Chapter Summaries

Harry fought a huge armored creature in the forest and then encountered Natalia, beginning a duel with her. As their spells clashed, Harry spotted a giant shadow dropping toward Natalia and raised his wand to protect her.

• Harry followed his compass through the woods and was attacked by a huge armored creature with an explosive tail.
• Harry used Tarantallegra and Engorgio to topple the creature, then survived its explosion as it died.
• Harry treated his burned leg with healing Potion and continued through the forest until he met Natalia.
• Natalia and Harry exchanged spells in a fierce duel among the trees.
• Harry saw a huge black shadow pounce toward Natalia and cast Iron Shield Charm.

Harry and Natalia fought off a Golem in the Forbidden Forest, then separated to continue competing for the championship. Elsewhere, Clementine and Hope rested after escaping Dwarf Pig Monsters and a magical trap.

• A Golem made of vines and branches attacked Natalia, dodging spells while Harry tried to slow it down.
• Natalia stabbed the Golem, but it threw her into a tree; Harry drove it back with Incendio, revealing its plant-like body.
• The Golem fled into the trees, and Natalia healed herself with a Potion while Harry kept watch.
• Natalia thanked Harry for saving her, then the two agreed to compete as rivals and took separate paths.
• Clementine and Hope rested after fighting off Dwarf Pig Monsters and escaping a magical trap, while a lizard nearby released spores.

Clementine and Hope encountered Natalia in the Forbidden Forest, where Natalia warned them that Wade Grey’s dangerous Golems were hunting students. After Hope disappeared, Clementine was attacked by a huge lizard Golem and barely escaped before it vanished into the weeds.

• Clementine and Hope confronted Natalia, who refused to join Clementine’s proposed alliance.
• Natalia warned them that Wade Grey’s Golems were already moving and that an intelligent ape had injured her.
• Clementine noticed Hope had vanished, then a long tongue struck her but bounced off a protective barrier.
• Clementine cast spells at unseen attackers and fled through the forest, abandoning her backpack.
• Clementine crossed a stream and saw a huge lizard with stone joints and patterned scales, realizing it was a Golem before it blended into the weeds.

Hope retrieved the compass pieces after Clementine fled the Lizard Golem, revealing her ability to go unnoticed. Clementine then encountered Natalia as the Lizard Golem and a gorilla Golem closed in on them.

• Clementine escaped the stream and ran into the forest while the Lizard Golem followed.
• Hope emerged from hiding, collected the backpacks, assembled the compass, and corrected her direction.
• Ms. Owens explained that Hope’s Disillusionment Charm made her easy to overlook, while Grindelwald said Wade should be able to handle such an opponent.
• Clementine found Natalia and warned her that the Lizard Golem was chasing her.
• A gorilla Golem appeared beside the Lizard Golem, and Natalia and Clementine stood back to back as both monsters charged.

Natalia was eliminated after the Gorilla Golem and Lizard Golem defeated her, while Clementine escaped through the Forbidden Forest with a Centaur’s help. Clementine chose to continue toward the competition’s prize rather than leave the forest.

• The Gorilla Golem and Lizard Golem cornered Natalia, who fired a red signal and was rescued by Professor McGonagall.
• Professor McGonagall carried the injured Natalia to the Quidditch Pitch, where she lost consciousness thinking of Wade Grey and the Golems he might create.
• Clementine fled through the forest, fell into a mud pit, and was helped up by a young Centaur.
• The Centaur escorted Clementine through dangerous terrain and showed her a route to the prize and another way out of the forest.
• Clementine rejected the safe exit and took the path toward the prize.

Clementine and Jabari used the Golden Mist to trap and destroy Wade’s gorilla Golem, but a lizard’s tongue suddenly seized Jabari. Clementine was left facing the new attack as Jabari dangled helplessly.

• Clementine chose to enter the Golden Mist after failing to dispel it or determine what it was.
• Wade sent his gorilla, lizard, and cheetah Golems after a hidden gray rat while he opened a path through the thorn thicket.
• Jabari fled the Golems and met Clementine, who pulled him aside so the cheetah charged into the Golden Mist.
• Clementine and Jabari set the cheetah alight and destroyed the gorilla when it froze in fear at the mist’s illusion.
• A lizard’s tongue wrapped around Jabari’s neck and lifted him into the air as Clementine watched in shock.

Clementine fled the Cheetah Golem while Professor Flitwick rescued the badly injured Jabari. The Golems discussed their orders, and Harry struggled through the Forbidden Forest, still facing danger.

• Clementine cut the Lizard Golem’s tongue free from Jabari’s neck, but the lizard knocked Jabari down and injured him before the Cheetah Golem’s eerie smile sent her running.
• Professor Flitwick arrived, drove the Golems back, treated Jabari, and carried him away.
• The Cheetah Golem explained that it had let Clementine escape by interpreting Wade’s orders as allowing targets to pass when they could not be stopped, then left to pursue another target.
• The Lizard Golem stayed behind to guard the path Wade had taken and watch the bluebird while searching for scents.
• Harry stumbled through the Forbidden Forest, inhaled powder from an exploding mushroom, and recovered after taking a Stupefy Potion and pouring water over his head.

Harry fought off an Acromantula, healed his shoulder, and continued toward the Triwizard Cup through the Forbidden Forest. In the audience, spectators debated how his competition differed from Wade Grey’s before a Lizard Golem appeared on the screen, watching Harry’s path.

• Harry followed his compass through the forest, grew exhausted, and stopped to eat the supplies Sirius had packed.
• An Acromantula attacked Harry, but he drove it off with his Patronus after his other spells failed to stop it.
• Harry treated the wound on his shoulder with Dittany essence and continued toward a meadow bordered by a towering wall of thorns.
• Spectators discussed Harry’s conventional competition experience and Wade Grey’s encounters with Golems, while Fudge listened.
• A Lizard Golem appeared on the screen and watched in the direction Harry had gone.

Clementine fled the cheetah as it drove her toward an unknown destination, while Hope Kruse approached the thorn wall under the Disillusionment Charm. The Lizard Golem detected Hope despite her concealment and struck at her with its tongue.

• Clementine realized the cheetah was herding her and forced herself to follow its direction despite her exhaustion.
• Hope Kruse reached the thorn wall, and Abby tried to reassure the anxious Salem students watching her.
• Hope used the Disillusionment Charm and carefully approached the thorn wall without revealing herself to the audience.
• The Lizard Golem detected Hope through the sounds and signs of her movement, though she remained unaware of its presence.
• The Lizard Golem shot its tongue toward Hope as she paused at the entrance.

Hope fought the Lizard Golem with Explosion Charms but suffered severe injuries and surrendered. After Moody rescued her and explained that Wade had created a shortcut, Hope was treated in the tent and comforted by her Salem community, while Ms. Owens told her she was proud.

• Hope used an Explosion Charm to overturn the Lizard Golem, but its detached tail and tongue struck her and it dragged her from the passage.
• Hope shoved her Wand into the Golem's mouth and cast Confringo three times, destroying its head while the blast badly injured her.
• Moody arrived, treated Hope's wounds, and accepted her surrender; he explained that Wade had made the passage and bypassed the planned route and supplies.
• A healer treated Hope in the tent as she learned that Salem's teachers and students had waited for her.
• Ms. Owens hugged Hope and praised her courage, while her family and classmates reassured her and urged her to rest.

Wade reached the Triwizard Cup before Harry and revealed that it was a trap meant to deliver the winner as a sacrifice, likely to Voldemort. Harry understood that Voldemort was involved, while Dumbledore's earlier request that Wade help Voldemort revive cast the danger in a startling new light.

• Antoine discussed recruiting Hope and other Salem Institute students with Drayne while Grindelwald listened, and Drayne said Harry was about to reach Wade.
• Harry struggled through the thorny passage and found Wade waiting beside the Triwizard Cup without touching it.
• Wade suggested that he and Harry take the Cup together, then warned Harry that it led to danger rather than victory.
• Wade explained that the Cup was a Portkey designed to keep teleporting whoever touched it, and that the winner would become someone's sacrifice.
• Harry's scar hurt as Wade said the target was likely Harry or Wade, and Harry realized Wade meant Voldemort.
• The spectators erupted when Harry and Wade named Voldemort, while Wade recalled that Dumbledore had asked him to help Voldemort revive.

Wade explained Voldemort’s return and Barty Crouch Jr.’s role to Harry and the public, presenting the facts while concealing what he knew about Voldemort’s resurrection. He left the audience with the claim that Barty had escaped after his identity was discovered.

• Wade reflected that Dumbledore had pushed Harry toward his fate while trying to preserve his chance of survival, but Wade believed Harry deserved to know and choose.
• Wade reminded Harry that Voldemort had possessed Professor Quirrell and tried to steal the Philosopher’s Stone during their first year.
• Wade revealed that Barty Crouch Jr. had escaped control after Peter Pettigrew fled Azkaban, shocking the British Ministry of Magic.
• Wade explained that Barty had infiltrated Hogwarts and helped Voldemort return, causing the attacks during the Quidditch World Cup.
• Wade told Harry that Barty had interfered with the tournament and escaped while the group prepared to hand him over to the Ministry.

Harry and Wade decided to use the altered Triwizard Cup to confront Voldemort, despite knowing it was a trap. They vanished through the Portkey, while the audience watched in horror and Sirius raced toward the Forbidden Forest.

• Wade explained that Barty Crouch Jr. had revealed Voldemort wanted a Triwizard Champion and that the Cup’s destination had been changed.
• Harry chose to follow Voldemort’s plan to prevent further danger to those around him, and Wade agreed to go with him.
• Harry asked Wade to escape if things went wrong, and Wade promised he would return alive and would not let Harry die.
• Harry and Wade grasped the Triwizard Cup together and were pulled away by its Portkey magic.
• The audience reacted in shock as the broadcast showed Harry and Wade disappear, while Sirius leaped from the stands and ran toward the Forbidden Forest.

Clementine was lured to the Triwizard Cup by the Cheetah Golem, then touched the Cup while escaping its attack and vanished. Wade and Harry arrived at an abandoned monastery, where a Golden Mist reversed their ages and clouded their memories, leaving them as children.

• Clementine found Wade and Harry beside the Triwizard Cup and failed to summon it with Accio.
• Clementine realized the Cheetah Golem was behaving like a predator, but Wade and Harry disappeared before she could warn them.
• The Cheetah Golem attacked Clementine, and she touched the Cup to escape as its claws wounded her back.
• The Cheetah Golem touched the Cup and vanished from the forest.
• Wade and Harry appeared in an abandoned monastery, where Golden Mist began shrinking them and erasing their memories.
• A voice ordered someone to kill the blue bird, which shattered, and the child Harry asked another child who he was.

Wade and Harry Potter woke in a ruined, unfamiliar place and took cover after a wounded girl appeared. Wade discovered he could shrink objects with magic, and Harry pointed out something astonishing in the courtyard.

• Wade met Harry Potter and recognized his name and lightning-shaped scar.
• Wade grabbed Harry and their belongings, then pulled him behind a ruined arcade after a strange sound and an injured girl appeared.
• Harry suggested helping the girl, but Wade told him to stay quiet and crouch behind cover.
• Wade treated Harry’s bare feet as a practical concern and magically shrank a pair of oversized boots.
• Harry pointed toward the center of the courtyard, stunned by what he saw.

Wade and Harry hid as two armed strangers collected the Golden Mist and discussed a broadcast and a trophy. Barty Crouch Jr. returned with the trophy and ordered a ritual before Dumbledore arrived, while the strangers revealed they knew where the children were hiding.

• A dark green, plant-patterned cheetah approached the shrunken girl, but a scar-faced man shot it with a colorful pistol and drove it away.
• The Tattooed Woman used a Golden Kettle to absorb the Golden Mist as Wade watched and wondered if it could restore him and Harry.
• The scar-faced man and Tattooed Woman discussed cutting off a live broadcast and retrieving a trophy with help from someone they called little rabbit.
• Barty Crouch Jr. arrived carrying the golden trophy and demanded that they begin the ritual before Dumbledore found them.
• The Tattooed Woman told Barty that Wade and Harry had the minds and mentalities of small children, then turned toward their hiding place with the scar-faced man.

Wade and Harry were captured by Barty Jr. and his allies, who planned to bring them to Voldemort. As the group left with the wounded Clementine, Wade realized Voldemort was still active and feared what might happen if he discovered Wade’s memories.

• Barty Jr. recognized Harry and Wade, then bound them with ropes and ordered that they be taken to his master.
• The scar-faced man carried Harry and Wade while the Tattooed Woman asked what they should do with the unconscious Clementine.
• Barty Jr. ordered Clementine killed, but the scar-faced man insisted on bringing her along as a possible experimental subject.
• The scar-faced man and Barty Jr. argued over who could decide Clementine’s fate, and the Tattooed Woman took her with them.
• Barty Jr. led the group deeper into the monastery while Wade realized they were serving Voldemort and worried that Voldemort might read his mind.

Wade and Harry were brought before Voldemort in the ruined monastery, where Voldemort prepared to question Barty Jr. about what Wade had said on camera. The chapter ended as Voldemort cast Legilimency on Barty Jr.

• The scar-faced man brought Wade and Harry into the Main Cathedral, where Wade glimpsed a shackled figure in the confessional and saw Voldemort waiting with a King Cobra.
• Voldemort praised Barty Jr. for bringing Harry to him and said the monastery was protected by the Fidelius Charm.
• Voldemort confronted Barty Jr. about Wade's words before the camera, and Barty Jr. insisted that he had remained loyal.
• Barty Jr. agreed to any test of his innocence, and Voldemort cast Legilimency on him.

Barty Jr. relived how Ryan Smith rescued him from Hogwarts and helped him hide among the Ilvermorny students. He then revealed his plan to make Harry Potter reach the Triwizard Cup first, leaving Ryan to provide a discreet way to track every competitor.

• Voldemort searched Barty Jr.'s memories and saw how Dumbledore had arranged for him to be handed over to the Ministry of Magic.
• Ryan Smith freed Barty Jr. and gave him a Potion after claiming Wade Grey had led him to Barty's location.
• Barty Jr. refused to flee and persuaded Ryan to help him bring Harry Potter to Voldemort.
• Ryan hid Barty Jr. in the Ilvermorny dormitory while Hogwarts searched for the escaped prisoner.
• Barty Jr. explained how he would use the Triwizard Cup as a Portkey and clear Harry's path by making Wade Grey a target.
• Barty Jr. asked Ryan to find a way to watch every competitor's movements without attracting attention.

Barty Jr. manipulated Triwizard competitors with Dark Magic while recalling his loyalty to Voldemort, then realized he had left Ryan Smith as a raven in the Forbidden Forest. As Voldemort focused on Harry and Wade, Barty Jr. switched off the Streaming Mirror to keep his master from remembering Ryan.

• Barty Jr. forced Ryan Smith to cooperate, transformed him into a raven, and sent him flying into the Forbidden Forest.
• Barty Jr. used spells to remove obstacles for Harry and secretly redirect Krum and two girls during the Triwizard competition.
• After Voldemort examined his memories, Barty Jr. reaffirmed his loyalty and was promised a place at Voldemort’s right hand.
• Barty Jr. remembered that he had not transformed Ryan back and feared Voldemort would discover the mistake.
• Voldemort turned his attention to Harry and Wade, and Barty Jr. switched off the Streaming Mirror while Wade’s badge briefly glimmered blue.