questioned Eleanor, who had witnessed the attack, then learned the Cruciatus Curse and tested All Curses End and an anti-magic Shield Charm against it.
• Charles met Helen near the scene, spoke with her about Malfoy, and walked back toward Hogwarts with her.
• At dinner, Ginny asked Charles to add her on the Communication Notebook, and Erika later took Charles to her dormitory after he escorted her to the owlery.
• After leaving Erika's dormitory, Charles overheard Helen confront Karkaroff and used an Invisibility Spell to identify two Durmstrang students as Malfoy's attackers.

Charles warned Harry to stay with Ron and Hermione in Hogsmeade because a Death Eater remained at large, then visited Malfoy to test whether his apparent injury was genuine. Malfoy reacted fearfully to Voldemort’s name but ate the strange pie Charles offered, and Helen arrived afterward believing Charles and Malfoy were close.

• Guests from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were barred from Charles Smith’s greenhouse by Shanghai Doll, then explored the Night-glowing Garden and a real-life Minesweeper game.
• Charles told Harry to avoid being alone in Hogsmeade and warned that an escaped Death Eater might try to capture him.
• Harry wondered whether Malfoy’s attack was staged, and Charles said he had prepared a test using Malfoy’s most hated food.
• Charles questioned Malfoy about Voldemort’s Horcrux, erased the memory of the question, and watched him eat a Star-gazing and Tentacle Pie.
• Harry concluded Malfoy’s injury had damaged his brain, while Madam Pomfrey told Helen that Charles had brought Malfoy food.

Erika told Charles and Pheobe that several unfamiliar Durmstrang students had been made to seem familiar through the Imperius Curse, including Helen and the students who attacked Draco Malfoy. Charles urged them to keep quiet and watch for what the impostors planned, then consulted Chris about the attack and reviewed a report intended for Voldemort.

• Charles and Pheobe discussed Erika’s visit to his room, and Erika joined them to deny rumors that they had kissed.
• Erika privately told Charles and Pheobe that she had noticed unfamiliar Durmstrang students who seemed familiar to everyone else, and Charles recognized Helen and the attackers of Draco Malfoy among them.
• Charles told Erika and Pheobe to act as if they knew nothing and wait until the competition before reporting the students, while Pheobe agreed not to warn Madame Maxime.
• Charles contacted Chris through the red Communication Notebook and asked whether Death Eaters might have attacked Draco; Chris suspected Karkaroff was trying to force answers from the Malfoys.
• Chris sent Charles a monthly intelligence report for Voldemort, and Charles edited it to avoid drawing attention to his relationships with Pheobe and the others.

After a cauldron accident in Potions, Charles saved Daphne and challenged Snape’s attempt to blame him. Later, Pheobe told Charles she suspected something was wrong with Moody and the Triwizard Tournament, leaving Charles wary of a possible conspiracy involving Karkaroff.

• Crabbe and Goyle’s cauldrons exploded, and Charles used a Shield Charm to save Daphne from splashing potion.
• Charles cited Snape’s newspaper article about damaged cauldrons and refused responsibility for checking Crabbe and Goyle’s equipment.
• Erika told Charles that Lovegood had asked her about bizarre animals, and she said Durmstrang would appoint her as an assistant regardless of who became its champion.
• Charles and Erika discussed Pheobe entering the Goblet of Fire, the assistant rules, and their guesses that Krum would be selected.
• Pheobe told Charles that Moody seemed unable to remember his time in Vagadu and that changes to the competition and Karkaroff’s extra people seemed suspicious.
• Charles promised to raise the fairness concerns with Dumbledore and wondered whether Karkaroff’s proposal was part of a conspiracy.

After gossiping about Charles and Seamus, the students heard Angelina Johnson invite Seamus and Hermione to assist her in the Triwizard Tournament. Hermione accepted enthusiastically, while Harry and the others were left hoping Charles might somehow join the competition.

• Harry asked who Charles was dating, and the students joked about Charles, Erika, and Miss Delacour.
• Lavender and Parvati teased Seamus about spending time with Miss Prewett, and Seamus explained that he was helping her get familiar with Hogwarts.
• Angelina Johnson invited Seamus to be her assistant if she became a Triwizard Champion, and Seamus accepted.
• Johnson invited Hermione because the team needed her knowledge, and Hermione gladly agreed after learning that Dumbledore's potential Champions had endorsed her.
• Harry, Neville, and the others lamented that they had not been invited, then speculated that Charles might join as a Champion or assistant.

Charles investigated Myrtle’s report of intruders at Hogwarts and learned that Durmstrang students had been searching the castle. That night, Steve Rogers caught Helen sneaking through a secret passage, and she claimed she was looking for abandoned treasure vaults.

• Charles heard Myrtle tell Nearly Headless Nick that she had seen suspicious people searching Hogwarts, and he decided to investigate without alerting the headmaster.
• Charles used the Marauder’s Map to search for clues but could not find Moody or anyone else suspicious, and he wondered whether Moody was the real one.
• Myrtle told Charles that several Durmstrang students had been searching the first floor and basement, so he planned to investigate that night.
• Helen left the Durmstrang dormitory after curfew and searched for a hidden passage while looking for old wizard vaults.
• Steve Rogers seized Helen, identified himself, and questioned her about why she was in the castle.
• Helen said she was searching for abandoned treasure vaults, and Steve believed her and ordered her to return to where she belonged.

Charles prepared alchemy materials with Pheobe, but later discovered that someone disguised as Erika had approached him to steal his hair. After interrogating the impostor, Renate, he tricked her into believing he had given her Smith’s hair and escorted her toward the Durmstrang dormitory.

• Charles and Pheobe arranged the alchemy materials and grew close while resting together in his laboratory.
• Erika asked to borrow Charles because she was nearly starving, but Charles realized the person posing as her was an impostor after she mentioned Frederick von Weisen.
• Charles took the disguised girl into the Mirror Space and interrogated her until her disguise wore off and he learned she was Renate, a Durmstrang student.
• Renate woke in the Hospital Wing and revealed that Professor Karkaroff had ordered her to obtain Smith’s hair so she could make him fall in love with her.
• Steve pretended to help Renate by bringing her hair from Crookshanks, then escorted her from the Hospital Wing toward the Durmstrang dormitory.

Voldemort searched dream-interpretation books for answers while Charles continued targeting Horcruxes and uncovered a possible reason the Durmstrang visitors were searching Hogwarts’ treasure vaults. The chapter ended with Charles suspecting Voldemort was seeking the Old Man’s strange magical power.

• Voldemort found that every book described dreaming of the Cruciatus Curse as a sign of an important love, then searched for an explanation of the singing-like incantation.
• Harry told Hermione and Ron about his painful dream, and Charles insisted that Harry use Occlumency while sleeping.
• Steve stopped Helena from attacking Helen in a treasure vault, then left to curse Hufflepuff’s Cup and plant Japanese Devil’s Snare in the Chamber of Secrets.
• Charles gave Hermione crème brûlée and asked whether she knew of books about Hogwarts’ private treasure vaults.
• Charles reasoned that Karkaroff might be searching for the Old Man’s strange magical power on Voldemort’s orders.

Charles learned that Jack planned to film Titanic at Farbaton Castle with Dumbledore’s help and questioned how the production fit with wizarding secrecy. After discussing an intruder at Hogwarts, Charles returned to the dormitory and angrily sent Hermione away when she worried he might cut the House-elves’ wages.

• Jack told Charles he had secured funding and cast members for Titanic and wanted to use Farbaton Castle as a filming location.
• Dumbledore explained that a new amendment allowed Muggles to participate in magic-assisted events if the Confundus Charm made them believe the effects were ordinary, and said the Ministry had supported the change because of malaria medicine.
• Charles noticed that the film’s approval and the secrecy amendment seemed connected, while Jack invited Dumbledore to work on the special effects before Dumbledore Apparated him to 3 Privet Drive.
• Charles and Dumbledore discussed a nighttime intruder at Hogwarts and the possibility that the intruder was seeking a Malfoy family vault; Charles then returned to the Gryffindor Common Room.
• Hermione brought Charles toffees and asked whether rising flour prices would make him cut the House-elves’ wages, but Charles angrily ordered her out and mocked her wish to be treated as an adult.

Charles fielded questions about his distance from Hermione and discussed the threat posed by someone seeking his hair. He reassured Pheobe and Erika that his grandfather would be safe at Farbaton Castle next summer, though the possibility of an impostor kidnapping him left Charles concerned.

• Mafalda Pucey asked Charles whether he and Hermione had fallen out, then went to explore the greenhouse plants.
• Pheobe asked Charles about his strained relationship with Hermione, and he told her to focus on the champions’ announcement and upcoming competition.
• Erika complained that Crookshanks kept bothering Renate, so Charles brought Pheobe and Erika into Mirror Space and explained Renate’s request for his hair.
• Pheobe realized Charles planned to act friendlier toward Renate to make it seem as though he had been affected, while Erika teased him about dating her.
• Charles argued that impersonating him would be difficult, but Pheobe warned that an impostor could target his grandfather; Charles said his grandfather would be at Farbaton Castle next summer and promised to warn him.

Charles investigated the Chamber of Secrets after Myrtle summoned him and found Bohan Carter trapped in his Japanese Devil's Snare. As the Goblet of Fire named its champions, it unexpectedly chose Seamus Finnigan, while Charles fled the dining hall to pursue Carter.

• Charles went down to the Chamber of Secrets and found Bohan Carter caught in the Japanese Devil's Snare.
• Carter confessed that he had come searching for a powerful force said to be hidden in Hogwarts, and Charles warned him to tell his mastermind to stop before sending him away.
• Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall suspected Charles had used Ruby to enter the Triwizard Tournament, while Charles returned to the dining hall too late to avoid the champions' announcement.
• The Goblet of Fire produced a fourth name, and Harry loudly guessed that Charles had put his name in; Charles ran off to find Carter instead.
• Dumbledore read the fourth champion's name aloud: Seamus Finnigan.