Chapter Summaries

Allen reassured Penelope that the family would fund her Acromantula breeding and outlined plans for her to learn devil-summoning magic and teach Aurors. The next morning, he began distributing Galleons to Luna and Hermione, though Hermione initially refused the money.

• Penelope admitted she could not afford the gemstones needed to make enough Enslavement Gems for the Acromantulas, and Allen promised to provide funding.
• Allen told Penelope to study Planar Binding, Gate, and devil lore so she could teach Aurors to summon Hell Hounds.
• Allen explained his plans for making devil-summoning acceptable to the public and predicted that Crouch would soon lose the protection of his faction.
• Allen gave Luna a large bag of Galleons, which she accepted without hesitation.
• Allen handed Hermione a bulging bag of Galleons in the library, and she initially refused it.

Allen arranged pay and scholarships for Hermione’s work before being summoned to the Tower, where he and the others examined a dead Manticore that had killed seven people. The compatibility test showed Hermione was the only one with a strong match, leaving her to consider an Animagus transformation despite her fear of the creature.

• Allen persuaded Hermione to accept payment for her work and asked her to organize weekly stipends, assessments, and scholarships for the Training Class.
• Mr. Harris summoned Allen to the Tower after Albert and Penelope helped subdue a Manticore that had escaped during the Triwizard Tournament preparations, leaving Penelope injured and seven people dead.
• Allen tested the Manticore’s blood and confirmed it had enough magical strength to support an Animagus transformation.
• Penelope showed enthusiasm for becoming a Manticore Animagus, while Lenn described the work and press duties waiting for him.
• Allen’s compatibility test produced a starry pattern only in Hermione’s vessel, and Penelope asked whether a demon such as her Arachne could be used as an Animagus.

Allen prepared an Animagus potion from Rose’s blood so Penelope could attempt a demon transformation. Penelope transformed into a giant spider-like creature and struggled against the demon’s influence, leaving her crawling across the ceiling after claiming she had only meant to scare Hermione.

• Allen decided to help Penelope attempt the transformation and sent Mr. Harris and most of the others away to give her and Hermione privacy.
• Penelope volunteered to go first, and Allen drew fluid from her Arachne Rose to brew the potion.
• Allen gave Penelope the potion and explained how to manage the transformation as she drank it.
• Penelope endured intense pain and transformed into a giant, armored spider-like Animagus with eight legs and multiple fangs.
• Penelope’s violent instincts drove her toward Hermione, but she instead leaped onto the ceiling and said she had only wanted to scare her.

Penelope tested her half-spider Animagus form while Hermione drank the potion and transformed into a Manticore. After Daisy and Penelope teased Hermione, Luna fed her catnip, leaving her dazed as Allen approached.

• Penelope discovered she could still cast spells in her half-Arachne form, and Allen offered to make her a larger wand for training.
• Hermione drank the Animagus potion and transformed into a winged Manticore with soft short fur.
• Daisy lured Hermione into a cardboard box and played with her using a wand light, while Penelope wrapped her in spider legs and stroked her fur.
• Hermione tried to hypnotize the others with her Manticore song, but Allen and Penelope quickly resisted and Daisy soon recovered.
• Luna fed Hermione catnip, which left her weak and dazed, and Allen approached as Hermione hoped he would help her.

Allen warned Hermione and Penelope to delay registering their new Animagus forms so they would not attract attention. In Moody’s Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Hermione resisted the Imperius Curse almost immediately, surprising the impostor and making him reconsider who posed the greatest threat to his plans.

• Allen told Hermione and Penelope not to register as Animagi yet because their Arachne and Manticore forms could draw unwanted attention.
• Hermione went to Defense Against the Dark Arts with Harry, wary of Moody and continuing to use Occlumency around him.
• Moody cleared space in the classroom and began demonstrating the Imperius Curse on students, who obeyed his commands until he lifted the spell.
• Harry partially resisted Moody’s curse, prompting Moody to cast it on him again, but Hermione interrupted and volunteered instead.
• Hermione quickly broke free of the Imperius Curse and refused Moody’s command, leaving him surprised by her resistance.

Hermione comforted Hagrid after he learned Aragog and the Acromantulas were gone, then discovered that her Manticore Animagus could command the Blast-Ended Skrewts. After two Skrewts died and their souls were absorbed by her wand, Hagrid mistook her for a Manticore visiting its offspring.

• Hermione found Hagrid grieving over Aragog and the missing Acromantulas, then persuaded him to return to teaching.
• Hagrid assigned the students to observe the Blast-Ended Skrewts, and Hermione helped feed them.
• Hermione secretly transformed into a Manticore and discovered she could control the Blast-Ended Skrewts.
• Hermione fled after her roar alerted Hagrid, then saw the two largest Skrewts fight to the death and their souls enter her wand.
• Hagrid found Manticore footprints and believed the creature had returned to visit its offspring.

Allen learned that the Triwizard Tournament’s final task would be a monster-filled maze, while worrying that changes to the task had disrupted his foreknowledge. The next day, Hagrid showed students an unfamiliar furry creature, leaving Hermione uneasy about what he had brought.

• Allen and Fleur went to the Quidditch pitch, where Bagman announced that the final task would be a maze with the Triwizard Cup at its center.
• Bagman said Champions would enter according to their points, with Krum first and Brook Hernandez last, and warned that the maze might contain dangerous monsters and spells.
• Allen concealed his worry about changes to the tournament plan by telling Fleur he was concerned about his aunt.
• Harry felt calmer after learning the task, and Hagrid later greeted students outside his hut with boxes of unfamiliar animals.
• Hermione feared Hagrid had brought more Blast-Ended Skrewts before seeing a furry black creature with a long nose and shovel-like forepaws.

Hagrid’s Niffler lesson descended into chaos as the creatures searched students for valuables, then became a coin-digging contest. Harry discreetly helped Ron avoid embarrassment over his lack of money, while Hermione’s role managing the Training Class’s funds was exposed when she had to empty an enormous wallet.

• A Niffler leapt at Malfoy, and the other Nifflers swarmed students to steal their valuables until Hermione and the others helped capture them.
• Hagrid told the students to place their valuables in Niffler-proof bags, then announced a contest to find buried gold coins.
• Harry quietly gave Ron Galleons and Sickles to put in his bag, and Ron admitted he regretted not joining Fred and George’s money-making efforts.
• Hermione poured the Training Class’s funds into the bags, revealing that she managed its finances and scholarships.
• Pansy sarcastically suggested Hermione was Harris’s mistress, but Malfoy rebuked her and explained Hermione’s financial role.

Harry fell asleep in Divination and saw Voldemort’s followers prepare to feed a captive wizard to Nagini, then woke with his scar burning and asked to go to the hospital wing. Hermione accompanied him to find Allen, who was at the Black Lake with Luna and worried about her reluctance to choose an Animagus form and her search for Nargles.

• Harry grew drowsy in Professor Trelawney’s overheated Divination classroom and dreamed of a woman whipping a captive man beside Nagini.
• A cold voice ordered the woman to use the Imperius Curse on the man, who then walked toward Nagini as it coiled around him.
• Harry’s scar burned, and he cried out before waking on the classroom floor; he denied seeing anything and said he needed painkillers.
• Hermione picked up Harry’s schoolbag and went with him to find Allen, while Professor Trelawney protested that he would miss a rare experience.
• Allen and Luna fed seafood to the Giant Squid, and Allen urged Luna to choose an Animagus form and practise her Charms.
• Allen reflected that Hermione had begun absorbing Acromantula souls after much persuasion, while Luna had been searching the Forbidden Forest for Nargles.

After Harry woke from a dream of Voldemort with his scar hurting, Allen sent him to tell Dumbledore. Dumbledore showed Harry memories revealing the identities and histories of several suspected Death Eaters, and Allen met with Dumbledore after Harry left.

• Hermione told Allen that Harry had fallen asleep in Divination and awakened screaming with his hand over his scar, while Luna distracted her and recognized Hermione's secret control of Blast-Ended Skrewts.
• Harry described his dream of Voldemort, a woman with rotten teeth, and a huge snake to Allen, who advised him to report it to Dumbledore.
• Harry reached Dumbledore's office and told him about the dream, and Dumbledore showed him memories of Karkaroff, Snape, Ludo Bagman, and Barty Crouch Jr.
• Harry learned that the woman in his dream was Bellatrix Lestrange and that she had tortured Neville's Auror parents into madness; Dumbledore asked him to keep this private until Neville chose to speak about it.
• Dumbledore wished Harry luck in the final task, and after Harry left, Allen dispelled his invisibility and sat in the office.

Allen and Dumbledore discussed Harry’s connection to Voldemort and suspected that Voldemort had made Harry a Horcrux, then planned to prepare for the final task. As the task day arrived, Harry faced a damaging newspaper story and learned that his relatives had been invited to watch.

• Allen told Dumbledore that Harry might be one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes, and they suspected a medal in the Maze could be turned into a Portkey.
• Allen proposed pretending they did not know Voldemort’s plan and said he would give Harry a Communication Badge before the task.
• Harry practiced defensive and navigation spells while the other Champions and Hogwarts students prepared for the final task.
• Hermione reacted to Rita Skeeter’s Daily Prophet article calling Harry emotionally unstable, and Harry read it after Seamus passed him the paper.
• Professor McGonagall told Harry that the Champions would meet after breakfast and that their relatives had been invited to watch the final task.

Allen spent the day with the Champions' families before the Organizing Committee explained the final task's rules and checked the Champions' wands. At night, the Triwizard Tournament's final task began, and Allen entered the Maze first.

• Allen showed his family and the Delacour family around Hogwarts, while Krum and Harry took their families for walks around the grounds.
• The Organizing Committee summoned the six Champions to explain the final task and inspect their wands.
• Sirius declined Arthur Weasley's invitation for a drink, while Mr. Krum agreed to visit Hogsmeade if it served fruit brandy.
• Dumbledore sent the Champions to the Quidditch Pitch, where Professor McGonagall explained that they could signal for rescue with red sparks.
• Bagman announced the Champions' entry order, and Allen hurried into the Maze when the whistle blew.

Allen summoned a Minotaur projection to guide him through the Triwizard maze, while Harry learned through his Auror badge that he was meant to act as bait for Voldemort. The Minotaur cleared a path for both Champions, as the Aurors waited outside for the Portkey trap to reveal Voldemort’s location.

• Allen summoned a Minotaur projection, which quickly found the shortest route through the maze and charged ahead, crushing obstacles in its way.
• Albert and his Aurors waited in the Forbidden Forest, ready to pursue Voldemort if Harry touched the Portkey and to seize Moody and old Crouch.
• After entering the maze, Harry heard Allen explain through his badge that he was to serve as bait in a plan devised with Dumbledore to draw out Voldemort.
• Harry followed the route Allen had taken and found the Minotaur had trampled smaller creatures and hurled a petrified Sphinx aside.
• Ron watched Harry follow Allen’s path and wished he could become a Minotaur to help his friend.

Allen won the Triwizard Tournament by reaching the trophy and taking the Champion’s medal, then waited in the Maze for Harry. After learning the medal Harry was about to touch was a Death Eater Portkey, Allen healed Harry’s wounded hand and prepared to go with him to confront Voldemort.

• Fleur defended herself when Krum attacked her, while Cara Rogers also attacked Brook Hernandez in the Maze.
• Mr. Harris excused himself from Fudge and left the stands as Allen led the Minotaur through an illusion and toward the trophy.
• Allen checked that the trophy and Champion’s medal were not Portkeys, took the medal, and waited in the Maze as the crowd celebrated his victory.
• Harry reached Allen, and Allen healed the wounds on Harry’s hand without using his wand.
• Allen warned Harry that the second-place medal was a Death Eater Portkey and explained that he would hide nearby while Harry used the marker to summon him and Dumbledore.
• Allen and Harry reached for the second-place medal together.

Death Eaters attacked the Quidditch World Cup stands while Allen faced attackers sabotaging Hungerford Bridge, and Voldemort was resurrected using Harry’s blood. Voldemort confronted Dumbledore and challenged him to a duel, believing his plan had kept Allen and the Aurors away.

• Death Eaters and other attackers unleashed spells in the stands, and Dumbledore and Hermione organized the defense as Aurors arrived.
• Hermione used the Perception Marks to gather Training Class wizards, who formed protective groups around the Hogwarts students.
• Allen told Albert that Death Eaters had blocked Apparition around Hungerford Bridge and ordered him to send teams to capture them while pursuing Barty Crouch Jr.
• Allen discovered that Death Eaters were weakening the bridge foundations and threatening a train carrying Muggles.
• Dumbledore arrived as Voldemort rose from the Cauldron after Harry’s blood was used in the resurrection ritual.
• Voldemort explained how he had diverted Allen and delayed help, then challenged Dumbledore to a duel.

Moody fled the Quidditch attack but Albert and the Aurors captured him, while Owen Harris used the crisis to purge Death Eater allies from the Ministry. After learning Voldemort had been resurrected, Allen prepared to secretly observe the confrontation between Voldemort and Dumbledore.

• Moody ran toward the Black Lake, but Maggie revealed the Aurors’ ambush, and Albert’s team arrested him and destroyed his wand.
• Albert’s Aurors sealed the Ministry while Owen Harris used evidence and Barty Crouch Jr.’s capture to arrest and rapidly try suspected Death Eater collaborators.
• Owen filled vacated Ministry posts with his own recruits, while Penelope locked Rufus Scrimgeour and the Auror clerks inside their meeting room.
• Allen repaired Hungerford Bridge to save Muggles, then learned from captured dark wizards that Voldemort had been resurrected.
• Allen returned to his Tower, took the modified Foe-Glass, and prepared to secretly record Voldemort and Dumbledore’s confrontation.

Dumbledore and Voldemort fought a fierce duel in the Little Hangleton graveyard while Harry watched from behind Dumbledore’s magical defenses. Voldemort withdrew with his followers after failing to defeat Dumbledore, threatening that Harry would not be safe next time.

• Dumbledore shielded Harry and exchanged powerful spells with Voldemort, while two Death Eaters fired Killing Curses at him.
• Dumbledore turned his Fiendfyre whip into a serpent, but Voldemort transformed it and sent it attacking him as he rose into the air.
• Dumbledore dispelled the Fiendfyre serpent and trapped Voldemort in a cocoon of mud, but Voldemort broke free and resumed the duel.
• Dumbledore and Voldemort’s spells clashed, and Voldemort’s black vapor broke through Dumbledore’s defenses before Dumbledore protected Harry from a storm of flying stones.
• Voldemort ordered the Death Eaters to retreat, threatened Dumbledore and Harry, and flew away with a woman who had a metal prosthetic hand.

Cornelius Fudge visited the injured after the attack while Owen Harris used the crisis to consolidate his power in the Ministry of Magic. Owen warned Fudge that Voldemort might have returned and urged him to cooperate, leaving Fudge to weigh his position against Dumbledore and Owen.

• Cornelius Fudge and Lenn Harris visited the injured, where Fudge promised punishment for the attackers and praised Hermione Granger and the Training Class.
• Albert and his Aurors confronted Barty Crouch, accused him of helping Barty Crouch Jr. escape and concealing his crimes, and escorted him to the Ministry of Magic for questioning.
• Fudge saw Crouch being taken away and suspected Owen Harris had planned the move, then returned to the Ministry in anger.
• Owen told Fudge that Dumbledore believed Voldemort had returned and warned that the public might rally behind Dumbledore as their leader.
• Owen explained that he wanted to become Minister of Magic eventually but offered Fudge cooperation, arguing that their interests aligned against Dumbledore.

After the Death Eaters’ attack and Voldemort’s return, Allen reunited with Dumbledore and Harry, then accepted the Triwizard Tournament trophy while refusing to confirm Voldemort’s resurrection to reporters. Harry later described Voldemort’s rebirth and the life-draining hand he gave Bellatrix, leaving his friends to question what they had witnessed.

• Allen returned to the pitch and explained to Dumbledore that Death Eaters had delayed him while he fought to save Muggles at Hungerford Bridge.
• Dumbledore asked Allen whether he would confirm Voldemort’s return, but Allen said he had not personally witnessed the resurrection and admitted that power mattered to the Harrises.
• Bagman resumed the awards ceremony, and Allen transformed into a Phoenix before receiving the tournament trophy and prize money as champion.
• Reporters questioned Allen about Voldemort, and he declined to confirm the Dark Lord’s return despite Harry and Dumbledore’s claims.
• Harry told Hermione, Ron, and Neville that Voldemort had resurrected with Bellatrix’s help and given her a replica Hand of Vecna that could drain life.

Barty Crouch Jr. was tried for his crimes and given the Dementor’s Kiss after declaring that Voldemort had returned. Barty Crouch was then convicted, while Albert arranged for him to receive care at St. Mungo’s until his release from prison.

• Barty Crouch Jr. was brought into the Ministry courtroom and accepted the charges without giving details about the planned activities.
• Dumbledore urged the court to use Legilimency or Veritaserum to learn whether Voldemort had returned, but Fudge refused and the jury voted for the Dementor’s Kiss.
• Barty Crouch Jr. argued with his father, called him disappointing, and declared that Voldemort had returned before a Dementor consumed his soul.
• Albert asked Barty Crouch whether he had agreed to the escape plan because he cared about his son, and Crouch told him to be quiet.
• Owen Harris and his faction opposed the charge that Barty Crouch had colluded with Dark Wizards, and Albert promised to pay for Crouch’s care at St. Mungo’s until he left prison.