Chapter Summaries

Tris considered whether to enter the revived Triwizard Tournament as his fellow Slytherins urged him to represent Hogwarts. He agreed to enter, though he doubted he would be selected, and Moody had yet to arrive at the school.

• Gilderoy Lockhart resigned from Hogwarts, and Dumbledore announced that Moody would teach the older students once he arrived.
• Blaise and Theodore asked Tris whether he would enter the Triwizard Tournament, and Tris considered how he could trick the Goblet of Fire into selecting him.
• Theodore, Blaise, Draco, Daphne, and Pansy urged Tris to compete for Hogwarts's reputation.
• Tris agreed to enter if he could, while Draco and the other Slytherins declared they would reject any other Hogwarts Champion.

Tris grew increasingly anxious because Barty Crouch Jr. had not appeared at Hogwarts, while students began training harder in hopes of being selected for the Triwizard Tournament. Dumbledore summoned Tris, Harry, and Ron, and Tris recognized the Pensieve in the Headmaster’s Office.

• Tris confirmed that Moody demonstrated the Unforgivable Curses and used the Imperius Curse on students, but Tris avoided the test and knew his Thought Maze would protect him.
• Harry and Ron asked Tris why he had seemed unhappy, and Tris blamed his mood on difficulties with his magic research.
• Tris noticed Cedric and many other students training harder, then learned they hoped fitness and reflexes might help them become Triwizard Champions.
• Tris decided he had no interest in entering the tournament and blamed the Ministry of Magic for allowing Peter and Barty Crouch Jr. to escape Azkaban.
• Ron took Tris to Dumbledore’s office, where Tris saw a stone basin and recognized it as the Pensieve.

Dumbledore asked Tris, Harry, and Ron to help locate Voldemort’s final Horcrux, and Tris proposed that Voldemort might have wanted relics from all four Hogwarts founders. The group identified the Sword of Gryffindor as the likely missing relic and suspected Voldemort had delayed making his sixth Horcrux because he wanted the sword.

• Dumbledore told Harry, Ron, and Tris that Voldemort had planned to split his soul into seven pieces and that they were still missing one Horcrux.
• Harry and Ron failed to suggest a useful lead, while Tris pointed out that the known Horcruxes were tied to Voldemort’s family and the Hogwarts founders.
• Ron suggested the missing Horcrux might be connected to Gryffindor, and Dumbledore brought out the Sword of Gryffindor from his office.
• Dumbledore explained the sword’s history and magical properties, and Harry confirmed that it was not a Horcrux.
• Tris suggested Voldemort may have sought a teaching position at Hogwarts to steal the sword and delayed making his final Horcrux because of his obsession with completing his plan.

Tris refused to join Hermione’s S.P.E.W., though he offered to fund it, and their disagreement left her angry with him. As Hogwarts prepared to welcome Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, Tris stayed away from the gathering, nervous about seeing Pheobe again.

• Dumbledore and Tris agreed that Voldemort might not have made a sixth Horcrux, and Tris’s anxiety eased as he trusted Dumbledore and the gathered Horcruxes to help stop him.
• Hermione recruited Neville into S.P.E.W. and asked Tris to join, but he refused while offering to sponsor the group with Galleons.
• Hermione became angry with Tris and stopped speaking to him for several days.
• Hogwarts’s house-elves thoroughly cleaned the castle before the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang delegations arrived.
• The students gathered outside Hogwarts Castle to await the visitors, but Tris stayed away because he already knew the schools and felt nervous about seeing Pheobe.

At the welcoming feast for the three schools, Pheobe and Elizabeth Hilliarks both sat beside Tris, drawing the attention and jealousy of the Hogwarts boys. Pheobe remained openly hostile toward Tris while Elizabeth greeted him warmly.

• Tris tried to avoid Pheobe at the welcoming feast, but she walked directly to his table and asked Blaise Zabini to give up his seat.
• Pheobe sat beside Tris, greeted him with suppressed anger, then ignored his reply and watched the staff table.
• Elizabeth Hilliarks arrived and Theodore Nott stood aside to let her sit beside Tris.
• Elizabeth reminded Tris that they had met in France and invited him to call her Elizabeth or Isa.
• Pheobe challenged Tris for welcoming Elizabeth but not her, and Tris assured her she was welcome too.
• The boys around them glared at Tris with envy, jealousy, and hate.

Tris agreed to enter the Triwizard Tournament after Slytherin students urged him to compete, and the champions were announced at the Halloween Feast. With Viktor Krum and Pheobe Delacour chosen, everyone waited to hear who would represent Hogwarts.

• Tris let Slytherin students submit his name to the Goblet of Fire after Pheobe challenged him to compete.
• Students across Hogwarts debated their preferred champions, with Slytherin backing Tris and Hufflepuff supporting Cedric.
• At the Halloween Feast, Dumbledore explained how the champions would be selected as Ludo Bagman and Barty Crouch stood with the school heads.
• The Goblet of Fire named Viktor Krum as Durmstrang's champion.
• The Goblet of Fire named Pheobe Delacour as Beauxbatons' champion, and she gave Tris a gesture of challenge.
• The Goblet of Fire flared again as Hogwarts' champion was about to be announced.

Tris Weasley was chosen as Hogwarts’ champion, but the Goblet of Fire unexpectedly selected Harry Potter as a fourth champion as well. Tris wondered how Harry’s name had been entered despite no suspicious people appearing in Hogwarts, while Harry sought reassurance from him.

• Dumbledore announced Tris Weasley as Hogwarts’ champion, and the students cheered because they believed he was their strongest candidate to win the tournament.
• Tris waited outside the room where the champions would gather, hoping to see whether a fourth name would emerge, since his checks of the Marauder’s Map had revealed no suspicious visitors.
• The Goblet of Fire flared again and produced a parchment bearing Harry Potter’s name, leaving the Great Hall stunned.
• Harry hurried toward the champions’ room after Dumbledore called him, and Tris wondered how the Goblet had selected him without any apparent interference.
• Harry asked Tris how it had happened, and Tris suggested that the Goblet of Fire might be malfunctioning.

After Harry and Tris were both selected as Hogwarts Champions, the headmasters argued over the extra champion, while the students waited with snacks. The dispute remained unresolved when Pheobe snatched a banana Tris had offered to Krum.

• Karkaroff demanded that the schools choose again or that he withdraw, but Sirius challenged him to leave with his students.
• Dumbledore explained that the Goblet's magical contract bound its chosen Champions, and Crouch said the Goblet could not be used again.
• Tris reassured Harry that he would remain a Champion while they watched the headmasters argue.
• Pheobe, hungry after barely eating all day, became annoyed when Tris did not offer her a banana.
• Tris offered Krum a banana, and Pheobe snatched it from his hand.

Moody explained that a powerful wizard had used a Confundus Charm to make Harry a fourth Champion, and the adults agreed he would compete independently. Back in the Slytherin Common Room, Tris celebrated his own selection and asked his housemates to help prepare for the first task, whose theme was courage.

• Moody revealed that the Goblet of Fire had been fooled into selecting Harry by a powerful wizard, and argued that someone wanted to put Harry in danger.
• Crouch and the others agreed that Harry would compete as an independent Champion, with any victory and prize belonging to him alone.
• Tris returned to the Slytherin Common Room, where Theodore, Blaise, and other students carried him in celebration of his selection as Champion.
• Tris told the Slytherins that the first task would take place on November twenty-fourth and would test nerve or courage, then invited them to help him prepare.
• Draco said Harry could not measure up to Tris, while Tris considered how Fudge's reelection had raised Lucius Malfoy's standing and brought him closer to the Ministry.

Tris learned that four adult female dragons had been brought to Hogwarts for the First Task and helped Harry prepare to face one by teaching him to summon his broomstick. After the Champions’ wands were inspected, Tris and Harry suspected that the other Champions already knew about the dragons.

• Tris received Charlie’s news that four dragons from Romania were hidden in the Forbidden Forest for the First Task.
• Harry asked Tris how to deal with a dragon, and Tris taught him to use the Summoning Charm to call his broomstick while criticizing Sirius’s advice to use the Conjunctivitis Curse.
• Tris and the other Champions attended a wand inspection led by Mr. Ollivander, where Harry refused Rita Skeeter’s request for an interview.
• Tris discovered that Pheobe’s wand contained veela hair and explained to Harry that Ollivander preferred three more stable wand cores.
• Harry asked whether Delacour and Krum knew about the dragons, and Tris suspected that Karkaroff and Madame Maxime had learned of them too.

Tris drew the Swedish Short-Snout and entered the arena for the Triwizard Tournament’s first task, where he had to retrieve a golden egg. After sizing up the dragon and its defensive range, he vanished using the Shadow Realm.

• Bagman had the champions draw their dragons and order of appearance; Tris drew the number one Swedish Short-Snout, while Fleur went second, Krum third, and Harry fourth.
• After the cannon sounded, Tris entered the arena and Barty Crouch told him to retrieve the golden egg while avoiding injury.
• Tris saw the dragon guarding its nest and the golden egg as Bagman introduced him to the packed stands.
• Tris tested the Short-Snout’s reaction and estimated its safe distance before deciding to use his strongest ability.
• Tris flicked his wand, spoke a spell, and silently vanished by opening the Shadow Realm.

Tris used shadow magic to approach the Short-Snout and steal its egg, but the dragon sensed his presence and burned through the shadow realm. He emerged safely outside the arena with the egg, stopping Charlie Weasley and the dragon handlers from rushing to save him.

• Tris opened a shadow realm and moved toward the Short-Snout while spectators watched his shadow crossing the arena floor.
• The Short-Snout sensed Tris nearby, and Charlie Weasley explained that the dragon had a limited-range magical sense.
• Tris continued toward the egg until the Short-Snout unleashed blue-gold flames that destroyed the shadow realm.
• Charlie and other dragon handlers jumped into the arena to rescue Tris, but Tris appeared beside them holding the dragon egg.

Tris used Shadow Magic to steal the Golden Egg from the Short-Snout and joined his family in the stands. Pheobe Delacour then used a graceful dance to lull a Welsh Green, but the dragon suddenly breathed fire over the ground where she crouched.

• Tris escaped the Short-Snout’s flames through the Shadow Realm and took the Golden Egg.
• Fred congratulated Tris, while Molly checked that he was unharmed and Ron admitted the champions’ task was too dangerous for him.
• Sirius and the others worried that someone had deliberately made Harry a champion, but trusted Dumbledore and Moody to protect him.
• Pheobe entered the arena to face a Welsh Green, and Ron became visibly entranced when she began dancing.
• Pheobe’s dance lulled the dragon as she neared its nest, but the Green suddenly breathed fire across the ground where she crouched.

Tris watched the champions face their dragons in the egg-stealing task and saw Krum use speed and a precise curse to seize his egg. Krum escaped unharmed, but the blinded Chinese Fireball crushed several of its own eggs.

• Tris’s mother scolded him for laughing at Pheobe, who had hypnotized her dragon by dancing and taken its egg.
• Krum entered the arena looking ill and tested the Chinese Fireball’s defensive range.
• Krum used a speed-enhancing spell to sprint toward the dragon and dodge its fireballs.
• Krum struck the Chinese Fireball in the eye with the Conjunctivitis Curse, then grabbed the golden egg and escaped.
• The blinded dragon thrashed and crushed several dragon eggs, leaving Hagrid heartbroken.

Harry used the Summoning Charm to bring his Firebolt into the arena, outmaneuvered the Swedish Short-Snout, and retrieved its egg in a time comparable to Tris’s. The judges began scoring the champions, and Tris finished with sixty-one points despite Karkaroff giving him a deliberately low score.

• Ron asked Tris if Harry would be all right, and Tris said Harry’s Summoning Charm skills and flying ability should see him through.
• Harry summoned his Firebolt, rode it around the Swedish Short-Snout, and snatched the dragon egg from its nest.
• Crouch confirmed that Harry had not broken any tournament rules by using a broomstick, frustrating Karkaroff.
• The seven judges awarded Tris scores that ranged from Karkaroff’s seven to Bagman’s ten, giving him sixty-one points out of seventy.
• Tris’s scoring ended, and Pheobe was next to receive her scores.

After the first Triwizard Tournament task, the Champions received their scores, and Tris later learned that the Yule Ball required students to find their own partners. Ron struggled to choose someone and asked Tris for advice, leaving Tris to consider who Ron had partnered with before.

• Pheobe scored fifty-three points, Krum scored sixty-two, Harry scored fifty-nine, and Tris remained in second place after the first task.
• Professor McGonagall announced that fourth-year students could attend the Yule Ball and had to invite their own partners.
• Ron worried about finding a partner, considered Pheobe, and overlooked Hermione, who was away using the Time-Turner.
• Ron found Tris practicing wand movements and asked whether he had chosen a dance partner.
• Tris said Champions had to attend and lead the dancing, then Ron asked him for advice.
• Tris wondered who Ron had partnered with in the original story.

Tris tried to help Ron find a partner for the Yule Ball, suggesting Hermione, Ginny, and Lavender. Before Ron chose, Pheobe abruptly told Tris he was going to the ball with her and walked away.

• Tris reassured Ron that finding a dance partner should be easy and suggested asking younger students, but Ron rejected the idea.
• Tris offered Hermione and Ginny as possible partners, but Ron felt awkward about dancing with either of them.
• Tris suggested Lavender, and Ron blushed as he remembered an embarrassing encounter with her in the Common Room.
• Pheobe approached Tris and declared that he was going to the Yule Ball with her before leaving.
• Tris complained to Ron about Pheobe's blunt approach, but Ron accused him of acting ungrateful and walked away.

Tris turned Elizabeth Hilliarks down for the Yule Ball because Pheobe had already approached him, while Ron failed to ask Elizabeth or Lavender. After Ron realized Elizabeth would not have accepted him anyway, Tris heard that Roger Davies had been rejected by Cho Chang and Delacour, prompting him to wonder who Pheobe’s original partner had been.

• Elizabeth Hilliarks asked Tris to the Yule Ball, and Tris explained that Pheobe had already approached him, so Elizabeth left without disappointment.
• Ron admitted he had returned to watch Tris’s awkward encounter instead of inviting Lavender, then regretted missing his chance to ask Elizabeth.
• The next morning, Tris turned down more than ten girls who asked him to the ball, and Ron confronted him after figuring out Elizabeth would not have accepted his invitation.
• Tris outran Ron and headed to class, where Draco told him Roger Davies had been rejected by Cho Chang and Delacour.
• Tris wondered who Pheobe’s original Yule Ball partner had been.

On the day of the ball, Tris and the others waited for their partners, and Hermione surprised everyone by arriving with Krum. The chapter ended with Tris pulling Pheobe into his arms and suggesting they kiss for the watching crowd.

• Harry praised Krum's flying, and Krum complimented Harry before Draco argued that Krum would belong in Slytherin.
• Krum arrived to escort Hermione, stunning Ron and the other students; Ron quickly became excited about asking Hermione to get him Krum's autograph.
• Tris teased Ron about wanting Krum's signed underwear, while Draco grew angry that Krum had chosen a Muggle-born partner.
• Pheobe appeared in a gorgeous gown, and Tris pulled her into his arms instead of greeting her with a formal hand-kiss.
• Tris asked Pheobe whether the crowd would be disappointed if they did not kiss.

Tris and Pheobe danced together at the ball, trading teasing remarks as Pheobe struggled to hide her growing affection and exhaustion. Their evening was interrupted when Harry suddenly collapsed on the dance floor.

• Tris teased Pheobe, helped her to her feet, and offered his arm before they joined the champions outside the Great Hall.
• Tris and Pheobe opened the ball with a dance, and he praised her dancing while she tried to hide how pleased she was.
• Tris continued dancing with Pheobe song after song, despite her growing fatigue and repeated refusals to rest.
• Harry returned to the dance floor with Cho Chang, then groaned, rolled his eyes back, and collapsed.
• Cho Chang cried out that Harry had fainted.