Vol. 4The Pale Spine

Anton investigated transformation magic, Angnagara, and the Dementor World while facing Ministry scrutiny and Voldemort’s return. After killing Dumbledore and being imprisoned in Azkaban, he transformed Rodolphus and Rookwood and began drawing Lucius into his plans, ending with Rookwood rising from his grave ready to serve him.

  • Anton uncovered the Witch Tribe’s transformation ritual, restored Fat Ball as a Great White Bear, and helped Neville practice the Cruciatus Curse.
  • As tensions rose after Dumbledore left Hogwarts, Lupin led the Cabin members into the Forbidden Forest to find an Angnagara that could erase wand records.
  • Anton clashed with Ministry Aurors, bought a Hogsmeade house containing Professor McGonagall’s husband inside a Venomous Tentacula, and investigated ways to free him.
  • After the Triwizard visitors arrived, Anton gave Anna an Angnagara and shared his research when she asked whether he could cure her mother’s Blood Curse.
  • Anton demonstrated his soul-copy method to restore Elphinstone and explored ways to help Anna with her Blood Curse as accusations against him spread and Dumbledore was cursed.
  • Anton announced Voldemort’s return, killed Dumbledore, and was arrested, then studied a Dementor in Azkaban and told Sirius that Remus Lupin had become a professor and married.
  • Anton explored the Dementor World and transformed Rodolphus and Rookwood while Lucius agreed to publish Anton’s book and help him.
  • Anton arranged for Rookwood to be buried in suspended animation, and Rookwood climbed from his grave three days later transformed and ready to serve him.
Chapters 304–406 Read from ch. 304

Arc 13The Bear and the Angnagara

Anton uncovered the Witch Tribe’s transformation ritual, then turned Fat Ball back into a Great White Bear while helping Neville master the Cruciatus Curse. As Dumbledore left Hogwarts amid rising tensions, Lupin took the Cabin members into the Forbidden Forest to seek an Angnagara that could erase wand records.

  • Anton learned that the Witch Tribe’s transformation art cursed fathers to become Great White Bears whose power eventually strengthened their daughters, and he created a replacement formula through Ritual Magic.
  • Anton confronted Megan’s attempt to use him and Daniel as leverage, after which Daral apologized and gave him the tribe’s records on its transformation art.
  • Anton discovered that the Black Dragon attacking Hagrid and the children was Fat Ball, corrupted by Dark Magic carrying traces of Snape’s soul, and transformed it into an antlered Great White Bear.
  • Anton agreed to teach Neville the Cruciatus Curse, guiding him through repeated practice on transformed rabbits while warning him that the curse could make him cruel.
  • Anton studied magic with the Hogwarts community over the holidays as Neville revived Dumbledore’s Army, Hannah developed a vine factory, and George and Fred worked on breeding magical creatures.
  • Anton used a Time-Turner to investigate how the River of Collective Consciousness helped people learn spells, then sensed a vague disaster as Grindelwald’s Eyes revealed the River of Stars.
  • Dumbledore publicly credited Anton with inventing the Werewolf Experience Candy before leaving Hogwarts for an International Confederation of Wizards meeting, and Lupin warned that Aurors might investigate Anton and Neville.
  • Lupin explained that an Angnagara could consume the magical power in wands and erase their records, then led the Cabin members into the Forbidden Forest to find one.
Chapters 304–329 Summaries Read

Arc 14The Barrel House and Angnagara

Anton clashed with the Ministry, helped the Aurors, and bought a cursed house whose Venomous Tentacula held Professor McGonagall’s husband. As Anton sought a way to save him and experimented with Angnagara, the Triwizard visitors arrived and Anna asked whether his research could cure her mother’s Blood Curse.

  • Lupin taught the students about Angnagara, then Scrimgeour brought Aurors to Hogwarts to inspect Anton’s wand, where Anton trapped them in a magical ride and later treated their injuries.
  • Anton and the Cabin members leased the Cabin, Greenhouse, and Animal Paddock, then bought a dilapidated Hogsmeade house filled with rare magical plants and a man trapped inside a Venomous Tentacula.
  • Professor McGonagall found her husband, Elphinstone, inside the plant and moved it into a glass sphere, while Anton and the professors searched for a way to free him without killing him.
  • Anton tried to sever Elphinstone’s soul from the plant’s Memory River, but the connection returned, and the professors began seeking a solution through emotion, magic, and Potions.
  • Anton’s experiments transformed Angnagara into a human girl before he found a spell to return her to rabbit form, and he later studied how the creature’s memory magic could carry information.
  • Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrived at Hogwarts, Anna reunited with Anton, and Professor Harris challenged Anton over the Werewolf Experience Candy.
  • Anton gave Anna Angnagara as a means of contacting him and shared his Alchemy book and Transfiguration notes, prompting her to ask if his research could cure her mother’s Blood Curse.
Chapters 330–355 Summaries Read

Arc 15The Augurey and the Dark Lord

Anton’s experiments and the accusations against him unfolded alongside Dumbledore’s curse and Voldemort’s return. After killing Dumbledore and being sent to Azkaban, Anton studied a Dementor and reunited Sirius with news of Remus Lupin.

  • Anton taught Anna to control Angnagara’s transformations and proposed using Animagus Transformation to master her Blood Curse.
  • Anton challenged Professor Harris to a duel, then used earthen werewolves to drive him into the Black Lake as Snape recognized signs of an organized plot.
  • Anton demonstrated his soul-copy method to Professor McGonagall, used it to restore Elphinstone from the Venomous Tentacula, and took Anna underground to address her Blood Curse.
  • Harris’s accusations that Anton had used Werewolf Venom spread through the Daily Prophet as Dumbledore collapsed from a curse, and Anton evaded intruders at his home before escaping with Anna.
  • Dumbledore returned to Hogwarts, and Anton transformed into an Augurey and announced that Voldemort had returned as the Dark Mark appeared over the castle.
  • Voldemort entered the Hospital Wing, tortured Rita, and left after Dumbledore challenged him, while Dumbledore’s curse left him near death.
  • Anton killed Dumbledore with the Killing Curse, recognized Editor Aibo as Grindelwald, and was arrested and taken to Azkaban.
  • Anton resisted a Dementor’s attack, observed its effects, and later told Sirius that Remus Lupin had become a Hogwarts professor and married.
Chapters 356–381 Summaries Read

Arc 16The Bear and the Pale Spine

Anton explored Dementors, Dark Magic, and transformation while imprisoned in Azkaban, eventually changing Rodolphus and Rookwood and drawing Lucius into his plans. The arc ended with Rookwood emerging from his grave transformed and ready to serve Anton.

  • Anton used the Pale Spine to explore the Dementor World, unleashing a silver wave through Azkaban that freed prisoners from their emotional restraints and revealed a vast sea of human memories and negative emotions.
  • Grindelwald warned Anton that Muggles were secretly capturing wizards and experimenting on other magical beings, while Anton considered ways to awaken magic in people with wizard blood.
  • Anton wrote books on werewolves and bloodlines, then transformed Rodolphus into a Great White Bear and extracted his soul to free him from the effects of uncontrolled Dark Magic.
  • Rodolphus transformed again, seized Bellatrix Lestrange, and accused her of serving the Dark Lord rather than being his wife.
  • Lucius met Anton in Azkaban, where Anton demonstrated that he could transform into Voldemort and explained that he had swallowed the Dark Lord, and Lucius agreed to publish Anton’s book and help him.
  • Anton examined Rookwood’s Dark Mark, severed its connection, and transformed him into an Antlered Great White Bear with a new magical bloodline and a Thestral wing.
  • Anton arranged for Rookwood to retrieve files, gold, and international intelligence, then placed him in suspended animation so Aurors would remove and bury him as dead.
  • Rookwood climbed out of his grave three days later with bat wings and a mark meaning “wisdom,” and promised Anton he would not let him down.
Chapters 382–406 Summaries Read
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