Chapter Summaries

Anton and Dumbledore speculated that Snape’s battle with Voldemort had changed the timeline, then Anton took the corrupted Snape to Hogwarts’ Forbidden Forest to treat him. After realizing Snape had become fused with Dark Magic, Anton used the Time-Turner and Philosopher’s Stone to travel back to trace the magic’s origins, leaving the Draconic Species behind.

• Anton and Dumbledore considered whether Snape’s fight had weakened Voldemort in the original timeline and concluded that history had already changed.
• Anton and Snape vanished from the battle after Anton used a branch as a Portkey to Hogwarts’ Forbidden Forest.
• Anton fought the corrupted Snape, then petrified him and a nearby Runespoor.
• Anton examined Snape’s altered soul and decided to trace the connection between Snape and Dark Magic back to its beginning.
• Anton used the Time-Turner and Philosopher’s Stone to disappear into the past, while the Draconic Species transformed into a Fire Dragon and attacked the Runespoor.

Anton witnessed Snape’s memories, from his lonely childhood and embrace of Dark Magic to his lifelong attempts to save Lily, and realized how emotions and Magical Power could bind a Wizard to Magic. Dumbledore called this the price of possessing Magic, while Snape remained trapped in time by his obsession with Lily.

• As a child in Spinner's End, Snape endured his parents’ arguments, found comfort in Lily, and learned from his father that magic should include a way to undo harm.
• At Hogwarts, Snape’s talents gained him entry to Lucius Malfoy’s circle, where he studied Dark Magic while insisting that Lily be spared their prejudice.
• After James and his gang humiliated him and Lily rejected his apology, Snape’s grief and anger fueled his magic, and he invented Sectumsempra along with its Counter-Curse.
• Snape sent his parents abroad, erased most memories of them, and became increasingly bound to the magic shaped by his feelings for Lily.
• After Lily died, Snape’s Magical Power stalled, but he continued trying and failing to save her through repeated journeys along the path of Memory.
• Anton reflected on Snape’s life and asked Dumbledore whether this was Magic’s true nature; Dumbledore answered that it was the price of possessing Magic.

Anton removed the Dark Magic bound up with Snape’s feelings for Lily, allowing Snape to summon her through an extraordinary Patronus Charm. Lily urged Snape to move on with his life before the silver world collapsed, and Snape thanked Anton.

• Anton used the Philosopher’s Stone and his magical abilities to extract Snape’s Dark Magic, then sealed it inside the Draconic Species in the Forbidden Forest.
• Back in the present, Anton ended the Time-Turner spell and Snape cast a powerful Patronus that formed a silver forest and revealed Lily.
• Snape urged Lily to leave the silver world and offered to revive her, but she refused because she had begun a new life with Potter in the World of the Dead.
• Lily told Snape she never blamed him and asked him to live well, find love, and move on; Snape apologized, but the silver world shattered before he could promise.
• Snape thanked Anton with a radiant smile.

Filch, possessed by Voldemort, was seized by the Basilisk while Lucius held him back, allowing Tom Riddle to merge with him and take his body. Lucius left the Washroom caught between several masters’ schemes, then fainted when he encountered Anton.

• Filch tortured Lucius in the Washroom, but the blindfolded Basilisk appeared and coiled around him as Lucius grabbed his Wand to stop him casting another spell.
• Tom Riddle explained that Filch was the ideal vessel for his resurrection, then used the Basilisk’s life force and an Ancient Runes spell to devour Filch’s soul and gain a body.
• Tom Riddle praised Lucius and left the Washroom, while Lucius discovered a face on his chest that told him to inform Dumbledore that Voldemort had devoured Tom Riddle.
• A small snake slipped from Lucius’ robes as he left, and Lucius worried that he still had to face Dumbledore with Voldemort possessing him.
• Lucius saw Anton on the stairs, dropped his Staff, and fainted; Anton hurried past him, insisting that he had done nothing.

Snape explained to Anton that Hogwarts needed a powerful Headmaster because magic could make a weak leader a danger to the entire school, and Anton realized Lockhart might turn to Voldemort for protection. At the Halloween party, Lockhart revealed Voldemort’s return and announced that the press would spread the news.

• Snape told Anton that Hogwarts’s Houses and traditions reflected the continuing conflict between wizards and Muggles.
• Snape argued that a weak Headmaster like Lockhart could be influenced by magic, and Anton concluded that Lockhart might seek Voldemort’s protection.
• Lockhart welcomed parents, students, and reporters to the Halloween party and said attendees had been asked to check their Wands at the entrance.
• Filch transformed into Voldemort and announced that he had returned to Hogwarts.
• Voldemort’s supporters disarmed the guests who had smuggled in Wands, while Lockhart promised the press could publicize Voldemort’s return.

Anton considered Voldemort’s motives while preparing for the war, as Lockhart exposed Voldemort’s return at Hogwarts and then lost control of the Great Hall. Dumbledore arrived to confront Tom Riddle.

• Snape told Anton that the war had already begun and left with a suitcase of Healing Draughts.
• A Draconic Species brought Anton a weak Snake, prompting him to question Voldemort’s aims and consider what Grindelwald, Dumbledore, and Tom Riddle wanted.
• Lockhart announced that he was welcoming a new era and claimed Voldemort had approved his vision for Wizards and Muggles.
• The students vanished from the Great Hall after Lockhart revealed that House-elves had moved the tables to the School Kitchen.
• Tom Riddle cast Crucio on Lockhart and told him he was disappointed in him.
• Dumbledore entered the Great Hall holding a jewel-encrusted sword and told Tom Riddle he was disappointed in him too.

Dumbledore and Tom battled after Tom claimed he had devoured his original self and the Basilisk, while the Professors went to protect the students. Rita found Lockhart apparently dead, wrote an accusation blaming Dumbledore, and left believing she had secured Lockhart’s legacy, but Lockhart transformed into Grindelwald.

• Tom told Dumbledore he had become stronger after devouring his original self and the Basilisk, then attacked him with powerful magic.
• Dumbledore freed the Professors and sent them to protect the students and parents in the School Kitchen.
• Snape confronted Tom, while Dumbledore transformed Tom into a giant bird and carried him toward the Lockhart Statue by the Black Lake.
• Rita uncovered Lockhart beneath the rubble, heard his accusation that Dumbledore had staged Voldemort’s return to gain power, and watched him die.
• Rita carried Lockhart to the Headmaster’s chair, wrote an article accusing Dumbledore, and flew away as a Beetle.
• Lockhart changed his appearance and revealed that he was Grindelwald.

Grindelwald arranged for Lockhart to assume a new appearance and pose as the dead Headmaster while he left Hogwarts. Meanwhile, Anton joined the fighting around the Castle, where his brutal attacks and a new animal-made decoy helped him ambush Dark Wizards.

• Grindelwald permanently changed Lockhart's appearance in exchange for his Memory Charm and sent him to blend in among the parents as Headmaster.
• Anton left Snape's office and killed a Dark Wizard who was threatening Hermione and her parents, allowing Hermione to take the Wizard's Wand and lead her family toward the Room of Requirement.
• Hermione tried to reassure her parents, but Mrs. Granger became alarmed that Hermione's classmate was a Werewolf and warned her against dating Vampires.
• Anton explained his Dragon Hide and Shield Charm protections, then transformed a small snake into a convincing moving decoy of himself.
• A Dark Wizard attacked the decoy with a Full Body-Bind Curse, and Anton countered the attack before beating him with his Werewolf arm.

Anton helped Dumbledore defeat Tom Riddle’s Diary Horcrux by using a rooster’s crow to suppress the Basilisk’s power, while Dumbledore saved Filch with a magical statue. Tom’s death secretly restored the Diary Horcrux’s soul, and Anton ended by turning it into a small horse and riding it.

• Anton realized Dumbledore was struggling against Tom Riddle and transformed into a rooster, whose crow dispelled the Basilisk’s power.
• Dumbledore’s statue pulled Tom Riddle out of Filch, and Dumbledore killed the Horcrux with the Sword of Gryffindor.
• Dumbledore explained that he had created the statue to save Filch, whom he respected for his loyalty to Hogwarts Castle.
• After Tom died, dark green cracks lit up on Filch and Anton’s puppet, and the Diary Horcrux celebrated that its soul was whole and planned to resurrect itself.
• Anton dispelled his puppet, caught the little snake, transformed it into a small horse, and rode it away.

Anton discovered that his inner will shaped the magic he loved, then used a Levitation Charm to fly through the castle and conceived a new product for the Cabin. In Potions, Snape taught the Verity Potion, whose effects depended on the drinker, and named Forget-me-not as its main ingredient.

• Anton reflected on how time and his changing will affected the magic within him as he studied the worn Stone Wall.
• Anton leapt from a staircase and flew through the stairwell with a Levitation Charm, thrilling the nearby students and impressing Professor Flitwick.
• Anton connected his magical fantasies and desire for freedom to his inner will and decided the Cabin needed to release a new product.
• Snape entered Potions class with a subtle new depth in his demeanor and introduced the Verity Potion.
• Snape explained the potion's different effects on timid, brave, foolish, and wise drinkers, then identified Forget-me-not as its main ingredient while looking at Harry.

Anton brewed Snape’s improved Verity Potion and drank it, sending him into an unusually detached review of his memories and choices. He realized his own complacency, not just Voldemort’s Confundus Charm, might have turned him away from living ambitiously, and the Potion’s power carried his self-examination further.

• Snape criticized Neville’s failed brewing and took ten points from Gryffindor after Harry could not answer a question about Moonstone Powder.
• Anton recognized the Verity Potion as a simplified version of a high-level recipe and studied Snape’s changes as he brewed it successfully.
• Snape awarded Slytherin ten points and explained that the Potion’s potency faded as the Mind Lightning dimmed.
• Anton drank the Potion and began reviewing his memories, reflecting on his survival, his desire to learn magic, and the responsibilities he had taken on.
• Anton concluded that he had grown complacent and questioned whether Voldemort’s Confundus Charm alone explained his change; the Potion continued carrying him through his memories and thoughts.

Anton chose to pursue the goals he had always valued as the True Knowledge Potion organized his memories and insights. Still under its effects, he transformed into a gigantic werewolf at Hogwarts, leaving Dumbledore facing a reporter who had just been told there were no werewolves at the school.

• Anton rejected the option of letting life unfold passively and reaffirmed his desire to accomplish extraordinary things.
• The True Knowledge Potion rapidly combined Anton’s knowledge and memories, focusing his thoughts on curing Nagini, Anna, and Lupin.
• Snape supervised the students brewing the potion, awarded Hermione five points, and urged her to drink it under his watch.
• As the class ended, Anton remained affected by the potion, blasted open a wall with a swirling current of air, and began sprouting wolf fur.
• Dumbledore tried to reassure a reporter that Anton was not a real werewolf when Anton transformed into a werewolf over ten meters tall and howled at the moon beside Hogwarts Castle.

Anton explored his enormous werewolf form and discovered that lycanthropy was a complex, permanent form of Transfiguration, then hurried to the Cabin to search through his research for an idea. Dumbledore asked Emmock to leave Anton undisturbed and suggested that the reporter share his old research with him, hoping Anton might find a way to change the lives of werewolves.

• Anton broke free of the potion's influence, leaped over Hogwarts's boundary wall, and examined his werewolf body by the Black Lake.
• Anton sensed that being a werewolf was a complex form of Transfiguration and a kind of permanent spell slot in the soul.
• Anton transformed his fur red with a platinum sheen, returned to human form, and rushed to the Cabin to search his magical diagrams.
• Emmock asked Dumbledore whether Anton's transformation was his work, and Dumbledore praised Anton's ability to find his own solutions.
• Dumbledore asked Emmock to let Anton continue undisturbed and suggested sharing his old Transfiguration research with him.

Anton considered how fixed Magic in the soul and bloodline might offer a way to counter Werewolf Venom while Hogwarts prepared for a new Quidditch season and an inter-school tournament. When Editor Emock Aibo visited Cabin, Anton sensed that a Confundus Charm was radiating from him and realized it spread outward from the Wizard himself.

• Anton reasoned that changing or removing fixed Magic through the soul or bloodline could help him find a way to deal with Werewolf Venom.
• Dumbledore revived the Four Houses' Quidditch competition and planned to host the first inter-school tournament at Hogwarts.
• Emock Aibo visited Cabin, where Anton was working while Neville prepared ingredients and Hannah taught the others War Chess.
• Emock praised Anton's wandless Levitation Charm, and Anton explained that it was a household Charm from Gilderoy Lockhart's book.
• Anton sensed a powerful Confundus Charm radiating from Emock and recognized that the inverted Charm spread outward from the Wizard himself.

Anton persuaded Emmock to feature the Cabin’s new War Chess and highlighted the coming Inter-School Quidditch Tournament, then set aside his suspicions about the editor to focus on his work. Later, the Cabin Members joined Professor Sprout in tending to her growing mandrakes, while Anton hoped to learn more about the strange black threads he had seen emerge from one.

• Anton pitched the Cabin’s new War Chess to Emmock and credited Hannah Abbott as its lead game designer.
• Anton urged Emmock to cover the Inter-School Quidditch Tournament, then returned to his research and writing.
• Professor Sprout suspended Herbology classes to care for her increasingly dangerous mandrakes during the cold weather.
• Anton and the Cabin Members visited Professor Sprout’s greenhouse to help tend the mandrakes.
• Anton hoped to observe whether the mandrakes’ development revealed more about the soul-like black threads Hannah had once exposed with a spell.

Anton studied the Mandrake’s deadly cry and discovered it could distort souls, making it a potential tool for reshaping them. He left the chapter with a new idea for his research and Neville warning him not to eat the Mandrake.

• Professor Sprout encouraged Hannah and Neville to pursue Herbology, explaining that their patience and care suited the work better than the clever Weasley brothers.
• Anton used a Puffskein to test the Mandrake’s cry and saw it shred the creature’s soul without leaving visible injuries.
• Anton tested the cry on Tom’s Remains and found that it could not damage the Horcrux, though its sound waves showed dark green cracks associated with entanglement and emotional pain.
• Anton realized the Mandrake’s cry could act like Soul Forceps for changing a soul’s shape, and his thoughts turned to its ability to copy information about the human Ego.
• Neville interrupted Anton’s work and warned him not to eat the Mandrake after mistaking his fascinated expression for hunger.

Anton studied Mandrake Magic Images and headed back to the Castle, where he intervened in a confrontation between Harry and Draco. After Harry spoke to Draco’s conjured snake in Parseltongue, Anton destroyed it and revealed Harry’s ability to the shocked students.

• Anton recorded the Mandrake’s changing Magic Images and planned to study its innate Magic more deeply.
• Anton left the Greenhouse with a Mandrake root cutting and went toward the Castle to find Lupin.
• Anton heard Mrs. Norris crying and found Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Seamus facing Draco and his companions in a corridor.
• Draco cast Serpensortia, and Harry hissed at the black snake, which then lunged toward Anton.
• Anton destroyed the snake with Diffindo and identified Harry as a Parseltongue, leaving the onlookers alarmed.

After the snake incident, Anton investigated Mrs. Norris’s Soul Black Line and found that her connection to Filch changed when she was near him. At Filch’s bedside, Anton noticed similarities between Filch’s condition and Horcrux-making, then proposed that Mrs. Norris might offer a new way to observe the soul.

• Anton suspected a skilled intruder had tried to attack him with the snake and vowed to use the culprit for Potion experiments if he found them.
• Anton examined Mrs. Norris’s Soul Black Line and found that she calmed when she sensed his gentle emotions.
• Anton brought Mrs. Norris to Filch, where he saw her Soul Black Line rest against Filch and her presence begin to resemble his.
• Anton studied the Dark Green Cracks on Filch and recognized that his condition resembled the process used to make Horcruxes.
• Anton asked Dumbledore to hold Mrs. Norris and observed that her presence changed again, leading him to suggest a new way to observe the soul.

Anton discovered that the Mirror of Erised used Alchemy to read a wizard’s deepest desires, and he realized his Biomimicry Charm could reproduce the magic of Alchemical Objects. Dumbledore took him to the North Sea to study Eris Stone, where Anton examined the stone’s dangerous Siren-like magic.

• Anton saw through the Mirror of Erised’s Black Threads and realized it stole information from a wizard’s soul to create an image of their desires.
• Anton and Dumbledore discussed how Alchemy differed from permanently fixed spells, and Anton proposed that Grindelwald’s Eyes were an Alchemical Object his Biomimicry Charm had reproduced.
• Anton reasoned that he could study magical traits from objects and creatures to analyze spells that detected emotions, will, and memories.
• Dumbledore revealed that Eris Stone from the North Sea was the Mirror of Erised’s main material and took Anton to the reef where it came from.
• Anton resisted the Siren-like song luring them toward the Ocean Whirlpool and examined the Eris Stone’s strands of Black Threads.

Old Dumbledore made the Merpeople's Song Pendant for Anton and explained how Alchemy could combine with Transfiguration. He then taught Anton that magic's essence was tied to a Wizard's heart, leaving Anton to ponder the lesson.

• Old Dumbledore used the Eris Stone and Alchemy to create the Merpeople's Song Pendant, impressing Anton.
• Old Dumbledore recounted his student honors, and Anton offered to record them in The Wisdom of Dumbledore in exchange for keeping the Philosopher's Stone without naming Lockhart.
• Anton noticed similarities between the Pendant's magical patterns and Ancient Runes connected to the Mandrake's deadly cry.
• Old Dumbledore explained the Spell Substitution Hypothesis and warned Anton that magical observations showed effects rather than magic's essence.
• Old Dumbledore told Anton to look inward and let magic move with his heart, and Anton pondered the lesson by the sea.