Chapter Summaries

Kyle fought the Death Eaters as they marked Voldemort’s return, while Snape tried to help them survive the battle. Kyle summoned the enormous Thunder Beast Kirin, and Bellatrix ordered the Death Eaters to raise a protective shield as it prepared to strike.

• The Death Eaters raised the Dark Mark and vowed to fight for Voldemort, while Snape recognized that their attack had left them with no way to retreat.
• Snape tore open the ground beneath Kyle’s Susanoo and tried to trap it, but Kyle abandoned it and returned to the stone pillar.
• Kyle used the thunderclouds Thunderbird Lan had gathered to summon the colossal Thunder Beast Kirin.
• The Death Eaters panicked and tried to Apparate, but Grindelwald and Dumbledore had activated an Anti-Apparition restriction around the camp.
• Bellatrix ordered the Death Eaters to cast defensive spells, and their barriers joined into a hemispherical shield.

Kyle unleashed a devastating Kirin that shattered the Death Eaters’ defensive barrier, but Snape used the Resurrection Stone’s power to escape with Lucius and most of the group before Kyle could strike again. As Kyle prepared to leave with Max, twenty Ministry Aurors arrived and aimed their wands at him.

• Kyle strengthened the thunderclouds with the Obscurial’s magic and sent Kirin crashing into the Death Eaters’ barrier, destroying it and devastating their camp.
• Kyle sensed that two mysterious wizards had helped the surviving Death Eaters withstand the attack and warned that another Kirin was coming.
• Snape used power drawn from the Resurrection Stone to bind nearby Death Eaters, break the Anti-Apparition Barrier, and escape with Lucius and the group.
• Kyle watched the second Thunder Beast descend after the Death Eaters had fled and mocked them beneath the Dark Mark.
• Kyle told Max to return with him, but twenty Ministry Aurors appeared and aimed their wands at the stone pillar.
• Kyle’s Susanoo formed Fiendfyre greatswords as a confrontation with the Aurors seemed imminent.

Kyle returned to the Grindelwald family tent after defeating the Death Eaters and leaving the Aurors behind, while the camp’s injured and frightened wizards gathered under the Saints’ care. He joined his shaken friends and their families, identified the attackers as likely Death Eaters, and dismissed their combat ability.

• Scrimgeour and Kingsley recognized Kyle and ordered the Aurors to lower their wands, and Kyle left without answering their questions.
• The Aurors cleared a path for Kyle, then Ministry leaders arrived after confirming the camp was safe.
• Kyle saw Saints treating wizards injured in the stampede at a refugee camp beside his family’s tents.
• Grindelwald summoned Kyle to the tent where the Weasleys, Diggorys, Sirius, Harry, and Cho Chang had gathered unharmed.
• George and Fred commented on Kyle’s lightning spell, and Kyle joked that they were minions of the Third-Generation Dark Lord.
• Kyle told the group that the attackers were probably Death Eaters and mocked their combat ability.

After another Azkaban breakout and the Death Eater attack on the campsite, Kyle and the others took shelter in his family tent. At Malfoy Manor, the Death Eaters prepared to welcome Voldemort, who had returned in a strange, infant-like body.

• Mr. Weasley reported that dozens of Death Eaters had escaped from Azkaban, and Kyle criticized Fudge for failing to take precautions.
• Kyle teased Dumbledore about having backed Fudge, then everyone spent the night in Kyle's tent after the campsite tents were destroyed.
• Kyle found Konan and Hermione asleep in his bed, left them undisturbed, and slept on the sofa.
• At Malfoy Manor, Snape and the Death Eaters argued in a meeting room while Draco listened outside.
• Narcissa arrived, the Death Eaters emerged in anticipation, and Draco's father told him to show respect.
• Voldemort approached Malfoy Manor in a strange, snake-faced infant-like body, and Draco recognized him.

Hermione woke beside Konan and the two shared a private, intimate morning while Kyle slept. After Kyle got up, he joined his fathers and Alfred, teased them about their body pillows, and heard that Alfred had found a new romance at the camp.

• Hermione woke beside Konan and blushed as she remembered the previous night.
• Konan pinned Hermione beneath the blanket and bound her with paper so she would not wake Kyle.
• Kyle woke to find Konan smoking and Hermione hiding under the blanket, then was sent out to wash up.
• Kyle teased his fathers about the body pillows he had given them, leaving them unable to answer.
• Alfred fled when Kyle turned to tease him, and Kyle recalled hearing that Alfred was enjoying a second spring with an old lady at the camp.

Kyle and Konan spent the week before Hogwarts began sparring and living together, while Hermione returned home. At the station, Konan told them the Triwizard Tournament was set to resume and hinted she would visit Hermione when Beauxbatons came to Hogwarts.

• Konan invited Hermione to stay in France, but Hermione said she had not been home in a long time, so Konan took her home instead.
• Kyle and Konan stayed in Dorset for the final week of summer, and their intense sparring left Kyle noticeably lighter.
• At Platform 9¾, Konan told Kyle and Hermione that the Ministries had been preparing for years to restart the Triwizard Tournament.
• Kyle asked Hermione whether she wanted to compete and said he would stay out if she entered.
• Konan told Hermione she would come with the Beauxbatons delegation and play with her again, making Hermione blush and hurry onto the train.

On the Hogwarts Express, Ginny sought Hermione’s help in pursuing Harry while Kyle recruited Hogwarts students to compete in the Triwizard Tournament after being barred from entering. Kyle’s plan to challenge Beauxbatons and Durmstrang left the Weasley Twins, Cedric, and Penelope agreeing to join, while Cho declined.

• Ginny asked Hermione to coach her as she tried to draw Harry out of his depression and win his affection.
• Kyle invited Cho to his compartment to discuss the Triwizard Tournament with Cedric and the others.
• Kyle explained that a Confundus Charm could influence the Goblet of Fire and allow him to make multiple Hogwarts students Champions.
• Kyle said Beauxbatons and Durmstrang had demanded that he be barred from competing, so he planned to send Hogwarts students to defeat their delegations.
• The Weasley Twins, Cedric, and Penelope agreed to compete, while Cho declined.

Kyle used his repulsive force to clear the storm over Hogwarts, then rode a Thestral carriage to the castle with Hermione. He offered to arrange a tailed beast for her, explaining that it could be sealed inside her body to provide magical power.

• At Hogsmeade Station, Hagrid asked Kyle to clear the rain so the first-years could cross the lake safely.
• Kyle floated into the sky, amplified his Japanese chanting with Sonorus, and used Almighty Push to disperse the rain clouds.
• Kyle descended into a Thestral carriage where Hermione was waiting, and the carriage left for Hogwarts before it was full.
• Hermione envied Kyle’s power, and Kyle offered to arrange a tailed beast for her.
• Kyle explained that tailed beasts were artificially modified magical creatures whose power could be drawn upon if sealed inside a person.

Kyle explained that Hermione could choose a creature for her Tailed Beast, and she chose a Kneazle-leopard. At Hogwarts, Peeves soaked Neville, Harry, and Ron with a water balloon, then hit Professor McGonagall with a Dungbomb as Kyle and Hermione escaped into the Great Hall.

• Kyle told Hermione that Tailed Beasts were made through bloodline fusion and sealing, and Hermione chose a Kneazle-leopard for her own.
• Kyle and Hermione entered the castle, where Peeves saw Kyle and flew away without throwing his water balloon at him.
• Peeves hit Neville with the water balloon, splashing Harry and Ron as well.
• Professor McGonagall slipped in the puddle and crashed into several students while trying to confront Peeves.
• Peeves threw a Dungbomb into Professor McGonagall's face, and Kyle led Hermione into the Great Hall to escape the fumes.

Kyle attended Hogwarts’s opening feast, met the scarred new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor Alastor Moody, and helped dry the soaked first-years with magical flames. The Sorting Hat’s strange folk-instrument rendition of its song startled the Great Hall before the first-years were sorted.

• Kyle sat down at the feast and recognized Alastor Moody, Hogwarts’s new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Kyle lit a row of Grindelwald family gas stoves beneath the soaked first-years, drying their clothes and calming them.
• The Sorting Hat performed its newly arranged song with a loud folk-instrument accompaniment, leaving the Great Hall stunned.
• Dumbledore began applauding, and the teachers and students joined him before the Sorting Ceremony continued.
• Kyle waited impatiently for the first-years to be sorted and wished one of them would challenge the Sorting Hat.

After the Sorting Ceremony feast, Dumbledore announced that the Quidditch Cup was cancelled and revealed the Triwizard Tournament, whose Forbidden Forest challenge reminded Kyle of the Chunin Exams. Kyle considered how the tournament might provide an opportunity to help Snape restore Voldemort and obtain Harry's blood, while worrying that Dumbledore might disrupt their plan.

• Hermione lamented the House-elves' working conditions and resolved to pursue power, partly to close the gap between herself and Kyle.
• Dumbledore announced the cancellation of the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup, then introduced the Triwizard Tournament.
• Kyle compared the tournament's Forbidden Forest challenge to the Chunin Exams and wondered whether he could influence its format.
• Kyle recalled Snape's plan to restore Voldemort using Harry's blood and the Resurrection Stone's possible chance of saving Harry.
• Kyle imagined Voldemort confronting Dumbledore during the tournament and worried that Dumbledore might ruin their plan.

Dumbledore warned his staff about the coming Beauxbatons and Durmstrang delegations while worrying that Viktor Krum might clash with Kyle. Harry fantasized about entering the Triwizard Tournament, and the next morning the students handled Bubotuber pus as the chapter explained how it had become a notorious gift sent to the Ministry.

• Dumbledore announced that Beauxbatons and Durmstrang would arrive in October and watched Kyle, worried about his possible conflict with Viktor Krum.
• The Four Troublemakers remained confident that they could get around the Triwizard Tournament's age restriction with Kyle's help.
• Harry imagined becoming Hogwarts' Champion, winning the tournament, and earning Cho Chang's admiration.
• The next morning, Professor Sprout supervised the students as they squeezed Bubotuber pus in the greenhouses.
• The chapter explained that members of the public had sent Bubotuber pus to Cornelius Fudge, leaving Umbridge to handle much of his correspondence.

Kyle took Hermione to Akina Mountain Manor to fuse her with the Two-Tails, helping her unlock Fiendfyre and learn Susanoo. Afterward, they learned that Professor Moody had taught seventh-years the Unforgivable Curses in his first Dark Arts Defence class.

• Kyle skipped Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class and brought Hermione to the manor to become the Two-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Hermione discovered she could cast Fiendfyre and began forming a much larger Susanoo with the Two-Tails' power.
• Hermione mastered control of Susanoo by lunchtime, though it lacked the destructive strength of Kyle's version.
• Kyle and Hermione met Penelope after Professor Moody's class, and she told them he had taught the three Unforgivable Curses and let students experience the Imperius Curse.
• Kyle decided to ask Professor Moody to add more Dark Arts spells to the curriculum so students could practice countering them.

Moody began his first Dark Arts Defence class for the fourth-years by turning it into a practical demonstration with Kyle. After Moody launched a surprise attack with Dark spells, Kyle dodged and blocked them while teaching the students not to trust an enemy’s words.

• Kyle privately gave Moody several dangerous Dark Arts spells for students to practise defending against, and Moody used seventh-years as test subjects.
• After hearing about the seventh-years’ ordeal, the fourth-year students entered Moody’s first class nervously.
• Moody dismissed the textbooks and told the class he would teach them to deal with Dark Arts spells.
• Moody called Kyle to the platform, where Kyle expanded the classroom into a protected duelling arena.
• Moody began the demonstration by firing a Killing Curse at Kyle, who dodged it and explained that enemies should not be trusted.
• Kyle blocked several more of Moody’s spells and questioned whether Moody was acting more like an Auror or a dark wizard.

Kyle and Moody demonstrated how a real battle could ignore dueling rules, with Kyle blasting Moody through a barrier using a spell he called Avada Kedavra. Moody recovered and began teaching the students about dangerous Dark spells, leaving them to name the three most severely punished curses.

• Kyle and Moody fought with aggressive tactics, and Kyle drove back Moody’s black mist with a silver-white honey badger Patronus.
• Kyle’s red beam struck Moody and sent him through the barrier and into the neighboring classroom, leaving his prosthetic leg behind.
• Kyle restored the classroom and returned Moody’s prosthetic leg as Moody limped back and caught his breath.
• Moody told the students that Ministry rules against demonstrating illegal Dark spells were foolish and began a lesson on the three most dangerous spells.
• Harry considered how he might have countered the black mist, but denied having a question when Moody addressed him.
• Moody asked the class to name the three spells most severely punished by wizarding law, and Little Beaver raised her hand.

Kyle planned to build a network of magical universities for Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang graduates. Dumbledore told Kyle he had found the location of one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes, and they prepared to go after dinner.

• Kyle planned to recruit graduates from three magical schools for further study at magical universities, Azkaban Higher Academy, and Nurmengard.
• On Friday, Dumbledore stopped Kyle outside the Great Hall and silently told him he had found another clue about a Horcrux.
• Dumbledore said the Horcrux was hidden in a cave by the sea where Tom Riddle had terrorized other orphans during an outing.
• Kyle mocked Voldemort for bullying orphans, prompting Dumbledore to remember Kyle’s own violent childhood and reach for the Seven Wolves belt around his waist.

Dumbledore took Kyle to a coastal cave where Voldemort had hidden a Horcrux behind a magically sealed archway. After Kyle's attempts to break the barrier failed, Dumbledore identified blood as the likely key, but pig's blood did nothing, so Kyle prepared dragon blood.

• Dumbledore took Kyle to a cave beneath a cliff, and Kyle flew inside using Susanoo.
• Kyle found a magical fluctuation in the cave wall and smashed the rock, revealing a glowing archway.
• Kyle attacked the archway with a punch and Avada Kedavra, causing a commotion that forced Dumbledore to handle nearby Muggles.
• Dumbledore concluded that the archway probably required blood, but Kyle's pig's blood produced no reaction.
• Dumbledore told Kyle to try the blood of a magical creature, and Kyle produced a bottle of dragon blood.

Kyle and Dumbledore entered the cave and found a vast underground lake filled with Inferi, which Kyle turned into oil and set ablaze before Dumbledore drew the flames outside. At the island’s stone basin, they found the poisonous potion guarding the Horcrux, and Kyle forced a summoned fire dragon to drink it.

• Kyle and Dumbledore found a black lake packed with Inferi beneath the cave.
• Kyle transformed most of the lake water into oil and ignited it with the Gunbai of Blazing Flames.
• Dumbledore controlled the burning lake, drew the flames out of the cave, and destroyed the Inferi.
• Kyle and Dumbledore crossed the drained lakebed to a stone basin filled with glowing poison.
• Kyle summoned a fire dragon and used a Wood Golem to force its head toward the basin, telling it to drink.

Kyle and Dumbledore discovered that the locket in Voldemort’s basin was the fake Regulus had left behind, but Dumbledore considered the search useful and took it with him. They debated whether to let Voldemort return during the Triwizard Tournament, while Kyle argued Harry needed the challenge and more training.

• Kyle and Dumbledore found Regulus’s fake locket in the basin after Kyle used a fire dragon to overcome the poison.
• Dumbledore said the search had ruled out another possible hiding place and suggested checking his remaining Horcrux theory with Horace.
• Kyle told Dumbledore that he and Snape planned to resurrect Voldemort during the Triwizard Tournament’s final event.
• Kyle argued that Harry should enter the competition and criticized Dumbledore for neglecting Harry’s magical training.
• Dumbledore reflected on his shortcomings in teaching both Harry and Kyle.

Kyle and Dumbledore planned to let more students compete in the Triwizard Tournament and arrange extra lessons for Harry. After Kyle told Grindelwald that Dumbledore was out late, Grindelwald headed to Britain, while Kyle teased Hermione about her night with Konan and used Legilimency to probe her thoughts.

• Kyle persuaded Dumbledore to have seven or eight students from each school become Champions and suggested Moody give Harry private lessons.
• Kyle guessed Dumbledore was searching for Slughorn, then sent Grindelwald a tattletale letter implying Dumbledore had gone out late.
• Grindelwald replied that he had noted the message, and Alfred told Kyle that Grindelwald had left Nurmengard for Britain.
• Kyle explained Grindelwald's arrival to Hermione, who wondered whether Kyle had inherited Grindelwald's jealous streak.
• Kyle teased Hermione about staying out all night and Konan, then secretly activated Legilimency as Hermione blushed.