Chapter Summaries

Anton recognized the Witch Tribe’s herbal lunch as a blend of potions, ruining Lupin’s fond memories of the dish. At the Knowledge Exchange Meeting, Anton asked to learn how the high school boy’s tattoos were made, prompting a dispute over the tribe’s leadership and traditions.

• Anton identified the herbal paste as a Body-Nourishing Potion mixed with Beautification and Bust-Enhancement Potions, and Lupin spat out his food.
• Daral invited Anton to the Knowledge Exchange Meeting, where visitors traded knowledge of equal value.
• Anton asked to learn how to make the tattoos on the high school boy’s body, and Daral and four older witches withdrew to discuss his request.
• Megan criticized the Priestesses’ authority, and the witches split into groups supporting Megan and Amanda.
• Megan challenged Lupin and Anton over the tribe’s rules on family, boys, and chosen partners, while Anton silently wondered how little the younger witches knew about wizarding society and blood status.

Anton examined the Witch Tribe’s body-strengthening Potion and identified its dangers, earning the chance to learn their Transformation Secret Art if he could fix it within a year. Lupin arranged an exchange for a specialized Cauldron by revealing that the creature the tribe had encountered could lead them to a gold vein, while Megan stormed away after confronting the tribe’s leaders about controlling their lives and hiding their wealth.

• Megan challenged Daral over the Witch Tribe’s control of the young witches and pointed at Anton when she declared she would choose her own partner.
• Megan hurled an armchair across the room, and Anton realized the tribe’s magic combined Magical Power with bodily strength.
• Anton read the Potion formula and warned Daral that its process could damage the lungs and overstrain the heart.
• Daral offered to teach Anton the Transformation Secret Art if he solved the Potion’s heart and lung problems within a year, before Megan’s sixteenth birthday.
• Lupin identified the tribe’s monster as a Billywig-tailed Boar that could lead them to a gold vein, and Megan angrily confronted Daral about the tribe’s hidden gold and her childhood poverty.
• Megan tore off her hoodie and stormed upstairs, while an office-dressed witch invited Lupin to explain the creature to the group.

Lupin taught the Witch Tribe about the Force Reversal Jinx, then demonstrated it in a duel with Elena. Anton studied Elena’s Tattoo Magic and considered how he could learn its principles through the potion deal he had made with the Witch Tribe.

• Lupin explained how the Force Reversal Jinx countered the Billywig-tailed Boar’s magic and could hinder other powerful creatures.
• Elena asked Lupin to demonstrate the Jinx on her, and Lupin agreed as she activated her red tattoos.
• Elena dodged Lupin’s first cast and attacked, but the Jinx disrupted her movements before she knocked his Wand away with a Limp Limbs Charm and won the duel.
• Anton observed that Elena’s tattoos could analyze and inscribe Charms, and he considered applying the technique to protect himself and develop A Ray of Sunshine.
• Anton decided the potion deal could give him a chance to learn the Tattoo Magic’s principles, even if the Witch Tribe would not share its full Inheritance.

Anton stayed at the Witch Tribe and spoke with Daniel, who revealed that the tribe had trapped him in a forced breeding role and made him Amanda’s fiancé. Anton comforted Daniel and gave him a secret health recipe, leaving him determined to remember Anton.

• Anton stayed awake in the hall to study the Witch Tribe’s body-strengthening potion and considered its possible risks to a wizard’s magic.
• Daniel told Anton that Hogwarts had once accepted him, but he chose to stay with the Witch Tribe after Amanda brought him there.
• Daniel explained that the tribe had made him serve as a stud and planned to perform a final ritual after Amanda gave birth to a girl.
• Daniel said he stayed because leaving would bring brutal punishment upon Amanda, and he hoped more pregnancies would delay that fate.
• Anton used Holy Light to lift Daniel’s gloom, then gave him a secret recipe to strengthen his health and virility.

Megan ambushed Anton and Daniel to force the Witch Tribe to help her escape, but Anton broke free and restrained the witches. Lupin then emerged and demanded an explanation from the tribe.

• Daniel secretly read a science magazine until Megan came downstairs and asked to talk.
• Megan bound Anton and Daniel, revealing that she planned to use them as leverage to win her freedom.
• Megan’s fellow witches prepared to take Anton and Daniel, but Anton freed himself and immobilized nearly everyone with a binding spell.
• The Great White Bear stood between Anton and Megan and apologized, while Anton demanded an explanation.
• Lupin emerged from behind the sofa and told the witches they owed Anton an explanation for nearly changing his life.

Lupin explained to Anton why the witches' tribe and the wider wizarding world required caution and tolerance, then accepted the tribe's records on the Transformation Secret Art. Anton arranged a possible future exchange for improving a potion formula and planned to return, while Lupin promised another educational trip after Christmas.

• Lupin told Anton that the witches' tribe still viewed the world through ancient dangers and that wizards could hold beliefs Anton found difficult to understand.
• Lupin explained that courage, cunning, wisdom, and tolerance helped wizards navigate a world where even decent people accepted prejudice and the enslavement of house-elves.
• Daral apologized for the danger and canceled exchange meeting, then gave Lupin and Anton the tribe's records on the Transformation Secret Art.
• Anton asked Daral whether he could trade an improved version of the potion formula for a reward, and Daral agreed to find something satisfactory.
• Anton decided to study the witches' body-and-magic techniques and considered the Human Transformation Potion a bargaining chip for his next visit.
• Lupin promised to take Anton somewhere interesting the weekend after the Christmas holidays.

Anton spent the Christmas holiday at Hogwarts studying the Witch Tribe’s Flame Enhancement Recipe and Great White Bear Transformation Secret Art, whose methods worked despite making no sense by potion-making principles. Unable to explain their effects, he decided to ask his teacher, Fiennes.

• Anton returned to Hogwarts with Lupin for the Christmas feast, then stayed at school after most students left for the holiday.
• Anton watched the few students remaining at Hogwarts, including Harry studying his notes and Ron playing Wizard Chess against Hermione.
• Anton studied the Flame Enhancement Recipe and Great White Bear Transformation Secret Art that Daral had given him.
• Anton found that the Witch Tribe’s records described successful methods involving a venomous Viper, Ritual Magic, and unusual ointments, though he could not explain why they worked.
• Anton decided not to consult Snape and gathered the materials to ask his teacher, Fiennes, instead.

Anton learned that the Witch Tribe’s supposed potion was actually an ancient evil curse rooted in Mysticism, and Dumbledore gave him a book to help study it. After Anton warned Dumbledore that Emock Aibo carried a strong Confundus Charm aura, Dumbledore discovered Emock’s hidden appearance and recognized Gellert.

• Fiennes told Anton that the Witch Tribe’s recipe was an ancient evil curse, not a potion.
• Dumbledore explained the curse’s connection to Mysticism and lent Anton the book "Another Name for Herbology."
• Dumbledore suggested Anton consult Emock Aibo, but Anton warned that Emock carried a strong Confundus Charm aura.
• After Anton left, Dumbledore used magic to observe Emock and revealed his concealed appearance as Gellert.

Anton reverse-engineered the Witch Tribe’s Great White Bear curse and concluded that it was part of a ritual that transformed fathers into bears to bless and strengthen their daughters. His deductions suggested Daniel was meant to replace the previous bear, and he was left wondering how Daral had later given birth to Megan.

• Anton reconstructed the curse’s original formula and found that the Coiled Bamboo Purple-Flower Vine, Thin-Fragrance Olive, and Sunlight Grass could replace only part of the Mandrake ingredient.
• Anton inferred that Amanda, Daral’s older daughter, was the true subject of Daniel’s transformation and that a ritual maintained the bond between father and daughter.
• Anton deduced that the Great White Bear curse and the fire-strengthening ritual formed two halves of a ritual that cursed fathers and blessed their daughters.
• Anton concluded that a transformed father’s power eventually became a flame that strengthened his daughters, at the cost of the bear’s death.
• Anton realized that Daniel was expected to take the place of the previous Great White Bear and wondered how Daral had given birth to Megan afterward.

Anton deciphered a formula that could replace the Witch Tribe’s Transformation Secret Art and childbirth potion, but he still could not improve their Flame-Strengthened Body Potion. When Hannah arrived wounded with news of a black Fire Dragon in the Forbidden Forest, Anton flew to help and discovered the dragon was Fat Ball.

• Anton used Ritual Magic and his potion research to create a formula that replaced the Witch Tribe’s Transformation Secret Art and mysterious childbirth potion.
• Anton packed away his notes after concluding that he needed more study before he could improve the Flame-Strengthened Body Potion.
• Hannah told Anton that a black Fire Dragon had attacked her, Neville, George, and Fred, and that Hagrid had stayed behind to protect the others.
• Anton used the forest map to locate the group, told Hannah to find Dumbledore, and flew toward the mountainside on his Firebolt.
• Anton found Neville, George, and Fred distracting the Fire Dragon while Hagrid fought it at the cave entrance, then recognized the dragon as Fat Ball.

Anton and his allies fought the Dark Magic-corrupted Black Dragon, which unleashed lethal spells and nearly overwhelmed them. After discovering that becoming a Giant Werewolf threatened to pull him into the Werewolves’ collective memories, Anton recovered and attacked the dragon with the Cruciatus Curse.

• Anton transformed into a Werewolf and attacked the Black Dragon, but it used soul-targeting Dark Magic, Sectumsempra, and the Killing Curse against him and Hagrid.
• Anton realized that the Black Dragon had been corrupted by the Dark Magic he had placed inside Fat Ball, and he suspected it carried traces of Snape’s soul and memories.
• Neville, George, Fred, and Hagrid helped restrain the Black Dragon while Anton grew into a Giant Werewolf and slammed it into the ground.
• The Black Dragon’s Cruciatus Curse struck Anton and his companions, but Anton held the dragon down, wounded it, and hurled it into the Forbidden Forest.
• Anton sensed his Soul Black Line swelling toward the Werewolves’ collective memories, cut it with his Soul Scalpel, and healed his Sectumsempra wound.
• Anton faced the struggling Black Dragon and cast the Cruciatus Curse through a Wizard’s shadow.

Anton tried to save his Black Dragon by breaking apart the human wizard’s soul fused into it, while Dumbledore restrained the creature and questioned his methods. Anton prepared a treatment based on the Great White Bear, leaving the bound dragon unable to resist as he began drawing magical patterns on it.

• Anton used a powerful spell to incapacitate the Black Dragon and searched through its memories with Goblin's Eye.
• Hagrid helped Neville, George, and Fred reach the cave, and Fred used Bubble Gum to stop Hagrid's bleeding.
• Dumbledore, McGonagall, Lupin, and Snape arrived; Snape healed Hagrid while Dumbledore warned Anton to stop torturing the dragon.
• Anton explained that the Black Dragon carried a human wizard's soul and that he needed to break it apart to save his pet.
• The Black Dragon fired a Killing Curse at Anton, but Dumbledore blocked it and bound the creature with enchanted chains.
• Anton prepared a potion and drew magical patterns on the Black Dragon, planning to transform it into a Great White Bear.

Anton used Fat Ball’s Bloodline-based transformations to refine his understanding of magic and adapt the Witch Tribe’s Transformation Secret Art into a curse. With Dumbledore’s guidance, he transformed the Black Dragon into a Great White Bear bearing antlers, while Snape felt a sudden emptiness from afar.

• Anton examined Fat Ball’s memories and learned how its transformations gave it abilities tied to its Bloodline.
• Anton used his observations to develop his Four-in-One Theory of Ego, Soul Shell, Bloodline, and Magical Power.
• Anton cast a curse that began transforming the Black Dragon into a Great White Bear.
• Dumbledore warned Anton to account for the Dark Magic carrying Snape’s soul imprint and suggested making a change to address Snape’s will.
• Anton completed the transformation by giving the Great White Bear antlers, and Snape felt suddenly empty while treating Hagrid.

Anton confirmed that he had freed Fat Ball from the Dark Magic’s corruption and rode the transformed Great White Bear through the Forbidden Forest. After McGonagall warned him about using Unforgivable Curses, Neville asked Anton to teach him the Cruciatus Curse, and Anton agreed.

• Anton sensed his bond with Fat Ball, rode the Great White Bear, and confirmed that its antlers contained the Dark Magic while a switch-like structure protected it from further corruption.
• Fat Ball transformed into a small pink-feathered bird and settled on Anton’s shoulder as McGonagall reprimanded Anton for casting the Cruciatus Curse and urged Lupin and Snape to counsel him.
• McGonagall sent Hagrid and the children to Madam Pomfrey, while Snape offered to teach George and Fred how to improve their styptic ointment.
• Lupin told Anton that Ilsa and Nagini were in Hogsmeade discussing a business, so Anton could spend Christmas with his family.
• Neville asked Anton to teach him the Cruciatus Curse, and Anton agreed while warning that he could not promise Neville would avoid Azkaban.

Anton trained Neville to cast the Cruciatus Curse by provoking his anger and teaching him that the spell required pleasure in torture. Neville began practicing on a transformed creature resembling Voldemort, while Anton monitored him and continued his own research.

• Anton urged Neville to imagine Death Eaters torturing his parents, and Neville accidentally struck Anton with the Cruciatus Curse.
• Anton explained that mastering the curse required enjoying the target’s suffering and warned Neville that the practice could make him cruel.
• Neville agreed to continue despite the risk, and Anton revealed that he planned to use rabbits transformed into Voldemort-like figures for practice.
• Anton transformed a laboratory Rat into a moving, Voldemort-shaped figure, and Neville repeatedly cast the Cruciatus Curse on it despite his distress.
• Anton monitored Neville’s practice over the following days while researching potions and transformation magic and reading Dumbledore’s recommended book.

Neville relentlessly practiced the Cruciatus Curse on rabbits transformed into Voldemort, while Anton studied how Neville’s strong sense of justice changed the spell. Anton left the underground Chamber of Secrets to meet Professor Snape, warning George and Fred that Neville could be dangerous and might escape to curse someone else.

• Neville repeatedly cast the Cruciatus Curse on transformed rabbits, exhausting himself until Anton revived him so he could continue practicing.
• Hannah, George, and Fred helped care for Neville and prepared Potions and supplies while Anton preserved the dead rabbits’ bodies.
• Anton observed that Neville’s kind nature made his curse less harmful, while his firm conviction made its tormenting effect powerful.
• Anton entered Neville’s memories and confirmed that Neville’s will and commitment to justice were shaping how his magic worked.
• George told Anton that Professor Snape wanted to see him, and Anton warned George and Fred to restrain Neville and keep him from escaping.

Snape taught Anton to use Sectumsempra as a Soul Scalpel, explaining how the spell worked and why it was better suited to the task than the Cruciatus Curse. He forced Anton to practice precise spell control until Anton managed to make a faint scratch, while Snape ate steak and refused to let him have food.

• Anton went to Snape's office, where Snape warned him that using the Cruciatus Curse could send him to Azkaban and proposed Sectumsempra as a better Soul Scalpel.
• Snape explained that he had already taught Anton the theory behind Sectumsempra through his Potions lessons and that the spell was essentially a way of drawing blood.
• Anton cast Sectumsempra and cleanly split a chair in two.
• Snape trapped Anton in the classroom and made him practice controlling Sectumsempra until it could leave only a faint scratch in the desk.
• Anton succeeded in making a faint scratch while Snape ate steak, then continued practicing while hungry.

At Christmas, Anton continued studying Sectumsempra with Snape while Neville pursued the Cruciatus Curse in hopes of helping his parents. Around them, Cabin’s friends developed magical projects and celebrated the holiday, leaving everyone busy with plans for the future.

• Dumbledore visited Anton and urged him to guide Neville, but he and Anton disagreed about the dangers of magical research and parted on bad terms.
• Christmas arrived, and Cabin’s fireworks lit the sky as students played in the snow while Anton practiced Sectumsempra with Snape.
• Neville cast the Cruciatus Curse and smiled as George fed the growing Fantastic Beasts in Cabin’s paddocks; Fred and George also celebrated a breakthrough at their experiment table.
• Hannah brewed a potion that grew into a towering vine factory near the Forbidden Forest and planned to add a greenhouse roof and an animal paddock.
• Dumbledore toasted the distant castle window from the tallest tower as Christmas celebrations continued.

Neville completed Anton’s intensive training in the Cruciatus Curse and decided to start a study club to revive Dumbledore’s Army. At the rabbit and Puffskein paddock, Anton listened as Professor Grubbly-Plank explained selective breeding and wondered whether magical changes could become hereditary.

• Neville told Anton he felt changed after killing nineteen simulated Voldemorts during the holidays, and Anton used A Ray of Sunshine to help him hold on to himself.
• Neville thanked Anton, said he understood magic more deeply after learning the Cruciatus Curse, and announced that he would start a study club and revive Dumbledore’s Army.
• Anton watched Neville return to the Gryffindor table and considered the rabbits’ rapidly growing numbers and the twins’ plans to crossbreed them with Puffskeins.
• Anton went to the paddock, where Hannah, George, Fred, Hagrid, Grubbly-Plank, and Professor Sprout prepared the animals’ shelter, food, and breeding experiments.
• Professor Grubbly-Plank explained that breeding required careful selection and that some changes did not pass to later generations, prompting Anton to wonder whether magical traits could become part of a bloodline.

Anthony reflected on how his magical studies fit his desire for freedom and investigated how magic and Transfiguration affected bloodlines. After the rabbits became too much to care for, he created the Happy Roast Meat Charm and served the resulting roast to his friends.

• Anthony considered how his uncertain identity had affected his magic and wondered whether Fat Ball’s shapeshifting talent came from an unstable Bloodline.
• Anthony asked Professor Grubbly-Plank whether Transfiguration could alter inherited traits, and she explained that it could change appearances but not Bloodlines.
• Hagrid proposed using Transfiguration to make creatures easier to crossbreed, and Professor Grubbly-Plank praised the idea.
• George and Fred told Anthony that the rabbits were multiplying too quickly for Cabin to care for them all.
• Anthony unveiled the Happy Roast Meat Charm, which prepared glowing roast meat that made its eaters feel happy, and invited George, Fred, Neville, and Hannah to eat.