Chapter Summaries

William and Hermione battled Venice Aurors while searching for the missing Goblet of Fire, then convinced Trene to help them escape in her magically modified submarine. They left the Aurors behind underwater, still needing to find the Goblet and stop Venice from flooding.

• Winged Lions and Aurors arrived quickly, and William used canal water to knock them into the water and repel their spells.
• Trene steered the gondola away as Aurors pursued them, and Hermione explained that Martell suspected them of stealing the Goblet of Fire.
• Hermione claimed the Goblet was causing Venice to flood and that they needed to find it to save the city.
• Trene warned that Martell would detain them, then revealed her gondola could transform into a submarine and submerged it to escape.
• William joked about introducing Trene to Arthur Weasley, and Trene teased Hermione about keeping William in line.

William, Hermione, and Trene escaped the Aurors and found Bathilda Bagshot in Venice to ask about the Goblet of Fire. Bagshot warned that Death’s guidance required them to find it that day, as Venice was about to be destroyed.

• William, Hermione, and Trene escaped the underwater Auror attack with Hermione’s Dungbombs, though the spells nearly wrecked Trene’s gondola.
• William and Hermione left Trene at Bathilda Bagshot’s house and met the elderly historian in her garden.
• Bagshot praised Hermione’s paper and William’s work on Animagus Transfiguration, then warned them not to seek the Holy Grail.
• Bagshot explained that The Tale of the Three Brothers was a true map and that Death’s guidance meant William and Hermione had to obtain the Holy Grail.
• Bagshot said the heavy rain had set off an irreversible chain of events and warned that Venice was about to be destroyed.

Bagshot guided William and Hermione through a riddle linking the Holy Grail to Doge Enrico Dandolo and Saint Lucia. They concluded the Grail was either in Dandolo’s tomb or with Lucia as a flood threatened Venice.

• Bagshot recited a riddle about the Doge of Venice and explained that it pointed toward the Holy Grail.
• Hermione reasoned that the Grail had reached Venice after the Fourth Crusade plundered Constantinople.
• William identified the doge as Enrico Dandolo, and Bagshot connected him to the four horses taken from Constantinople.
• Bagshot explained that Dandolo had also sought the remains of Saint Lucia, whose bones could prolong life.
• William and Hermione concluded that the Holy Grail was either in Dandolo’s tomb or with Lucia.

William and Hermione stayed at Bagshot’s house while seeking the Goblet of Fire, and Bagshot connected Merlin’s prophecy to the flooding in Italy. She revealed that a dragon trapped in the Goblet had awakened and warned that they had to find it before the dragon destroyed the country.

• Bagshot sheltered William and Hermione for the night, and Trene woke from her nap believing Aurors had arrived.
• William found a photograph of young Albus and Gellert, and Bagshot explained that she had introduced the two boys and helped them find Ignotus Peverell’s grave.
• Over dinner, Hermione asked Trene about the tombs of Doge Dandolo and Santa Lucia, and Trene said Dandolo was buried in Constantinople while Santa Lucia’s remains were scattered among several places.
• Bagshot interpreted the final lines of Merlin’s prophecy as referring to the dragons Merlin had predicted would fight beneath Vortigern’s tower.
• Bagshot said Merlin had trapped the dragons inside the Goblet of Fire and that one awakening dragon had caused the flooding, so William and Hermione needed to find the Goblet and stop it.

William and Trene repaired the Doragon while discussing the search for the Goblet of Fire, and Hermione’s research pointed them toward Sardinia as the likely location of the dragon. That night, Trene secretly removed the wooden goblet from the boat and jumped into the canal with Gillyweed.

• William worked on a defensive spell for the Doragon while Trene repaired its engine, and he planned to add more magical features to the boat.
• Trene asked about the fake Goblet of Fire and learned that William and Hermione suspected Martell of stealing the real one.
• Trene told William that her family would not worry about her, then left after he promised to get her a Quidditch World Cup ticket.
• Hermione showed William Bagshot’s notes, and they connected a 1289 magical incident in Sardinia to the dragon and the Holy Grail.
• After William and Hermione went to sleep, Trene took the wooden goblet from a hidden compartment in the Doragon and jumped into the canal.

Trene confronted her father, Oberon Martell, and offered to return the Goblet of Fire in exchange for clearing William and Hermione’s names. The next morning, William and Hermione found Trene gone and set off in her gondola, unaware of her plans.

• Trene met Oberon Martell in St Mark's Square and admitted she had taken the Goblet of Fire from his office.
• Trene revealed that Martell had awakened the ancient monster to gain prestige as a Dragonslayer and demanded that he clear William and Hermione of the charges against them.
• Trene said an Unbreakable Vow required her to retrieve the hidden Goblet herself, and Martell agreed while secretly planning to kill her and the others.
• Trene left William and Hermione a letter saying she was going to see her dying father one last time.
• William and Hermione found the water rising around Bagshot's house, then took the gondola and sped across the canal.

William and Hermione traveled through flooded Burano while searching for the Goblet of Fire, but Italian Aurors ambushed them under orders to kill them. After Hermione learned to steer the Doragon, William fought off the Aurors and the pair escaped, though Hermione accidentally left him in the water.

• Kha'Zix and Captain Russell discussed the World Cup and a newspaper report declaring William and Hermione innocent, then Russell ordered the Aurors to pursue them.
• William and Hermione spotted the Aurors surrounding their gondola, and William told Hermione to steer while he handled the attackers.
• Hermione took the controls with William's help and maneuvered the gondola past a wall as Aurors fired spells at them.
• William conjured mist and weaponized rain to defeat the Aurors, wounded a Winged Lion, and warned Russell not to pursue them.
• As William prepared to reboard, Hermione turned the gondola sharply and left him in the water.

William and Hermione discovered that Nymeria had tracked them with enchanted masks and defeated her when she approached their boat. Nymeria revealed that Trene had been arrested for stealing the Goblet of Fire, while William and Hermione had been declared innocent.

• Hermione apologized for accidentally leaving William stranded in the water, and the two settled down together in their boat.
• William and Hermione spotted Nymeria approaching through the sea mist, and William demanded to know how she had found them.
• Hermione suspected their masks, and William detected a hidden tracking charm on the gifts Nymeria had given them.
• William attacked Nymeria and knocked her into the water, quickly overwhelming her.
• Nymeria begged William to save Trene and showed them a newspaper reporting Trene's arrest for stealing the Goblet of Fire.

William questioned Nymeria under Veritaserum and learned how Martell used her and Trene in his plot surrounding the Goblet of Fire. After Hermione found a clue about Doge Enrico Dandolo’s remains, William realized that the Holy Grail and dragon were hidden beneath St Mark’s Square.

• Nymeria took Veritaserum and revealed that Secretary-General Oberon Martell had adopted her and Trene, trained them for secret missions, and ordered her to steal the Goblet of Fire.
• Nymeria explained that Trene had broken with Martell after fleeing her first assassination mission, then stole the Goblet of Fire from his office and turned herself in to stop him and confront the dragon.
• Hermione reasoned that Trene was leading Martell to the Goblet’s hiding place, but Nymeria did not know where Trene had hidden it.
• Hermione found that Bellini had brought some of Doge Enrico Dandolo’s remains from Constantinople to Venice, but the book did not say where they were buried.
• William connected Death’s clue and Merlin’s prophecy to the collapse of St Mark’s Campanile, and he and Hermione concluded that the Holy Grail and dragon lay beneath St Mark’s Square.

Martell revealed that he planned to awaken a water dragon beneath Venice and use the Goblet of Fire to control it, destroying St Mark’s Square in the process. William and Hermione arrived at the square and identified the Phoenix Opera House as the entrance to the underground lagoon, where the dragon and the Holy Grail lay.

• Martell recalled how Ellaria Sand had died saving him when St Mark’s Campanile collapsed, and explained why he had adopted young wizards with the Sand surname.
• Martell described finding a sleeping water dragon beneath Venice and planning to awaken it, then bind it with the Goblet of Fire, which Trene had hidden nearby.
• William and Hermione raced their gondola into St Mark’s Square, where William stopped it with magic and warned the tourists of a coming flood, but no one believed him.
• William reasoned that a dragon slept below the square and that the Holy Grail burned beneath the tombs in St Mark’s Basilica.
• William interpreted Death’s clue and identified the Phoenix Opera House as the entrance to the underground lagoon.

William and Hermione entered the Phoenix Opera House under a Confundus Charm and searched its underground well for the Goblet of Fire, where they awakened a white dragon trapped beneath Venice. As the dragon surged upward, Trene escaped Martell by throwing him a fake goblet, leaving the real one hidden.

• Hermione used a Confundus Charm to convince the opera house doorman that William and she were MI6 agents investigating Mafia explosives.
• William and Hermione persuaded manager Mirshat to lead them to an abandoned well, then used Gillyweed to swim into the lagoon below.
• A white dragon sensed Merlin's Goblet approaching, realized its magical bonds had vanished, and flew upward in a fury.
• Martell attacked Trene with Inferi and demanded the Goblet of Fire, but a roar from below startled him.
• Trene threw Martell a fake Goblet of Fire, escaped toward the underground lake, and left him wondering where she had hidden the real one.

A gigantic white dragon surged through the underground lagoon toward Venice while William and Hermione struggled against its attacks. They discovered that the real Goblet of Fire had been hidden in William’s box, and its flames began resisting the torrent as they raised it together.

• Minister Hewen ordered wizards to evacuate Muggles as floodwaters surged through St Mark’s Square and the Campanile collapsed.
• William and Hermione were swept upward by the lagoon’s current and spotted a colossal white dragon charging toward them.
• William shielded them from the dragon’s tail and water blast with successive water mirrors, but the effort rapidly drained his magic.
• Blue-white flames surrounded William and Hermione, and William discovered the real Goblet of Fire inside the box he had carried with him.
• Hermione realized that Death’s guidance had led them to bring the Holy Grail beneath the doge’s tomb, and they raised the Goblet as its flames resisted the torrent.

The white dragon rampaged through Venice while searching for the Holy Grail, and William and Hermione emerged with the Goblet of Fire to confront it. As Hermione invoked the Grail’s power, William summoned Stonehenge from the sky, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• The white dragon destroyed buildings and unleashed a tsunami as Minister Hewen and the Aurors failed to stop it.
• The white dragon sensed the red dragon’s scent near St Mark’s Square and flew toward it, knowing the Holy Grail was nearby.
• William and Hermione emerged from the canal holding the Holy Grail as Muggles and wizards fled the approaching dragon and its giant wave.
• William used the Goblet of Fire to form a blue-white fire dragon that evaporated the wave, while Hermione chanted with the Holy Grail.
• William shouted “Stonehenge... Accio!” and summoned countless falling boulders from the sky.

William and Hermione used the red dragon’s power to summon Stonehenge and trap the white dragon in Venice. They raced toward it in a gondola, hoping to bind it inside the Holy Grail again.

• The red dragon explained that Merlin had created Stonehenge to imprison two dragons and that the Holy Grail could help its holder summon the stones.
• In Rome, a cardinal who had fallen into the Tiber River was carried aloft on a flying stone and panicked as a young priest urged him to jump.
• William and Hermione completed the Stonehenge circle around the white dragon, containing its surging water and preventing it from escaping.
• Minister Hewen ordered Aurors to help the Muggles cooking pasta and asked them to bring bowls for himself, William, and Hermione.
• The red dragon told William and Hermione to place the Holy Grail on the white dragon’s head to bind it again, and offered them its magic.
• Hermione drove the gondola toward the white dragon while William stood at the bow with the Holy Grail and his wand.

William and Hermione battled the white dragon in Venice while trying to place the Holy Grail on its head. William wounded the dragon and summoned the stone from St Mark’s Square, but after placing the goblet on the dragon, he fell into the water and Hermione jumped in after him.

• Hermione drove the gondola toward the white dragon while William used the Holy Grail’s magic to shield them and conjure stone sea eagles, water tornadoes, and flames.
• William spotted an unscaled scar on the dragon’s tail, struck it with a flaming arrow, and stabbed the wound with his alchemical sword.
• William summoned the enormous stone from beneath the lagoon and shattered it against the white dragon, then landed on its head and placed the shining goblet there.
• The rain froze in midair as sunlight broke through Venice’s clouds, and Hermione steered the gondola beneath William as he fell.
• The gondola slid backward before Hermione could catch William, so he fell into the water and Hermione jumped in after him.

Dumbledore, Maxime, and Karkaroff arrived in a ship that had flooded Venice and found the Italian wizards praising William and Hermione. Meanwhile, Russell was arrested after William and Hermione watched the Aurors take him away.

• Dumbledore, Maxime, and Karkaroff emerged from the ship and saw that Venice lay in ruins.
• Maxime blamed Karkaroff's ship for flooding the city, but he denied responsibility.
• Italian Aurors questioned the newcomers and praised William and Hermione, who had become celebrated figures in Italy.
• Maxime demanded to see William, and the Aurors suspected her of impersonating Madame Maxime and threatening him.
• Aurors arrested Russell and took his wand as William and Hermione watched in silence.

After saving Venice, William negotiated with Minister Hewen for Trene Shad’s pardon and the Goblet of Fire, then rested with Hermione in St Mark’s Square. A letter from Albania arrived just as they were about to leave for Rome.

• Minister Hewen refused to meet Russell and used the Venice incident to arrest him for attempting to murder Stark and Granger.
• William and Hermione rested together in St Mark’s Square while wizards worked to repair the damage to Venice.
• Hewen told William that Martell was dead, Trene Shad had killed him, and Aurors were holding her in custody.
• William secured Trene’s pardon and agreed to describe Martell as a hero, while Hewen arranged an indefinite loan of the Goblet of Fire to William and Hermione.
• Hewen awarded William and Hermione the Venice Doge’s Medal and the Italy First Class Medal of Magic, then left them with pasta.
• Hermione woke and asked where they were going, and William found that a letter delivered by a seagull had come from Albania.

After Venice was destroyed, Dumbledore postponed the International Confederation of Wizards Conference and discussed the dangers of the Holy Grail with William. William and Hermione decided to go to Albania after Bertha reported seeing Wormtail there, while Dumbledore stayed behind to handle the crisis.

• Wizard reporters flocked to Venice, leaving the England National Team’s press conference deserted and prompting Fudge to worry about the Quidditch World Cup.
• Dumbledore told William that the conference had been postponed until after the World Cup and would be held in the United Kingdom.
• William asked whether Dumbledore could kill the dragons bound to the Holy Grail, and Dumbledore explained that Merlin’s magic suppressed them when both were inside it.
• Dumbledore warned William not to trust Death and said that the next generation, including William, Hermione, Harry, and Cedric, would have to take responsibility.
• William told Dumbledore that Bertha had written from Albania saying she saw Wormtail, and he and Hermione decided to go check on her.
• Dumbledore stayed in Venice to attend an emergency assembly and warned William and Hermione to be careful in Albania.

William and Hermione left Venice by gondola after Trene lent them her boat for their journey to Albania. As Trene rang the bells of St Mark’s Basilica, William and Hermione kissed beneath the Bridge of Sighs.

• William met Nymeria by the pool, where they caught fish together and she returned two masks to him.
• William found Hermione and Trene repairing the gondola, and Trene offered to lend it to him and Hermione for their trip to Albania.
• Trene admitted she had stolen the Holy Grail and asked William to forgive her; William accepted the boat as fair payment.
• Hermione showed William the gondola’s new two-person cockpit, and they joked and playfully wrestled on the deck.
• Hermione recognized the Bridge of Sighs and regretted that the basilica bells were not ringing, so Trene magically rang them.
• William raised wooden panels around the couple, and Hermione kissed him beneath the bridge.

In the Albanian Forest, Voldemort ordered Wormtail to obtain venom from a gigantic Runespoor so he could create a weak physical body. After Wormtail admitted that the captured Unicorn had escaped, Voldemort persuaded him to continue serving and assigned him another deadly task.

• Voldemort possessed a green snake, then complained that its body was useless for casting magic.
• Voldemort demanded the special venom needed for his body-making potion, and Wormtail said he was preparing to search for the Runespoor with help from wizards at the Prancing Pony Inn.
• Voldemort accused Wormtail of letting the captured Unicorn escape, and Wormtail confessed that he had released it rather than let it die.
• Voldemort promised Wormtail eternal life if he remained loyal and ordered him to weaken the Runespoor.
• Voldemort told Wormtail to lure a Lethifold to the Prancing Pony Inn and kill all the wizards, and Wormtail hurried away, thinking of Little Tom in the United States.