Chapter Summaries

Harry read the bizarre, comment-filled Ghost Weekly before Dumbledore announced the term’s notices and Hagrid’s appointment as Care of Magical Creatures professor. After the feast, Harry and the Ravenclaws headed to their tower as Ron remained excited about seeing Krum.

• Harry and Terry read Ghost Weekly, whose pages featured a female ghost and two dueling knights alongside strange comments from ghost readers.
• Harry dozed off at the feast and woke when Ron shoved him, with Ginny blushing beside him.
• Dumbledore reminded students about school rules and announced that Hagrid would replace Professor Kettleburn as Care of Magical Creatures teacher.
• The Great Hall erupted in applause for Hagrid, while Madame Maxime gazed at him with delight.
• Dumbledore dismissed everyone, and Harry calmed Ron before following the Ravenclaws toward their tower.

Harry returned to Hogwarts for third year and noticed that Ryan appeared in two places at once, though no one else seemed to see both versions. In Transfiguration class, Professor McGonagall introduced Animagus transformations and warned the students about their dangers and strict Ministry regulation.

• Harry returned to the dormitory after the previous night's events and saw that Ryan's bed was empty.
• Harry, Ginny, and Neville reviewed their schedules at breakfast while Ron went to the Black Lake to look for Krum.
• Harry saw two versions of Ryan with different companions, but the others at breakfast could not see them.
• Ron returned without finding Krum and complained about his stakeout as Harry and the others headed to Transfiguration.
• Professor McGonagall explained Animagus transformations, their risks, and the requirement that practitioners register with the Ministry of Magic.

Ryan’s planted rumors about Dumbledore resurfaced in McGonagall’s thoughts as she taught the Third Years about Animagi. After Harry and Ron attended Divination, Trelawney predicted both of their deaths, leaving them under the watchful eyes of their classmates.

• McGonagall imagined a chain of rumors accusing Dumbledore of pursuing Newt, Riddle, and Snape, while Ryan reflected that he had planted the stories in the past.
• McGonagall explained that becoming a werewolf could grant Animagus-like abilities and assigned the class an essay about Animagi.
• Harry and Ron headed to Divination, and Neville warned Harry to prepare for Trelawney’s predictions.
• Neville told Ginny that Trelawney had predicted death for both Harry and Ron, and Ron suspected she disliked him because of his relationship with Lavender.

Professor Flitwick taught the Shock Absorption Charm, then Harry and Neville joined Ron, Lavender, and Parvati by the Black Lake to untangle the misunderstanding between Ron and Krum. Ron decided to explain the situation to Krum himself.

• Professor Flitwick expanded the classroom and taught the students to use the Shock Absorption Charm by jumping from a staircase made of books.
• After class, Ron hurried to find Lavender, and Harry and Neville followed, worried that Ron might confront Krum.
• Harry asked Parvati, Lavender, and Ron whether they had told Krum that Ron and Lavender were dating, and learned none of them had.
• Harry concluded that Krum had mistaken Ron's attention for romantic pursuit and might now be avoiding him to save face.
• Ron insisted that he would explain everything to Krum himself and told Lavender not to write to him.

Harry, Ron, and their classmates attended Hagrid’s Care of Magical Creatures Class, where Hagrid introduced The Monster Book of Monsters and teased the students with a mystery creature. The chapter ended as Hagrid returned from the forest with the creatures hidden behind black satin.

• Ron gave up trying to meet Krum and followed Harry to Hagrid’s cabin, while Krum was relieved to see him go.
• Harry recognized several classmates and tried to work out which Hufflepuff girl Neville liked, but the class bell interrupted him.
• Hagrid led the students to a paddock at the forest’s edge and showed them how to stroke The Monster Book of Monsters to make it open.
• Hagrid told the class that the magical creatures they would study had names starting with H, then went into the forest to fetch them.
• Hagrid returned with the creatures concealed behind a sheet of black satin, and Ron excitedly told Harry that he had guessed wrong.

Hagrid introduced twelve Hippogriffs as the subject of his first Care of Magical Creatures lesson, while Harry recognized that Hagrid’s power let the creatures submit willingly to him. The class ended with the Hippogriffs calmly approaching the students under Hagrid’s command.

• Hagrid challenged the students to guess the lesson, and Ernie Macmillan reasoned that the answer might be Abraxans.
• Harry identified Hippogriffs as the lesson’s subject, explaining that Hagrid favored straightforward choices and dangerous creatures.
• Hagrid awarded points to Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, then revealed twelve Hippogriffs behind a curtain.
• Hagrid introduced the Hippogriffs, including Buckbeak, and whistled them toward the students without using restraints.
• Harry concluded that the Hippogriffs obeyed Hagrid because they were grateful to him and willingly submitted to his power.

Kate used the Hour-Reversal Charm with Ryan’s help, and he explained how the Sands of Time enabled the spell and powered Time-Turners. Meanwhile, Ryan’s other selves continued their activities at Hogwarts, where Ron’s harassment of Krum kept a misunderstanding with Lavender unresolved, while Ryan’s true self slept in a rune-covered bronze coffin.

• Kate rewound time with the Hour-Reversal Charm, and Ryan told her that his bodily fluids and the Sands of Time let her use it without a wand.
• Ryan explained that Time-Turners used the Sands of Time as a medium and consumed magic, and that the Ministry could no longer extract the sand directly.
• Ryan and Hermione rode Buckbeak during Hagrid’s Care of Magical Creatures class, where students learned how to earn the Hippogriffs’ approval.
• Ron called out to Krum at the ship, and Krum begged him to stop harassing him as the misunderstanding with Lavender continued.
• Ryan reflected on his several active forms and revealed that his true self slept inside a bronze coffin in Smith’s Alchemy Cabin, strengthened by its runes.

Harry connected Neville’s detailed knowledge of Zacharias’s Murtlap mishap to Hannah and met Neville privately in the Ravenclaw common room. He told Neville that his body seemed to repel magic and began asking him to do something for him next April, but the chapter ended before he explained what.

• Harry and the others learned that Zacharias had eaten too many Murtlap growths, causing him to vomit, shoot sparks, and grow purple hair from his ears.
• Hermione explained how Murtlap growths could be eaten to resist jinxes, while Neville described their effects and how quickly they regenerated.
• Harry inferred that Hannah had told Neville about Murtlaps and secretly arranged to meet him.
• Harry used magic to send Ron off to talk with Lavender, then left the Great Hall with Ginny.
• Neville joined Harry in the Ravenclaw common room, and Harry said his magic avoided Neville and that he needed Neville to do something next April.

Harry waited in vain for Dumbledore’s notice about private lessons while noticing that Professors Snape and McGonagall seemed distracted. In Care of Magical Creatures, Hagrid introduced a creature called Lexus to the students.

• Harry received no notice about private lessons and attended Potions, where he brewed a Confusing and Befuddlement Draught while Professor Snape frowned and praised him twice.
• Professor McGonagall taught the class to transform clocks into snails and seemed preoccupied.
• Ron reacted to his packed afternoon schedule, while Krum stayed inside the ship to avoid him.
• Hagrid asked the students to identify a creature on a stool, and Justin Finch-Fletchley, Ernie, and Dudley each guessed incorrectly.
• Hagrid revealed a silver-green, lizard-like creature called Lexus.

Hagrid taught the third-years about Mokes and showed them Lexus, while Harry learned that Ancient Runes associated the number seven with an unknown magical creature. Professor Babbling said Tom Riddle had once asked about the same mystery and explained that wizards themselves were magical creatures.

• Hagrid explained that Moke skin made valuable wallets and moneybags, then warned the students that catching Mokes was difficult.
• Harry realized Hagrid had caught Lexus after awakening the previous school year, but had no chance to speak with him after class.
• Ron learned from a girl wearing a Bulgaria scarf that Krum had recently been in the library with Durmstrang students.
• Professor Babbling taught the Ravenclaws the Ancient Runic symbols for numbers zero through nine, including an unknown creature for seven.
• Harry asked what the unknown creature was, and Professor Babbling revealed that Tom Riddle had asked her the same question decades earlier.
• Professor Babbling said wizards were magical creatures and connected the mystery of seven to qualities every wizard possessed.

Harry connected Professor Burbage’s lesson about the number seven to Voldemort’s Horcruxes, then told Ron that Voldemort had likely made or planned to make more. The chapter left Ron wondering whether there were seven Horcruxes.

• Harry wondered whether Voldemort had made seven Horcruxes and suspected they were linked to the seven deadly sins.
• Professor Flitwick taught the Slowing Charm and had the students practice slowing their descents in a magically transformed classroom.
• After class, Harry cast Muffliato and told Ron that Voldemort had likely made or planned to make more Horcruxes.
• Ron connected Harry’s theory to the number seven and asked whether Voldemort had seven Horcruxes.

Dumbledore, Snape, and several Hogwarts professors discussed a newly published Male-Male Pregnancy Potion formula and its possible consequences. Dumbledore ordered Snape to brew it and write a paper, then began suspecting Grindelwald might be behind the formula.

• Dumbledore, McGonagall, Sprout, Flitwick, and Sirius questioned Snape about the Male-Male Pregnancy Potion formula.
• Snape denied researching the formula and claimed he had found it in a storage cabinet and accidentally sent it to Advanced Potions.
• McGonagall, Sirius, and Flitwick shared rumors linking Snape and Dumbledore to research into the potion and reproduction.
• Dumbledore said the potion could cause rapid population growth and told Snape to brew it and write a paper with Sirius's help.
• After the others left, Snape suggested Grindelwald might have created the formula as a hint to Dumbledore, who realized it was possible.

Harry received a note from Dumbledore scheduling private lessons for Saturday evening, and he and his friends speculated about what he would be taught. In Herbology, the class began collecting Puffapod beans as Hermione surprised everyone by answering Professor Sprout’s question.

• Colin Creevey delivered Dumbledore’s note to Harry, then posed for a photo with him.
• Harry read that Dumbledore would begin private lessons with him at eight on Saturday and noted the postscript about sour fizzy drinks.
• Harry, Ron, and Neville discussed what Dumbledore might teach Harry during History of Magic.
• Ron showed Harry his analysis of the Arresto Momentum spell before they headed to Herbology.
• Professor Sprout led the class into Greenhouse Three to shell Puffapod beans, and Hermione described the plants’ traits, earning Ravenclaw ten points.

Hermione used her new deduction ability to confront Ryan about Fleur, then reconciled with him after Hamster Wheel PhD calmed her down. Meanwhile, The Quibbler published Ryan’s rumors as confirmed facts, bringing Gellert to Dumbledore’s office, where Dumbledore admitted that only the formula was real.

• Hermione questioned Ryan about Fleur after deducing their connection, and Ryan used Hamster Wheel PhD’s Mind-Clearing Field to calm her.
• Hermione explained that her Phoenix Metamorphosis ability let her draw conclusions from clues, and she forgave Ryan before Potions class.
• Xenophilius Lovegood accepted a request to promote an article in The Quibbler, which presented Ryan’s rumors about Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Snape, and Voldemort as confirmed facts.
• Snape reacted furiously to The Quibbler’s claims during Potions class and dismissed the students early.
• Gellert confronted Dumbledore in the Headmaster’s Office about the rumors and the formula, and Dumbledore admitted that only the formula was real.

After Grindelwald disappeared, Harry and his friends became convinced that The Quibbler’s reports about his pregnancy by Dumbledore might be true. On Saturday morning, they found the Great Hall transformed for an alchemy demonstration, where a professor explained how alchemy related to Potions and noted Dumbledore’s achievements as a student.

• Ryan realized Grindelwald had taken the Male-Male Pregnancy Potion after it went missing, and Grindelwald then vanished.
• Harry read reports describing the potion, while rumors about Grindelwald and Dumbledore spread among the students and adults.
• Harry questioned Dobby, who said Grindelwald had switched to lighter food and Dumbledore had recently visited the ship on the Black Lake.
• Harry refused his friends’ suggestions to avoid the Headmaster’s Office and spent the day anxious about Saturday.
• Harry, Ron, and Neville entered the Great Hall early and found the staff table replaced by a rune-covered alchemical instrument.
• A tall professor explained that Potions was a kind of alchemy and that Dumbledore had won a Cairo International Alchemy Conference medal as a student.

Madame Maxime taught students from Hogwarts and the visiting schools how to use Scott Pots, carve magical script, and translate the Shock Absorption Charm. The class produced enchanted silk for the Champions’ robes and awarded Ravenclaw fifty House points for having the most successful results.

• Madame Maxime explained Michael Scott’s Transmutation Spell and how Nostradamus adapted it into magical script.
• Harry quickly used a Scott Pot to turn black cloth into a rubber-like material, and students across the schools tried the same task.
• Madame Maxime taught students to carve magical script into wood and guided older students through translating the Shock Absorption Charm.
• Students from each school and year group combined their work to make silk inscribed with the Shock Absorption Charm for the Champions’ robes.
• Madame Maxime announced the school and House results, and Professor Flitwick awarded Ravenclaw fifty points after it produced 83 silks.

After Hogwarts won the alchemy team event, Dumbledore appeared in place of Grindelwald to teach War Magic and explained how it differed from modern magic. The students learned that the lesson would have no regular participation points, and that their team task would be to cast a group spell while supporting the Champions in the individual event.

• Hogwarts took first place in the alchemy team event, followed by Beauxbatons, Castelobruxo, and Durmstrang.
• Krum quietly left the Great Hall and returned to the ship before the War Magic class began at three.
• Dumbledore took the stage and explained that Grindelwald had returned to Durmstrang because he was ill, while Karkaroff could not teach due to affairs in his country.
• Dumbledore described War Magic as powerful but slow and dangerous, contrasting it with the faster, safer modern magic used in wizard duels.
• Dumbledore introduced group War Magic and said students would be judged on their team spell and would enhance the Champions during the individual event, prompting complaints from the students.

Dumbledore introduced the students to three War Magic spells and explained how they would divide the spells’ syllables among themselves. By dinner, Hogwarts students were still struggling to assign their syllables because so many had chosen the same ones.

• Dumbledore explained that students would study three War Magic spells and distribute their syllables among the group before the first competition event.
• Ryan recognized the spells as ancient magic and realized Dumbledore was introducing group magic developed with Grindelwald.
• Dumbledore handed out parchment with the spells’ long incantations and instructed students to choose four suitable syllables from the first spell.
• Harry, Ron, and Anthony began reading the incantation, while Ron complained about its length and Anthony noted that its words were not English.
• The other schools finished assigning syllables, but Hogwarts repeated the selection process because many students chose the same syllables.
• At dinner, nearly one-third of Hogwarts students were still muttering incantations and searching for their assigned syllables.

Ryan explained how Hogwarts’ House system shaped its students and why the Houses’ rivalries had hurt their performance in class. Professor Caster Pollacchi introduced group potion-making and had the schools begin reprocessing Fluxweed with the Lighting Charm.

• Hermione asked Ryan why Hogwarts had performed poorly despite having more students, and Ryan explained the effects of the House system and its flaws.
• Harry recognized Professor Pollacchi as an Arborsage, and Ryan explained that magical transformation had given him a tree-like lifespan.
• Pollacchi let the students continue eating and explained that group potions required ingredients to be reprocessed with uniform magic.
• Pollacchi assigned the students to pass Fluxweed through their schools, casting the Lighting Charm on its leaves before placing it in a black bag.
• The students began chanting “Lumos,” while Ron resumed eating.

After the Group Potions class, Ryan took Hermione to Atlantis while Harry visited Dumbledore’s office for a private lesson. Dumbledore explained that Grindelwald was absent because he was pregnant, and said Voldemort would likely return around the end of the school year.

• Dean finished processing Fluxweed, and Professor Polaqi ended class and announced the next Group Potions and War Magic times.
• Harry urged Ron to write to Krum, but Ron refused, and Ginny scolded him for making trouble for Harry.
• Hermione complained to Ryan that she still did not understand how Group Potions were made, and Ryan said the schools would explain it later before taking her to Atlantis.
• Ryan sent another body to the Chum Bucket restaurant while Hermione ran to the library.
• Harry went to Dumbledore’s office, where Dumbledore explained that Grindelwald had taken a pregnancy potion and would be absent until the child was born.
• Dumbledore told Harry that Voldemort would most likely be resurrected around the end of the following June.