Chapter Summaries

Harry struggled with the news that his mother had revived and had another child as Hogwarts students spread the story. Meanwhile, Ron’s scheme with Harry’s hair led Ginny to hex him into the Hospital Wing, and Mrs. Weasley, McGonagall, and Snape waited for an unnamed person to arrive.

• Students across Hogwarts discussed the report that Professor Evans had another child, leaving Harry upset that the news had spread so quickly.
• Draco checked on Harry at his birthday party and learned that Ron and the others were absent because Ron had done something foolish.
• Ginny found Ron’s Transgender Fertility Potion and Harry’s hair, then used a Bat-Bogey Hex on Ron and sent him to the Hospital Wing.
• McGonagall gave Ginny a few hours of detention in her office after hearing the full story, while Neville, Hannah, and Lavender accompanied Ron.
• Mrs. Weasley, McGonagall, and Snape waited in the staff room for another person whose identity had not yet been revealed.

Professor McGonagall confronted Dumbledore, Snape, and Mrs. Weasley over the harm caused by the Transgender Fertility Potion and Ron’s attempt to use Harry’s hair. She proposed registering potion users and genetic-material providers and having Hogwarts house-elves remove students’ bodily waste before they woke.

• Professor McGonagall accused Dumbledore of setting a bad example that led Sirius, Snape, and Ron into destructive relationships and choices.
• Professor McGonagall told Mrs. Weasley that Ron had stolen Harry’s hair to imitate Snape and was now in the Hospital Wing after Ginny caught him.
• Professor McGonagall defended her criticism by distinguishing the men’s conduct from homosexuality, citing Dumbledore’s treatment of her and Sirius and Ron’s entanglements with Harry and Lavender.
• Snape urged Professor McGonagall to propose a solution, and she explained that stolen hair and other tissues could be used in the Transgender Fertility Potion without consent.
• Professor McGonagall proposed requiring the potion user and genetic-material provider to register before it could be sold and having Hogwarts house-elves clean students’ shed hair and bodily waste before they woke.

Harry woke to learn that Dumbledore had ordered the house-elves to remove every trace of hair from the beds, then read a Daily Prophet article about new regulations for Transgender Fertility Potions. The article exposed Snape’s use of Lily’s hair to create a child and suggested that Sirius and Dumbledore had helped push the rules through; Harry suspected Snape and his mother had planned the public revelation all along.

• Dobby told Harry that Dumbledore had ordered the house-elves to clean all hair from the beds and carpets.
• Harry read the Daily Prophet report on new regulations governing Transgender Fertility Potions.
• Rita Skeeter’s article quoted Sirius accusing Snape of using Lily’s hair to make a child and steal her from James.
• The article reported that the new regulations imposed fines and prison terms for stealing bodily tissue and making the potion.
• Harry concluded that Sirius had supplied the story and Dumbledore had prompted Arthur Weasley to draft the regulations.
• Harry suspected Snape and his mother had never intended to conceal their child and had used his arrival as an opportunity to reveal the truth.

Harry ran into Krum by the Black Lake and explained underwater spellcasting, including Delayed Spellcasting. He demonstrated the technique by firing repeated Expelliarmus spells, leaving Krum astonished.

• Harry fled the crowd gathered outside Snape's office and reached the Black Lake near the Forbidden Forest.
• Harry recognized Krum, who invited him to practice diving and asked whether he should explore the lake in person despite Ilvas's objections.
• Harry explained that Ilvas could rely on his foresight, while underwater contestants needed to account for altered spells and learn Delayed Spellcasting.
• Harry described how Delayed Spellcasting let a wizard repeatedly cast a prepared spell without repeating its incantation and gestures.
• Harry demonstrated by firing Expelliarmus more than twenty times in three seconds, astonishing Krum.

Ryan gave Fleur a Galleon that contained a portable mansion, then showed her Harry and Krum discussing Delayed Spellcasting. Harry had shared the difficult technique with Krum, who valued it highly and practiced it.

• Ryan gave Fleur a Galleon containing a portable mansion, and they discussed Harry and Krum as rivals.
• Ryan showed Fleur Harry and Krum communicating in the Forbidden Forest, and Fleur recognized Ryan's old use of Delayed Spellcasting.
• Fleur realized Ryan had developed the technique as a child, and Ryan pretended to cry in her arms when she sympathized with his past.
• Krum thanked Harry for teaching him Delayed Spellcasting and explained that the technique could help him challenge Grindelwald.
• Harry was surprised by Krum's praise, while Krum said the technique was extremely difficult and had changed how he understood magic.

Ryan gave Fleur the mobile mansion after a gathering in Kate’s Shadow Kingdom, while Harry spent the days before the final match repairing his friendships and received a message that Champions could meet visiting relatives. The chapter ended as Harry and Ginny entered the meeting room together after breakfast.

• Ryan remembered the Shadow Kingdom gathering, where Kate staged a dark Hogwarts scenario, and gave Fleur the mobile mansion he had prepared for her.
• Harry returned to the common room and told Ginny, Neville, and Ron about his day with Krum, easing tensions among the group over time.
• On the morning of the final match, Hogwarts students celebrated the end of exams, and Harry received a lucky card from Sirius.
• Professor McGonagall told Harry that Champions could meet their relatives before the afternoon match and said Ginny could join him.
• Harry and Ginny walked hand in hand into the meeting room after breakfast, while Ron stayed behind.

Harry welcomed Krum’s family, Fleur’s family, Ilvas, and Dudley’s family to Hogwarts, where Lily led the group on a tour of the castle and its grounds. The visit ended with lunch in Hogsmeade, where Aunt Petunia’s questions about Dudley’s romantic interests revealed her suspicions about Ron.

• Harry greeted Krum’s parents, Fleur and Gabrielle, Ilvas, Mrs. Weasley, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley at the meeting room.
• Lily eased the awkwardness between Aunt Petunia and Mrs. Weasley, then led the visitors through Hogwarts and its grounds.
• Aunt Petunia asked about a Puffapod in the greenhouses, and Lily warned that its pods burst into bloom when touched.
• Mrs. Weasley explained the Thestrals on the way to Hogsmeade, frightening Aunt Petunia, before Lily and Mrs. Weasley reminisced at Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop.
• Aunt Petunia questioned Dudley about whether he liked anyone and accidentally revealed her suspicions about Ron, prompting the group to understand what she meant.
• The group had lunch at The Three Broomsticks and returned to Hogwarts.

Harry watched Aunt Petunia defend Dudley against accusations, then joined the other Champions at the maze for the final competition. The Champions learned they could spend their previous scores in a shop before entering the maze.

• Mrs. Weasley scolded Ron over his exam answers and his breakup with Lavender.
• Aunt Petunia dismissed Zacharias's accusations against Dudley, and Harry explained to Ginny that she had already accepted Dudley's relationship with a Hufflepuff girl as proof of his orientation.
• Mr. Weasley brought Harry and the other Champions to the maze, where students gathered to watch the competition on a giant screen.
• Hagrid handed the Champions Light Potions, and Professor McGonagall explained the rules, their scores, and how they could spend points in the shop.
• Fleur asked where the Champions could change clothes, and Professor McGonagall explained that their uniforms could be put on with a tap of a wand.
• Harry and the other Champions began choosing what to buy before the competition started.

The Triwizard Tournament’s final event began, and the Champions entered the maze according to the departure times they had purchased. Fleur and Ilveras advanced while Harry began his run by conjuring a sun overhead.

• Mr. Weasley announced the Champions’ purchases and departure order, with Fleur leaving first, followed by Ilveras, Harry, and Krum.
• Fleur entered the maze and swiftly passed magical traps, though she chose several wrong passages.
• Ilveras entered the maze, carefully checked routes and traps, and avoided a recess without entering it.
• Harry ran into the maze, reversed the Dark Curse, and conjured a blazing sun above himself.

Harry tried to find the tunnel to the Black Lake while Fleur, Krum, and Ilvas reached it ahead of him. When Harry dispelled a golden fog with the wrong spell, the maze turned upside down and left him walking beneath a star-filled night sky.

• Harry used his wand to find north and chose a route through the maze toward the remaining hollows.
• Fleur reached the Black Lake and used Beauxbatons’ War Magic to transform her fire magic into water power, then sped across the lake.
• Krum used his shark nose to follow the Black Lake’s scent and reached the correct hollow, while Ilvas also found the tunnel.
• Harry used the Tracing Spell to locate the last remaining route and blasted through the hedge with Reducto.
• Harry cast the All-Purpose End Spell on golden mist, dispersing it but turning the world upside down around him.

Harry reached the Black Lake and prepared to enter it using War Magic and Gillyweed, while the other Champions began their own dives. The chapter ended with Harry using the gathered magical energy of Hogwarts students to brew a new potion from the Gillyweed without a cauldron.

• Harry found the tunnel to the Black Lake and emerged at the same starting point as the other Champions.
• Fleur appeared holding two badges, though the spectators could not see how she had obtained them.
• Krum used enhanced War Magic to transform into a great white shark while retaining his arms.
• Ilvas entered the Black Lake under a Bubblehead Charm and used his three-second pause magic before swimming down.
• Harry applied for War Magic and raised the Gillyweed, channeling Hogwarts students’ magical energy into it to brew a new potion.

Harry created a magical Gillyweed potion through the previously unnoticed talent Void Potion-Making, while Fleur’s water powers overwhelmed her with information from the Black Lake. After drinking his potion, Harry explored the lake with the help of its water and approached what seemed to be a Kelpie.

• Harry’s Void Potion-Making talent emerged as he transformed Gillyweed using immense magical energy.
• Fleur’s water sovereignty caused the Black Lake to flood her with ancient and family secrets, distracting her as she collected badges.
• Harry drank the translucent gray potion, which connected and sharpened his senses and let him breathe and move comfortably underwater.
• Harry asked his water friends to take him toward the competition badges, and they carried him through the dark lake.
• Harry followed a trail of fish-scented bubbles toward dense waterweed and spotted what seemed to be a Kelpie.

Ron received a breakup letter from Lavender during the underwater challenge and was too stunned to cheer for Harry. Harry claimed his first badge while Krum encountered a merpeople settlement, leaving the origin of Dracula’s second badge revealed and Ilvas as the only Champion still without one.

• Terry handed Ron a letter from Lavender, who called herself his ex-girlfriend and insulted him as she ended their relationship.
• Harry used a Transformation Spell to turn the water into Rainbowfish, drew away a Kelpie, and took a Hogwarts badge while Ron remained shaken by the letter.
• Krum escaped Grindylows and reached a merpeople settlement gathered around a rock bearing Castelobruxo badges.
• A merman explained that the merpeople were not guarding the badges and led Krum toward a giant merman statue.
• Mr. Weasley concluded that Dracula’s second badge belonged to Castelobruxo and announced that Ilvas was the only Champion yet to obtain a badge.

Fleur collected three badges, leaving only Beauxbatons's badge before she could become champion, while the spectators speculated about the maze's return route. Ryan stopped time and intervened with Fleur in the Black Lake, then claimed he had gone to help her.

• Mr. Weasley replayed Fleur's appearance and confirmed that she held the Hogwarts, Castelobruxo, and Durmstrang badges.
• Draco told Pansy that dangerous creatures might be waiting in the maze and explained how a Champion could block another Champion's tunnel.
• Krum followed Harry's scent through the lake, hoping to collect the remaining badges and take second place.
• Ryan stopped time, appeared beside Fleur in the Black Lake, and drew them both into a golden Galleon.
• After time resumed, Fleur swam toward a black cavern, and Ryan told Kate that he had gone to help her.

Fleur collected Beauxbatons’ final badge from the giant squid, then rested by the pool while drawing strength from the Black Lake. Harry reached the hiding place of Durmstrang’s badge and faced a Hippocampus that ignored his conjured Rainbowfish, leaving him puzzled as it attacked.

• Ryan defended his help for Fleur, while Kate and Penelope questioned whether it gave her an unfair advantage.
• Fleur petrified the giant squid, took the badge from its tentacles, and surfaced with all of Beauxbatons’ badges.
• Fleur sat by the pool to recover, using her feet as a channel to draw energy from the water.
• Ilvas found the mermaid statue and earned Castelobruxo’s badge, while Krum used underhanded tactics to claim Hogwarts’ badge.
• Harry arrived at the concealed Durmstrang badge and was confronted by a Hippocampus that had buried itself in the sand.
• Harry dodged the Hippocampus and wondered why it had ignored the Rainbowfish he had conjured.

Harry used Aquatic Tongue to communicate with water and obtain the Durmstrang Badge, while Krum raced toward him and Fleur completed the badge challenge. Fleur opened the stone door and faced a mysterious woman who demanded that she answer a riddle before leaving.

• Harry realized the Hippocampus had recently entered fresh water and had never eaten Rainbowfish, then used his water friends to freeze it and take the Durmstrang Badge.
• Dumbledore told Ron that Harry seemed to communicate with living water through Aquatic Tongue, a power he may have learned from Gillyweed.
• Krum transformed further into a shark and pursued Harry, while Harry asked his water friends to speed him toward the Mermaid Statue.
• Fleur reached the stone door with all four Badges and opened it after the Badges flew into the stone.
• A mysterious woman appeared beyond the door and asked Fleur to answer a riddle before she could leave.

Fleur solved the Sphinx’s riddle, while Krum’s shark form was pursued by a Hippocampus and Ilvas quietly claimed the guarded Durmstrang badge. Harry obtained a badge from the merpeople and stopped outside the cave, leaving the spectators wondering what he would do next.

• Fleur answered the Sphinx’s riddle and passed through the hollow.
• The Hippocampus chased Krum, and Hagrid explained that it was attracted to sharks as mates.
• Ilvas used the pursuit to deduce the Durmstrang badge’s location and retrieved it while spectators watched Krum.
• Harry obtained a badge from the merpeople and learned that the Kraken could move again after someone else took a badge.
• Harry stopped outside the Kraken’s cave, prompting Hannah and Neville to wonder why he did not enter.

Harry escaped the Kraken by using his badge, while Fleur defeated a Boggart that took Ryan’s form and drank a Light Potion. Krum claimed the Durmstrang badge and deliberately entered Ilvas’s tunnel to create a spectacle, leaving Ilvas to find Krum’s route.

• A Kraken tentacle burst through the rock wall, but Harry’s badge struck him backward into his assigned tunnel and the Kraken retreated.
• Fleur resisted a Boggart that appeared as Ryan, burned it to ash, and drank a Light Potion to keep dark creatures from appearing.
• Krum used a Freezing Charm to escape a Hippocampus, then followed his sense of smell to the Durmstrang badge after the creature wandered off to chase a Rainbowfish.
• Krum dodged the Kraken’s tentacles, bit the badge free along with part of the rock wall, and entered Ilvas’s tunnel deliberately to draw attention.
• Harry returned to his tunnel, while Ryan praised Krum’s showmanship and explained that Ilvas could use his seven-second foresight to find Krum’s tunnel.

Harry faced a Manticore named Chimera in the Care of Magical Creatures challenge, while the crowd panicked and Dumbledore assured them that Harry could handle it. Chimera recognized Harry, told him that his wand would be useless, and suggested that he use another form.

• Kate questioned Ryan about how Fleur's illusion made everyone believe she had bought time, and Ryan explained that Fleur had used her charm to create the deception.
• Ryan swapped the Care of Magical Creatures challenge in Harry's tunnel, and Harry emerged before a Manticore as the spectators screamed.
• Ginny fainted, Ron and Mrs. Weasley called for Harry to be rescued, and Mr. Weasley demanded that Hagrid explain how the Manticore entered the match.
• Dumbledore said that Harry had another trump card and urged the Weasleys to trust Hagrid's expertise.
• The Manticore introduced herself to Harry as Chimera and advised him to put down his wand and use a more suitable form.

Harry’s dragon power transformed him into an Ancient Dragon, and he defeated the Chimera in the maze before moving on as dark creatures approached. Fleur had already escaped, while Krum encountered a Harpy.

• Harry suppressed his dragon instincts and learned that the Chimera had been transported from her assigned place in the maze.
• The Chimera attacked Harry after recognizing him as an Ancient Dragon, and he transformed into a scaled, winged dragon form.
• Harry evaded the Chimera’s attacks and knocked her unconscious, then returned to human form and drank a Light Potion as dark creatures approached.
• Fleur left the maze and reunited with Ryan, Madame Maxime, her parents, and Gabrielle.
• Krum climbed out of a tunnel and faced a Harpy, raising his wand to cast Protego Maxima.