Time slipped quietly by, and before anyone knew it, the final exams had come and gone in a flash.
Of course, that was how Anthony felt.
The other students were all complaining that this year's exams had been unusually difficult. Even the seventh-years' "Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests" had been made a little harder by the examiners from the Ministry of Magic.
During this time, the Magical Research Institute, presided over by Dumbledore, hadn't stopped operating. Old Dumbledore continued his previous research and announced another extremely important topic.
—Research into the Reversal of Magical Life Transformation.
Perhaps influenced by Anthony, Old Dumbledore had begun to change. He was actually starting to consider using his influence and strength to lead the wizarding world forward.
He had gathered nearly the most brilliant people in the wizarding world, intending to lead them deeper into the world of magic.
Of course, this old honeybee, who had always weighed every decision carefully, couldn't help mixing a little scheming into so many wonderful things.
It was practically instinct.
As for their current research topic, in Anthony's translation, it was—researching a counter-curse for Horcruxes.
It was an approach that was thoroughly wizardly.
When faced with Voldemort, the Dark Lord, the solution was no longer to find and destroy all his Horcruxes one by one. Instead, it was to find a way to develop a counter-curse for the spell.
Then give the wand a little wave—whoosh, and everything was taken care of.
Everything in this world affected everything else. When Dumbledore began breaking free of his shackles and became more and more like a White Lord...
Anthony naturally had plenty of thoughts of his own.
He just liked having fun. He wasn't an idiot.
Naturally, he came to this conclusion: if Voldemort were ever killed, and Grindelwald, still restless