Chapter Summaries

After Luna was injured by a malicious letter, Allen used a curse in Infernal Language to punish the sender and promised to lift it if she turned herself in. That night, Allen brought Penelope into the Forbidden Forest to face the Acromantulas as he pursued a way to strengthen his soul.

• Mr. Lovegood wrote to Luna, sent her a photograph, and warned her to keep her relationship with Allen within the bounds of friendship while she was a student.
• Luna received a letter soaked in undiluted Bubotuber pus, which burned her hands, and Allen treated her injuries.
• Allen cursed the letter's sender in Infernal Language, ordering her to turn herself in to the Auror Office and apologize to Luna if she wanted the curse lifted.
• Professor Flitwick warned Allen that Infernal Language curses were difficult to remove, and Allen apologized to the students affected by his spell.
• After taking Luna to the school hospital, Allen decided to strengthen his soul by absorbing Acromantula souls.
• Allen and Penelope entered the Acromantula territory in the Forbidden Forest at night and approached the giant spiders.

Allen and Penelope attacked the Acromantulas to test whether their wands could absorb souls and store soul energy. They left with their wands full and planned to process the souls, while Allen arranged to feed the remaining spiders as a reserve for the Harris Family.

• Allen warned Penelope not to use their names in Acromantula territory, and they put on masks before entering.
• Allen and Penelope used the Killing Curse on swarms of Acromantulas, whose souls were captured by their wands.
• Aragog emerged and ordered the spiders to kill the intruders, but Allen and Penelope ignored him and continued fighting.
• Allen stopped Penelope after both wands had reached their limit of eight Acromantula souls, urging her to leave some spiders alive for future soul energy.
• Allen Apparated away with Penelope, then told Maggie to feed the Acromantulas waste from the family's farms.

Allen made Luna a raven-themed Pet Space waist pouch from Mithril as a gift for her injured hands, then took her to meet the man who had turned himself in to apologize. The chapter ended as the elderly man entered the classroom and Luna smiled at Allen.

• Allen melted Mithril and Aunt Josephine's Pet Space waist pouch together, reshaping it into a raven design with a third eye.
• Allen gave Luna the waist pouch and fastened it around her waist, and she teased him about preferring the number three.
• Allen helped Luna eat breakfast while Malfoy and Pansy mocked them and Hermione watched with jealousy.
• A young Auror asked Allen and Luna to meet the man who had turned himself in to apologize, and they agreed.
• Allen and Luna waited in a classroom, where an old man entered; Luna noticed Allen's concerned look and smiled.

Allen spoke with Bagman about changes to the Triwizard Tournament’s third task, then took Luna and Hermione shopping in Hogsmeade. He led them out of the village toward the Harris Family’s Dragon Farm to bring Drogon back, and they reached a fence near the mountain.

• Allen and Luna joked about the old man who had been caught with a room full of Allen’s photographs.
• Bagman told Allen that protests had changed the third task into an intelligence contest and that he had arranged for a Bartz Devil to guard its final checkpoint.
• Allen thanked Bagman and suggested he discuss the matter with Owen Harris.
• Allen, Luna, and Hermione visited Hogsmeade, where shops were preparing for a grand event, and bought gifts and other goods.
• Allen led Luna and Hermione out of the village toward the dragon farm, and they arrived at a fence at the end of a winding path.

Allen took Luna and Hermione to the Harris Family Dragon Farm, where Drogon reunited affectionately with Luna and accepted Lassie as its little sister. Luna brought Drogon and the Hungarian Horntail away in her Raven Pouch, and the group returned to the castle before curfew.

• Allen and the keepers led Luna and Hermione through the farm to Drogon's swamp habitat.
• Drogon broke free, knocked the Hungarian Horntail aside, and rushed to greet Luna as its mother.
• Luna introduced Lassie to Drogon as its little sister, and Drogon protected Luna from the Hungarian Horntail before sharing a sheep with it.
• Luna used her Raven Pouch to bring Drogon and the Hungarian Horntail inside, while Allen asked Hermione about a pouch for her future Thunderbird.
• Allen, Luna, and Hermione returned to the castle before curfew, where Hermione spotted The Grey Lady and Luna hid Lassie's form.

Allen watched Hogwarts celebrate Valentine's Day with performances and a lake competition, where Cedric rescued Cho and confessed his love. After seeing the couple together and receiving gifts from Hermione, Penelope, and Luna, Allen joined the other students heading to the Quidditch pitch for the Triwizard Tournament's third task.

• Elena and other members of Hermione's Training Class organized a Valentine's Day event by the Black Lake, where students performed for the crowd.
• Lee Jordan entertained the students with stand-up comedy, and Michael sang badly while North struggled to accompany him.
• Cedric rescued Cho from underwater during a staged winter-swimming competition, won first place, and confessed his love for her onstage.
• Allen received a scarf from Hermione, a meeting invitation from Penelope, and a Deathly Hallows necklace from Luna.
• The students gathered at the expanded Quidditch pitch, where magical screens and advertisements were set up for the third task.

The third task began in a hexagram-shaped structure, where Champions had to solve knowledge-based challenges to collect Sorcery Gems and reach a final room. Allen quickly solved a Stone Monster’s riddle, while Harry struggled to brew a potion in a freezing room.

• Bagman explained the third task’s rules, including the six challenges, Sorcery Gems, scoring, and ban on attacks between Champions.
• Fudge declared the match begun, and Allen entered the first trapezoid room.
• Allen answered the Stone Monster’s riddle with “A secret,” earned a Sorcery Gem, and continued onward.
• Harry faced a freezing Potions challenge and began preparing an anti-cold potion to thaw a wooden carving and claim its gem.

Allen brewed a thawing Potion for Harry in the Frost Challenge, then entered Fleur's Math Challenge room and offered her some potion after she finished the cake. Fleur worried that Mrs. Harris had watched her eat so much, while the other Champions continued facing their challenges.

• Allen entered Harry's Frost Challenge room and brewed a thawing Potion using techniques Karkaroff recognized as his own.
• Harry drank some of the Potion, thawed out, and used the rest to claim the gem from the wooden carving.
• Brook struggled with the Astronomy Challenge, while Fleur repeatedly cut and ate cakes as she tried to divide them among the dolls.
• Hermione worked out a way to divide the cake and strawberries, while Luna suggested turning the cake into juice and Penelope proposed attacking the dolls.
• Madame Maxime objected when Allen helped Harry, but Karkaroff argued that the rules allowed Champions to help each other.
• Allen entered Fleur's room and offered her the Potion; Fleur accepted it and worried that Mrs. Harris would see her eating after she had claimed to eat very little.

Allen solved the cake challenge and entered the next room, where he met Cara Rogers struggling with a divination challenge. Harry independently passed the Stone Monster’s riddle and continued onward, while Allen learned that Krum had failed Cara’s challenge and carried its punishment with him.

• Allen divided the cake into eight equal portions, gave seven to the little figures, and placed the final piece with its box in the eighth figure’s hands, earning a Wizard Gem.
• Harry fought the Stone Monster with Diffindo, then answered its riddle with “memory” and claimed the red gem it revealed.
• Allen chose the door marked with a Griffin, found the creature was only a specimen, and entered a storeroom where he met Cara Rogers.
• Cara explained that she and the challenger had to divine which object fit a groove in a box, and warned Allen that Krum had failed three times and left wrapped in three iron chains.

Allen completed the starry-sky challenge and entered the Stone Monster stage, where Krum and Brook were already fighting the monster together. As Allen stood in the lit Hexagram, it began spinning rapidly.

• Harry accidentally placed a star incorrectly, sending an electric shock through Krum via the iron chains and prompting Karkaroff to confront Professor Nick Young.
• Allen entered the starry-sky room and completed its puzzle with practiced ease, while Krum also finished and claimed a blue Wizard Gem.
• Allen offered to help Harry, but Harry chose to continue the challenge by himself.
• Fleur left the Stone Monster room and complained that the Durmstrang Champions were working together to defeat the monster.
• Allen entered the Stone Monster stage, saw Krum and Brook fighting it, then returned to the waiting room and stood inside the spinning Hexagram.

Allen reached the final Triwizard Tournament stage and met Baal, a devil who guarded the checkpoint with a wish-based challenge. Baal offered Allen special privileges, then prepared to test the next Champion with a fearsome Arachne.

• Allen crossed the illusionary lava room’s trembling bridge as a Pit Fiend rose from the abyss and challenged him.
• The Pit Fiend transformed into a nobleman, introduced himself as Baal, and learned that Allen understood Infernal Language.
• Baal explained that Champions could pass by making a wish, warned that he could twist wishes, and revealed the rules for using Wizard Gems.
• Baal granted Allen the chance to hear other Champions’ wishes and challenge him last, then another Champion arrived.
• Baal summoned a giant blue Arachne to confront the arriving Champion.

Allen watched as Baal welcomed Krum and offered him a choice between waiting for the tournament to end or making a wish for a gemstone worth forty points. Krum chose to wish for a way out, but Baal's contract forced him through a cage, leaving him alive but horribly mutilated as Brook and the spectators looked on in terror.

• Baal greeted Krum and offered him the choice to wait without points or take part in the final game for a gemstone worth forty points.
• Krum chose to make a wish to leave the place, believing he could still earn points and fulfill his goal.
• Baal severed Krum's chains, then used the contract to force him against the cage despite his struggle.
• Dumbledore told Karkaroff that interrupting the contract could cause worse consequences and insisted Baal would keep Krum alive.
• Baal forced Krum through the cage bars until he hung mangled from the door, then remarked to Allen that Krum's body was not as sturdy as he had thought.

Baal finished Krum’s challenge by sending him out badly injured, then offered Brook and Cara choices about the final challenge. Brook escaped without scoring, while Cara wished to stay young forever and was petrified by Baal’s spell.

• Baal played music with three Incubi while Madam Pomfrey and the healers rescued the injured Krum, and Baal awarded Krum eighty points for his wish to leave.
• Baal offered Brook Hernandez the choice to continue, stop, or spend four gems to leave; Brook chose to leave and was teleported out without points.
• Cara Rogers arrived and thanked Allen for helping her skip rooms, then told him Harry and Fleur were still stuck in the divination room.
• Cara wished to stay young forever, accepted Baal’s condition that the spell could be removed, and Baal petrified her.
• Baal told Allen he could have killed Cara if he had not promised to spare the Champions.

Allen exposed Baal’s hidden option to leave the final challenge without losing points, allowing Fleur and Harry to withdraw safely. After they returned to the stands, Baal asked Allen why he had not left as well.

• Baal summoned Fleur and Harry and presented them with the choices for his final challenge.
• Allen interrupted Baal and explained that he had been trying to unsettle the Champions and conceal that they could leave without taking the challenge.
• Baal confirmed Allen’s deduction and told Fleur and Harry they could leave with their scores based on their gems.
• Fleur chose to withdraw, and Allen warned Harry about what had happened to Krum and Kara; Harry also withdrew.
• Baal sent Fleur and Harry back to the stands, then asked Allen why he had stayed.

Allen defeated Baal in the final challenge by wishing that Baal could not grant his wish, then earned a perfect score. Baal returned from hell and secretly offered Allen knowledge of devil magic in exchange for keeping the wish quiet, leaving Allen to weigh the deal and its risks.

• Allen told Baal that his wish was for Baal to be unable to grant it, causing Baal to vanish in black smoke and the spectators to praise Allen’s cunning.
• A burning skull archway opened, revealing Baator, and Baal emerged from it looking disheveled.
• Baal awarded Allen one hundred points for the six Wizard Gems and his performance, while privately communicating with him through their minds.
• Baal offered Allen high-ranking devil magic in exchange for keeping his wish secret, allowing him to share it with his family and thirteen others under binding agreements.
• Baal described magic that could add soul damage, harm Dementors, and create powerful contracts, while warning that mortal summoners would have to overpower summoned devils.

Allen negotiated with Baal, obtained a book and treasure, and escaped the devil’s destruction of the arena with Cara Rogers. He won the second task with full marks, while Dumbledore took Snape to speak privately and Hermione resolved not to ask Allen about his wish.

• Karkaroff questioned Bagman about the wizards who summoned Baal, but Bagman claimed he could not remember them.
• Allen renegotiated his deal with Baal, securing the Arachne as well as a mysterious book, and Baal gave him a chest of treasure for keeping the wish secret.
• Baal threatened the audience before causing the arena to erupt in magma, but Allen emerged unharmed with the petrified Cara Rogers as Baal vanished.
• Bagman announced that Fleur Delacour and Harry Potter scored sixty points, Viktor Krum scored eighty, and Allen won with one hundred points; he also announced the final task would take place on June twenty-fourth.
• Dumbledore asked Snape to meet him in the Headmaster’s Office, while Hermione decided she would not ask Allen what wish he had made.

Dumbledore warned Snape that Allen Harris’s growing influence and possible ties to dark forces resembled the rise of Grindelwald, and asked him to watch Allen and those close to him. Allen returned to the Harris family with devilish artifacts, celebrated with a roasted Graphorn, and became the subject of public alarm after the Triwizard match.

• Dumbledore told Snape he sensed Hell in Allen during the match and feared Allen might follow a path like Voldemort or Grindelwald.
• Dumbledore revealed that marks resembling Death Eater signs had appeared on outstanding students and asked Snape to monitor Allen, while Snape challenged Dumbledore over his past failures to protect others.
• Allen showed his family an Arachne model and a dark ancient book, while the jewels Bael had given him turned into sulfur.
• Lenn brought home a wounded Graphorn, and Mrs. Harris cooked it as a celebratory roast while Lenn reminded her to preserve its valuable horns.
• The magical press reported on Allen’s victory over Bael and urged Dumbledore to watch him, and Mr. Harris dismissed Witch Weekly before reading Outsmarting Dark Magic.

Allen studied Baal’s book and prepared to control a dangerous Arachne, while Penelope insisted on fighting it herself. After the demon nearly overwhelmed her, Allen subdued it and gave Penelope control, leaving her determined to become stronger.

• Allen explained that the Arachne was a chaotic demon and planned to force it to reveal its true name before binding it with an Enslavement Gem.
• Penelope insisted on subduing the Arachne herself, but it attacked her with poisonous fangs, magic-breaking claws, and sticky webs.
• Penelope burned away the webs, but the Arachne teleported toward her, and Allen intervened to knock it aside.
• Allen used Spell Penetration and Spell Maximization to make his Cruciatus Curse affect the Arachne, then forced it to reveal its true name.
• Allen embedded the Enslavement Gem in the Arachne’s forehead and taught Penelope how to control it, while Penelope resolved to train harder.

Allen celebrated Easter at Hogwarts, where the students played egg-rolling games and enjoyed the spring weather. After noticing Hermione’s disappointment about her unhatched Thunderbird egg, Allen cheered her up with cursed objects and a frightening prank, leaving them laughing together.

• Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Weasley sent Allen Easter eggs, while Mrs. Weasley also mailed Krum small eggs filled with homemade sweets.
• The Hogwarts House-elves prepared Easter food, and the Weasley twins organized egg-rolling games by the Black Lake, which Ginny won.
• Luna, Cho Chang, and other Ravenclaws scratched the recovering giant squid as a new tentacle began to grow.
• Hermione gloomily checked her unhatched Thunderbird egg, so Allen invited her to examine cursed objects he had collected and already disenchanted.
• Allen pretended the Fake Sphinx statue had bitten off his hand, frightening Hermione until he revealed the injury was an illusion.
• Allen apologized and embraced Hermione, then startled her by shouting near her ear as she ran away laughing.

After Penelope reported that Snape had ordered Hagrid to investigate strange activity near the Acromantulas, Allen took her to the Forbidden Forest and used summoned Hell Hounds to capture the spiders. They cleared out the Acromantulas, including Aragog, and left the Hell Hounds to search for stragglers until dawn.

• Penelope told Allen that she had overheard Snape instruct Hagrid to investigate abnormal activity near the Acromantulas and report anyone in the Forbidden Forest.
• Allen brought Penelope to the Acromantulas' territory and summoned six Hell Hounds to hunt the spiders.
• Allen explained how Planar Covenant and Gate summoning worked, including the risks of summoning devils and the need for contracts.
• Allen and Penelope captured the Acromantulas while the Hell Hounds drove them from their territory, and Penelope stored them in her pouch.
• Allen arranged for the Hell Hounds to search for stragglers until dawn, then Disapparated with Penelope.