Chapter Summaries

Harry returned to the edge of the maze with Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur after Barty Crouch Jr. used the Triwizard Cup to take him to a graveyard. Ye Ting revealed that Voldemort had returned, leaving the gathered officials and students to confront the news.

• Harry pretended to be dead until Ye Ting told him they were safe, then opened his eyes at the edge of the maze.
• Gabrielle and Cho Chang reunited with Fleur and Ye Ting, while Dumbledore asked Ye Ting what had happened.
• Ye Ting identified the missing Moody as Barty Crouch Jr., who had altered the Cup's Portkey and taken Harry to a graveyard.
• Hermione said the impostor had controlled Krum with the Imperius Curse, and Fleur demanded that officials check Krum's wand for the Cruciatus Curse.
• Ye Ting explained that he had followed Crouch to the graveyard and brought Hermione and Fleur along after they volunteered to help rescue Harry.
• Ye Ting told the gathered crowd that Voldemort had returned.

Harry, Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur testified that Voldemort had returned, and Dumbledore confirmed the claim was likely true. The group headed to Moody’s office to investigate evidence of Barty Crouch Jr.’s impersonation while Ludo Bagman fled to escape his gambling debt.

• Harry described how the Triwizard Cup took him to a graveyard where Peter Pettigrew restored Voldemort’s body, and said Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur rescued him.
• Madam Bones questioned the witnesses, and Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur supported Harry’s account while withholding what they knew about Horcruxes.
• Dumbledore confirmed that Voldemort had likely returned and recalled that Ye Ting and other students had stopped Voldemort from taking the Philosopher’s Stone three years earlier.
• Ye Ting suggested searching Moody’s office for evidence that Barty Crouch Jr. had impersonated him, and Snape said the real Moody was probably still alive.
• The group went to the Defence Against the Dark Arts office, while Ludo Bagman fled to avoid the goblins after losing his bet.

Ye Ting opened the seven-locked trunk in Moody’s office and found the real Mad-Eye Moody imprisoned inside, confirming that the supposed Moody was a Voldemort accomplice. As Harry and the others recounted what had happened, Cornelius Kaede arrived at the office.

• Igor Karkaroff fled after believing Ye Ting’s claim that Voldemort had returned.
• Ye Ting cracked the magical locks on the trunk, revealing a hidden pit and the real Mad-Eye Moody at its bottom.
• Dumbledore examined Moody, and Snape identified the potion bottles as Polyjuice Potion.
• Dumbledore concluded that the impostor had planned Harry’s involvement in the tournament for a year and asked Harry, Ye Ting, and the girls to explain what had happened.
• Harry and the others recounted the events to the gathered professors, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Madam Bones, and the Aurors.
• Cornelius Kaede entered the office as they described returning to Hogwarts by Portkey.

Cornelius Fudge arrived at Hogwarts and rejected the witnesses’ reports that Voldemort had returned, despite their account of Harry’s abduction and Voldemort’s resurrection. The chapter ended with Fudge questioning Harry’s scar and Dumbledore insisting it hurt when Voldemort was nearby or wanted to kill.

• Fudge arrived with Aurors and a Dementor, which fled when Ye Ting stood up and challenged him.
• Madam Bones told Fudge that Barty Crouch Jr. had disguised himself as Alastor Moody and helped Voldemort return.
• Fudge dismissed the reports, while Dumbledore explained that Harry had witnessed Voldemort’s resurrection and Ye Ting and the other champions had brought him back.
• Fudge questioned Harry’s credibility and pointed to his Parseltongue and unusual behavior.
• Dumbledore defended Harry and said his scar hurt when Voldemort was nearby or felt a strong desire to kill.

Harry, Bones, and Snape tried to convince Fudge that Voldemort had returned and urged him to prepare for war, but Fudge refused to believe them. The chapter ended with Fudge leaving after seeing Snape’s Dark Mark.

• Harry named Lucius Malfoy and other supposed Death Eaters, but Fudge dismissed his claims and denied that Voldemort had returned.
• Bones urged Fudge to remove the Dementors from Azkaban and contact the giants before Voldemort could win them over.
• Bones threatened to reveal the truth to the Ministry and impeach Fudge if he continued to obstruct action.
• Snape showed Fudge his Dark Mark and explained that it had grown stronger as Voldemort returned and summoned his followers.
• Fudge refused to accept the evidence, promised Bones she would fail, and left the room.

After Fudge rejected cooperation against Voldemort, Bones and Dumbledore joined forces to rally support and prepare to remove him from power, following Ye Ting’s plan. The Triwizard Tournament ended with Harry recovering in the hospital wing and Harry, Hermione, and Fleur sharing the championship and prize money.

• Bones asked Dumbledore to help unite the Ministry and the Order of the Phoenix against Voldemort, and he agreed.
• Bones planned to gather allies in the Ministry and oust Fudge, while Dumbledore prepared to mobilize the Order and his supporters.
• Bones reflected that Ye Ting had predicted Voldemort’s return and Fudge’s response, and that the events were unfolding according to Ye Ting’s plan.
• Ye Ting returned to Hogwarts with Harry, Hermione, and Fleur holding the champion’s cup, so the tournament awarded all three champions and divided the prize money among them.
• Harry recovered in the hospital wing with the Weasley family, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin, asked Ye Ting, Fleur, and Hermione to keep his survival of the Killing Curse secret, and offered them his prize money, which they refused.
• Hermione grew closer to Fleur after the rescue and tacitly accepted her pursuit of Ye Ting.

At the end-of-term feast, Dumbledore told Hogwarts that Voldemort had returned and praised Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur for saving Harry. The next day, Fleur said goodbye to Ye Ting and hoped to see him again during the summer.

• Dumbledore announced that Harry had encountered Voldemort and that the Ministry did not want him to reveal the truth.
• Dumbledore honored Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur for risking their lives to bring Harry back, while Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, and other Slytherins refused to join the toast.
• Dumbledore urged the visiting schools to stay united against Voldemort and welcomed them to return to Hogwarts.
• Fleur hugged Ye Ting before leaving with Gabrielle and said she hoped to find summer work in England and improve her English.
• Ye Ting suggested he might invite Fleur on an adventure during the summer, and she left after saying goodbye to him, Hermione, and Cho.

Amelia Bones challenged Cornelius Fudge over his concealment of Voldemort’s return and gained limited authority to investigate, while the wizarding world grew divided. Ye Ting gathered four girls to explain Horcruxes and begin planning their search, leaving them discussing Hogwarts founders’ relics as likely Horcruxes.

• Amelia Bones presented witnesses, including Alastor Moody, Harry Potter, Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur, to the Wizengamot as evidence of Voldemort’s return.
• The Wizengamot remained divided and allowed Bones to command the Auror Office for limited investigations and preventive work.
• The Bones and Fudge factions traded claims in the press, leaving British wizards confused and alarmed.
• Ye Ting invited four girls to his home and explained that Voldemort had likely made six Horcruxes besides the soul in his body.
• Ye Ting identified Nagini and relics of Hogwarts’ founders as likely Horcruxes, and the girls began discussing the founders’ objects.

Ye Ting and the girls planned a search for Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes, assigning Cho Chang and Penelope to investigate Hufflepuff’s Cup while Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur headed for the Gaunt family manor. Led by Auror Fawood, they reached the outskirts of Little Hangleton and approached the manor.

• Ye Ting and the girls identified possible founder relics as Horcruxes and concluded that three remained to be found.
• Cho Chang and Penelope took responsibility for tracing Hufflepuff’s Cup through the Ministry and their contacts.
• Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur went to the Ministry, where Madam Bones assigned Auror Fawood to guide them to the Gaunt family manor.
• Fawood led them by Apparition to a country lane near Little Hangleton and walked toward the village.
• The group saw the manor across the valley, then Fawood disappeared through a gap in the hedge as they followed the path.

Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur reached the Gaunt Shack to search for a Horcrux, and fought their way past Voldemort’s Inferi guards. They had not yet found the Horcrux when Fleur drank Ye Ting’s potion to replenish her magic.

• Ye Ting erased Fawood’s memory so Voldemort would not learn that they had visited the shack.
• Fleur opened the shack’s front door, triggering a curse that killed the surrounding plants, and Hermione blocked its red flash with a Shield Charm.
• Hermione identified the corpse-like figures in the house as Inferi and warned Fleur not to use fire inside the wooden shack.
• Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur defeated the Inferi with spells, clearing a path through the house.
• After Hermione explained that the Inferi were meant to drain intruders’ magic, Ye Ting gave Fleur a blue replenishing potion, which she drank.

Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur searched the Gaunt cottage and found Marvolo Gaunt's Ring, which Ye Ting recognized as a Horcrux containing the Resurrection Stone. The ring's enchantment nearly lured Hermione and Fleur into touching it, and the chapter ended with the group witnessing its deadly curse.

• Ye Ting and the girls searched the cottage with Himari, but found no magical traps beyond the Inferi.
• The group identified a secluded room as Merope Gaunt's and found a suspicious golden ring in a drawer.
• Ye Ting recognized the Deathly Hallows symbol on the ring and realized it was Marvolo Gaunt's Ring, a Horcrux containing the Resurrection Stone.
• The ring entranced Hermione and Fleur, but Ye Ting pulled them away before they could touch it.
• Ye Ting revealed black smoke from the ring, and Hermione tested it with a white rat that quickly died inside the curse.

Hermione and Ye Ting found a way to exhaust the curse on the Gaunt ring using Unicorn blood transformed into a Unicorn. Hermione then destroyed the ring with the Infinity Blade, leaving three of Voldemort’s seven Horcruxes destroyed.

• Hermione’s attempts to dispel the ring’s curse with Transfigured animals and counter-curses failed, and she concluded that Fiendfyre could destroy it.
• Ye Ting drew blood from Larey in the Forbidden Forest and transformed it into a Unicorn whose life force exhausted the ring’s curse.
• Ye Ting used enchanted gloves to pick up the ring safely, then offered the Infinity Blade to Hermione and Fleur.
• Hermione struck the ring with the Infinity Blade, splitting it and releasing a writhing remnant of Voldemort’s soul that eventually vanished.

After destroying Voldemort’s Horcrux, Ye Ting identified the ring’s gemstone as the Resurrection Stone and explained the legend of the Deathly Hallows to Hermione and Fleur. The girls learned that two Hallows they had seen before remained unidentified, and Hermione asked Ye Ting what they were.

• Hermione and Fleur felt relieved after Voldemort’s soul vanished, and Ye Ting collected the gemstone from the destroyed ring.
• Fleur recognized the gemstone’s mark as the symbol from The Tale of the Three Brothers, and she recounted the legend of the Deathly Hallows.
• Ye Ting drew the Hallows’ symbol and explained that the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, and Invisibility Cloak were real objects.
• Ye Ting identified the gemstone as the Resurrection Stone and warned that its power to bring back the dead had troubling limits.
• Hermione asked which two Deathly Hallows she and Fleur had already seen.

Ye Ting explained how the Deathly Hallows connected to Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak and Dumbledore’s Elder Wand, then showed Fleur how to use the Resurrection Stone. After Fleur summoned and farewelled her dead relatives, Ye Ting revealed that he intended to use the Stone’s summoned souls to obtain information and control creations.

• Ye Ting identified Harry Potter’s cloak as a true Invisibility Cloak and traced the Elder Wand’s history through Gregorovitch, Grindelwald, and Dumbledore.
• Hermione and Fleur realized that Dumbledore possessed the Elder Wand, while Fleur was excited to learn the Deathly Hallows were real.
• Fleur used the Resurrection Stone to summon her dead relatives, saw their translucent forms, and turned the Stone back to make them disappear.
• Fleur told Ye Ting that the summoned relatives seemed incomplete and lacked their positive emotions, and Ye Ting agreed that the Stone could not truly resurrect the dead.
• Ye Ting explained that the Stone could reveal information from the dead and considered using its summoned souls to control corpses, puppets, or artificial humans.

Ye Ting and his companions investigated Voldemort’s childhood to find clues to another Horcrux. After learning that Voldemort had killed Dennis Bishop and Amy Benson, they concluded that he had likely hidden a Horcrux in the cave where he had taken them.

• Ye Ting explained that the Resurrection Stone could summon only souls whose memories were known to someone who had interacted with them, and that others could perform the resurrection to provide intelligence.
• Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur returned to Wool’s Orphanage and questioned Mrs. Gary, who helped them summon Mrs. Cole and several of Voldemort’s childhood companions.
• The resurrected souls described young Voldemort’s powers, his cruelty toward the other orphans, and the terrible events he had caused in a cave with Dennis Bishop and Amy Benson.
• Dennis and Amy revealed that Voldemort had killed them, leading Hermione and Fleur to infer that he had murdered them to create Horcruxes.
• Ye Ting and his companions ruled out the occupied orphanage as a likely hiding place and decided Voldemort’s cave was the remaining possibility.

Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur traveled to the seaside cave from the souls' memories to search for the place where Voldemort had frightened children. They found an underwater passage leading into a cavern and warmed themselves after emerging from the freezing water.

• Ye Ting transformed into a Dragon and flew Hermione and Fleur to the cave's vicinity, where Fleur learned Hermione could also transform into a Dragon.
• Ye Ting explained that Voldemort had likely brought bullied children to the isolated rocks and climbed there using magic.
• Hermione and Fleur used Wingardium Leviosa to descend the rocks, then marked the cave entrance with a red light.
• The three cast the Bubble-Head Charm and swam through a narrow, flooded passage into the cavern.
• Ye Ting lit a bonfire, and the three dried themselves and changed back into their clothes.

Ye Ting and the girls found the concealed entrance to Voldemort’s cave, where a blood payment blocked their way. Hermione suggested using blood from a Muggle hospital, and Ye Ting summoned Orianna, who brought warmed plasma bags.

• Ye Ting examined the cave’s magical traces and identified Voldemort’s mechanism as the obstacle ahead.
• Ye Ting summoned Himari, whose sniffing led him to the concealed entrance in the cave wall.
• Ye Ting revealed that the entrance required blood and judged Voldemort’s blood payment crude.
• Hermione suggested obtaining blood from a Muggle hospital’s blood bank.
• Ye Ting contacted Orianna, who arrived with warmed bags of plasma and then departed.

Ye Ting opened the entrance to Voldemort’s hidden cave with a blood bag and led Hermione and Fleur along the shore of a vast black lake toward a green light. Fleur’s Accio spell drew a huge creature from the water, and Hermione recognized that the lake concealed multiple dangerous beings.

• Ye Ting sliced open a blood bag, and its blood revealed a doorway in the cave wall.
• Ye Ting led Hermione and Fleur through the doorway to the shore of a vast underground lake.
• Fleur cast Accio Horcrux, and a huge white thing surged from the water before vanishing beneath the surface.
• Hermione used her golden-slit eyes to observe the lake and said that trying to take the Horcrux would provoke its guardians.
• Ye Ting pointed out the green glow in the lake’s center as the likely location of the Horcrux, while Hermione hinted that they would soon learn what lurked in the water.

Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur found Voldemort’s hidden boat and crossed the lake aboard a transformed patrol boat. Inferi rose from the water and reached for them, but their hands could only scrape against the steel hull.

• Ye Ting and Hermione located the hidden chain and raised a small boat from the lake while Fleur watched in surprise.
• Hermione reasoned that Voldemort’s boat would protect its passenger from the lake’s creatures, but Ye Ting suspected further obstacles awaited them.
• Ye Ting transformed a model into a United States PBR 31 River Patrol Boat and took Hermione and Fleur across the lake.
• Inferi surfaced in great numbers and reached for the patrol boat, but their hands could not get past its steel hull.

Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur crossed the Black Lake and reached the stone basin glowing with green liquid, which Ye Ting believed concealed the Horcrux. He concluded that the basin had to be emptied by drinking its contents, then prepared an Inferius to do the drinking by giving it a Life-Replenishing Potion.

• Ye Ting blasted the Inferi jamming the patrol boat’s propeller, and Fleur vomited after seeing their bodies floating beneath the boat.
• The patrol boat reached a rocky island, where Ye Ting, Hermione, and Fleur found a basin filled with unreachable green liquid.
• Ye Ting tried spells on the basin and concluded that its liquid had to be drunk to reveal what lay beneath.
• Ye Ting pulled an Inferius from the lake, restrained it with Transfigured chains, and explained that the potion would restore enough vitality for it to drink the liquid.