Chapter Summaries

Harry witnessed Voldemort torturing the Lestrange brothers in a vision, then woke in Professor Trelawney’s classroom with his scar burning. He told Irina what he had seen, and she realized Linley’s cube-shaped devices had been Alchemical Signal Jammers blocking communications from outside Hogwarts.

• Rodolphus Lestrange told Voldemort that Barty Crouch Sr.’s ruined house contained the bodies of Dolohov, Wormtail, and Gellert, but Crouch was missing.
• Rabastan Lestrange revealed that the Anti-Apparition Charm had been active for over three months and that an alchemist had blocked communications with Hogwarts.
• Voldemort punished Rodolphus Lestrange and Rabastan Lestrange with the Cruciatus Curse for neglecting their inspections, and Harry felt their torment through his scar.
• Harry woke on the classroom floor, refused to tell Professor Trelawney about his vision, and left for the Gryffindor Common Room.
• Harry told Irina about his vision, and Irina recognized Linley’s devices as Alchemical Signal Jammers.

Irina extracted Harry’s memory of a dream involving Voldemort and the Lestranges, then reviewed it with Dumbledore and Linley in the Pensieve. Linley explained how his signal jammers had cut Barty Crouch Jr. off from Voldemort and gave Dumbledore memory bottles to preserve evidence.

• Irina extracted Harry’s memory of the dream and stored it in a glass bottle, leaving Harry confused about what he had forgotten.
• Irina brought Linley to Dumbledore and poured Harry’s memory into the Pensieve.
• Dumbledore, Irina, and Linley viewed the memory, which showed Bellatrix Lestrange, Voldemort, Rodolphus Lestrange, and Rabastan Lestrange in a dark room.
• Irina and Linley discussed how Linley’s signal jammers had cut off Barty Crouch Jr. from Voldemort and forced him to follow the existing plan.
• Linley gave Dumbledore his Cloud Sync Memory Bottles so he could make backups of Barty Crouch Jr.’s memories as evidence.

Linley and the other Champions began the Triwizard Tournament’s final task in a magically shifting maze. Linley recognized that Barty Crouch Jr. had altered the maze and prepared to face him.

• Dumbledore accepted Linley’s Memory Bottles, hid most of them in separate places, and returned two to Linley and Irina.
• The Champions arrived at the transformed Quidditch pitch as Hogwarts students gathered to watch the final task.
• Professor McGonagall explained how the Champions could signal for rescue, and Linley noticed that Krum seemed to be under the Imperius Curse.
• Ludo Bagman announced the Champions’ scores and started the task, sending Linley into the maze first.
• Linley followed a route he had mapped earlier, but the hedges shifted and blocked his path, leading him to suspect Barty Crouch Jr. had changed the maze.

Linley forced his way through the Triwizard maze, overcame its obstacles, and caught up with Harry at the Goblet of Fire. The chapter ended with Harry touching the cup as Linley grabbed its handle.

• Linley used Fiendfyre to burn through five hedge walls after Barty Crouch Jr. manipulated the maze, then resumed following its paths.
• Linley killed an Acromantula with Bombarda and blocked its blood from reaching him.
• Linley nullified Viktor Krum’s Cruciatus Curse with Mana Suppression Flame, causing the Imperius-controlled Krum to collapse, and sent up a signal.
• Linley threatened the Sphinx with Fiendfyre until it moved aside without making him answer its riddle.
• Linley and Harry raced toward the Goblet of Fire; Harry touched the cup as Linley grabbed its handle.

Linley and Harry arrived in a graveyard, where Linley concealed himself and Harry was attacked by Rodolphus Lestrange. Voldemort’s followers gathered around Harry, bound to Tom Riddle’s tomb, as they prepared to begin Voldemort’s resurrection.

• Linley cast the Disillusionment Charm immediately after he and Harry arrived in the graveyard, while Harry found himself alone.
• Harry attacked the hooded figure near a tombstone, but Rodolphus Lestrange dodged his spell, blasted him, and tortured him with the Cruciatus Curse.
• Voldemort ordered Rodolphus to bring Harry over, and Rodolphus bound Harry to a tombstone marked Tom Riddle.
• Bellatrix Lestrange arrived with the infant-like Voldemort as dozens of masked figures gathered around Harry.
• Rodolphus and Rabastan pushed a large cauldron full of liquid toward the group.

Voldemort was resurrected through a ritual using his father’s bones, Bellatrix’s sacrifice, and Harry’s blood, then restored Bellatrix’s severed hand. As Voldemort threatened the students who had killed his Death Eaters, Linley confronted him amid Fiendfyre and Goblet Immortal Fire.

• Rodolphus and Rabastan heated the cauldron while Bellatrix began Voldemort’s resurrection ritual.
• Bellatrix added bone ash, sacrificed her left hand, and took Harry’s blood for the cauldron.
• Voldemort rose from the cauldron, declared himself immortal, and summoned a silver-white hand to replace Bellatrix’s lost one.
• Voldemort learned that dozens of Death Eaters were missing and vowed that the two Hogwarts students responsible would pay.
• Voldemort raised a barrier against approaching Fiendfyre, and Linley revealed himself and challenged him.

Linley confronted Voldemort and the Death Eaters, narrowly dodging Voldemort’s Demon King-level Killing Curse before unleashing five Alchemy Formations. With Harry’s help, he freed him and struck the Death Eaters from behind, provoking Voldemort’s fury.

• Voldemort recognized Linley and fired a powerful Killing Curse, but Linley used Mana Suppression Flame to buy time and dodged it.
• Linley activated five charged Alchemy Formations, whose golden beams killed several Death Eaters and forced Voldemort to shield the rest with Protego Maxima.
• Linley summoned Harry’s fallen Wand, used golden beams to cut Harry’s ropes, and told him to escape the barrage and take up his Wand.
• Harry took cover behind a tombstone and attacked Voldemort with Disarming Charms, but Linley redirected him toward the Death Eaters.
• Harry disarmed four Death Eaters from behind, and the golden beams following his spells killed them.
• Voldemort roared in anger at being suppressed by Linley and the underage wizard’s attacks.

Linley fought Voldemort and the Death Eaters after the Goblet of Fire transported him and Harry away, using fifty Purgatory Demon Puppets to hold the Death Eaters at bay. Meanwhile, Irina and Irvin moved to capture Barty Crouch Jr. so they could reach Linley’s aid.

• Voldemort’s Killing Curse split into lightning chains, which Linley blocked with the Mana Suppression Flame.
• Voldemort shielded the Death Eaters, who attacked Linley while his flames weakened their spells.
• Linley summoned fifty Purgatory Demon Puppets, forcing the Death Eaters into a stalemate as he continued fighting Voldemort.
• Irina learned that Linley had left the maze and ordered Irvin, Dumbledore, Barty Crouch Sr., and Sirius Black to move.
• Dumbledore located Barty Crouch Jr., and Irina and Irvin raced toward him so they could support Linley.

Irina and Irvin defeated Barty Crouch Jr., who had been disguised as Professor Moody, and Dumbledore used full-power Legilimency to extract his useful memories. The chapter ended with Dumbledore drawing a silver ribbon of memories from Barty Crouch Jr. while the professors kept Fudge occupied.

• Irina exposed Barty Crouch Jr. and attacked him with Glacier Spells and an Ice Crystal Spear.
• Irvin struck Barty Crouch Jr. with a Thunderbolt, leaving him charred and incapacitated but alive.
• Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall arrived, and Dumbledore revealed Barty Crouch Jr.'s true appearance by removing his Polyjuice disguise.
• Dumbledore sent Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall to maintain order in the stands and keep Fudge occupied.
• Dumbledore used Legilimency on Barty Crouch Jr. and pulled a silver ribbon of useful memories from his temple.

Irina and Irvin joined the battle in Little Hangleton, helping Linley turn the tide against Voldemort’s Death Eaters. After learning Voldemort had weakened, Linley urged Dumbledore to imprison him and prevent his Horcruxes from awakening.

• Irina and Dumbledore stored a copy of Barty Crouch Jr.’s extracted memories in a Cloud Sync Memory Bottle before they left him behind.
• Barty Crouch Jr. survived Dumbledore’s Legilimency, but an ice spike pierced his heart and killed him before he could reach his Wand.
• Dumbledore brought Irina and Irvin to the Little Hangleton graveyard, where Linley was struggling against Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
• Irina froze more than twenty Death Eaters, and Irvin shattered the ice statues with Thunderbolts, breaking Voldemort’s Protego Maxima protections.
• Linley redirected his Alchemy Formations toward Voldemort and secretly told Dumbledore that Voldemort had fallen below Demon King level.
• Dumbledore recognized that they might now imprison Voldemort and gain time to find and destroy his Horcruxes.

Dumbledore took over the fight against Voldemort while Linley, Irina, and Irvin dealt with the Death Eaters using their magic-suppressing abilities and attacks. Dumbledore’s Vanishment Charm and phoenix Apparition gave him an advantage, while Voldemort unleashed his lightning-chain Killing Curse without reaching him.

• Dumbledore sealed Little Hangleton against Apparition and told Linley to attack the Death Eaters with Irina and the others.
• Linley withdrew his Alchemy Formations and used his Purgatory Demon Puppets and Mana Suppression Flame while Irina and Irvin helped slaughter the Death Eaters.
• Dumbledore confronted Voldemort in the air, and Voldemort admitted his anger over Dumbledore’s past while refusing to cast a spell at first.
• Dumbledore sent a Vanishment Charm at Voldemort, who blocked it briefly with Protego Maxima and dodged aside.
• Voldemort fired Avada Kedavra, but Dumbledore escaped with Fawkes’s Bloodline Magic and reappeared far away.
• Voldemort’s Killing Curse split into green lightning chains that failed to reach Dumbledore.

Dumbledore used Fawkes to evade Voldemort and attack him with Vanishment Charms, but Voldemort's desperation under Dumbledore's pressure restored his Demon King-level power. The chapter left Dumbledore facing Voldemort's lightning-chain Killing Curse as the Anti-Apparition Charm shattered.

• Dumbledore used Fawkes to Apparate around Voldemort and fire Vanishment Charms while Voldemort's counterattacks missed.
• Voldemort cast a Thousand-Mile Tracking Killing Curse, which pursued Dumbledore through more than a hundred Apparitions before fading.
• Dumbledore charged a powerful Vanishment Charm and locked Voldemort in place with killing intent.
• Voldemort blamed Dumbledore for his past, detonated his magic, and returned to Demon King level.
• Voldemort broke Dumbledore's restraints and the Anti-Apparition Charm, then sent an Avada Kedavra that split into lightning chains and surrounded Dumbledore.

Voldemort regained the power of a Demon King level wizard, and Dumbledore trapped him with the Water Prison Curse. Earlier, Barty Crouch Sr. returned to the Ministry of Magic and persuaded Rufus Scrimgeour to send Aurors to Little Hangleton.

• Voldemort broke through to the level of a Demon King wizard with only one-third of his fragmented soul remaining.
• Dumbledore Apparated behind Voldemort and used the Water Prison Curse to trap and compress him.
• Barty Crouch Sr. arrived at the Ministry of Magic after learning that Linley had reached Little Hangleton.
• Barty Crouch Sr. told Rufus Scrimgeour that he had found escaped Death Eaters at a hideout in Little Hangleton.
• Scrimgeour pressed Barty Crouch Sr. for the hideout’s location, and Barty named Little Hangleton.

Linley chose to face Voldemort after sensing that he had regained the power of a Demon King level wizard, hoping to force his own breakthrough. Their first clash left Linley blasted hundreds of meters away while Voldemort remained protected behind a barrier.

• Linley sensed Voldemort’s return to Demon King level and watched him break free of Dumbledore’s water prison.
• Linley asked Dumbledore to support Irina and the others while he confronted Voldemort, and Dumbledore agreed.
• Linley used an Alchemy Formation to fly and surrounded himself with flames, transformed wolves, and a Silver Wolf Patronus.
• Voldemort fired Avada Kedavra, and Linley weakened the curse with Mana Suppression Flame and attacked it with Alchemy Formations.
• Linley formed a black spear with Purgatory Flame Martial Forging and struck the curse, but the explosion hurled him hundreds of meters away while Voldemort blocked the blast’s force.

Linley resisted Voldemort’s Killing Curse and seized control of his Fiendfyre, provoking Voldemort as the battle continued. Meanwhile, Scrimgeour, Barty Crouch Sr., Sirius Black, and a group of Aurors arrived at the Little Hangleton graveyard and saw Voldemort facing Linley.

• Linley used a Transfigured white wolf to block the weakened Killing Curse, then destroyed its remaining lightning chains with Mana Suppression Flame.
• Voldemort attacked Linley with Fiendfyre, but Linley took control of the flames and sent them back at Voldemort.
• Voldemort extinguished the returning Fiendfyre and grew furious at Linley’s provocation.
• Scrimgeour led Barty Crouch Sr., Sirius Black, more than twenty Aurors, and Daily Prophet reporters toward the Death Eater stronghold, authorizing any means of retaliation.
• The group reached the graveyard and saw Bellatrix and other Death Eaters fighting Irina, Irvin, and the Purgatory Demon Puppets, while Dumbledore guarded the rear and Linley faced Voldemort in the air.
• Scrimgeour recognized Voldemort and muttered that the Dark Lord had returned.

Scrimgeour joined the battle after Dumbledore explained that Linley had chosen to face Voldemort alone. Voldemort redirected a split Cruciatus Curse at the fighters below, and Irina was struck despite Linley’s protective alchemy equipment.

• Barty Crouch Sr. ordered the Aurors into the fight, and Scrimgeour told them to protect the Hogwarts students.
• Scrimgeour questioned Dumbledore about bringing students to the battlefield and letting Linley fight Voldemort.
• Dumbledore revealed that Linley had driven back more than twenty Aurors during the Quidditch World Cup, and Scrimgeour joined the battle.
• Voldemort split his Cruciatus Curse across the graveyard, striking many Aurors while Dumbledore and Linley intercepted most of the bolts.
• Irvin dodged a bolt, but a dark-red curse struck Irina in the back and left her in pain.

Linley broke through to the Demon King level after seeing Irina suffer, then attacked Voldemort with his newly awakened power. The chapter ended with Linley’s spear piercing Voldemort’s chest and lifting him into the air.

• Linley saw Irina being tortured by Voldemort’s lightning chains and erupted in fury.
• Linley’s magic power stopped relying on the Philosopher’s Stone as he advanced to the Demon King level.
• Voldemort cast Avada Kedavra to stop Linley, but Linley blocked it with his strengthened Mana Suppression Flame.
• Linley appeared directly in front of Voldemort, suppressed his magic, pierced his Protego Maxima, and drove his black spear through Voldemort’s chest.

Linley taunted Voldemort about his past and the Pureblood Families’ role in his rise while fighting him in the graveyard. Voldemort burned his life to unleash a forbidden blood-powered Dark Mark, strengthening the remaining Death Eaters and turning the battle against Irina, Irvin, and the Aurors.

• Linley attacked Voldemort with a pitch-black spear and his wand while exposing Voldemort’s identity as Tom Riddle and his Love Potion origins.
• Several Death Eaters who had considered clearing their names Apparated away, leaving fewer than thirty behind.
• Voldemort unleashed his power and burned his life to overwhelm Linley, who dodged his Killing Curses and mocked his battle for pride.
• Voldemort cut his wrist and cast Blood Sacrifice: Dark Mark: Skeletal Manifestation, staining the sky blood-red.
• The bloody Dark Mark greatly strengthened the remaining Death Eaters, who drove Irina, Irvin, and the Aurors back despite their Ancient Magic.

Dumbledore restrained Bellatrix and several strengthened Death Eaters, leaving Irina and Irvin to continue fighting as a trial while Linley endured Voldemort’s attacks. After secretly placing his alchemical tools around the graveyard, Linley began a counterattack that anticipated where Voldemort would Apparate.

• Dumbledore trapped nearly ten powerful Death Eaters in water prisons, easing the pressure on Irina, Irvin, and the Aurors.
• Irina and Irvin remained outmatched by the remaining Death Eaters while Dumbledore let the battle serve as a trial for them.
• Linley defended himself against Voldemort’s tracking Killing Curses by using objects, golden threads, and a ball of pale energy, which fell into the graveyard along a concealed pattern.
• Voldemort attacked Linley with Cruciatus Bone Gnawing and believed Linley was running out of defenses.
• Linley suddenly moved behind Voldemort and thrust his spear, then redirected it toward the place Voldemort would reappear after Apparition.

Linley revealed that he had trapped the graveyard battle in a Time Loop Formation and used 413 cycles to learn Voldemort’s moves. He shared those accumulated memories with his allies, turning the battle against the Death Eaters in their favor.

• Voldemort repeatedly Apparated to evade Linley, but Linley anticipated his destinations and wounded him with Sectumsempra.
• Linley explained that he had experienced the battle 413 times and used the loops to gather data on how to defeat Voldemort.
• Linley unleashed the Alchemy Formation’s golden beams, striking Voldemort whenever he appeared and leaving him badly wounded.
• Linley transferred memories from the 413 cycles to Dumbledore, Irina, Irvin, Scrimgeour, Barty Crouch Sr., Sirius Black, and the Aurors.
• Irina and Irvin used their foreknowledge to attack the Death Eaters, while the Aurors countered their opponents’ moves and turned the battle around.