Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore trapped Voldemort in an obsidian sphere, but Voldemort escaped and attacked him from behind. After Dumbledore dodged the strike, Eulalie Hicks arrived and restrained Voldemort, leaving him unable to Apparate.

• Dumbledore transformed earth and stone into a huge obsidian sphere to trap Voldemort.
• Tris realized the Black Spectral Screen had vanished, and Voldemort appeared behind Dumbledore to attack him with a Black Wave Blade.
• Dumbledore used Mirror Magic and Body Flicker Magic to evade Voldemort's strike.
• Voldemort decided to retreat, but Eulalie Hicks surrounded him with countless pages that prevented him from Apparating.
• Eulalie Hicks asked Dumbledore whether Voldemort needed to be arrested.

Madam Hicks and six other elite wizards cornered Voldemort, but he transformed into a gigantic three-headed Runespoor and escaped underground. Moody then reported that Azkaban had been breached, revealing the Ministry crisis Voldemort had warned about.

• Madam Hicks sealed Voldemort inside a magical cage as McGonagall, Flitwick, Sprout, Scrimgeour, and Bones joined her and Dumbledore.
• Voldemort taunted Scrimgeour and Bones, saying he had sent the Ministry a gift, then transformed into a Runespoor over thirty meters long.
• Madam Hicks, McGonagall, and Sprout attacked the giant serpent, but Voldemort bored through the ground and escaped.
• Moody arrived and reported that Azkaban had been breached.

After Voldemort’s return, the Ministry learned that Azkaban had been breached and most of its prisoners had escaped. Despite the crisis, Dumbledore and Madam Hicks ensured the Triwizard Tournament’s result was announced, and Tris Weasley received the cup as winner before his system suddenly activated.

• Moody told Scrimgeour and Madam Bones that the Dementors had rebelled, the Azkaban perimeter guards had been killed, and ninety percent of the prisoners had escaped.
• Scrimgeour questioned Crouch and Bagman about the Tournament’s arrangements while McGonagall suggested they move into Hogwarts Castle.
• Dumbledore reminded the group that they had not announced the Tournament winner, and Madam Hicks said Tris Weasley had reached the cup before the other Champions.
• Bagman announced Tris Weasley as the winner, and Madam Hicks handed him the Triwizard Cup.
• The system suddenly appeared after Tris accepted the cup.

After winning the Triwizard Tournament, Tris discovered that his system had removed his human limiter and then departed permanently, leaving him with his acquired abilities. Dumbledore brought Tris and Harry to question Crouch and Bagman about Voldemort, where Crouch confessed to tampering with the tournament under the Imperius Curse.

• The system announced that Tris's human limiter had been removed, awarded him Top Student status, and departed permanently while leaving his abilities intact.
• Tris felt relieved that he had not become bald and celebrated the system's departure, then assured Harry and Ron that he was fine.
• Dumbledore invited Tris and Harry to join the adults questioning Crouch and Bagman, despite Scrimgeour's doubts.
• Bagman denied tampering with the Triwizard Cup and accused Crouch of visiting him before the final task and causing him to fall asleep.
• Crouch admitted that he had tampered with the tournament and said the Imperius Curse had controlled him for months.
• Snape emerged and offered Veritaserum to test Crouch's confession.

Barty Crouch confessed how he smuggled his son out of Azkaban and was later forced to help Voldemort manipulate the Triwizard Tournament. After Voldemort escaped and his followers broke out of Azkaban, Dumbledore revealed that he had marked Voldemort and could lead the Ministry to his hiding place.

• Barty Crouch explained that he exchanged his dying wife for Barty Crouch Jr. in Azkaban and kept his son hidden under the Imperius Curse.
• Barty Crouch confessed that Voldemort's followers captured and controlled him, forcing him to put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire and tamper with the final trophy.
• Barty Crouch said Bagman had innocently passed information, while Voldemort's group changed its plan after Tris and Weasley outperformed their expectations.
• Madam Bones apologized to Dumbledore for ignoring his warning, and Dumbledore said Voldemort's public return made him easier to find.
• Dumbledore revealed that he had placed a Magical Mark on Voldemort, and Moody urged them to catch Voldemort and his followers in one fell swoop.

After Dumbledore secretly marked Voldemort, the wizards planned to track the Death Eaters to their distant hideout and launch a dangerous assault. Dumbledore assembled volunteers, and Molly reluctantly faced the prospect of Tris joining the mission.

• Dumbledore told the group that Voldemort had stopped moving far away, likely outside Britain, and Scrimgeour and Madam Bones left to organize elite fighters and seek foreign assistance.
• Moody, Arthur, Sirius, Lupin, Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, and Sprout volunteered to accompany Dumbledore, while Dumbledore asked Snape and Molly to remain at Hogwarts.
• Harry volunteered to face Voldemort, and Sirius supported him despite Molly's concern.
• Tris also volunteered, but Molly objected until Sirius and Moody vouched for Tris's strength and Dumbledore said the mission needed him.

Dumbledore gathered elite Aurors from Britain, France, Germany, and Belgium to attack Voldemort’s lair in Luxembourg, while placing the remaining Horcruxes in Tris’s care. As the anti-Apparition barrier rose, Tris remained confident that Voldemort and the Death Eaters posed no threat to him, and the battle was about to begin.

• Dumbledore located Voldemort’s temporary lair in Luxembourg and assembled more than a hundred elite Aurors from France, Germany, and Belgium alongside Britain’s smaller team.
• Harry and Tris watched the foreign Aurors assemble, and Tris recognized the French commander, Parland Delacour, as Fleur Delacour’s father.
• Dumbledore entrusted Tris with lead boxes containing the remaining Horcruxes and asked him to preserve them if possible.
• Tris agreed to destroy the Horcruxes later if Dumbledore gave him a signal, and he joked with Dumbledore before reassuring Arthur that Voldemort’s forces were no threat to him.
• The anti-Apparition barrier rose around Voldemort’s lair, signaling that the battle was about to begin.

Nearly a hundred wizards entered Voldemort’s manor under an Anti-Apparition Jinx barrier, only to be ambushed by Word Magic that disabled their brooms. The attackers revealed themselves beneath a giant Dark Mark, and Tris recognized the Word Wizard when the man met his gaze and smiled.

• Tris and Harry flew toward Voldemort’s dilapidated manor with Arthur, Moody, and the other wizards.
• A voice from the manor used Word Magic to forbid magical devices, causing the wizards’ Flying Broomsticks to fail and sending them falling.
• Tris slowed his and Harry’s descent by spreading his cloak like a hang glider, while Harry realized their group had been discovered.
• Madam Bones identified the magic as Word Magic and warned the wizards that a Word Wizard was among their enemies.
• Voldemort appeared beneath an enormous Dark Mark with more than a hundred followers, including Bellatrix and Lucius Malfoy.
• Tris focused on a short-haired man in a Tantric Buddhist-style robe, whom he suspected had cast the Word Magic, and the man looked back and smiled.

Tris confronted Voldemort over recruiting werewolves and other creatures, then demonstrated his power when he repelled Bellatrix’s Killing Curse. Voldemort stopped the spell clash and filled the battlefield with thick white mist.

• The allied wizards saw that Voldemort’s forces included former Death Eaters, werewolves, vampires, and Corpse Demons.
• Tris mocked Voldemort for working with werewolves despite preaching blood supremacy.
• Bellatrix Lestrange attacked Tris with the Killing Curse, but his black spell drove it back toward her.
• Voldemort redirected both spells into the sky and announced that he would receive his guests properly.
• Voldemort caused thick white mist to rise around the battlefield.

Tris was separated from Harry by the fog and trapped in a chamber with a monk who offered an alliance, but Tris killed him and escaped through a hidden passage. He emerged into a chamber where he swiftly defeated a werewolf, while the restriction on his magical items remained in effect.

• Fog separated Tris from Harry and transported Tris to a sealed stone chamber with the monk who used Word of Truth.
• The monk offered Tris friendship and information about the Star Chart Disk, but Tris attacked and decapitated him with the Rune Short Spear.
• Tris found a magically sealed scroll on the monk, discovered that the Deluminator still did not work, and broke through a wooden board to escape via a pipe.
• Tris emerged in another chamber and kicked a lunging werewolf into a stone wall, leaving it badly injured.

Tris defeated Fenrir Greyback and rescued Sirius from a vampire while exploring the strange descending chambers. Sirius warned that the passages sent wizards and their enemies to different places, and Tris revealed that he had killed the Prophet; Harry remained missing.

• Tris fought Fenrir Greyback, beheaded him with the Flame Blade Curse, and descended to the next chamber.
• Tris found Sirius surrounded by bats and drove off the vampire with fiery spells, though some bats escaped below.
• Sirius warned Tris that the passages worked differently for wizards and their enemies and interfered with magic.
• Sirius asked whether Tris had seen Harry, and Tris said he had encountered the Prophet and a werewolf instead.
• Tris told Sirius that he had killed the Prophet, leaving Sirius visibly unsettled.

Tris and Sirius descended through the chamber beneath the Ministry, where Tris killed Antonin Dolohov with a single punch while saving Kingsley. Kingsley accepted that Dolohov’s death could be explained as an accident in battle, though Tris’s strength left him and Sirius stunned.

• Tris told Sirius he had killed Fenrir Greyback, and Sirius approved after learning Greyback’s name.
• Tris and Sirius continued downward, found a dead Belgian Auror, and heard fighting in the next chamber.
• They found Kingsley in danger as he fought Antonin Dolohov, the wizard who had killed Tris’s uncles.
• Tris struck Dolohov with a punch that smashed him into the wall and killed him.
• Tris apologized for losing control of his recently increased strength, and Kingsley said Dolohov’s death in battle was understandable.

Tris, Kingsley, and Sirius fought through Voldemort’s magic-interference trap, which weakened conventional magic while leaving dark magic unaffected. Tris killed a giant and two corpse demons with overwhelming physical strength and fire magic, while the group continued deeper into the manor.

• Tris, Kingsley, and Sirius entered a room containing a giant, and Tris asked them why ordinary magic was weakened in the area.
• Kingsley and Sirius explained that the trap hindered conventional magic but left dark magic unaffected, and Tris realized Voldemort had chosen Luxembourg to exploit the neighboring countries’ Aurors.
• Tris fought the giant hand to hand, beat it to death, and asked Kingsley whether killing it in self-defense was illegal.
• Tris found two corpse demons attacking a French Auror, rushed past their summoned Skeleton Knights and zombie warriors, and beheaded the corpse demons with the Flame Blade Curse.
• Tris burned the corpse demons’ bodies to ash with Advanced Flame Magic, leaving Kingsley and Sirius shaken by his speed and strength.

Tris reached Voldemort’s enormous underground chamber and found allied fighters bound before the throne, including the still-living Amelia Bones. Dumbledore and Harry arrived amid a heap of pursuers, while Voldemort grew furious and mistakenly assumed the monk had fled Tris.

• Tris and his twelve companions entered the chamber and saw twenty-seven allied fighters bound to wooden frames, with Amelia Bones among the survivors.
• Bellatrix told Kingsley that Bones had fought five attackers and nearly escaped before being captured.
• A swarm of bats and dark figures fell from an overhead pipe, then Dumbledore and Harry emerged in a burst of phoenix fire.
• Harry told Tris that Arthur was injured but safe with Remus and that they were heading toward the chamber.
• Voldemort brooded over his broken agreement with the Dark Wizard organization and assumed the absent monk had abandoned his task after Tris arrived.

Dumbledore confronted Voldemort while Tris effortlessly defeated the Death Eaters and vampires attacking their allies. After leaving the cleanup to Harry, Moody, and the Aurors, Tris turned to Voldemort, who was still dueling Dumbledore and questioning what he had just witnessed.

• Voldemort insulted the Dark Wizards and vampires before he and Dumbledore began a duel.
• Bellatrix ordered the Death Eaters to attack Dumbledore's companions while Voldemort and Dumbledore were locked in combat.
• Tris charged the attackers without using magic, dodged their spells, and knocked down the Death Eaters and vampires.
• Tris told Harry, Moody, and the Aurors to handle the cleanup, then looked toward Voldemort.
• Voldemort kept dueling Dumbledore but became distracted by Tris's display.

Dumbledore pulled Voldemort into a mirror world, while his speaking Patronus urged Tris to destroy the Horcruxes. Tris cleansed all four with Samadhi True Fire, and Voldemort finally noticed him as he finished.

• Dumbledore caught Voldemort off guard and pulled him into a mirror world beneath their feet.
• Dumbledore's speaking Patronus told Tris to destroy the Horcruxes, and Sirius explained what it was.
• Tris opened the lead boxes containing the Locket, Diadem, Ring, and golden cup, then used Samadhi True Fire to cleanse them.
• Tris noticed a faint magical fluctuation from the restored Diadem and decided to investigate it later.
• After Tris erased the Horcrux magic from the Gaunt Ring, Voldemort turned his gaze toward him.

Dumbledore shattered the Mirror World to pierce Voldemort with its fragments, but Voldemort survived and transformed into a giant Three-Headed Magical Serpent. As Hicks, McGonagall, Flitwick, Arthur, and others arrived, Hicks opened her book and sent its pages flying.

• Voldemort spotted four of his Horcruxes in Tris's boxes and was distracted by the sight.
• Dumbledore turned fragments of the Mirror World into blades that pierced Voldemort, but Voldemort survived the wounds.
• Voldemort transformed into a giant Three-Headed Magical Serpent as Moody, Kingsley, and Sirius reinforced the floor to prevent him from burrowing away.
• Eulalie Hicks, Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Arthur, and other fighters arrived through the pipe.
• Hicks raised her hand and opened her book, sending countless pages flying as Tris wondered whether Word Magic had worn off.

Tris and the Ministry coalition fought Voldemort after he transformed into a three-headed Runespoor, but Voldemort’s concealed soul attack incapacitated nearly everyone. Only seven remained standing, including Harry, whose unexpected resistance puzzled Tris.

• Tris sensed the shadow mirror world opening as Eulalie Hicks used her book to bind Voldemort with chains of text.
• Voldemort’s serpent form spat corrosive venom at Hicks, who evaded it by teleporting with her book’s pages.
• The coalition’s strongest wizards surrounded Voldemort, and he unleashed a powerful concealed soul attack that dropped most of the fighters.
• Tris recognized the attack as a mental assault and wondered why Harry had survived when many stronger wizards had fallen.
• Dumbledore, Hicks, Flitwick, Tris, Parland Delacour, a German Auror, and Harry remained standing.

Voldemort transformed into a gigantic Runespoor with a human face and arms, then overwhelmed the wizards with a soul attack and powerful magic. The remaining fighters discovered that his body regenerated rapidly, and the German Auror unleashed Fiendfyre against him.

• Tris noticed that most of the top-tier wizards had collapsed, while Harry and he remained unaffected.
• Hicks warned that Voldemort's attack had likely targeted their souls, and Voldemort revealed a human face and arms on his Runespoor body.
• Voldemort fired a massive Killing Curse at the German Auror, but Hicks's device slowed it long enough for Tris to pull the Auror into the Shadow Mirror World.
• Flitwick struck Voldemort with lightning, and Mr. Delacour tore into him with a blade-filled whirlwind, but Voldemort regenerated from both attacks.
• The German Auror returned from the Shadow Mirror World and cast Fiendfyre at Voldemort.

Tris saved the injured fighters from Voldemort’s Fiendfyre and used Samadhi True Fire to burn Voldemort’s soul, leaving him motionless. As the others questioned whether Voldemort was dead, Harry collapsed and began convulsing.

• Tris pulled the fallen fighters away from Voldemort’s Fiendfyre and moved them behind him, while the flames failed to burn through Voldemort’s scales.
• Voldemort caused the Fiendfyre to grow by releasing Blood Mist, nearly draining the German Auror’s magic before Dumbledore took control of the flames.
• Tris counted down from three as a tiny golden flame sank into Voldemort, then Samadhi True Fire made him writhe in agony.
• Voldemort returned to human form and eventually lay motionless with lifeless eyes as his soul was destroyed.
• Miss Hicks and Dumbledore questioned whether Voldemort was dead, then Harry collapsed and convulsed.