Chapter Summaries

George and Fred introduced their Magical Creatures model battle game, and Harry and Ron demonstrated it before a crowd of students. After Ron won the match, Cedric showed interest in buying the models.

• Harry and Ron brought their model creatures, Buck and Scabbers, to life, drawing a crowd with their lifelike movements.
• George and Fred explained the model battle game, its card drawer, and how players used command cards to control their creatures.
• Ron went first and attacked Buck with Scabbers, while Harry used Incendio and a defense card to strike back.
• Ron played Stupefy to make Buck skip a turn, then continued attacking as the spectators crowded closer.
• After the match ended, students rebuked Lanston for insulting the game, and Cedric asked George and Fred whether they planned to sell the models.

George and Fred staged a public challenge to draw a crowd for their magical creature models, setting up a match between Harry Potter and Hilan Prewett. Ron brought Silan to the Gryffindor table as the audience gathered, while Draco decided to watch and look for an opportunity to get involved.

• George and Fred hinted that the models would eventually be sold, then signaled Harry and Ron to begin their planned challenge.
• Harry taunted Ron about his rat, and Ron claimed that Hilan Prewett had a Hippogriff model and could beat him.
• Lee Jordan announced a match between Harry Potter and Hilan Prewett, drawing back students who had been leaving.
• Ron went to the Slytherin table and brought Silan toward the Gryffindors as the gathered students watched.
• Draco abandoned his pretense of disinterest, declared that he would help whoever fought Harry, and set off with Crabbe and Goyle.
• Lee Jordan announced that the battle was about to begin as Silan reached the Gryffindor table.

Professor McGonagall and Snape discovered that the apparent duel between Harry and Silan was a card game using Hippogriff models. Snape insisted they continue, and McGonagall transformed the Great Hall into an orderly arena for the match.

• Professor McGonagall and Snape entered the Great Hall after hearing students talk about a duel between Potter and Prewett.
• Snape and McGonagall pushed through the crowd and found Harry and Silan playing a game with Hippogriff models and defense cards.
• Professor McGonagall scolded George and Fred, assuming they had encouraged the commotion, and the crowd began to disperse.
• Snape urged Harry and Silan to continue their match, and Professor McGonagall agreed that the game broke no school rules.
• Professor McGonagall vanished the Great Hall tables and conjured tiered seating so the students could watch in order.
• Lee Jordan resumed his commentary as Harry and Silan prepared to continue the match.

Silan used a long defensive strategy in his model duel with Harry before suddenly unleashing a devastating attack. He won with three cards, leaving the spectators puzzled about how he played them with only four action points.

• Harry used several attack cards, but Silan defended and discarded a spell card, drawing criticism from the spectators.
• Hermione quieted the crowd, and Professor McGonagall supported her as Silan and Hermione exchanged a friendly look.
• Silan continued building his defenses while Harry gradually damaged his Hippogriff model, leading some spectators to think Silan would lose.
• After Snape urged Silan to stop dragging out the duel, Silan drew five spell cards and used three to make his Hippogriff fly and attack Harry's model.
• Silan's Hippogriff cast two spells, then shattered Harry's model with wind blades, and Lee Jordan declared Silan the winner.
• A spectator questioned how Silan had played three spell cards with only four action points.

Silan defeated Harry in a magical creature model battle, prompting students to crowd around George and Fred about buying the models while Hermione was teased about her feelings for Silan. At the Leaky Cauldron, Sirius overheard news of Silan’s success before his Polyjuice disguise wore off, and he escaped after insisting he had not betrayed his friends or killed the thirteen Muggles.

• Silan's Hippogriff defeated Harry, and Draco decided to get a model so he could challenge Prewett himself.
• Lavender and Parvati teased Hermione that Silan had won her heart, while George and Fred announced the models would cost five Galleons and go on sale on the next Hogsmeade Day.
• Sirius, disguised with Polyjuice Potion, overheard Reggie say that Lucius and Prewett had made 20,000 Galleons from a Potions auction and that Snape had authorized Prewett to sell the potions.
• Sirius's Polyjuice disguise wore off, revealing him to the pub patrons, and he paid his bill before Apparating away.
• Sirius told the wizards that he had not killed the thirteen Muggles and had not betrayed his friends.

Hogwarts students eagerly awaited the Magical Creatures models going on sale in Hogsmeade. Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe each secretly planned to sneak away and buy them, leaving Hogwarts in disguise.

• George and Fred distributed flyers announcing that models would go on sale the next day at Pippin's Potions in Hogsmeade.
• Goyle and Crabbe decided to fake stomachaches and sneak away to buy models, while Draco secretly planned to pretend to be sick as well.
• The next morning, Draco believed Goyle and Crabbe's dramatic illness act and told them to go to the Hospital Wing.
• Draco and Goyle and Crabbe each put on scarves and hats to hide their faces and hair.
• Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe slipped out of Hogwarts separately, each convinced their disguise would keep them from being recognized.

George and Fred’s model stall in Hogsmeade drew a huge crowd, and Draco secretly disguised himself to buy the entire remaining stock. He left determined to pull a Hippogriff model after seeing another student win one.

• George and Fred opened their model stall outside Pippin’s Potions, and Pippin joined them to serve the crowd of eager students.
• Seamus and Dean opened their models and got a Mooncalf and an Augurey, then planned to play a match with the included command cards.
• Goyle and Crabbe recognized Draco despite his disguise, while Draco failed to recognize them and privately mocked their disguises.
• Draco demanded to buy every model, but the students made him join the long queue; after waiting over an hour, he purchased all the remaining models for more than a hundred Galleons.
• Draco saw a student pull a Hippogriff and hurried away, insisting that he would pull one himself.

Draco opened the twenty Magical Creatures models he had bought but failed to get a Hippogriff, while Hogwarts students found the models he discarded along the road. After learning that Ron’s brother Pu Prewett made the models, Draco decided to ask him for a Hippogriff because he was his nephew.

• Draco opened several models on his way back and threw away Murtlaps and Flobberworms in disgust when none contained a Hippogriff.
• Draco opened his last model, found another Murtlap, and angrily threw it away.
• Students returning to Hogwarts discovered the twenty models Draco had discarded and happily collected them.
• Goyle and Crabbe played with their models and discussed Ron’s Hippogriff until Draco entered their dormitory and demanded to know what they had said about Prewett.
• Crabbe told Draco that Ron’s brothers had made the models, and Draco decided to go to Prewett and ask for a Hippogriff because he was his nephew.

Draco searched Hogwarts for Silan so he could buy a Hippogriff model, then swallowed his pride and begged Silan for help. Silan teased him by claiming he could not identify the models, and the chapter ended with him asking whether Draco truly wanted one.

• Draco searched the castle with Goyle and Crabbe but could not find Silan, then encountered Ron showing off his Hippogriff model.
• Ron mocked Draco for not having a Hippogriff, and the two drew their wands as the gathered students watched.
• Goyle spotted Silan, and Draco abandoned his confrontation with Ron to chase after him, calling him his uncle in front of the students.
• Draco sent Goyle and Crabbe away and privately asked Silan to sell him a Hippogriff model.
• Silan claimed he could not distinguish the models in their identical packaging, while Draco insisted that being Silan's nephew should make him an exception.
• Silan asked Draco if he really wanted a Hippogriff model.