Chapter Summaries

Shawn learned he would serve as the on-site referee for the Five-Wizard Tournament and ordered Draco to secretly track everyone who entered their names in the Goblet of Fire. The visiting schools compared themselves with Hogwarts at breakfast, while students began submitting names and Fred and George announced they would become champions.

• Draco told Shawn that Dumbledore had made him the on-site referee with authority to rule on rule violations, and Slytherin students celebrated.
• Shawn instructed Draco to organize Disillusionment Charm users to record everyone who put their name into the Goblet of Fire, especially before dawn.
• Visiting students saw Hogwarts's morning study and polished etiquette, prompting Durmstrang and Koldovstoretz students to imitate them and Beauxbatons students to compete with them.
• Pheobe charmed Davies into revealing information about Shawn, then watched students gather around the Goblet of Fire and heard that Boris Porskoff was Petrova Porskoff's descendant.
• Koldovstoretz students and Hogwarts students including Angelina and Cedric submitted their names, and Fred and George stepped forward, claiming they would become the first champions under seventeen.

Fred, George, and Ron tried to bypass Dumbledore’s age restriction with an Ageing Potion, but the magic hurled them from the circle and aged them drastically. At the Halloween Feast, Dumbledore prepared to announce the Goblet of Fire’s Champions.

• Fred and George persuaded Ron to drink an Ageing Potion and enter the Champions’ circle with them.
• Dumbledore’s restriction magic knocked the three Weasleys out of the circle and left them looking decades older.
• Dumbledore sent Fred, George, and Ron to the Hospital Wing, warning the students against further attempts.
• Harry, Hermione, and Draco discussed likely Champions and saw Hagrid chatting with the Beauxbatons Headmaster at the feast.
• Dumbledore finished eating, approached the Goblet of Fire, and announced that it was about to choose its Champions.

The Goblet of Fire selected Viktor Krum, Fleur Delacour, Boris Porskoff, Gais Fontana, Draco Malfoy, and then Harry Potter as champions. Draco denied entering his name, while Shawn supported him; Harry’s unexpected selection left the hall in an even greater uproar.

• Dumbledore announced Viktor Krum, Fleur Delacour, Boris Porskoff, and Gais Fontana as champions for their schools.
• The Goblet selected Draco Malfoy as Hogwarts champion, prompting disbelief and accusations that he had cheated.
• Draco told Shawn he had not entered his name, and Shawn assured him that he believed him and would protect him.
• Draco went to the next room with renewed confidence, while Harry felt relieved for his friend and envious of his selection.
• After Dumbledore began addressing the crowd, the Goblet produced another name, and Dumbledore announced Harry Potter as a champion.
• Students and visiting headmasters erupted in even fiercer protests, with some demanding to withdraw from the tournament.

Harry was named a second Hogwarts Champion after Draco, and Shawn investigated the Goblet of Fire while the headmasters argued over the unexpected result. Shawn found suspicious runes and joined the others as Harry and Draco denied entering themselves.

• Harry was named by the Goblet of Fire and, with Moody's help, was led into the next room as onlookers questioned him.
• Shawn examined the Goblet of Fire, identified it as a demigod-level contract artifact, and found suspicious runes in its core.
• Fudge told Shawn the Goblet had been transferred from Durmstrang through the Swedish Ministry of Magic.
• Shawn quieted the young wizards and went with Fudge to the room where the headmasters were confronting Dumbledore over Draco and Harry both becoming Hogwarts Champions.
• Dumbledore asked Draco and Harry whether they or older students had entered their names, and both denied it while Maxime accused them of lying.

Shawn entered the dispute over Harry and Draco being named Champions and removed Moody from the room after Moody accused the others of conspiring against Harry. The headmasters and officials were left stunned as the argument abruptly turned physical.

• Snape blamed Harry for the incident, while Dumbledore thanked him for speaking up.
• Bagman proposed a compromise, but Fudge insisted that everyone chosen by the Goblet of Fire had to compete under its magical contract.
• Karkaroff and Maxime demanded that the Goblet be reopened, and Moody warned that someone might have tried to endanger Harry.
• Moody accused Karkaroff of serving Voldemort, prompting Maxime to demand evidence before Dumbledore stopped him.
• Dumbledore asked Shawn for his conclusion, and Shawn sent Moody flying through the fireplace with magic.

Shawn demonstrated that the Goblet of Fire had been tampered with before it reached Hogwarts, then forced the visiting headmasters to accept a compromise for the tournament. Dumbledore resumed the briefing while the Champions prepared to hear the schedule.

• Shawn silenced Helena and announced that the Goblet of Fire had been tampered with before it was given to England, clearing Hogwarts of responsibility.
• When Maxime asked for proof, Shawn used advanced alchemy to create a working replica of the Goblet of Fire that lacked its contractual effect.
• Shawn argued that the visiting schools could not detect the tampering and pointed out that Durmstrang had previously been responsible for the Goblet's custody.
• After Helena proposed disqualifying one Hogwarts Champion, Shawn said the two Hogwarts Champions' scores would be averaged and warned that leaving could expose their Champions to the contract's backlash.
• Dumbledore accepted the compromise and told Bagman to continue briefing the Champions on the tournament schedule.

After Harry and Draco were selected as champions, Shawn urged them to train and investigated who had tampered with the Goblet of Fire. He told Vita that Harry’s selection was likely part of Voldemort’s plan and that Draco had been chosen in Shawn’s place, leaving the culprits still to be identified.

• Fudge announced the first task would take place on November 24, that champions could use only their wands, and that they would be exempt from end-of-year exams.
• Harry and Draco asked Shawn who had arranged their selection, and he gave them training notebooks while warning them not to rely on shortcuts.
• Harry returned to Gryffindor and faced suspicion and questions, while Draco was celebrated by the Slytherins.
• Shawn asked Old Fawley whether he had tampered with the Goblet of Fire, and Old Fawley denied doing so.
• Shawn met Vita and explained that a skilled wizard had used a Confundus Charm to ensure Harry’s selection, while the Goblet had chosen Draco because Shawn had not entered.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald, disguised as Moody, discussed the plot behind Harry becoming a Triwizard Champion and the future of Grindelwald's Army. After Snape confronted Dumbledore about Harry's danger, Dumbledore warned him to investigate a skilled infiltrator, leaving Snape suspicious of Moody.

• Dumbledore met Grindelwald, who revealed he had been impersonating Moody at Hogwarts and discussed the day's events.
• Grindelwald suspected a Voldemort mole inside Hogwarts had entered Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire and considered Northern European Pure-blood families or the Double Serpent Society as possible saboteurs.
• Grindelwald said he trusted Shawn to lead Grindelwald's Army but wanted to delay transferring authority until after the wizarding conference.
• Dumbledore warned Grindelwald that Snape was approaching, and Grindelwald transformed back into Moody before Snape entered.
• Snape demanded to know why Harry had become a Champion, and Dumbledore urged him to protect Harry and Draco and investigate a disguised infiltrator.
• Snape left to search for the infiltrator, but grew uneasy when Dumbledore insisted Moody was not a suspect.

Shawn and Vita discussed the investigation into the attempt to tamper with the Triwizard Tournament and the threat to the Wizards' Conference. Vita encouraged Shawn to act boldly, then met Grindelwald and issued cryptic orders before Shawn began the next day at Hogwarts.

• Carrow-er reported that a Swedish Ministry of Magic official had tampered with the Goblet of Fire while under the Imperius Curse, and that the investigation had reached a dead end.
• Shawn reasoned that the plotters wanted to disrupt the Triwizard Tournament and the Wizards' Conference, and Vita praised his assessment.
• Vita embraced Shawn, called herself his mother, and urged him to go boldly with her support.
• Vita met Grindelwald, who told her to guide Shawn, and she later changed clothes and issued puzzling orders at the Army's base in Hogsmeade.
• At dawn, Shawn saw Draco leave for extra training, comforted Purple Shadow, and watched the visiting schools' lodgings and students from the bridge.

Draco asked Shawn to be relieved of his assignment to befriend Ilvermorny students, but Shawn told him to complete it by relying on the confidants he had made. In Hogsmeade, Shawn assessed England’s booming trade and the alliances he needed at the wizarding conference before an argument erupted in a potions shop.

• Draco told Shawn that competing left him too little time to investigate opposition to the International Statute of Secrecy among Ilvermorny students, and Shawn insisted he fulfill the assignment through reliable confidants.
• Snape seized Harry and Draco and took them toward the Forbidden Forest for practical combat training.
• Shawn went to Hogsmeade, where a Russian wizard praised England’s public security and open atmosphere, and Shawn observed the Wizarding Police enforcing the rules impartially.
• Shawn recognized that England’s trade boom depended on securing new suppliers and markets at the wizarding conference, and he weighed which foreign Ministries might become partners or require force.
• A customer in the potions shop shouted that someone should put down goods he had seen first and resell them to him at half price.

Shawn observed British Wizarding Police arrest Indian Deputy Minister Tuka Tiwari for assaulting a witch, then visited Barty Crouch Sr. to discuss the approaching conference. After seeing the clerk Locke’s fervent devotion to him, Shawn asked Crouch how foreign countries planned to act and whether anyone intended to cause trouble.

• Shawn watched Tuka Tiwari beat a witch who refused to surrender the potions she had bought for her sick daughter.
• The Wizarding Police disarmed Tiwari, rejected his claim of legal immunity, and took him and several witnesses to face an investigation.
• Shawn approved of the police’s impartial enforcement and noted that foreign pure-bloods seemed dismissive while ordinary visitors admired England.
• At the Hogsmeade Ministry office, Locke excitedly recognized disguised Shawn, who praised him before sending him away.
• Shawn asked Barty Crouch Sr. about foreign countries’ positions ahead of the conference and whether anyone had come to cause trouble.

Shawn reviewed the conference delegates’ positions with Barty, then attended Moody’s Defense Against Dark Magic lesson, where Moody demonstrated extraordinary control over Fiendfyre. The display made Shawn suspect again that Moody was an impostor and wonder whether Dumbledore had noticed.

• Barty told Shawn which Ministries supported England’s changes, which opposed them, and how they viewed the threat of Herpo the Foul.
• Shawn told Barty to build relationships and identify potential allies and opponents while he and the Headmaster dealt with Herpo the Foul.
• Shawn checked Carrow-er's preparations for war at the Ministry of Magic before returning to Hogwarts.
• Moody used Fiendfyre in class to strip a Red Cap of its senses, showing precise control that astonished Shawn.
• Shawn reconsidered his earlier doubts about Moody and wondered who he really was and whether Dumbledore had noticed.

Shawn suspected Moody was an impostor and sent Purple Shadow to Austria to investigate, then went to the champions’ wand inspection. There, he confronted Rita after finding her pressuring Harry with fabricated interview notes.

• Moody drew Fiendfyre out of a Red Cap and challenged Shawn to demonstrate his own control before an older student summoned Shawn, Harry, and Draco for wand inspections.
• Shawn noticed Moody no longer seemed wary of him and suspected the professor was an impostor.
• Shawn sent Purple Shadow to Austria with a letter inviting Pailier Rouge to visit and instructions to check whether an old man was in Nurmengard.
• Shawn reached the third-floor balcony and saw Harry flee Rita’s interview as Dumbledore spoke with her.
• Rita panicked when she saw Shawn, and he caught her notes, which showed her coaching Harry with provocative and fabricated questions.

Ollivander inspected the Champions’ wands and, at his own request, examined Shawn’s Kunikuzushi. He declared that it had grown to rival the legendary Elder Wand, leaving Rita with a sensational story as the group prepared for photographs.

• Shawn dismissed Rita’s flattering draft and told her to leave Hogwarts and see Lucius, but Dumbledore asked her to stay and record the wand inspection.
• Ollivander inspected Pheobe’s, Gais’s, Boris’s, Draco’s, Harry’s, and Krum’s wands, finding them in good condition and remarking on Harry’s brother wand and Gregorovitch’s work.
• Ollivander asked to examine Shawn’s Kunikuzushi and watched it summon storm clouds and lightning.
• Ollivander said Kunikuzushi, made by his grandfather, had become as powerful as the legendary Elder Wand.
• Dumbledore called everyone together for photographs while Rita struggled to contain her excitement over Ollivander’s revelation.

Harry told Shawn about a dream in which Voldemort ordered a young man to bring Harry to him, and Shawn suspected the vision came through Harry’s connection to Voldemort. Shawn weighed whether it was genuine or a trap, while Draco waited for an answer about the Parkinson family’s return to England’s pure-blood community.

• Shawn dismissed Harry’s plea to help find Sirius, saying Sirius could look after himself.
• Draco asked whether the Parkinson family could atone and return to the pure-blood community, and Shawn said he would consider it.
• Harry described his dream of an ivy-covered house, where Voldemort praised a young man and ordered him to bring Harry in amid chaos.
• Harry suffered a sharp pain in his scar, and Draco moved to support him.
• Shawn suspected the dream showed Voldemort, Barty Crouch Jr., and Nagini, and considered whether Voldemort had planted a trap.

Shawn dismissed the idea of confronting Voldemort before his Horcruxes were dealt with, then watched Neville's team break up a fight between visiting students. After stopping Pheobe Delacour from using Veela Charm Magic on the Slytherins, Shawn left the Great Hall and encountered a drunken Trelawney.

• Shawn decided they would need to trap Voldemort's main soul or sever his connection to Tom before they could deal with him.
• Shawn told Harry to ask Dumbledore why Harry and Voldemort could see through the same eyes, then went to the Great Hall.
• Neville's team escorted fighting Koldovstoretz and Ilvermorny students through the Great Hall, and Lupin urged them to cultivate good character while respecting differences.
• Pheobe Delacour sat in Draco's reserved seat and used Veela Charm Magic on nearby Slytherins, but Shawn's magic dispelled it.
• Pheobe invited Shawn to afternoon tea the next day, and Shawn left the Great Hall before seeing a drunken Trelawney carrying bottles toward her tower.

Shawn learned that a masked person had tortured Sybill Trelawney to extract her prophecy about him, and he suspected Dumbledore knew more than he admitted. Dumbledore promised to handle the matter and replace Sybill as Divination professor, while the two continued to conceal information from each other.

• Sybill told Shawn that a person in black had tortured her to uncover the exact prophecy, though she had shared it only with Dumbledore.
• Shawn healed Sybill, left her to rest, and promised to treat her curse when his research advanced.
• Dumbledore told Shawn that Snape would teach Harry Occlumency and reassured him that England could handle its threats.
• Shawn asked whether the fake Moody worked for Dumbledore, and Dumbledore admitted he had invited an expert but avoided giving details.
• After Shawn asked about the leaked prophecy and Sybill's torture, Dumbledore accepted responsibility and said he would find a centaur to replace her as Divination professor.
• Shawn cut Dumbledore off before he could raise Sirius's disappearance, saying there was no need to discuss Sirius.

The Double Serpent Society met in Hogsmeade to plan sabotage of England’s tournament and Wizards’ Conference, while Vita defended her decision to shift Grindelwald’s Army’s resources to England and support Shawn Black. The meeting was interrupted by an unexpected arrival, and Soya ordered that it be stopped from leaving.

• Soya blasted Tuka Tiwari for challenging him, then had Obscuruses drag Tiwari out of the meeting.
• Jarvis reported that the Dark Lord wanted another Obscurus and urged the Society to create chaos, but Soya agreed only to provide the Obscurus and continue at his own pace.
• The Double Serpent Society discussed English preparations and its plans to make the Triwizard Tournament and Wizards’ Conference a worldwide laughingstock.
• When a guard shouted outside the meeting house, Soya ordered that the visitor not be allowed to leave.
• Abernathy confronted Vita over moving Grindelwald’s Army’s supplies and personnel to England to support Shawn Black.
• Vita told Abernathy that she had Grindelwald’s knowledge and had only accelerated his plans to nurture Shawn.

Abernathy received a secret summons from Grindelwald while Hogwarts students reacted to newspaper stories about the Triwizard Champions and the upcoming Wizard United Conference. Shawn tried to uncover Fake Moody’s identity, but found the real Moody instead and sent him toward Dumbledore’s office with a fabricated summons.

• Vita’s words shook Abernathy, who tried to contact Grindelwald and received a secret message on the back of his Hallows pendant.
• Hogwarts students mocked Harry over his interview, teased Hermione after Krum’s confession, and discussed the Wizard United Conference’s December 1 opening.
• Draco asked Shawn about the first task, and Shawn hinted that someone close to Harry might show them what it involved.
• Shawn visited the Defense Against the Dark Arts Office, mistook the absent Grindelwald for a runaway fan, and met the real Moody.
• Shawn falsely told Moody that Dumbledore had summoned him, leaving Moody confused about why he had to return to the Headmaster’s Office.

On November 30, Hogwarts students and guests gathered at the Champion Arena to watch the Triwizard Tournament’s dragon task. As the champions prepared in a tent beside the arena, Shawn descended from above the stands.

• Professors sent the students to Hogsmeade for the first task, and they learned it involved facing dragons.
• Cedric and Cho Chang walked to the arena together, where Cho asked whether Cedric would pursue promotion into the Throne ranks.
• The spectators saw six adult dragons being restrained by teams of handlers across the arena’s varied terrain.
• Narcissa worried about Draco facing a dragon, and Lucius reassured her that Shawn would protect him.
• Old Fawley told Alice that Shawn had the bearing of a leader and promised to support her and Shawn.
• Shawn flew down toward the champions’ tent beside the arena.