Chapter Summaries

Harry collapsed during the ball, and examinations revealed no physical cause for his unconsciousness. Tris suspected Voldemort’s soul fragment had become active, and Harry woke to warn Dumbledore that Voldemort was alive.

• Harry collapsed at the ball, and Moody found no curse or common dark magic affecting him.
• Dumbledore carried Harry to the Hospital Wing, where Tris, Ron, Cho Chang, Hermione, Ginny, and Pheobe followed.
• Madam Pomfrey found Harry’s body exceptionally healthy and said the cause of his collapse might involve his soul.
• Tris saw the black flame of Voldemort’s soul fragment moving within Harry’s soul and told Dumbledore he had discovered something.
• Madam Pomfrey gave Harry a potion, and Harry woke and told Dumbledore that Voldemort was alive.

Dumbledore and the Hogwarts professors examined Harry’s vision of Voldemort’s return and discussed the danger of the Ministry refusing to believe them. The chapter ended with the group realizing Barty Crouch Jr. had appeared beside Voldemort, while Dumbledore tried to lighten the grim news with a joke.

• Harry asked Dumbledore whether his vision of Voldemort emerging from an egg had been a dream, and Dumbledore confirmed that Voldemort had returned to life.
• Dumbledore said he would inform the Ministry but doubted Fudge would believe him, while McGonagall warned that people would need to prepare.
• Snape revealed that his Dark Mark had burned when Harry fainted and said Voldemort might have regained his strength, though he had not summoned his followers.
• Harry identified Barty Crouch Jr. as the man he had seen at the Quidditch World Cup, and Moody and Snape explained that Crouch Jr. had been a Death Eater and was believed dead in Azkaban.
• Dumbledore said there were several possible explanations for Crouch Jr.’s appearance and noted that the group had learned of Voldemort’s return in advance.
• Dumbledore made a dry joke about people being shocked when they saw Voldemort again, and McGonagall told him it was not funny.

Tris removed the fragment of Voldemort’s soul from Harry, leaving Harry feeling lighter and able to control his magic more easily. Afterward, Tris worried that Voldemort’s return had not followed the method he remembered, while Harry demonstrated new wandless magic.

• Tris explained that he could remove the soul fragment, and Harry agreed to the procedure after Dumbledore advised against using the connection to spy on Voldemort.
• Harry took Draught of Living Death, and Tris burned away Voldemort’s soul fragment with Samadhi True Fire.
• Harry woke feeling unusually light, and Dumbledore explained that the soul fragment had placed constant pressure on Harry’s soul.
• Tris left the Headmaster’s Office troubled by how Voldemort might have returned without using Harry’s blood.
• Harry cast a tiny Light Sword without a wand and said his magic had become easier to control since the fragment was removed.

Tris took Harry and Ron to the Black Lake to test the golden egg, and Harry realized it had to be opened underwater. The egg revealed a song describing the second task, leaving Tris to wonder who would count as his and Harry’s “treasures.”

• Tris invited Harry and Ron to swim so he could experiment with the golden egg.
• At the Black Lake, Harry spotted a Durmstrang boy holding a golden egg and guessed it had to be opened underwater.
• Harry and Ron returned to Hogwarts and persuaded Professor McGonagall to let them use the Prefects’ Bathroom.
• Harry, Ron, and Tris opened the egg underwater and heard a song about finding their treasures.
• Tris considered how the task’s idea of a treasure might apply to Harry, himself, and Ron.

As the second task began, Tris and the other champions transformed to move underwater and recover what had been taken from them. Tris’s unprecedented Fantasy Transfiguration amazed the spectators, while Harry, Krum, and Pheobe each used different transformations to navigate the lake.

• Tris told Harry he had learned Animal Transfiguration in third year and advised him to consider aquatic forms or underwater-breathing spells.
• Harry studied Human Transfiguration with Ron for a month, while the wizarding world remained quiet about the possibility that Voldemort had returned.
• Bagman started the second task, giving the four champions one hour to recover what had been taken from them.
• Tris transformed into a fast, fictional aquatic creature with scales, gills, webbed limbs, and a powerful tail.
• Spectators recognized Tris’s transformation as Fantasy Transfiguration, and Professor McGonagall proudly watched their astonishment.
• Harry became an emperor penguin, Krum managed only a partial shark transformation, and Pheobe grew a fish tail and used the Bubble-Head Charm.

Tris raced through Black Lake and reached the Merpeople Village, where the Champions’ treasures were being held. Harry and Pheobe followed while Krum struggled against Grindylows, and Tris arrived at the village as the merpeople watched him from a distance.

• Tris sped past aquatic creatures in Black Lake, while Harry and Pheobe swam close behind and Krum fell farther back.
• Harry dodged Grindylows as a penguin, and Pheobe used spells to force her way past them as a mermaid.
• Krum fought a large swarm of Grindylows with dark magic, then lost track of Harry and Pheobe in the lake.
• Tris recognized the Merpeople Village by its surroundings and the song drifting from ahead.
• The merpeople watched Tris from a distance as he arrived at their crude village.

Tris reached the merpeople’s village and rescued Ginny, discovering that she was one of the hostages instead of Ron. After bringing her to the surface, he learned she was eager to know their standing and immediately complained about the cold and his appearance.

• Tris swam through the merpeople’s village and found Cho Chang, Hermione, a silver-haired girl, and Ginny tied to a statue.
• Tris used Sectumsempra to cut Ginny free, and spectators watching the Spectral Screen recognized Snape’s spell and speculated about Tris’s connection to him.
• Tris carried Ginny to the surface, where she woke and asked what place they had reached.
• Ginny urged Tris to hurry back, then complained that his transformed appearance was hideous and the water was freezing.

Tris used mirror magic to enter the Black Lake with Ginny, dry her clothes, and carry them back to shore. As the crowd celebrated their return, the Spectral Screen showed Harry freeing Cho Chang from the Merpeople Village and propelling them toward the surface.

• Tris stilled the lake and created a mirror world, taking Ginny inside it while spectators admired his forgotten magic.
• Tris dried Ginny’s clothes and teased her about her magical talent, making the watching wizards laugh.
• Tris used a moving patch of mirror surface to carry himself and Ginny back to shore, where the Hogwarts students cheered them.
• Percy excitedly told a colleague that Tris was his youngest brother, while Penelope applauded beside him.
• Harry reached the Merpeople Village, cut Cho Chang free with the Sword Beam Spell, and used an Impact Curse to propel them toward the surface.

Harry brought Cho Chang back to shore with a series of water-blast spells, racing Pheobe there as they traded magic. Krum finally rescued Hermione, and Ron hurried to meet them, leaving Tris and the others watching the task conclude.

• Pheobe and Harry reached the surface nearly together with their rescued sisters, then raced toward shore using magic to propel themselves through the water.
• Harry and Cho Chang teamed up with wandless magic to disrupt Pheobe’s swimming, and both pairs reached shore at nearly the same time.
• Harry and Tris used the Drying Charm on Cho Chang, Gabrielle, and Pheobe while the Spectral Screen showed Krum still searching for Hermione.
• Tris explained that Krum had fallen behind because he had not solved the problem of moving quickly underwater, while Ginny and Cho Chang teased Tris about Pheobe’s attitude toward him.
• Krum used his wand to free Hermione and bring her to the surface, and Ron hurried to meet them and help Hermione dry off.

After the second task, Tris led the Triwizard Tournament overall, while Harry ranked second and Pheobe remained last. As the champions prepared for the final task, Tris suspected Voldemort was plotting something and warned Harry that the maze might force the champions to clash.

• The judges added the second-task scores, leaving Tris first overall, Harry second, Krum third, and Pheobe last.
• Tris used his champion status to pursue independent magical research and secretly improved Harry, Ron, and Hermione's magical power with potions.
• On the morning of the final task, Tris watched the fog-covered Quidditch Pitch and wondered whether Voldemort would interfere, though he found no suspicious names on the Marauder's Map.
• Harry asked Tris about the final task, and Tris guessed that the maze would bring the champions into conflict.
• Tris reassured Harry that he had become a capable young wizard, then hinted that Harry might soon face a Dark Wizard.

Tris entered the Triwizard Tournament’s tree-wall maze and brushed aside its dangers with ease while the other champions struggled. The chapter left him facing a Sphinx, the first obstacle that seemed to trouble him.

• Bagman explained that the maze held the Triwizard Cup and that the first champion to reach it would win the tournament and one thousand Galleons.
• McGonagall marked the champions for rescue, taught them a signal spell, and sent them into the maze at thirty-two-second intervals based on their scores.
• Tris entered first, joked that he had hoped to ambush another champion, and discovered that the maze had separated each champion into a different area.
• Tris easily defeated a series of magical creatures, while Pheobe, Harry, and Krum faced much more dangerous challenges.
• Tris came face-to-face with a Sphinx and regarded it with a grave expression.

Tris encountered a Sphinx blocking the quickest route through the maze and fought her after choosing not to answer her riddle. He used Shadow Magic and an illusion to evade her attacks, then sent a lightning whip at her.

• Tris recognized the Sphinx and listened as she offered to let him pass if he answered her riddle correctly.
• Tris failed to understand the riddle and stunned the Sphinx, provoking her to pounce at him.
• Tris used Shadow Step to reappear several meters away, astonishing the spectators and an elderly wizard who compared his unusual magic to Dumbledore's.
• The Sphinx sensed Tris and thrust spikes through what appeared to be his body, but the spectators realized it was an illusion.
• Tris appeared elsewhere and cast a lightning whip toward the Sphinx.

Tris easily subdued the Sphinx and reached the Triwizard maze’s cup ahead of the other Champions. When he touched it, he vanished, the cup exploded, and a black barrier engulfed the maze as Barty Crouch urgently tried to report that a man was involved.

• Tris bound the Sphinx with lightning and vines, then continued through the maze.
• Tris reached the cup alone and wondered why Harry had not arrived and whether Voldemort was behind the trouble.
• Tris touched the cup and vanished while it remained in place.
• The cup expanded and exploded, and flames swept over the Tree-Wall Maze before forming a black hemispherical screen around it.
• Ludo Bagman caught Barty Crouch as he nearly collapsed, and Crouch urged him to report to the Ministry of Magic about a man.

A magical blast destroyed the Tree-Wall Maze, and Voldemort appeared before Harry, Krum, and Pheobe. After Harry recognized him, Voldemort sensed someone hiding in the shadows and attacked.

• Bagman found Crouch collapsed as the blaze swept through the maze, destroying its walls and killing or injuring the beasts inside.
• Harry, Krum, and Pheobe survived the blast behind protective spells and regrouped in the scorched maze.
• The three Champions spotted a hovering flame that transformed into a tall wizard in black robes.
• The wizard greeted Harry, who recognized him as Voldemort and recalled his earlier dream about Voldemort's return.
• Voldemort noticed someone hiding in the shadows, produced a pale wand, and sent a black blade slashing toward them.

Tris survived Voldemort’s trap and confronted him inside the shadow mirror world, where the two exchanged powerful spells. The chapter ended with Tris striking Voldemort with six black spikes, but the result was not yet shown.

• Tris escaped the cup’s explosion by entering the shadow mirror world and appeared beside Harry and the others.
• Voldemort recognized Tris and attacked him with the Killing Curse after Tris taunted him about avoiding Dumbledore.
• Tris dodged the Killing Curse and pulled Voldemort into the shadow mirror world using the Deluminator.
• Tris froze and shattered Voldemort’s black mist, then sent the fragments toward him, but Voldemort seized control of them and shaped them into a serpent.
• Tris turned the serpent into Flame Butterflies and summoned six black spikes beneath Voldemort, piercing him from several directions.

Tris battled Voldemort in the shadow mirror world, where Voldemort quickly learned Shadow Magic and then used Fiendfyre to destroy the realm. Tris returned them to the real world and sealed the flames in an ice mirror, leaving Voldemort's Fiendfyre extinguished.

• Voldemort used Shadow Substitute and Shadow Magic to recover from Tris's attack, then tried to bind Tris with shadow ropes.
• Tris reversed Voldemort's Shadow Binding, restrained him, and tore his body apart, but Voldemort re-formed from shadows.
• Voldemort unleashed Fiendfyre, which consumed magic and began collapsing the shadow mirror world.
• Tris dismissed the shadow mirror world with the Deluminator, returning himself and Voldemort to the real world.
• Tris spread ice across the ground and used Mirror Magic, Mirror Seal to trap and extinguish Voldemort's Fiendfyre.

Tris sealed Voldemort’s Fiendfyre with mirror magic, but Voldemort struck him down with black lightning. Harry, Pheobe, and Krum attacked together and staggered Voldemort, who retaliated with lightning aimed at all three.

• Tris trapped Voldemort’s Fiendfyre inside a Mirror World and cut it off from its source of magic.
• Voldemort summoned black lightning that shattered Tris’s Tortoiseshell Shield, then struck him as he dodged a Killing Curse.
• Harry, Pheobe, and Krum each cast a Stunning Spell at Voldemort, and Harry’s spell got through his defense and made him stagger.
• Voldemort unleashed three bolts of black lightning toward Harry, Pheobe, and Krum.

Harry, Pheobe, Krum, and Tris survived Voldemort’s repeated black lightning attacks, with Tris revealing the protection of a powerful magical vest. As Voldemort trapped them under a fresh barrage, a silver-haired wizard arrived and destroyed the lightning with a Phoenix.

• Harry dodged Voldemort’s first black lightning bolt, Krum countered his with spells, and Pheobe stopped hers with a series of Impact Curses.
• Voldemort sent more lightning at the Champions, but Tris pulled Harry, Pheobe, and Krum into his shadow mirror world before the bolts struck.
• The black lightning shattered the shadow mirror world, and Tris returned unharmed because his False Sanctity vest had protected him.
• Voldemort shook the ground to block Tris’s shadow and mirror magic, then sent twelve bolts of black lightning at the four wizards.
• A silver-haired wizard appeared amid golden-red flames and used a silver Phoenix to absorb the lightning and scatter the dark clouds.

Dumbledore entered the Black Spectral Screen with his phoenix and rescued Harry, Pheobe, Krum, and Tris from Voldemort’s attack. He faced Voldemort in a fierce duel, and Voldemort had retreated a step by the chapter’s end.

• Dumbledore used his phoenix to enter the Black Spectral Screen and blocked Voldemort’s twelve bolts of black lightning with a powerful Patronus Charm.
• Molly and the others outside failed to break through the barrier as they tried to reach Tris and the others.
• Voldemort attacked Dumbledore with a Killing Curse, but Dumbledore deflected it into the barrier.
• Voldemort sent lightning spheres at Dumbledore, who knocked them aside with a silver whip as he advanced.
• Dumbledore and Voldemort clashed with powerful spells, and Voldemort retreated a step after their spells collided.

Dumbledore fought Voldemort with an ordinary wand and steadily drove him back before trapping him in an earthen python. Tris realized Voldemort had failed to use Shadow Magic because he had only learned to cast it inside the shadow mirror world.

• Tris noticed Dumbledore was using an unfamiliar wand rather than the Elder Wand and realized Dumbledore’s magic surpassed Voldemort’s.
• Voldemort unleashed a storm of spells, but Dumbledore effortlessly deflected them and advanced while Voldemort retreated.
• Dumbledore swept aside Voldemort’s spells and raised an earthen python that coiled around him.
• Tris sensed that Voldemort had tried and failed to use Shadow Magic to escape the python.
• Tris understood that Voldemort’s Shadow Magic had worked only inside the shadow mirror world, where shadow power amplified it.