Chapter Summaries

After recovering from the dangerous effects of exhausting his magic, Kyle considered how to protect himself from the Obscurus and decided to create a Ten-Tails that could bear its burden and supply him with magic. He returned to his alchemy laboratory to make the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Kyle spent a week recovering in the Hospital Wing after using up his magic, while Dumbledore and Grindelwald watched over him.
• Kyle reappeared in the Great Hall, reassured his friends, and ate a large amount of meat.
• Kyle discussed removing the Obscurus with Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Old Newt, but refused to give it up as a source of power.
• Kyle proposed that Dumbledore and Grindelwald have another child to share the Obscurus, then was beaten after offering them a Fertility Potion.
• Kyle decided to use his plant-modification work and his own cells to create a Ten-Tails that could carry the Obscurus and store magic for him.
• Kyle returned to his alchemy laboratory and began creating the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

Cadmus Peverell visited Voldemort at Malfoy Manor and offered to help with his resurrection in exchange for Albus Dumbledore’s Elder Wand. He demonstrated his power by raising five corpses, leaving Voldemort to consider the offer.

• Three days before the third task, Cadmus Peverell entered Malfoy Manor and met Voldemort, who was in his frail infant-like state.
• Cadmus said he could help hold Grindelwald off while Voldemort carried out his resurrection plan.
• Cadmus summoned five coffins and revealed the Resurrection Stone, which Voldemort recognized as the gem from his Horcrux ring.
• Cadmus used the Resurrection Stone to bring five souls into the corpses, demonstrating that he and the five figures were not alive.
• Cadmus demanded Albus Dumbledore’s Elder Wand, saying it had originally belonged to him.

The Champions began the Triwizard Tournament’s final task, a twelve-hour battle royale in the Forbidden Forest, while Hogwarts spectators watched through magical projections. As they searched for supplies, Lee Jordan announced the earlier task scores and provoked the crowd and visiting headmasters with his biased commentary.

• The Champions met their relatives before gathering at the transformed Quidditch Pitch, where the tournament staff explained the battle royale rules and rescue signal.
• Ludo Bagman gave each of the twenty-five Champions a Portkey, and Lee Jordan announced the start of the final task as they were transported into the Forbidden Forest.
• The Champions spread across the competition grounds and began searching for supplies while the audience watched their progress on the projections.
• Lee Jordan announced Penelope Clearwater’s first-place score and called her his wife, prompting angry spectators to throw shoes at the commentary desk.
• Lee Jordan announced the other leading scores, including Cedric Diggory in second place and Hermione Granger and Hannah Abbott tied for third, then mocked the lower-ranking visiting Champions.
• Dumbledore went to the commentary desk and quietly urged Lee Jordan to restrain his remarks after Maxime and Karkaroff grew increasingly angry.

Hermione and Hannah made for the Central Tower to ambush the other Champions, while Cedric hunted through the Forbidden Forest and encountered a Beauxbatons Champion. The chapter ended with Cedric watching the nervous girl from a treetop and deciding whether to attack.

• Hermione used a limited half-Tailed Beast transformation to see in the dark and move through the trees.
• Hermione spotted the distant Central Tower and headed there, planning to wait for the other Champions rather than search for badges.
• Hannah also found the Central Tower and set out to collect tolls from Champions arriving there.
• Cedric entered the Forbidden Forest intending to target Durmstrang Champions because Krum and two others had pursued Cho Chang.
• Cedric encountered a nervous Beauxbatons girl and considered whether to attack her.

Cedric released a Beauxbatons Champion and headed toward the Acromantulas’ habitat for food, while Harry and Ron encountered a huge swarm of spiders in the Forbidden Forest. Ron stopped to face the swarm, claiming he had a way to deal with it.

• Cedric took a Beauxbatons Champion’s badge, untied her, and let her leave the competition.
• Cedric found few other Champions and set off toward the Acromantulas’ habitat to look for food.
• Harry escaped the shrinking poison circle after catching and eating a pheasant, then rested with a stomachache.
• Ron emerged from the bushes, warned Harry to run, and led him away from a swarm of Acromantulas.
• Harry and Ron failed to outrun the spiders, and Ron stopped to face them, saying he had another way.

Ron unleashed a powerful Tailed Beast Cloak and destroyed the Acromantula swarm, but the Dark Mark took control of him and he and Harry vanished by Portkey. As the competition continued and the other schools teamed up against Hogwarts, a ten-person Beauxbatons and Durmstrang squad attacked Draco Malfoy.

• Ron used his Tailed Beast Cloak and Incendio to burn away the Acromantulas, scorching Harry bald in the process.
• Ron stunned Harry, then the Dark Mark spread across Ron and took control of him; the two vanished together by Portkey.
• Professor McGonagall arrived, found the charred spiders and the two Champions, gave them replacement Golden Snitch recorders, and left without noticing anything amiss.
• The other Champions avoided the mushroom cloud, while Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students later joined forces to target the Hogwarts Champions.
• A ten-person Beauxbatons and Durmstrang squad encountered Draco Malfoy and attacked him together.

Hermione and Hannah waited in hiding at the Central Tower while collecting the arena’s special badges, and Draco was left badly injured after the Durmstrang and Beauxbatons Champions attacked him. The chapter ended as the two Hogwarts students revealed themselves to a ten-person allied force at the tower entrance, leaving their opponents unsure whether to fight or surrender.

• The Durmstrang and Beauxbatons Champions attacked Draco with dark curses, and Professor Flitwick called Madam Pomfrey for medical help.
• Hermione and Hannah concealed themselves at the Central Tower entrance and took turns challenging Class 5X Magical Creatures for badges.
• Hermione and Hannah collected all four special badges and five ordinary wooden badges, then returned to waiting at the tower.
• Hermione fed Hannah dragon meat, and Hannah spotted the ten-person allied force from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons approaching.
• Hermione removed the concealment barrier, and the ten Champions hesitated over whether to fight the Hogwarts duo or surrender.

While most Champions waited near the Central Tower, a disguised attacker abducted Karkaroff, then returned in his place. The judges ended the third task early, and the surviving Champions gathered at the tower as the competition concluded.

• After the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang teams surrendered their badges, Karkaroff left the judges' stand for the restroom.
• A black-robed figure stunned Karkaroff, stole his clothes and hair, and used the Imperius Curse to take him away under an Invisibility Cloak.
• Nearly an hour later, the attacker returned to the judges' stand disguised as Karkaroff.
• Hermione and Hannah eliminated the surrendered Champions while Cedric eliminated the Durmstrang Champions; Fleur was the only Beauxbatons Champion left in the arena.
• Dumbledore announced that the task would end in fifteen minutes, and Harry, Ron, and Fleur arrived at the Central Tower before Kyle led the Champions inside.

Kyle calculated the Triwizard Tournament results, with Hermione winning, before an attack on Dumbledore revealed that Karkaroff was actually Voldemort. The chapter ended with Dumbledore and Grindelwald facing Voldemort after Fawkes sacrificed himself to block a Killing Curse.

• Lucius and Narcissa rushed to defend Draco after ten people attacked him, and Lucius beat Karkaroff senseless in the stands.
• Kyle tallied the badge totals and final scores, placing Hermione first, Cedric second, Hannah third, Penelope fourth, and Draco sixteenth.
• The Champions returned to the Quidditch Pitch by Portkey, but Kyle did not appear with them.
• Karkaroff attacked Dumbledore with a Killing Curse, and Fawkes intercepted it and turned to ash.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald fought alongside each other against Karkaroff until he revealed that he was Voldemort.

Voldemort revealed himself at the Quidditch Pitch while Ron and Ignotus launched attacks on the crowd, turning the match into a battle between the invaders and Hogwarts defenders. The students evacuated as the fighting split between the pitch and the stadium grounds.

• Voldemort transformed in front of Dumbledore and revealed that the plan to abduct Harry had failed, while Kyle had disappeared instead.
• Ron erupted into a tailed-beast transformation and attacked the crowd, but Fred and George blocked his strike with a Shield Charm.
• Harry shed his disguise and Ignotus attacked the Weasley twins with conjured arrows, which Penelope slowed with water barriers.
• Cedric summoned Xin Ya, who rammed Ron away from the crowd, while Cedric used Transfiguration to pull students out of the Basilisk’s path.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald attacked Voldemort, and Ignotus’s Fiendfyre was suppressed by Penelope, Hermione, and Hannah using water from the Black Lake.
• Cadmus joined Ignotus and Voldemort against Dumbledore and Grindelwald, while the Three Four Troublemakers faced the transformed Ron outside the stadium.

Cedric, George, and Fred trapped the rampaging Ron inside a barrier while Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Hagrid fought Voldemort and the Peverell brothers. The battle shifted in Hogwarts' favor after the professors and young witches arrived, while Snape expected the poison in Voldemort's father's ashes to take effect.

• Cedric, George, and Fred sealed Ron inside a Four Violet Flames Formation to protect the evacuating students, and Professor McGonagall continued the evacuation.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald resisted Voldemort, Cadmus, and Ignotus's combined assault, while Hagrid charged into the crater and joined them.
• Grindelwald's Liquid Fiendfyre and Hagrid's Daytime Tiger injured Cadmus and Ignotus and destroyed three of the fifteen coffins Voldemort had summoned.
• Voldemort's twelve reanimated wizards emerged from the surviving coffins, but Minerva McGonagall, Flitwick, Pomona Sprout, Penelope, Hermione, and Hannah arrived to reinforce Dumbledore's side.
• Snape judged that Voldemort had little chance of winning and anticipated that the poison in Voldemort's father's ashes would soon take effect.

Hagrid hurled Voldemort into the Forbidden Forest, while Dumbledore and Grindelwald drove Ignotus and Cadmus there too. Hogwarts's defenders gained the upper hand against the Impure World Reincarnation wizards, but the Four Violet Flames Formation broke, and a gigantic purple-black sphere hurtled toward Hogwarts Castle.

• Hagrid charged through the crater with Voldemort, then threw him into the Forbidden Forest; Dumbledore and Grindelwald sent Ignotus and Cadmus after him.
• Four purple pillars rose from the Forbidden Forest and joined into a square barrier, while the three Heads of House and three students faced the Impure World Reincarnation wizards.
• Flitwick shielded the defenders, Sprout raised wooden guardians, Penelope extinguished Fiendfyre with a massive torrent of water, and McGonagall conjured armored magical creatures to attack.
• The Hogwarts defenders suppressed the enemy until Hermione and Hannah heard the Four Violet Flames Formation break near the Black Lake.
• A gigantic purple-black energy sphere roared through the sky toward Hogwarts Castle.

A defensive rune barrier protected Hogwarts Castle from the Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball, while Hermione and Hannah transformed into Tailed Beast Modes and rushed to aid the fight at Black Lake. George and Fred struggled to damage the Eight-Tails, whose attack had already devastated nearby transportation and shaken the castle.

• Hogwarts Castle’s defensive magic array formed a barrier that absorbed the Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball, though the blast overturned the Beauxbatons carriage and shook the castle.
• Hermione and Hannah decided to help Cedric and the others at Black Lake, and Professor McGonagall allowed them to go.
• Hermione entered Two-Tails Mode with a blue God Robe and Yin-Yang Eyes, while Hannah transformed into Tailed Beast Mode with a misty white God Robe.
• Penelope watched the transformations with envy and suspected Kyle could grant her the same ability.
• George’s Iron Man Suit and alchemical puppets barely harmed the Eight-Tails, while Fred’s strongest C0 Star attack had broken one of its horns and provoked its fury.

Cedric and the Weasley Twins struggled to stop the unexpectedly powerful Eight-Tails, which had been strengthened by Voldemort’s Dark Arts. Hermione and Hannah intervened, and Hannah subdued it before bringing back the unconscious but unharmed Ron.

• Cedric and the Weasley Twins fought the Eight-Tails but struggled against its powerful attacks and magical defenses.
• Cedric petrified part of the Eight-Tails with his lightning spell, but the beast began forming a Tailed Beast Ball aimed at Hogwarts Castle.
• Hermione and Hannah arrived, and a Tailed Beast Ball struck the Eight-Tails and sent it crashing into the Black Lake.
• Hannah attacked the Eight-Tails with Super Strength punches, singing a lullaby as she knocked it across the lake.
• Hannah canceled Tailed Beast Mode and returned with unconscious Ron, whom George and Fred confirmed was unharmed apart from bumps on his head.

Kyle was transported to Azkaban and fought off a disciplined force of dark wizards, then discovered Voldemort had prepared an army of armored giant Inferi and undead dragons to attack him. His Susanoo struggled to damage the massive creatures, leaving him wondering whether he could call for reinforcements.

• Kyle arrived on Azkaban and blocked a barrage of Killing Curses with protective magic before expanding his defenses into a towering Susanoo.
• Kyle killed several attackers but realized they were disciplined fighters rather than ordinary Death Eaters, and he decided to leave some alive for questioning.
• A tremor revealed an approaching army of modified giant Inferi, while undead dragons emerged from the clouds overhead.
• Kyle dismissed the Scourge Army as insufficient until its armored giant leader leaped at Susanoo and struck with a massive axe.
• Kyle’s Fiendfyre sword failed to pierce the giant’s armor, and his attack on an undead dragon only produced sparks.
• Kyle kicked away another giant and retreated from the surrounding forces, wondering if he could summon reinforcements in time.

Kyle fought the armored Inferi giants on Azkaban, enchanting Susanoo’s Fiendfyre swords with runes and Patronus magic to overcome their defenses. Worried that Hogwarts was in danger, he unleashed his newly mastered Sage Art: Wood Release: Thousand-Hand Great Buddha, towering over the giants.

• Kyle enchanted Susanoo’s Fiendfyre swords with Sharpness, Toughness, Potency, Grievous Wounds, and the Patronus Charm, then used them to cut through the Inferi giants’ armor and destroy one with the charm’s light.
• Kyle saw that the giants kept moving even after being severed and worried that he was taking too long to defeat them and return to Hogwarts.
• Kyle activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and revealed that he had inscribed a new ocular technique to control a magic he had long studied.
• Kyle slammed his hands together and summoned the Sage Art: Wood Release: Thousand-Hand Great Buddha, which grew to four hundred meters above Azkaban.
• Standing atop the Buddha’s head, Kyle looked down at the tiny Inferi giants and declared that he would give them both hands.

Kyle destroyed the Inferi giants and skeletal dragons on Azkaban, but Voldemort’s hidden formation trapped him on the ruined island and began resurrecting his enemies. Kyle faced a choice between exhausting the formation over time and risking a forceful escape with his dwindling magical power.

• Kyle used the True Several Thousand Hands - Top Transformed Buddha to crush the Inferi giants and destroy the skeletal dragons, reducing Azkaban to shattered reefs.
• After Kyle sat down to recover, a blood-red magical formation rose around Azkaban and joined with the anti-Apparition wards to seal him in.
• Red orbs entered the fallen giants’ and dragons’ remains, reassembling their bones and reviving them as undead creatures.
• Kyle struck the barrier but discovered it dispersed his attack through the formation, leaving it intact.
• Kyle realized he could wait for the formation to exhaust itself or try to break through by force, but either choice risked using up his remaining magical power.

Kyle destroyed Voldemort’s barrier around Azkaban by summoning a massive meteorite, then survived the impact through Izanagi and replaced his ruined eye. He decided to seal away the dangerous spell and teleported to Little Hangleton to search for the abducted Harry.

• Kyle cast Heaven-Shaking Earth-Shattering and summoned a meteorite that struck Azkaban, destroying Voldemort’s magical array and the island.
• Kyle survived the impact with Izanagi, replaced his ruined eye with a spare, and surveyed the destruction.
• Kyle realized the meteorite had been larger than he intended and decided not to use Heaven-Shaking Earth-Shattering again until he could control it.
• Kyle suspected Voldemort had abducted Harry in preparation for his resurrection and chose to check Little Hangleton first.
• Kyle sensed the Flying Thunder God seal in Little Hangleton and teleported there.

Kyle unexpectedly intercepted Voldemort’s escape and struck him out of the sky, allowing Voldemort to flee in a weakened state. After the battle, Dumbledore and Grindelwald caught Kyle when exhaustion nearly made him fall.

• Hagrid battered Voldemort with attacks while Dumbledore and Grindelwald defeated Voldemort’s two companions, and Hannah and Hermione subdued the Eight-Tails.
• Voldemort realized the poison in his body came from the potion Kyle had added to his father’s ashes and decided to escape rather than lose his newly acquired body.
• Kyle appeared in Voldemort’s path and struck him with a Pain Sky Kick, sending him crashing into the Forbidden Forest before he escaped as black smoke.
• Kyle realized he had dropped the unconscious Harry, whom Hagrid pulled headfirst from a mud pit.
• Kyle landed exhausted, and Dumbledore and Grindelwald caught him as he nearly fell.

After the battle, Dumbledore confirmed that Voldemort had returned, while Kyle said he had badly injured him with a full-strength kick. Dumbledore entered the Great Hall to explain the disturbance to the students and guests.

• Kyle collapsed from exhaustion into Dumbledore's arms, and Grindelwald jealously watched them on the way back to the castle.
• Madam Pomfrey examined Kyle, gave him a potion, and began treating Harry's bleeding arm while Hagrid waited for care.
• Dumbledore confirmed to Moody that Voldemort had returned, and Kyle said Voldemort was seriously injured after taking an undefended kick to the shoulder.
• Dumbledore left Kyle with Grindelwald and went into the Great Hall, where he quieted the crowd and began explaining the disturbance.