Chapter Summaries

After the champions were separated by a sudden collapse, Ron, Neville, Hermione, Harry, Malfoy, and Cedric navigated the underground maze and searched for one another. Zhang Xiao reached the sunken palace, where its royal guards knelt before him after recognizing his rune.

• Ron woke injured in a stone chamber, found his wand, and discovered his communicator was broken before limping toward a door.
• Neville defeated Stone Men, tried unsuccessfully to contact his friends, and marked his route through the maze.
• Hermione burned an Inferius, mapped her route, and continued onward, while Harry sent his stag Patronus to find his friends.
• Malfoy left Galleons as markers and continued searching, while Cedric followed Harry's Patronus and reunited with him.
• The audience praised the Hogwarts champions as Zhang Xiao reached the palace complex and entered its main hall.
• Zhang Xiao's rune detached and shone, prompting the royal guards to draw their weapons and kneel before him.

Zhang Xiao completed the underwater task first, returned to the surface, and brushed off reporters before resting in the competitors’ room. As he watched the other teams, a house-elf brought startling news: Astoria Greengrass had been found sneaking into the Room of Requirement during the competition.

• Zhang Xiao sat on the Golden Throne, was launched through the palace skylight, and was announced as the first champion to finish the task.
• Zhang Xiao rejected reporters’ accusations, praised Hogwarts to the Daily Prophet, and went to rest after Madam Pomfrey examined him.
• Ron searched the dark passage alone and found a Galleon marked with an arrow and D.M.’s signature.
• Harry and Cedric reunited and sent their Patronuses to find their companions, impressing spectators with Hogwarts’ corporeal Patronuses.
• Dumbledore’s maze separated Harry, Malfoy, and Ron from Neville, Cedric, and Hermione, preventing the groups from reuniting.
• A house-elf told Zhang Xiao that Astoria Greengrass had been found entering the Room of Requirement during the competition.

Zhang Xiao learned that Astoria Greengrass had entered the Room of Requirement, prompting him to warn Dumbledore that Voldemort was involving students in his plans. During the tournament, Harry, Ron, and Malfoy were tricked into believing their friends were trapped and injured, and Ron chose to stay behind when the exit demanded a sacrifice.

• Cereal reported that Astoria Greengrass had spent two hours in the Room of Requirement and left looking frightened and disappointed.
• Zhang Xiao sent Dumbledore a note about Astoria, and Dumbledore realized Voldemort had broken his understanding that students must be kept out of the conflict.
• Harry, Ron, and Malfoy saw what appeared to be Hermione, Cedric, and Neville wounded behind a barrier and concluded they had to rescue them without help.
• The three reached an exit room whose mural said one person had to die for the others to live, and Harry volunteered to stay behind.
• Ron argued that Harry had a mission and that his own family would cope without him, then revealed his injured leg and insisted on staying.
• Malfoy rejected his fear and joined Ron and Harry in refusing to back down, while Ron declared that there were no cowards in the Weasley family.

Ron sacrificed himself in the Third Task, lighting the lighthouse and completing the competition. Dumbledore brought Zhang Xiao back to Hogwarts, where they discovered that Astoria was Daphne Greengrass in disguise; Dumbledore began questioning her through hypnosis, and Daphne revealed her belief that Voldemort would rule the world.

• Ron petrified Harry, sent him away with Malfoy, and cut his arm on the altar, causing the lighthouse to light and the stone door to open.
• Dumbledore told Zhang Xiao that Ron’s sacrifice had ended the competition, then took him back to Hogwarts by Apparition.
• Dumbledore put the Great Hall to sleep, told McGonagall what had happened, and brought the sleeping Astoria with him and Zhang Xiao.
• In Dumbledore’s office, Astoria transformed into Daphne Greengrass, whom Dumbledore identified as a suitable person to impersonate her sister.
• Dumbledore used a spell resembling hypnosis to question Daphne, who declared that the Dark Lord was about to rule the world and that a glorious pure-blood age was coming.

Dumbledore and Zhang Xiao questioned Daphne and learned that she joined Voldemort’s cause to save her sister from the Greengrass family blood curse, while harboring extreme ambitions and hatred for Zhang’s family. Daphne revealed that Umbridge and Barty Crouch Jr. were directing a secret plan, then disclosed Voldemort had sent her to Hogwarts to retrieve a wicker trunk; the chapter ended with Dumbledore and Zhang relieved that it was not the Diadem.

• Daphne explained that she supported Voldemort because she believed he could cure her sister Astoria’s inherited blood curse and restore the Greengrass family’s standing.
• Daphne described Voldemort promising her family power and a country to rule, then threatened to enslave Zhang Xiao’s family, provoking Zhang’s murderous anger.
• Dumbledore questioned Daphne about the Azkaban breakout, and she confirmed her family had helped plan it while revealing that Barty Crouch Jr. had survived by switching places with his dying mother.
• Daphne said Umbridge and Barty Crouch Jr. were in charge of Voldemort’s secret plan, though she knew neither its details nor how it would work.
• Daphne revealed that Voldemort had sent her to Hogwarts to find a wicker trunk he had left there, and Dumbledore and Zhang Xiao realized the object was not the Diadem.

After Daphne revealed little about Voldemort’s plans, Dumbledore and Zhang Xiao worried over the wicker trunk and the possibility that Voldemort had begun forgetting what his Horcruxes had stored. Zhang Xiao rested in the Room of Requirement as Glove Lady gave him her power, while the rescued students learned Ron’s emotional speech had been broadcast around the world.

• Dumbledore questioned Daphne, then sent her away unconscious and discussed Voldemort’s interest in the wicker trunk with Zhang Xiao.
• Dumbledore suspected Voldemort either concealed something in the trunk or had forgotten its contents because of the effects of Horcruxes.
• Zhang Xiao went to the Room of Requirement and fell asleep after taking a modified Draught of Living Death.
• Glove Lady shaped her essence into a sphere and sent it into Zhang Xiao, strengthening his Golden Light Spell before entrusting the future to him.
• Madam Pomfrey brought Harry, Malfoy, Ron, Hermione, Cedric, and Neville to the lounge after Hogwarts completed its objective and lit the Lighthouse.
• Fred and George explained that Ron’s emotional speech had been broadcast worldwide, leaving him mortified.

After the second Super Goblet of Fire task, Zhang Xiao faced rumors about his power and hid Astoria’s condition from Malfoy and Harry. The task’s impact spread through the Wizarding World, while Dumbledore arrived at the Ministry of Magic.

• Zhang Xiao told Glove Lady he suspected Voldemort had tried to return to Hogwarts to search for a source of power, but she only remarked on his imagination.
• Hogwarts students praised Zhang Xiao’s performance, while some repeated rumors that he had used forbidden magic; Malfoy defended him and frightened the students questioning him.
• Zhang Xiao and Malfoy discussed Ron’s public embarrassment, and Malfoy called him a brave idiot despite still thinking he was foolish.
• The second task inspired new magical travel houses and curiosity about Muggle inventions, while Ron’s public declaration brought him unwanted attention and left Mrs. Weasley distraught.
• Malfoy asked about Astoria, and Zhang Xiao lied that she had gone home to recover; Harry then arrived and asked Zhang Xiao if he had seen her.
• Dumbledore exited a telephone booth at the Ministry of Magic and headed toward an office.

Dumbledore learned that Barty Crouch had hidden his son’s escape and agreed to advocate for him at a future trial. After the second task, Ron enjoyed his new fame, but Harry’s scar began hurting and he asked Zhang Xiao to go to the Room of Requirement.

• Dumbledore confronted Barty Crouch, who confessed that he had kept Barty Crouch Jr. under the Imperius Curse before Death Eaters helped him escape.
• Barty Crouch explained that he had moved into the Ministry for safety and was searching for his son, then pleaded for time to fight the Death Eaters before facing trial.
• Dumbledore agreed to advocate for Barty Crouch at his trial, and Barty broke down in tears after Dumbledore left.
• Ron recovered from his embarrassment and became admired for his performance in the second task, while Zhang Xiao helped Professor McGonagall reassure Harry that Astoria had gone home to rest.
• Harry told Zhang Xiao that his scar hurt and that he had suffered nightmares, so Zhang Xiao hurried to take him to the Room of Requirement.

Harry’s scar let him glimpse Voldemort discussing a secret plan with Nagini, revealing the final Horcrux and suggesting Voldemort was using Muggle-made objects. Dumbledore began investigating Voldemort’s Muggle connections, while Zhang Xiao’s day continued with Hagrid’s niffler lesson until Professor Sprout urgently called for him.

• Harry told Zhang Xiao that he had seen Voldemort in a Muggle house with Death Eaters and Nagini, and that Voldemort believed his plan was going well.
• Harry explained that he had seen events from Voldemort’s perspective and understood his Parseltongue conversation with Nagini, including Voldemort’s remark that Muggle inventions were useful.
• Zhang Xiao informed Dumbledore that Nagini was likely Voldemort’s final Horcrux, and Dumbledore said he would investigate the Muggle world.
• Hagrid taught the students about trained nifflers, and Ron won the contest to find buried coins.
• A Hufflepuff student told Zhang Xiao that Professor Sprout needed him because the ginseng she had planted had disappeared.

Zhang Xiao investigated Professor Sprout’s missing ginseng and discovered that the plants had become talking ginseng dolls. They revealed that a bright beam and a woman’s voice had awakened them on the day Zhang Xiao returned to Hogwarts, leaving him to wonder what had caused their transformation.

• Professor Sprout told Zhang Xiao that two naked children had vanished into the ground and that her ginseng plants were missing.
• Zhang Xiao contacted Zhang Chengdao, who explained that ginseng dolls were nearly impossible to retrieve once they reached the earth and that red cords could restrain them.
• Zhang Xiao spotted the ginseng dolls, stopped them with the Levitation Charm, and spoke with them through his Dharma Eye.
• The ginseng dolls explained that they had fled because the mandrakes nearby were noisy, and Professor Sprout became excited about their singing and talking in their sleep.
• Zhang Xiao returned the dolls to their pots, and they said a bright beam and a woman’s foreign-language voice had awakened them about a month earlier.

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.