Recaps

Harry helped Dumbledore establish the new Ministry, explored the Fountain of Fair Fortune, and brought his companions to the Quidditch World Cup. After Harry destroyed the Death Eaters attacking the campsite, he used the Elder Wand to heal Penelope Clearwater, while Sirius was left with something important to tell him.

• Cedric Diggory absorbed Robert Austin’s dark magic after defeating him in the soul world and resolved to take revenge on Harry Potter.
• Harry gave Dumbledore Voldemort’s final soul fragment, then rejected Dumbledore’s offer to become Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
• Harry reunited with Hermione and later met Luna at the Fountain of Fair Fortune, where he kissed her before the fountain disappeared.
• Hermione passed the Civil Service Exam in first place, and Harry took her, Cho Chang, Astoria, and others to the Quidditch World Cup.
• At the final, Cho Chang kissed Harry under the Veela’s spell, and Ireland defeated Bulgaria while Harry rested through much of the match.
• Harry rescued Tess from the Death Eaters attacking the campsite and killed more than a hundred of them, including Barty Crouch Jr.
• Dumbledore announced Voldemort’s crimes and began a campaign against dark forces, while Hermione took an intern reporter position at the Ministry.
• Harry borrowed the Elder Wand from Dumbledore and used it to heal Penelope Clearwater’s disfigured face before Apparating away with her.

Harry returned to Hogwarts as the Triwizard Tournament began, and his name unexpectedly emerged from the Goblet of Fire alongside Cedric’s. The schools agreed to a six-Champion tournament, while Harry formed a student study group and Rita Skeeter began twisting the visiting Champions’ words.

• Harry hired Penelope to open Hermione’s planned wizarding supermarket and made her his secretary.
• Harry and his friends returned to Hogwarts, where Professor McGonagall announced that the Triwizard Tournament would replace the Quidditch competition.
• Hermione formed a creature-welfare guild, and Snape began teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts with lessons on the Unforgivable Curses.
• Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrived at Hogwarts, and the Goblet of Fire selected Viktor Krum, Fleur Delacour, and Harry as Champions.
• Harry made the Goblet name Cedric Diggory too, and the schools agreed to add two more Champions so each school had two representatives.
• Harry and the other Champions signed a contract against gaining outside help with the tasks, and Bagman announced that the first task would take place on November 24.
• Harry funded Colin Creevey’s Harry Potter Study Group and instructed him to recruit students across the Houses and support their studies.
• Rita Skeeter distorted Viktor Krum’s and Fleur Delacour’s answers about their love lives before Harry entered and interrupted her interview.

Harry faced the first Triwizard task by killing the Hungarian Horntail, then prepared for the Yule Ball while tangled in romantic disputes involving Fleur, Cho, and Hermione. After the ball, the Golden Egg revealed that the next task involved the merpeople, and Harry rescued Gabrielle from a werewolf and Viktor Krum from the Black Lake.

• Ollivander inspected the Champions’ wands, recognized Harry’s Elder Wand, and warned him that it brought misfortune, but Harry refused to trade it.
• Hermione discovered that six dragons guarded the Golden Eggs, and Harry entered the first task knowing he would face the Hungarian Horntail.
• Cedric and Viktor competed before Fleur retrieved her egg, then Harry killed the Hungarian Horntail with the Sword of Gryffindor and won the crowd’s acclaim.
• Hermione introduced Harry to Dobby and Winky in the Hogwarts kitchen, then organized paid household work for Dobby and announced the Yule Ball preparations began.
• Harry practiced dancing with Astoria and later attended the Yule Ball with Astoria, Cho, and Hermione, while Fleur left after Harry secretly tormented her.
• Harry and Hermione became intimate after the ball, and Cho confronted Harry after realizing he had not put her to sleep.
• Harry showed Cho, Hermione, and Astoria that the Golden Egg’s clue became a mermaid song underwater, then tested the Deathly Hallows with his blood without effect.
• Harry rescued Gabrielle from a werewolf in the Forbidden Forest and later saved Viktor Krum from the Black Lake, while Gabrielle declared she planned to marry Harry.

Harry won the Triwizard Tournament by outmaneuvering the Portkey Cup, while Cedric died after being transported away. After the school year ended, Umbridge’s political ambitions collapsed and she was murdered, as Harry continued investigating the Stone Door and Veil.

• Harry entered the second task, descended into Black Lake, rescued Astoria and Gabrielle, and finished on time while Fleur failed to find Gabrielle.
• Bagman awarded Harry high marks despite Karkaroff’s protest, and Harry learned that Sirius and the Delacour parents had arranged an engagement between him and Fleur.
• Harry learned that the final task was a maze, then entered it with Nagini and overcame its obstacles as the Champions competed.
• Harry recognized the Triwizard Cup as a Portkey, stopped it from taking Cedric, and claimed it himself, while Cedric was carried to the cave and killed by Inferi.
• McGonagall introduced professor evaluations, and the faculty voted to remove Binns from teaching after his lecture put the class to sleep.
• Harry left Hogwarts with Hermione, Cho Chang, and Astoria, then offered Fred and George funding to develop a way to send objects elsewhere.
• Dumbledore offered Umbridge the Hogwarts High Inquisitor post after she resigned as Deputy Minister, but he replaced her with Amelia Bones and Umbridge was later murdered by a wizard seeking revenge.
• Harry investigated the Stone Door and Veil, tested the door with Diffindo, killed the captives with Fiendfyre, and left after threatening to return with an industrial cutter.