Chapter Summaries

Kulkan explained her Feathered Serpent God ancestry and demonstrated the abilities she gained through Ancestral Return, while Sean revealed he could also summon wind and lightning. The next morning, students gathered around the Goblet of Fire as the Weasley twins tried to get past Dumbledore’s Age Line with an Ageing Potion.

• Kulkan told Sean she was born near Castelobruxo and descended from the Feathered Serpent God, Quetzalcoatl.
• Kulkan explained that the Feathered Serpent God’s spine bone unlocked her bloodline inheritance and that devouring an Augurey and a Thunderbird had begun her Ancestral Return.
• Kulkan transformed, displayed her wings and crown-like scales, and demonstrated her wind and lightning abilities; Sean then used his Wand to summon wind and electricity.
• Sean told Kulkan she could think of his powers as Quetzalcoatl’s blessing, and Kulkan returned to her White Snake form and rested in the Snake Den.
• The next morning, Sean and Blaise found students gathered around the Goblet of Fire, and Blaise learned that a Durmstrang student had already entered.
• The Weasley twins arrived with Lee Jordan and announced that their Ageing Potion worked; Sean told Blaise it could not defeat Dumbledore’s Age Line and sat down to watch them try.

Sean watched the Weasley twins fail to cross Dumbledore’s Age Line, then used his unusually old soul to evade its detection and walk around the Goblet of Fire. The Slytherins celebrated his success as the Beauxbatons delegation arrived, and Fleur said Sean had managed it through his own ability.

• The Weasley twins drank Ageing Potions and were thrown back by the Age Line, leaving them with white hair and beards.
• Blaise told Sean that Warrington had entered his name and complained that Gryffindors opposed a Slytherin becoming Hogwarts’s Champion.
• Sean explained that the Age Line detected the age of a person’s soul, then stepped across it without being repelled.
• The Slytherins cheered as Sean walked around inside the Age Line, while Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs applauded.
• Madame Maxime arrived with the Beauxbatons students, and Fleur said Sean had evaded the Age Line through his own abilities.

Sean avoided entering the Triwizard Tournament and spent time with Fleur, encouraging her to compete for herself rather than for others’ expectations. After walking her back to the Beauxbatons carriage, he ran into Harry, who teased him about Fleur until Sean embarrassed Harry by mentioning Cho Chang.

• Sean declined to enter the Triwizard Tournament, telling Blaise it was too dangerous, and watched Blaise leave with his Ravenclaw girlfriend.
• Fleur asked Sean why he had not entered the Tournament, and Sean invited her to walk around Hogwarts with him.
• At the Black Lake, Fleur admitted she felt pressure from her family and school, and Sean encouraged her to compete for her own reasons.
• Sean walked Fleur back to the Beauxbatons carriage, declined her invitation for tea, and said they would see each other again.
• Harry came out of Hagrid’s cabin and teased Sean about Fleur, so Sean teased Harry about his interest in Cho Chang, leaving Harry blushing and speechless.

At the Halloween feast, the Goblet of Fire selected Viktor Krum, Fleur Delacour, and Sean Bulstrode as the Triwizard Champions. Sean insisted he had never entered his name, leaving Fleur concerned about who had arranged his selection.

• Dumbledore announced Viktor Krum as Durmstrang's Champion, and Karkaroff celebrated his selection.
• Dumbledore announced Fleur Delacour as Beauxbatons' Champion, and Fleur joined the other Champions after Sean encouraged her.
• The Goblet of Fire named Sean Bulstrode as Hogwarts' Champion, surprising Dumbledore and the Great Hall.
• Sean told Dumbledore he had not entered his name, but Dumbledore said the decision could not be undone and urged him to win the Triwizard Cup.
• Sean joined Krum and Fleur in the next room and told Fleur that someone was likely trying to cause trouble for him.

The headmasters and professors discussed Sean's selection as Hogwarts' Champion, while Snape worried that the fourth-year was too young to compete. After Sean reassured him, Moody revealed that the Goblet of Fire had been tampered with, and Barty Crouch explained the rules for the first task.

• Maxime and Karkaroff stayed silent about Sean's selection, while Snape demanded that Dumbledore remove him as Champion.
• Sean calmed Snape and declared that he would win the Triwizard Cup for Hogwarts and earn points for Slytherin.
• Moody said a refined Confundus Charm had made the Goblet of Fire accept Sean's name and choose him as Hogwarts' Champion.
• Moody warned Karkaroff to keep a lower profile, but Dumbledore cut him off before he could reveal more.
• Barty Crouch announced that the first task would take place on November twenty-fourth, test the Champions' courage, and allow only their own Wands and supervised, inspected potions.

After being forced into the Triwizard Tournament, Sean learned he could not use ordinary magical items and worried about facing Voldemort without his usual protections. Antonius and Nicholas offered to train him to make tournament-approved Alchemical Puppets before the first task.

• Sean realized that without the Pure White Pocket Watch, he would have little protection against Voldemort, and he would lose a second use of the White Snake King's Snake King Eyes.
• Dumbledore invited the tournament officials to stay at Hogwarts, while Hagrid, Moody, and Snape escorted Fleur, Krum, and Sean back to their quarters.
• Sean told Snape he wanted to visit Antonius and Nicholas, and Snape instructed him to come to his office afterward.
• Sean told Antonius and Nicholas that he had been chosen as Hogwarts's champion despite not entering the Goblet of Fire himself.
• Nicholas explained that champions could use items they made under tournament officials' supervision, and he and Antonius proposed teaching Sean to make simple Alchemical Puppets for the first task.
• Sean accepted their offer and decided he also needed to prioritize learning Apparition.

Sean attended the Triwizard Champions’ interviews and Wand Inspection, where he confronted Rita Skeeter over her fabricated claims. After destroying her notes and feather, he returned to Fleur and Krum as the Wand Inspection began.

• Snape let Sean leave Potions Class for the interviews and Wand Inspection, warning him to be prepared.
• Sean greeted Fleur and Krum in the interview room, where Rita Skeeter watched him closely.
• Rita interviewed Krum and Fleur, then Sean refused her interview and rejected her questions about his parents and the Goblet of Fire.
• Sean threatened Rita with retaliation, citing his honors and the Bulstrode family, then destroyed her parchment and feather.
• After Rita stopped interfering, the Wand Inspection began with Fleur, then Krum, and finally Sean.

Sean inspected his Wand and consulted Snape about preparing for the Triwizard Tournament’s first task, then brewed dozens of potions under supervision. He began making an Alchemy item as the chapter ended, leaving the supervisors watching flames rise from his Alchemy Array.

• Ollivander inspected Sean’s Wand and recalled his father making it.
• Sean visited Snape, who gave him a potion list and promised to learn the first task’s details while warning him not to share them with Fleur.
• Sean, Fleur, and Krum prepared supplies for the tournament under the Ministry supervisors’ inspection.
• Sean brewed thirty-two types of potions, producing more than sixty bottles that the supervisors sealed with Magic Marks.
• Sean asked permission to use Alchemy, then drew an Alchemy Array and made flames surge from it.

Sean prepared Alchemical Puppets for the Triwizard Tournament’s first round, which Dumbledore suspected would involve Fire Dragons. After Harry passed along Hagrid’s invitation, Sean discovered twelve Fire Dragons waiting at the Forbidden Forest and realized the event might differ from what he remembered.

• Sean made twelve humanoid puppets, twelve Alchemical Puppet Dogs, and twelve Alchemical Puppet Birds to bring into the first round.
• Dumbledore deduced that Sean’s Potions and puppets were intended to help him deal with Fire Dragons, and Sean confirmed the guess.
• Harry told Sean that Hagrid wanted him to visit the edge of the Forbidden Forest at eight-thirty that night.
• Sean used the Disillusionment Charm to reach the Forbidden Forest and found twelve cages holding Fire Dragons.

Sean learned that the Triwizard Tournament’s first task would involve twelve fire dragons, then visited Hagrid, who advised him to use a Blinding Spell. Sean later went to Dumbledore’s office with something urgent that required the Headmaster’s judgment.

• Harry found Sean beneath the Disillusionment Charm, and Sean confirmed that the cages held twelve fire dragons.
• Harry worried about the danger, but Sean said he had a plan and thanked Harry for caring.
• Harry led Sean to Hagrid’s Hut, where Hagrid suggested that Sean use a Blinding Spell against the dragons.
• Hagrid said he was helping Sean because Sean had prevented Buckbeak from hurting Malfoy, and Sean thanked him before leaving with a cookie.
• Harry escorted Sean back to Hogwarts under the Invisibility Cloak, and Sean went to the Headmaster’s Office.
• Dumbledore arrived through the fireplace, and Sean told him he had something urgent that required his judgment.

On November 24th, Sean and the other champions began the Triwizard Tournament’s first event, in which they had to retrieve Golden Eggs guarded by Fire Dragons. Fleur finished first with three eggs but was injured, and Sean entered his own arena to find a desert.

• Sean, Fleur, and Krum drew numbers that set their competition order, and Sean noticed the marks also carried protective magic.
• Fleur entered a primeval forest with six Fire Dragons and retrieved three Golden Eggs using sleep magic, Transfiguration, and force.
• Fleur was injured while taking the third egg, but the protective barrier from her number reduced the harm.
• The judges awarded Fleur 34 points, and Madam Pomfrey took her for treatment.
• After staff reset the arena, Sean entered as contestant number two and discovered his grounds were a desert.

Sean searched the vast competition grounds for the Fire Dragons guarding the Golden Eggs and used his flying ability to reach them. After taming two dragons through combat, he rode the second one toward the next challenge.

• Sean sent four puppet birds in different directions to find the Fire Dragons, then flew toward the first one when a bird spotted it.
• Sean blocked the Antipodean Opaleye’s fire, restrained it with transformed rocks, and beat it into submission before taking its Golden Egg.
• Sean created a chain for the Antipodean Opaleye and rode it toward the second Fire Dragon as Hogwarts students cheered and Karkaroff looked displeased.
• Sean rode the Antipodean Opaleye into the Romanian Longhorn, trapped its horn underfoot, and beat the dragon until its horn broke and it submitted.

Sean tamed the Common Welsh Green Dragon and Swedish Short-Snout Dragon, then led his growing dragon group to the Chinese Fireball and Hungarian Horntail. The Chinese Fireball proved overwhelmingly powerful, leaving the audience alarmed as Gavin questioned Borel’s plan.

• Sean used the Romanian Longhorn’s broken horn to subdue the Common Welsh Green Dragon, then healed it and the other dragons.
• The Antipodean Opaleye, Romanian Longhorn, Common Welsh Green Dragon, and Sean defeated the Swedish Short-Snout Dragon, which submitted.
• Sean found the Chinese Fireball and Hungarian Horntail together, and the four tamed dragons attacked them.
• The Chinese Fireball counterattacked, quickly defeating the Swedish Short-Snout Dragon and Common Welsh Green Dragon before they joined forces against it.
• Madame Maxime worried that Fleur might not have survived an encounter with the Chinese Fireball, while Gavin criticized Borel beside Elena.

Sean fought the unusually powerful Chinese Fireball while the other dragons battled the Hungarian Horntail. After Sean crippled the Chinese Fireball and prepared to kill it, the dragon submitted when it heard him speak Chinese.

• Sean recognized the Chinese Fireball as a dragon with the potential to become a Dragon King and took it on while directing the Antipodean Opaleye to fight the Hungarian Horntail.
• The Chinese Fireball attacked Sean, but he clung to its body and pummeled it with his fists.
• The Chinese Fireball tried to shake Sean off against a mountain and then burn him, but Sean froze its wings with Frost Domain, sending it crashing to the ground.
• Sean used his speed and agility to overpower the grounded Chinese Fireball, which refused to submit despite understanding his demands.
• Sean prepared to kill the defiant dragon, but it prostrated itself and submitted after hearing him speak Chinese.

Sean obtained all six Golden Eggs, finished the first round with the highest score, and learned that the eggs contained clues for the next round. Fleur revealed that she had solved the Golden Eggs’ secret, leaving the competition between them unsettled.

• Sean collected the last two Golden Eggs, completing his set of six, and was teleported out of the competition grounds.
• The judges gave Sean forty-four points, while Krum later scored thirty-six after obtaining four Golden Eggs.
• Sean ranked first, Krum second, and Fleur third, and the Champions learned that the number of Golden Eggs they had determined how many clues they received for the next round.
• Sean congratulated Fleur on her performance, and Fleur warned him that she had solved the secret of the Golden Eggs and that their contest was not over.

Sean gained and upgraded several abilities from the Chinese Fireball, making his Animagus form even more powerful. Snape then told him that, as a Triwizard Tournament Champion, he had to find a dance partner for the Yule Ball, confronting Sean with his weakness at dancing.

• Sean merged Fire Dragon Scales into Snake King Scales and gained Flame Breath from the first five dragons.
• Sean gained Dragon King Bloodline, Dragon Breath Fireball, and Dragon Fire Acceleration from the Chinese Fireball.
• Sean considered provoking Giants to gain more abilities, but planned to leave them alive so he could challenge them again later.
• A Slytherin first-year asked Sean for an autograph, and Sean magically wrote his name on the student's robe.
• Snape told Sean that he had to find a dance partner and lead the Yule Ball as a Triwizard Tournament Champion.
• Sean realized he had forgotten about the ball and dreaded dancing, which he considered his greatest weakness.

Sean struggled through dance lessons while preparing for the Triwizard Tournament’s underwater second task, then finished a paper linking Transfiguration and Alchemy. Professor McGonagall took him to meet Dumbledore for advice on the paper.

• Professor McGonagall gave Sean three dance lessons, but his stiff dancing left her ready to give up on teaching him.
• Sean told Antonius and Nicholas that he had decoded the Golden Eggs and asked them to design underwater Alchemical Puppets and simple traps.
• Sean completed his paper on the connection between Transfiguration and Alchemy after three years of work.
• Professor McGonagall read Sean’s paper and took him to Dumbledore because she could not assess its Alchemy-related sections.

Professor McGonagall brought Sean to Dumbledore for feedback on his paper about Transfiguration and Alchemy, and Dumbledore judged it ready for submission to Animagus. After they left, Dumbledore’s portraits questioned Sean’s growing power and distrust of him, while Dumbledore defended his faith in Sean.

• Professor McGonagall brought Sean’s paper to Dumbledore and asked him to suggest revisions.
• Dumbledore read the paper, annotated it, and said it was good enough to submit to Animagus.
• Professor McGonagall and Sean left the office pleased with Dumbledore’s assessment.
• Dumbledore’s portraits warned that Sean distrusted him and might possess Slytherin’s True Treasure.
• Dumbledore acknowledged that his plan carried a small chance of Harry’s death but insisted he believed Sean would protect Hogwarts.

Sean struggled to find a dance partner for the Yule Ball until he met Luna while she was feeding the Thestrals. After treating her injured feet, he asked her to be his partner, and she accepted.

• Sean rejected a Ravenclaw girl who asked him to attend the Yule Ball with her, and Blaise helped him get away.
• Sean told Blaise that Professor McGonagall required Champions to choose non-Champion partners, but he still had no one in mind.
• Sean went to the Forbidden Forest and found Luna feeding the Thestrals and talking about Nargles.
• Luna stumbled and hurt her bare feet, so Sean healed them and conjured her a pair of shoes.
• Sean asked Luna to be his Yule Ball partner, and she agreed.

Sean attended the Yule Ball with Luna after helping her transform for the occasion, and the champions and their partners joined the professors for Christmas dinner. After dinner, Dumbledore announced that the ball would begin.

• Blaise, Andy, and Janson wondered whether Sean had found a partner, and Janson revealed that Sean had bought clothes and accessories for one.
• Sean arrived with a glamorous Luna, and Rowena Stock recognized Luna and spoke with them.
• Professor McGonagall called the champions and their partners, and Sean joined Luna, Krum with Hermione, and Fleur with Roger Davies.
• The champions and their partners dined with the headmasters and professors, while Karkaroff warned Krum against revealing Durmstrang's secrets.
• Dumbledore ended the dinner and announced that the ball would begin.