Chapter Summaries

Charles denied putting Seamus's name into the Goblet of Fire and accused Karkaroff of helping Voldemort target Harry. Dumbledore questioned whether Karkaroff could be trusted, and Moody stopped Karkaroff from attacking Charles.

• Charles rejected Dumbledore's accusation and argued that he had no motive to endanger Seamus in the tournament.
• Karkaroff returned and reported that Bohan Carter had escaped, while Charles suggested Voldemort had arranged the incident to kidnap Harry.
• Charles outlined how making Seamus a Champion could draw Harry into the tournament and leave him vulnerable to a Portkey plot.
• Dumbledore asked whether he could trust Karkaroff, and Charles mocked Karkaroff for betraying his fellow Death Eaters.
• Karkaroff raised his wand toward Charles, but Moody pointed his wand at the back of Karkaroff's head, so Karkaroff returned to his seat.

Charles denied putting Seamus’s name into the Goblet of Fire while preparing for the fallout from the contest and worrying about a possible conspiracy. Black began plotting to expose Karkaroff, and Charles ended the night venting his anger before confronting Hermione the next morning.

• Seamus told Charles that the headmasters had argued over his unexpected entry, then asked Charles to assist him in the competition, but Charles refused.
• Charles warned Pheobe to be careful, reassured her that Krum would help protect Erika, and wondered whether Old Man had caused Seamus’s entry.
• Charles asked Black whether he wanted to remove Karkaroff as Durmstrang’s headmaster, and Black planned to obtain Karkaroff’s trial records and enlist Rita Skeeter and Grindelwald.
• Charles learned from Erika that she was safe, then hurled Cruciatus Curses at Ravenclaw’s diadem to vent his anger.
• Hermione accused Charles of endangering Seamus, and Charles dismissed her as immature before Professor Delacour asked whether a conspiracy threatened Pheobe.

Charles asked Professor McGonagall about using magic and speaking while transformed as an Animagus, then experimented with his own form in Mirror Space. His attempt to create a voice reached Harry, who heard it and began singing an eerie song.

• Cedric told Charles that Hermione had declined to assist him because she had agreed to help Finnigan, and Charles refused Cedric's request to help.
• Professor McGonagall explained how speech and spellcasting could work for an Animagus, warned Charles to notify her if he planned to learn, and asked him to screen applicants for Finnigan's entertainment troupe.
• Charles chatted with Renate and later suggested that Seamus ask Malfoy to help with Dark Magic.
• Charles transformed in Mirror Space and altered his body to produce a voice, asking Ruby to flap her wings if she could hear him.
• Harry heard a strange voice while doing homework, denied that it was Charles singing, and began singing about the Deep Ones.

Lavender and Hermione connected Harry’s drawing and strange visions to a tentacled creature, then concluded that it was likely Voldemort’s father seeking revenge. The next morning, Voldemort and Charles read the Daily Prophet’s sensational headline and fell silent.

• Lavender told Harry and the gathered students that a wizard at the Hog’s Head had identified his drawing as an ancient monster sealed beneath R’lyeh City.
• Hermione and the students compared the monster’s supposed powers and history to Voldemort, while Ginny and Ron speculated that it might be targeting Harry as Voldemort’s father.
• Hermione found a report in World Strange Tales about a creature that had abducted four girls in Australia, and the students matched it to Harry’s drawing and last year’s bathroom monster.
• The students decided the creature had probably left Hogwarts because no girls had disappeared since the previous year.
• Voldemort closed a page in his dream-divination book after seeing the Daily Prophet headline, “The Dark Lord’s Father Seeks Revenge for His Son,” and Charles also fell silent.

Harry heard that the Slytherins suspected Charles was connected to the undersea visitor, while Charles tended an injured Flapping Shrub and sat with a nervous Pheobe. Voldemort learned that Charles knew about the Guardian Wand and sent Lucius to capture Charles's grandfather, Jack Smith, as Lucius used Polyjuice Potion to disguise himself as Charles.

• Daphne, Pansy, and several Slytherin students asked Harry whether the undersea visitor's voice resembled Charles Smith's, then hurried away without explaining their concern.
• Charles treated the injured Flapping Shrub in the greenhouse, where Pheobe joined him because she was nervous about the next day's competition.
• A spy told Voldemort that Charles had warned him not to pursue a magical power, and Voldemort recalled seeing the Guardian Wand in a dream involving Charles.
• Voldemort ordered Lucius Malfoy to capture Jack Smith, Charles's grandfather, without harming him so they could force Charles to reveal the power's location.
• The spy supplied Charles's hair, and Lucius drank Polyjuice Potion to take Charles's appearance.

The Triwizard Tournament’s first match began as the Champions defended walls against waves of magical creatures, with points determining their advantages in later competitions. Seamus’s Wind Gust swept the creatures away and rapidly gave him the highest score.

• Seamus and the other Champions went to the lakeside after the students learned that the opening event’s points would affect later competitions.
• After lengthy speeches, Dumbledore revealed a shared challenge and raised the spectators’ stands as four walls and a stone path appeared over the lake.
• Krum, Cedric, Pheobe, and Seamus used different spells to fight the Runespoors, but Seamus initially scored nothing by merely piling them up.
• Giant cockroaches replaced the Runespoors, and Krum, Pheobe, and Cedric tried to stop them with spells, an Air Fryer Charm, and burning wooden walls.
• Seamus cast Wind Gust, sending the creatures flying to the train station and making his score rise to the highest.

Pheobe, Cedric, Krum, and Seamus dealt with the final Magical Creatures and trolls, then celebrated their results as Seamus considered whom to recruit as an assistant. At Dumbledore’s office, Charles suddenly delivered a fragmentary prophecy, leaving its meaning unclear.

• Pheobe and Cedric earned the full six thousand points in the competition, while Krum scored more than five thousand five hundred and Seamus just over five thousand.
• Gryffindor celebrated Seamus’s finish, and he discussed recruiting Hermione and assistants for dueling, Magical Creatures, Dark Magic, and traps.
• Fred and George volunteered to specialize in traps, while Seamus said Charles had recommended Draco Malfoy for the Dark Magic position.
• Charles spoke with Dumbledore in the Headmaster’s Office, and Dumbledore signed a document after agreeing to Charles’s proposal.
• Charles suddenly murmured a fragmentary prophecy, which Dumbledore recorded but could not clearly interpret.

Seamus recruited potential assistants for the Triwizard Tournament and agreed to Moody’s nightly training, while Charles set an assessment in the Forbidden Forest. That evening, Erika told Charles that Karkaroff was searching for someone named Steve Rogers, leaving Charles wondering what had angered him.

• Charles gave Seamus Dumbledore’s authorization and a Forbidden Forest map, telling him to choose assistants who could complete the dangerous assessment.
• Rolf Scamander volunteered to help Seamus, and Moody invited Seamus and his assistants to nightly training from eight to eleven.
• Seamus considered Harry, Hermione, Fred, and George as assistants, and they agreed to consider working with Malfoy; Ron realized he had no particular skill to offer.
• Charles rubbed Ruby’s back in the Courtyard, where Erika invited him to her residence and Romilda Vane asked whether Erika was a vampire.
• Erika told Charles that Karkaroff had asked her to find someone named Steve Rogers, and Charles wondered what had made Karkaroff furious.

Filch used Moss Jeff’s Chicago Typewriters to capture more than twenty students, while Charles was knocked unconscious by an unseen kick and woke with amnesia. As friends and professors gathered around him and Snape brought a potion, Voldemort learned of Charles’s condition.

• Filch ambushed students with the Chicago Typewriters and bound them, while Charles searched for another route back to the Common Room.
• Hermione vaulted over a suit of armor, accidentally kicked Charles in the head, and escaped as Filch captured the students.
• Professor McGonagall found Charles unconscious with a footprint on his head and sent him to the Hospital Wing; more than twenty students were caught.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione visited Charles the next day and discovered that he could not recognize them, while Madam Pomfrey suspected temporary memory loss.
• Dumbledore and other Hogwarts staff and students visited Charles, and Snape brought him a potion before Jack chose not to spy on Pheobe.
• Voldemort received Karkaroff’s report that Charles had amnesia and sprang to his feet.

After Charles lost his memory and became trapped in a gigantic jellyfish Animagus form, Jack sought ways to help him and tried to conceal his condition from Karkaroff. Karkaroff, Helen, and Malfoy fled after mistaking Jack in disguise for Charles’s grandfather—and possibly Voldemort’s father.

• Jack reassured Professor McGonagall that Charles’s memory loss might be temporary, while Pheobe’s attempt to restore his memories failed.
• Voldemort ordered Meowlf to prepare a potion for Charles, hoping to help him before the Triwizard Tournament opportunity passed.
• Grindelwald suggested using Trace Replay to investigate the injury that caused Charles’s memory loss, and Jack agreed to return to Hogwarts with him.
• At the hospital wing, Jack found Charles transformed into a gigantic jellyfish and disguised himself as Charles to hide the transformation from Karkaroff.
• Helen and Malfoy confronted Karkaroff outside the ward, then all three fled after Jack, posing as Charles, called him Grandpa.
• Malfoy and the others speculated that the jellyfish’s visitor was Charles’s biological grandfather and Voldemort’s father.

Jack followed the magical footprints to the Gryffindor Common Room, then learned that Hermione Granger was involved in Charles's injury and decided to ask Charles what had happened before acting. Karkaroff alerted Voldemort to Jack's visit, and Voldemort ordered his followers to restore Charles's memories and politely bring Jack to him during the next Triwizard Tournament event.

• Jack followed the footprints to the Gryffindor Common Room while Grindelwald and the ghosts tried to dissuade him from killing anyone.
• Nick and Peeves revealed that the footprints belonged to Hermione Granger, and Jack left to question Charles after considering that there might have been a misunderstanding.
• Karkaroff overheard castle paintings discussing Jack's visit and sent Voldemort a warning through the Dark Mark.
• Voldemort told Meowlf to prioritize restoring Charles's memories, monitor Jack Smith, and bring him back politely during the next Triwizard Tournament event.
• Voldemort warned Meowlf that harming Jack could make Charles retaliate against him and the Malfoy family.

Charles continued adjusting to life with amnesia, read his old diaries, and drank Karkaroff’s potion, but his memories did not return. He left to study his alchemy experiments and ended the evening wondering about his past and whether Ruby was a phoenix.

• Charles read his old diaries and learned about the events and thoughts he had recorded over the years.
• Charles joined Snape at Farbaton Castle, where he reassured the senior officials and identified a security flaw in a Communication Notebook.
• Dumbledore introduced Karkaroff’s memory potion, and Charles drank it, but afterward he still could not remember his past.
• Charles studied his alchemy plans, and Pheobe visited, apologized, and kissed him before returning to prepare for the competition.
• Charles wondered whether Ruby was a phoenix and was struck by a phoenix’s talon.

Harry realized Hermione had been angry with Charles because she liked him and thought he did not like her. Charles showed that his magical talent remained despite his amnesia, while Neville struggled with Transfiguration; the professors later noted Charles’s renewed spellcasting and improved alchemy.

• Harry asked Hermione why she had been angry with Charles, then concluded she had liked him and believed he did not like her.
• Professor Flitwick taught the class Projectile Charm, and Charles cast it perfectly on his first try.
• Charles combined Accio Charm and Projectile Charm to retrieve and launch a basket and sponge ball with precision.
• During Transfiguration practice, Neville repeatedly struggled to turn a guinea fowl fully into a guinea pig, and Charles supplied Professor McGonagall with blood-pressure medication.
• At lunch, Professor Flitwick said Charles’s spellcasting talent remained, Professor Delacour praised his alchemy ideas, and Professor McGonagall expressed relief.

Charles advised Seamus on team tactics, and Seamus gathered his assistants to plan for the upcoming competition. They chose the order in which they would enter the mechanisms and began arranging their roles, leaving George responsible for formations.

• Charles reassured the nervous Seamus and gave him advice on team roles, coordination, and discussing problems together.
• Seamus told Charles that Harry, Hermione, George, Malfoy, and Rolf Scamander were his potential assistants for the competition.
• Hermione brought Harry and George to the group's meeting place, where Seamus explained that assistants rescued in the second competition could join him in later events.
• The group chose Hermione to go first, George second, Harry third, Malfoy fourth, and Rolf last.
• Seamus shared Charles's tactical advice, and George agreed to arrange the team's formations after they discussed an initial plan.

Seamus competed in the Triwizard Tournament’s second match, overcoming obstacles on a collapsing stone track with Hermione’s help. They reached the second platform, where a Venomous Tentacula struck Harry and the Dementors hanging there.

• Ron laughed loudly as Dumbledore started the match, while Harry watched from a rack near the Gryffindor stands and Seamus set off.
• Seamus cleared the first obstacles, chose the left “+3” light wall, and used water spells with three blue copies to sweep away Fire Crabs.
• Seamus spent half an hour clearing gems beneath Hermione, who held back stones until she could jump free, then joined him on the track.
• Hermione directed Seamus through the next light-wall choice, giving him eleven blue copies as she gained four of her own.
• Seamus and his copies blasted most of the Venomous Tentacula, and Hermione summoned the last one and hurled it onto the second platform, where it hit Harry and the Dementors.

Seamus faced a set of difficult puzzle trials at the Triwizard Tournament while Rodolphus Lestrange brought Jack and Grindelwald to Voldemort. Jack mistook Voldemort for a lonely Gaunt relative, but Grindelwald soon confronted him and revealed his identity.

• Seamus was tasked with solving trials to rescue Harry and George, free Malfoy from a flooding tank, and sort Rov's colored water.
• Dumbledore told Madame Maxime and Karkaroff that a friend had devised the trials.
• Rodolphus went to the Seaside Villa to kidnap Jack Smith, but Jack and Grindelwald agreed to go with him and brought gifts and a Communication Notebook.
• Jack greeted Voldemort tenderly, mistaking him for Tom Riddle and offering him the familial care he had never known.
• Grindelwald slapped Voldemort repeatedly for trying to kill Albus and for calling himself the Dark Lord, then identified himself as Gellert Grindelwald.

Jack and Grindelwald discussed Charles’s condition before Grindelwald revealed his relationship with Dumbledore to Voldemort and offered Voldemort a chance to become his student. Voldemort then asked Jack to contact Charles, who was still surrounded by the Imp Matriarchs.

• Meowlf repeatedly tortured Rodolphus with the Cruciatus Curse while Voldemort watched.
• Jack told Grindelwald he would try to make an old friend give up coveting what was not his, and said Charles’s examination had produced no results yet.
• Grindelwald guessed that Charles had a problem with his soul, but Jack said Charles had not intended to make a Horcrux.
• Jack told Voldemort and Meowlf that he and Dumbledore were friends and that Grindelwald was Dumbledore’s boyfriend.
• Grindelwald asked Voldemort to become his student and gave him a book about his reflections on power before Apparating away.
• Voldemort asked Jack to contact Charles for help, and Jack agreed to try later because Charles was undergoing an examination.

Charles learned that a different fragment of his soul now controlled him and considered how to restore his former memories. After Madame Angelina advised him to seek powerful magic, Artemis appeared in a dream and told him to ask Peeves where the thing he needed was.

• During the Triwizard Tournament, Krum struggled to lift a heavy stone while his Durmstrang teammate urged him to hurry.
• Madame Angelina and the Imp Matriarchs examined Charles at Farbaton Castle and concluded that another fragment of his soul had awakened and taken control.
• Charles asked whether he was still the same person and decided that reuniting his soul would be better than risking another switch.
• Madame Angelina told Charles to consult Professor Dumbledore about the powerful magic needed to reunite his soul, or visit her home next summer for another possible solution.
• After Charles fell asleep in the lounge, Artemis appeared in a dream and told him to find Peeves, who knew where the thing he needed was.

After learning that his grandfather, Jack Smith, had been kidnapped, Charles kept the message secret and sought help locating him. The ghosts agreed to investigate, and Peeves offered to take Charles somewhere he believed was the kidnapper’s target.

• At dinner, Charles told Harry and the others that he had found a possible lead in his search for a treatment, but said he would investigate alone that night.
• Charles discovered a message in the Communication Notebook saying that Jack Smith had been kidnapped and that he should tell no one.
• Charles asked Kytov to investigate the notebook’s location and learned that Mos had found a way to control notebooks and make them send messages.
• Unable to find the castle’s ghosts, Charles asked Myrtle where Nick was and learned that he was with the others and Peeves in the Dungeons.
• Charles asked Nick and the other ghosts to search for Jack once the company located the notebook, and Nick agreed to contact the Knights of Walpurgis.
• Peeves told Charles to come with him because he believed he knew the kidnapper’s target.

As the students prepared for the Christmas Ball, Helen coerced Charles into attending with her by threatening his grandfather. Pheobe and Erika overheard them and planned to seek help through Charles’s company while avoiding alerting the kidnappers.

• Daphne asked Charles to the Christmas Ball, but he refused, while Helen also rejected Malfoy and advised him to invite a Greengrass girl instead of Pansy Parkinson.
• Karkaroff told Helen and Helena that they would act during the Christmas Ball, with Helen responsible for bringing Charles to them.
• Helen ordered Charles to be her partner and invoked his grandfather; Charles agreed and promised not to reveal what he knew.
• Pheobe and Erika overheard the exchange and suspected Charles’s grandfather had been kidnapped to force Charles’s cooperation.
• Pheobe and Erika decided to seek help at Charles’s company in Farbaton Castle and planned to attend the Ball together so they could follow Charles.