Chapter Summaries

Anton and Snape failed to improve the Human Deformation Removal Potion until Anton realized its three stages could be handled by different people with the right temperaments. Their plan was delayed by the Quidditch final, while Anton suggested the potion could also free a female Werewolf living in Snape’s lounge.

• After the twelfth edition of the potion failed, Anton proposed summoning Lily from the World of the Dead, but Snape refused.
• Anton reasoned that the potion’s three stages could be performed by different people and chose Neville Longbottom, Hannah Abbott, and George Weasley and Fred Weasley.
• Snape told Anton they could not brew the potion the next day because he had to referee the Gryffindor versus Slytherin Quidditch final.
• Anton noted that a female Werewolf had been living in Snape’s lounge and suggested the potion could restore her humanity.
• After Anton left for the Dormitory, Snape silently considered Anton’s claim that the Werewolf could be completely freed.

Anton attended the Hogwarts Quidditch final and reflected on how the Seeker’s control over when a match ended resembled the power Dumbledore and Voldemort held in their conflict. The chapter left the match underway, with Anton observing the gap between inexperienced school players and professional Quidditch.

• Anton got up early, encouraged Draco before the final, and decided to watch the match.
• Anton learned that Emock Aibo had expanded Hogwarts Daily into weekly and monthly publications and recruited student reporters from all Four Houses.
• Anton ate breakfast, then joined the crowd as Dumbledore, the Professors, and the teams headed to the Pitch.
• Snape released the Quaffle, Bludgers, and Golden Snitch, while Lee Jordan commentated on the match.
• Anton compared Seekers to Dumbledore and Voldemort, reasoning that a powerful Seeker could prolong a match until circumstances favored their side.
• Anton noted that the Hogwarts teams could not build a 150-point lead and compared their level with the British League standings.

Anton received Mr. Rosier’s advice to use the Human Deformation Removal Potion to build a loyal force of cured Werewolves, and he considered the possibility of creating a family or faction of his own. Back at Cabin, he decided that any such plan would require the others’ help, but he chose to rest before taking the next step.

• Anton reflected on how Hogwarts’ resources and mentors had made his potion research possible, while recognizing that obtaining ingredients and brewing the treatment would be difficult for most Werewolves.
• After receiving Rosier’s reply, Anton traveled home through the Vanishing Cabinet, where Mr. Rosier asked him to consider what the potion could bring him after graduation.
• Rosier proposed that Anton use access to ingredients and potion-making to earn Werewolves’ loyalty or bind them to long-term service, and offered channels, connections, and information without promising the Rosier family’s supplies.
• Anton considered building a faction to protect the people he cared about and said he would seriously consider Rosier’s advice.
• Anton returned to Cabin and surveyed its rooms, laboratories, greenhouse, and residents’ workspaces before deciding to take things one step at a time and go to sleep.

Anton found Draco brooding over a Quidditch loss and learned that Draco felt pressured to win for his family. Anton roasted chicken and taught Draco to make Small Buns with a charm, leaving Draco quietly revisiting a happy memory as they ate.

• Anton sat with Draco in the Slytherin Common Room, where Draco admitted he had to win to avoid disappointing his parents and uphold the Malfoy family's pride.
• Anton roasted a marinated chicken over the fireplace, and Draco was surprised to learn he had studied magic to cook.
• Draco joked that he wished he could become a chef, so Anton invited him to learn cooking and challenged his belief that it was servants' work.
• Anton demonstrated the Sunshine Bread Charm, and Draco tasted a Small Bun that brought back a childhood memory.
• Anton ate roast chicken while Draco began learning the charm and reflected on what was in his heart.

Anton explained the Human Deformation Removal Potion and its costs, then invited his friends to help develop it and treat Werewolves. The group committed to the project, brewed five batches, and decided to stay at Hogwarts over Christmas to continue their work.

• Anton explained that the potion could cure Werewolf Venom but would require substantial time, money, herbs, and Fantastic Beast ingredients.
• Neville, George, Fred, and Hannah agreed to help Anton with the potion project, dividing work among brewing, animal breeding, and herb cultivation.
• Anton taught the group the potion’s principles and practical brewing methods over five days, and they began experimenting together.
• The group brewed five bottles of potion using ingredients Mr. Rosier had supplied for ten batches.
• Neville announced he would stay at Hogwarts over Christmas to cultivate herbs, and Hannah, George, Fred, and Anton also chose to stay and continue the project.

Anton discovered that Runespoor bones retained the magical properties of living snakes and could provide warmth and comfort to a soul. He realized that engraved with emotional crack patterns, a bone could serve as a body for a soul, giving Fiennes hope of having a body again.

• Anton abandoned plans to renovate the Snake Pit and filled it in to make room for a more secure underground chamber.
• Anton studied the Runespoor remains and found that their bones retained their original magical properties and barely reacted with potion ingredients.
• Anton wondered whether souls naturally favored possessing snakes and used his soul magic to examine a Runespoor bone.
• Fiennes asked Anton to help him obtain a body and offered to swear an Unbreakable Vow in return.
• Fiennes touched the Runespoor bone and felt warmth, while Anton concluded that engraved emotional crack patterns could make it a body for a soul.
• Fiennes celebrated the discovery, but admitted he could offer no further guidance on making a body.

Anton borrowed The Loyal Maid to learn Alchemy for making lifelike human mannequins, then discovered it had been written by Percival Dumbledore for his wife. He opened the book beside the frozen Black Lake while reflecting on the tragedies that shaped Albus Dumbledore.

• Anton told Fred and George he wanted to learn a simple Alchemy spell to transform snake bones into human-shaped mannequins, and George recommended The Loyal Maid.
• Anton borrowed The Loyal Maid from Madam Pince, who warned him not to use it in The Wisdom of Dumbledore.
• Anton hurried to the Black Lake, opened the book, and found that Percival Dumbledore had dedicated it to his wife, Kendra.
• Anton recalled how Ariana's trauma, her family's deaths, and her eventual death had shaped Dumbledore's life, and wondered what he and Grindelwald might have accomplished together.
• Anton began reading Percival's thick, whimsical Alchemy book beside the frozen lake.

Anton studied Percival Dumbledore’s alchemy manual, which combined Charms and alchemy to create intelligent figurines, and Dumbledore gave him the original book and the Resurrection Stone ring. Dumbledore revealed that he had used the Stone to see his sister, while Anton told him Snape’s Patronus could bring the dead back completely.

• Anton read Percival Dumbledore’s detailed methods for transforming substances, assembling figurines, and giving them simulated intelligence.
• Dumbledore gave Anton Percival’s handwritten original of The Loyal Maid and an officially signed document granting him permission to borrow books.
• Anton noticed the curse on Dumbledore’s blackened hand and realized he had used the Resurrection Stone.
• Dumbledore returned the Ring to Anton and said Anton might be able to remove Voldemort’s soul fragment from Harry, though they would need to wait.
• Dumbledore told Anton that the Resurrection Stone had shown him his sister, who seemed cold and distant.
• Anton claimed Snape’s Patronus could communicate with the dead and bring them back completely, leaving Dumbledore shocked and regretful about using the Stone.

Snape used his Patronus to let Albus and Aberforth Dumbledore speak with their deceased sister, Ariana, who was content in the World of the Dead. Afterward, Anton presented Snape with a finished Human Deformation Removal Potion, but Snape sent him away so he could handle the next steps himself.

• Snape cast a Patronus that revealed Ariana, and the Dumbledore brothers spoke with her across an invisible barrier.
• Ariana reassured Albus and Aberforth, and the brothers accepted that she was happy in the World of the Dead.
• Aberforth thanked Snape and Anton before leaving with Albus.
• Anton gave Snape the completed Human Deformation Removal Potion, and Snape confirmed that he believed it would work.
• Snape took the potion and dismissed Anton, insisting that the rest was up to him.

Anton studied Alchemy and Charms while selling transformation sweets and Hannah’s Fireball Lantern Plants at Cabin. He worried that the sweets might let people with diluted Wizard blood cast magic, but the chapter left the risks unresolved as he considered making more.

• Anton continued studying Percival Dumbledore’s manuscripts and The Loyal Maid while postponing the Potions he had prepared for his family until Snape tested one on the female Werewolf.
• Anton considered combining Charms, Potions, and Alchemy, especially through Animation Charms, but acknowledged that he lacked the knowledge to master the idea.
• As Christmas approached, Anton and Hannah’s Snake Transformation Candy, Werewolf Experience Candy, and Fireball Lantern Plants sold especially well at Cabin.
• Neville worried that students might expose magic to Muggles with the transformation sweets, while Fred, George, and Hannah described how slowly the Ministry handled a past Chocolate Frog incident.
• Anton realized the sweets simulated a Human Transfiguration Charm and wondered whether people with diluted Wizard blood might use them to cast magic, then considered making more.

Anton, Hannah, Neville, and the Twins discussed how their different strengths complemented one another and began planning to improve the Human Deformation Removal Potion. They ended the gathering by agreeing to experiment together, though Hannah’s bitter purple drink left everyone grimacing.

• Anton advised Fred and George to develop their individual strengths and complement each other rather than compare themselves with classmates.
• Neville proposed cultivating herbs tailored to the Human Deformation Removal Potion, drawing on what he had learned about Sneezing Grass and Harris Grass.
• Anton recognized that suitable cultivated herbs could simplify brewing, ease ingredient gathering, and reduce costs.
• Hannah, George, Fred, and Anton agreed to pursue the experiments, with the Twins considering asking Hagrid for help crossbreeding Fantastic Beasts.
• Everyone toasted their plan with Hannah’s bitter purple drink, then laughed at one another’s pained expressions.

Anton used Runespoor bones, gold, magical Sand, and Old Wizard Fiennes’s likeness to craft a dark golden Alchemical body, then inscribed it with spells so Fiennes could inhabit it. Fiennes regained a living form, and Anton proposed an Unbreakable Vow to keep them from harming each other.

• Anton prepared Runespoor bones, gold, magical Sand, and Fiennes as the model for the Doll’s Virtual Soul.
• Anton transformed the materials into a dark golden humanoid body and created a copy of Fiennes to enter it.
• Anton erased the body’s Virtual Soul with the Killing Curse and inscribed it with the Crackling Curse to make Ghost Armor.
• Fiennes entered the completed body, regained the ability to think and move, and thanked Anton.
• Anton warned Fiennes that the body could be killed, then proposed an Unbreakable Vow preventing either of them from acting hostilely toward the other.

Anton helped the Old Wizard settle into his new alchemically crafted body, and the Old Wizard assessed Anton’s potion-making style and advised him to strengthen his knowledge of intermediate Potions. The Old Wizard left to report his new body to Dumbledore, while Anton decided to keep studying and pursue a new combat Charm.

• Anton showed the Old Wizard his dark-gold body, and the Old Wizard said he was pleased with it and his new life as a Hogwarts Potions professor.
• The Old Wizard studied Anton’s Human Deformation Removal Potion formula and explained that its unifying emotion was deep longing, which Snape had failed to recognize.
• The Old Wizard identified Soul, Memory, and time as the basis of Anton’s emerging potion-making style and told him to fill gaps in his intermediate Potions knowledge.
• The Old Wizard went to report his new body to Dumbledore, while Anton reflected on influential Potions scholars such as Zygmunt Budge and Libatius Borage.
• Anton set aside his anxiety about matching other scholars and resolved to study Charms, inspired by an idea for a combat Charm.

Anton investigated how the Tickling Charm affected the soul and discovered it activated happy memories in the victim’s subconscious. After accidentally making a groundhog laugh to death, he developed an advanced version he called the Happiness Charm and spread it through the forest.

• Anton examined the Tickling Charm’s magic and tested it on a groundhog in the Forbidden Forest.
• Anton used the Goblin’s Eye Secret Art to enter the groundhog’s inner world of Memory and saw happy memories activate under the Charm.
• Anton varied the Charm’s intensity until the groundhog laughed itself to death, then named the advanced spell the Happiness Charm.
• Anton conjured a towering figure from Soul Black Lines and spread the Happiness Charm through the forest, filling it with laughter.

Anton collected the strangely delighted corpses of Fantastic Beasts in the Forbidden Forest, including a Unicorn, and Lupin intervened when Flitwick questioned his methods. Lupin explained the tensions between minority communities and asked Anton what he wanted to be; Anton called himself a Traveler, and Lupin invited him to explore the world together, with Ilsa joining their trip before Christmas.

• Anton found thirty-six dead Fantastic Beasts in the Forbidden Forest, collected their useful parts, and burned the Unicorn's remains after taking its blood, horn, and tail hair.
• Anton encountered Flitwick and Lupin, and Lupin persuaded Flitwick to leave before taking Anton to his office.
• Lupin explained that Flitwick represented Goblin interests and that Pedro was hated by Goblins for being seen as a traitor.
• Lupin described his own position among Werewolves and urged Anton to follow his convictions rather than let others define him.
• Anton said he wanted to be a Traveler who explored the Wizarding World, and Lupin offered to show him the world as a Wanderer.
• Ilsa joined Lupin and Anton's traveling party on the weekend before Christmas.

Anton watched as Lupin and Nagini drank his antidote Potions, which removed their Werewolf and Viper blood curses without side effects. The family celebrated the cure, and Anton looked ahead to Anna taking the Potion when she came home six months later.

• Lupin brought Anton home through the Floo Network, where the family gathered with old wizard Fiennes.
• Lupin and Nagini drank their Potions while Anton used his Eye Spells to observe the curses disappearing and studied how the changes worked in their memories.
• Anton confirmed that the Potions had cut off the curses at their roots, and the family planned to give Anna her Potion when she returned home six months later.
• The family celebrated all night at Thousand-Flower Castle, while Anton reflected on how his research had changed the lives of his family and the wider wizarding world.
• Anton toasted his achievement with the words “I came, I saw, I conquered!” before the adults pulled him into a dance around the bonfire.

Remus took Anton to meet the Witch Tribe in Birmingham, whose members preserved ancient magical traditions while embracing Muggle society. The chapter left them entering the Witch Tribe Mysticism Club with Daral Jackson.

• Ilsa stayed in London while Remus and Anton traveled by broomstick to visit a Witch Tribe.
• Remus explained that the tribe educated its descendants at home and that its traditions allowed only girls, a rule now dividing older and younger witches.
• Remus and Anton reached Birmingham and found the Witch Tribe based in a five-story building beside a metalworking factory.
• Daral Jackson, a powerful witch and University of Birmingham professor, greeted Remus and met Anton.
• Daral invited Remus and Anton into the Witch Tribe Mysticism Club.

Lupin brought Anton to the Witch Tribe’s hidden headquarters, where Anton discovered that its Great White Bear guardian was a wizard transformed into a magical beast. The bear welcomed them and offered food, while Lupin kept it talking so Anton could study its unusual magic.

• Daral led Lupin and Anton through hidden elevators to the Witch Tribe’s concealed headquarters.
• Lupin explained the Tribe’s Knowledge Exchange Meeting and pointed out the Great White Bear, the Tribe’s guardian beast.
• Anton used his magical sight to see that the Great White Bear was a wizard in a complex, unstable form of Human Transfiguration.
• The Great White Bear approached Lupin and Anton, and Anton asked about ordering food from the bar.
• Anton ordered the Beating Heart potion, while Lupin drew the Great White Bear into conversation so Anton could closely examine its magical patterns.

Lupin warned Anton about the dangers of the Wizarding World and described Dumbledore’s long-term preparations for a future conflict with Muggles. Anton sampled Daral’s herbal Beating Heart drink, and Lupin explained that he had begun speaking to Anton as an equal after witnessing his powerful Tickling Charm.

• Manda sent an Origami Crane upstairs while Anton watched her and listened to Lupin’s warnings about danger beneath the Wizarding World’s peaceful surface.
• Lupin described Hogwarts as a microcosm of society and argued that Dumbledore was preparing students for a future war with Muggles while managing the Wizarding World’s factions.
• Daral brought Anton the Beating Heart drink, and Anton recognized it as a purely herbal Potion with a recipe similar to a Love Potion.
• Anton enjoyed the drink and compared its adaptable, pleasurable qualities to Hot Pot Broth.
• Lupin told Anton that he had witnessed Anton’s Tickling Charm in the Forbidden Forest, where it struck Flitwick and made him laugh uncontrollably.

Lupin urged Anton to observe the wizarding world with an open mind, while Anton said he preferred focusing on magic and gave Lupin a mysterious blessing. At the Witch Tribe, Anton discovered ancient ritual magic in Daniel’s tattoos and learned that Daniel was Amanda’s fiancé, though Daniel was kissing other girls.

• Lupin explained how Hogwarts, its staff, and its customs connected to wizarding society, and encouraged Anton to understand the world through experience.
• Anton told Lupin he preferred studying magic, then placed a hand on his shoulder and cast a glowing blessing that left Lupin feeling calm.
• As more witches arrived at the Witch Tribe, Anton noticed Daniel, a boy carrying the girls’ bags whose left side was covered in magical tattoos.
• Anton recognized the tattoos as ancient ritual magic that split Daniel’s soul and magic apart, and connected them to the Great White Bear’s partial transformation.
• Amanda confronted Anton for staring at Daniel and called him her fiancé, but Daniel was kissing one girl while another clung to him.