Chapter Summaries

Anton fashioned a Pale Spine Bone into a makeshift wand in Azkaban and began investigating how Dementors and Aurors communicated. He then used a Doll to return to Hogsmeade, where Anna told him Dumbledore’s Resurrection Ritual was nearing its start.

• Anton condensed the blood in Dolohov’s cell into a Pale Spine Bone, repaired the cell, and tested the bone as a wand.
• Anton watched Aurors and Dementors exchange information, observing fine milky-white threads between their souls.
• Anton’s Doll awakened in Hogsmeade, where Anna told him the Resurrection Ritual for Dumbledore would begin in three days.
• Anton warned Anna to stay close to her parents, then took the Vanishing Cabinet to Hogwarts to look something up.
• Fiennes borrowed a Dark Arts book from Madam Pince while Aurors guarded the library.

Anton used Fiennes's Puppet Body to read a restricted Dark Arts book in the Hogwarts library, then advised Terry Boot on correcting a weak antidote. He left impressed by Boot's talent and considered recruiting him to Cabin for odd jobs.

• Anton used Fiennes's Puppet Body to read Secrets to Tell You, and Madam Pince briefly questioned him about reading a restricted book.
• Terry Boot approached Anton to ask for help with a poison and antidote he had made for a friend.
• Anton told Boot to add saliva to the antidote, explaining Golpalott's Third Law and identifying the potion's ingredients.
• Boot left with his bottles and resumed studying among a pile of books.
• Anton finished reading and decided he might recruit Boot to Cabin after returning to school.

Anton discovered how Hogwarts’ basic lessons formed the foundations of advanced magic, then saw Dumbledore return to the school despite knowing the real Dumbledore was dead. He recognized Grindelwald’s Confundus Charm behind the apparent resurrection and returned to Azkaban, deciding to wait while preparing to write three books.

• Anton read about dangerous message-sending spells and reflected on how Hogwarts’ lessons built the foundations of advanced magic.
• Anton saw Dumbledore descend the stairs with the Professors and students celebrating his return.
• Anton detected Grindelwald’s Confundus Charm on Dumbledore and realized that Grindelwald was using him as a stand-in.
• Anton returned to Azkaban and decided not to interfere with the others’ plans.
• Anton began preparing to write The Wisdom of Dumbledore, On Everything About Werewolves, and Prisoner of Azkaban.

Anton used the Pale Spine to inspect a Dementor and was overwhelmed by the negative memories and emotions of humanity. He held onto his sense of self, unleashed a vast silver manifestation of the Patronus Charm, and left the Death Eaters in Azkaban smiling as it drew out their happy memories.

• Anton entered a Dementor's soul and discovered a vast ocean of humanity's memories and negative emotions that began to overwhelm him.
• Anton resisted the invading thoughts, realizing that his firm will and true self gave rise to the Ray of Sunshine Charm.
• Anton cast Expecto Patronum, summoning a Color-Changing Windbird that illuminated the ocean and revealed a gigantic Dementor formed from humanity's negative emotions.
• Anton spotted traces of other people's Charms beneath the gigantic Dementor's robes, including Snape's Patronus Charm, and his distraction caused his Patronus to explode.
• In Azkaban, the silver ocean poured from Anton's cell and swept through the prison, breaking the Death Eaters' soul restraints and drawing out their happy memories.

Anton’s spellwork with the Pale Spine and a Dementor unleashed waves of shifting emotions across Azkaban, while Dumbledore led Lucius and Scrimgeour to the prison. Grindelwald recognized the magic from outside the castle, where he remained protected by Dumbledore’s spells.

• Anton found himself connected to a Dementor as the Pale Spine flooded the cells with silver light, and his mind surged with memories and magical power.
• Anton used the Memory Charm to adjust the spell, making Sirius and the other prisoners cycle through laughter, grief, rage, despair, and calm.
• Anton changed the spell again, spreading a wave of despair across Azkaban before turning it into warmth and peace, though Sirius continued to sob and laugh erratically.
• Lucius, anxious about Voldemort’s imprisonment, agreed to follow Dumbledore’s lead, and the three men went to Scrimgeour’s home before setting off for Azkaban.
• Silver light poured from Azkaban as Lucius and Scrimgeour arrived, and they were swept into emotional outbursts while Grindelwald recognized Anton’s spellcasting from outside the castle.

Anton struggled to control a spell drawing information from the Dementor World while Grindelwald argued that the wizarding world faced a growing threat from Muggles. Grindelwald urged Anton to join his cause, claiming Anton’s Werewolf Experience Candy made him uniquely capable of changing the world.

• Anton continued using the Pale Spine and considered researching the Dementor World, but he could not control the spell’s intensity or stop its effects.
• Grindelwald arrived, saw Anton’s altered hand, the Pale Spine, and three Dementors, then argued that modern technology made conflict between Muggles and wizards increasingly dangerous.
• Anton said wizards could maintain a balance with Muggles, but Grindelwald warned that Muggles secretly captured wizards and studied them as aliens.
• Grindelwald showed Anton an image of a Giant being experimented on and argued that wizards had fought other intelligent species to secure their survival.
• Grindelwald told Anton that the Werewolf Experience Candy affected people with wizard blood but not ordinary Muggles, and said Anton was unique and would change the world.

Anton explored the Dementor World and discovered that Muggles also produced magical energy, inspiring him to investigate whether he could give them magical bloodlines. After enduring the negative information, he evolved his Ray of Sunshine into a Ball of Sunshine, while the Death Eaters woke in terror.

• Anton traced black soul threads through the Dementor World and found a Muggle’s thoughts among the negative information.
• Anton recalled how magic could awaken in Squibs and considered using a Biomimicry Charm to give Muggles magical abilities.
• Anton decided he might begin experimenting with Squibs and Muggles who had wizard blood, possibly with Grindelwald’s funding.
• Anton discovered that his Ray of Sunshine had evolved into a Ball of Sunshine after withstanding the Dementor World’s negative information.
• Anton recorded his observations as the Dementor and Death Eaters woke; Rabastan Lestrange broke down and begged to go home, alarming Rodolphus Lestrange.

Anton rejected joining either Grindelwald’s or Dumbledore’s side and focused on studying magic and writing his books. While drafting a provocative preface for Everything About Werewolves, he decided to claim that Pure-bloods were actually Half-bloods and that he himself belonged to the Weasley family.

• Anton reasoned that Wizarding wars mainly destroyed Pure-blood families and decided to stay out of political factions.
• Anton struggled to understand Dumbledore’s advanced Transfiguration knowledge but continued writing The Wisdom of Dumbledore and Everything About Werewolves.
• Anton included detailed Werewolf research and developed a costly recipe for Werewolf Experience Candy.
• Anton drafted a false prison-themed preface for his book, then replaced it with a claim that Pure-bloods were the real Half-bloods.
• Anton invented a claim that he was born into the Weasley family and anticipated that the revelation would cause greater turmoil.

While imprisoned in Azkaban, Anton refined his Human Deformation Removal Potion and developed ideas about creating and controlling transformed beings. After deciding to experiment on a Death Eater, he let Rabastan go and accepted Rodolphus’s offer to take his place.

• Anton revised the Human Deformation Removal Potion into a cheaper, easier-to-brew formula using a wolf's heart and a hyena's lung as primary ingredients.
• Anton added the revised formula to Everything About Werewolves and considered creating Werewolves through connections between individuals, which he could later sever with a Soul Scalpel.
• Rabastan Lestrange's screams interrupted Anton, and Anton restrained him with magic and pressed the Pale Spine to his forehead.
• Rodolphus begged Anton to spare Rabastan, then offered himself as an experimental subject because his Magical Power was stronger.
• Anton agreed to experiment on Rodolphus and levitated him toward himself.

Anton experimented with Human Transfiguration on Rodolphus in Azkaban, using the Death Eater’s emotions, memories, body, and magic to create a new kind of magical transformation. The chapter ended with Rodolphus becoming an antlered Great White Bear and Anton imagining a tribe of them.

• Anton told the Azkaban Death Eaters that Voldemort had died and described his connections to Voldemort and Barty Crouch Jr.
• Anton used Rodolphus’s intense emotions and magic as ingredients for his incomplete transformation experiment.
• Anton plunged the Pale Spine into Rodolphus and triggered a reaction that made the Death Eaters feel their Dark Marks.
• Anton told the prisoners that he had transformed Barty Crouch Jr. into a Runespoor, pushing Rodolphus’s emotions to extremes.
• Rodolphus transformed into a twelve-foot antlered Great White Bear and tore apart his cell bars.

Anton fought Rodolphus in Great White Bear form, studied the creature’s abilities, and concluded that Rodolphus’s pleasure in violence showed he was losing control of his emotions to Dark Magic. The chapter ended with Anton piercing Rodolphus’s skull with Black Threads as Rodolphus convulsed in terror.

• Anton observed a Soul Black Line connecting him to Rodolphus and wondered whether he could use it to control or cast Charms on him.
• Rodolphus transformed into a Great White Bear, charged Anton, and wounded him despite his Dragon Hide.
• Anton transformed into a Giant Werewolf, used his speed to overpower Rodolphus, and bound him with ropes.
• Anton tested Rodolphus’s magical resistance and sensed the conflicted pleasure beneath his demand to be killed.
• Anton told Rodolphus that Dark Magic was making him a slave to Magical Power, then pierced his skull with Black Threads as Rodolphus convulsed.

Anton pulled Rodolphus out of his Great White Bear body and explained how uncontrolled Dark Magic had twisted his mind and soul. After driving off the Dementors, Anton transformed Rodolphus back into a human, leaving him relieved and newly able to examine his feelings.

• Anton pulled Rodolphus's soul from the Great White Bear, and Rodolphus mistakenly believed he had become a Ghost.
• Augustus Rookwood warned Rodolphus that he was still alive and needed to return to his body before a magical fluctuation or Dementor killed him.
• Anton knocked down a Dementor that attacked him, then used his Patronus to drive the Dementors away.
• Anton explained that Rodolphus's uncontrolled Dark Magic had affected his emotions, mind, and soul.
• Anton transformed the Great White Bear's antlers and sent Rodolphus back into its body, then changed him into a human and repaired his cell.
• Rodolphus thanked Anton and felt free of his former mental burden as he reconsidered his feelings about his family, the Dark Lord, and Bella.

In Azkaban, Anton tried to write Prisoner of Azkaban while Rodolphus’s crying and laughing repeatedly disrupted him. Rodolphus transformed into a Great White Bear and seized Bellatrix, giving Anton a dramatic scene to record as he finally began his book.

• Anton left his cell to threaten Rodolphus for laughing and crying while he tried to write.
• When Rodolphus asked Anton to kill him, Anton dragged him into the corridor and urged him to transform into a Great White Bear.
• Rodolphus sobbed until Anton returned to writing, then transformed into an Antlered Great White Bear and tore the bars from his cell.
• Rodolphus grabbed Bellatrix Lestrange from the neighboring cell and accused her of belonging to the Dark Lord rather than being his wife.
• Anton recorded the confrontation and reflected on the despair of Azkaban, pleased that he had finally begun writing his book.

As reports of upheaval spread through the wizarding and Muggle worlds, Grindelwald pressed Lucius to pursue a partnership that could advance the Malfoys’ interests. Lucius agreed to meet Remus Lupin, but he and Narcissa remained fearful for their family’s future.

• The Daily Prophet reported a surge of stories about wizarding affairs and a Muggle forum collecting evidence of wizards’ whereabouts.
• Grindelwald told Lucius that changing people’s circumstances could force change across the wizarding community, then directed him to visit Anthony Weasley in Azkaban with parchment and a quill.
• Lucius warned that Anthony was actually the Dark Lord, but Grindelwald dismissed the claim as irrelevant.
• Narcissa told Lucius that Remus Lupin had arrived, and Grindelwald said Lupin represented Dumbledore before leaving.
• Lucius reassured Narcissa about Draco and asked whether she would be willing to share his grave; she clasped his hand as they faced the uncertain future.

While imprisoned in Azkaban, Anton completed a radically revised book on werewolves and developed new ideas about Transfiguration and self-perception. He revealed to Lucius that he had swallowed Voldemort and now considered himself Anthony Weasley, or Anton.

• Anton revised his werewolf book into Muggles, Werewolves, and Pure-bloods, adding theories about how magic, memory, curses, and Transfiguration could affect bodies and bloodlines.
• Aurors escorted Anton to a guarded cell, where Lucius met with him.
• Lucius asked to speak with the Dark Lord possessing Anton, and Anton told him Voldemort was dead.
• Anton transformed into a snake and then Voldemort before returning to his own appearance and declaring that he had swallowed the Dark Lord.
• Anton explained that self-perception was the key to Transfiguration and said he was Anthony Weasley, though he preferred to be called Anton.

Lucius visited Anton in prison with supplies and messages from Grindelwald, Dumbledore, Lupin, and the Death Eaters. After Anton revealed his power and handed Lucius a book about Werewolf Experience Candy to publish, Lucius decided to ally himself with Anton and protect Draco.

• Lucius brought Anton fine Parchment and explained that Grindelwald wanted him to publish a book about Werewolf Experience Candy.
• Anton silently used Wandless Magic to write and assemble the book while Lucius watched in alarm.
• Lucius relayed messages from Grindelwald, Dumbledore through Remus, Lupin, and the Death Eaters, then asked Anton to leave Draco alone.
• Anton said Draco was his friend, gave Lucius the book to publish, and promised to protect him and his family if Lucius helped him.
• Lucius suspected Anton had been the Dark Lord all along, decided to bet on Anton, and agreed to arrange publication.
• Anton warned Lucius to practice Occlumency because his thoughts were easy to read.

Anthony was escorted through Azkaban as prisoners chanted his name, leaving the Death Eaters to confront the apparent end of Voldemort’s era. He reached his cell and ignored their despair, continuing to ponder the connection between the Dementors and the Castle.

• Anthony was led through Azkaban and reflected on the prison’s history and its Dementor guards.
• Prisoners throughout the Castle recognized Anthony and began chanting, “Weasley, our King!”
• The Aurors escorting Anthony grew frightened by the chant, while the Death Eaters watched him pass and questioned whether Voldemort’s era had ended.
• A prisoner shouted the chant, Bella roared that he had betrayed Voldemort, and the Death Eaters fell into grief and silence.
• Anthony entered his cell, rolled his eyes, and returned to thinking about Dementors and Azkaban Castle.

Anton examined the magic behind Human Transfiguration and discussed the possibilities of magic beyond combat. Augustus Rookwood offered to help Anton obtain records about an Ancient Wizard named Phoenix in exchange for freedom, and Anton prepared to study Rookwood’s Dark Mark.

• Anton examined the Great White Bear’s heart and lungs while trying to understand Human Transfiguration, then changed him back into a human.
• Rookwood told Anton that the Ancient Wizard Phoenix had studied transformation and that Vampires, Scarecrow Goblins, and Silent Birds had appeared during his lifetime.
• Anton identified Silent Birds as Fantastic Beasts whose feathers were used in Veritaserum and Memory Potion, and said Professor Voldemort had taught him about Scarecrow Goblins.
• Rookwood revealed that he and the other imprisoned Death Eaters had clung to the belief that their master would return, but that hope had collapsed after Voldemort’s defeat.
• Rookwood offered to work for Anton and retrieve Phoenix’s documents from the Department of Mysteries if Anton helped him escape Azkaban.
• Anton said he was also a prisoner, then took out the Pale Spine and asked Rookwood to expose his arm so he could study the Dark Mark.

Anton removed the Dark Mark from Rookwood and created a weaker tracking mark of his own, then discovered how the Antlered Great White Bear transformation affected wizard bloodlines. By applying one of his Magic Images to Rookwood, Anton gave the transformed bear Thestral wings, linking his discoveries to Fiennes's Spell Slot research.

• Anton used the Pale Spine and Soul Scalpel to sever Rookwood's connection to the Dark Mark, causing its skull-and-serpent image to vanish.
• Rookwood asked Anton to brand him with a new mark, and Anton told him to treat them as equals before giving him a pared-down tracking connection.
• Anton transformed Rookwood into an Antlered Great White Bear and saw Soul Black Lines move between the wizard's bloodline symbols and a newly formed symbol.
• Anton realized the bear transformation could bestow a magical bloodline on wizards, animals, and Muggles, and connected the discovery to Fiennes's Spell Slot research.
• Anton projected a Magic Image into Rookwood's soul, causing a huge Thestral wing to grow from the transformed bear's back.

Anton recruited Rookwood as an intelligence partner and used his new magic to conceal him as if dead, allowing him to escape Azkaban. Three days later, Rookwood emerged from his grave with bat wings and a new mark, ready to prove his loyalty to Anton.

• Anton asked Rookwood to retrieve files from the Department of Mysteries, leave half the gold in his Gringotts vault, and gather intelligence about the international wizarding world.
• Anton repaired Rookwood’s damaged soul and placed him in suspended animation inside the Dementor Ocean, which would last about three days.
• After Aurors found Rookwood apparently dead, they removed his body from Azkaban and buried him in the cemetery.
• The Death Eaters feared Anton after one prisoner blamed him for Rookwood’s death, and Anton transformed the man into a Great White Bear.
• Three days later, Rookwood climbed out of his grave, revealed bat wings and a mark meaning “wisdom,” and promised Anton he would not let him down.