Recaps

Harry regretted agreeing to Douglas’s substitute plan, which left him safely in London doing Hogwarts homework while someone else impersonated him at school. Bill arrived and helped him tailor his essays to Snape’s demand for precision and McGonagall’s preference for clear logic.

• Harry complained that Douglas’s exciting mission had turned into a pile of essays in his London study.
• Dobby offered Harry five drinks, and Harry chose plain water.
• Harry recalled that Douglas had placed him in London while a trained wizard used Polyjuice Potion to take his place at Hogwarts.
• Bill arrived through the fireplace and revised Harry’s Potions essay to sound more decisive for Snape.
• Bill outlined a logical structure for Harry’s Transfiguration essay and explained how to write for different professors.

Bill told Harry about Douglas’s unconventional Hogwarts pranks and the spell theory that inspired Bill’s curse-breaking career. He explained that Harry had to remain away from Hogwarts as cover for Douglas’s secret plan, leaving Harry to see his homework as part of the war effort.

• Bill recalled how Douglas used a spell to generate a convincing Potions essay from a nonexistent mathematical model, earning Snape’s approval before the deception was discovered.
• Bill explained that Douglas viewed spells and runes as a kind of grammar, and said his ideas shaped Bill’s work as a Curse-Breaker.
• Harry realized Douglas had developed his abilities through a distinctive way of thinking rather than being born powerful.
• Bill described how he used Polyjuice Potion and Occlumency to impersonate Douglas, then admitted the deception was exhausting.
• Bill told Harry that staying away from Hogwarts helped conceal Douglas’s plan and protect Harry, and that even Dumbledore had been kept uninformed.
• Harry understood that his presence away from Hogwarts and his continued homework helped the operation and the war.

After Bill left, Harry missed Ron and Hermione but returned to his essay, seeing his work as part of a hidden war. As the Triwizard Tournament’s international gathering began at Hogwarts, foreign officials examined Sirius Black’s company’s protective technology, while the visiting headmasters reacted to the event and Karkaroff eyed it suspiciously.

• Bill left Harry to prepare for his Defense Against Dark Magic class, and Harry resumed writing his Transfiguration essay while thinking of Ron and Hermione.
• Ministry officials from Germany and France discussed the Marauders Power Company’s protective amulets and the improved success of British Auror operations.
• Sirius welcomed a French Ministry official and led him into the reception tent, hinting that modern methods could address the dangers facing wizards.
• Madame Maxime told Dumbledore that the gathering exceeded her expectations, and Dumbledore noted that Pheobe had gained a deeper understanding of power after the first task.
• Karkaroff paced uneasily and dismissed the gathering as a scheme to sell scrap metal.

Douglas prepared for the Triwizard Tournament’s final task, while Bill secretly coordinated with Sirius and watched over Harry. At the Quidditch Pitch, Sirius and Dumbledore announced that the task would open the first World Magic Expo, as the disguised participants signaled that their plan had begun.

• Douglas told Dumbledore that everything was ready, while Bill quietly spoke with Sirius and agreed to keep an eye on Harry.
• Sirius and Bill discussed Douglas’s absence and the need to ensure Bill was sent away from Hogwarts without interference.
• Guests gathered at the Quidditch Pitch, where Dumbledore introduced the final task and invited ministry officials and school headmasters to join him.
• Sirius announced that the Triwizard Tournament’s final task would open the first World Magic Expo, and Dumbledore described its vision for international cooperation.
• Watching from the crowd, Bill exchanged a brief look with the disguised Harry, and both understood that their plan had begun.

Mad-Eye Moody lured Harry away from the Third Task with a story about a Swedish Ministry official stranded in the Forbidden Forest, using their walk to lecture him on Auror vigilance. He brought Harry to a secluded corner of the Quidditch Pitch and handed him a silver hip flask, leaving its purpose unexplained.

• Moody approached Harry behind the Gryffindor stands and ordered him to help rescue a Swedish Ministry official supposedly stranded in the Forbidden Forest.
• Harry agreed to go with Moody, who led him slowly around the Quidditch Pitch while telling him to keep his wand ready and question everyone, including Moody himself.
• Moody taught Harry to watch a wizard's hands for signs of spellcasting or lying, rather than relying on their eyes.
• Moody and Harry reached a secluded path near the Forbidden Forest, where Moody checked that no one was watching and handed Harry a silver hip flask.
• Harry asked Moody what the flask was.

Moody tricked Harry into heading toward Hagrid’s Hut while he entered the Room of Requirement to carry out his master’s plan. The room’s hidden signal triggered an alarm at Douglas Manor, where Harry learned Hogwarts was safe and prepared to leave for the tournament.

• Moody gave Harry a flask disguised as a protective amulet and sent him toward Hagrid’s Hut while he went deeper into the Forbidden Forest.
• After Harry disappeared, Moody turned toward Hogwarts Castle, confident his arrangement would hide his role in Harry’s disappearance.
• Moody reached the Seventh Floor, opened the Room of Requirement by thinking that he needed a place to hide things, and entered.
• A red signal flashed on the tapestry, triggering the alarm clock in the Study at Douglas Manor.
• Dobby told Harry that Mr. Holmes’s Red Dot Alarm had gone off, meaning Hogwarts was safe, and changed Harry into Hogwarts robes.
• Harry eagerly asked whether he could still make it to the tournament.

Harry left Bill’s study through the Floo Network and hurried to the Quidditch match, where Bill reassured him that the plan was in place and sent him to watch the Champions. Bill then headed back toward Hogwarts Castle, which he called the Demon-Suppression Tower.

• Harry used Floo Powder to travel from Bill’s study to Douglas’s office, then rushed to the Quidditch Pitch.
• Harry reunited with Ron and Hermione, who questioned where he had been and noticed Floo Powder soot on his robes.
• Harry found Bill posing as Professor Holmes and asked what had happened to the enemy and where his maternal cousin was.
• Bill told Harry that the plan was in place and instructed him to watch the match, then warned Ron about his homework and rune-writing.
• Bill left for Hogwarts Castle as Harry, Ron, and Hermione watched him disappear.

Harry tried to explain the alarm and the eliminated threat to Ron and Hermione while keeping the details secret, as Dumbledore began the Triwizard Tournament’s final task. Meanwhile, Barty Crouch Jr. discovered that his plan to transport Harry had failed and realized Douglas Holmes had set a trap.

• Harry told Ron and Hermione that a magical alarm had signaled a threat’s temporary elimination, and Hermione agreed to stop questioning him for now.
• Dumbledore opened the final task, while Bill used the Invisibility Cloak to shrink the Demon-Suppression Tower and waited for Barty Crouch Jr.
• Barty Crouch Jr. saw Harry still at the tournament grounds and realized the Portkey had not taken him to Voldemort.
• Barty Crouch Jr. rushed out of the Castle to find Harry and considered whether Douglas Holmes had placed a safeguard on him.
• Barty Crouch Jr. noticed Douglas Holmes and the Demon-Suppression Tower were gone and concluded that his plan had been part of a trap.

Bill Weasley entered the Demon-Suppression Tower disguised as Douglas Professor Holmes and revealed himself to Barty Crouch Jr. after the tower’s anti-thief shower stripped away their disguises. With Barty’s magic suppressed, Bill began beating him while delivering lessons in fighting.

• Bill entered the Demon-Suppression Tower and opened its spatially sealed doors using the procedure Douglas had taught him.
• The tower’s purifying water removed Bill’s Polyjuice disguise and Barty Crouch Jr.’s Moody disguise, while the tower suppressed their magic.
• Bill revealed that he was Douglas’s cleaner and told Barty the tower would be his home for the rest of his life.
• Barty charged Bill, who dodged him, struck his jaw with a left hook, and followed with an uppercut to his abdomen.

Bill beat Barty Crouch Jr. in the stone chamber, took the Diadem and Moody’s wooden leg and Magical Eye, then escaped by reciting Hogwarts’s declaration while wearing an official crest. Barty tried to copy him but discovered he had no crest and remained trapped.

• Bill knocked Barty Crouch Jr. unconscious and collected the wooden box, Moody’s wooden leg, and Magical Eye.
• Bill found the engraved declaration, reluctantly wore a Hogwarts Crest, struck the required pose, and recited the words.
• A doorway of light appeared, and Bill rushed through it.
• Barty read the declaration and tried to escape by imitating Bill, but the stone wall did not react.
• Barty noticed the note requiring an officially certified Hogwarts crest, realized he could not escape, and screamed in despair.

Bill Weasley retrieved Ravenclaw's Diadem and found the real Mad-Eye Moody, using Douglas Holmes's appearance to infiltrate Barty Crouch Jr.'s office. He revived Moody, who asked where Barty Crouch Jr. was.

• Bill Weasley sealed Ravenclaw's Diadem in an anti-magic stone box and disguised himself as Douglas Holmes with Polyjuice Potion.
• Bill bypassed the magical defences of Moody's office and opened the seven-locked trunk.
• Bill found the real Mad-Eye Moody and discovered that a cracked mithril amulet had saved him from Barty Crouch Jr.'s Killing Curse.
• Bill used Everlasting Life to wake Moody and explained that the amulet had placed him in suspended animation.
• Moody recognized Bill's Douglas Holmes disguise and asked where Barty Crouch Jr. was.

Bill freed Moody from his confinement, returned his prosthetic leg and Magical Eye, and brought him to the Quidditch Pitch for the Triwizard Tournament’s final task. As the Champions entered the Maze, Moody watched the real Harry and wondered who had been chosen to face Voldemort.

• Moody learned that Barty Crouch Jr. had impersonated him at Hogwarts, and he angrily confronted Bill for keeping the deception secret.
• Bill returned Moody’s wooden leg and Magical Eye and told him that Barty Crouch Jr. had been dealt with and was securely held.
• Bill helped Moody leave the trunk and escorted him to the Quidditch Pitch, where Dumbledore welcomed him.
• Dumbledore announced the final task, and the Champions entered the Maze.
• Moody noticed Harry in the stands and questioned Bill about the person chosen to face Voldemort, while Dumbledore told him to wait and see.

Douglas, disguised as Harry Potter, was brought by Portkey to Voldemort’s resurrection site and bound while Voldemort waited for Barty Crouch Jr. Douglas taunted Wormtail and challenged Voldemort’s rejection of his name, leaving Voldemort furious.

• Wormtail disarmed Douglas, tied him to a stake, and presented the resurrected Voldemort.
• Voldemort ordered Wormtail to wait ten minutes for Barty Crouch Jr. before beginning without him.
• Douglas taunted Wormtail about betraying James and Lily Potter and faking his death by cutting off a finger.
• Voldemort confronted Douglas, who greeted him as Tom and questioned whether he feared his past.
• Voldemort declared himself the immortal king and raged at Douglas for using his birth name.

Douglas taunted Voldemort with his knowledge of Horcruxes and Barty Crouch Jr.'s absence until Voldemort ordered Wormtail to begin the resurrection ritual. Voldemort returned to life, but strange text welcoming Tom Riddle back to the Riddle Family appeared, linking him to Douglas.

• Douglas provoked Voldemort by discussing his resurrection recipe, Horcruxes, and his past failures.
• Douglas pointed out that Barty Crouch Jr. was late, prompting Voldemort to order Wormtail to begin the ritual immediately.
• Wormtail added his father's bone, his own severed hand, and Douglas's blood to the cauldron.
• Voldemort entered the cauldron and emerged resurrected in a tall, skeletal body.
• Text welcoming Tom Riddle back to the Riddle Family appeared over Voldemort, and he sensed a connection to Douglas.

Voldemort returned to life through the ritual, but the glowing words naming him Tom Riddle remained engraved in his magic. As he questioned Douglas and threatened him, Douglas pointed out that Wormtail needed to bandage his bleeding wound before he could applaud Voldemort’s grand return.

• Voldemort returned to life and discovered that the words welcoming Tom Riddle back to the Riddle Family still glowed beneath his skin.
• Voldemort ordered Wormtail to bring him clothes, concealed the words beneath his robes, and summoned his Death Eaters through the Dark Mark.
• Voldemort questioned Douglas about Dumbledore, Holmes, the Horcruxes, and Barty Crouch Jr., while Douglas calmly described their other concerns.
• Voldemort threatened to torture and kill Douglas, then offered him the chance to speak his last words.
• Douglas suggested that Voldemort let Wormtail bandage his bleeding wrist before beginning his speech, so Wormtail could applaud the resurrection.

Voldemort rewarded Wormtail for helping restore his body by giving him a magical silver hand, while Harry (Douglas) calmly pointed out Wormtail’s dangerous blood loss. Death Eaters arrived and knelt before Voldemort, forming a circle around him, Wormtail, and the bound Douglas.

• Harry (Douglas) told Voldemort that Wormtail had lost at least a liter of blood and needed treatment.
• Voldemort praised Wormtail for helping him and conjured a silver hand to replace Wormtail’s severed one.
• Wormtail tested the hand, crushed a twig with it, and vowed renewed loyalty to Voldemort.
• Death Eaters Apparated into the cemetery and approached Voldemort.
• Voldemort ordered the first Death Eater to kneel, and the others followed, forming a circle with gaps still waiting to be filled.

Voldemort confronted the gathered Death Eaters over abandoning him during his thirteen-year absence and accused them of turning to Albus Dumbledore. He left Avery pleading for forgiveness while demanding to know why he had never dared to search for Voldemort.

• Voldemort assured the Death Eaters he would not kill them, then questioned whether they still deserved to be called his followers.
• He noted that the Death Eaters had kept their wealth and status but had never sought him during the thirteen years since their last gathering.
• Voldemort mocked the excuses they might have given the Ministry and asked why they had assumed he would not return.
• He accused them of pledging allegiance to Albus Dumbledore, and Douglas noticed resentment and possible fear in Voldemort's voice.
• Avery fell at Voldemort's feet and begged forgiveness, admitting that he had not dared to look for him.

Voldemort used Avery’s punishment and a grand speech to reassert control over the Death Eaters, claiming his disappearance and return had been part of a plan. He explained that Harry Potter’s blood had restored his body and then named Karkaroff and Snape as traitors he intended to pursue.

• Voldemort tortured Avery with the Cruciatus Curse, then ordered him back into the Death Eaters’ circle and demanded loyalty and obedience.
• Voldemort claimed he had deliberately spent thirteen years observing the world and had allowed Wormtail to find him so he could begin his return.
• Voldemort explained that his resurrection ritual used his father’s bone, Wormtail’s flesh, and Harry Potter’s blood, which he believed had transferred Lily Potter’s protection to him.
• Voldemort recounted which Death Eaters were dead, imprisoned, or absent, promising to avenge the dead and punish Karkaroff for staying away.
• Voldemort declared that Snape had joined Dumbledore and would be executed, alarming Douglas.

Voldemort celebrated his return by declaring war on the wizarding world and promising to kill Douglas, whom he believed was Harry Potter. After ordering Wormtail to free Douglas and return his wand, Voldemort let Nagini leave the circle while Douglas considered the snake as a gift for a pub owner.

• Voldemort revealed that a loyal servant at Hogwarts had helped bring Harry Potter to the cemetery and threatened Douglas, believing him to be Harry.
• Douglas calmly interrupted Voldemort’s threats and asked whether he would explain his plans to conquer the wizarding world.
• Voldemort announced that he would command giants, Dementors, and other magical creatures to build a pure empire and begin his reign by killing Harry Potter.
• Voldemort told Nagini to wait, and Douglas recognized her as Voldemort’s final Horcrux and considered giving her to a pub owner.
• Voldemort ordered Wormtail to release Douglas and return his wand, and Wormtail cut the ropes with his silver hand.

Douglas faced Voldemort after his return and calmly defied his attempts to humiliate him, claiming that his blood made him Voldemort’s parent. When Voldemort tried to force him to bow with magic, Douglas remained untouched and declared, “Bow, I’m your father!”

• Wormtail tossed Harry’s wand to Douglas, but Douglas made it leap into his hand with a flick of his toe.
• Lucius Malfoy recognized that the composed figure before him was not the real Harry Potter and realized he would have to improvise.
• Voldemort invited Douglas to bow as part of their duel, but Douglas insisted that Voldemort should bow to him as his parent.
• Voldemort used magic to force Douglas to bend, but Douglas’s power dispelled the pressure without moving him.
• Douglas calmly told Voldemort to bow because he was his father.

Voldemort’s stolen wand and new body betrayed him, forcing him to bow to Harry Potter after Harry claimed to be his father. Voldemort realized Lily and Harry’s blood had turned the protective magic against him, and wondered whether the prophecy explained his defeat.

• Voldemort felt an unfamiliar force in his body and was forced to bow to Harry Potter as Harry said, "I'm your father."
• Harry disarmed Voldemort with Expelliarmus and caught his wand while the Death Eaters stood frozen in confusion.
• Harry repeated that he was Voldemort’s father and ordered him to bow again, and Voldemort’s knees buckled under the blood-linked force.
• Voldemort recognized that the protective magic carried in Lily Potter’s blood was controlling his body and making him bow to Harry.
• Voldemort fought back with his soul’s power, partly regained control, and concluded that he had lost because of an unknown rule tied to Harry’s blood.
• Voldemort wondered whether the prophecy had something to do with his repeated defeats.

Douglas Holmes revealed that he had impersonated Harry Potter with Polyjuice Potion and confronted Voldemort after the potion wore off. The Death Eaters recognized Douglas and recoiled in fear as he began questioning Voldemort about his return.

• Voldemort demanded to know how Douglas had defeated him and whether Dumbledore had taught him.
• The Polyjuice Potion wore off, transforming Harry Potter's appearance back into Douglas Holmes.
• Douglas introduced himself to Voldemort as a fellow Hogwarts alumnus and mocked the undignified circumstances of Voldemort's return.
• Douglas asked Voldemort where Harry and Barty Crouch Jr. were, why Voldemort could not control his body, and how he had obtained the enemy's blood.
• The Death Eaters stepped back from Douglas, while Lucius Malfoy realized that the eyes he had recognized belonged to someone in control.
• Douglas reminded the Death Eaters that their children were his students, prompting them to recall his notorious classroom challenges.

Douglas confronted Voldemort at his resurrection, taunting him with his knowledge of the Death Eaters and his post as Hogwarts Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. Voldemort demanded to know why Douglas’s blood had resurrected him, and the chapter ended with him asking whether Severus had taught Douglas blood magic.

• Douglas told the Death Eaters that he knew about their families and children, then introduced himself to Voldemort as the Hogwarts Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.
• Douglas explained that Dumbledore had sent him to welcome Voldemort back as a Hogwarts alumnus instead of sending only Harry Potter.
• Voldemort repeatedly demanded to know why Douglas’s blood had enabled his resurrection, while Douglas said Dumbledore would not arrive because a more important event was taking place at Hogwarts.
• A Death Eater suggested that Douglas’s blood worked because he was Harry Potter’s cousin, and Voldemort rebuked him for the foolish explanation.
• Douglas learned that the Death Eater had studied under Professor Horace Slughorn, and Voldemort then asked whether Severus had taught Douglas blood magic.

Douglas provoked Voldemort by criticizing the Rebirth Potion and insulting his appearance, then began interpreting Voldemort’s face through Eastern metaphysics. Voldemort’s anger rose as Douglas prepared to explain how his appearance determined his life.

• Voldemort questioned Douglas about the Rebirth Potion, hoping to learn about his bloodline magic.
• Douglas analyzed the potion and criticized its location, Wormtail’s blood, and the crude preparation of its ingredients.
• Douglas called Voldemort ugly and compared him to a toad reciting Shakespeare, enraging him.
• Voldemort defended his pursuit of power and immortality, calling appearance insignificant.
• Douglas argued that appearance reflected a person’s soul and destiny, then began interpreting Voldemort’s life palace.

Douglas confronted Voldemort by reading his face aloud, exposing his painful past, decaying vitality, lack of a home, and the fear-based loyalty of his followers. Voldemort lost control and attacked, but Douglas dodged and raised Harry Potter’s wand and Voldemort’s own wand against him.

• Douglas told Voldemort that his life palace reflected an unstable foundation and invoked his childhood at the orphanage.
• Douglas described Voldemort’s parents palace and connected his lack of parental love to his obsession with power and immortality.
• Douglas read Voldemort’s nose and eyes as signs of cruelty, fading vitality, and a life without a secure home.
• Douglas warned that Voldemort’s Death Eaters followed him out of fear and would abandon him or take his belongings if he fell.
• Voldemort roared and cast the Cruciatus Curse without a wand, but Douglas dodged it as Voldemort’s magic became difficult to control.
• Douglas raised Harry Potter’s holly wand and Voldemort’s yew wand, then asked Voldemort if he had anything else to say.