Recaps

Anton won public recognition by demonstrating his potions and transforming Dudley into a Fantastic Beast, while a confrontation over a Dementor revealed a new connection to the human Collective Consciousness. He returned to Hogwarts, where students reacted to the demonstration and Dudley’s possible future as a wizard.

• Rookwood reunited with Audrey, and Lucius recruited him to build a French bookselling and intelligence network as Anthony Weasley’s book spread and provoked public outrage.
• Fudge brought Anton from Azkaban to demonstrate his potions, and Anton used the occasion to secure a Ministry position for Lupin and challenge Fudge’s treatment of him.
• Anton cured a werewolf, then used a potion to transform Dudley Dursley into a werewolf-like form and proposed helping Squibs access their magical power.
• Dudley drank Anton’s red potion, became a Dwarf Hog, and later returned to human form amid an unstable magical outburst that revealed he had gained magical power.
• Fudge prepared to honor Anton, but Editor-in-Chief Greengrass accused him of deaths and experiments in Azkaban, then revealed a vision of a golden-haired woman connected to a Dementor.
• Anton saw a gray Soul Black Line connect his memory planet to a joyful Dementor Nebula, and Dumbledore took him away before directing him back to Hogwarts to finish “The Wisdom of Dumbledore.”
• Back at Hogwarts, Anton reunited with Draco, learned students were organizing rival study groups, and agreed to help Draco’s Magical Creatures group.
• Newspaper reports spread the story of Dudley’s transformation, and Ron told Harry that Dudley might have to attend Hogwarts.

Anton grappled with his motives and discovered a new form of Transfiguration while his influence spread through Hogwarts and the Wizarding World. He began turning his research and painful memories into writing, as he entered a dangerous political struggle and Lockhart experienced Anton’s pain.

• Anton learned that Dumbledore had chosen to remain with his sister in the World of the Dead, then recoiled from the Old Wizard’s soulless new body and questioned whether his pursuit of freedom matched his actions.
• Anton comforted Neville by taking him flying, then cast A Ray of Sunshine across the world and felt its connection to a golden-haired, green-eyed Dementor presence.
• Fudge made Anton a reserve Auror and granted him research access, a stipend, and travel funds, while Anton taught students how to control Fiendfyre and other fire magic.
• Anton explored his memories and organized The Wisdom of Dumbledore, then transformed a stone into the Eternal One, prompting Grindelwald and Aberforth to ask him to uncover Ariana’s fate.
• Anton entered Aberforth’s memory and saw Ariana unleash her Obscurus during the fight between Albus, Grindelwald, and Aberforth, then realized his stone guardian had memories but no soul.
• Anton explained his Transfiguration research to Lockhart and his students, demonstrated that an animated object could survive the Killing Curse, and agreed to turn the discovery into an entertaining story.
• Old Ronaldo warned Anton that his Muggle Squib proposal had placed him in a dangerous political struggle, while Rookwood sent Anton records of Phoenix’s experiments and information about his book’s influence.
• Anton told Lockhart about his childhood friend’s death and his own injuries from the borderlands, and Lockhart became distressed as he experienced Anton’s pain.

Anton kept clear of the Dumbledore and Grindelwald conflict while his writings reshaped Hogwarts lessons and his transformations helped Neville and Fudge. He uncovered a Dark Wizard gathering built around his supposed followers, then joined Old Ronaldo in a risky operation to seize a Mandrake as Voldemort prepared to return.

• Anton declined to choose between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, and Lockhart gave Dumbledore the Elder Wand before leaving Cabin.
• Anton returned to Hogwarts, where his book influenced lessons and he discovered that Fluffy Rabbit droppings and Green Hand Mushrooms could affect human Bloodlines.
• Anton transformed Neville into an Antlered Great White Bear to break up a House brawl, then helped Madam Pomfrey treat the injured students.
• Old Ronaldo recruited Anton to infiltrate Dark Wizards seeking a two-hundred-year-old Mandrake, and Anton refused to accept Minister Fudge’s support as an investment.
• Anton transformed Fudge into an Antlered Great White Bear and learned Old Ronaldo’s Phantom Traversal spell before joining him in Glasgow.
• Camilla Hurst and Keaton rallied Dark Wizards in Anton’s name, but Anton immobilized the crowd and demanded that any followers meet his standards.
• Anton sent thirteen Dark Wizards into black flames to become bears, while the remaining crowd began planning to obtain the Mandrake and Voldemort heard their chant in Albania.
• Anton and Old Ronaldo approached the River Troll estuary, where nearly three hundred Dark Wizards gathered, and Old Ronaldo alerted the Auror Office to the danger.

Anton joined the Aurors, studied a Ministry ghost poison, and investigated cursed Chocolate Frogs at a magical factory. He uncovered a ritual linking the creatures to Westley Adams in Azkaban, then faced a standoff as Scrimgeour tried to stop him from disrupting it.

• Old Ronaldo recruited Anton into the Aurors’ operation against Dark Wizards, and Anton used fire and Transfiguration to protect River Trolls and capture the attackers.
• Anton experimented with mist and Transfiguration on the battlefield, while Amy followed him and the Aurors arrested the surviving Dark Wizards.
• After Old Ronaldo was injured and reassigned, Anton learned from Scrimgeour that Voldemort had returned and received access to the restricted Box 666 materials.
• Anton studied the Mad Wizard’s ghost-poison notebook and concluded that the Ministry’s formula was flawed, while suspecting Scrimgeour intended to use his potion skills.
• Scrimgeour assigned Anton to investigate poisoned Chocolate Frogs at a factory, where Lyall and Remus Lupin identified Amiduo Duoduo and Mary’s connection to the sweets.
• Anton found that the Chocolate Frogs carried Mary’s heartbreak as a curse, and the Aurors traced the disturbance to a ritual that had empowered Mary and drained the land.
• Lupin revealed the wounded Alemie in the cave, and Anton saw its magical connection to Amiduo Duoduo and Westley Adams, who was trying to gain power from Azkaban.
• Anton recognized the ritual’s power was surging through Adams and urged the team to stop it, but Scrimgeour blocked him until Lupin disarmed Scrimgeour and Montgomery demanded an explanation.