Chapter Summaries

Cedric and Harry retrieved their Golden Eggs from their dragons, while Hermione revealed her ancient Element Transformation magic to the stunned spectators. After Harry escaped the Hungarian Horntail and won the crowd’s cheers, Hermione admitted she had raised the dragon.

• Cedric distracted the Swedish Short-Snout with a transfigured egg and retrieved the real Golden Egg.
• Hermione transformed into a black-and-red gale, and Dumbledore identified her ability as ancient Element Transformation magic.
• Harry charged toward the Golden Egg as the Hungarian Horntail attacked, but its blows repeatedly missed him.
• Harry retrieved the Golden Egg and was celebrated as the only Triwizard champion to outrun a dragon on foot.
• Harry wondered why the dragon’s attacks had missed, and Hermione said she had raised it.

Hermione revealed that the Hungarian Horntail Harry faced was her pet and admitted she had arranged help for his task. She then disclosed that all four dragons belonged to her, leaving Harry, Ginny, and Draco stunned.

• Hermione led Harry, Draco, and Ginny to the Forbidden Forest and claimed the Hungarian Horntail was her pet.
• The Hungarian Horntail calmed down for Hermione and let her stroke its head, astonishing the dragon handlers and Hagrid.
• Hermione explained that the dragon had carefully staged its attack on Harry and complained that he had not used his wand or broomstick.
• Hermione admitted that helping Harry cheat was unfair but said it was his own advantage and hinted that his victory was already expected.
• Hermione said she had not known which dragon Harry would draw because all four dragons belonged to her, then introduced them by name.

Harry asked Hermione to solve the Golden Egg’s clue, and she revealed that the second task would take place in the Black Lake and involve merpeople. At the lake, Beauxbatons Champion Fleur Delacour approached Hermione with an unexpected request for a signed photo.

• Harry asked Hermione about the Golden Egg, and she took Harry, Ginny, and Draco to the girls’ bathroom.
• Hermione had Harry open the egg underwater, where he heard a shrill song that revealed the task involved water and merpeople in the Black Lake.
• Hermione brought Harry, Ginny, and Draco to the lake the next day to inspect the site.
• Krum and Fleur arrived with students from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons, and Fleur approached Hermione and drew her wand.
• Fleur asked Hermione to take a signed photo with her.

Fleur Delacour asked Hermione for a signed photograph, and Viktor Krum invited her to the Yule Ball, but Hermione rejected him by challenging him to beat her in a fight. When Cedric arrived with Cho Chang, Harry realized she was with his friend, and Draco’s attempt to cheer him up left them both in an awkward embrace.

• Fleur Delacour asked Hermione for a signed photograph and revealed she had planned their meeting so she could meet her favorite witch.
• Viktor Krum showed off his muscles and invited Hermione to the Yule Ball.
• Hermione told Krum she would go with him only if he beat her in a fight, and Krum understood she was rejecting him and walked away.
• Cedric arrived with Cho Chang, and Hermione told Harry to stop staring because Cho was now his friend’s girl.
• Ginny clung to Harry jealously, while Draco put an arm around him to cheer him up and realized she had created an awkward situation.

Hermione returned to the Dark Aster, where she confronted Quill’s despair and revealed that his father, Ego, was a Celestial who had likely caused his mother’s death. Quill chose to avenge her, and Hermione prepared to help him kill Ego.

• After Cedric mentioned that the second task would follow the Yule Ball, Hermione left Hogwarts by Apparition and returned to the Dark Aster, where the Ravagers celebrated her arrival.
• Hermione found Quill drinking in despair over failing to protect Gamora and briefly dragged him to an open hatch to expose his fear of dying.
• Hermione and Yondu told Quill that his father was Ego, a Celestial, and Hermione said Ego had likely caused his mother’s illness and death.
• Quill resolved to avenge his mother despite learning that killing Ego would cost him his Celestial power.
• Hermione agreed to help Quill kill Ego and announced their target.

Quill reunited with Ego on the living planet, where Ego trained him in his Celestial powers and revealed his plan to consume the universe. The chapter ended with Ego confessing that he had killed Quill’s mother by putting a tumor inside her.

• Hermione sent Quill and Yondu down to Ego, whose energy tendrils attacked their ship until Yondu called out and announced he had brought Ego’s son.
• Ego welcomed Quill and gave Yondu a case of treasures in exchange for bringing him back, and Yondu left the planet.
• Ego showed Quill the planet and taught him to wield his Celestial power, which Quill quickly learned to control.
• Ego told Quill he planned to spread his consciousness across the universe and absorb planets seeded with his power.
• Ego reminisced about Quill’s mother, then confessed he had put a tumor inside her for the sake of his plan.

Quill secretly learned to master Ego’s Celestial power while pretending to support his plan, then joined forces with Hermione to attack Ego. As Ego began reclaiming the borrowed power, Quill used it to rip open the planet and expose Ego’s enormous brain.

• Quill repeatedly persuaded Ego to give him more Celestial power by claiming he needed it to master his abilities and help with the plan.
• Quill revealed that he had mastered Ego’s power, shot Ego with his Element Guns, and introduced Hermione as a hired professional.
• Hermione and Quill fought Ego using the power Ego had taught Quill to wield.
• Ego began reclaiming Quill’s borrowed power and threatened to kill them both once he had taken it back.
• Quill abandoned his defenses and poured his remaining Celestial power into splitting Ego’s planet open, revealing a gigantic brain at its core.

Hermione killed Ego by striking his exposed Core Brain with the Killing Curse, then helped Quill absorb Ego’s remaining divine power. After leveling up to six, Hermione watched Quill take control of the planet and wonder if he could finally overpower her.

• Quill used Ego’s stolen power to hold open a passage to the Core Brain while Hermione aimed her Wand and cast Avada Kedavra.
• Hermione’s curse killed Ego’s core consciousness, causing the planet to collapse as its tendrils and supports failed.
• Hermione stopped Quill from fleeing and told him to absorb the divine power remaining in Ego’s brain.
• Quill absorbed the power, transforming into a blue humanoid energy being and halting the planet’s collapse.
• Hermione spent Ego’s two hundred thousand soul energy to reach magic level six, then lamented the five million needed for level seven.
• Quill wondered whether his newfound strength would let him turn the tables on Hermione.

After Hermione killed Ego, Quill submitted to her and followed her back to the Dark Aster with the unconscious Mantis. Hermione weighed her new power and plans for gathering soul energy before a radiant woman mistook her for Ronan and demanded to know what she was doing there.

• Quill abandoned his attempt to assert himself when Hermione raised her wand, then obeyed her order to carry Mantis back to the ship.
• Yondu, Rocket, Groot, Drax, and the Ravagers praised Hermione after watching her defeat Ego, while Rocket mocked Quill for showing off his new power.
• Hermione reflected that killing Quill would yield little soul energy and rejected the risk of hunting powerful Celestials, deciding instead to prepare for Thanos's snap.
• A radiant woman appeared before the Dark Aster, mistook Hermione for Ronan, and asked what she was doing there.
• Hermione told Yondu to open the hatch.

Hermione met Carol Danvers aboard the Dark Aster and explained how she had killed Ronan and taken control of the Ravagers. Carol recognized Goose and revealed that she was searching for a safe home for the Skrulls, possibly on Earth.

• The Ravagers opened the Dark Aster’s hatch, and Carol Danvers flew aboard, mistaking Yondu and Hermione for kidnappers.
• Hermione identified herself as the Kale Witch, demonstrated her magic, and told Carol that she had killed Ronan and taken the Dark Aster.
• Hermione explained that Yondu and the Ravagers were her prisoners and recounted Ego’s plan and Quill’s newly unleashed power.
• Carol recognized Goose, who jumped onto Hermione’s shoulder, and let go of her suspicion toward Hermione.
• Carol told Hermione she was helping the Skrulls find a safe home and might bring them to Earth if she could not find another place.

Hermione arranged for Carol Danvers to bring the Skrulls to Planet Quill, while secretly ordering Quill to dispose of them once they arrived. After sensing that Tom had been sealed by a powerful enemy on Earth, Hermione left to find the person responsible.

• Hermione offered Ego the Living Planet as a home for the Skrulls, and Carol Danvers agreed to gather them and bring them there.
• After Carol left, Hermione made Quill agree to welcome the Skrulls, then ordered him to use the planet's power to kill them once they arrived.
• Hermione sensed that a purple force was suppressing and sealing Tom, and reasoned that his struggle was keeping his opponent at the same location.
• Hermione decided not to summon Tom away, told Quill to wait for the Skrulls, and ordered Yondu to watch over Quill and the ship.
• Hermione returned to the Asgardian spaceship and departed for Earth.

Hermione arrived in Sokovia and intervened when Agatha Harkness attacked Tom and a young woman in a red jacket. Agatha recognized Hermione as the Dark Witch, and their confrontation began after Hermione exposed Agatha’s hidden past.

• Hermione sensed the Diary Horcrux in Sokovia and left her spaceship to investigate an abandoned church.
• Agatha Harkness tried to overpower Tom and take the frightened young woman behind him, but Tom resisted her magic.
• Tom stopped resisting and told Agatha that someone else had arrived to deal with her.
• Hermione appeared above Agatha, identified her as Agatha Harkness, and challenged her for attacking one of her own.
• Hermione mentioned Rio and the Salem Coven, startling Agatha, who then decided to fight her.

Hermione overpowered Agatha’s magic in a ruined church, then learned that Tom had found Wanda Maximoff and helped awaken her powers. After recognizing Wanda as the Scarlet Witch and hearing Agatha’s plans to absorb her chaos magic, Hermione invited Agatha to join the Witch Cult.

• Hermione’s innate black magic overwhelmed Agatha’s purple magic, and Agatha used the Darkhold to strengthen her power.
• Hermione withdrew her magic and asked Tom what had happened; Tom explained that he had found Wanda in Sokovia and helped awaken her powers.
• Agatha confirmed that she had sensed Wanda’s chaos magic and intended to take her away.
• Hermione identified Wanda as the Scarlet Witch, and Agatha admitted she had hoped to absorb Wanda’s power.
• Hermione offered Agatha a place in the Witch Cult.

Hermione told Agatha that Dormammu and the Ancient One were gone, then showed her that the Dark Dimension had no master. Agatha coveted its power and decided to seek it, despite recognizing how dangerous Hermione was.

• Hermione offered Agatha a place in the Dark Dimension, and Agatha recoiled at the thought of facing Dormammu and the Ancient One.
• Hermione told Agatha that the Ancient One had died and that she had dealt with Dormammu.
• Agatha tried the Book of Cagliostro and confirmed that the Dark Dimension had no master.
• Hermione took back the book as Agatha reached for it, and Agatha decided she wanted the Dark Dimension's power despite the danger.

Hermione recruited Agatha into the Witch Cult and assigned her to teach Wanda, while Tom reluctantly took Wanda home. After they left, Hermione asked Agatha how she had acquired the nickname “Dark Witch.”

• Agatha agreed to join the Witch Cult, and Hermione returned the Book of Cagliostro so she could study the Dark Dimension.
• Hermione told Agatha to mentor Wanda and warned her not to drain Wanda’s power, and Agatha gave Wanda the Darkhold.
• Wanda asked to return home and see her brother Pietro, then asked Tom to take her there.
• Hermione ordered Tom to take Wanda home, and he Apparated away with her.
• Agatha began studying the Book of Cagliostro and remarked that Tom could not read a woman’s signals, while Hermione asked about her “Dark Witch” nickname.

Hermione learned that Tom had secretly created the Ministry of Magic and the Witch Cult to bring Wizards into public view, while the two factions fought over her reputation as the Dark Witch. After Tom returned with Wanda, he sensed Hermione’s aura was becoming like his, and Tony called to ask for the Mind Stone.

• Agatha told Hermione that the Ministry of Magic and the Witch Cult had formed opposing factions, each drawing ordinary people into the conflict over the Dark Witch.
• Tom reappeared in the Church with Wanda, who admired him and tried to kneel before Hermione, but Hermione asked her to use her name instead.
• Tom hesitated when Hermione questioned him, then said her aura had begun to feel increasingly like his; Hermione wondered whether harvesting souls had changed her.
• Tony called Hermione after she returned to Earth and cautiously asked to borrow the Mind Stone.

Hermione gave Tony and Banner the Mind Stone for their Ultron Initiative, then attended the Yule Ball at Hogwarts, where Snape asked her for the formula for her permanent Reversal Polyjuice Potion. She gave him the formula and offered to let him use the Reality Stone later, while she planned to deal with Voldemort first.

• Tony and Banner admitted they were developing Ultron and asked Hermione to let them study the Mind Stone.
• Hermione handed Tony the Mind Stone, warned him not to blame her if the project caused trouble, and left to attend to Voldemort.
• Hermione arrived at the Yule Ball in a pink gown, drawing the attention of the students and Snape.
• Snape asked Hermione for the Reversal Polyjuice Potion formula, and she gave him the instructions.
• Hermione showed Snape the Reality Stone and said he could borrow it after she finished analyzing it.

The Second Task began, and the champions searched the Black Lake for their sleeping hostages. Harry found Draco, but Krum provoked the merpeople to seize a hostage and Pheobe stopped his escape with a spell.

• Hermione explained that the champions had one hour to rescue someone important to them from the lake, then started the task.
• Harry drank Snape’s improved gillyweed potion and swam toward the lakebed.
• Harry found Draco and the other hostages bound near merpeople guards.
• Krum transformed his head into a shark’s, attacked the guards, and used the chaos to grab a hostage.
• Pheobe cast Petrificus Totalus on Krum, making him sink toward the lakebed.

Harry rescued Draco and Krum’s hostage from the lake, causing Krum to be eliminated and leaving Ginny, Snape, and Ron upset by Harry’s closeness to Draco. Hermione explained the dangerous final task, a giant maze, and the tournament began with Hermione secretly circling above it in supernatural form.

• Harry used Snape’s potion to slip past the merpeople, rescued Draco, then returned to the battle and took Krum’s hostage as well.
• Harry, Cedric, and Pheobe surfaced with their hostages, while Krum was freed too late and eliminated for failing to rescue his hostage.
• Draco woke in Harry’s arms, upsetting Ginny, Snape, and Ron; Krum then tried to impress Hermione, who recoiled from him.
• Hermione explained that the final task was a dangerous maze, and Snape offered Harry the chance to withdraw, but Harry refused.
• Hermione conjured Fiendfyre as a proposed shortcut, then dismissed it and told Harry to compete on his own merits.
• The final task began at the maze entrance on the Quidditch Pitch as Hermione circled above in supernatural form.

Harry reached the Goblet of Fire after Pheobe and Cedric were rescued, but the cup transported him to a graveyard. Bellatrix performed Voldemort’s resurrection ritual, and Voldemort rose from the cauldron.

• Harry drank Felix Felicis and found his way through the maze with uncanny luck.
• Hermione rescued Pheobe from magical creatures, ending her participation in the tournament.
• Harry and Cedric reached the Goblet of Fire, but vines trapped Cedric, and Hermione rescued him.
• Harry took the Goblet of Fire and was transported to a graveyard, where Dumbledore realized the cup was a Portkey.
• Bellatrix used Harry’s blood and a ritual to restore Voldemort, who rose from the cauldron.