Chapter Summaries

The Weasleys and Harry discussed what the remains found near the vanished Azkaban revealed about the surviving Death Eaters and debated how they had obtained rats to eat. Harry proposed that isolating the waters may have driven the Death Eaters to eat rats, while Ron suggested poisoning the sea.

• Mr. Weasley concluded that the Death Eaters likely had no usable wands and were forced to eat rats, and the family discussed Dolohov's femur and the seven Death Eaters who had survived Azkaban.
• Bill, Charlie, and Percy debated whether the Death Eaters could still use magic and whether dark rituals had changed them.
• Mr. Weasley explained that rats had never been found on the island, and Bill suggested they may have emerged from underground after the Dementors disappeared.
• Mr. Weasley dismissed Ron's idea that the bones came from elsewhere, saying the remains appeared suddenly in waters Dumbledore had isolated.
• Harry suggested the isolation had caused the Death Eaters to start eating rats, and Ron proposed poisoning the isolated stretch of sea.

Mrs. Weasley planned to poison fish to deal with the island’s food supply, while Harry and Ginny talked and joked together in the garden. Snape arrived and warned Harry not to get involved with the Mirror World or the Nether Dragon, leaving Harry uneasy as Snape returned to the Burrow.

• Mrs. Weasley asked Mr. Weasley to write to Severus about making a poison that could cling to fish without killing them.
• Harry and Ginny sat together in a hammock at The Burrow and discussed Ron, the Half-Veela, and Harry’s behavior.
• Harry recited romantic lines to Ginny, and she made him listen to a teasing poem about his green eyes.
• Snape suddenly appeared in the garden and heard Harry’s poem to Ginny.
• Snape warned Harry that the Mirror World and the Nether Dragon were not his concern and that his life did not belong to him alone.

Harry worried that he might never finish carving the required words into the pudding while he and Ginny discussed Ron’s plan to make the Death Eaters hunt in the sea. Ryan explained that Voldemort’s island barrier would reject threats to the Death Eaters and described how the island’s magic resembled the Divine Kingdoms of ancient wizards.

• Harry feared he would never complete the task of carving the required words into the pudding, then analyzed Ron’s idea with Ginny.
• Ryan revealed that he had tampered with the food protections and moved rats onto the island, unintentionally leaving the Death Eaters and resurrected Voldemort to starve.
• Penelope asked Ryan whether Ron’s plan could work, and Ryan explained that Voldemort’s island barrier would reject anything that threatened his subordinates.
• Ryan compared Voldemort’s control of the island to the Divine Kingdoms of ancient wizards and described the world within his Moon Mirage Body.
• Ryan told Kate that she remained an ordinary wizard despite her strength, while Dumbledore and Riddle could sense the sleeping Voldemort near the sea.

Ryan and his friends discussed what to send the Death Eaters in Azkaban to eat, then watched the bizarre effects of Snape’s potion on the island. Kate was horrified by the footage, and Ryan revealed Snape had brewed the potion with Horklump juice and highly poisonous ingredients.

• Kate and Penelope suggested cockroaches and bats for the Death Eaters, while Fleur recommended relocating Horklumps to Azkaban.
• Ryan introduced cockroaches, bats, Horklumps, and fish affected by Snape’s potion to the island, creating spectacular footage.
• At Smith Castle, Ryan showed Kate the footage, and she recoiled in horror at what the Death Eaters had become.
• Penelope questioned Ryan about the potion, and he blamed its effects on a mutation caused by Voldemort’s influence.
• Ryan showed them Snape brewing the potion with Horklump juice and poisonous ingredients, and Kate demanded to see what the Death Eaters did when they woke up.

The Death Eaters struggled to survive on the island without magic, eating rats and avoiding fish that made them delirious. As the Lestranges worried about their island dominance and Little Crouch tried to keep fit, he handed his father’s head to Travers and went to exercise.

• The Death Eaters prayed to Voldemort before eating their meals of rats, bats, cockroaches, and Horklumps.
• Rodolphus Lestrange and Bella secretly ate fish, while Rabastan worried about his brother’s worsening mental state and watched Bella.
• Rabastan saw Little Crouch as a potential threat to the Lestranges’ control of the island.
• Little Crouch recalled that fish-induced delirium had led him into an unclear encounter with Bella, and that he had woken up kissing his father’s head beside a Horklump.
• Little Crouch lent his father’s head to Travers, then went to the shore to work out, while Rabastan resolved that the boy could not be allowed to live.

Ryan explained how Voldemort’s influence helped the stranded Death Eaters survive and clarified the stages of his return. At Hogwarts, Dumbledore assigned Arthur Weasley and Severus Snape to prepare for the early arrival of Grindelwald and visiting delegations.

• Ryan showed the others the Death Eaters’ behavior on the island, and Kate, Penelope, and Fleur reacted with disgust and argued over it.
• Ryan explained that Voldemort had become the will of the island, allowing the marked Death Eaters to sense his revival and hunt successfully despite their lack of magic.
• Ryan told Kate and Penelope that Voldemort’s heartbeat could be sensed after the ritual, but that his true recovery would take thirty-seven weeks, or 259 days.
• At Hogwarts, Dumbledore met Arthur Weasley and Severus Snape and dismissed the idea that their poison alone could eliminate the Death Eaters.
• Dumbledore told Arthur Weasley to receive officials from the German and Austrian Ministry of Magic, and assigned Snape to host Castelobruxo’s early inspection for the Triwizard Tournament.

Dumbledore explained the Triwizard Tournament’s focus and discussed how he planned to receive visiting delegations while staying wary of the Saints. At the Weasleys’, Harry received Hagrid’s letter about his new romantic interest and a birthday gift that turned out to be a peculiar, animated book.

• Dumbledore explained that the tournament tested each school’s overall strengths and that Castelobruxo continued to develop collective potions.
• Dumbledore said Arthur would receive the Austrian and German officials, while Snape and Hagrid would handle the other visiting delegations.
• Harry received a letter from Hagrid asking whether Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches had helped him win Ginny’s affection.
• Harry and Ginny realized Hagrid was in love and worried that Ron’s advice would ruin his chances.
• Harry opened his birthday gift and, with Ginny’s help, restrained the green-covered book as it scuttled across the room.

Harry, Ginny, and Ron discovered that Hagrid had sent Harry The Monster Book of Monsters as an early birthday present, and they suspected it might be preparation for the Triwizard Tournament. They studied dangerous magical creatures in its pages, including a Kappa and an Erkling.

• Ginny guessed that Hagrid’s love interest was from Beauxbatons, and Ron revealed that she was the school’s headmistress, a giant-blooded woman who was visiting Hogwarts as a representative of Squibs.
• Ron found Hagrid’s note and told Harry that The Monster Book of Monsters was his birthday present, given two days early.
• Ron suggested that the new book might be connected to the Triwizard Tournament, and Harry agreed that its creatures could feature in the trials.
• Harry, Ron, and Ginny read about the Bird-shaped Man-eater and learned how to weaken a Kappa by making it bow and spill the water from its head.
• Harry and Ron reacted with outrage to the Erkling, a German creature that lured children away and ate them, while Ginny noted that the German Ministry of Magic had controlled its population.

Harry spent the day practicing carving Ginny’s name into a pudding in the Mirror World while a magical double handled interruptions in reality. After returning to the darkened Burrow, he received Task Five, which sent him to the Mirror World to absorb traces and memories left where a Horcrux had been destroyed.

• Harry reviewed dangerous magical creatures with Ron and Ginny before Mrs. Weasley arrived and asked Ginny about her plans for The Quibbler.
• Ginny said she would go to Diagon Alley to buy Harry a birthday present, and Ron persuaded Mrs. Weasley to let him go with her.
• Harry practiced carving Ginny’s name into a pudding in the Mirror World and unknowingly sent a physical double to answer Ron and the others and eat dinner.
• Harry returned to reality and found Task Five directing him to the Mirror World to absorb remaining traces and memories, alongside a ritual spell that caused him pain.
• Harry recalled which Horcruxes had been destroyed and where, while noting that Riddle and the Resurrection Stone remained intact and that he knew nothing about the other Horcruxes.

On Harry’s birthday, he received Hogwarts’ letter and learned he could visit Hogsmeade, while still worrying about the Horcrux ritual and Professor Riddle. Draco, Ron, and Ginny brought him elaborate gifts, then hinted that surprising guests were waiting downstairs.

• Harry struggled with whether he should destroy the remaining Horcruxes or harm Professor Riddle to revive his mother.
• Harry received Hogwarts’ notice, book list, and Hogsmeade permission form for the new school year.
• Draco gave Harry a custom silver robe made from Walker’s composite material.
• Ron gave Harry lightweight, self-cleaning shoes made through a collaboration with Walker and the Skywalker Alchemy Workshop.
• Ginny gave Harry Graphorn-hide clothes with spell-rebounding properties.
• Draco, Ron, and Ginny told Harry that Bill and others had worked all night and that unexpected guests were downstairs.

Harry discovered that his friends had transformed the Burrow into a dark, silent setting for his birthday surprise, arranged so Regulus could attend his first outing. After welcoming everyone and receiving their gifts, Harry found that his birthday cake was still burning above him.

• Harry wrote down the birthdays of his friends and realized he did not know when Hagrid or Dumbledore was born.
• Harry stepped out of his room and found the Burrow dark, silent, and decorated in black.
• Ron, Fred, George, Bill, Charlie, the Weasleys, Draco, and Sirius revealed themselves and explained the surprise.
• Sirius introduced Regulus as the unexpected guest, and Harry welcomed him to the birthday party.
• Harry greeted everyone and received their gifts, then discovered his cake was hanging overhead among the ghostly flames.

Ryan took Kate, Penelope, and Fleur into the Mirror World to explain how he was preparing Harry’s fifth mission and balancing the opposing sides of Harry’s soul. The group left Smith House’s study as a preserved trace of Voldemort fled toward the place where Harry believed the Locket had been destroyed.

• Ryan brought Kate, Penelope, and Fleur into the inverted Mirror World, where three sleeping figures appeared in its reflection.
• Ryan explained the known Horcruxes and revealed that the Slytherin’s Locket had been destroyed in Smith House’s study, not the Boiler Room of Black House.
• Ryan told Penelope and Kate that he had preserved residue from destroyed Horcruxes for Harry’s mission, intending it to strengthen Harry’s evil side and balance his growing magic of love.
• Ryan said Voldemort’s preserved traces gravitated toward the places where they had died, and a black shadow emerged from beneath the carpet and flew away.

Ryan, Kate, and Fleur watched Voldemort’s remnant flee before Ryan announced their next stop was the White House. At The Burrow, Harry learned why Lupin and Tonks were teaching Werewolf Wizards at Hogwarts and realized he had forgotten to give Neville a birthday present.

• Ryan explained that Harry would not learn from Voldemort’s remnant that it had died there, then said the group would visit the White House next.
• At The Burrow, Ron told Harry that Lupin and Tonks were teaching Werewolf Wizards at Hogwarts under Dumbledore’s new plan.
• Draco complained about where the Werewolf Wizards would stay, and Ron said they were living in magical tents.
• Harry remembered that Neville had given him a birthday gift, but he had forgotten to give Neville one in return.
• Harry admitted Neville had once told him he was born one day before Harry.

Harry and his friends discussed his plan to pretend he had mistaken Neville’s birthday so he could give him a gift the next day, while the Weasleys teased one another and ordered presents. After night fell, Harry secured his room with protective spells and entered the mirror world to attempt Task Five.

• Harry reassured Ginny after Ron brought up the prophecy and Harry’s scar, while Draco pulled Ron away when he interrupted their private moment.
• Harry proposed pretending he had gotten Neville’s birthday wrong, and Draco approved of the plan while Ron hoped Harry might think of something better.
• Ginny teased Ron about Aunt Muriel, and Mrs. Weasley scolded him for being unkind to her.
• Harry, Ron, and Ginny discussed Mrs. Weasley, then ordered gifts for Neville through shops by owl.
• After Draco moved to the guest room, Harry cast three spells to guard and disguise his room, created a sleeping illusion on his bed, and entered the mirror through the window.

Harry entered the Mirror World and tried to reach the creature crying in Kreacher’s bedroom, but found the Boiler Room door impossible to open. He left to seek another way in, considering Kreacher, Sirius, or Ryan.

• Harry entered the Mirror World and walked through Black House toward the Boiler Room.
• At the door, Harry saw visions of a wounded, child-shaped creature crying in a nest of cloth.
• Harry prayed to the Creator of Myriad Stars, but the prayer’s final words seemed blocked by the closed door.
• Harry tried spells and a Muggle method to open the door, but nothing worked and his knife blade melted.
• Harry decided to seek help from Kreacher, Sirius, or Ryan and left the Mirror World through an iron basin.

Harry used a mirror to persuade Kreacher to open the Boiler Room door in the Mirror World, then entered and confronted the immobile monster from his vision. He invoked the Creator of Myriad Stars, and a surge of magic enveloped them both before Harry lost consciousness.

• Harry realized he could give Kreacher a mirror to create a reflective surface inside the locked room.
• Harry visited the Black House and gave Kreacher a silver mirror, which Kreacher used to open the Boiler Room door.
• Harry entered the Mirror World through the floor-length mirror in his bedroom and found the newly accessible door.
• Harry fell into the Boiler Room, where oppressive magic immobilized him and a raw-looking little monster.
• Harry recited a prayer to the Creator of Myriad Stars, and scorching magic enveloped him and the monster before he blacked out.

Harry discovered that a Horcrux had left Voldemort’s memories of Bellatrix Lestrange in his mind and changed half his face. He realized acting out parts of Voldemort’s memories made the red scales disappear, but refused to kill anyone, and ended the chapter on an outing with Ginny, Ron, and Draco.

• Harry woke to find the left side of his face red and scaly, and memories revealed that the Horcrux contained Voldemort’s feelings for Bellatrix Lestrange.
• Harry read Task Six, which required him to digest the memories while remaining aware that he was only playing a role.
• Harry found that the memories gave him powerful Dark magic, and more than half the scales vanished after he used Fiendfyre to destroy London in the Mirror World.
• Harry concluded that intimacy, destruction, and killing made the scales fall away in increasing amounts, but refused to kill a wizard to complete the task.
• During an outing to Flourish and Blotts, Ron and Draco teased Harry about constantly seeking intimacy with Ginny, and Ginny hinted they could be together at home.

Harry and his friends encountered a dramatically muscular Neville at Flourish and Blotts, where he revealed his transformation came from training and helped the bookstore manager subdue The Monster Book of Monsters. The group then discussed Harry and Dudley’s abilities before Ron recognized Viktor Krum behind them.

• Neville surprised Harry, Ron, Draco, and Ginny with his muscular build and said he had developed it through training.
• Neville explained that he had mistaken his birthday, thanked the group for their gift, and showed off his strength.
• The bookstore manager asked Neville to tame the snapping copies of The Monster Book of Monsters, and Neville quickly subdued them.
• Ron compared Neville and Dudley’s strength with Harry’s, while Harry explained Dudley’s Gravity Magic and his own abilities.
• An unfamiliar speaker praised Harry and Dudley, and Ron recognized Viktor Krum.

Harry and his friends met Viktor Krum in Diagon Alley, where Krum invited them for ice cream and explained why he disliked Durmstrang. He revealed that Karkaroff had been replaced in practice by someone else, leaving the identity of the new power at the school unclear.

• Harry greeted Viktor Krum, whose mature appearance surprised him, and Krum gave Ron an autographed photo.
• Draco questioned Krum about Durmstrang, and Ron revealed that Draco had once wanted to attend the school but was rejected.
• Krum invited Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Draco to Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, and Harry told Neville where they were going.
• At the parlour, Krum said Karkaroff had treated students poorly and that the headmaster had changed the previous year, though Karkaroff remained headmaster in name.
• Krum said someone else had effectively replaced Karkaroff and ordered another cup of ice cream.

Krum explained his confusion about Grindelwald and Dumbledore while Harry and the others listened. Above the clouds, Ryan showed Kate how Harry’s transformation in the Boiler Room had produced the ingredients for a “Dark Wizard” potion.

• Krum revealed that Grindelwald had killed his grandfather and said he was shocked to see Dumbledore embrace Grindelwald at the Triwizard Tournament.
• Krum ordered another ice cream as he continued to struggle with what Dumbledore’s actions meant.
• Neville arrived while Harry and the others were still at the ice cream shop.
• Ryan described the effects of a “Dark Wizard” potion to Kate and showed her Harry’s transformation in the Boiler Room.
• Ryan explained that the potion came from magical evolution catalyzed by memories and emotions, and Kate said his method could not be widely replicated.