Chapter Summaries

Bell secretly prevented Fleur’s Surveillance Mirror from restoring its image while Shanna prepared, and Fleur later finished the task after helping Harry and Ron. Fleur placed third, while Harry finished last despite reaching the Mermen Village first.

• A fish swallowed a Surveillance Mirror, and a Menethil technician prepared to activate its protective Curses.
• Bell contacted the technician and ordered him to delay restoring the image, while Hermione questioned Bell about his actions.
• The technician stalled until Shanna completed her preparations, then Fleur and Gabrielle appeared on the screen.
• Fleur caught up with Harry and Ron, then helped them through the final stretch after her sister persuaded her.
• Fleur finished third, and Harry came in last despite reaching the Mermen Village first.

After the second task, rumors about Harry’s behavior spread through Hogwarts until Rita Skeeter’s article claimed he liked boys, prompting Harry to panic as Cho Chang began avoiding him. Neville told Harry that Ginny was waiting for him in the common room.

• The students argued over whether Harry had stayed in the Mermen Village to protect the hostages or had behaved suspiciously around Gabrielle.
• Rita Skeeter published an article claiming Harry and Ron were romantically involved, based on interviews and a quote attributed to Draco Malfoy.
• Harry’s supporters used the article to dismiss claims that he had improper designs on Gabrielle, though their numbers dwindled.
• Harry grew furious when he learned Cho Chang was avoiding him and realized the rumors threatened his feelings for her.
• Neville nervously told Harry that Ginny was waiting for him in the common room.

Ginny confronted Harry, hoping to correct what she believed was his relationship with Ron, but Harry denied the rumors and shouted at her. As Ginny was about to flee in tears, Sanna Menethil appeared and offered to deal with Harry.

• Ginny decided to confront Harry about dating Ron after concluding she could not compete with her brother for him.
• Harry entered the Gryffindor Common Room and asked Ginny what she wanted.
• Ginny told Harry that he should not date Ron and should date a girl instead.
• Harry denied having a romantic relationship with Ron and blamed the rumors on Rita Skeeter and Malfoy.
• Ginny accused Harry of hiding the truth, and Harry shouted that he and Ron were only friends.
• Sanna Menethil appeared beside Ginny and offered to take Harry out for her.

Shanna intervened when Ginny confronted Harry, but her attempt to help Ginny ended with her blasting Harry across the common room. Ginny rushed to Harry instead of joining Shanna, leaving Shanna feeling betrayed as Hermione arrived and feared Harry had been killed.

• Shanna overheard Ginny confronting Harry and decided to stand up for her.
• Harry fired a Disarming Charm at Shanna, but she deflected it and sent him flying with her own Disarming Charm.
• Ginny ran to Harry and cried over him, while Shanna wondered why Ginny had abandoned their imagined alliance.
• Shanna snapped Harry's Wand, threw the pieces toward him and Ginny, and left the common room.
• Hermione arrived, saw Ginny crying over Harry and Shanna leaving, and asked whether Shanna had killed him.

Shanna claimed Harry had struck first and left the Gryffindor Common Room, while Hermione examined and treated Harry’s severe injuries. Harry woke confused, and Ginny explained that Shanna had attacked him.

• Hermione confronted Shanna, who insisted she had acted in self-defense and then left with Fina.
• Hermione examined Harry, found several cracked bones and internal bleeding, and treated him with a Potion and Episkey.
• Harry woke up in pain and asked what had happened.
• Ginny told Harry that Shanna Menethil had attacked him and that he had passed out.

Harry recovered enough to remember his fight with Shanna, while Hermione took him to the Hospital Wing. Months later, Shanna was still sulking at Hermione and revealed that Bell had a top-secret task during the Triwizard Tournament’s final event.

• Harry remembered striking first when he thought Shanna was about to attack him, and Hermione levitated him to the Hospital Wing for another examination.
• Ginny followed Hermione and hoped Harry’s injury might give her a chance to replace Ron in his affections.
• Months later, Shanna remained angry with Hermione for reporting her to Bell, though Bell had laughed at the story rather than blaming Shanna.
• Hermione teased Shanna into forgiving her, then asked where Bell was because the Triwizard Tournament’s final event was about to begin.
• Shanna told Hermione that Bell had an important task that night and refused to reveal it because it was top secret.

Bell secretly led Sebas and the Menethil Family’s Special Operations Team to a forest near an abandoned graveyard, where they prepared to intervene in the Triwizard Tournament’s final event. As the operation began, an Egyptian-dressed Wizard emerged from a wooden house carrying a baby.

• Hermione felt hurt that Bell had kept his plans from her, while Bell avoided telling her because he feared she would try to stop him.
• Bell met Sebas in a remote forest and learned that the First Division and its defensive preparations were ready.
• Bell refused Sebas’s offer to keep him away from the danger and ordered the team to use all their Flame and Lightning Talismans once battle began.
• Bell and the Special Operations Team moved to the forest’s edge and watched an abandoned graveyard as the Triwizard Tournament’s final event began.
• An Egyptian-dressed Wizard emerged from a wooden house carrying a baby, and Bell recognized the moment as an unexpected coincidence.

Bell traced Voldemort’s hiding place to an Egyptian Wizard who sold Flying Carpets, then discovered that the Triwizard Cup had been turned into a Portkey. He realized Dumbledore intended to send Harry to Voldemort, leaving Bell to decide how to respond to their dangerous game.

• Bell recalled buying many Flying Carpets from the Egyptian Wizard, who had later joined Voldemort.
• Bell ordered his family’s departments to search for suspicious Wizards, and their surveillance team eventually identified the Egyptian Wizard and located Voldemort.
• Bell told the Special Operations Team to keep Voldemort under close surveillance rather than intervene.
• Bell discovered that Dumbledore planned to send Harry to Voldemort after spotting that the Triwizard Cup was a Portkey.
• Bell considered Dumbledore’s past actions and questioned whether he could stay out of the conflict.

Bell deduced that Dumbledore planned to help Voldemort return to life and brought the Menethil Family’s Special Operations Team to watch the graveyard. As the team waited to ambush Voldemort, Cedric appeared beside Harry, surprising Bell.

• Bell used the Black Family’s Dark Magic records and Voldemort’s movements to uncover Dumbledore’s plan and decided it threatened Shanna and Hermione.
• Goodwin urged Bell to attack the weakened Voldemort, but Bell explained that he wanted to make the most of the rare opportunity.
• Bell, Sebas, and the Special Operations Team waited in the forest while Voldemort’s resurrection unfolded in the graveyard.
• Cedric appeared beside Harry, leaving Bell surprised by the unexpected arrival.

Bell and Sebas watched Voldemort resurrect in the graveyard, but Bell refused to save Cedric so his plan to resolve his father’s problems could proceed. After Voldemort summoned the Death Eaters, Bell prepared to attack them with his hundred followers and went to draw their attention.

• Bell refused to intervene as Voldemort killed Cedric and used Harry to complete the resurrection ritual.
• Voldemort branded the Egyptian Wizard with the Dark Mark, then summoned the Death Eaters to greet him.
• Goodwin urged Bell to retreat and notify Dumbledore, but Bell ordered his men to activate the Barrier Talismans and attack.
• Bell headed toward the graveyard to draw the Death Eaters’ attention, and Sebas begged to go in his place.

Bell and Sebas confronted Voldemort after he returned to life, and Bell survived Voldemort’s Killing Curse by using a Transfigured Earth Wall and severing its connection to his Magic Power. Bell tried to draw Voldemort and the Death Eaters’ attention without starting a duel, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Bell continued toward Voldemort despite Sebas’s objections and ordered Sebas to leave Goodwin in command of the barrier and attack.
• Bell and Sebas emerged from the woods as Voldemort gave the Egyptian Wizard a Magical Arm.
• Voldemort attacked Bell with a Killing Curse, but Bell blocked it with an Earth Wall and cut off his Magic Power connection to it.
• Voldemort grew furious but hesitated to kill Bell quickly because the Death Eaters were watching and his authority was still uncertain.
• Bell apologized and tried to calm Voldemort, deciding not to risk fighting him and the Death Eaters head-on.

Bell confronted Voldemort in the graveyard, where they argued over their past encounter and the Philosopher’s Stone. While Voldemort questioned Bell, Bell’s barrier trapped the Death Eaters as the Special Operations Team launched an ambush.

• Voldemort recognized Bell and attacked him with a Cruciatus Curse, but Bell deflected the spell.
• Bell denied responsibility for Voldemort’s failed Philosopher’s Stone plan and told him Dumbledore had already uncovered it.
• Voldemort noticed a Protego Totalum barrier over the graveyard and discovered that Side-Along Apparition was blocked.
• Bell revealed that he had been distracting Voldemort while the Special Operations Team Apparated into the graveyard.
• The team hurled Talismans at the Death Eaters, and one Death Eater shouted that they were surrounded.

Bell and the Action Team overwhelmed Voldemort’s Death Eaters with Talismans, then worked to contain Voldemort when he unleashed Fiendfyre. Bell’s lightning weakened Voldemort’s Black Mist, and Sebas and Goodwin joined the attack, leaving Voldemort frightened and low on Magic Power.

• The Death Eaters gathered under Voldemort and used Protego Totalum to withstand the Action Team’s barrage of flames and lightning, though several were burned to ash.
• The Action Team attacked the exhausted Death Eaters with lethal Curses as Voldemort rose into the air and cast Fiendfyre at Bell.
• Bell called fifty team members to extinguish the Fiendfyre and joined Sebas and Goodwin in restraining Voldemort.
• Bell flew behind Voldemort and struck him with Five Thunders Strike the Summit, dissolving part of Voldemort’s Black Mist.
• Sebas and Goodwin attacked Voldemort with lightning too, terrifying him as he feared losing the rest of his Magic Power.

Bell’s team defeated the Death Eaters and cornered Voldemort, but Bell ordered everyone to stand back so he could duel Voldemort alone. Bell charged into the fight, determined to win and return to his sister and girlfriend.

• Voldemort used Black Mist shields to defend against Bell’s lightning while trying to escape the barrier.
• Bell, Sebas, and Goodwin kept Voldemort occupied until Bell’s team eliminated the Death Eaters and extinguished the Fiendfyre.
• Bell ordered everyone to retreat, refusing Goodwin’s request to finish Voldemort with a group attack.
• Bell challenged Voldemort to a duel, and Voldemort unleashed a swarm of Black Mist snakes at him.
• Bell vanished with a sonic boom and ordered his team not to interfere, then charged forward behind a lightning-coated Shield Charm.

Bell used lightning and a lava construct to wear down Voldemort while avoiding the Black Mist. Voldemort unleashed a giant serpent of Black Mist, then chose to ram the barrier and escape rather than risk his main soul.

• Bell evaded Voldemort’s Black Mist and used the Five Thunder Spell to disperse it, while Voldemort grew frustrated and exhausted.
• Bell formed a lava Giant around himself, then filled it with flames and exploded it to scatter the Black Mist and buy time.
• Bell hurled Lightning Spears at Voldemort, then struck him with Magic Power Impact and sent him crashing into the Protego Totalum barrier.
• Voldemort used his remaining Magic Power and some of his life force to form a giant serpent of Black Mist.
• Voldemort chose to crash the serpent into the barrier instead of fighting Bell to the death, preserving his main soul and Horcruxes.

Bell outmaneuvered Voldemort and trapped him in a sphere of lightning before burning him with Undying Flame. Bell survived the battle badly injured and exhausted, and Sebas asked whether Voldemort was dead.

• Voldemort tried to escape by attacking Bell with the Black Snake, but Bell used an illusion to hide his position and struck him with a Rising Dragon Fist.
• Voldemort was knocked toward Bell’s airborne clone, which detonated as a giant sphere of lightning and engulfed him.
• Voldemort’s Black Mist formed a sphere around Bell and wounded him, but Bell escaped with the help of his Defensive Trinkets.
• Bell used Undying Flame to consume the lightning sphere and trap Voldemort in a fireball until the flames vanished.
• Bell collapsed from exhaustion, and Sebas rushed over to ask if Voldemort was dead.

After the battle, Sebas and the healing wizards treated Bell while Goodwin reported the casualties and Harry Potter’s condition. Bell learned Cedric Diggory’s remains had been destroyed and proposed finding another corpse to transfigure into Cedric’s likeness.

• Sebas gave Bell healing potions and summoned ten healers, who treated his lightning and other injuries.
• Goodwin reported that all thirty-four Death Eaters had been killed and that Harry Potter was seriously injured but alive.
• Bell ordered Harry treated, his memories checked, and him returned to Hogwarts by the following evening.
• Sebas reminded Bell about Cedric Diggory, and Goodwin said Cedric’s remains were too badly destroyed to reassemble.
• Bell suggested finding a more intact corpse and transfiguring it to look like Cedric.

Bell arranged for Cedric to be cremated and honored with a Second Class Order of Merlin medal, then returned to Hogwarts to rest. Meanwhile, Snape felt Voldemort summon the Death Eaters through the Dark Mark and went to investigate, worried about Harry.

• Bell decided Cedric should be cremated and that his sacrifice should be described as heroic when informing Cedric's parents.
• Bell asked Sebas to secure a Second Class Order of Merlin medal for Cedric, and Sebas said the family could obtain one through its influence.
• After receiving preliminary treatment, Bell asked for the unedited recording and returned to Hogwarts by Apparition.
• Snape left the tournament grounds unnoticed and wondered why Dumbledore had shown no surprise when Harry vanished.
• Snape felt the Dark Mark burn and hurried away from the arena to examine it, fearing for Harry's safety.

Snape confirmed that Voldemort had returned, but before he could seek Dumbledore, a squad of Aurors arrived at Hogwarts claiming to investigate infiltrated Death Eaters. Captain Salomon Redman had Ludo Bagman and Alastor Moody surrounded and disarmed, while Dumbledore questioned the squad’s information.

• Snape confirmed that the violent reaction of his Dark Mark meant Voldemort had returned and resolved to speak with Dumbledore.
• Salomon Redman arrived with nine Aurors, identified himself, and ordered Snape to cooperate with their investigation.
• Snape lowered his Wand and went with the Aurors to the Triwizard Tournament grounds, where Dumbledore asked who they were.
• Salomon told Dumbledore that the Aurors had received a tip about Death Eaters at Hogwarts but refused to reveal their source.
• The Aurors surrounded Ludo Bagman and Alastor Moody and demanded their Wands, and Bagman let an Auror take his while Moody watched the squad cautiously.

Salomon’s Aurors captured the impostor posing as Moody and used Legilimency to identify him as Barty Crouch Jr. and uncover Voldemort’s plan to resurrect himself using Harry Potter’s blood. The students learned that Voldemort had returned and turned to Dumbledore for reassurance.

• Salomon’s Aurors stunned and restrained Moody, then found Polyjuice Potion among his possessions.
• Salomon ordered an Auror to search Moody’s memories for his identity and accomplices.
• The Auror identified Moody as Barty Crouch Jr. and revealed that he had impersonated Moody to infiltrate Hogwarts.
• The Auror reported that Voldemort planned to make Harry Potter win the Triwizard Tournament, then use the Portkey and Harry’s blood to complete his resurrection.
• The Little Wizards reacted in terror to the news that Voldemort had returned and looked to Dumbledore for reassurance.