Chapter Summaries

Hermione mistook Bell for an impostor and feared he had killed Shanna, but Shanna revealed she had survived and insisted Bell was her brother. Shanna returned to their fight, and after she caught Bell off guard with Apparition and a snow attack, she was left stunned by her success.

• Hermione attacked the Bell she believed had replaced the real Bell and told Phyllis and Lena to find the professors.
• Shanna emerged from the ground unharmed, dismissed Hermione's suspicion, and told Phyllis and Lena to keep away.
• Bell resumed the test by transforming the ice sphere into birds that pursued Shanna as she dodged and counterattacked.
• Bell Apparated in front of Shanna, but she Apparated behind him before he could stop her.
• Shanna sent snow surging around Bell and caught him, then froze in surprise.

Bell and Shanna continued their magical duel, with Shanna taking control of Bell’s Frost Giant Dragon and turning it against him. Bell destroyed the dragon, trapped Shanna inside an enchanted ice sphere, and began preparing a grand finale.

• Bell escaped Shanna’s snow attack with Water Escape and explained that he had only barely mastered three of the Five Elements Escape Techniques.
• Bell combined his Ice Birds into a Frost Giant Dragon, which battered Shanna’s Ice Wall and struck where she had been hiding.
• Shanna secretly Apparated inside the dragon and used their similar Magic Power fluctuations to seize control and attack Bell.
• Bell dodged Shanna’s attacks until the dragon weakened, then made his shield explode and destroyed the dragon’s head.
• Bell struck Shanna with Icy Wind Impact, enclosed her in a rune-covered ice sphere, and cast an Anti-Apparition Jinx on it.

Bell unleashed his final attack, Sky Burial, burying Shanna under a massive fall of snow before the watching students. The spectacle terrified Hogwarts students and stunned the visiting Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students, while Fleur began reconsidering Gabrielle’s suggestion about Bell and asked whether Hogwarts had many wizards as strong as him.

• Bell waited for Shanna to break out of the ice sphere, then cast Sky Burial and buried her beneath a huge cascade of snow.
• The Hogwarts students reacted to the battle by fearing Bell even more, while the visiting students from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons struggled to believe what they had witnessed.
• Fleur realized Gabrielle had been protecting her from Bell and decided to reward her with candy and cakes.
• Fleur considered giving Bell a chance for Gabrielle’s sake, then asked a passing Hogwarts wizard whether many people at the school were as strong as Bell.

Fleur asked a Hogwarts student whether anyone else could match Bell's strength, but his boastful answer left her disgusted and sent her back to the Beauxbatons carriage. Earlier, Professor McGonagall watched Bell and Shanna's battle and realized how extraordinary their abilities were, then decided Bell should have been sorted into Gryffindor.

• Fleur asked a young wizard whether Hogwarts had many people as strong as Bell.
• The young wizard claimed he was almost as strong as Bell, and Fleur left for the Beauxbatons carriage in disgust.
• Professor McGonagall watched Bell and Shanna fighting outside and questioned how two such young students could be so powerful.
• Professor McGonagall praised Bell's Transfigured Frost Giant Dragon and resolved to punish the Sorting Hat for placing him outside Gryffindor.

Bell’s overwhelming display of magic stunned Dumbledore and Karkaroff, while the battle’s snow-covered aftermath left Phyllis and Lena searching anxiously for Shanna. The chapter ended with Shanna still missing beneath the snow.

• Dumbledore watched Bell’s fight as Professor McGonagall chose not to stop it, and he used the display to assess Bell and intimidate Karkaroff.
• Bell finished the battle with Sky Burial, altering the weather across a vast area and leaving Karkaroff convinced that he should keep his head down.
• Karkaroff slipped away without speaking to Dumbledore and decided to tell Krum that surviving the Triwizard Tournament mattered more than winning.
• Phyllis and Lena recovered from being swept away by the snow and searched beneath Bell, but they could not find Shanna.

Bell and Shanna finished their snow battle, but Bell realized he had forgotten Hermione, who was still buried beneath the snow. After he rescued and warmed her, Hermione confronted him, and their kiss was interrupted by Shanna calling them back for lunch.

• Bell pulled Shanna from the snow and reassured her that she was still his favorite little sister.
• Bell refused to teach Shanna Sky Burial, explaining that the flashy spell was impractical and that he had invented its name on the spot.
• Phyllis and Lena arrived to check on Shanna, prompting Bell to remember Hermione and pull her out of the snow.
• Bell warmed the shivering Hermione, who bit him and accused him of forgetting her.
• Bell kissed Hermione to avoid explaining himself, but Shanna interrupted them and called them back for lunch.

Bell arranged a livestream of the Triwizard Tournament’s second task so the students could watch the underwater competition. Hermione discovered that Shanna and two others were hiding near the captives in the Mermen Village, and Bell secretly guided them by phone as the task began.

• After his snowball fight with Shanna and Hermione, Bell served detention by clearing the snow mountain he had created on the Hogwarts lawn.
• Bell arranged for the Menethil Family to provide screens and Surveillance Mirrors that would livestream the second task from the Black Lake.
• The students gathered by the lake, where screens showed the captives tied in the Mermen Village and the three present Warriors preparing for the task; Harry had not arrived.
• Hermione asked Bell where Shanna was, and he pointed out her golden hair hidden in the corner of the Mermen Village screen.
• Bell called Shanna and directed her and her two companions to move and hide whenever the camera angle changed.

Shanna, Phyllis, and Lena sneaked into the Mermen Village to protect Little Gabrielle, using Bell’s Hacker Cube to fool the Surveillance Mirrors. Bell explained their plan to Hermione, who accepted their reasons but questioned whether he was also trying to win Fleur’s favor.

• Bell gave Shanna the signal, and she attached the Hacker Cube to a Surveillance Mirror to make it loop earlier footage.
• Hermione demanded that Bell explain why Shanna had gone beneath the Black Lake and why he had let her go.
• Bell explained that Shanna and her friends wanted to protect Little Gabrielle, who had been tied to a pillar for the second task despite being only ten years old.
• Bell revealed that he had created the Hacker Cube to alter unattended Surveillance Mirrors and conceal the girls’ presence.
• Hermione reluctantly accepted Shanna’s actions, then asked Bell whether he had also hoped to win Fleur’s favor.

Shanna explained her plan to rescue Gabrielle, but Phyllis and Lena insisted on joining the operation and were assigned to help Fina. Shanna launched Fina at a merman patrol, where it struck the patrol captain and left the other mermen stunned.

• Shanna told Phyllis and Lena that Fina would lure the mermen away while she rescued Gabrielle and left behind a magical illusion.
• Phyllis persuaded Shanna to let her and Lena take part, and Shanna assigned them to ambush the mermen at Fina’s escape point.
• Shanna released the sleeping Fina and instructed it to protect Phyllis and Lena during the mission.
• Shanna hurled Fina toward a nearby patrol, and it accidentally slammed into the patrol captain.
• The mermen prepared to confront the attacker, then one of them recognized what had struck their captain.

The merfolk feared Fina, whom they called the Flerken, after she repeatedly ambushed patrols in the Black Lake. They set traps around their village and avoided the surrounding waters, and Fina disappeared from their lives again.

• Fina attacked a merfolk patrol, reviving the village’s memories of her earlier raids and the disappearances that began two years before.
• The merfolk recalled finding Fina eating in an underwater cave and driving her away, then raising patrols before eventually believing she had left Hogwarts.
• Fina returned hungry and fought the merfolk, whose spears and numbers failed to stop her as she scattered their formation with blasts of water.
• At a village assembly, one Elder urged the merfolk to seek help from the Wizards, while another argued that the Wizards would exploit them.
• The merfolk chose to lay traps near the village and narrowed their patrol range, after which they never encountered Fina again.

The merfolk removed their traps after agreeing to let the Triwizard Tournament’s second task take place in the Black Lake, believing the Wizards had driven Flerken away. Flerken attacked on tournament day, but the merfolk fled and left Shanna and Fina to deal with the unexpected situation.

• A Ministry official told the Elders that Hogwarts would host the Triwizard Tournament and hold the second task in the Black Lake, and the Elders agreed to remove their traps.
• After the merfolk dismantled every trap and evacuated vulnerable villagers, Flerken attacked the village on the day of the tournament.
• The merfolk scattered, abandoning the four Little Wizards tied to pillars and leaving only the Patrol Team Captain behind.
• Fina recovered from the impact and watched the merfolk flee instead of chasing her as she had expected.
• Shanna confronted Fina and demanded that she find a solution, threatening to withhold Spirit Pet Pills if Fina made her break her promise to Gege.

Shanna revived Gabrielle at the bottom of the lake and warmed her with a scarf while Fina struggled to devise a reliable way to hide their presence. Meanwhile, Fleur became surrounded by Grindylows as she hurried to rescue her sister, and Bell and Hermione watched anxiously, trusting the professors to keep her safe.

• Shanna rejected Fina’s plan to kill the merpeople, threatened to hand it to Dumbledore for research, and continued casting the Revival Spell on Gabrielle.
• Shanna revived Gabrielle, wrapped her in a warming scarf, and scolded her for agreeing to become a hostage.
• Gabrielle explained that she had trusted Fleur to rescue her.
• Fleur, distracted by worry for Gabrielle, was surrounded by several Grindylows and struggled to fight them off.
• Hermione worried about Fleur, while Bell said the watching professors would not let her come to harm.

After the mermen fled at the sight of Fina, Shanna called Bell for help, and he secretly entered the Black Lake to find them before they could report the incident to Dumbledore. Dumbledore sensed a familiar pulse of magic and became suspicious of Bell.

• Phyllis and Lena returned to Mermen Village and learned from Shanna that the mermen had fled when they saw Fina.
• Shanna called Bell, blamed Fina for the chaos, and asked him what to do; Bell told the girls to keep playing while he handled it.
• Bell left Hermione in the stands with Lim disguised as him and slipped away toward the Black Lake.
• Gero tried to stop Bell with a Curse, then apologized after recognizing him; Bell entered the lake and began searching for the mermen with Magic Power Detection.
• Dumbledore sensed a faint, familiar wave of magic and covertly looked toward Bell in the stands.

Bell detected merpeople heading for shore and intercepted them by disguising himself as Fina, whose appearance terrified them. After knocking the five merpeople unconscious, he wondered why they feared Fina so much and suspected she needed a lesson from Shanna.

• Bell used Magic Power Detection underwater, accidentally expanding its range to the shore, and located several merpeople swimming toward it.
• Bell transformed to look like Fina and moved ahead of the merpeople to block their route.
• The five merpeople discussed seeking help from Wizards, while Elder Ugali warned that Wizards were more terrifying than the Flerken they feared.
• The merpeople spotted Fina and scattered, but Bell knocked all five unconscious before they could escape.
• Bell returned to his original form, gathered the merpeople, and wondered whether Fina's name came from merpeople being like fish and cats being their natural enemies.

Bell altered the mermen’s memories to blame a conspiracy involving a Wizard and the Flerken, then went to Mermen Village to help Shanna, Gabrielle, Phyllis, and Lena deal with the aftermath of rescuing Gabrielle. The chapter ended with Shanna asking Bell what they should do next.

• Bell decided to conceal the truth and used a Memory Charm to make the five mermen believe a Wizard and the Flerken had threatened them.
• Bell placed delayed-activation Revival Spells on the mermen and left them to return to their village.
• Bell arrived at Mermen Village and found Shanna and Gabrielle exploring while Phyllis and Lena worried about what to do.
• Bell reassured Gabrielle and explained that he had come to clean up after the trouble she had caused.
• Shanna asked Bell what they should do next.

Bell forged footage of a disturbance in the Mermen Village to hide what had really happened, then returned to the stands. The fabricated images alarmed the spectators and left Dumbledore suspicious while Karkaroff and Madame Maxime reacted with excitement.

• Bell wrote forged images into the Surveillance Mirror and warned the five children to stay out of its view.
• After the children left the Mermen Village, Bell removed the Hacker Cube, slipped away, and secretly helped Fleur deal with Grindylows on his way to the lake surface.
• The forged footage showed a shadow and a brawny merman disappearing as the village erupted into chaos, prompting alarm among the spectators.
• Dumbledore noticed inconsistencies in the footage and considered going into the Black Lake to investigate.
• Karkaroff blamed Dumbledore for the apparent danger to the hostages and drew Madame Maxime into the discussion, while she cheered the disturbance.

Madame Maxime watched Fleur struggle against the Grindylows until an unknown helper slowed them, while Dumbledore and Karkaroff chose to keep watching the Tournament. At the one-hour mark, Cedric and Krum returned with their hostages, Harry remained trapped circling the Mermen Village, and Fleur was about to enter it.

• Madame Maxime noticed that someone used Transfiguration to slow the Grindylows attacking Fleur, and she decided not to interfere.
• Dumbledore dismissed the Mermen Village attack as a possible aquatic Magical Animal, and Karkaroff reluctantly agreed to wait and watch.
• Cedric returned with his hostage first, followed by Krum, while Harry circled the village and Fleur approached its entrance.
• Phyllis asked Shanna why Harry had been circling for more than ten minutes, and Shanna said he had touched the other hostages instead of leaving.

Harry repeatedly failed to reach the apparent Gabrielle, while Shanna tried to stop him from exposing her illusion. Fleur finally arrived and reunited with Gabrielle, but Shanna concealed the truth by making a controlled fish swallow the Surveillance Mirror.

• Harry rescued Cho Chang and Ron, then repeatedly failed to reach the apparent Gabrielle despite trying to save her.
• Shanna used the Illusion Spell to keep Harry away and nearly threw Fina at him, but sensed Fleur arriving.
• Fleur found Gabrielle and called out to her, but Shanna's controlled fish dragged Fleur down and swallowed the Surveillance Mirror.
• Gabrielle rushed into Fleur's arms, and Fleur embraced her before asking why she was at the lake.

Fleur reunited with Gabrielle and helped Shanna protect their disguise by driving Harry away from the illusion. After Harry left with Ron, Fleur examined the illusion and realized how convincingly real it was.

• Gabrielle told Fleur that Shanna and the others had saved her, and Fleur thanked them.
• Shanna asked Fleur to drive Harry away before he exposed Gabrielle's illusion, and Fleur agreed.
• Harry waited for the supposed protective Curses around Gabrielle to expire, believing he could then rescue her.
• Fleur attacked Harry with a Curse and ordered him to leave, while he insisted he had only wanted to save Gabrielle.
• Harry swam away with Ron, and Fleur examined the illusion and found that even its movements matched the currents.

Fleur safely reunited with Gabrielle after Shanna tossed her across the lake, while the spectators panicked when a fish swallowed a Surveillance Mirror. Madame Maxime nearly attacked Dumbledore over Fleur’s apparent danger, but calmed down after Fleur appeared on Harry’s screen; Hogwarts students then protested when Fleur blasted Harry.

• Gabrielle told Fleur that Shanna had thrown her through the water, and Fleur checked that her sister was unharmed.
• Shanna and her friends swam away, and a large fish returned Fleur’s swallowed Surveillance Mirror without revealing Shanna’s objective.
• Spectators on shore misread Harry’s behavior and panicked when a giant fish swallowed a Surveillance Mirror, blacking out the display.
• Madame Maxime confronted Dumbledore and tried to rush into the lake to save Fleur, while Karkaroff urged her on from a safe distance.
• Fleur appeared on Harry’s screen blasting him away, so Madame Maxime lowered her wand and Hogwarts students began demanding that Fleur be punished.