Recaps

Harry and Ron prepared for and completed the First Task, winning praise and drawing attention from professional Quidditch teams. After the champions received their scores and the Yule Ball brought new romantic complications, Xilieikesi used a dance with Harry to ask about Edward Menzies.

• Hermione explained how she had met Krum in the Library, while Harry wondered whether Krum or the nearby girls had caused the hostility he sensed.
• Harry and Ron learned from Charlie that the champions would face brooding female dragons and admitted they were not ready, then sought advice from Professor Lupin and Professor Moody and practised summoning their brooms.
• Harry faced the Hungarian Horntail, drew its fire, and summoned his broom to seize the Golden Egg before escaping with singed robes.
• Blanco, Lei Kaiming, Corvinus, and Ron each faced a dragon, with Ron using his flying skill to retrieve the Golden Egg unharmed and Krum inviting him to play Keeper professionally.
• Harry and Ron received their First Task scores, while Bagman announced the Second Task for January twenty-first and said the Golden Eggs contained clues.
• Harry arranged to attend the Yule Ball with Qiu, while Ron struggled to find a partner before asking Lavender Brown and Hermione accepted Krum’s invitation.
• At the Yule Ball, Harry danced with Qiu and Ron with Lavender, while Krum and Hermione danced together and Hagrid and Madame Maxime drew attention on the dance floor.
• Xilieikesi asked Harry to dance and questioned him about Edward Menzies and the First Task, while Harry confirmed his friendship with Ron and teased her about Hagrid and Madame Maxime.

Harry and Ron deciphered the Golden Egg’s clue and raced through a lake challenge that required them to find chests, assemble magical automata, and retrieve a golden Seashell. They finished first, while the other schools continued the task and Nagudinnaf struggled with a missing clue.

• Harry and Ron discovered that heating the Golden Egg revealed a little dragon, then learned its runes and specialized spells with help from Hagrid and Professor McGonagall.
• Harry and Ron practiced the clue spells, and Cedric learned how to solve the first layer of the Golden Egg’s secret before the Second Task began.
• Bagman explained that the Champions had to cross the lake, visit five floating islands, collect equipment and clues, and bring their task items to the castle dock.
• Harry and Ron used magic to propel their boat and opened a chest by speaking the Blue Thornback Dragon’s name in Ancient Runes, becoming the first to uncover its contents.
• Harry and Ron reached the fifth island and took the final chest’s contents before Lei Kaiming could retrieve it, then assembled the Magical Automaton under Ron’s direction.
• Harry and Ron transformed their automaton into an underwater dragon, entered it, and received a golden Seashell from the Giant Squid before finishing first.
• Elizabeth Xilieikesi and Fleur Delacour assembled Beauxbatons’ automaton, while Nanyang Magic School, Durmstrang, and Castelobruxo also advanced toward the finish.
• Nagudinnaf could not open its box because Shen Yalan had missed the corresponding Golden Egg clue, leaving the team behind as the other Champions completed the task.

Harry and Ron deciphered the Seashell’s Mermish clue and prepared for an underwater search in the Triwizard Tournament’s third task. They reached the Merpeople Village ahead of most champions and found their friends imprisoned in cages as Yi Qianqian arrived to rescue Cedric.

• Harry and Ron failed to open the Seashell until Hermione deciphered its Mermish phrase and revealed that the third task required an underwater search.
• Sirius warned Harry that Allen Dismask was dangerous and had become interested in him, while Harry learned that Dismask and Professor Babbling had clashed over research into deities.
• Harry and Ron prepared with gillyweed and Human Transfiguration, and Harry defeated Malcolm after Malcolm continued pursuing Qiu.
• Barty Crouch announced the one-hour task, and the champions entered the Black Lake in groups while Qiu, Lavender, and Hermione were unexpectedly absent from the stands.
• Harry transformed into a dolphin, let Ron ride on him, and searched the lake as other champions faced difficulties and dangers.
• Harry and Ron rode a Kelpie to the Fish-Folk’s village, found Hermione and Krum in cages, and cut Qiu’s and Lavender’s cage open.
• Yi Qianqian transformed into a merperson, reached the village as the second champion, found Cedric, and began cutting through his cage with a Severing Charm.

Harry and Ron won the Sky-Piercing Vine task, then struggled to uncover the Golden Apple’s clue as Crouch’s death unsettled Hogwarts. In the sixth task, Harry broke free of the Illusion Tower first, while other Champions’ progress and the strength of Harry’s Occlumency drew scrutiny.

• Krum and the other Champions caught up during the Merpeople task, but Harry reached the finish line first with Ron and Qiu, and the Champions learned that the next task was six weeks away.
• Lupin told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that he had become a true werewolf who could transform at will without losing his reason, and Moody said his purification was a good thing.
• Harry and Ron learned from Bagman that the fourth task would involve flying, then practiced spells with Hermione ahead of the Sky-Piercing Vine challenge.
• The Champions climbed the vine to find colored fruits and solve a runic clue, and Harry and Ron reached the Golden Apple first after pairing up to gather the fruits they needed.
• Jean Gardner, Ron, and Harry received the top scores for the task, while Harry and Ron failed to open their Golden Apple despite trying many methods.
• Dennis Creevey reported that Crouch had been found dead by the Forbidden Forest, and the Champions later gathered at a seven-story tower for the final task before the schools’ scores were tallied.
• Harry and Ron advanced through the Illusion Tower as other Champions fought their own illusions, and Lei Kaiming and Carlos Blanco each reached the fourth-floor dragon challenge.
• Harry used Occlumency to escape his illusion and become the first Champion to finish, then embraced and kissed Cho Chang as Yuerjinho and Weir Hallen questioned whether his Occlumency could withstand the tower’s illusions.