Chapter Summaries

Charles explained how his booklet’s magic could overwhelm a person’s mind and how mathematics underpinned his Magic Large Model. He revealed that a multinational project to build its knowledge base was already underway, prompting Dumbledore to consider how Hogwarts could contribute.

• Charles explained that the booklet’s magic could overload someone’s mind with information, causing them to lose consciousness, and that it could also transmit information discreetly.
• Charles described how the Magic Large Model relied on mathematical methods to organize spells, handle uncertain data, and evaluate conflicting potion recipes.
• Professor McGonagall asked how Charles planned to expand the model’s database, and he said he was arranging book collection with publishers and seeking contributions from wizards through Mr. Grindelwald.
• Charles told Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall that several magical schools, including Koldostorets, supported the project and were conducting theoretical research separately before compiling their work at Koldostorets.
• Charles explained that the first phase would establish a basic framework using alchemy and Potions, while Dumbledore considered how Hogwarts could support the project.

As the third Triwizard Tournament task approached, Hermione questioned Charles about his book-scanning research and learned that he could Apparate despite lacking a license. Charles suggested ways to prepare for the dragons, then said he had found the direction of his life before they left for their dormitories.

• Hermione finished reading about dragon cuisine and asked Charles why he had been staring at her; he explained that he was struggling to develop faster book-scanning technology.
• Hermione suggested X-rays, and Charles considered using magic to generate them, prompting her to worry that his experiments could lead to an atomic bomb.
• Charles advised Hermione to practice the Protego Charm and Stealth Charm and reasoned that the dragon eggs would likely serve as markers for scoring in the tournament task.
• Hermione recalled Charles using an invisibility spell and discovered that he had learned to Apparate, though he had never obtained a license; Charles asked her to keep it secret.
• Hermione asked how he would face a dragon, and Charles suggested distracting it and grabbing its tail; she regretted that he was not competing in the tournament.
• Hermione observed that Charles had changed since their first year, and he said he had found the direction of his life before they headed to their dormitories.

Charles cleared the clouds above the Forbidden Forest before the dragon-egg competition began, while the teams used summoned equipment and reconnaissance magic to prepare. Beauxbatons and Durmstrang clashed in the forest, where Krum’s ambush injured one of Pheobe’s teammates.

• Charles froze moisture in the clouds to make the rain fall before it reached the stands, then returned to watch the competition.
• Dumbledore announced that the Champions had to retrieve dragon eggs from seven dragons, and Hermione summoned Harry’s broomstick with Accio.
• Hermione, George, and other competitors summoned equipment and extra helpers until Dumbledore and Madame Maxime prohibited additional manpower and pets.
• The teams entered the Forbidden Forest, where a Beauxbatons student sent out wooden birds to scout and Erika disappeared into the shadows.
• Pheobe’s team drove off Horned Beasts, then Durmstrang students attacked them and forced them to retreat while fighting.
• Pheobe warned her teammates to clear the shadows, but Krum ambushed them from the side and rear, striking a Beauxbatons boy in the leg with a spell.

The teams clashed before Seamus and his group reached a dragon’s nest, where Hermione freed them from a Devil’s Snare and Seamus took a Golden Egg. After the other teams also collected eggs, Seamus’s group encountered a kangaroo near a second dragon, and George stunned it.

• Durmstrang’s attack sparked a brief fight between Beauxbatons and Cedric’s team while Erika slipped away.
• Seamus’s group found a Hebridean Black guarding Golden Eggs, but a planted Devil’s Snare trapped them and restrained their wand hands.
• Hermione tore the Devil’s Snare out of the ground and hurled it at the dragon, allowing Seamus to take a Golden Egg.
• Pheobe’s group, Cedric’s group, and Krum’s group each used different tactics to collect a Golden Egg from their dragons.
• Seamus’s group approached an Antipodean Opaleye, where a kangaroo attacked Malfoy and then fought Harry until George stunned it.

Malfoy and Rov fled a Welsh Green Dragon while Seamus’s team negotiated with Krum’s Durmstrang group and gave them a Golden Egg. The teams avoided fighting as the match continued, leaving them focused on collecting eggs and clues for the next round.

• Malfoy and Rov argued while running from the Welsh Green Dragon, and Rov froze an Acromantula that had leaped in front of them.
• Krum chose to avoid a fight with Seamus’s team, and Seamus gave him a Golden Egg after the two groups exchanged warnings and negotiated.
• Krum and his teammates encountered Malfoy and Rov fleeing the dragon, then escaped and decided to avoid attacking Hogwarts’s teams during the match.
• The teams continued collecting Golden Eggs, with Beauxbatons avoiding the others and Seamus’s group exchanging friendly words with Cedric’s team.

The students tested the Golden Eggs and discovered that different dragon eggs responded to different conditions, while Hermione resolved to break the remaining spells herself. In Hogsmeade, Charles headed to Farbaton Castle and learned that Hermione had followed him to seek help elsewhere.

• Harry tapped a Golden Egg to listen inside, and Charles used the Qiao Gua spell to show that it sounded hollow.
• Seamus tested the Golden Eggs in the fireplace, and Hermione noticed that only the Welsh Green Dragon's egg reacted to heat.
• The students found that the Chinese Fireball's egg absorbed water, while the remaining five Golden Eggs resisted both water and fire.
• Hermione decided to study spell-breaking on her own rather than ask Charles for help, and Charles wondered why her expression had changed.
• On the way to Hogsmeade, Pheobe complained about Charles giving Gabrielle a huge Easter egg, and Charles confirmed this year's would be even bigger.
• Krum invited Charles for a drink and discussed football with him, then Hermione followed Charles to Farbaton Castle to find someone else to help her.

Charles handled company documents while Hermione studied curse-breaking in his office, where he helped ease her eye strain and inadvertently sent her to sleep. After Eleanor arrived, Charles reviewed Ministry news and his search for imaging technology with her before preparing to wake Hermione and return to Hogwarts.

• Charles reviewed company documents while Hermione read Moss Jeff and the others' book about breaking curses and sampled desserts in his office.
• Charles gave Hermione enchanted Eye Drops and massaged her until she fell asleep on the sofa.
• Eleanor arrived, and Charles took her to the Mirror Space after covering Hermione with a blanket and concealing the sofa.
• Eleanor told Charles that grain prices had risen and Arthur Weasley had been appointed to negotiate with the goblins at Gringotts.
• Eleanor said she had not found the book Charles wanted, but mentioned imaging research in Italy involving the carbonized Herculaneum scrolls.
• Charles sent Eleanor away and prepared to wake Hermione, who sleep-talked about being unable to eat a huge Candy Castle.

Charles took Hermione into Hogwarts’s Room of Requirement to search through its hidden clutter, where they found an old Baumkuchen-making device and a flying sofa. They left without discovering Ravenclaw’s diadem, and Charles noted that Malfoy had not found its hiding place either.

• Hermione returned from Farbaton Castle with a bag of desserts after learning detection spells from Moss Jeff, and she told Charles she planned to examine the Golden Egg’s curse.
• Charles and Hermione saw Malfoy hurry toward the basement, then Charles headed for the Room of Requirement while Hermione followed him.
• Charles warned Hermione not to touch enchanted objects as they searched the maze-like room, where he had hidden Ravenclaw’s diadem behind heaps of discarded items.
• Charles uncovered a device for making Baumkuchen and decided to take it back for Grandpa, while Hermione found a flying sofa and refused to use it herself.
• Charles led Hermione around the area where the diadem was hidden, observed that Malfoy had not found it, and guided her back toward the main doors.

Charles ambushed the person disguised as Moody, only to discover he was Grindelwald, and rushed him to the Hospital Wing after extinguishing the resulting fire. He then tested Swift Bolt’s archery as Twilight’s suitor, and Swift Bolt passed, leaving Twilight to choose him.

• Charles noticed that Moody was following him in the Forbidden Forest and ambushed him, injuring him and disarming him.
• The impostor unleashed Blue Flames, and Charles extinguished them by making the burning trees and ground vanish.
• Charles discovered the impostor was Grindelwald, helped set his arms, and sent him to the Hospital Wing on a stretcher carried by puppets.
• Charles met Twilight and Swift Bolt during the Centaurs’ spring equinox courtship celebration and challenged Swift Bolt to hit playing cards with arrows.
• Swift Bolt pierced two or more playing cards with eight of his ten arrows, and Twilight placed her flower wreath around his neck.

At a werewolf-treatment conference on Santorini, Charles learned why Fudge had rushed to organize it and discussed a food delivery launch with Percy. Percy asked whether he should take over negotiations with the goblins over food prices, and Charles warned him away; Percy chose to focus on the next stage of werewolf treatment instead.

• Charles attended the conference, gave a brief speech, and left Percy and Lupin to handle political and technical presentations while he relaxed with a secretary from the Magic Committee in Moscow.
• Percy told Charles that Fudge had arranged the conference to distract from rising food prices and calls for his resignation.
• Charles realized the Dancing Grass Restaurant was losing money because it offered cheaper meals than cooking at home, and he began an internal trial of its food delivery system.
• Percy asked Charles for advice about taking over his father's failed negotiations with the goblins to lower food prices.
• Charles warned Percy not to get involved, saying the matter was too difficult and dangerous to handle.
• Percy decided to decline Fudge's suggestion and focus on promoting werewolf treatment, and Charles said he would present the second stage the next day.

Fudge visited Charles after an American woman had drugged him with Truth Serum, then questioned him about the Caribbean island rescue and the Dancing Grass Restaurant’s supplies. Fudge left after confirming Charles had another supply channel and asking to assign Percy Weasley to negotiate with the goblins.

• Fudge arrived at Charles’s residence and found him with an American woman, who left when she saw the Minister; Charles revealed that her wine had contained Truth Serum.
• Charles told Fudge that the Americans suspected him of arranging the rescue on a Caribbean island, but denied sending a wizard there, and Fudge promised to privately explain the misunderstanding to the American Ministry of Magic.
• Fudge questioned Charles about the Dancing Grass Restaurant’s business and rising food costs, then inferred that Charles had a separate supply channel he could use as leverage with the goblins.
• Fudge asked what Charles thought of Percy Weasley and said he wanted Percy to lead negotiations with the goblins.
• Charles warned that Percy would be busy with the upcoming worldwide werewolf treatment work, and Fudge mistook his concern as a sign that Charles was protecting his representative in the Ministry.

Charles secretly flooded the American Ministry of Magic with Ganges water, then learned that an unidentified Dark Wizard had attacked it with a bizarre potion. Dumbledore and Fudge organized an emergency response, and Charles was allowed to help Fudge after Dumbledore ordered him back to Hogwarts.

• Charles used Ruby to travel to India, sent Ganges water through a magically enlarged striped cloth into the Woolworth Building, and returned to Santorini.
• Rita Skeeter rushed to New York for news of an attack on the American Ministry of Magic, while Fudge told Charles the conference would be canceled.
• Fudge reported that the attack involved a foul potion that caused vomiting and diarrhea, and that corpses had been found in it.
• Dumbledore called for an emergency International Confederation of Wizards meeting and ordered Charles to return to Hogwarts immediately.
• Fudge persuaded Dumbledore to let Charles help investigate the potion, and Charles wondered whether India would be blamed.

Charles and Jack investigated the woman who had questioned Charles about the island and uncovered evidence linking her employer to it. They found a hidden stash of disturbing photo albums, and Jack agreed to make them public.

• Potioneers around the world investigated the Ministry attack potion, which they suspected was a slow-acting poison.
• Charles gave Jack a sample of the potion and explained that the Ministry had traced the island incident back to him.
• Charles and Jack searched Ministry records and found that the woman who had questioned Charles was the secretary of the head of the Muggle Falsification Department.
• Charles and Jack searched the department office and found a magically expanded matchbox containing erotic toys and a hidden safe filled with photo albums.
• After Charles and Jack examined the albums, Jack agreed to use his connections to make them public.

Charles and Jack exposed the American Ministry of Magic officials’ crimes through Rita Skeeter’s report, which sparked international outrage. The officials were killed, and Charles prepared to return to Hogwarts.

• Charles arranged for a hospital patient to be interrogated with Legilimency and Ganges Water, causing the patient’s condition to worsen.
• Rita told Charles about an anonymous letter directing her to a meeting, and Charles accompanied her in animal form to retrieve a box of evidence.
• The New York Ghost Newspaper and other wizarding newspapers published Hydra’s claim of responsibility and reports detailing the American Ministry officials’ crimes.
• Dumbledore asked Fudge whether he had known about the news in advance, then prepared to make a statement for the International Confederation of Wizards.
• Charles learned from Jack that everyone named in the reports had been killed, and Jack explained that he had kept Dumbledore uninformed to avoid legal proceedings.
• Charles told Jack he would return to Hogwarts in a couple of days.

Charles met Eleanor at an Icelandic wizarding spa, where she secretly warned him that she might be under surveillance. In Mirror Space, he gave her a fabricated account of an international network of White Wizards, and Eleanor left convinced that such a group could explain past events.

• Charles went to Iceland after Dumbledore gave him three days off, and Eleanor met him at a spa resort.
• Eleanor used Morse code to warn Charles that she might be watched, and they entered Mirror Space before dawn to talk privately.
• Eleanor told Charles about the Fang Plan, the Falkland Islands Liaison Office, and Fudge's suspicion that Charles was linked to information leaked after his New York trip.
• Eleanor explained that Fudge had ordered her to monitor Charles because he viewed Charles as a possible future Minister for Magic, despite his allegiance to Dumbledore.
• Charles invented a loose international organization called the Justice League and named several supposed groups and contacts, including Hydra, the Iron Rose, and Steve Rogers.
• Eleanor believed the account could explain the defeat of many Dark Wizards, and Charles asked her to take him to Hoffen Town for a lobster feast.

Charles returned to Hogwarts, dodged questions about his role in the attack on the American Ministry of Magic, and helped Seamus and Harry prepare for the Triwizard Tournament’s next task. He later briefed Pheobe on New York and revealed that he was working on a prototype Magic Large Model.

• Charles gave Harry a bottle of Happy Water and avoided discussing the American Ministry of Magic attack, while Rita Skeeter’s report about the Justice League drew the students’ interest.
• Seamus described the Golden Egg clue and the suspected Great Lake task, and Charles advised him to prepare underwater spells and herbs rather than rely on Accio.
• Professors questioned Charles about New York, but he claimed he had only helped from the sidelines and knew little about the incident.
• Charles read vague letters from the Magic Committee in Moscow asking whether he had been involved and whether he would sell them the potion for research.
• Charles told Pheobe what had happened in New York and warned her to be careful with Gabrielle after she mentioned Luc Besson’s offer to cast her in Muggle films.
• Charles told Pheobe that he had been thinking about the core problems of the Magic Large Model and planned to build a simple prototype to test its thinking ability.

Charles developed a large cooking model to test its core system and input function while Dumbledore asked why the Justice League and other people feared him. Charles explained that Dumbledore’s power and distance from ordinary wizards made him hard to understand, and suggested writing an autobiography with comments from people who knew him.

• Charles painted the inside of a tomato as part of a cooking model meant to test the system’s logic and recipe input.
• Dumbledore visited Charles and was startled by Ruby’s enormous size; Charles explained that Ruby was overeating in preparation for nirvana.
• Dumbledore asked Charles about the Justice League and said he felt its members were afraid of him.
• Charles told Dumbledore that people feared him because they did not understand his intentions, and explained that Fudge’s fear of losing power could coexist with that fear.
• Dumbledore asked Charles how to repair the rift between himself and others, and Charles suggested publishing an autobiography with comments from Aberforth, Professor McGonagall, and his colleagues.

As the Triwizard Tournament’s fourth round approached, Charles learned that Professor McGonagall feared Dumbledore was nearing death, though Dumbledore was actually being punished for keeping his plans and thoughts to himself. Jack finally went to explain the misunderstanding while Grindelwald insisted Dumbledore finish chewing his dry instant noodles first.

• Charles followed Peeves and the ghosts to Professor McGonagall, who tearfully told him that Dumbledore seemed to be preparing to leave after visiting Aberforth to reminisce about their childhood.
• Dumbledore found the professors cold toward him and received almost no food at meals, while Charles told the students that he was dieting after eating too many sweets.
• Dumbledore discovered that his office sweets were gone and that he could not get food from the Dancing Grass Restaurant, then tried and failed to find help at the Hog's Head Inn and the Three Broomsticks Inn.
• Dumbledore went to 3 Privet Drive to make instant noodles but found no water, food, or money, so he began chewing the noodles dry.
• Jack and Grindelwald watched Dumbledore from the street, and Grindelwald explained that he was teaching him to communicate his thoughts and leave an authoritative account before he died.
• Jack decided to go explain the situation to Dumbledore, while Grindelwald told him not to interfere until Dumbledore finished chewing.

Charles explained to Dumbledore that his unusual behavior had made Aberforth and the other professors believe he was dying. He then persuaded Harry to help arrange a comprehensive Muggle medical checkup for Dumbledore, and Grindelwald became concerned when Jack relayed Charles’s suggestion.

• Charles told Dumbledore that Aberforth thought he was about to die because of how Dumbledore had been acting.
• Dumbledore realized that his brother and friends had misunderstood him and invited Fudge to meet him at the Hog’s Head Inn.
• Charles told Harry what had happened and suggested Dumbledore get a full medical checkup because of his age and sweet tooth.
• Harry agreed to undergo tests himself and help persuade Dumbledore, with McGonagall also asked to encourage him.
• Charles messaged Jack, who told Grindelwald that Charles wanted Dumbledore examined; Grindelwald was alarmed by the health warnings in Jack’s advertisements.

Voldemort and the Hogwarts staff mistakenly believed Dumbledore was dying after he ate very little and began making amends with Fudge. Charles’s advice led McGonagall to suspect he knew the truth and was trying to save Dumbledore, so she arranged a medical examination for the next weekend.

• Narcissa told Voldemort that Dumbledore had barely eaten, prompting Voldemort to summon the Death Eaters and investigate his condition.
• At the Hog's Head Inn, Dumbledore ate almost none of Aberforth's stew and apologized to Fudge, convincing both men that he was near death.
• Voldemort celebrated the news and told Lucius and Narcissa to cut off contact with Draco until the time came.
• After hearing that Charles had urged Dumbledore to get a physical examination, McGonagall concluded that Charles knew the truth and wanted to save him.
• Snape objected to a Muggle hospital, but McGonagall decided the staff would take Dumbledore for an examination the next weekend.