Recaps

The Goblet of Fire selected twenty-three Champions, and William prepared the students for a dangerous First Task involving dragons. Hermione and Phoebe excelled in the first group, while Ron and Malfoy struggled against a Peruvian Vipertooth as the contest continued.

• The Goblet of Fire selected twenty-three Champions, including Hermione, Ron, Cho, and George, and the headmasters agreed they all had to compete under the tournament rules.
• William arranged extra lessons with Beauxbatons students, formed D.A. for Defence lessons, and trained Champions to face dragons in the Room of Requirement.
• William, Cho, and Cedric discovered the dragon enclosure, where Cedric later mastered his Animagus transformation and William gathered information about the First Task.
• At the First Task, Hermione and Phoebe faced dragons, and Hermione used spells, Apparition, and her Goblin-made sword to defeat a Romanian Longhorn and collect Golden Eggs.
• Hermione took the Durmstrang Champions’ eggs, then helped Phoebe escape a dragon, and the judges awarded Hermione 274 points and Phoebe 232.
• Ron and Malfoy fought a Peruvian Vipertooth, which carried them through the stands and showered the spectators with dung and poison gas.
• The Vipertooth returned Ron and Malfoy to the arena, where Ron’s failed spells caused trouble, but he and Malfoy joined forces to attack the dragon and reach the Golden Eggs.

After Ron’s controversial first task, William and Dumbledore investigate Voldemort’s cave and discover that Regulus Black may have stolen the locket Horcrux. As Hogwarts prepares for the Yule Ball, William confirms his relationship with Hermione, and the arc ends with them arriving at the ball while Anne and Gabrielle begin a secret plan.

• Ron struck the Peruvian Vipertooth with a black spear, but the judges voided his score for using Dark Magic and awarded him mixed marks.
• Cho and Cedric worked together to steal Golden Eggs, while Hermione finished first with four eggs and Ron finished with none.
• Harry’s scar pain led William and Harry to Dumbledore’s Pensieve, where they saw Barty Crouch condemn his son and later learned that Voldemort might be returning for a Horcrux.
• William, Hermione, and Dumbledore entered Voldemort’s cave, emptied the potion basin, and found a note identifying Regulus Arcturus Black as the likely thief of the locket.
• Hogwarts announced the Yule Ball, and William invited Hermione after she confronted him about ignoring her and other girls crowded around him.
• William publicly declared Hermione his girlfriend and dance partner, while Harry learned Cho had accepted Cedric’s invitation and Ron struggled to find a date.
• On Christmas night, William and Hermione arrived at the Great Hall together, while William brought Gabrielle inside as his second date and Anne warned her to keep their plan secret.

William and Hermione spent the Yule Ball and Christmas together before preparing for the Second Task. Hermione finished first, but William's intervention in the Black Lake brought him into conflict with Vivian and left him troubled by her warning about Death.

• William and Hermione danced at the Yule Ball, kissed on the Hogwarts roof, and spent Christmas at their cottage, where Hermione solved the Golden Egg's underwater clue.
• William unlocked the Book of Alchemy's third volume with the Holy Grail, and he and Hermione used its instructions to build a Portkey door.
• William helped Cedric decipher his egg, while Hermione enlisted Trene to map the Black Lake and prepared for the underwater task.
• Ron overslept and was disqualified, while Hermione reached the Merpeople village by concealed boat and rescued William in twenty-five minutes.
• Cedric tricked Krum into meeting the mermaid princess in his place, and William and Hermione returned to help Cedric and Cho escape her pursuit.
• William defeated the mermaid princess and took her trident, which drew the Goblin Gems to him and summoned the Lady of the Lake.
• William restrained Vivian with the Holy Grail and Merlin's incantation, refused her offers for the gems, and heard her claim that the holders of the Deathly Hallows were marked by Death.
• Hermione placed first again, Dumbledore stopped a brawl after the scoring, and Rita exposed Ron's false account before William and Hermione withdrew from public view.

William uncovered Barty Crouch Jr.’s escape and the truth behind the apparent deaths during the Third Task, then used repeated loops to investigate Merlin and bargain with Vivian. He followed the disguised Harry to Voldemort’s hideout, where Voldemort escaped after William confronted him.

• William and Hermione uncovered that Barty Crouch Jr. had escaped Azkaban by switching places with his mother, but Fudge dismissed their evidence until Judy Crouch’s inability to summon Winky supported their deduction.
• During the Third Task, Cedric found Krum using the Cruciatus Curse on Ron, and the boys appeared to kill each other with deadly spells.
• The Ministry declared Harry and Krum dead, while William learned from Dumbledore that Voldemort had summoned the Death Eaters and was told to investigate without making Voldemort’s return his goal.
• William used the time loop to study magic and experiment, including making Lucius fall in love with Arthur Weasley, while Hermione helped him test the Opal Necklace.
• William and Hermione questioned Sir Cadogan and learned that Merlin had defeated Morgan le Fay, survived, and vanished, leading William to recognize the dragons as the ones from the tournament.
• William bargained with Vivian for a way to leave Hogwarts, released the white dragon, and stopped her from taking both dragons before trading her a real Goblin Gem for a trident linked to his loop magic.
• William followed Winky to a graveyard, where Krum’s disguise fell away and revealed Harry, exposing that Barty Crouch Jr. had switched the boys and staged their deaths.
• Wormtail attacked William, but William subdued him and confronted Voldemort in his frail body, and Voldemort destroyed his own body to escape and vowed to kill William after returning.