Chapter Summaries

The Uagadou champions used their Animagus forms and coordinated magic to restrain the Norwegian Ridgeback while distracting the Hebridean Black. With both dragons occupied, Ayo Oduwale raced toward the golden egg, though the sea eagle was struggling to keep the remaining dragon distracted.

• Wizet recognized Zuri Nkrumah, the gray parrot, as the center of the Uagadou champions’ strategy.
• As the Norwegian Ridgeback took flight, Zuri Nkrumah transformed into an elephant and landed on its back.
• Ayo Oduwale returned to human form and used vines to bind the Norwegian Ridgeback and elephant together, helping Zuri restrain the dragon with its trunk.
• The sea eagle continued drawing the Hebridean Black’s attention despite being scorched and losing speed and agility.
• After helping restrain the Norwegian Ridgeback, Ayo Oduwale transformed into a peregrine falcon and sped toward the golden egg.

The Uagadou Champions completed the first task after Ayo Oduwale survived a Wampus Cat attack and seized the Golden Egg, though all three were badly injured. The Beauxbatons Champions began their attempt, using a broomstick, summoned ritual materials, and Fleur Delacour’s magic to handle two dragons.

• Ayo Oduwale was struck by a Wampus Cat but used Gesture Casting and the force of its blow to reach the Golden Egg.
• Wizards restrained the Wampus Cat, and handlers rescued Kwame Mensah and Zuri Nkrumah; all three Uagadou Champions were taken away injured.
• The judges awarded the Uagadou Champions their scores, and the Ministry employee called Fleur Delacour, Claudia Laroche, and Adele Lefevre into the arena.
• Claudia Laroche used a Flying Broomstick to draw the Common Welsh Green’s attention while Adele Lefevre summoned materials for a ritual array.
• Fleur Delacour lured the Swedish Short-Snout away and used magic that slowed it, though its fiery breath burned much of her robes.
• Fitzgerald Smith, Maria Wilman, and Franz Schmidt remarked that Beauxbatons had drawn relatively mild-tempered dragons, and Viktor Krum replied that luck mattered in a competition.

Beauxbatons completed the First Task with a cautious plan that put the Swedish Short-Snout to sleep, while the Ilvermorny Champions failed to reach the golden eggs after their weather-changing spell was disrupted and their brooms were destroyed. The chapter leaves the arena ready for the judges to score Ilvermorny’s attempt.

• Adele Lefevre, Claudia Laroche, and Fleur Delacour worked together to distract the dragons and secure Beauxbatons’ golden egg, though Adele and Fleur were injured.
• Ludo Bagman announced Beauxbatons’ completion of the First Task, and Charles Graves prepared the Ilvermorny Champions to compete.
• The Ilvermorny Champions cast a Weather-Changing Charm, but the Hungarian Horntail and Swedish Short-Snout dispelled the dark clouds with dragon fire.
• The Ilvermorny Champions summoned Flying Broomsticks and tried to approach the golden eggs, but the dragons destroyed all three brooms and forced them to concede.

Harry, Cedric, Draco, and Wizet watched the Durmstrang Champions use the Conjunctivitis Curse against two dragons, while considering whether to use their own plans. The curse blinded both dragons, leaving the Durmstrang Champions’ next move unclear.

• Harry, Cedric, and Draco discussed the danger of facing the Hungarian Horntail and Norwegian Ridgeback, while Wizet noted the Ilvermorny Champions had weakened one dragon.
• Harry recognized that the Durmstrang Champions were using the Conjunctivitis Curse, and Draco asked whether they should instead use their plan involving magical plants.
• Cedric suggested watching Durmstrang’s performance first, while Draco confirmed that their seeds and growth potions were ready.
• The Durmstrang Champions coordinated their ground-based attacks, and Wizet and Draco explained how Durmstrang’s war magic suited their team.
• The Durmstrang Champions struck the eyes of both the Hebridean Black and the Norwegian Ridgeback with the Conjunctivitis Curse, blinding them and causing them to lash out and breathe fire wildly.

Victor Krum nearly reached the Golden Egg, but the Norwegian Ridgeback accidentally destroyed it with dragon fire. Harry, Draco, and Cedric began their trial, with Harry and Draco dodging their dragons while Cedric prepared a spell.

• Victor Krum flew past both dragons and evaded the Wampus Cat as he approached the Golden Egg.
• The Norwegian Ridgeback's breath burned the Golden Egg, and wizards restrained the Wampus Cat while Krum stopped in midair.
• Harry, Draco, and Cedric were called to the arena after the judges proceeded to scoring without explaining whether Krum could try again.
• The little Thunderbird landed on Wizet's shoulder, and Wizet comforted it as Harry and the others left.
• Harry and Draco flew low through the arena, dodging dragon attacks, while Cedric stayed on the ground and waved his wand.

Harry, Cedric, and Draco used magical plants to restrain the dragons and Wampus Cat, then raised the Golden Egg to complete the first task. After Karkaroff objected to their methods, the judges considered rescoring the Champions from every school.

• Cedric and Harry provoked the Hebridean Black into breathing fire, while four birds carried Venomous Tentacula into its mouth and subdued it.
• Harry was struck across the back but descended safely as the Welsh Green Dragon was also immobilized by Venomous Tentacula.
• Cedric treated Harry's wound while Draco released Chomping Cabbages to hinder the Wampus Cat, and the three Champions gathered the Golden Egg.
• Ludo Bagman announced that the Champions had completed the first task and asked the judges to score them.
• Karkaroff objected that the Champions had relied on magical plants, and Madame Maxime, Seraphina Picquery, and Headmaster Kamba supported gathering prior objections and rescoring the Champions.

Harry, Draco, and Cedric received their scores after the judges agreed to rescore, while Wizet began his challenge against the Hungarian Horntail and Norwegian Ridgeback. Wizet swiftly countered the Ridgeback’s attack with transfigured stone spears that wounded the dragon.

• Barty Crouch Sr. said the Ministry would not join the headmasters’ discussion, and the headmasters agreed to rescore the Champions.
• Madame Maxime, Headmaster Kamba, Barty Crouch Sr., Seraphina Picquery, Ludo Bagman, and Dumbledore gave Harry, Draco, and Cedric high scores, while Karkaroff gave them four points.
• Harry, Draco, and Cedric returned from the judges’ platform as the Hungarian Horntail and Norwegian Ridgeback entered the arena for Wizet’s challenge.
• Wizet entered the arena, and the Norwegian Ridgeback attacked him with dragon fire.
• Wizet transfigured a boulder to block the fire, then turned its fragments into stone spears that struck and wounded the Norwegian Ridgeback.

Wizet used the Impediment Jinx and Knockback Jinx to evade two dragons and control their movements during the first task. As the dragons became trapped in midair, Dumbledore prepared to act.

• The Hungarian Horntail attacked Wizet with dragon fire, but Wizet used the Knockback Jinx on himself and an Impediment Jinx foothold to escape.
• Dumbledore explained how Wizet combined the spells to move through the air, while Ludo Bagman warned the audience not to imitate him.
• Wizet laid invisible Impediment Jinxes that served as footholds and disrupted the dragons' attacks.
• The dragons tried to take flight, but Wizet followed them and cast Impediment Jinxes on their wings, leaving them suspended in midair.
• Dumbledore said the timing was right and waved his wand toward the arena.

Wizet restrained the Hungarian Horntail and Norwegian Ridgeback with Impediment Jinxes, then used Aguamenti and a Weather-Changing Charm to trap and subdue them. As a blizzard immobilized the Wampus Cat, he approached the Golden Egg to complete the First Task.

• Wizet used Impediment Jinxes to restrain both dragons’ wings and build obstacles into a cage around them.
• Terry Boot, Chris Moen, and Anthony Goldstein discussed Wizet’s spellwork, while Anthony warned that Gryffindors who had tried copying it had brought Professor McGonagall over.
• The dragons breathed fire at Wizet, who countered with Aguamenti, creating a cloud of steam that hid the arena.
• Wizet changed the steam into storm clouds and snow, while the obstacles formed a cage that held the dragons in place.
• Wizet’s blizzard caused the Wampus Cat to curl up in a corner, and he approached the Golden Egg as Ludo Bagman announced he was completing the task.

After Wizet completed the first task, the judges awarded him mostly perfect scores for overcoming the dragon and Wampus Cat with powerful water and weather magic. Hogwarts finished first in the rankings, while the Champions celebrated the end of the task.

• Harry realized Wizet had used Aguamenti against the dragon breath and its vapor to create the conditions for a Weather-Changing Charm, while Champions from other schools marveled at his skill.
• The Champions gathered to watch Wizet raise the golden egg, but Madam Pomfrey ordered the injured Uagadou Champions back to bed.
• Headmaster Kamba, Madame Maxime, and Seraphina Picquery challenged Karkaroff's objections, and he agreed to begin scoring.
• Madame Maxime, Headmaster Kamba, Seraphina Picquery, Ludo Bagman, and Barty Crouch Sr. gave Wizet perfect tens; Dumbledore gave him a nine and Karkaroff an eight.
• Ludo Bagman announced the scores, placing Hogwarts first with an average of sixty-two points, followed by Uagadou, Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, and Ilvermorny.
• The Hogwarts students cheered and sent Magic Fireworks into the sky as the first task ended.

After the first task, the champions discussed Karkaroff’s biased scoring before Wizet reunited with them in the medical tent. Barty Crouch Sr. announced that the second task would take place on March 1st and that the Golden Eggs held its clues.

• Harry, Draco, and Cedric discussed Karkaroff’s harsh scores for other schools and his perfect score for Durmstrang’s champion.
• Madam Pomfrey examined Wizet and confirmed he was uninjured, while she ordered Harry to rest despite his healed wounds.
• Wizet pointed out a seam on the Golden Egg, and Harry realized it might open by hand.
• Ludo Bagman and Barty Crouch Sr. arrived with Golden Eggs for the remaining champions.
• Barty Crouch Sr. announced the second task’s March 1st start date and explained that the Golden Eggs contained clues that could be revealed by opening them.

After the first task, Wizet spoke with Fleur Delacour about the Aguamenti spell and a possible exchange of magical knowledge. He then avoided the celebrating students and spent a quiet evening with Luna by the Forbidden Forest.

• Madam Pomfrey kept the injured Uagadou Champion for more instructions, and a piercing scream sounded from the tent as Harry and the others walked away.
• Fleur Delacour, Adele Lefevre, and Claudia Laroche asked Wizet about his Aguamenti spell and offered a Beauxbatons-style trade.
• Wizet told the Beauxbatons Champions that he had written about Aguamenti for Hogwarts Voice and suggested they submit their Ritual Magic principles in return.
• Fleur said they would consult their headmistress and might share the principles privately if she refused to approve publication.
• Wizet followed the little Thunderbird to Luna, who offered him lemon cake while they hid from the students celebrating Harry and the others.

Wizet and Luna returned to Ravenclaw Tower, where their classmates celebrated Wizet’s victory and opened his Golden Egg. Wizet and Luna discovered that its clue was a song, then Wizet began casting a spell to make the song audible to everyone.

• Wizet and Luna wandered the Forbidden Forest’s outskirts, visited Hagrid at the dragon enclosure, and returned to Hogwarts.
• Ravenclaw students welcomed Wizet with a feast and celebrated him as their champion and dragon slayer.
• Wizet agreed to let his classmates inspect the Golden Egg, and they pried it open to reveal a piercing scream.
• Luna cast Muffliato to soften the noise, and she and Wizet discussed the clue while their classmates speculated about it.
• Wizet explained that the Golden Egg’s sound could become a song with the right medium, asked everyone to gather close and cast the Water-Fire Immunity Charm, then cast the Cryo-Preservation Charm over them.

Wizet opened the Golden Egg in a humid magical field, revealing a merpeople’s song that gave clues to the second task. The students concluded that the task would take place in the Black Lake and that the treasure they would need to recover was likely air.

• Wizet created a humid field around the Golden Egg, opened it, and let the students hear its song and its instructions for the second task.
• Wizet explained that merpeople needed a humid medium to sing, and that submerging the egg in water could also reveal the song.
• Wizet described how warm-water and cold-water merpeople differed, and told the students that merpeople lived in Hogwarts’ Black Lake.
• Anthony Goldstein and the other students speculated that the second task would involve merpeople and take place underwater in the Black Lake.
• A Ravenclaw student guessed that the treasure needed to live was air, which the contestants would lose when they went to the lakebed.

Ravenclaw students celebrated Wizet’s first-task victory and debated the Golden Egg’s clue while keeping its lyrics secret. Elsewhere, Barty Crouch Sr. defended Dumbledore’s revised plan for the second task, and Voldemort received a blood-filled vial and ordered Barty Crouch Jr. to publicize Karkaroff’s actions among Durmstrang students.

• Roger Davies stopped the Ravenclaw students’ argument and urged them to celebrate Wizet’s first-task victory and solved Golden Egg clue without revealing the lyrics.
• Padma Patil reminded the students not to disclose the Golden Egg’s lyrics, and they returned to eating and drinking.
• Ludo Bagman questioned the complexity of the second-task clue, but Barty Crouch Sr. explained that the original plan was too risky for sixteen Champions, prompting Bagman to support Dumbledore’s proposal.
• Voldemort absorbed the blood of the owl that delivered a package, then examined a crystal vial of blood and read the accompanying letter.
• Barty Crouch Jr. asked whether they should act against Karkaroff, and Voldemort ordered him to spread Karkaroff’s actions among Durmstrang students so they would seek Voldemort’s intervention.

Wizet deciphered the Golden Egg’s song as an alchemical clue to the second task, then used Ancient Magic to extract and unlock a Merperson soul-mark from the egg. The mark opened into a Magic Circuit that connected his consciousness to the Merpeople’s collective presence, and he began retreating along the thread.

• Wizet interpreted the song’s references to nigredo, albedo, rubedo, and the Great Work as clues about the Champions’ wands and the second task.
• Wizet concluded that the Golden Egg preserved the Merpeople’s song through a strand of Merpeople magic linked to the Black Lake.
• Wizet used Magic Eye and his Soul Stone monocle to find the strand, then extracted a filament with Ancient Magic: Mark Extraction Charm.
• Wizet used Ancient Magic Power tempered by time to unlock the Merperson soul-mark, which unfolded into a Magic Circuit.
• Wizet’s consciousness entered an Otherworld-like vision of light and shadow representing an individual Merperson or the Merpeople as a whole, then he began retreating along the filament.

Wizet explored the Shadow World through the Merpeople’s light-and-shadow cluster and concluded that it reflected the real Black Lake and its creatures. He extracted taming magic and summoned a phoenix Patronus, then began theorizing that the Shadow World was where magic captured the marks used in spells.

• Wizet went to the Map Chamber and listed experiments he wanted to conduct in the Shadow World.
• Wizet explored the area around the Merpeople and spotted light-and-shadow forms of Grindylows, Lobberworms, fish, and the Giant Squid.
• Wizet concluded that the Shadow World was a shadow of the real world and that its creature forms reflected creatures living in the Black Lake.
• Wizet extracted the taming magic linking the Merpeople to the Grindylows and Lobberworms.
• Wizet summoned a phoenix Patronus and theorized that the Shadow World was where magic captured marks, though he still needed to verify the idea.

Wizet studied how the Patronus Charm and Ancient Magic Power affected the creatures in the Shadow World, then tested the Cheering Charm on the Merpeople light-shadow. When a thread from the Merpeople connected to him, Wizet was forced out of the Shadow World and toward a place he increasingly recognized.

• Wizet summoned a phoenix Patronus in the Shadow World, drawing underwater creature light-shadows toward it.
• Wizet infused the Patronus with Ancient Magic Power tempered through time, causing strands to emerge from several creature light-shadows and connect to the phoenix or its phantom.
• Wizet reasoned that the Patronus and other magic could affect the memories and emotions of souls in the Shadow World.
• Wizet cast the Cheering Charm on the Merpeople light-shadow, then tested it with Ancient Magic Power and Ancient Magic Power tempered through time.
• A threadlike strand emerged from the Merpeople light-shadow and connected to Wizet, pushing him out of the Shadow World toward a familiar place.

Wizet connected his experiments with the Cheering Charm to a theory that collective human memories and desires could become magic and shape the real world. He planned to record and test his ideas by creating a magical creature population, but first needed to refine his research into a particularly unusual wizard.

• Wizet replenished the Cheering Charm star cluster in the Otherworld and learned that the charm could more easily calm the Merpeople of the Black Lake.
• Wizet concluded that changes in the Shadow World could affect reality, and that time-enhanced magic had made the Merpeople more susceptible to the Cheering Charm.
• Wizet reasoned that wizards’ shared beliefs had helped lower House-elves’ status, while the few who rejected that view had contributed to Dobby’s unusual nature.
• Wizet proposed that humanity’s collective desire to understand magic had helped bring wizards into being, and saw the Otherworld as evidence of humanity’s shared wisdom.
• Wizet decided to record and test his theory by creating a magical creature population, but he needed to refine his research into a special wizard first.

Wizet witnessed Grindylows and Merpeople attacking Durmstrang’s ship after Durmstrang students tried to drive the singing Merpeople away. He helped Dumbledore calm the Merpeople with a Cheering Charm, and they withdrew while Dumbledore prepared to negotiate compensation with Karkaroff.

• Wizet saw Grindylows trying to overturn the Durmstrang ship while Merpeople directed them and attacked the students.
• Ernie Macmillan explained that Durmstrang students had provoked the Merpeople by trying to drive them underwater while they sang.
• Dumbledore approached the Merpeople to mediate, but they remained angry and unwilling to let the matter go.
• Wizet suggested using a Cheering Charm to calm the Merpeople and confirmed that it worked especially well on those from the Black Lake.
• Dumbledore cast the Cheering Charm, and the Merpeople led the underwater creatures back beneath the lake so he could negotiate with Karkaroff.