Chapter Summaries

After Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe were injured, Snape handled Lucius Malfoy’s anger while Anton learned about fame and ambition from Lockhart. Back in his Dormitory, Anton refined Voldemort’s Horcrux remnant until happiness remained, then tested the Tickling Charm and sent magic surging throughout Hogwarts Castle.

• McGonagall told Anton not to reveal what Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe had disclosed, and Snape warned him that others might suspect him of Petrifying his roommates.
• Snape invoked the Dark Mark’s threat to keep Anton from confronting Lucius, then handled Lucius himself as he stormed out of the school.
• Anton helped Lockhart with his manuscript and learned how Lockhart pursued fame and feared losing it.
• Anton returned to his Dormitory, named the shattered Horcrux fragment “Tom’s Remains,” and used Obliviate to reduce its emotions to happiness.
• Anton and Tom’s Remains cast Rictusempra together, and beams of spell light burst from across Hogwarts Castle.

Snape mourned Lily as a strange spell of uncontrollable laughter swept over the wizarding world and reached Hogwarts. Dumbledore confronted the Board of Governors, then found the laughter spreading through the school and emerged from the Phoenix's flames to face Anton.

• Snape remembered Lily and vowed to kill those responsible for her death, but began laughing through his tears as a flash of spell light engulfed the world.
• Dumbledore dismissed the Board of Governors' complaints about students being Petrified, then began laughing and dismissed their Floo-call figures.
• Hagrid brought Filch a dead rooster and asked him to find the culprit, while Filch tried to hide what he was doing; both were overcome by laughter.
• Uncontrollable laughter filled Hogwarts, leaving Hagrid and Filch laughing and crying as they stared at each other.
• Anton watched Dumbledore emerge from the Phoenix's flames, but began laughing despite his fear, and Dumbledore's face darkened.

Dumbledore made Anton the target of a schoolwide Tickling Charm lesson, and Snape confiscated Anton’s Time-Turner after discovering it could travel decades into the past. Snape was then Petrified by a Curse of Time, and Anton was asked to explain the illegal Time-Turner.

• Dumbledore had the students and teachers practice the Tickling Charm on Anton, leaving him laughing for hours.
• Snape repeatedly tickled Anton, found the Time-Turner that had fallen from his collar, and hurried away with it.
• Lockhart’s failed attempt to free Anton left him trapped in a tree through lunch, the afternoon, and dinner.
• Fane reported that Snape had been Petrified, and Dumbledore led the professors and Anton to Snape’s Office.
• Anton identified Snape’s condition as the Curse of Time and suggested Snape had used the Time-Turner to travel decades into the past.
• Dumbledore asked Anton to explain why an illegal Time-Turner was at Hogwarts, and Anton dodged behind McGonagall.

Anton explained that Snape was trapped between moments as a Hidden One of the River of Time, while Dumbledore gave him a year to save Snape. After Harry and Filch were petrified and the Chamber of Secrets was declared open, Anton resolved to rescue Snape and use the opportunity to gain greater freedom and access to knowledge.

• Dumbledore learned that Snape was trapped inside a malfunctioning Time-Turner and ordered the device brought out, but Anton revealed it could not be removed.
• Anton explained that Snape was a Hidden One of the River of Time whose existence would be erased unless Anton helped complete the altered past.
• Hagrid reported that Harry and Filch had been petrified and that Ron had seen a huge snake's tail beside a message announcing the Chamber of Secrets had been opened.
• Dumbledore sealed Snape's office, gave Anton one year to restore Snape, and opened the library to him.
• Anton realized Snape's petrification seemed connected to his own magic and decided to delay traveling through time while using the crisis to gain Dumbledore's trust and save Snape.

Students feared Anthony after rumors cast him as the Heir of Slytherin, while he and his friends spent time together in Cabin. Anthony recognized Neville’s talent for the Full Body-Bind Curse and promised to train him, leaving Neville feeling deeply grateful to his friends.

• Parents sent worried letters to Hogwarts, but Lupin assured Neville that Dumbledore could be trusted.
• Students speculated that Anthony was the Heir of Slytherin and avoided him because people he had crossed were Petrified.
• Hannah defended Anthony, and Neville spoke up about respecting others’ beliefs, surprising his friends.
• Fred and George teased Neville with the title “Petrification Dharma King,” and Neville proudly claimed it.
• Anthony realized Neville might be unusually talented at the Full Body-Bind Curse and promised to train him to master it.
• Neville told Anthony and the others that he loved Cabin and every one of them.

Anton tested Hannah and Neville by dropping them into a Snake Pit filled with Runespoors, while Fred and George watched anxiously and prepared to help. As Anton left to speak with Hagrid, he reflected on the Elephant-Eating Vine’s power and grew increasingly impatient with the danger Tom Riddle posed.

• Anton dropped Hannah and Neville into an underground Snake Pit to test their Weather Charm potential and fighting abilities.
• Neville recognized the Runespoors and used the Full Body-Bind Curse to petrify one, while Hannah cast a Lumos that summoned fireflies.
• Anton urged Neville to show his strength as Runespoors filled the tunnels, and he told Fred and George to watch over the pair before leaving to speak with Hagrid.
• Fred and George worried that Hannah and Neville were in danger, so Fred went to fetch Flying Broomsticks and George gathered their joke Magical Items.
• Anton recalled that the Elephant-Eating Vine’s belly held the Snake Pit and its Runespoors, then thought about Tom Riddle’s ability to resurrect himself by draining a Young Wizard’s life force.

Anton suspected the Basilisk’s life force had enabled Voldemort’s Diary Horcrux to resurrect someone, and he considered killing the creature to test the idea. After a rooster’s crow revealed a possible reason the sound could kill a Basilisk, Anton left with a new theory to investigate.

• Anton reasoned that the Basilisk might have given Voldemort’s Diary Horcrux the power to resurrect someone, and decided he needed to kill the Basilisk.
• Hagrid brought Anton a rooster and told him that Dumbledore had asked for the Castle’s roosters to be distributed throughout Hogwarts.
• Hagrid grieved over Filch’s condition and the many people Voldemort and his followers had killed, while Anton used an Atmospheric Current Charm to clear the clouds.
• The rooster crowed, and Anton sensed its call as an announcement that a new day had arrived.
• Anton theorized that the Basilisk’s life might be frozen in a single day and that the rooster’s crow told it that its day had ended.

Anton practiced a new version of the Biomimicry Charm by imitating a rooster’s crow while Neville encouraged Hannah to try spells suited to her strengths. The twins’ experiment downstairs ended in an explosion, and Hannah remembered the sunny day as the moment she decided to try again.

• Anton challenged a rooster to a crowing contest while testing whether his Biomimicry Charm could imitate instinctive talents.
• George and Fred imagined joke products based on rooster transformations and hurried downstairs to work on them.
• Neville and Hannah rested after Anton’s snake-pit training, and Hannah recalled how Neville’s Full Body-Bind Curse had once petrified her and a Runespoor together.
• Hannah received a letter from her grandfather with two spell books, and she and Neville began searching for spells that suited her.
• Neville told Hannah to focus only on casting a spell, and she agreed to practice the spells he had copied down.
• An explosion sounded from the twins’ workshop as Anton continued crowing with the rooster on a bright, breezy day Hannah would always remember.

Anton questioned established theories of Weather Charms and defended his belief that a wizard’s desires shape their magic. Professor McGonagall warned him that relying on Tom’s Remains could make him dependent on the Horcrux’s will and emotions.

• Anton read several books about Weather Charms, found their theories flawed, and reaffirmed his Trinity Theory using his practical experience with Neville and Anna.
• Professor McGonagall’s card arrived after she had caught disruptive Gryffindors and assigned them Filch’s cleaning and patrol duties.
• Anton met McGonagall, who asked him to consider what made his magical talents distinctive.
• McGonagall explained that a wizard’s desires shaped their talents and spells, then warned Anton that using a Horcrux could let its emotions and will take over, making him a slave to its power.

Professor McGonagall taught Anton how to sense and use magic while transformed, and he managed to cast an advanced Weather Charm as a rooster. She then assigned him to recover the memories Tom had hidden with a Confundus Charm and provide Dumbledore with useful information.

• Professor McGonagall advised Anton to study how spells affected his emotions and to avoid relying on Tom's Remains.
• McGonagall expanded her office with the Undetectable Extension Charm and explained her approach to Transfiguration and magic in animal forms.
• McGonagall linked Anton to Tom's Remains with the Soul-Transferring Charm, showing him how to sense its magic while transformed.
• Anton repeatedly shifted between the Remains and a rooster, then cast a Weather Charm while still transformed.
• McGonagall told Anton to record what he had learned and use the Soul-Transferring Charm method to break Tom's Confundus Charm and recover his lost memories.

Anton reflected on the dangers of time and memory magic before finding Professor Lockhart packing to flee Hogwarts. Lockhart tried to erase Anton’s memories, but Anton revealed a terrifying, cracked wizard linked to him just as Lockhart cast Obliviate.

• Anton considered goblin theories about time and memory and decided to ask Pedro for help with the Soul Domain charm affecting him.
• Anton found Lockhart packing his belongings and asked whether he was leaving Hogwarts.
• Lockhart said he would flee because he feared facing the unknown enemy behind the attacks and did not want to risk his life.
• Lockhart pointed his wand at Anton and said he would erase Anton’s memories to protect his secrets.
• Anton revealed a figure connected to him by a chain of black lines, and Lockhart reacted in terror before casting Obliviate.

Anton defeated Lockhart’s Memory Charms and proposed that Lockhart join a dangerous time-travel adventure, offering him the chance to write about real experiences. Anton then visited the Hospital Wing, where Crabbe worried about his petrified friends and shared memories of growing up with Draco and Goyle.

• Anton resisted Lockhart’s repeated Memory Charms and revealed that McGonagall had taught him the Soul-Transferring Charm.
• Anton confronted Lockhart over his stolen stories and offered to keep his secret if Lockhart considered joining a time-travel adventure.
• Anton went to the Hospital Wing with fruit and saw Goyle, Draco, Harry Potter, and Filch frozen in different poses.
• Crabbe told Anton how close he was to Draco and Goyle and worried whether his friends would recover.
• Anton ate fruit beside Crabbe, who asked him not to eat so enthusiastically in front of him.

Anton discovered that Voldemort had tried to tempt Filch with magic in exchange for killing Harry Potter, and learned that Voldemort’s Pure-blood Supremacy ideas were tied to his experiments on Squibs and bloodlines. After sharing the memory with Dumbledore, Anton left the larger problem to him and enjoyed ice cream.

• Anton examined Crabbe with the Wizard’s Eye spell but decided the boy was not worth cultivating or researching.
• Anton noticed new dark green cracks on Filch and used his Eye Spells to inspect him.
• Anton witnessed a memory in which Voldemort offered Filch magic if he killed Harry Potter, while discussing Squibs, bloodlines, and the danger of future Muggle-born wizards.
• Anton drew the memory into a Pensieve and told Dumbledore that Voldemort’s experiments explained his push for Pure-blood Supremacy.
• Dumbledore worried over the revelation while Anton ate ice cream and left the burden of saving humanity to him.

Dumbledore confronted Anton about his ability to create Horcruxes and asked him to help orchestrate a plan to draw Voldemort and his followers out. He insisted Anton prepare a resurrection ritual for Dumbledore, leaving Anton frightened by the old wizard’s determination.

• Dumbledore asked Anton whether he could now make a Horcrux at will, and Anton admitted he could make one only a little.
• Dumbledore concealed their conversation with a mist-like Concealment Charm and said Anton’s appearance had worn away his patience.
• Dumbledore asked Anton to join Voldemort as a student and protect the other students, but Anton refused to trust Dumbledore’s promised proof that he was a spy.
• Dumbledore revealed that he wanted Anton to help make a Horcrux and prepare a resurrection ritual so they could draw out Voldemort and his followers.
• Dumbledore proposed capturing Voldemort and using Legilimency to uncover his Horcruxes, while Anton worried that the plan would not stop Voldemort from returning.

Anton confronted Dumbledore’s strange willingness to destroy everything and learned that Dumbledore intended to make a Horcrux in Anton’s soul. Dumbledore asked Anton to help, promising to destroy the Horcrux once everything was settled, and Anton ended the chapter by casting the Cruciatus Curse on him.

• Anton reflected on how powerful emotions could control a Wizard’s Magic and wondered why Dumbledore had adopted a Dark Lord’s destructive attitude.
• Dumbledore acknowledged that Anton knew much about his past and discussed the limits of scientific certainty before taking Grindelwald’s Eyes into Anton’s soul.
• Anton protested that making a Horcrux was dangerous, but Dumbledore explained that he planned to place one in Anton so he could eventually be freed from it.
• Dumbledore promised to destroy the Horcrux when everything was settled and suggested naming it “Dumbledore’s Gift.”
• Anton warned Dumbledore that he could still change his mind, then cast the Cruciatus Curse when Dumbledore asked whether it would hurt.

Anton used Tom's Remains to strengthen a Cruciatus Curse enough to separate Dumbledore's soul from his Horcrux, then collapsed. Dumbledore recognized Anton's sincerity and wondered whether he was living inside a novel.

• Dumbledore noticed that the Cruciatus Curse made Anton's damaged soul more solid, and Anton tested the idea by casting the curse on himself.
• Anton used Memory Charms to reset Tom's Remains and prepare it to amplify the Cruciatus Curse.
• Anton unleashed the amplified curse on Dumbledore, separating his soul from the Horcrux.
• Anton told Dumbledore he trusted him and had acted out of sincerity before collapsing.
• Dumbledore reflected on Anton's feelings and questioned whether he lived inside a novel, then returned with Anton to the office.

Anton was trapped in Tom Riddle’s memories, witnessing his lonely childhood and the moment his hopes of finding family collapsed. After Anton escaped, Dumbledore asked him to help carry out a dangerous plan, but Anton refused and left.

• Tom Riddle recalled his contempt for Muggles and his longing to find a family through his Gaunt bloodline.
• Tom met Morfin Gaunt, who insulted Tom’s mother, and tortured him with the Cruciatus Curse before promising to send Tom’s father to her.
• Anton woke from Tom’s memories as Dumbledore and Old Wizard Fiennes watched.
• Dumbledore thanked Anton for escaping the memories and urged him to carry out a plan involving the Killing Curse.
• Anton refused to risk his life for Dumbledore, reflected on Tom’s shattered hopes, and slammed the door as he left.

Anton improved his Bread Charm by kneading dough himself, then cheered up by making Honey Jam Buns for the House-elves. As he prepared to leave the kitchen, he found Lockhart sneaking inside and nervously claiming he had come for food.

• Anton turned to cooking in the School Kitchen and explained to the House-elves how his dough-kneading technique gave bread its distinctive texture.
• Anton asked Stud to make bread from both his kneaded dough and ordinary flour, and discovered that the kneaded dough produced better bread.
• Anton developed his Bread Charm into the Sunshine Cuisine idea and made Honey Jam Buns for the House-elves.
• Stud grew emotional over Anton's gift, and Anton sent the House-elves away before heading back to bed.
• Lockhart slipped into the kitchen, found Anton waiting there, and claimed he had come to get something to eat.

Lockhart revealed that he had discovered Hufflepuff's Legacy and gained the magic of an extinct Fantastic Beast. He left Hogwarts and brought Anton to the lightning-filled chamber, where he explained how he found it.

• Lockhart admitted that he feared staying at Hogwarts and offered Anton a secret in exchange for keeping it private.
• Anton and Lockhart agreed to trade secrets, but neither knew how to cast an Unbreakable Vow, so Lockhart told Anton he would leave without one.
• Lockhart took Floo Powder to a one-way passage, and Anton followed after casting a Shield Charm.
• In the lightning-filled corridor, Lockhart explained that Rita had told him about Hufflepuff's Legacy and its Animagus trial.
• Lockhart revealed that he had failed the task and gained the Night-Running Giant Centipede's magic, which resembled a Memory Charm.

Anton postponed entering Hufflepuff’s Chamber so he could prepare properly, then reflected on how rapidly events at Hogwarts were changing. A dream about loneliness and longing for warmth ended with him awakening to find a glowing ray of sunshine in his palm.

• Anton criticized Lockhart’s reckless approach to Hufflepuff’s Chamber and said he would prepare before entering.
• Lockhart agreed to wait two days for Anton to get ready, and Anton returned to his Dormitory.
• Anton worried that events were accelerating and overwhelming his plans for a peaceful life.
• Anton dreamed of feeling lonely in his previous life and wishing the world were filled with warmth.
• Anton woke from the dream and found a warm ray of sunshine glowing in his palm.