Chapter Summaries

Wade, Harry, and Lupin searched the campsite for Michael and encountered Ministry employees Barty Crouch and Bertha Jorkins. The chapter left them wondering why Lupin had hidden them from the group.

• Harry, Wade, and Lupin headed toward the northwest corner to find Michael, and Harry blushed when Wade teased him about liking Cho Chang.
• Wade told Harry that Cho Chang was dating Cedric, leaving Harry downcast.
• Lupin hurriedly hid Wade and Harry when a Ministry employee called Barty Crouch to interpret for the Egyptian Ministry of Magic.
• Crouch appeared exhausted and forgetful, while the employee joked that Bertha Jorkins had made him scatterbrained.
• Bertha wandered off and used magic to retrieve a child's toy broomstick, while Wade recognized her from the story of Voldemort's resurrection.
• After the group passed, Lupin, Wade, and Harry emerged, and Harry asked why Lupin had hidden them.

Wade, Harry, and Michael explored the gathered wizarding crowds at the Quidditch World Cup, where Michael’s attempt to approach a beautiful Beauxbatons girl ended in embarrassment. Wade then spotted Antoine and went to ask whether Mr. Grindelwald had come to watch the match.

• Lupin told Harry that Barty Crouch had sent Sirius to prison without a trial and explained why Sirius and he avoided him.
• Michael led Wade and Harry around the campsite, where they saw visitors from Castelobruxo and Beauxbatons.
• Michael tried to introduce himself to a beautiful Beauxbatons girl, but a towering woman stopped him and asked if he was lost.
• Michael returned to Wade and Harry, then offered to take them to see the Bulgaria National Team and Krum; Harry eagerly agreed.
• Wade noticed Antoine signaling to him, excused himself, and asked whether Mr. Grindelwald was at the World Cup.

Wade learned from Antoine that Hogwarts would host a revived international magic-school competition, with representatives from schools around the world. Antoine urged Wade to compete and fulfill Grindelwald’s expectations, leaving Wade uncertain about accepting help from others.

• Antoine told Wade that Grindelwald’s plans were classified and teased him about his friendship with Günther Drayne.
• Antoine explained that Fudge had revived the Triwizard Tournament and invited Ilvermorny, while numerous other schools had also sought to compete.
• Wade learned that the expanded competition would be held at Hogwarts and asked whether he could avoid participating.
• Antoine told Wade that schools would support their students behind the scenes and asked him not to let Grindelwald and his allies down.

Wade received Antoine’s briefing on the other Magic Schools before joining Harry and the others to watch the Quidditch World Cup semifinal between Ireland and Peru. During the match, Wade used his Omnioculars to spot the Beauxbatons students and the unusual Uagadou delegation.

• Antoine gave Wade documents about the participating Magic Schools and warned him not to reveal Antoine’s identity at Hogwarts.
• Wade joined Harry, Sirius, and the others in Sirius’s box, where he learned Ron had tickets and Hermione was away with her parents.
• Ludo Bagman introduced the Ireland-versus-Peru semifinal as the teams’ mascots and players entered the stadium.
• Wade watched the match through his Omnioculars, spotted Fleur Delacour among the Beauxbatons students, and identified Uagadou by its cheetah and scarf-wearing rat.

Wade watched the Quidditch World Cup match and spotted Lucius Malfoy meeting with suspected Death Eaters, whose whispered talk suggested Voldemort might be preparing to return. Ireland defeated Peru and secured a place in the final, while Wade left Harry with a grimly comic account of the first World Cup.

• Wade noticed Draco Malfoy enjoying the match with his mother while Lucius Malfoy left their box.
• Wade saw Lucius meet with a tense group of men who touched their arms and appeared to discuss the Dark Mark, resurrection, and causing chaos at the final.
• A Peruvian player fell after being hit by a Bludger, and stadium safety officers caught him with a Levitation Charm.
• Ireland won the match and earned a place in the final, prompting cheers and magical fireworks from the crowd.
• Wade told Harry that the first Quidditch World Cup had featured polecat transformations, attempted beheadings, and hidden vampire bats.

Wade left the Quidditch match between Bulgaria and Egypt during a torrential downpour and mistook a small beech tree for a lurking figure. After he returned to camp, the tree uprooted itself and walked toward a black-raincoated figure near the forest.

• Hermione and the Patil sisters arrived at the grounds, and Neville and his grandmother later joined Wade and the others with a Magic Tent.
• Bulgaria and Egypt played through heavy rain while the spectators watched from behind protective barriers.
• Wade grew bored of the match and returned to the camp alone after Lupin offered to accompany him.
• Wade investigated a small shadow, discovered it was a beech tree, and continued on toward his tent.
• The beech tree uprooted itself and walked toward a black-raincoated figure standing by a tall spruce tree.

Barty Crouch Jr. and Lockhart marked large trees with magical runes in the rain as part of an experiment, while Barty confided in a young Beech Tree about Voldemort’s resurrection plan. The chapter left Barty preparing to use the upcoming competition, where Harry Potter and a hundred thousand wizards would gather, to create chaos and seize Harry.

• Barty Crouch Jr. instructed Lockhart to mark every tree thicker than three people embracing it with magical runes.
• Lockhart accidentally drew several runes incorrectly, then used Wandless Magic to erase the mistakes and finish marking the tree.
• A young Beech Tree followed Barty Crouch Jr. through the woods, and he allowed it to stay beside him.
• Barty told the Beech Tree that Voldemort’s resurrection preparations were nearly complete, with Harry Potter’s blood still needed.
• Barty planned to create chaos at the upcoming competition, where Harry and a hundred thousand wizards would gather.

After dreaming of the Killing Forest, Wade found a tree missing beside a nearby tent and learned the story behind the infamous Quidditch disaster from Sirius and Lupin. He wondered whether the Ministry had preserved the Dark Curse that had animated the forest, despite its danger to wizards as well as their enemies.

• Wade woke from a dream of giant trees and a black-robed wizard, then recognized the scene as an illustration in his Quidditch history book.
• Kreacher told Wade that Harry and Lupin were still at the stadium because the match had not ended.
• Wade passed a fur-stitched tent and noticed that the small tree beside it was gone, leaving a muddy pit filled with rainwater.
• Wade joined Harry, Sirius, and Lupin in the stadium box, where Harry continued watching the rain-soaked match and admiring Krum.
• Sirius and Lupin told Wade and Harry about the Romanian player who had used a Dark Curse to make a forest attack a Quidditch crowd.
• Wade suspected that the Ministry had sealed away, rather than destroyed, the curse, and considered how its indiscriminate animated trees could endanger wizards.

After Bulgaria won the semifinal, Trelawney used her supposed visions to persuade others to bet on the final. Wade and his companions left the stadium, and Wade noticed a large, wild-looking man preparing food near the camp.

• Ludo Bagman announced Bulgaria's victory after Krum caught the Snitch, while Bagman privately lamented his lost bets.
• Trelawney claimed to foresee a shattered tower, turmoil, and the final's outcome, then persuaded the people in her box to place bets with her.
• Wade, Harry, and Sirius waited for the crowds to thin before leaving the stadium and saw Krum walking with the Bulgarian team.
• Harry regretted not bringing a quill and wondered whether he could get Krum's autograph; Wade encouraged him to have confidence in his own future.
• Wade saw a large, wild-looking man come out of a fur tent and carefully add black material from a tin to a boiling pot.

Wade used Polyjuice Potion to disguise himself and set out to secretly handle something at the campsite, with Sirius joining him in disguise. The chapter ended as Wade aimed his Wand at a Muggle Administrator and Sirius warned him that casting spells on Muggles was illegal.

• Wade dreamed again of a deserted, bloodstained campsite before waking in the tent.
• Wade drank Polyjuice Potion and changed into an unremarkable young man.
• Sirius mistook the disguised Wade for an intruder, then recognized him and insisted on accompanying him.
• Wade gave Sirius Polyjuice Potion, and Sirius chose the alias Patroclus Ohanesian while Wade went by Red.
• Sirius led Wade to the campsite entrance, where Wade aimed his Wand at a Muggle Administrator.
• Sirius grabbed Wade's Wand and warned him against illegally casting spells on Muggles.

Wade and Sirius secretly evacuated all the Muggle Administrators from the campsite, then targeted Grovell Goyle to learn what Lucius Malfoy and suspected Death Eaters were planning. They stunned and bound Goyle, and Wade gave him Veritaserum.

• Sirius used a spell to send the first Muggle Administrator away, then explained that six Administrators covered the campsite.
• Wade and Sirius quietly sent every nearby Muggle family away while Ministry staff delayed reporting their absence.
• Wade told Sirius he wanted to find Grovell Goyle, whom he suspected knew about Lucius Malfoy's plans for the match.
• Wade and Sirius used Disillusionment Charms to enter the Goyle tent and stunned Grovell Goyle.
• Sirius bound Goyle, and Wade gave him Veritaserum.

After Wade and Sirius exposed Grovell Goyle and learned that Death Eaters planned to signal Voldemort, Sirius left to act against them. Wade then noticed an ominous tea-leaf reading and realized the chaos at the Quidditch World Cup might be covering a more dangerous move.

• Under Veritaserum, Grovell Goyle revealed that the Dark Mark was growing clearer and named Lucius, Crabbe, Nott, and Macnair as fellow plotters.
• Sirius and Wade left the tent unseen after Sirius Obliviated Goyle, then Sirius thanked Wade for spotting the danger and Apparated away to intervene.
• Wade returned to the tent and worried that the Ministry might fail to catch the Death Eaters, while the lingering unease from his dream remained.
• Wade realized Barty Jr. had already escaped and suspected the crowded World Cup campsite could provide cover for another move involving Garr Troka and Lockhart.
• Wade read skulls surrounded by shadows in his tea leaves, recalled Trelawney's warning about the Death Veil, and noticed a copy of History of the Quidditch World Cup that sparked an idea.

Wade investigated the Killing Forest after suspecting his dreams were warnings, while Harry and his friends gathered to watch the Quidditch World Cup final. Antoine and Drayne found nothing unusual in the forest, but Wade saw dense magical patterns on a spruce tree, leaving his fears unresolved.

• Wade recalled that his three ominous dreams all featured elements of the Killing Forest and decided to investigate.
• Harry bought Ron a Krum figurine and a pair of panoramic binoculars before the group prepared for the final.
• Wade used a cloak to skim over the forest ground as Antoine and Drayne followed him.
• Harry's friends gathered in Sirius's box and learned that Wade had chosen not to watch the match.
• Antoine and Drayne reported finding no unusual trees or Dark Curses, but Wade saw dense magical patterns clinging to a spruce tree.

Wade, Antoine, and Drayne discovered that a Dark Wizard had hidden powerful enchantments across the forest’s trees, and a flaw in one tree revealed the corrupting magic. With a hundred thousand spectators in the stadium and the threat potentially imminent, Wade doubted they could simply leave the danger to Grindelwald.

• Wade explained that identical runes around the trees were drawing in and dissipating their Detection Spells.
• Antoine, Drayne, and Wade realized that the forest’s many magical traces had been concealed by a field formed from layered spells.
• Wade found a break in the runes around a massive oak, and his Detection spell revealed powerful, wicked Dark Magic before it vanished.
• Drayne went to contact Grindelwald, while Wade decided not to rely solely on him to protect the spectators.
• Wade considered the risk of the enchanted trees attacking the packed stadium and made a faint silver light appear at his Wand’s tip.

Barty Crouch Jr. escaped his father’s control and persuaded Winky to let him watch the World Cup Final before taking him home. In the top-level box, he secretly searched for Harry Potter as the match began.

• Winky restrained Barty Crouch Jr. and dragged him toward the exit, but he persuaded her to let him watch the match first.
• Winky summoned Barty Crouch Jr.’s Invisibility Cloak and brought him into the top-level box, where she bound him again after seeing the people inside.
• Barty Crouch Jr. stole an official’s binoculars and searched the other boxes for Harry Potter.
• Ludo Bagman asked Fudge if the match could begin, and Fudge gave him permission.
• Bagman announced the Bulgaria National Team’s mascots, and Arthur Weasley exclaimed that they were Veela.

Barty Jr. escaped Winky during the Quidditch match after the Veela distracted the officials, leaving Winky petrified outside the box. In the forest, Grindelwald confirmed the giant trees could awaken if attacked and ordered the Acolytes to form a barrier, then called Wade over.

• Barty Jr. ignored the Veela, noticed Harry Potter entranced in another box, and quietly placed his binoculars beside Winky.
• The plump official Curry accused Winky of stealing his binoculars, threw her out, and unknowingly gave Barty Jr. a chance to escape with his Wand.
• Winky realized Barty Jr. had broken free, but Curry kicked her out before she could stop him, and a Petrificus Totalus left her unable to move.
• Grindelwald examined the giant oak and told Wade that the trees were in light sleep and would wake if attacked.
• Drayne ordered the Acolytes to Apparate to the forest perimeter and establish Protection Spells facing the campsite.
• Antoine spoke with Wade about the barrier, then Grindelwald called Wade, using the alias Braun, over to him.

Wade faced a group of giant trees attacking the camp as Grindelwald urged him to demonstrate his destructive power. Wade calmly raised his wand and cast the Flame God spell.

• Grindelwald reminded Wade that powerful violence could force others to respect his will and urged him to show his strength.
• Several enormous trees tore themselves from the forest and lumbered toward the camp, terrifying the Acolytes.
• Grindelwald illuminated the area, while Antoine tried to reassure the frightened wizards and watched Wade with concern.
• Wade walked toward the attacking trees, reflected on how his goals had changed, and cast “Ignis Divinum Furor! (Wrath of the Flame God!)”

Wade unleashed a precisely controlled Charm that annihilated a vast fan-shaped stretch of the forest and most of the charging giant trees. As the remaining trees attacked the barrier, the wizards held them off with Fiendfyre, and Wade questioned Grindelwald about losing to Dumbledore.

• Wade cast a Charm that turned trees, animals, and rocks in its path to ash, stunning Drayne, Antoine, and the others.
• The remaining awakened trees charged again, while Wade's Firebird summoned fiery beasts to attack them.
• The giant trees battered the protective barrier, and the wizards joined their strength to hold it.
• Grindelwald stopped Wade from intervening and asked how it felt to possess such power.
• Wade asked Grindelwald why he had lost to Dumbledore despite mastering magic of that level, and Grindelwald's smile vanished.

Wade questioned Grindelwald about his Flame God spell before helping the Acolytes fight off animated giant trees. The Acolytes recognized Wade’s strength, while Barty Crouch Jr. waited uneasily for the attack at the stadium to begin.

• Grindelwald explained that he had created Flame God and began offering Wade lessons in ancient languages before the barrier shattered.
• Mihail withdrew the Fiendfyre as the remaining giant trees attacked, sending several Acolytes flying.
• The Acolytes subdued the trees with spells, though one witch’s Tarantallegra made the Yew Tree hop wildly and knock wizards aside.
• Castor Bank, Octa Nott, Von Rosen, Serafina Lamb, and Alberic Neil introduced themselves to Wade and acknowledged his strength.
• Barty Crouch Jr. checked the time in a stadium corridor and wondered why the animated trees had not yet caused chaos.

Barty Crouch Jr. discovered that someone had destroyed the cursed giant trees, while Wade walked with Grindelwald and heard his criticism of restraint and passivity. Grindelwald urged Wade to act decisively and warned him not to let his morality endanger his companions.

• Barty Crouch Jr. concluded that his plan to use the giant trees to attack the stadium and abduct Harry Potter had failed.
• Barty Crouch Jr. found the forest reduced to ash and suspected that Grindelwald had destroyed the trees.
• Barty Crouch Jr. considered that Grindelwald might be weakened after casting such powerful magic and left the forest, concealing his tracks.
• After the Acolytes Apparated away, Grindelwald asked Wade to walk with him through the camp.
• Wade told Grindelwald that successfully casting the spell had helped him understand pride, but Grindelwald called him passive and challenged his reluctance to seize power.
• Grindelwald told Wade that silence must not become a habit and warned him not to let his morality become his companions' shroud.