Chapter Summaries

Ethan petrified Barty Crouch Jr. after convincing him that Voldemort had abandoned him, then planned to use his living body to grow Spotted Mushrooms. He also prepared to alter the Triwizard Tournament’s final competition and captured Rita Skeeter after she discovered his secrets.

• Ethan told Barty Crouch Jr. that Voldemort had lost faith in him and planned to use his body as a flowerpot for Spotted Mushrooms.
• Barty Crouch Jr. tried to flee, but Wash Green the Basilisk petrified him, and Ethan stored him in his enchanted Oxhide Bag.
• Ethan reviewed his plan to alter the final Triwizard competition and create an Epic-grade painting using Ariana’s help.
• Ethan spotted Rita Skeeter hiding as a beetle and pursued her through the Chamber of Secrets.
• Rita Skeeter reverted to human form and begged to resign, but Ethan cast Obliviate on her.

After Rita Skeeter was found mentally shattered in the Forbidden Forest, Ethan attended a meeting where Minister Scrimgeour demanded that the Triwizard Tournament be canceled. The chapter ended with Scrimgeour accusing Barty Crouch of possible ties to the Dark Wizards and threatening anyone who opposed him.

• The Daily Prophet reported that Rita Skeeter had been found terrified and confused in the Forbidden Forest and taken to St. Mungo's.
• Ethan joked with Michael about Rita becoming the front-page story, then Professor Snape summoned him to Dumbledore's office.
• Snape questioned Ethan about ingredients for Polyjuice Potion, and Ethan denied stealing or misusing them.
• Ethan entered Dumbledore's office with Snape and found Minister Scrimgeour arguing with Barty Crouch about canceling the Triwizard Tournament.
• Scrimgeour confronted Barty Crouch about his strange behavior at the Quidditch World Cup and the missing house-elf, then threatened to treat opponents of cancellation as allies of evil.

Ethan revealed that Barty Crouch Jr. had posed as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor and that Voldemort planned to use Harry in the third task to resurrect himself. With Dumbledore’s support, Ethan resolved to continue and expand the Triwizard Tournament while pursuing his work with rare materials, and he hinted that Dumbledore would reunite with his family during the third task. Ethan then returned the real Mad-Eye Moody to Hogwarts.

• Ethan told Dumbledore and Snape that Barty Crouch Jr. had been the missing Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor and that Voldemort intended to use Harry in a resurrection ritual during the third task.
• Dumbledore considered canceling the Triwizard Tournament but agreed to support Ethan’s plan to hold it on a grand scale and provide the books and materials he needed.
• Ethan told Dumbledore that he would be reunited with his family during the third task, then warned him that the dead could not return whole to the living world.
• Ethan returned to the Headmaster’s Office with the real Mad-Eye Moody, who had been imprisoned by Barty Crouch Jr.
• Dumbledore welcomed Moody back, and Moody prepared to hear what had happened and confront Voldemort’s forces.

Ethan prepared a trap for Voldemort in the Triwizard Tournament’s final task, repairing the Lost Mirror and summoning Ariana as a powerful ally. As the champions entered the maze, Ethan deployed a legendary knight and card soldiers to defend the maze’s princess.

• At the Riddle House, Voldemort blamed Barty Crouch Jr. for the failed plan and agreed to use the Triwizard Cup to transport Harry Potter to his father’s grave.
• Over the winter, Krum trained to beat Ethan, Cedric practiced his magic, and Harry repeatedly played Ethan’s enchanted Wizard’s Chess set.
• Ethan repaired the Lost Mirror, summoned Ariana, and prepared new cards as he declared his intention to challenge Fate.
• Dumbledore opened the final task, and the champions entered the maze while Malfoy watched and hoped Ethan would win.
• At the maze’s center, Ethan ordered his card soldiers and Dark Souls Guard to protect their princess and turn intruders into fertilizer.

Cedric entered the third task’s thorn maze, where a Dark Soul Guard attacked him after Viktor Krum abandoned Fred Weasley and fled. Cedric was badly hurt by the knight’s halberd and faced the monster with little hope of stopping it.

• Cedric read the maze’s plaque, used Point Me to orient himself, and followed the paths toward the center.
• Cedric found a fallen playing-card soldier and saw the Dark Soul Guard standing among the wreckage with Fred Weasley hanging from its halberd.
• Viktor Krum slipped into a narrow passage, while Cedric’s Shattering Spell failed to harm the Dark Soul Guard and Fred was thrown to the ground.
• Fred told Cedric that he and George had used explosive gadgets to make a shortcut, and that Krum had betrayed him and used him as bait.
• The Dark Soul Guard struck Cedric with its halberd despite his Armor Charm, leaving him injured and terrified of facing the knight.

Cedric held off the black knight so Harry could reach the center of the maze, where Harry found Krum and the hidden trophy’s guardian: a princess statue that came to life. The statue attacked Krum and began transforming as Harry recognized its black mist as resembling an Obscurus.

• Harry arrived to help Cedric, and Cedric told him to send a rescue signal and run past the black knight.
• Harry used Fred’s wand to send up the signal, then slipped past the knight while Cedric stayed behind to fight it with a magical greatsword.
• Harry reached the maze’s center and found Krum waiting before a giant princess statue, while Krum revealed that he planned to seize the prize and defeat Ethan Vincent.
• Krum raised his wand at Harry, but the statue came to life and struck Krum across the chamber.
• The statue blocked Harry’s way back, then poured black liquid from its eyes and released a cloud of black mist that reminded Harry of the Obscurus.

Dumbledore recognized the Queen of Hearts statue as his sister Ariana, while Harry struggled against the statue and its black-mist minions. Cedric saved Harry and gave him a rose branch that could kill the monster, as Ethan prepared to enter the maze for the true confrontation with Voldemort.

• The spectators watched Harry face the Queen of Hearts statue, and Dumbledore recognized its face as his sister Ariana and the black mist as an Obscurus.
• Harry's Incendio failed to harm the statue, and its black-mist minions distracted him with cries of pain.
• Cedric appeared and blocked the statue's strike with a glowing greatsword, drawing cheers from the Hogwarts stands.
• Ethan watched Harry and Cedric fight, then entered a black Portal, declaring that the real trial against Voldemort was about to begin.
• Cedric knocked the statue's palm aside, then gave Harry a rose branch from the Black Knight and urged him to drive it into the statue's heart.

Harry hesitated to strike the Queen of Hearts, and his mercy allowed her to destroy the curse and reveal herself as Ariana. Harry and Cedric claimed the Triwizard Cup together, only to vanish when it acted as a Door Key, leaving Hermione and McGonagall alarmed.

• Cedric used his enchanted greatsword to clear the card soldiers and gave Harry a path to the Queen of Hearts.
• Harry refused to stab the rose into the Queen, explaining that he would not hurt an innocent person.
• The Queen of Hearts, revealed as Ariana, used the rose to absorb the curse and break her stone shell; the Triwizard Cup appeared, and a message named Harry the Champion for showing mercy.
• Dumbledore recognized Ariana and praised Mr. Vincent, then considered making Ethan Headmaster and prepared to face Voldemort.
• Harry helped the exhausted Cedric reach the cup, and they touched it together; the cup transported them away as Hermione realized it was a Door Key and saw McGonagall react in alarm.

Harry and Cedric were transported by the Triwizard trophy into a graveyard in the Mirror World, where Harry believed Cedric had been killed by Mr. Lamp. Ethan, disguised as Mr. Lamp, subdued Harry and revealed Barty Crouch Jr. as his servant, leaving Harry to learn that Mr. Lamp was also his Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor.

• Harry and Cedric landed in a graveyard after the trophy transported them through the Lost Mirror.
• A green curse struck Cedric, and Harry attacked the masked Mr. Lamp in grief and fury.
• Ethan revealed that Cedric’s death was an illusion and that the graveyard was inside Hogwarts’ maze in the Mirror World.
• Ethan disarmed Harry and trapped him in a statue’s scythe while Harry insisted Ethan would come to save him.
• Barty Crouch Jr. arrived and told Harry to greet his Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor.

Ethan used Voldemort’s resurrection ritual to refine him in a Cauldron of Souls instead, revealing his identity as Ethan Vincent. Voldemort recognized Ethan as he screamed his name from inside the flames.

• Voldemort taunted the captured Harry and ordered Barty Crouch Jr. to perform the resurrection ritual, but Barty waited for Mr. Lamp’s signal.
• Under Ethan’s control, Barty added his father’s bone and his own arm to the cauldron, then approached Harry for the final ingredient.
• Ethan stopped Barty from taking Harry’s blood, added a mushroom from Barty’s neck and a painted rose, and poured golden magic into the cauldron.
• The Cauldron of Souls ritual began, and its flames engulfed Voldemort as his body melted and he screamed at Ethan.
• Ethan removed his mask in front of Voldemort, who recognized him as Ethan Vincent and shouted his name.

Ethan defeated Voldemort and absorbed the elixir from the Cauldron of Souls Ritual, greatly increasing his magic and meeting one condition for becoming Immortal. As Harry discovered Cedric still had a faint heartbeat, a huge eyeball emerged through a crack in the night sky.

• Ethan revealed himself as Mr. Lamp and explained that he had been manipulating Voldemort from the beginning.
• Ethan used the flames to consume Voldemort, who saw a crack in the false night sky and sensed an all-powerful gaze.
• Ethan obtained the elixir, drank it, and awakened a vast surge of magic that met one condition for advancing to Immortal.
• The magic storm freed Harry from the scythe hand, but the Cup failed to transport them; Harry then felt Cedric's faint heartbeat.
• Ethan tested his increased magic and sensed a crack in the sky, from which a huge eyeball rolled out.

Ethan refused the Death God’s demand to kill Cedric and faced a monstrous, empowered Voldemort in the collapsing Mirror World. He summoned the Death Eaters into the Rose Maze at Hogwarts, where Aurors surrounded them and began making arrests.

• The Death God ordered Ethan to kill Cedric and restore fate, but Ethan refused and told the Death God to go to hell.
• The Death God empowered Voldemort, transforming him into a towering monster that raged against Ethan.
• Voldemort’s magic shattered the Mirror World, and Ethan used Barty Crouch Jr.’s Dark Mark to summon the Death Eaters.
• The Mirror World collapsed and revealed the Rose Maze at Hogwarts, where the Death Eaters discovered they could not Apparate.
• An Auror stunned a Death Eater who tried to curse Ethan, while Moody and the other Aurors closed in around the group.

Ethan arrived at Hogwarts as Voldemort’s resurrection unleashed a fleshly monster on the maze, and he confronted Voldemort with the power of his elixir. As they clashed, Hermione realized the danger was reaching the spectators and spotted Luna leaving the stands against the crowd.

• Ethan revealed his transformed face and wings, then charged into the Dark Wizards’ camp as Harry rallied the fighters.
• Voldemort’s blood-red tentacles seized the Death Eaters and turned them into monsters, while Mad-Eye Moody directed the Aurors to attack the Death Eaters.
• Voldemort struck Ethan with a tentacle and threatened to kill everyone at Hogwarts as his fleshly mountain advanced toward the castle.
• Ethan armed himself with a scarlet lightning spear and a holy warhammer, empowered his armor and the thorn maze, and challenged Voldemort to kneel.
• Ethan and Voldemort collided in a blast that swept from the maze to the stands, where Hermione recognized the monster’s threat and saw Luna leaving the Ravenclaw seats.

Luna led Hermione and a group of students into the maze to find Ethan, while Dumbledore and Snape stayed behind to defend Hogwarts. Ethan’s attacks hurt Voldemort but could not stop his regenerating body, so he prepared to try improvisational card creation.

• Dumbledore ordered the students to evacuate as Voldemort’s monstrous body advanced, and Malfoy urged Ethan to defeat the Dark Lord.
• Luna tried to enter the maze, and Hermione followed after discovering Luna’s group of students planned to join her.
• Luna summoned a ghostly blue elk and led the students into the maze, with Hermione running after them.
• Dumbledore and Snape chose to let the students face the trial and prepared to confront Voldemort themselves.
• Ethan pierced Voldemort with a lightning spear and engulfed him in dragon flame, but Voldemort regenerated and renewed his attack.
• Ethan realized he could only hold Voldemort back and decided to use improvisational card creation.

As Luna, Hogwarts students, and Ariana joined the fight against Voldemort, Ethan slipped behind their defenses to paint a new magical picture. Inspired by Luna, he began creating a work called “Skyfall.”

• Mad-Eye used fire to burn the reborn flesh monsters while Voldemort threatened Ethan and Hogwarts.
• Luna Lovegood arrived and blasted a huge hole in Voldemort’s body with her magic.
• Hogwarts students emerged to protect Ethan and fight Voldemort’s tentacles.
• Ariana appeared as a giant and attacked Voldemort with thorny guillotines.
• Ethan retreated behind the defenders and set up a blank canvas to paint “Skyfall,” inspired by Luna.

As Voldemort battered his way toward Hogwarts, Ethan gathered materials and inspiration from Luna, Ariana, and Hermione to finish a painting meant to destroy him. Voldemort confronted Snape and Dumbledore, but golden magic circles appeared across his body just as Ethan’s voice announced a Super-Tier spell.

• Ethan struggled to find suitable materials for his painting until Luna offered an Ancient Magic stone, Ariana gave him rose petals, and Hermione recited information about the universe.
• Encouraged by their support, Ethan resumed painting the work he intended to use to defeat Voldemort.
• Voldemort broke through the final wall of thorns and found Snape and Dumbledore blocking his path to Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore criticized Voldemort’s pursuit of power and said he planned to make Ethan the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Golden magic circles appeared across Voldemort as Snape prepared to evacuate the students, and Ethan’s voice announced, “Super-Tier Magic: Skyfall.”

Ethan defeated Voldemort with the spell Skyfall, destroying his body and preventing him from rising again. After Ethan claimed Voldemort’s skin as an extraordinary item, he learned that saving Cedric and stopping Voldemort’s resurrection had raised his Soul Fusion Degree above 90% and unlocked the Immortal advancement path.

• Ethan appeared above the battlefield and cast Skyfall, engulfing Voldemort in a pillar of golden light.
• The spell devastated the Quidditch pitch, and Voldemort survived only as scraps of flesh and soul.
• Voldemort questioned how Ethan had defeated him, and Ethan answered, “That’s art, brother,” before Voldemort’s remaining vitality vanished.
• Ethan collected Voldemort’s skin, which could conceal a soul from Fate’s gaze.
• The system announced that Ethan had saved Cedric and prevented Voldemort’s resurrection, raising his Soul Fusion Degree to 93.1% and unlocking the Immortal advancement path.

Ethan surpassed 90% Soul Fusion, defeated Voldemort, and drove away the Death God’s gaze, but he warned that a greater crisis still awaited. As Hogwarts celebrated the Triwizard Tournament’s end, Ethan declared that the world had entered hard mode, and he gained a Gravity Magic Fragment.

• Ethan completed the first two requirements for Immortal promotion and unlocked the next path after Knower.
• The Death God warned Ethan that it would watch him and reap his life, then its blood-red gaze vanished from the world.
• Students celebrated Ethan’s victory over Voldemort, while Cedric reunited with his father and Harry embraced Sirius.
• Ethan told the gathered students that Voldemort had never been their true enemy and urged them to prepare to oppose Fate.
• Dumbledore clutched Ethan’s portrait and made a request to a talented boy, while Mr. Crouch cast one final spell on Barty Crouch Jr.
• Ethan earned widespread admiration and support, increased his Lamp brightness, and obtained an Ancient Magic Gravity Magic Fragment.

At the end-of-year feast, Dumbledore praised the students who had faced Voldemort and, at Ethan Vincent’s request, awarded the House Cup to all four Houses to unite Hogwarts. As the visiting students prepared to leave, Pheobe moved in close to Ethan after hinting she would show him how mature she could be next time.

• Ron celebrated the canceled exams and the unusually entertaining school year, while Malfoy and other Slytherins resolved to support Ethan and strengthen their families’ ties to him.
• Hermione noticed The Daily Prophet downplayed Ethan’s role in defeating Voldemort, while she and Cho Chang treasured The Quibbler’s photos of him.
• Dumbledore awarded tournament competitors points, honored Ethan for striking Voldemort, and announced that every House would share the House Cup at Ethan’s request.
• Dumbledore urged the Houses to unite against the coming crisis under Ethan’s leadership, prompting Malfoy and the Slytherins to declare their support for him.
• As Beauxbatons and Durmstrang prepared to depart, Pheobe promised Ethan she would show him her maturity next time, then suddenly leaned close to his face while glancing at Luna.

After the school year ended, Viktor Krum resolved to lead Durmstrang, while Minister Scrimgeour suspected Ethan Vincent was Mr. Lamp’s apprentice and sent Connie Rosier and Corban Yaxley to Hogwarts to investigate. Yaxley secretly served Voldemort and vowed to remove obstacles to his return.

• Pheobe tried to kiss Ethan, but he dodged and accused her of putting poison on her lips; Luna then gave Ethan another Scourgify while they rode the train home.
• Viktor Krum admitted he would have lost to Ethan and resolved to lead Durmstrang and prepare for the Wizarding World’s coming crisis.
• Minister Scrimgeour told Connie Rosier and Corban Yaxley that he suspected Dumbledore was allowing Ethan to apprentice under Mr. Lamp.
• Scrimgeour ordered Connie and Yaxley to investigate the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor and find a weakness in Ethan.
• After leaving Scrimgeour’s office, Yaxley revealed the Dark Mark on his arm and vowed to clear the way for Voldemort’s return.