Chapter Summaries

Anton learned that the Aurors’ Blood Returning Spell could help control injuries caused by Sectumsempra, and Snape explained how healing magic and other disciplines could strengthen the study of Potions. Professor McGonagall then summoned Snape and Anton to her bedroom, where they and other professors confronted a difficult problem involving a chained Venomous Tentacula and a man trapped inside its Wooden Burl.

• Anton told Snape about the Aurors’ Blood Returning Spell and explained how it worked.
• Snape said the spell could temporarily control Sectumsempra injuries, then compared it with his more effective Counter-Curse and discussed how Potions drew on other fields.
• Snape gave Anton a library book request and assigned him an essay about the war-preparation Potion Cheerful River of Blood.
• Professor McGonagall summoned Snape, who brought Anton along to her hidden bedroom.
• Anton, Snape, Professor McGonagall, Professor Sprout, and Professor Fiennes saw a chained Venomous Tentacula holding a middle-aged man inside its Wooden Burl, and the professors recognized the situation as difficult.

Anton examined the middle-aged wizard fused with a Venomous Tentacula and discovered the plant was assimilating his soul through their shared Memory River. After severing their connection, he saw the wizard's soul and the plant's influence struggling against each other, leaving the professors alarmed by what he had done.

• Professor Sprout and Professor Snape explained that separating the wizard from the Venomous Tentacula would kill him, while its poison and Cruciatus damage had severely harmed his mind, upsetting Professor McGonagall.
• Anton said he needed to examine the wizard's memories, then used his wand to enter the man's mind as Professor McGonagall recognized his brilliant blue eye as resembling Grindelwald's.
• Anton found the wizard's soul half-shattered and connected to the Venomous Tentacula's Memory River, with the man's Ego and memories devastated.
• Anton cast the Cruciatus Curse and used a Soul Scalpel to sever the wizard's Soul Black Lines from the plant's Memory River, but the lines began to reconnect.
• The wizard's soul started returning to human form as another force pulled it back toward the plant, and the Venomous Tentacula thrashed while Professor Sprout demanded to know what Anton had done.

Anton, Snape, Fiennes, and the professors searched for a way to save Elphinstone, who briefly returned to human form before turning back into a Venomous Tentacula. They spent the night working on a treatment, but the chapter ended with the problem still unsolved.

• Elphinstone briefly awakened and spoke with McGonagall before the wood covered him again.
• Anton explained that Elphinstone was trapped partway through a transformation similar to an Animagus transformation.
• Snape and Fiennes warned that turning Elphinstone fully into a Venomous Tentacula could release poison that would kill him.
• McGonagall vowed to find a way to save Elphinstone, and Snape took Anton and Fiennes to work on a potion-based solution.
• Anton, Snape, and Fiennes brainstormed through the night, and Snape gave Anton an Invigoration Draught flavored with Ganpu Green Kumquat peel.

Anton found an old book about extreme emotions and learned how love and other feelings could amplify magic, including Lily Potter’s protection of Harry. He tested a laughter spell on Snape, then left convinced its power might help separate Mr. Urquart from the Venomous Tentacula.

• Anton discovered Dumbledore’s old book, The Power of Extreme Emotions, and read about wandless magic strengthened by intense feelings.
• Snape explained that Dumbledore had given him the book to remind him of Lily’s love for Harry, and Anton connected extreme hatred with Snape’s history of Dark Magic.
• Fiennes proposed using extreme love to break the bond between Mr. Urquart and the Venomous Tentacula, though Snape doubted Professor McGonagall could feel that kind of love for her husband.
• Anton suggested using a spell powered by extreme emotions and cast Rictusempra on himself and Snape, filling them with laughter.
• Snape threw Anton out of his office, where Anton greeted Professor McGonagall and resolved to study Angnagara further as a possible way to strengthen the spell.

Anton studied Angnagara’s ability to draw out happy memories and dreamed of its Magic while sleeping beside it. That night, Draco witnessed strange materials and black threads gathering under Anton’s covers, followed by a girl’s arm emerging and Anton panicking.

• Anton let Pansy hold Angnagara, whose many long tongues startled her and Draco into fleeing.
• Anton examined Angnagara’s memory-drawing Magic and let it coil its tongues around his finger as he tested it.
• Anton fell asleep with Angnagara and dreamed of bubbles forming from his soul and Magic being drawn away.
• Draco returned to the dormitory and secretly watched strange ingredients gather beneath Anton’s covers.
• A young girl’s arm dangled from under the covers, and Anton jumped out of bed in panic while Draco pretended to sleep.

Anton accidentally transformed the dark creature Angnagara into a human girl using the Animagus spell, then investigated the transformation and found a way to turn her back into a rabbit. He left Angnagara with a human Animagus form and worried that she might transform again.

• Anton found that Angnagara had become a human girl who wore his robes and tried to eat their Little White Rabbit.
• Anton realized that his own will and fantasies had shaped Angnagara during the transformation, and promised to find a way to turn her back.
• Anton bound Angnagara with a Full Body-Bind Curse and used his spells and Soul Black Threads to search for the transformation trigger.
• Anton identified a transformation node and cast a spell that returned Angnagara to rabbit form.
• Anton petrified Angnagara and watched her crawl out of his robes, then worried she might transform into a human again.

As the European Inter-School Quidditch League began, Anton ignored the school’s preparations and continued thinking about Transfiguration and magical bloodlines. While discussing Mr. Urquart’s treatment, he proposed that pure-blood families carried traces of Fantastic Beast blood, leaving the group considering his theory.

• Hogwarts prepared for the league’s opening, while Professor McGonagall reprimanded Neville for failing to master a Switching Spell.
• Prefect Fane ordered the Slytherins to present themselves proudly, but he let Anton go when he returned looking sleepy.
• Anton considered ways to restrict Human Transfiguration and create stable intermediate forms while bathing.
• Snape told Anton that the International Confederation of Wizards was scrutinizing his Werewolf Experience Candy because it could transform Muggles.
• Anton redirected the discussion toward Mr. Urquart’s own magic and argued that pure-blood families carried traces of other creatures in their bloodlines.

Anton waited with Professor Snape for the visiting Quidditch teams and faced Professor Harris’s insinuations about the Muggle-to-Werewolf Potion. Durmstrang arrived, and Anton happily reunited with Anna.

• Anton waited at Hogwarts’s gates with Professor Snape as Beauxbatons arrived on broomsticks and Professor Harris challenged Snape about the Muggle-to-Werewolf Potion.
• Professor Harris suggested Snape had taken credit for Anton’s work, and Anton angrily insisted that he had made the potion himself.
• Professor Harris called Anton Anthony Weasley and described his potion as being developed for Muggles, prompting Anton to mock his narrow-minded view.
• Durmstrang’s ship surfaced from the Black Lake, and Anna disembarked and greeted Anton.
• Anton welcomed Anna and said he would show her Cabin the next day, where Lupin and Fiennes were also staying.

Anton feared the uproar over Werewolf Experience Candy could make him a target if Dumbledore died, so he prepared a hidden refuge and created a Horcrux-like backup. The next day, he joined Anna Rosier after Draco asked him to help avenge his defeat, leaving Draco convinced Anton had betrayed them.

• Anton suspected the Death Eaters or other hidden forces were exploiting Werewolf Experience Candy to challenge Dumbledore and the Statute of Secrecy.
• Anton went to Cabin, descended into Elephant-Eating Vine’s hidden chambers, and inspected his backup Alchemy Doll.
• Anton cast the Cruciatus Curse on himself and wrapped the Doll in a Soul Black Line.
• Draco described how Anna Rosier had defeated him with Teeth Like Clubs and asked Anton to help him face her again.
• Anton led Anna away to show her Cabin, and Draco ran to Fane and the others, declaring that Anton had betrayed them.

Anton showed Anna how he used Angnagara to communicate through memories and gave her Alchemy and Transfiguration materials to help with her studies. After learning Angnagara could take human form, Anna asked whether Anton could cure her mother’s Blood Curse.

• Anna admired Angnagara, and Anton warned her that the rabbit-like creature’s tongues could drain magical power.
• Anton extracted Angnagara’s memory thread and explained how the Memory River could connect people and carry information; Anna realized he was speaking through the creature.
• Anton explained that Angnagara had been changed by his research and gave Anna Dumbledore’s father’s Alchemy book and his Transfiguration notes.
• Anton offered Anna Angnagara as a way to contact him, then warned that the creature could take human form.
• Anna excitedly asked whether Anton’s research could cure her mother’s Blood Curse.

Anton encouraged Anna to tame rather than remove her Blood Curse and taught her to control Angnagara’s transformations. His experiments led him to devise a way to convert a Blood-Cursed transformation into an Animagus form, and he urged Anna to learn Animagus transformation.

• Anton told Anna that her Viper transformation could be mastered instead of removed, and Anna agreed to trust him.
• Anton taught Anna how to control Angnagara’s transformation and use it to send messages.
• Anna successfully transformed Angnagara into a rabbit and thanked Anton for giving her a companion.
• Anna wondered whether Angnagara could become The Loyal Maid, prompting Anton to connect artificial souls, Horcruxes, Animagi, and Blood Curses.
• Anton proposed using a wizard’s Animagus body and a self-contained Horcrux to prevent a Beast Instinct from eroding the wizard’s Ego.
• Anton urged Anna to learn Animagus transformation so she could turn her Blood Curse into her Animagus form.

After Slytherin’s defeat in the interschool duels, Professor Harris singled out Anton and tried to arrange a match with a Beauxbatons student. Anton challenged Harris instead, and Snape defended his behavior by revealing that Anton had once challenged him to a duel to the death; Anton suspected that a wider threat was gathering around him.

• Snape moved the interschool matches to the lawn beside Black Lake, where the students of all four Houses joined in.
• Draco learned of Anna Rosier’s fearsome reputation and watched her and Anton calmly comment on the duels.
• Harry Potter sent a Slytherin opponent flying with a single spell, and Snape looked furious as the Slytherins continued to lose.
• Professor Harris called out Anthony Weasley and proposed an exchange with a Beauxbatons player, but Anton refused and challenged Harris to fight instead.
• Harris complained that Anton had pointed his wand at a professor, and Snape recalled that Anton had once challenged him to a duel to the death.
• Anton suspected that Harris and the Ministry Aurors who had recently targeted him were signs that trouble was approaching.

Anton fought Professor Harris by summoning earthen blades and werewolves, exposing Harris’s attempt to force him into a werewolf transformation as a setup. Anton left with Anna to find Professor McGonagall, while Harris was knocked into the freezing Black Lake and remained trapped offshore.

• Anton and Snape realized that Harris’s challenge was part of an organized plot, though Snape had not been included in it.
• Anton began the duel by summoning earthen blades that chased Harris toward the Black Lake.
• Harris tried to retaliate, but Anton filled the shore with earthen werewolves that attacked him while avoiding the students.
• Snape helped clear some of the werewolves, but more kept emerging as Anton walked away with Anna.
• A werewolf struck Harris into the Black Lake, where he found himself unable to return to shore past the waiting creatures.

Anton proposed using a soul copy and Animagus Transformation to treat the Great White Bear, Werewolves, and other curses involving partial Human Transfiguration. He revealed that he had altered the Animagus process and transformed Angnagara from a rabbit into a human, leaving Professor McGonagall stunned.

• Anton explained to Professor McGonagall that several curses shared the traits of a body partway through Human Transfiguration.
• Anton proposed using a soul copy in the transformed animal body, then performing Animagus Transformation on the main soul to control it.
• Professor McGonagall objected that Horcruxes required killing, and Anton demonstrated his Soul Scalpel and clarified that no killing was needed.
• Anton admitted he had altered the Animagus process and that several members of Cabin had completed their transformations using his first version.
• Anton revealed that he had transformed Angnagara from a rabbit into a human, and Professor McGonagall stared at her in shock.

Professor McGonagall arranged for Anton to leave Hogwarts temporarily and taught him how secrecy and power worked in the Wizarding World. Anton stayed with her to study Transfiguration and began examining Mr. Cordyceps, while keeping his theories about Hogwarts Castle to himself.

• Professor McGonagall arranged Anton's leave and used the Floo Network to take him to Akali Hertzfield's home, then explained that caution was necessary because secrets could be uncovered in many ways.
• Professor McGonagall told Anton that Akali Hertzfield had died long ago and that the person they had met was her magical puppet; Anton would study Transfiguration with McGonagall until the Quidditch Match ended.
• Anton reflected on the Wizarding World's laws, power, and relationship with Fate, concluding that its rules both favored and restrained the strong.
• Professor McGonagall conjured a Cabin in her bedroom, prompting Anton to wonder whether Hogwarts Castle had once been a much smaller object.
• Anton asked Anna to bring the two Suitcases from Cabin and began studying Mr. Cordyceps, while choosing not to ask Professor McGonagall about his suspicions concerning Hogwarts's protective magic.

Anton used an experimental combination of soul magic, Mandrake copying, and Animagus Transformation to save Mr. Urquart, who had been corrupted by a Venomous Tentacula. After Mr. Urquart returned to human form, Anton took Anna to his underground Chamber of Secrets to address her Blood-Cursed Werewolf problem.

• Anton explained that the Venomous Tentacula had deformed Mr. Urquart's Soul Shell and that Voldemort could not repair it.
• Anton placed a Mandrake's copied Ego into Mr. Urquart, severed his connection to the Tentacula's Memory River, and used Animagus Transformation to turn the corrupted soul into a Venomous Tentacula.
• The Tentacula transformed back into Elphinstone, who reunited with Professor McGonagall.
• Anton concluded that his method could also help Werewolves, though it required costly ingredients and was too difficult for general use.
• Anton took Anna, both transformed into Color-Changing Windbirds, to the underground Chamber of Secrets beneath his Cabin to work on her Blood-Cursed Werewolf problem.

Anton and Anna transformed into giant Vipers before Anton discovered Professor Harris and three students searching their home for books and documents. As the intruders searched, Anton hid his research and contraband and planted a prank toy among the belongings they might find.

• Anna transformed into a giant Viper, and Anton used the Biomimicry Charm to become one too, frightening Angnagara unconscious.
• Anton said their mother would not want to become a snake again, and Anna agreed that she had suffered enough from the Blood Curse.
• Anton hid their belongings underground and used Angnagara to draw Magical Power from his Wand as he listened to intruders upstairs.
• Anton realized Professor Harris had used a potion to weaken the Elephant-Eating Vine and had entered the house with three students to search it.
• Anton concealed his Human Deformation Removal Potion diagram and contraband, then placed a Stunning Bouncing Ball among the hidden Super-Set Stink Dungbombs 5.0.

Anton and Anna watched a trap incapacitate Professor Harris and the Beauxbatons students who had sneaked into the Progressive Entrepreneurship Student Club. Lupin explained Harris’s political ambitions and warned Anton that Harris’s visit might involve hidden motives, leaving Anton wary of the tangled adult world.

• Anton and Anna used the Twins’ prank devices to cover Professor Harris and the other intruders in foul-smelling pellets and nightmare potion, knocking all four unconscious.
• Anton and Anna escaped as the Elephant-Eating Vines sounded an alarm that woke Hogwarts.
• McGonagall sent the Beauxbatons professors and students to the Hospital Wing and demanded explanations from both schools.
• Lupin told Anton that Harris had once been a Saint, later became a Death Eater, and pursued strict standards for potions and limits on dangerous research.
• Lupin urged Anton to consider what Harris wanted, whether someone had provoked him, and whether Dumbledore might worsen the situation.

Anthony hid his illegal and dangerous possessions as a conspiracy against Dumbledore began to take shape. Editor Aibo coerced Professor Harris into leaving Hogwarts and portraying Anthony’s Werewolf Experience Candy as a malicious experiment, prompting students to protest after the Daily Prophet published the accusation.

• Anthony sorted his belongings and planned to conceal illegal items using an Elephant-Eating Vine.
• Editor Aibo visited Professor Harris in the Hospital Wing, where Harris reported finding a substance like Werewolf Venom in the candy.
• Aibo destroyed Harris’s research and ordered him to claim the candy was diluted Werewolf blood and that Anthony was experimenting on students.
• Harris agreed to follow Aibo’s orders, and Aibo told him to leave Hogwarts with his students before Dumbledore returned.
• After the Daily Prophet published the accusation, Draco, Harry, and students from several houses denounced it as slander while Professor McGonagall ordered calm and Professor Snape went to locate Harris.

Professor McGonagall led Hogwarts staff and students toward the Hospital Wing to confront Professor Harris, but a Patronus revealed that Dumbledore had collapsed under a sinister Curse. As the school braced for war, rumors linking the Curse to Werewolf Venom spread through the Wizarding World.

• Professor Snape praised Draco, and students from across Hogwarts joined the Professors as they headed for the Hospital Wing.
• A Lynx Patronus delivered Kingsley Shacklebolt’s message that Dumbledore had collapsed at a meeting and was being taken to St Mungo’s with a sinister Curse on his hand.
• Professor McGonagall ordered the students back to their Dormitories, told the Professors to fulfill their duties, and sent Hagrid to St Mungo’s.
• Professor Lupin and Editor Aibo urged Professor McGonagall to bring Anton back, while Professor Snape proposed moving Professor Harris elsewhere.
• Parents and School Governors overwhelmed Hogwarts with letters and demands as rumors connected Werewolf Experience Candy to Dumbledore’s Curse.
• Rita published an article suggesting Dumbledore’s Curse might be Werewolf Venom, while Professor Sneffru confirmed only that Werewolf Venom counted as a Curse.