Chapter Summaries

Anton learned the Levitation Charm from the Old Wizard, who offered to teach him Potions in exchange for Anton eventually helping him create a new Vessel. The Old Wizard revealed that everyone else who had taken the Wizard’s Eye potion was dead, leaving Anton shocked and furious.

• Anton memorized the Old Wizard’s diary, planned to leave for the French coast, and prepared to store his books and diary in a Gringotts vault.
• The Old Wizard returned and taught Anton the Levitation Charm, helping him raise a chair with Wingardium Leviosa.
• Anton questioned the Old Wizard’s motives, and the Old Wizard offered to teach him Potions, his true specialty.
• The Old Wizard asked Anton to make enough Wizard’s Eye potion to create another Vessel so he could experience life again, promising to wait until Anton was strong enough to destroy it.
• The Old Wizard revealed that everyone else who had drunk the Wizard’s Eye potion was dead, and Anton cast the Cruciatus Curse at him in anger.

Anton prepared to become the Old Wizard’s Potions apprentice and learned how to exchange money at the Wandering Wizard Camp. On the way to Carmella’s café, the Old Wizard revealed that Anton had died as a child and been revived during a Demon-Summoning experiment, leaving Anton shaken as they arrived at the barren mountain.

• Anton returned the Old Wizard’s diary and textbooks to Gringotts, bought schoolbooks and Potion Ingredients, and gave Old Tom magical dentures.
• The Old Wizard told Anton about the Wandering Wizard Camp’s better exchange rates and explained how to disguise himself before visiting Carmella’s café.
• Anton asked how he had become the Old Wizard’s apprentice, explaining that the Cruciatus Curse had left him unable to remember his past.
• The Old Wizard said Anton had been sold to him as a child, died during a Demon-Summoning experiment, and then came back to life.
• Anton was stunned by the revelation, and the pair reached the barren mountain where Carmella’s café was located.

Anton entered the Snot Bubble Music Hall disguised as an old wizard and joined its premium roundtable gathering. There, Pete introduced a rumor that Voldemort was alive and hiding in Albania, while a covered iron cage stirred speculation among the gathered dark wizards.

• Anton disguised himself as a strange old wizard and entered the cave where the Snot Bubble Music Hall operated.
• A leather-jacketed wizard gave Anton a golden bouquet after Anton recognized the gathering place as a forum.
• Anton followed Snape into the hall’s premium roundtable area and waited with the other golden-bouquet holders.
• The host introduced Pete as the roundtable’s seller and revealed a huge iron cage hidden beneath a black cloth.
• Pete said Voldemort was rumored to be alive and recuperating in Albania, prompting an uproar among the dark wizards.

At an underground auction, Anton recognized the injured snake as Nagini and realized his actions might have altered Voldemort’s history. After Snape won the snake, Anton left the gathering, but Snape disarmed him before he reached his broomstick.

• A young punk’s You-Know-Who stunt angered the crowd, but Snape persuaded Tucker to continue the auction.
• Pete revealed a wounded snake from Albania, and a brief transformation showed its head as that of an Eastern Woman.
• Anton recognized the snake as Nagini and wondered whether saving Pete had changed her meeting with Voldemort.
• Snape won Nagini at auction after the Bearded Giant’s joke deterred other bidders.
• Anton exchanged money for Pound Sterling and left the gathering, but Snape hit him with Expelliarmus and knocked away his Wand.

Anton encountered Snape on a remote mountain and pretended to be his devoted admirer to avoid being attacked. After Snape recognized him as the boy who had sold him Moonlight Turtle Brain, he examined Anton’s potion notes and taught him how to improve the formula, leaving Anton newly inspired to study Potions.

• Snape caught Anton following him, and Anton hid his identity before claiming Snape was his idol.
• Snape disappeared after Anton staged an emotional display, but he returned and disarmed Anton, recognizing him from the Leaky Cauldron.
• Anton claimed Snape had helped him during a desperate time and challenged him to a duel over the insult of being doubted.
• Snape accepted Anton’s potion notes, praised the formula’s originality, and spent an hour explaining how to simplify it.
• The Old Wizard studied Snape’s annotations and admitted that his own thinking had changed since becoming a ghost.
• Anton decided Snape was truly his idol and hoped to study at Hogwarts and seek his advice honestly.

After losing their way at sea, Anton learned that the Old Wizard’s will was slowly fading, and promised to find a way to preserve it. The Old Wizard taught Anton to use Wizard Will to create a guiding Charm, and Anton succeeded before the Old Wizard hinted that his supposedly dead teacher was still involved in his death.

• After three days of flying without finding their destination, Anton listened as the Old Wizard explained that his will was fading and that a Ghost would eventually be only a mass of memories.
• Anton urged the Old Wizard to teach him everything so he could use the Crackling Curse to preserve his will or give him a new body.
• The Old Wizard taught Anton that Wizard Will could command Magical Power and the world, then showed him how to make a Revealing Charm point toward a desired address.
• After spending three more days practicing on the beach, Anton made the glowing arrow point in the direction they needed to go.
• The Old Wizard said his teacher had killed him with Fiendfyre Liquid and hinted that his teacher was still alive.

Anton visited Goblin Pedro with Lupin and discovered Pedro’s disagreement with the Old Wizard about magical transformations. The Old Wizard appeared as a headless Ghost, and Pedro realized Anton’s teacher had died by decapitation, leaving Anton shocked to learn Pedro was the Old Wizard’s teacher.

• Anton arrived at Pedro’s island and followed Anna Rosier into Pedro’s laboratory, where Lupin was awake but still recovering.
• Pedro showed Anton an enormous Time-Turner and used a mound of Sand to reveal Lupin’s transformation into a Werewolf.
• Pedro argued that the Old Wizard’s theory about Werewolves and magical Animagi was ignorant, then asked Anton whether he had given his teacher the Potions.
• Anton admitted he had given the Potions to his teacher, and the Old Wizard’s headless body rose from the Sand to confirm it.
• Pedro recognized the Old Wizard as his former teacher and realized he had been decapitated; Anton stared at them in shock.

Anton learned that Lupin’s uncle Fiennes suffered lasting effects from a Cruciatus Curse fixed in his body during a Werewolf transformation. Pedro refused to let Anton attempt the Old Wizard’s proposed cure, fearing that curing Fiennes would trigger Pedro’s Unbreakable Vow and kill him.

• The Old Wizard and Pedro argued over their past and whether Werewolves and Animagi shared the same magical nature.
• Pedro demonstrated how a Werewolf’s transformation left an unstable magical state that soul-based Charms could affect.
• Pedro explained that Fiennes’s weakened Cruciatus Curse would be difficult to remove and would require at least six full-moon sessions using Pedro’s method.
• The Old Wizard proposed using a Displacement Soul Curse and a Wizard’s Eye Potion to make the transformation expel the foreign magic.
• Anton offered to brew the potion, but Pedro refused to let him treat Fiennes because the Unbreakable Vow could kill Pedro if Fiennes was cured.

Anton stayed in the Goblins’ home and practiced the Soul-Reversing Charm in the forest, where Anna Rosier discovered he was using Dark Magic. Anna explained that her mother had abandoned Dark Magic after her aunt died by suicide following her husband’s affair.

• Anna showed Anton the treehouses and explained how House-elves handled laundry and meals.
• Anton chose a treehouse, then went into the forest to practice the Soul-Reversing Charm.
• Anna asked Anton about the unfamiliar spell, and he told her it was Dark Magic used to displace souls.
• Anna said her mother’s book contained no Dark Magic and explained that her aunt had gone mad after her uncle brought home another woman and a child.
• Anna told Anton that her aunt had jumped from a flying broomstick to her death, after which her mother believed Dark Magic brought bad luck and stopped studying it.

Anton stopped practicing the Displacement Soul Curse and learned from the Old Wizard that Dark Magic drew power from lived experience and unwavering will. The Old Wizard began teaching him the Shield Charm in depth, and Anton left his studies when Anna summoned him to Pedro’s for the full moon.

• The Old Wizard explained that life left Traces in memory and the soul, and that experience and will shaped Dark Magic.
• Anton wrote down the lesson, then learned that mastering the Shield Charm required Wizard Will and command over magical power.
• The Old Wizard shared the details of his 384 Shield Charm castings while Anton filled his cabin with notes.
• Anna told Anton that Pedro wanted him at the Wooden Cabin for the full moon, and Anton showed her the study materials his teacher had given him.

Anton prepared to assist Pedro with Lupin’s surgery, but Snape arrived with a dying snake just before moonrise, creating an unexpected complication. Pedro examined the snake and found only a woman whose soul had become a snake; as Snape left, he spotted Lupin in the hall.

• Anton came downstairs and heard the Old Wizard tease Pedro about a potion and the Goblin Treasure Magic Rune.
• Pedro prepared a Magical-Sense Amplifier and a tentacled cage for Lupin’s upcoming surgery as moonrise approached.
• Snape arrived carrying an enormous viper in an iron cage, and Anna fainted when she saw the snake.
• Pedro examined the viper with his Goblin’s Eye and said its soul belonged to a woman transformed into a snake.
• Snape left the viper with Pedro as compensation, then noticed Lupin in the hall.

Snape attacked Lupin in Pedro’s infirmary, and the battle plunged the hall into chaos as Lupin began transforming into a werewolf. Anton helped Anna save her enormous Time-Turner machine in a Suitcase, then left with her as the infirmary continued to collapse.

• Snape tried to kill Lupin, but Pedro blocked his attack and challenged him to leave the infirmary.
• Anton tested whether a Shield Charm could protect the floor and realized it could withstand Snape’s Sectumsempra.
• Lupin began transforming, Anna fled toward the workshop, and Pedro, Snape, and the Old Wizard joined the battle amid the destruction.
• Anna insisted that the Time-Turner machine mattered more than her life, so Anton helped her reach it through the collapsing hall.
• Anton used Wingardium Leviosa to move the eight-meter machine into a Suitcase, and Anna hugged it and kissed him on the cheek.

Anton escaped the cabin’s explosion with Anna and rescued Pedro, while Snape and the Werewolf fought on the island. After Snape revealed his bitterness toward Lupin and attacked him, Anton returned to face Snape, admitting he might be an idiot.

• The cabin’s Undetectable Extension Charm cracked, blasting its contents outward, and Anton escaped with Anna on the Flying Broomstick.
• Snape struck Pedro with a powerful spell, and Anton’s broom caught the falling goblin before the Werewolf attacked Snape.
• Anton begged Snape not to kill the Werewolf, then fled after Snape’s spells narrowly missed him.
• Snape accused Lupin of betraying him and blamed him for Lily’s death before casting Sectumsempra.
• The Werewolf deflected Snape’s Sectumsempra with Protego, and Anton returned alone as Snape challenged him.

Anton defeated Snape’s attack long enough to save Lupin, but his powerful spell left him badly injured. After waking, he reunited with Anna and learned that her father would be away for half a year, leaving them with nowhere to go.

• Anton used the Displacement Soul Curse and a hidden second wand to protect Lupin from Snape, then collapsed after Snape stunned him and gave him a potion.
• Anton woke beside the Old Wizard, found Lupin alive, and learned that Anna and Pedro were floating offshore.
• Anton flew to Anna, who embraced him and called him her best friend.
• Anton brought Anna and Pedro back to the ruined island and asked Anna if they could stay at her home.
• Anna explained that she could not reach her family’s hidden manor without her father, who would not return for about half a year, and Anton realized she had a Blood-Cursed Werewolf illness.

Anton traveled toward France with the companions who had come to depend on him. Later, Remus John Lupin took over a London information consulting company under disguise, but employee Ilsa recognized him as a Werewolf and challenged him on the night of the full moon.

• Anton pointed the group toward France, and the Old Wizard sang a prophecy as they crossed the sea on a Wooden Plank pulled by a Flying Broomstick.
• Remus John Lupin arrived at Chada Information Consulting Company as its new manager and introduced himself to the employees.
• Lupin met individually with the staff, winning their approval while Ilsa watched him suspiciously.
• Ilsa confronted Lupin in his office, revealed that she knew he was a Werewolf, and threatened to call the Ministry of Magic because it was the full moon.
• Ilsa proposed a welcome dinner and left, while Lupin drank his coffee and revealed that he was using Polyjuice Potion.

Anton settled into his new home in Britain and planned for Lupin to work while he resumed his Potions studies. Anna told Anton that her large Time-Turner was nearly finished and asked him to accompany her somewhere, despite his warnings about the dangers of time travel.

• After Ilsa left, Anton transformed from Lupin back into a ten-year-old and joined Anna at the apartment.
• Anton celebrated having a home of his own and agreed with the Old Wizard to resume Potions lessons while Lupin returned to work.
• Anton encouraged Lupin to pursue a life in Muggle society and find his own way of supporting himself.
• Anton fed the Snake kept in a room, then found Anna waiting for him after she admitted that snakes frightened her.
• Anna said her large Time-Turner was nearly finished and asked Anton to accompany her; when he suggested waiting for Pedro or her father, she said she was trying to avoid them.

Fiennes taught Anton that brewing Potions depended on a wizard’s will and emotions, while Lupin began managing the company and found himself agreeing to dinner with Ilsa. The chapter ended with Lupin flustered by the date and wondering where Anton was.

• Fiennes explained to Anton that Potions had dynamic Magic Images and that a brewer’s emotions affected a potion’s Traits.
• A Snake inspected Goblin Pedro’s room, then watched a girl working on machinery inside an enormous Suitcase.
• Lupin dressed carefully and went to the Chada Information Consulting Company, where he found the staff working efficiently.
• Ilsa visited Lupin’s office, apologized for the previous day, and asked him to have dinner with her.
• Lupin tried to respond calmly but Ilsa treated his hesitation as agreement and left, leaving him flustered.

Anton revealed his new Biomimicry Charm, which let him transform into a naturally invisible spore creature and back again. He told Lupin that continued research might one day turn Werewolves and Blood-Cursed Werewolves into humans, leaving Lupin overwhelmed with hope.

• Anton demonstrated a Color-Changing Windbird and showed how it vanished from sight without the invisible light of a Molopi Pavilion crystal.
• Anton used his Biomimicry Charm to transform into the bird and back, explaining that the reversible magic imitated magical herbs rather than using Transfiguration.
• Anton told Lupin that further research might let him turn Werewolves and Blood-Cursed Werewolves into humans.
• Lupin broke down in tears and said he would wait as long as necessary for the chance to become human again.
• Anton promised the old wizard that he would fulfill Lupin's hope.

Anton and Anna used her completed Time-Turner to travel to the past so Anna could see her mother, but they arrived in 1953 and Anton discovered that Anna had been frozen for thirty-six years. Anna revealed that she had only lived for ten years, and the chapter left them facing how much the world had changed.

• Anton prepared to travel with Anna after the full moon, while Lupin continued managing the company and supporting the household.
• Anna led Anton into her Mechanical Factory and told him that her mother had died protecting her from a snake, and that she wanted to see her again.
• Anton cautioned Anna that Time-Turners could not change the past, but agreed to go with her for a brief visit.
• Anna activated the oversized Time-Turner, and magical smoke spread through the house before the machine transported them.
• Anton and Anna arrived in London in 1953, where Anna explained that she had been frozen after her mother's death and thawed two years earlier.
• Anna told Anton that she had lived only ten years despite thirty-six years having passed, and that her tenth birthday was only days away.

Anton and Anna traveled back to Manyflower Manor, where Anna learned that her mother, Nagini, had loved her and planned to seek help lifting Anna’s bloodline curse. Anton recognized Nagini from stories, then discovered that the Old Wizard and his teacher had also arrived in the past.

• Anton and Anna turned into birds, flew to Manyflower Manor, and secretly watched the room where Anna had once slept.
• Anna overheard Nagini tell Andrei Rosier that she regretted Anna’s birth, but Anton helped her see that Nagini’s words came from grief and that she loved her.
• Andrei persuaded Nagini to visit Pedro and ask him to lift the blood curse that threatened Anna.
• Anton and Anna followed the couple to Knockturn Alley, where Anton recognized Anna’s mother as Nagini.
• The Old Wizard appeared holding his own head and told Anton that his teacher had entered the Safe House.