Recaps

Anton recovered from Adams’s ritual, studied the ties between memory, souls, and magic, and helped expose Voldemort’s return to the Death Eaters. He successfully guided Scrimgeour through a controlled Werewolf Animagus transformation, then accepted leadership of a Ministry office to develop the practice.

• Adams escaped Azkaban through ritual magic, but Amy Miller killed him in the Arctic, and Anton later helped Scrimgeour arrange to teach the escaped prisoners.
• Anton investigated souls and Memory Planets, helped Filch recover from Voldemort’s damage, and discovered Voldemort addressing the Death Eaters through Barty Crouch Jr.
• Anton explained his Animagus research to students and Ministry officials, and Scrimgeour volunteered to undergo the first Werewolf Animagus transformation.
• Anton guided Scrimgeour through the ritual, and Scrimgeour transformed into a conscious werewolf before returning safely to human form.
• The Ministry experts confirmed Scrimgeour’s transformation had succeeded, while Neville’s unstable werewolf form forced Anton to knock him unconscious.
• Fudge proposed a Ministry Werewolf Animagus Office, and Anton accepted its leadership so he could help wizards transform and learn more about the Boundless Void.
• Anton joined the students’ discussion of a werewolf wrestling tournament, and Neville’s counter-werewolf tactics earned Gryffindor thirty points from McGonagall.

Anton investigated new forms of magic and the soul while helping Neville confront Bellatrix and studying the growing danger from Muggles. The arc left Anton teaching Dark Magic to Azkaban’s prisoners as he worked to change their souls and understand their powers.

• Fred and George demonstrated Fred’s spellcasting werewolf arm, while Neville transformed a rabbit into a wizard and tested the Cruciatus Curse on him.
• Anton studied Box 411, then followed Montgomery’s message with Neville and helped him defeat Bellatrix and the other Death Eaters.
• Anton combined Potions, Charms, and Ritual Magic to transform Fudge’s Dementor Robe into the Ghost Robe, then altered the prisoners’ memories and concealed Neville’s role in the battle.
• Scrimgeour showed Anton evidence that Muggles were tracking wizarding locations, and Anton chose to become a scholar developing protections for the Wizarding World.
• Anton explained his theory of souls and the River of Time to Hogwarts’ professors, while Neville demonstrated Twisted Cage and helped Anton understand how to repair a damaged mind.
• Anton worked with his friends on magical creatures and the Wizard’s Little House, then began studying painting in Paris while teaching prisoners at Azkaban.
• Anton researched Dark Magic, Bloodlines, and Dementors, then used the Twisted Prison and the Boundless Void to teach more than two hundred Dark Wizards and study their thoughts.

Anton settled into Hogwarts with Harry, Dudley, and his friends while exploring magic, building a new home, and supporting the Werewolf community. As he pursued dangerous research into Magical Items and sought a way to find Sirius, he discovered a strange new girl inside a portrait.

• Anton agreed to take responsibility for Harry after Scrimgeour warned that Sirius Black had escaped and might target him, then visited the Dursleys and helped Dudley enter the Wizarding World.
• Anton brought Harry and the Dursleys to Diagon Alley, where Vernon found work advising Gringotts, and later accompanied the students to Hogwarts, where a Dementor attacked them on the train.
• Dumbledore welcomed Dudley and Anna Rosier to Hogwarts, and Anton explained how extreme emotions affected magic before demonstrating a powerful Lumos for Draco.
• Anton and the Cabin Members moved beside the Animal Paddock, shaped the Elephant-Eating Vine into a house, and let Harry and his friends use their old hut.
• Anton caught a mercenary spying on the Werewolf Home factory, and later warned Scrimgeour that exploiting weaker Muggle Squibs could divide the wizarding community.
• Anton helped his friends connect different magical subjects, promised to keep Goyle’s prophetic ability secret, and healed Draco after a Hippogriff injured him.
• Anton and his friends entered Hannah’s Heroes’ New Journey scenario, fought a Fire Mammoth in puppet bodies, and Anton used its blood to gain magical power and repair his body.
• Anton learned that a girl had been blamed for slashing the Fat Lady’s portrait, studied dangerous methods of crafting Magical Items, and found a complete soul inside a new portrait before his probing left the girl trembling.

Anton uncovered Peter Pettigrew’s betrayal, pursued research into bloodlines and transformation, and became Director of the Animagus Research and Training Office. He then rescued Petunia from a Witch Tribe operation and returned to the Ministry, where Arthur revealed Grindelwald was teaching his son Dark Magic at Hogwarts.

• Anton revealed that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew, who admitted his betrayal before Voldemort appeared through the Dark Mark and Dumbledore killed Pettigrew, then restored him so Sirius could be cleared.
• Anton used Ritual Magic to locate Sirius and discovered him restrained in Karina Potter’s underground facility, where the Potters were experimenting with a Potion to awaken magic in Squibs.
• Anton joined Phoebe Johnson’s Evolutionaries Association meeting with the Potters and identified Harlick Urquhart as the wizard who had interfered with his search for Sirius.
• Anton and his colleagues explored how souls, bloodlines, and Animagus transformations could be altered, and his ritual gave him an invisible right hand inherited from his Color-Changing Windbird doppelganger.
• McGonagall gathered experts around Anton’s Cabin research, and Fudge appointed Anton Director of the Animagus Research and Training Office.
• Anton and Anna visited Vernon after Petunia disappeared, then Anton traced her to a Witch Tribe operation and confronted Mrs. Ander and her Unspeakables.
• Mrs. Ander explained that Petunia was an Experimental Subject whose heart had been switched with a Battle Witch’s, and Megan and the Young Married Witch begged Anton to rescue their captured sisters.
• Anton brought Vernon and Petunia to the Ministry, where Arthur took them toward the Auror Command Room, then told Lupin he suspected the Saints were behind the Goblin scheme involving Muggle Squibs.