Chapter Summaries

After learning that Barty Crouch Sr. had been missing for two weeks, Irina told Linley, and they planned to rescue him after the second task. They confirmed the Golden Egg’s riddle was unchanged and discussed how Linley would free Irina underwater, leaving their rescue preparations underway.

• Irina contacted Linley with Ludo Bagman’s report that Barty Crouch Sr. had not appeared for two weeks and might be in danger.
• Linley and Irina met in the Room of Requirement and decided to wait until after the second task to rescue Barty Crouch Sr., when he was expected to appear as a judge.
• Linley proposed having Dumbledore examine Barty Crouch Sr. and discover the Imperius Curse, so Barty Crouch Jr. would not suspect that his disguise had been exposed.
• Irina used water to open the Golden Egg, and they confirmed that its song and the second task’s challenge were unchanged.
• Linley explained that he would lift the Stunning Spell on Irina underwater, while Irina’s control over water and ice would let her help him complete the rescue.

Irina reassured Hagrid that Rita Skeeter had been sidelined from the Daily Prophet for six months, while Linley worked in the Room of Requirement on alchemical equipment for the Triwizard Tournament’s underwater task. He finished a diving suit and began planning a booster, considering using runes copied from a Firebolt.

• Irina visited Hagrid’s Hut and found Hagrid, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore talking together.
• Irina told Hagrid that Rita Skeeter could not publish in the Daily Prophet for six months, and Hagrid thanked her for helping him.
• Dumbledore praised Irina for stopping Rita’s slander and agreed that the reporter needed to learn a lesson.
• Linley stayed in the Room of Requirement and transformed it into an alchemy laboratory to prepare for the underwater task.
• Linley completed a thin alchemical diving suit with formations that extracted oxygen from water.
• Linley considered a magic-pattern booster powerful enough to match a Nimbus 2000 and decided he might buy a Firebolt to copy its alchemy runes.

Linley used runes copied from a Firebolt to build a powerful alchemical diving suit for the Triwizard Tournament’s second task. After entering the Black Lake, he used an improved Two-way Mirror to locate Irina and sped toward a merpeople-made rock.

• Linley dismantled a Firebolt and used its Magic Pattern Booster runes to craft a thruster onto his diving suit.
• Linley arrived at the second task with Harry, Fleur, and Krum wearing the suit, which drew their curiosity.
• Krum transformed his head into a shark’s and plunged into the lake, while Fleur cast a Bubble-Head Charm and followed.
• Linley activated the suit’s thruster and life-support enchantments, racing through the cold lake.
• Linley used his improved Two-way Mirror to find Irina’s location, then swam toward a rock decorated with images of merpeople.

Linley found the four captive young witches in the mermaid village and woke them underwater. When the mermaids tried to stop him from taking them, he drove the attackers back with golden flames.

• Linley swam past the mermaids’ dwellings and reached the village square, where Irina, Hermione, Gabrielle Delacour, and a Ravenclaw witch were bound to a stone statue.
• Linley used the Vanishment Charm to wake the four witches underwater, surprising Hermione and frightening Gabrielle and the Ravenclaw witch.
• Irina explained that they were at the bottom of the Black Lake as part of the Triwizard Tournament’s second task.
• Linley offered to take the witches back rather than make them wait for their Champions, and the three others chose to leave with him.
• A mermaid warned Linley that he could take only one person, then dozens of mermaids attacked when he ignored the order.
• Linley summoned golden flames that forced the mermaids back and left them too frightened to approach.

Linley used Goblet Immortal Fire and the Magic Pattern Booster to rescue the hostages from the Black Lake ahead of the other champions. After handing Hermione over to Harry so he could complete the task, Linley returned to shore with Irina, Gabrielle, and the little Ravenclaw witch, leaving Harry and Fleur to emerge later.

• Hermione recognized Linley's Goblet Immortal Fire, and Irina urged her to stop questioning him as he led them toward the surface.
• Linley gave the three young witches warming bracelets, and Irina covered them with Ice Armor before Linley propelled the group through the Black Lake.
• Hermione spotted Harry swimming toward the Mermaid Village, so Linley explained that he had already rescued all the hostages and offered to return Hermione to him.
• Hermione joined Harry, and Linley continued to the surface with Irina, Gabrielle, and the little Ravenclaw witch.
• Linley emerged from the lake after about ten minutes, prompting Ludo Bagman to announce that he had rescued hostages meant for other champions as well.
• Harry returned with Hermione about ten minutes later, and Fleur was rescued after Grindylows forced her to call for help.

Fleur was rescued from the Black Lake, where Linley had also saved Gabrielle and the other hostages. The judges awarded the Champions their scores, with Linley earning forty-nine points for completing the task quickly and rescuing three hostages.

• Madame Maxime stopped Fleur from returning to the lake, and Gabrielle was brought to her by Linley and Irina.
• Fleur embraced Linley in gratitude and tried to kiss him, but Irina blocked her with a wall of ice and warned her not to kiss her boyfriend.
• Fleur apologized to Irina, and the two girls made peace.
• Krum returned after the time limit without finding his hostage, and the judges waited until every Champion had come back before ending the task.
• Ludo awarded Fleur twenty-five points, Krum thirty-five points, Harry forty-five points, and Linley forty-nine points for rescuing three hostages.

After the second Triwizard Tournament task, Linley used the vision he had planted on Peter Pettigrew and discovered that Barty Crouch Sr. was being held by Death Eaters. Linley tried to summon Dumbledore with a spell, leaving the pair’s next move unresolved.

• Karkaroff gave Linley nine points, and Linley remained in first place after the second task.
• Irina asked Linley whether Barty Crouch Sr. had appeared, and Linley said Percy Weasley had replaced him as a judge.
• Linley showed Irina Peter Pettigrew’s vision, which revealed Barty Crouch Sr. imprisoned alongside Antonin Dolohov and another Death Eater.
• Linley explained that Voldemort could use Pureblood families’ homes as hideouts, making the location difficult to identify.
• Linley rejected Irina’s plan to find Dumbledore and jokingly called for him with a spell.

Linley and Irina used Peter Pettigrew’s vision to locate Barty Crouch Sr., and Dumbledore identified the house as Crouch’s home. As Linley and Irina prepared to rescue him, Dumbledore gave them Fawkes’s tail feather in case they faced danger.

• Linley summoned Dumbledore to the Forbidden Forest by using their agreement that Accio could call him for help.
• Dumbledore recognized the house in the magical screen as Barty Crouch Sr.’s home, where Peter Pettigrew and two Death Eaters were present.
• Linley urged an immediate rescue, but told Dumbledore to remain at Hogwarts and keep Barty Crouch Jr. under watch.
• Dumbledore warned that Antonin Dolohov was exceptionally powerful, while Linley said his Mana Suppression Flame would weaken him.
• Dumbledore gave Irina a Phoenix Tail Feather and told her and Linley to prioritize their safety.

Linley and Irina planned a mission against three escaped Death Eaters and recruited Irvin and Sirius to help. After Dumbledore approved the plan, Irvin agreed to join, while Irina prepared to contact Sirius.

• Linley told Dumbledore that Irvin and an adult wizard would join the operation, and Irina identified Sirius as the adult.
• Linley explained that Peter Pettigrew was no longer useful and assigned Sirius and Irvin to deal with Pettigrew and one Death Eater, while he and Irina would face Antonin Dolohov.
• Dumbledore gave Linley and Irina Barty Crouch Sr.'s address and said Sirius's presence reassured him about Irvin's safety.
• Linley found Irvin in the Slytherin common room, warned him that the mission against three Death Eaters carried a risk of death, and told him Dolohov would be Linley and Irina's target.
• Irvin accepted Linley's invitation to join the operation.
• Irina brought out the Little Swooping Evil and Emergency Rations to arrange delivery of a letter to Sirius at Privet Drive.

Irina coordinated with Sirius Black to rescue Barty Crouch Sr. and confront the Death Eaters holding him. After the group infiltrated the old house, Irina sent Barty Crouch Sr. away with a Portkey, leaving the battle free of hostage concerns.

• Irina contacted Sirius Black through a Two-way Mirror, explained the plan, and told him that she and Linley were together.
• After dinner, Linley, Irina, and Irvin met Sirius Black in Hogsmeade Village, and he Apparated them to Barty Crouch Sr.'s address.
• The four used Disillusionment Charms to approach the old house, but Dolohov noticed the door opening and exposed them.
• Linley attacked Dolohov while Irina enchanted a teacup into a Portkey and sent the unconscious Barty Crouch Sr. away.

Linley and Irina split the ruined house with Mana Suppression Flame while Sirius Black prepared an Anti-Apparition Charm, and Irvin attacked Peter Pettigrew and the other Death Eaters. Irvin struck down one Death Eater with lightning as Linley and Irina began fighting Antonin Dolohov, whose magic was weakened by the flame.

• Linley cast Mana Suppression Flame, dividing the living room and concentrating its magical suppression on Antonin Dolohov.
• Irina told Sirius Black to set up an Anti-Apparition Charm, and Dolohov and the other Death Eater let him proceed, confident the group had trapped itself.
• Irvin attacked Peter Pettigrew with a barrage of spells while summoning a thundercloud, and Linley blasted open the ceiling to give the storm room to grow.
• Irvin called down lightning that struck and killed the unidentified Death Eater before Peter Pettigrew raised a Shield Charm.
• Peter Pettigrew maintained a Shield Charm as Linley and Irina began fighting Antonin Dolohov, whose magic was suppressed to a fraction of its full strength.

Linley and Irina fought Dolohov under the pressure of Mana Suppression Flame and killed him with a barrage of Alchemy Formation beams. They then turned toward Irvin and Sirius Black, who had disarmed and seized Peter Pettigrew.

• Dolohov countered Linley's Fiendfyre, then dodged Irina's Killing Curse and Linley's Cruciatus Curse.
• Irina used ice armor and her Ice Crystal Spear while Linley distracted Dolohov with Transfigured wolves and formed Alchemy Formations.
• Linley unleashed thousands of golden beams that killed Dolohov and pulverized his corpse.
• Linley dismissed the Alchemy Formations and Mana Suppression Flame, and he and Irina turned toward Irvin and Sirius Black.
• Irvin disarmed Peter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black snapped his wand and punched him in the nose.

Irina told Sirius Black that Peter Pettigrew’s only way out was death, and Sirius killed him with the Killing Curse. Afterward, Linley revealed that they did not need Pettigrew’s intelligence because Barty Crouch Jr. could serve as an informant near Voldemort.

• Irvin and Sirius Black overwhelmed Peter Pettigrew, disarmed him, and captured him.
• Sirius Black prepared to kill Peter Pettigrew, who begged for his life and offered to gather intelligence on Voldemort.
• Irina told Peter Pettigrew that his only remaining road was death and urged Sirius Black to kill him.
• Sirius Black cast Avada Kedavra and killed Peter Pettigrew, then thanked Linley, Irina, and Irvin.
• Irvin wondered whether Peter Pettigrew’s intelligence could help them, but Linley said Barty Crouch Jr. could become an informant near Voldemort.

Linley taught Irina and Irvin the Soul Insertion Charm and learned that Irvin’s Lightning Strike grew stronger with continued practice. The group returned to Hogwarts through Honeydukes’ secret passage with plans to retrieve Barty Crouch Sr. and find Dumbledore, while Sirius Black discovered Linley’s imitation Marauder’s Map needed a different password.

• Linley showed Irvin Barty Crouch Jr.’s vision through the Soul Insertion Charm and taught the spell to Irina and Irvin.
• Irvin explained that his Lightning Strike could summon Thunderbolt without a storm and would grow more powerful with practice.
• Sirius Black rejoined the group, and the four Apparated to Hogsmeade after leaving the Anti-Apparition Charm behind.
• Irina led Linley, Irvin, and Sirius Black through Honeydukes’ cellar passage toward Hogwarts to retrieve Barty Crouch Sr. and meet Dumbledore.
• Linley gave Sirius Black an imitation Marauder’s Map, then explained that its password was different from the original’s.

Linley and Irina revived Barty Crouch Sr. and explained that they knew how his son had betrayed and controlled him. They enlisted his help in keeping his rescue secret while they pursued a plan against Barty Crouch Jr.

• Sirius Black used the Marauder's Map to locate Barty Crouch Sr. in the passage near Hogwarts.
• Linley revived Barty Crouch Sr. with spells and potions, and Crouch tried to warn them that the Death Eaters were allied with his son.
• Linley explained that Barty Crouch Jr. had broken free of the Imperius Curse and later controlled his father, turning the old house into a Death Eater stronghold.
• Barty Crouch Sr. expected to be sent to Azkaban, but Irina told him the Death Eaters at his old house had been killed and they had not brought him for trial.
• Linley showed Barty Crouch Sr. Barty Crouch Jr.'s view from the Headmaster's office and asked him to stay hidden while they carried out their plan.
• After Barty Crouch Jr. left the Headmaster's office, Linley told the group to use Disillusionment Charms.

Linley offered Barty Crouch Sr. a path to become Minister for Magic in exchange for his loyalty and cooperation. Dumbledore agreed to witness their Unbreakable Vow, but Barty hesitated when Linley demanded his lifelong allegiance.

• Linley and the others arrived at Dumbledore's office with Barty Crouch Sr., and Dumbledore urged them to focus on capturing Barty Crouch Jr. and stopping Voldemort's plot.
• Linley told Barty to remain hidden until the Triwizard Tournament's third task and asked whether he wanted to become Minister for Magic.
• Linley offered to help Barty become Minister as a partner who would follow their will on matters of principle, and Barty agreed.
• Linley asked Dumbledore to witness an Unbreakable Vow between him and Barty.
• Barty agreed to obey Linley and Irina's commands as Minister, but looked to Dumbledore when Linley demanded his lifelong loyalty and forbade him from acting against them.

Linley and Barty Crouch Sr. made an Unbreakable Vow that bound Barty to their cause and secured Linley’s support for his bid to become Minister for Magic. Linley then recruited him into the plan to expose Voldemort’s return, and Dumbledore led Barty away after the group agreed on the details.

• Barty Crouch Sr. accepted Linley’s vows after deciding Dumbledore’s support meant Linley would not become a Dark Lord.
• Linley and Barty completed their Unbreakable Vow, including Barty’s pledge to serve their cause and Linley’s promise to help him remain Minister for Magic for at least thirty years.
• Linley revealed the group’s plans for the school year to Barty, who was astonished to learn their full scope.
• Linley proposed that Barty bring Aurors and reporters to Little Hangleton during Voldemort’s resurrection, so they could help fight and publicize the truth.
• Barty agreed to use Polyjuice Potion during the Triwizard Tournament’s third task and go to the Ministry as soon as Harry was taken by the Goblet of Fire.
• Dumbledore beckoned Barty to come with him after the group approved Linley’s plan.

Linley reassured Sirius that he and Irina would protect Harry while carrying out their plan to draw out Voldemort, and Sirius agreed to join the fight against the Death Eaters. Hogwarts returned to ordinary school life, where Hagrid began a Niffler lesson and treasure hunt.

• Sirius asked Linley why he had revealed the plan to use Harry as bait, and Linley and Irina insisted they would protect Harry at any cost.
• Sirius agreed not to interfere and asked to fight alongside Barty Crouch Sr. when the plan unfolded.
• Barty settled into Dumbledore's accommodation, Sirius returned to the Black family home, and Linley, Irina, and Irvin resumed their studies.
• Irina followed Harry, Ron, and Hermione to Hagrid's Magical Creatures class, where she recognized the Nifflers and had Little Treasure hidden in her pocket.
• Hagrid explained that Nifflers searched for shiny objects and announced a contest to find buried gold coins.

Irina’s Little Treasure won Hagrid’s Niffler competition, while Irina, Linley, and Irvin continued their preparations for future challenges. At the end of May, the Triwizard Champions arrived at the transformed Quidditch pitch to learn about the third task, and Linley sent a winged metal device over the maze.

• Irina entered Little Treasure in Hagrid’s treasure-hunting competition, and it found half of the buried coins to win.
• Hagrid gave Irina a large bar of Honeydukes chocolate as Little Treasure’s prize.
• Irina practiced the Undetectable Extension Charm, Portkey-making, and the Apparition Key, while Linley improved his Time Loop Formation.
• Irvin practiced Lightning Strike in the Forbidden Forest, and Linley required him to get enough sleep to protect his health.
• Barty Crouch Sr. adjusted to his new Wand, while Sirius Black began rehabilitation training for the planned trip to Little Hangleton.
• Linley, Fleur, Krum, and Harry went to the Quidditch pitch for the third-task briefing and found it transformed into a maze; Linley sent a winged metal piece above it.

Linley learned the third Triwizard Tournament task would take place in a maze and used a miniature magical camera to map its initial layout. During Divination, Harry fell asleep and dreamed of flying to a dark room where he saw Bellatrix Lestrange.

• Ludo Bagman explained that the third task would be a maze, with the Goblet of Fire at its center and Champions entering according to their scores.
• Linley obtained a map of the maze and continued working on his Time Loop Formation while Harry prepared for the task.
• Harry fell asleep in Professor Trelawney's Divination class and dreamed he flew on an owl to an old house.
• Harry entered a boarded-up black room in his dream and saw Bellatrix Lestrange standing inside.