Chapter Summaries

Harley and Sirius confronted a riot of wizards at the Quidditch World Cup, and Harley used a magically intensified blizzard to freeze many of them while allowing most of the Death Eaters to escape. She secretly planted disease seeds in every rioter and identified Old Malfoy among those who fled.

• Mr. Weasley sent Bill, Charlie, and the others to safety while he, Sirius, and Harley went to face the rioters.
• Harley recognized familiar figures among the black-robed crowd and prepared to capture some while letting others escape.
• The rioters attacked Harley and Sirius with dark spells, and Harley summoned torrential rain before turning it into a blizzard that froze more than forty wizards.
• Several clear-headed wizards escaped with House-elves, and Harley identified Old Malfoy and the fleeing Death Eaters.
• Harley revealed that she had planted dormant Disease Seeds in every rioter, then dispersed the rain and snow.

Harley subdued a gang of Dark wizards at the Quidditch World Cup campsite and exposed their attacks, but Fudge tried to minimize the incident. After the Dark Mark appeared, Ministry officials took the captured wizards in for questioning while concealing their identities, and Mr. Weasley explained the political reasons to his family.

• Harley told Fudge that the captured wizards had attacked the campsite and used Dark Magic, while Sirius backed her account and Scrimgeour identified several suspects as suspected Dark wizards and former Death Eaters.
• Amelia ordered the Aurors to restrain the captured wizards, but Fudge tried to dismiss the incident as drunken misbehavior and blame Crouch.
• Crouch confronted Fudge over shifting blame, and then the Dark Mark appeared over the camps, terrifying the crowd and leaving Fudge pale.
• Harley and Sirius left after the Aurors gathered evidence, while Ministry teams searched for the source of the Dark Mark and found no trace.
• Mr. Weasley told his family that Fudge agreed to question the captured wizards but planned to conceal the identities of the Death Eaters to protect his standing and avoid public fear.

After the riot at the Quidditch World Cup, Harley read Rita Skeeter’s coverage, received thanks from Pheobe, and stayed with Sirius and Hermione at Number 12 Grimmauld Place. Before the Hogwarts Express departed, Sirius took Harley and Hermione to buy formal robes, where Harley and Sirius compromised on several outfits for the upcoming ball.

• Harley read Rita Skeeter’s article praising her response to the riot and criticizing the Ministry, the rioters, and the wizarding public.
• Pheobe visited Harley, thanked her for protecting Gabrielle during the riot, and arranged to meet her at Hogwarts on Halloween.
• The Weasley family returned to their tent, while Harley, Hermione, and Sirius later went back to Number 12 Grimmauld Place.
• Harley and Hermione stayed with Sirius for the remaining days of summer and went to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies and formal dress robes.
• At Twilfitt and Tattings, Harley argued with Sirius over what to wear to the ball, then ordered four outfits; Sirius also ordered Hermione an additional blue robe.

Harley and Hermione traveled to Hogwarts for the new school year, where the famous Harley drew attention and welcomed Ginny and Luna into their compartment. The journey ended with the Weasley Twins selling their prank products to students, while Luna shared her theory about Fudge's conspiracy.

• Sirius bought Harley and Hermione clothes and jewelry, then planned to send them their formal outfits when needed.
• On September 1, Harley and Hermione arrived at King's Cross in heavy rain and made it onto the train despite the crowd surrounding the famous Harley.
• Ginny joined Harley and Hermione in their compartment and invited Luna Lovegood to sit with them.
• Harley recognized The Quibbler as Xenophilius Lovegood's magazine and read its claim that Veela had caused Bulgaria to lose the Quidditch World Cup.
• Fred and George told Harley they planned to sell prank products funded by her investment, then began pitching them to students on the train.
• Luna explained her belief that Fudge was involved in a Rotfang conspiracy while Ginny and Hermione discussed trouble at the Ministry of Magic.

Harley returned to Hogwarts for the new school year, where the students endured a stormy arrival and Dumbledore began the welcome feast and announcements. The gathering was interrupted by a scarred, battle-worn stranger whose arrival left the Great Hall in suspense.

• Ron and his roommates fought Malfoy and his lackeys on the Hogwarts Express until the Weasley Twins’ pranks and the Prefects ended the commotion.
• Harley, Hermione, Ginny, and Luna reached Hogwarts through the storm and found Peeves flooding the Entrance Hall, but he fled when he saw Harley.
• Hermione noticed the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor’s seat was empty, and Harley concluded that Senior Riddle was to blame for the previous professors’ fates.
• Angelina asked Harley about the Gryffindor Quidditch captain, but Harley said she had not been chosen.
• Professor McGonagall sorted the first-years, and Dumbledore began the welcome feast and announced school rules.
• A scarred man with a magical blue eye entered the Great Hall just as Dumbledore was about to make an important announcement.

Professor Dumbledore introduced Alastor Moody as Hogwarts’ new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, then announced that the House Cup Quidditch Match would be replaced by a revamped Six-Wizard Tournament. The tournament would involve six schools and admit only students aged seventeen or older, prompting protests from the Weasley Twins.

• Alastor Moody arrived at the Great Hall, cautiously tested his food, and joined Professor Dumbledore at the staff table.
• Professor Dumbledore introduced Moody and praised his record as an Auror; Moody’s magical eye briefly met Harley’s gaze.
• Professor Dumbledore announced that the House Cup Quidditch Match was canceled and revealed that Hogwarts would host the Six-Wizard Tournament.
• Professor Dumbledore named Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, Castelobruxo, Mahoutokoro, and Ilvermorny as the participating schools.
• Professor Dumbledore set the tournament’s minimum age at seventeen, and Fred and George protested that they should be allowed to compete.

Dumbledore announced that underage students could enter the Six-Wizard Tournament if they passed his assessments, and Harley confirmed she intended to compete. Moody warned Dumbledore that Death Eaters posed a threat during the tournament, while Dumbledore defended his trust in Snape.

• Dumbledore explained the tournament rules, its dangers, and the assessments that would allow qualified underage students to compete.
• Hermione told Fred, George, and the gathered Gryffindors what she knew about the old tournament, and Ginny reminded them that Harley could compete for Hogwarts' single champion slot.
• Harley told Dumbledore she would enter the tournament, and he predicted she would probably become Hogwarts' champion while asking her to go easy on the other schools.
• Moody warned Dumbledore that the Dark Mark and the World Cup riot pointed to Death Eater activity, and said two Death Eaters would be at Hogwarts during the tournament.
• Dumbledore assured Moody that Snape could be trusted because he had turned against Voldemort and gathered information for them.

Professor Dumbledore asked Professor Moody to prepare students for the growing threat of Voldemort, while Moody remained suspicious of Snape and offered to watch him and Karkaroff. Harley uncovered Voldemort’s plan to use the Six-Wizard Tournament to capture her, then began the new term at Hogwarts.

• Professor Moody challenged Professor Dumbledore’s faith in Snape and recalled how a trusted Auror’s betrayal had cost him his leg and contributed to the torture of Frank and Alice.
• Professor Dumbledore warned Professor Moody that Voldemort might soon return and asked him to teach students more serious defensive material; Moody agreed and volunteered to watch Snape and Karkaroff.
• Harley returned to the Gryffindor dormitory, told Hermione she planned to enter the Six-Wizard Tournament, and later secretly examined Peter Pettigrew’s memories.
• Harley learned that Voldemort and Barty Crouch Jr. planned to use the tournament to capture her, with Crouch Jr. intending to impersonate his father and turn the final task’s object into a Portkey.
• Professor McGonagall handed out timetables, and Professor Sprout started the fourth-years’ Herbology lesson by having them harvest valuable pus from Bubotubers.

Harley and Hermione encountered Hagrid’s revolting new Blast-Ended Skrewts during Care of Magical Creatures, while the rest of the day brought a private offer of Alchemy tutoring for Harley. By Thursday, the students eagerly awaited their first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson with Professor Moody.

• Hagrid introduced the students to the Blast-Ended Skrewts he had bred from Fire Crabs and Manticores, and Harley and Hermione struggled through the lesson alongside the disgusted Gryffindors and Slytherins.
• The students found seafood on the lunch menu after their Skrewt lesson and lost their appetites.
• Professor Babbling asked Harley to stay after Ancient Runes, recognized the scent of Lupin on her, and offered to tutor her in Alchemy on Nicolas's behalf.
• Neville and Seamus melted three cauldrons and blew up two in one lesson, prompting Snape to punish them by making them gut horned toads bare-handed.
• The Gryffindors gathered outside the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, eager to attend Professor Moody's first lesson of the term.

Professor Moody began teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts by arguing that Dark wizards posed a greater danger than magical creatures and demonstrating the Unforgivable Curses. The lesson ended with Neville shaken by the Cruciatus Curse, and Moody asked him to stay after class to talk.

• Moody dismissed the class’s previous studies of Dark creatures as insufficient preparation for the dangers posed by Dark wizards.
• Moody showed the Dark Mark and reminded the students that it had appeared during the Quidditch World Cup riot, praising Harley for helping prevent casualties.
• Moody demonstrated the Imperius Curse on a spider and warned the class about how Dark wizards could use it to control people.
• Moody demonstrated the Cruciatus Curse and the Killing Curse on two more spiders, frightening many students and upsetting Neville in particular.
• Moody lifted the curse from Neville, apologized, and asked him to stay after class to talk.

Professor Moody taught the fourth-years about the Unforgivable Curses and tested their resistance to the Imperius Curse, which Harley resisted with ease. As the students entered October, Harley continued balancing her classes, extra training, and detentions.

• Professor Moody showed the class examples of Voldemort using the Unforgivable Curses in powerful ways and warned the students to stay alert.
• Hermione objected to Moody using the curses in class, but Harley said Professor Dumbledore already knew; Neville later appeared more confident after speaking with Moody.
• Professor Moody asked the students to vote on being tested with the Imperius Curse, and most agreed; Dean, Susan, and Neville were controlled into performing embarrassing actions.
• Harley resisted Moody's Imperius Curse without moving, and she told the other students that strong willpower was the key.
• When a student asked how to strengthen their will, Harley joked that they should ignore homework and sleep through Professor McGonagall's and Professor Snape's classes without flinching.
• Harley continued McGonagall's club, Snape's detention, Flitwick's duelling lessons, and Babbling's Alchemy instruction as October arrived.

As Hogwarts prepared to welcome the five visiting schools for the Six-Wizard Tournament, Harley learned that Sirius had sent her clothes and jewelry, and Professor McGonagall helped her choose an outfit. The students gathered outside in the cold, and the chapter ended as Beauxbatons’ refurbished flying carriage arrived.

• A school notice announced the visiting schools’ arrival on October 30, and Hogwarts began repairing and cleaning the castle for the tournament.
• Filch pushed for strict rules about students’ belongings, but Professor McGonagall rejected his proposal, while Bloody Baron persuaded Peeves not to cause trouble.
• The Weasley Twins discussed entering the tournament with Harley, until Professor McGonagall caught them and summoned Harley and Hermione to her office.
• Professor McGonagall gave Harley and Hermione clothes and jewelry from Sirius, then helped Harley choose black dress robes to represent Gryffindor.
• The students assembled outside the castle in the cold, with Cedric Diggory, Roger Davies, and Malfoy leading their House lines.
• Professor Dumbledore announced Beauxbatons’ arrival as its gleaming carriage, drawn by twelve Abraxans, appeared on the horizon.

Harley welcomed Madame Maxime and the visiting schools as they arrived at Hogwarts for the Triwizard Tournament. A collision between Durmstrang’s ship and Mahoutokoro’s gourd sparked accusations, and Ilvermorny’s Headmaster Fontaine realized his Thunderbirds might have caused the trouble; after he paid for repairs, the students finally headed to dinner.

• Madame Maxime thanked Harley for protecting Beauxbatons students during the Quidditch World Cup riot and tried to recruit her to Beauxbatons.
• Ilvermorny arrived with Thunderbirds, and Castelobruxo arrived inside a magical flower grown from a seed.
• Durmstrang’s ship rose from the Black Lake and was struck by Mahoutokoro’s gourd, prompting Dumbledore and the other headmasters to steady both arrivals.
• Karkaroff accused someone of attacking Durmstrang, while Kamo no Yasunori blamed lightning for disrupting Mahoutokoro’s gourd.
• Fontaine suspected the Thunderbirds had struck the gourd with lightning, then apologized to Karkaroff and Kamo no Yasunori and agreed to pay for repairs.
• The students returned to Hogwarts after dinner had been delayed by an hour.

Students from the visiting schools gathered at Hogwarts for the Six-Wizard Tournament’s opening feast, where Dumbledore introduced the judges and explained the competition. He presented the Goblet of Fire and opened the twenty-four-hour period for students to enter.

• The visiting students took seats at the Hogwarts house tables, and Pheobe reunited with Harley and Gabrielle at Gryffindor’s table.
• Dumbledore welcomed the guests and began the feast, while Madame Maxime praised Harley’s control of Weather Charms and Karkaroff endured being seated between Moody and Crouch.
• Bagman told Dumbledore that Umbridge had ordered seven items for the first task instead of one per Champion, indirectly criticizing her mistake.
• After dessert, Dumbledore introduced the school headmasters and Ministry officials who would judge the tournament, then outlined its three tasks and scoring.
• Dumbledore revealed the Goblet of Fire and announced that students had twenty-four hours to submit their names and schools before it selected six Champions on Halloween.

Professor Dumbledore established a magical age barrier around the Goblet of Fire, and several students were thrown back with white beards when they tried to bypass it. Harley and Hermione then visited Hagrid, where they discovered he had dressed up because he had fallen in love.

• Professor Dumbledore explained the Goblet of Fire’s age restrictions and warned that Champions would be bound to compete.
• Summers and then Fred, George, and Lee tried to cross the golden circle and were flung back with long white beards.
• Harley recognized that the age barrier could be broken with force but decided not to use the inelegant method.
• Harley and Hermione went to Hagrid’s Hut after he repeatedly asked them to visit.
• Hagrid showed off his eccentric outfit, and Harley and Hermione realized he had fallen in love.

Harley broke through Professor Dumbledore’s Age Line and entered her name into the Goblet of Fire, revealing that she could match his magic in a contest of power. Afterward, she overwhelmed curious students with a technical explanation of the spell while Professor Flitwick joined in.

• Hagrid hurried to greet Madame Maxime, but his unusual outfit, smell, and compliments kept her at a distance.
• At noon, Harley approached the Goblet of Fire and used emerald-green and silver-white magic to break through the Age Line’s outer defenses.
• Dumbledore’s hidden second layer trapped Harley inside the circle, but she resisted its magic and overpowered him in a contest that shattered the spell.
• Harley placed her name in the Goblet of Fire and returned to the Gryffindor table as students and Headmaster Oliveira praised her.
• When students asked how she broke Dumbledore’s spell, Harley gave them a dense technical explanation, and Professor Flitwick joined the discussion until the students scattered.

Harley discussed advanced spell models with Professor Flitwick, then showed Fleur and Gabrielle around Hogwarts before the Goblet of Fire chose the Triwizard Champions. It named Harley three times—first as representing Azkaban, then Hogwarts, and finally by itself—leaving the tournament’s selection deeply mysterious.

• Harley invited Fleur to join her and Hermione’s magical studies, and took Fleur and Gabrielle on a tour of Hogwarts.
• The Goblet of Fire selected Viktor Krum, Fleur Delacour, Katherine Johnson, Miguel Santos, and Tsuchimikado Seimei as Champions for their schools.
• The Goblet named Harley as the Champion from Azkaban, and Harley sensed that its contract connected her to Azkaban as well as the tournament.
• A second parchment named Harley as Hogwarts’ Champion, prompting the students to cheer while Dumbledore remained troubled.
• As Harley entered the adjoining room, the Goblet produced a third unburnt parchment bearing her name, and Fleur welcomed her there.

Harley told Pheobe that the Goblet of Fire had selected her three times, prompting the gathered headmasters and Ministry officials to investigate. Moody argued that the slips pointed to a plot against Harley, and the chapter ended with the revelation that the tournament could not be suspended because its magical contract forced the Champions to continue.

• Harley told Pheobe that all three slips from the Goblet of Fire bore her name, with different prefixes and handwriting.
• Dumbledore, the other headmasters, Ministry officials, and Hogwarts professors entered to discuss the strange selection, while Karkaroff accused Hogwarts of cheating.
• Moody argued that the slips marked Harley as a target of a conspiracy, possibly by fugitive Death Eater Peter Pettigrew, and suggested a Death Eater was in the room.
• Karkaroff realized that a plot against Harley could have been ordered by his former master, leaving him afraid after he had antagonized Dumbledore.
• Madame Maxime asked whether the tournament could be suspended, but Ludo explained that the Goblet's contract required it to continue until the end.

After the Goblet of Fire named Harley as a Champion, the tournament organizers continued with the Six-Wizard Tournament and Harley signed a liability contract. Dumbledore examined the mysterious parchment and briefed Harley on the other schools’ strengths, leaving her prepared to face the competition.

• Dumbledore and the other headmasters agreed to continue the Six-Wizard Tournament, and Ludo explained its rules and the date of the First Task.
• Harley signed the contract accepting responsibility for what happened to her during the tournament.
• Pheobe gave Harley reassurance and arranged to visit her, while Snape planned to obtain extra Potions for her.
• Dumbledore showed Harley three pieces of parchment connected to the Goblet of Fire, including one bearing her name in unfamiliar blood-red writing.
• Harley said she was ready to thwart any schemes, and Dumbledore described the specialties and likely abilities of the Champions from the other five schools.

Harley learned why several schools had withdrawn from the Six-Wizard Tournament, then told Dumbledore she had touched the laws of death and the soul. After Gryffindor celebrated her selection as Champion, Hermione worried over the tournament’s dangers, and Harley reassured her before Hermione was left flustered.

• Dumbledore explained that three schools lacked outstanding students, Koldovstoretz was disrupted by political turmoil, and Uagadou had withdrawn after a suspected Black Death case.
• Dumbledore asked Harley which domains she had approached, and Harley admitted to insights into death and soul magic while keeping her other powers secret.
• Dumbledore warned Harley not to use her Mythical Creature Form during the tournament, and Harley agreed; afterward, he pondered whether to tell her about a place as he touched his cracked black ring.
• Fred, George, and the Gryffindors celebrated Harley becoming Hogwarts’s Champion with fireworks, food, and Butterbeer.
• Hermione warned Harley that the tournament tasks could become deadly, but Harley reassured her and playfully teased her until Hermione blushed and hid behind her bed curtains.