Vol. 8The Manhattan Time Loop

Anton’s research into time, souls, and Dark Magic led him through battles with Voldemort and a conspiracy in New York, where a nuclear catastrophe trapped Manhattan in a repeating cycle. The story left Anton and Anna searching for the Green Box that sustained the Binding Magic as rival factions gathered in the city.

  • Pedro explained that Anton’s Time Magic had altered events and Fate, and Anton trained Ron and Hermione in dangerous Dark Magic while investigating portraits, souls, and memory.
  • Disguised as Beast, Anton infiltrated Voldemort’s gathering at Azkaban, obtained three Dementors, and accepted Dumbledore’s request to free a girl trapped in a portrait.
  • Anton’s experiments with Dementor robes and Olaro led him into a fatal clash at the Ministry, where time magic transformed Sirius and Barty Crouch Jr.
  • Barty escaped with the Elder Wand, and Anton followed Dumbledore through a Space Gate toward Azkaban.
  • Anton confronted Voldemort, collected his Life Existence, and escaped with Rookwood before traveling to New York with Anna and Lupin.
  • After a mercenary attack and his arrest by Eva Miles, Anton and Anna evaded the Aurors and investigated the conspiracy while he studied the Developing Potion.
  • Anton’s Traces of Time experiment trapped Manhattan in a repeating cycle after Voldemort detonated a nuclear bomb, and Anton discovered that Mulciber’s Concealment Spirit hid the Green Box sustaining the Binding Magic.
  • Anton and Anna joined Lupin’s group as new factions gathered and Draco declared that he would stand with Anton.
Chapters 723–827 Read from ch. 723

Arc 29Time, Dark Magic, and Azkaban

Anton learned that his magic had altered time and Fate, then trained Ron and Hermione in dangerous Dark Magic while investigating the links between memory, soul, and magical creatures. He infiltrated Voldemort’s gathering at Azkaban, gained three Dementors, and ended by accepting Dumbledore’s request to free a girl trapped in a portrait.

  • Pedro explained to Anton how his Time Magic had changed events and warned that borrowed power from time or Fate would have to be repaid.
  • Anton found Ron secretly practicing Sacred Guardian and pushed him through a dangerous trial that led him to cast the spell, while Dumbledore helped adapt Ron’s Notebook.
  • Ron chose to keep learning Dark Magic, and Hermione joined him as Anton taught them the Corpse Shield Charm and the Fear Spirit.
  • Anton painted magical portraits of Ron and Hermione, then investigated how portraits, Horcruxes, Soul Black Lines, and memory might connect to Life Existence.
  • Anthony studied Fiennes’s account of Ghosts and memory, then went to Azkaban to investigate Dementors and Voldemort’s research.
  • Disguised as Beast, Anton confronted Voldemort’s followers at Azkaban, demonstrated his control of Dark Magic Creatures, and received three Dementors in exchange for his research.
  • Anton analyzed Voldemort’s plans for Snape and Fiennes, describing the Dark Lord’s effort to bind followers to him through conquest, profit, and fear of prison.
  • Dumbledore revealed the Obscurus named Ariana and gave Anton a ring containing Aji Abra, asking him to free a girl trapped in a portrait, and Anton accepted.
Chapters 723–747 Summaries Read

Arc 30The River of Time

Anton’s experiments with Dementor robes, Olaro, and the Boundless Void led him into a fatal clash with Voldemort’s forces at the Ministry, where time magic transformed Sirius and Barty Crouch Jr. Barty escaped with the Elder Wand, and Anton followed Dumbledore through a Space Gate toward Azkaban.

  • Anton studied Dementor robes and fused one with the Obscurus from Dumbledore’s ring, bringing Olaro into being and learning from Grindelwald that her Obscurus had formed after she blew herself apart with Dark Magic.
  • Anton questioned Pedro about Olaro and learned he had collected the memories connecting her and Fiennes, then continued investigating how magic and emotions shaped bodies and souls.
  • Anton pursued his stolen Golden Snitch to the Ministry, where Voldemort’s Runespoor killed him, but he survived as a mass of black threads and regained control in a potion tank.
  • Anton explored the Boundless Void, resisted repeated attacks from the Runespoor, and killed Peter Pettigrew before trying to extract Barty Crouch Jr. from Sirius.
  • Sirius and Barty’s souls and Animagus transformations merged into a Runespoor-headed Black Dog, which exploded and sent Anton into a river of light among spinning Time-Turners.
  • Fiennes attempted to rebirth himself in Anthony Weasley’s body, but emerged as Alex Fiennes without his memories, while the Golden Snitch’s time magic disrupted Pedro’s alterations to the past.
  • Anton returned to the Time Hall and explained to Dumbledore how time magic had left Sirius and Barty sharing one body with two Egos, but Barty seized the Elder Wand and escaped.
  • Dumbledore opened a Space Gate in the Ministry fountain and sailed through it toward Azkaban, while Scrimgeour sent Aurors after him and Anton followed on his Firebolt.
Chapters 748–772 Summaries Read

Arc 31The New York Conspiracy

Anton confronted Voldemort, rescued Rookwood, and later traveled with Anna and Lupin to New York, where a campaign involving Squib mercenaries targeted wizards and drew Anton into a conflict with the Magical Congress. The arc left Anton and Anna investigating the force behind the attacks while Anton pursued new research into the Developing Potion.

  • Dumbledore destroyed Azkaban, and Anton realized Voldemort had relocated the Dementors and might learn Snape had taught him the Flight Charm.
  • Anton confronted Voldemort, endured his composite curse, secretly collected Voldemort’s Life Existence, and escaped with Rookwood after making the Death Eaters laugh.
  • Anton and Anna traveled with Lupin to New York, where Lupin identified a Desire Elf affecting Rip’s niece and Anton discovered a Destruction Shadow tied to an apartment building’s residents.
  • Anton and Anna witnessed a mercenary attack on the apartment building, and Anton killed the attackers after learning they had been hired through the Mysterious Force website to kill Lupin.
  • Anton captured Celad Williams’s memories and used the recovered camera to create evidence that Williams had manipulated the mercenaries, while concluding someone was trying to frame him.
  • Eva Miles and her Aurors arrested Anton over the photographs, but Anton bound them and left the hotel with Anna after warning Eva about the Magical Congress.
  • Anton and Anna watched the Aurors from a distance and discussed the larger conspiracy, while Anna announced plans to invent magical technology and Anton continued studying the Developing Potion.
Chapters 773–799 Summaries Read

Arc 32The Manhattan Event Loop

Anton’s experiments with collective emotion and Traces of Time spiraled into a nuclear catastrophe that trapped New York in a repeating cycle. As Voldemort and wizards and Muggles battled inside the loop, Anton searched for the Green Box containing the Binding Magic, while the conflict drew new factions into Manhattan.

  • Anton developed Traces of Time, and his experiment trapped Eva Miles and others in a repeating scene that eventually gave rise to a truth-telling Antlered Raven.
  • Lupin uncovered Mulciber’s plan to use Imperiused Werewolves against Remus Lupin and Anthony Weasley, while Anton and Anna theorized that collective emotions could create Dark Magic Creatures.
  • Peter and Julie brought the petrified Celad Williams into the hotel, where Anton’s spell ended and Mulciber was trapped with the Aurors and mercenaries.
  • Lupin alerted the Order of the Phoenix, and the Weasley siblings and their allies joined the fight as armed mercenaries attacked and Voldemort confronted Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Anton.
  • Voldemort detonated a nuclear bomb over Manhattan, but Anton used Traces of Time to reverse the destruction and trap the city in a repeating cycle that left Voldemort facing endless deaths.
  • Anton discovered that Mulciber had become the Concealment Spirit, which hid the Green Box sustaining the citywide Binding Magic, while Neville and Dumbledore each struck back at Voldemort during the loops.
  • Freya Avery and President Tom Stark asked Anton to extend the loop, and Anton refused until the box was found as Muggle and magical factions gathered in Manhattan.
  • Anton and Anna met Lupin’s group at Cabin, where Draco announced he would stand with Anton on behalf of the younger Malfoys and began arguing with Harry’s group.
Chapters 800–827 Summaries Read
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