Chapter Summaries

Ryan deflected Hermione’s suspicions about his reaction to the Lady Grey by pretending he regretted never pursuing her, then agreed to take Hermione to Moon City each night that week. In a conversation with Harry, Dumbledore examined the cruelty Harry had shown Zacharias and learned that Harry’s mother had linked it to James’s past behavior; the chapter ended with Dumbledore agreeing to speak to Sirius about his feelings for the dead James.

• Hermione questioned Ryan about his reaction when Snape mentioned the Lady Grey, but Ryan concealed his thoughts by expressing regret that he had never made a move on her.
• Hermione forgave Ryan and demanded that he take her to Moon City every night that week, and Ryan agreed while teasing her about her teeth.
• Dumbledore told Harry that he had postponed a lesson and wanted to discuss the emotional ignorance behind the cruelty Harry had shown Zacharias.
• Harry said Lily had recognized James’s style in his actions and complained that she now believed James had cared more about Sirius.
• Phineas Nigellus Black argued that Sirius should move on from his feelings for the dead James, and Dumbledore agreed to speak with Sirius.

Dumbledore told Harry about the Targaryens and explained what he had learned about Zhou Yi and Taiyi Dao. On May 24, Harry and Ron discovered that the Triwizard Tournament’s team event would take place in the Great Hall, where four tables of processed potion ingredients surrounded a gigantic cauldron.

• Dumbledore described the Targaryen family’s history, dragon-breeding traditions, and the historical trial that Harry had heard about from Lily.
• Dumbledore said his friend had found Zhou Yi in ancient Taiyi Dao records and explained the sect’s charms, talismans, and secret advanced teachings.
• As May 24 arrived, Harry worried about the unknown team event and the canceled Quidditch match while rumors about his family continued to spread.
• Harry and Ron went to the Great Hall after hearing that the team event would involve group potion-making and be held indoors.
• Harry and Ron found four circular tables covered with familiar, processed potion ingredients and an enormous cauldron in the Great Hall.

Ryan, Kate, and Penelope prepared for the team potion competition and examined the unusual cauldrons provided for each school. Penelope suggested the cauldrons were designed to withstand the blended magic in the group potion ingredients, and the competition was about to begin.

• Ryan and Kate rejoined the crowd after Kate used her transformations to tease him, and Penelope asked why they had taken so long.
• Kate soothed Penelope with affection, while Ryan turned the conversation toward the team potion competition.
• Penelope explained that each school had been given a set of potion equipment, including an unfamiliar cauldron.
• Ryan described common cauldron materials and noted that the four competition cauldrons seemed to have no effect on brewing, though they were exceptionally sturdy.
• Penelope guessed that the cauldrons were built to contain ingredients infused with many wizards' different magical essences.

Professor Polaqi explained the Group Potion competition, in which each school’s chosen student would brew a potion with help from the other students. As the four brewers completed the recipe, he called the students forward to stir their potions, leaving the final step underway.

• Arthur Weasley introduced Caster Pollacchi as the competition’s host, and Pollacchi explained the Group Potion task and its testing with toads.
• Hogwarts chose Penelope to brew its potion, while Durmstrang, Castelobruxo, and Beauxbatons selected their own representatives.
• Harry, Ron, Anthony, Michael, and Ginny discussed Penelope’s selection and Hogwarts’s chances of winning.
• Students purified the equipment as Penelope and the other representatives added ingredients, prepared powders and chopped ingredients, and followed Pollacchi’s brewing instructions.
• As the potion became clear, Professor Polaqi told the students to come forward one by one and stir it counterclockwise.

The students completed an Eternal Potion, which Professor Polaqi tested by having Professor Riddle curse four toads and comparing how clearly the potion restored their school crests. The results awarded points to the four Champions as a bonus for the final individual competition.

• Draco finished the group potion and learned that the students had brewed an Eternal Potion that could regenerate indefinitely.
• Professor Polaqi explained that the potion would be tested on cursed toads, with the clarity of each restored school crest showing the potion’s completion level.
• Professor Riddle cursed the four toads, turning their skin bright yellow, and the remaining students poured potion over them.
• The potion restored the crests, with Castelobruxo’s clearest, followed by Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang.
• Professor Polaqi awarded the Champions bonus points: Harry Potter reached 89, Viktor Krum 65, Fleur Delacour 95, and Hufflepuff Ilveras 80.

The students discussed the Elixir of Light and its likely role in defending against dark creatures in the next competition. Riddle felt love for Lily for the first time, while Ravenclaw students began researching Lethifolds to help Harry prepare.

• Harry and Ron watched the potion turn into light and wondered whether it would make competitors glow during the competition.
• Kate learned that the potion created a field of pure light that repelled dark creatures, and Penelope suggested it could counter Voldemort’s fear field.
• Riddle gazed at Lily and felt love for the first time, thinking of her as his mother and of Meiling as his daughter.
• Ravenclaw students discussed the possibility that Lethifolds would appear in the next competition and studied Flavius Belby’s account of surviving one.
• The students concluded that a Lethifold could be driven back physically and speculated that Harry’s strength and the potion might protect him.

Harry studied divination to predict the Triwizard Tournament’s third task and Voldemort’s return, while Ryan explained how Voldemort’s resurrection date depended on outside interference. The chapter ended with the group discussing the origins of the Knights of Walpurgis and its transformation into the Death Eaters.

• Harry reviewed students’ guesses about the third task and studied several forms of divination as Voldemort’s expected resurrection drew closer.
• Ron suggested Harry study the Patronus Charm, and Harry complained that his mother had grown close to Snape and was spending time at Spinner’s End.
• Kate and Penelope discussed Harry’s prediction about Voldemort’s return, and Ryan said Voldemort would originally have resurrected in early June unless he gained the power of wizards he had meant to kill.
• Penelope recalled the history of Walpurgis Night, and Ryan explained that Voldemort had founded the Knights of Walpurgis as a group tied to Druidism before it became the predecessor of the Death Eaters.

Harry, Ron, Ginny, Draco, Ilvas, and Krum went to the Quidditch Pitch, where Mr. Weasley revealed the third task’s maze and underwater challenge. The Champions would need to find the correct tunnels, collect all four school crests from the bottom of the Black Lake, and return to the starting point first.

• Ryan and Penelope argued about knights and heroes until Kate interrupted and pointed out that Lily Evans and Professor Snape’s child had already been born.
• Professor McGonagall told Harry that Arthur would explain the third task at the Quidditch Pitch that night, and Ron, Ginny, and Draco went with him.
• Ilvas and Krum joined Harry’s group on the way to the pitch, where they found a maze of pits and interconnected tunnels.
• Mr. Weasley explained that the Champions would have to navigate the maze and magical traps, then find one of four pits leading to the Black Lake.
• Mr. Weasley told the Champions to collect the four school crests underwater without using finished products such as Underwater Breathing Tubes, then return to the starting point to win.

Harry discovered that Champions were exempt from end-of-year exams and spent the day alone while his friends sat theirs. After Ron endured a disastrous Charms exam and a delayed Ancient Runes exam, Harry finally had time to discuss the tournament with Ron and Ginny.

• Harry returned to the castle with Draco, Ron, and Ginny after inspecting the arena, while Krum and Ilvas wondered whether he was confident enough to skip studying.
• Professor McGonagall told Harry that Champions did not need to take end-of-year exams and sent him out of the Transfiguration exam hall.
• Harry wandered the quiet castle and guessed with Ginny that Ryan had arranged his exemption to amuse himself.
• Harry waited through his friends' exams, and Ron was sent from the Charms exam after Zacharias's unreliable Happiness Charm made them laugh uncontrollably.
• Ron completed his Charms exam with an unlucky partner, then took Ancient Runes late and complained about Professor Babbling and Zacharias.
• After dinner, Harry finally sat down with Ron and Ginny to analyze the tournament.

Harry discussed the Triwizard competition with Ginny and Ron, who urged him to prepare for its underwater and maze challenges. He agreed to practice useful spells after deciding to ask Madam Pince about Egyptian magic books and moisture-detecting spells.

• Ginny and Ron questioned Harry about neglecting practice, and Harry said he had ordered Gillyweed to breathe underwater.
• Ginny reasoned that the correct tunnels probably lacked dark creatures, while Ron warned that creatures might escape into the maze and become obstacles for other Champions.
• Harry concluded that twelve depressions contained four correct tunnels and eight with creatures, and Ginny suggested finding a spell to detect moisture.
• Harry rejected asking Hermione because he worried Ryan would prank him, and he decided to consult Madam Pince instead.
• Ron offered to help Harry practice, and Harry brought out Percy's list of useful competition spells, including the Impediment Curse, Reducto, and Point Me.

Harry practiced defensive spells with Ron and discussed his Quidditch plans with Ginny before his exams. During Patronus training, Ron produced a silver Patronus shaped like a dog, and then conjured a brighter animal after realizing how well his joy fueled the spell.

• Harry stopped Ron's bench with the Impediment Curse, then destroyed and restored it with the Reducto and Reparo spells.
• Harry told Ginny he remembered the Quidditch pitch layout and could use the Point Me Spell to navigate it.
• Hagrid let Ron and the others take their Care of Magical Creatures exam first while Harry watched the students approach the Hippogriffs.
• Draco, Neville, Ron, and Ginny proposed training Harry in the Patronus Charm, with Neville using his sword magic to induce fear.
• Ron produced a small dog-shaped silver Patronus on his first try, then cast the charm again without tracing circles and conjured a dazzling silver animal.

Harry’s Phoenix magic awakened during Neville’s fear exercise, allowing him to summon a Phoenix Patronus. Its appearance drew the attention of Dumbledore and the pregnant woman with him, who accepted Dumbledore’s explanation and discussed their child’s name.

• Draco failed to produce more than a wisp of silver light while Ron summoned a Jack Russell Terrier Patronus.
• Neville’s Sword in the Heart brought the group’s fears to the surface, leaving Ginny curled up, Draco trembling, and Ron’s Patronus unstable.
• A Phoenix cried out from Harry’s heart, dispelling the group’s fear and restoring Ron’s solid Patronus.
• Harry summoned a silver Phoenix Patronus through a gate of light and briefly experienced seeing through two bodies.
• A woman aboard a ship on the Black Lake saw Harry’s Patronus on a smoke screen, and Dumbledore explained its connection to Lily’s magic and Harry’s wand.
• The woman accepted Dumbledore’s explanation and asked about their child’s name; Dumbledore proposed Percival or Kendra, and she smiled at his choices.

Harry discovered that a Phoenix lived in his heart and had awakened him while Neville’s fear-inducing spell made the others relive frightening memories. Ryan explained that Harry’s Phoenix Patronus differed from the Phoenixes created through Phoenix Metamorphosis, and Fawkes had not been drawn to it.

• Harry’s Phoenix Patronus returned to his heart, restoring his blood to red, and he realized he had a permanent Patronus.
• Ron, Ginny, and Draco described the fears Neville’s spell had brought to mind, including Draco’s memory of seeing Voldemort as a baby.
• Harry suggested they stop practicing and review for Snape’s Potions exam, and Draco, Neville, and Ron left to find their friends.
• Luna and Hermione transformed into Phoenixes near Ryan and drew attention to Harry’s Phoenix Patronus.
• Ryan told Luna that her and Hermione’s Phoenix Metamorphosis made them kin to real Phoenixes, while Harry’s Patronus merely took a Phoenix’s outward form and carried weaker Phoenix magic.

Harry prepared for the Triwizard Tournament’s underwater task by studying aquatic magical creatures, while Lily explained the significance of his corporeal Patronus. The chapter ended with Harry telling Ron he planned to distract the creatures with food and watch for Kelpies in disguise.

• Ron nervously handled frog brains during the Potions exam while Harry sat with Lily, who questioned him about his Phoenix Patronus.
• Harry told Lily he was worried about Gillyweed, and she explained that his corporeal Patronus was exceptionally powerful and discussed Dumbledore’s influence over Fudge.
• Lily offered Harry Gillyweed from Snape’s stores, but Harry declined because he did not want to accept anything from Snape.
• Harry stayed in the dormitory during the midnight Astronomy exam and read about Kelpies, learning that they could disguise themselves as horses or sea serpents.
• Ron returned from the exam and found Harry studying; Harry explained that he planned to use Transfiguration to make Rainbowfish and distract the aquatic creatures while he retrieved the badge.
• Harry told Ron he was studying Kelpies because they could change their appearance, making them especially difficult to identify underwater.

Harry and the others saw an exam timetable that included subjects they did not take, and Neville explained how the O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. exams were arranged. Ryan sat his exams while reflecting on his twelve-subject workload and decided to surprise Harry.

• Ron complained that the timetable listed Arithmancy and Muggle Studies, and Harry guessed other students had chosen those subjects.
• Neville explained the O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. exam arrangements, including the hidden practical exam rooms and strict anti-cheating measures.
• Harry realized the sealed Great Hall had been used for fifth-year exams and asked how seventh-year exams were handled.
• Ryan took the History of Magic exam and prepared to sit Arithmancy, despite disliking the course and having chosen twelve subjects.
• Ryan decided to give Harry a surprise because Harry could not take exams and was bored.

Snape and Lily received a Portkey invitation from Zhou Yi’s mysterious family and traveled to their Herb Garden. Harry accidentally activated a Portkey attached to a pacifier and arrived in a room marked for Eileen Prince Snape.

• Snape took the children to visit Petunia while Lily and Snape graded exams using his duplicate body.
• Snape received a letter from Zhou Yi’s family granting him and Lily access to the Herb Garden for that day.
• Lily used the letter as a Portkey, and she and Snape vanished from the office.
• Harry entered Snape’s empty office, picked up a pacifier, and was pulled away by a Portkey.
• Harry landed in a plant-filled room containing a crib labeled as belonging to Eileen Prince Snape.

Harry discovered a crib bearing the name Eileen Prince Snape at Snape’s estate, but failed to use its one-way Portkey and fell asleep while waiting. Snape returned with the child after a tense visit to the Dursleys and found Harry asleep in the house.

• Harry found the name Eileen Prince Snape on the crib and concluded that Snape had adopted a newborn with Lily’s help.
• Harry tried to use the pacifier-shaped Portkey to return to Hogwarts, realized it only worked one way, and decided to wait at the estate.
• Snape brought the child to the Dursleys, where Petunia warmly welcomed him and Dursley wrongly assumed Snape and Petunia were romantically involved.
• Dursley lied that a child-hating business guest was coming, prompting Snape to leave with the child before Petunia could stop him.
• Harry fell asleep on a bed at the estate, and Snape discovered him there after returning and putting the child in the crib.

Harry woke in Lily’s room to find Snape watching him and a baby girl who looked like Lily sleeping nearby. Lily explained that the child was hers and Snape’s, leaving Harry to reckon with having a little sister and wonder who else knew.

• Snape waited for Harry to wake while protecting the sleeping baby with a charm.
• Harry woke, noticed how much the baby resembled Lily, and saw Lily return with another Snape.
• Lily asked why Harry had come, and Harry said he had touched a one-way Portkey and fallen asleep.
• Snape questioned Harry’s story and pointed out that he had forgotten he could use the Mirror World to return.
• Harry changed the subject by asking about the baby, and Lily explained that she and Snape had used the Transgender Fertility Potion.
• Harry asked who knew about his new sister, and Lily named Petunia and Dursley, adding that Dudley might know too.

Harry struggled with the news that Lily and Snape planned to reveal their child, while his friends reacted to the story and Ron’s joking suggestion frightened him. The chapter ended with Neville restraining Ron so Harry and Ginny could reach the dormitory first.

• At Spinner's End, Snape told Lily that he had been sent away from the Dursleys after Petunia seemed interested in him, and Lily asked him to recount what happened.
• Harry returned to the Ravenclaw Common Room upset, and told Ron, Ginny, and Neville that Lily and Snape had a child and planned to reveal her existence.
• Ron praised Snape’s potion and joked that he might try it to win back Lavender, prompting Harry to fear Ron could do something to him.
• Ginny urged Harry to clean his bed and avoid staying in the dormitory, and Harry admitted that his legs were too weak to stand.
• When Ron headed toward the dormitory, Harry and Ginny called for Neville, who restrained Ron until they could get there first.

Harry and his friends discovered a newspaper report claiming Lily Evans had married Severus Snape and given birth to a daughter. Harry tried to hide his distress while Ron secretly collected his hair, and Neville noticed Ron’s actions.

• Harry refused to visit the Room of Requirement every day, and Ron agreed to swap beds with Anthony.
• Ryan told Kate and Penelope that Harry had not truly offended him and that Ron’s attempts to get Harry’s hair would provide a long torment.
• Anthony showed Harry a newspaper report revealing Lily Evans with Severus Snape and a baby girl, and the article said they had married and had a child.
• Harry confirmed the report was real and denied knowing about a beauty potion, while Ron tried to shield him from questions.
• Neville noticed Ron secretly pulling hair from Harry’s shoulder as he stood in front of him.