Recaps

Zhang Chengdao learned that the ginseng roots Zhang Xiao gave Professor Sprout had become talking Ginseng Dolls, while Zhang Xiao suspected their transformation was linked to a mysterious beam of light. Elsewhere, Dudley earned a promotion in the Holy See, and Umbridge met with Rockefeller and Morgan as she pursued her master's plan.

• Zhang Chengdao told the Old Celestial Master about the Ginseng Dolls, and his father urged him to trust Zhang Xiao without explaining the mystery.
• Zhang Xiao recalled that the Ginseng Dolls had awakened after seeing a golden light and hearing a woman's foreign-language voice, then went to sleep without solving it.
• Dudley finished maintaining his sword after a mission in Romania and asked Edward whether their fight against Dark Creatures would ever end.
• Edward told Dudley that the Holy See was considering him for captain of Demon-Hunting Squad No. 113.
• Umbridge prepared to carry out her master's plan in the United States and greeted Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Morgan at the estate.

Umbridge demonstrated magic to Morgan and Rockefeller, then offered them immortality through the Philosopher’s Stone. Convinced by her powers, the two men agreed to gather other influential figures to help pursue her proposal.

• Morgan and Rockefeller met Umbridge, who silenced their attendants and revealed that she was a witch.
• Umbridge transformed their cigars into cats, damaged the hall with magic, and restored the chandelier, convincing Morgan and Rockefeller that her powers were real.
• Umbridge explained that the Philosopher’s Stone could produce the Elixir of Life and that Nicolas Flamel had lived for over six hundred years.
• Morgan and Rockefeller dismissed their staff and discussed Umbridge’s offer, deciding they would need to recruit powerful allies such as DuPont.
• Umbridge told Morgan and Rockefeller to gather the others and said she would wait for their news.

Umbridge took control of the manor while Morgan and Rockefeller secured a resolution for cooperation with the Wizarding World on terms they could control. At Hogwarts, Zhang Xiao and Malfoy discussed Moody’s combat training and Trelawney’s ominous prediction as the students gathered to hear the details of the Super Goblet of Fire’s third round.

• Umbridge watched the Rolls-Royces leave and celebrated becoming the manor’s owner, while Morgan and Rockefeller rejected her proposed partnership and backed cross-shareholding and an exchange of interests.
• Powerful figures in the United States of America passed a resolution shaped by Umbridge’s vision of the future.
• Moody scolded Millicent Bulstrode, Gregory Goyle, and Zacharias Smith for failing to fight back during a Defence Against the Dark Arts exercise, and warned he might arrange real combat training.
• Zhang Xiao told Malfoy that Moody seemed disappointed in the students, and Malfoy complained about Divination and Trelawney’s prediction of upheaval and deaths during the third round.
• Zhang Xiao recalled that his grandfather had assured him no harm would come, and he and Malfoy anticipated the announcement of the third-round details.
• After Divination and dinner began, Dumbledore stood before the silent Great Hall to make the announcement.

Dumbledore announced that the Super Goblet of Fire’s final round would begin in a week, though its format would remain secret until it started. As the champions trained, their families arrived on the eve of the task, and Harry was left sharing an awkward but meaningful moment with Petunia.

• Dumbledore announced the final round’s start date and kept its objective and format confidential, then praised the champions of all nine schools.
• Hermione urged the champions to practise, and Zhang Xiao helped them review spells as the third round approached.
• Professor McGonagall summoned the champions to meet their families, including Malfoy’s parents, Neville’s parents, the Weasleys, and Petunia Dursley.
• Petunia told Harry that Dumbledore had invited her to watch, and Harry thanked her awkwardly.
• Petunia asked whether Hogwarts was the school where Lily Potter had once lived, leaving Harry deeply moved.

Harry invited Petunia to revisit Hogwarts, and Zhang Xiao arranged a first-year-style tour that brought her childhood dream to life. As Petunia stood before the Sorting Hat at Hogwarts’s staged Sorting Ceremony, Zhang Xiao wondered whether his Celestial Magic had broken through his bottleneck.

• Harry asked Petunia to tour Hogwarts, and she agreed to put her unfinished childhood dream to rest.
• Harry explained that he wanted to treat Petunia and Dudley as family, and Zhang Xiao gathered Draco, Neville, Hermione, and Ron to plan a special Hogwarts visit.
• Zhang Xiao and Harry led Petunia and the Grangers through Hogsmeade, then used an Age-Reducing Potion to make them look young as Hagrid guided them to the boats.
• Zhang Xiao used Celestial Magic to fill the sky with stars, and Petunia saw Hogwarts across the lake and wept.
• The group entered a Great Hall filled with cheering students, where McGonagall began a staged Sorting Ceremony and called Petunia Evans to the stool.

Petunia and the Grangers were sorted into Hogwarts houses during a special ceremony, and the families toured the school before the champions learned the rules for the deciding round. The third round would scatter them across New York without wands or equipment and require them to earn money, find their wands, and reach MetLife Stadium.

• The Sorting Hat placed Petunia in Gryffindor after recalling Lily’s wish that her sister could attend Hogwarts, and Petunia broke down in tears.
• The Sorting Hat sorted Mr. Granger into Gryffindor and Mrs. Granger into Ravenclaw, and Little Ma gave the three parents coreless wands.
• Harry and his family toured Hogwarts, where Snape unexpectedly answered Mr. Granger’s questions about potions.
• Dumbledore announced that the third round would take place in New York, with champions stripped of their wands and equipment and required to earn legitimate money in Muggle society.
• Dumbledore explained that champions could buy up to three clues to their wands and would have to reach MetLife Stadium while avoiding detection by three Aurors.
• Dumbledore revealed that the first two rounds’ rankings would grant champions starting money and discounts on clues, then wished them good luck.

Dumbledore explained the third round: the champions had to survive a week in New York without their wands, then find them and reach MetLife Stadium while blending in among Muggles. The champions arrived in New York, surrendered their wands, and began drawing random starting locations as spectators gathered at the stadium; Zhang Xiao was the first sent out.

• Dumbledore explained that each champion’s wand would be hidden separately and that buying all eighteen clues would cost eighteen thousand dollars, with reserve members also competing.
• Dumbledore transported the young wizards to New York aboard a roller-coaster-like Portkey, and staff gave potions to those who became sick.
• Ludo Bagman welcomed the spectators at MetLife Stadium, read advertisements, and demonstrated the house-elf service that delivered food and drinks to their seats.
• Zhang Xiao placed his wand in a box, rolled the die twice to determine his starting location, and Apparated away with three Aurors.
• The stadium screen showed Zhang Xiao in a small grove, and Ludo Bagman announced that the third round had officially begun.

Zhang Xiao navigated Clinton Park, used magic to earn a safer night’s lodging, and recognized that the third round would force him to cope with an unfamiliar and hostile Muggle society. As the other champions were dropped across New York, several immediately encountered the dangers of their surroundings.

• Zhang Xiao questioned a homeless man in Clinton Park and transformed the man’s blanket and cardboard pillow into comfortable bedding.
• Zhang Xiao checked into the Clinton Park Hotel, used the Confundus Charm to win a discount from the racist receptionist, and considered street performing as a way to earn money.
• Ludo Bagman and the spectators watched Zhang Xiao perform Wandless Transfiguration and marveled at his skill.
• The other champions began arriving at unfamiliar locations around New York, where Pheobe attracted threatening men and a Koldovstoretz student sought a bar.
• Neville was surrounded by thuggish-looking people who demanded the hundred-dollar bill in his pocket.

Neville defeated a gang of thugs and agreed to teach them Loose-Hand Techniques for money, while Hermione found work and shelter at a dental clinic. Ron was whisked away from an adult establishment, Malfoy unexpectedly ran into Harry, and Zhang Xiao set out to find the square.

• Neville disarmed and defeated Benjamin and his two companions, then agreed to teach them Loose-Hand Techniques after they offered to pay him.
• At Dragon-Tiger Mountain, Zhou Chuzhi and the others watched Neville bargain with the thugs, who promised not to use kung fu for wrongdoing.
• Hermione got a place to stay and a trainee nurse job at Doctor Bate's dental clinic after explaining that her bag and documents had been stolen.
• Ron stopped outside the Pink Lady and was quickly Apparated away by the American Auror assigned to him.
• Malfoy ran into Harry while wandering the streets and looking for a refined way to earn money.
• Zhang Xiao obtained a map of New York and headed for the square the homeless man had mentioned.

Zhang Xiao earned a large sum by performing magic tricks for Muggles, then defeated a gang of robbers who tried to steal his money. After learning that their leader belonged to a gang, Zhang Xiao decided to seek out the gang and take its money as trophies.

• Zhang Xiao used Geminio and the Levitation Charm during a street performance, drawing cheers and donations from the crowd while Aurors warned wizards not to imitate him around Muggles.
• Zhang Xiao counted his earnings, bought hot dogs, fries, and cola, and wandered through the park.
• Several men cornered Zhang Xiao in an alley, and their leader threatened him with a switchblade and demanded his money.
• Zhang Xiao deflected the knife and quickly beat the gang members, breaking the leader's arm.
• Zhang Xiao learned that the leader belonged to a gang and asked where it was, planning to provoke its members and take their money.

Zhang Xiao raided a Mexican gang for cash, but the Aurors told him the money was illegal to use, so he donated it to Project Hope. Meanwhile, Neville's Wudang lessons drew a crowd of paying students, and the chapter ended with his sect's leaders watching Zhang Xiao at the consulate.

• Zhang Xiao followed an injured gang member to the Mexican gang's factory and defeated Raisman's men after smashing through the door.
• Raisman handed Zhang Xiao a suitcase of cash, but Aurors arrived and explained that he could not use money obtained illegally.
• Zhang Xiao knocked Raisman unconscious, took the suitcase, and left the Auror to modify Raisman's memories.
• Neville accepted tuition from a growing group of students who wanted to learn Wudang kung fu, though he worried he was unqualified to teach them.
• Sect Leader Zhou celebrated Neville's success as the Old Celestial Master watched Zhang Xiao donate the suitcase of cash to Project Hope.

Zhang Xiao decided to seek work in Chinatown after donating US$1.2 million, while Hermione secured a raise and Cedric considered a movie role. Meanwhile, Malfoy led Harry and Ron to apply for work at the Trocadero Ballet Company, where he was hired as a dancer.

• Zhang Xiao left the consulate with his donation receipt and decided to head to Chinatown to look for work.
• Doctor Bate raised Hermione's pay to twenty dollars an hour and offered to discuss a higher salary once she replaced her documents.
• Cedric's agent offered him a role in Interview with the Vampire for two hundred dollars a day, while Cho Chang silently considered jinxes.
• Malfoy met Harry and Ron, explained how Muggle wages compared with Galleons, and led them to apply for the Trocadero Ballet Company after spotting its notice for three dancers.
• Malfoy claimed he could dance several styles, and Tolly Doblin immediately hired him.

Harry, Ron, and Malfoy were forced to perform in the Trocadero Ballet Company’s comic version of Swan Lake after signing a contract with a steep cancellation penalty. Their clumsy dancing unexpectedly delighted the audience, and Tory decided to keep them and give them a raise.

• Tory rushed Harry, Ron, and Malfoy into ballet costumes for a performance starting in twenty minutes, and Malfoy revealed that backing out would cost them three thousand dollars.
• Harry, Ron, and Malfoy chose to perform rather than risk the penalty, while Hermione, Cedric, and Neville earned money through their own jobs.
• Malfoy tried to lead the trio through the Dance of the Little Swans, but Harry and Ron’s stiff, awkward steps turned into a crab walk.
• The audience erupted in laughter at the trio’s genuine lack of skill, and Tory realized their clumsy dancing was a fresh twist on the company’s comedy.
• Tory told the lead dancer to perform seriously, which made the audience laugh even more when contrasted with the trio’s inept movements.
• After the trio stumbled through the routine and Ron fell from the stage, Tory called them geniuses and announced he would give them a raise.

Harry, Ron, and Malfoy reluctantly agreed to keep performing their comic ballet routine for higher pay while students from other wizarding schools found work across New York. In Chinatown, Zhang Xiao met Wu Jiayou and offered to help with dangerous supernatural jobs despite being unable to perform Daoist rituals.

• Tory raised Harry, Ron, and Malfoy's pay to three hundred dollars per show, and they agreed to continue as the closing act.
• Students from the other schools found varied work, while five of the six Durmstrang students were hit by a car and Krum stayed at the hospital to care for them.
• Zhang Xiao found Wu Jiayou's Chinatown shop and asked for work.
• Zhang Xiao told Wu Jiayou that his parents were Daoists and that he had received talisman investiture, but admitted he could not perform rituals.
• Zhang Xiao offered to take on especially difficult and sinister jobs, promising Wu Jiayou success.

Zhang Xiao accepted Wu Jiayou’s offer to investigate the Wang family’s failed funerals and unexplained deaths, demonstrating his power to reassure the cautious feng shui practitioner. Wu Jiayou secured the commission and prepared to take Zhang Xiao to the Wang family manor in New Jersey.

• Wu Jiayou told Zhang Xiao that members of the Wang family had died during gatherings at their old house, while their funerals repeatedly failed and the officiants fell seriously ill.
• Wu Jiayou explained that the Wang family offered a hundred thousand dollars to hold a funeral and deal with whatever was causing the deaths, and Zhang Xiao agreed to take the commission.
• Zhang Xiao revealed a golden light from his finger, astonishing Wu Jiayou and convincing him that Zhang Xiao had the ability to handle the case.
• Wu Jiayou asked whether an ordinary person could cultivate, and Zhang Xiao told him that cultivation depended on destiny.
• Wu Jiayou contacted the Wang family and arranged funeral supplies, then told Zhang Xiao that their manor was in New Jersey.

Zhang Xiao investigated the Wang Family’s unnatural deaths and found monster energy clinging to the deceased. When the coffins burst open during the burial rites, he revealed the Golden Light Spell and subdued the risen corpses, while a hidden observer recognized his magic.

• Zhang Xiao confirmed with a United States Auror that traveling to New Jersey for work would not violate the tournament rules.
• Zhang Xiao and Wu Jiayou visited the Wang Family manor, where Wang Guoguang asked them to investigate three relatives who had died unnaturally.
• Zhang Xiao used his Dharma Eye to discover black monster energy surrounding the bodies and spreading through the burial site.
• Wu Jiayou sealed the coffins and began the burial, but the coffins grew too heavy to carry and their lids flew off during the tombstone ceremony.
• Three corpses rose from the coffins, and Zhang Xiao burst into golden light, slapped them back down, and drew a shout identifying his spell as the Golden Light Spell.

Zhang Xiao confronted a black-robed Southeast Asian Hexmaster who was refining corpses and commanding Ghost Infants. The fight escalated as the Aurors defended themselves against the infants, while Zhang Xiao attacked the Hexmaster and his corpses.

• Zhang Xiao discovered the black-robed Hexmaster in the woods and learned that he wanted to refine Zhang Xiao into a yin-yang corpse.
• The Hexmaster burst the coffins open, sending three rune-marked corpses after Zhang Xiao and attacking him with a corrosive hex.
• Ghost Infants appeared beside the three Aurors, whose ordinary spells barely affected them, so Zhang Xiao told them to use Patronus Charms or the Fire-Making Spell.
• The Aurors summoned corporeal Patronuses to hold off the Ghost Infants while the Hexmaster prepared his dark tools and Zhang Xiao bombarded him with talismans.
• The Hexmaster repelled the talismans and empowered the three corpses, but Zhang Xiao's Corpse-Sealing Talismans failed to stop them.
• Zhang Xiao kicked two corpses and hurled the third straight at the black-robed Hexmaster.

Zhang Xiao discovered that a Ghost Monkey inside the corpses had defeated his Corpse-Sealing Talisman, while the Tiger and Dragon Jade Pendant protected him from the black-robed man's attempt to defile his golden light. After the black-robed man recognized Zhang Xiao as Dragon-Tiger Mountain's Young Celestial Master, greed drove him to use a deadly Bloodlight Spell and begin a Soul Transfer Reincarnation.

• Zhang Xiao asked Wu Jiayou and the Wang Family for a weapon, then used Wang Sheng's practice sword, empowering it with his blood and golden light.
• The black-robed man's blood-soaked Straw Man burst apart when the Tiger and Dragon Jade Pendant unleashed golden dragon and tiger phantoms, leaving the black-robed man injured and frightened.
• Zhang Xiao cut open the Wang Family patriarch's body and exposed a Ghost Monkey controlling the corpse.
• The black-robed man recognized the Tiger and Dragon Jade Pendant, guessed that Zhang Xiao might have stolen it, and decided to risk everything to seize it.
• The black-robed man tore out his own heart and launched a Bloodlight Spell at Zhang Xiao, then began chanting, "Soul Transfer Reincarnation!"

Zhang Xiao destroyed Baiyin Chacai’s soul and learned that the Wang family had concealed an object connected to the attack. At the Wang family’s old home, they discovered a Three-Legged Golden Toad that Zhang Xiao recognized as a gift from his grandfather, though the message his grandfather left remained unfinished.

• Baiyin Chacai possessed Zhang Xiao, but Zhang Xiao froze him inside his mind palace and burned his soul with blue-white flames.
• Zhang Xiao’s fellow disciples and father discussed the threat from Southeast Asian evil cultivators, while Zhang Xiao told the Wang family the danger had passed.
• After the burial, Zhang Xiao asked Wang Guoguang whether the family had hidden anything in its old home, and Wang Guoguang admitted they had.
• Wang Guoguang led Zhang Xiao and Wu Jiayou to a hidden chamber beneath the family’s old home, where they found an enshrined Three-Legged Golden Toad.
• The Old Celestial Master recalled giving the toad to an older man surnamed Wang, and Zhang Xiao recognized it as his grandfather’s gift and began to reveal the message left on it.

Zhang Xiao resolved the Wang Family’s Golden Toad problem, collected his payment, and spent his last days in New York sightseeing. As the seven-day stay ended, Hermione and Cedric left their jobs, while Neville watched a crowd gather at the new Wudang factory.

• Wang Guoguang let Zhang Xiao take the Golden Toad so Zhang Xiao could ask his grandfather to remove the lingering aura before returning it.
• Zhang Xiao explained that Baiyin Chacai had tracked the ghostly energy from the Golden Toad and used the Wang Family as bait to lure out a Daoist, but had instead encountered the Little Celestial Master.
• The Wang Family paid Zhang Xiao one hundred thousand dollars, and Wu Jiayou refused all but his usual funeral-services fee.
• Hermione finished organizing the clinic records, left her earnings behind in the form of savings, and departed at dawn; Doctor Bate found her notes and realized she would not return.
• Cedric gently declined Julia’s offer to make him a star, saying he had a girl and needed to return to his world and reunite with his friends.
• Neville watched hundreds of enthusiastic disciples gather in the transformed factory bearing the name Wudang.

Neville said goodbye to his Wudang disciples and promised to return in three years, while the Super Goblet of Fire contestants wrapped up their Muggle jobs and began their journeys. Zhang Xiao prepared to leave New York, where Wu Jiayou came to see him off with dumplings from the Wang Family.

• Neville told his disciples he was leaving, promised to return in three years, and departed after they mistakenly wished him to rest in peace.
• Harry, Ron, and Malfoy finished their ballet job, collected nearly five thousand dollars, and vowed never to do it again.
• Students from the other schools completed their jobs and set out, while their experiences gave wizards a closer understanding of Muggle life.
• Krum accepted compensation from a teammate and left the hospital, exhausted by the five Durmstrang Champions in wheelchairs.
• Zhang Xiao prepared to leave New York, and Wu Jiayou met him in the hotel lobby with dumplings from the Wang Family.

Hermione and the others reunited in New York and compared the money they had earned, while Neville gave his disciples’ funds back to their martial arts school. Zhang Xiao bought clues that led him to the Statue of Liberty, where he recovered his wand and felt his power surge.

• Hermione greeted Cedric, Harry, Ron, and Malfoy, then teased the trio about their ballet performance and showed them the newspaper photograph.
• Harry, Ron, and Malfoy revealed they had earned five thousand dollars, Hermione showed her fifteen hundred, and Cedric said his vampire film had paid him thirty thousand.
• Neville reunited with his friends, but Benjamin arrived with the two hundred and three thousand five hundred dollars Neville had left behind and brought hundreds of disciples to see him off.
• Neville gave Benjamin the money for their martial arts school, freed him from paying tuition, and promised to return in three years.
• Zhang Xiao paid the United States Auror for clues that identified his wand’s hiding place as the Statue of Liberty’s torch.
• Zhang Xiao climbed into the torch and summoned his wand, causing lightning to crackle around him as onlookers stared.

Zhang Xiao reached the final stage of the tournament while the Hogwarts champions solved riddles to recover their wands and planned to regroup. Meanwhile, Voldemort prepared a vast army for war, and Dudley assembled with the Church’s Demon Hunters as they marched to fight supernatural forces.

• Zhang Xiao recovered his Thunderstruck Wood Wand, leaped from a tower, and used charms to land safely before setting off for MetLife Stadium.
• Ludo Bagman praised the champions’ success in adapting to Muggle life and announced that they had to reach the stadium while avoiding Auror ambushes.
• Hermione explained the New York location riddles to Harry, Ron, Malfoy, Cedric, and Neville, and Malfoy suggested they use mobile phones to split up, retrieve their wands, and regroup.
• Voldemort learned from Umbridge that his forces numbered more than thirty thousand and ordered the Death Eaters to prepare for battle.
• Dudley joined more than ten thousand Demon Hunters as the Church’s leader blessed them and ordered them to march against supernatural creatures.

Zhang Xiao faced the Aurors’ guerrilla attacks on his way to MetLife Stadium, then outran them after deciding to counter their tactics. Harry retrieved his wand as the Champions began their plan, while the Aurors prepared to confront Zhang Xiao at the stadium entrance.

• The Aurors used silent, low-powered spells and hit-and-run tactics to delay Zhang Xiao as he traveled toward the stadium.
• Zhang Xiao deduced that the Aurors were using a coordinated delay strategy, then sped away so quickly that they could not keep up.
• Harry confirmed that his wand was hidden inside a cannon barrel and reviewed the retrieval plan with Hermione over the phone.
• Harry retrieved his wand at the agreed time and headed for a bicycle, but a police car blocked his path and an officer ordered him to raise his hands.
• The Aurors decided to intercept Zhang Xiao at the stadium entrance and challenge him to fight them one at a time.

Zhang Xiao reached the road to MetLife Stadium, where six Aurors challenged him to one-on-one duels. After defeating them in succession, he entered the stadium to a roaring welcome, with the Goblet of Fire still ahead.

• Zhang Xiao stopped when six Aurors blocked his path to MetLife Stadium.
• Walter Whitman challenged Zhang Xiao to a duel, and Zhang accepted.
• Zhang Xiao and Walter fought at high speed until Zhang used a Knockback Jinx and Disarming Charm to defeat him.
• Zhang Xiao defeated the remaining Aurors one after another, and they saluted him as he passed.
• Zhang Xiao walked onto the red carpet at MetLife Stadium as the crowd cheered.