Chapter Summaries

Anton studied how Soul Black Lines connected memories to collective consciousness and discovered how animal memories powered Transfiguration while affecting a wizard’s strength and instincts. He experimented on the battlefield, ending with a transformed Dark Wizard forcing open a Troll’s jaws.

• Anton altered the battlefield’s silver and gray-black mist, making transformed animals grow either more vicious or more intelligent.
• Anton realized Transfiguration drew on the Fantastic Beast Collective Consciousness River, as animal memories reshaped a wizard’s body through magic.
• Anton repeatedly made a Dark Wizard transform into a chimpanzee and revert while the wizard fought a River Troll, observing how the shifting spells left him vulnerable.
• Anton concluded that animal memories affected a wizard’s Ego, emotions, will, and magical power, and estimated the transformed wizard’s power could rival Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick.
• Anton added A Ray of Sunshine to the mist, and the transformed Dark Wizard braced the River Troll’s jaws open from inside its mouth.

Amy Miller followed Anthony Weasley after he defeated the Dark Wizards at a river battlefield, where she learned that the legendary King Weasley was an Auror whose power surpassed anything she had seen. Sentenced to two years in Azkaban for her part in the coerced attack, Amy looked forward to going where Anthony had once been imprisoned.

• Amy remembered how she had refused Hogwarts to study under a Witch, whose murder at a Dark Wizard market left her alone in the Borderlands.
• Amy watched Anthony Weasley emerge from a wall of fire and kill Dark Wizards with Transfiguration, then followed him after he ignored her offer of submission.
• At the river battlefield, Anthony transformed the Dark Wizards and creatures into Beasts, then removed the transformations and bound everyone with a valley-wide Full Body-Bind Curse as hundreds of Aurors arrived.
• Aurors carried the wounded Old Ronaldo from the valley after he defended a Mandrake against powerful Dark Wizards, and Anthony treated his injuries before taking him toward St Mungo's.
• Amy and the other coerced participants received two-year sentences, while the more culpable Dark Wizards were sent to Azkaban for serious crimes.
• As she was taken to Azkaban, Amy felt anticipation because it was the prison where Anthony had once been held.

Anton visited Old Ronaldo in St Mungo’s, where the injured Auror explained that he expected to be pushed out of the Auror Office and advised Anton to avoid Dumbledore’s faction. The visit ended with Anton using magic to make Ronaldo a cup of fresh apple juice.

• Anton learned about St Mungo’s departments and the dangers of Dragon Pox before visiting Old Ronaldo in his hospital ward.
• Old Ronaldo said Fudge and Scrimgeour might use his injury to weaken Mad-Eye’s influence and transfer him from the Auror Office.
• Anton asked whether he could still be Old Ronaldo’s apprentice, but Ronaldo said Scrimgeour would likely prevent it.
• Old Ronaldo advised Anton to stay away from Dumbledore’s faction and praised Scrimgeour as a powerful ally.
• Anton transformed an apple into juice and floated the cup over to an envious Old Ronaldo.

Anthony attended a Ministry ceremony where old Ronaldo received a First Class Order of Merlin medal and learned he would head the Department of Magical Transportation. At the gathering, Remus decided to approach his estranged father, while Anthony reflected on adult obligations and affirmed that he could still leave the political world whenever he wanted.

• Fudge praised his Ministry's achievements as Anthony pushed old Ronaldo to the ceremony, where Ronaldo learned he would lead the Department of Magical Transportation.
• Old Ronaldo explained that the department's powerful subordinate offices would make his new post politically precarious, then urged Anthony to seek Scrimgeour's support.
• Anthony met Remus and Arthur, who teased that Remus might eventually become his father Lyall's superior in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.
• Arthur explained that Remus would need the Lupin family's help to advance, and Remus chose to go speak with Lyall despite their painful history.
• Anthony told Arthur he could leave the adult political world whenever he wanted and felt increasingly sure of his magical path.

Anton returned to the Auror Office to submit a report and learned that Grindelwald had predicted he would become Scrimgeour’s subordinate. Scrimgeour revealed that Grindelwald had promised to support the Auror Office and Ministry when Voldemort returned, leaving Anton stunned by how deeply Grindelwald had shaped events.

• Fudge sent Old Ronaldo to apologize to Anton for being unable to make him a full Auror, and Anton returned to the Auror Office the next day.
• Anton gave Scrimgeour the report Old Ronaldo had helped him write, and Scrimgeour questioned what Old Ronaldo meant by its wording.
• Scrimgeour listed the powerful people who had intervened on Anton’s behalf and asked whether Voldemort had returned; Anton confirmed that Voldemort had possessed a professor and taught at the school.
• Anton explained that Dumbledore had tried to warn the public but had been silenced, and Scrimgeour recalled Dumbledore visiting him with Lucius after recovering.
• Scrimgeour said Grindelwald had promised to support him, the Auror Office, and the Ministry when Voldemort returned, and had predicted that Anton would become his subordinate.

Scrimgeour explained to Anton how the Ministry used Dark Wizards as a buffer with the Muggle World, then hinted that a mass breakout from Azkaban could undermine Fudge and strengthen the Aurors. He gave Anton Box 666 to study under strict restrictions, revealing that its poison permanently turned victims into Ghosts.

• Scrimgeour showed Anton a map of Dark Wizard activity and described how Dark Wizards served as a buffer between the Wizarding and Muggle Worlds.
• Scrimgeour complained that Fudge’s arrests had left the Auror Office looking unnecessary and suggested that a mass breakout could force Fudge to resign.
• Anton suspected Scrimgeour was testing him or trying to recruit him into a scheme, and recalled Old Ronaldo’s advice to follow orders without forming his own plans.
• Scrimgeour told Anton he would need to pass the Auror assessment and brought out Box 666 for him to study under additional magical restrictions.
• Scrimgeour explained that the poison in Box 666 turned victims into Ghosts permanently, astonishing Anton and prompting him to examine the documents eagerly.

Anton signed a Ministry contract to study a potion that could turn him into a ghost, then returned to Hogwarts with the ingredients. At Cabin, he reunited with Dumbledore and shared sweets while they caught up.

• Anton reviewed and signed the magical contract for a Special Study Permit, and Scrimgeour warned him to return every potion ingredient and product to the Ministry's box.
• Anton returned to Hogwarts, enjoyed the grounds, and considered moving the Elephant-Eating Vine to his Barrel Cottage in Hogsmeade.
• The stone guardians greeted Anton and told him that Dumbledore had entered Cabin without speaking to them.
• Dumbledore said Gellert had suggested involving Anton with the Auror Office and joked that others might mistake Anton for Grindelwald in disguise.
• Anton and Dumbledore went upstairs in Cabin, shared juice and sweets, and talked about Anton's recent experiences.

Anton entered the Ministry’s magical box and examined a confidential notebook about a flower-covered girl named Diana. He discovered that the notebook’s author had tried to save her from a curse that trapped her between life and death, and learned the potion required pollen from the flowers growing on her and the author’s beating heart.

• Anton opened the leather box, which transformed into a door marked 666, and entered its hidden stone corridor and hall.
• Anton found two Ministry analyses of ghost poisons and a bloodstained notebook stamped Top Secret, then chose to read the notebook.
• Anton saw a photograph of Diana, whose body was covered with flowers rooted into her skin, and recognized the condition as the result of the curse Die for You.
• Anton read the notebook’s account of Diana’s husband and the author’s plan to save her, then pieced together the potion’s ingredients: pollen from Diana’s flowers and the author’s own beating heart.

Anton studied the Mad Wizard’s ghost poison and concluded that its original formula intertwined potion-making with ritual magic. After recognizing that the Ministry’s revised formula would soon expire and that no eligible Ministry Potions Master remained to brew it, he left the Box Magic archive in suspicion, telling the Statue Fire Dragon not to ask questions.

• Anton read how the Mad Wizard developed the ghost poison while trying to awaken Diana, and noticed the formula’s ingredients suggested a link between potions and ritual magic.
• Anton compared the Ministry’s reverse-engineered poison and antidote with the original formula, concluding that the revised potion was effective but fundamentally wrong and would last less than a month.
• Anton recognized Potions Master Aubrey Maho’s name and realized Maho had died, then reasoned that no eligible Ministry wizard could brew the poison.
• Anton suspected the Ministry might use him, an intern with advanced potion skills, to make the poison under the guise of teaching him.
• The Statue Fire Dragon asked whether Anton still planned to learn Box Magic, and Anton reminded it that it had no authority to respond before leaving.

Anton consulted Snape and Fiennes about Ritual Magic, but neither could teach him; they debated whether Fiennes’s body-restoration method counted as ritual magic and discussed Lockhart’s hidden identity and Anton’s Auror experiences. The conversation ended when Anton asked why Animagus transformation required Potions, leaving both teachers deep in thought.

• Snape and Fiennes told Anton that they could not teach him Ritual Magic, and Fiennes explained that many supposed sacrifices were ancient methods of cultivating magic and bringing forth Elves.
• Nicholas served milk tea and revealed that Severus had taken her to visit her family, while Anton noticed Fiennes’s sleeping body connected to the Acromantula resembled a resurrection ritual.
• Anton revealed that Editor Aibo was Lockhart and argued that Dumbledore should appoint him Deputy Headmaster, provoking Snape’s jealous protest.
• Anton told Snape and Fiennes about his Auror experiences, and they warned that Scrimgeour had made enemies by arresting low-level Dark wizards, though Anton’s status as King Weasley might protect him.
• Anton changed the subject by asking why Animagus transformation used Potions, and Snape and Fiennes fell silent to consider it.

Anton reflected on his isolation and the path of magic as he realized that few people could understand his discoveries. At Azkaban, Scrimgeour confronted Mad-Eye over the Aurors’ assignment and accused Dumbledore of influencing the department through Anthony Weasley, ending by questioning Mad-Eye’s loyalties.

• Anton felt profoundly lonely after realizing Snape and Fiennes could no longer understand what he had discovered.
• Anton considered Goblin Pedro’s sacrifice to preserve the Goblins’ memories and reflected on the limits of what he had taken from him.
• Anton recalled Fiennes’s warning that anyone who lost sight of their goal in Ritual Magic would become part of the ritual, and that restraint was essential.
• Mad-Eye challenged Scrimgeour over sending Aurors to guard Dark Wizards at Azkaban, but Scrimgeour reminded him that he was retired.
• Scrimgeour told Mad-Eye that Dumbledore had influenced the Aurors through Fudge and Anthony Weasley, and asked whether Mad-Eye was an Auror or an Order of the Phoenix member first.

Scrimgeour explained to Mad-Eye that he saw the Aurors’ primary duty as protecting the Wizarding community from Muggles, not pursuing justice or fighting Voldemort, and argued that the Ministry should avoid opposing him. He vowed to remove Dumbledore’s allies from the Auror Office, while Mad-Eye ended the confrontation by drawing his Wand on him.

• Scrimgeour challenged Mad-Eye to choose between the Order of the Phoenix and the Auror Office, then declared that the Aurors existed to protect Wizarding secrecy and the Wizarding community.
• Scrimgeour argued that Wizards were vulnerable to modern Muggle weapons and blamed powerful Wizards’ rules and Muggle-born recruitment for weakening them.
• Scrimgeour told Mad-Eye that Voldemort had not violated the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy and ordered him not to oppose Voldemort in the Aurors’ name.
• Scrimgeour revealed his scars and said he would accept either Dumbledore or Voldemort ruling the Ministry, then vowed to sweep Dumbledore’s allies out of the Auror Office.
• Mad-Eye drew his Wand and pointed it at Scrimgeour, who said Dumbledore would have to become Minister for Magic to save those allies.

Anton discussed Scrimgeour’s strict reliance on written procedure with Old Ronaldo and considered using procedural justice to help free the captured Dark Wizards. Back at Cabin, he studied dangerous Ritual Magic and planned to write about devoted followers who might be connected to him, while beginning with the Animagus transformation potion.

• Old Ronaldo warned Anton to ignore Scrimgeour’s verbal orders and follow only procedures authorized in writing.
• Anton decided he might use procedural justice to help get the captured Dark Wizards released.
• Anton reflected on how Old Ronaldo and his other teachers had influenced him, then returned to Cabin to study Ritual Magic.
• Anton examined the novel “Connections Between People” and considered using its rituals to reach people who fervently called his name.
• Anton planned to write the followers’ stories to inspire sympathy and petitions to the Ministry of Magic.
• Anton studied the Animagus potion recipe and recognized that it combined a potion with Ritual Magic to produce Transfiguration.

Scrimgeour brought Anton into the investigation of deadly poison found in Chocolate Frogs and led two Auror Squads to the factory. Anton sensed a powerful, unusually lively magical presence there, prompting Scrimgeour to seek the factory owner.

• Scrimgeour explained that poisoned Chocolate Frogs had killed two unrelated people and that investigators had found signs of Ritual Magic near the factory.
• Scrimgeour assigned Anton to accompany him, and Anton signed the assignment.
• Anton and Scrimgeour arrived at the factory with two Auror Squads, where Montgomery identified a cave as the source of the Ritual Magic.
• Anton sensed powerful, cheerful magical energy coming from the factory despite Montgomery's assurance that it had shut down.
• Scrimgeour headed for the factory and ordered an Auror to fetch its owner.

Scrimgeour questioned Lyall Lupin about the spell placed over the Chocolate Frog Factory valley, and Lyall denied responsibility while explaining his estrangement from the Sugar Biscuit Alliance. Lyall and Remus revealed the factory’s connection to the Amiduo Duoduo, leaving Lyall furious when Scrimgeour accused them of killing wizards.

• Lyall Lupin told Scrimgeour that the Sugar Biscuit Alliance had managed the factory for 127 years and appointed Westley Adams as its operator.
• Scrimgeour confronted Lyall about visiting the factory three years earlier, when a spell had been placed over the valley, but Lyall said he had come because Mary had given birth to Mimi.
• Lyall explained that Amiduo Duoduo mothers usually died a week after giving birth, and Montgomery suggested Lyall inspect the two creatures currently in the factory.
• Remus Lupin identified the white deer as Amiduo Duoduo, which turned things into frogs for play, and Lyall described the creatures’ generations-long bond with his family.
• Scrimgeour said Amiduo Duoduo had turned wizards into frogs and killed them, prompting Lyall to grab his collar and demand an apology.

Anton, Remus Lupin, Lyall, and Montgomery toured the Chocolate Frog factory and found Amiduo Duoduo, including Mary and her daughter Mimi. Lyall accused Mary of draining Mimi’s life, but Anton said the life was being drained from the mountain behind Montgomery.

• Scrimgeour revealed that the recalled Chocolate Frogs had been stored rather than destroyed and sent Montgomery to show Lyall the Dark Magic Creatures.
• Lyall guided Anton and Remus through the factory, recalling its history and explaining the magical equipment and Amarcy Cork tree.
• Lyall and Remus recognized Anton as Remus’s godson, while Montgomery privately considered Anton’s influential connections and family background.
• At the pavilion, Lyall reunited with Mary, then accused her of harming Mimi after seeing the two pale deer together.
• Anton disputed Lyall’s accusation and said Mary was draining life from the mountain behind Montgomery.

Lyle, Remus, Anton, and Scrimgeour investigated cursed Chocolate Frogs and discovered that Mary’s despair had infused them with dangerous emotions. Scrimgeour invited the Lupins to help the Auror Office investigate why the supposedly dead Amiduo Duoduo remained alive, and offered to spare Mary if she stopped making Chocolate Frogs.

• Lyle and Remus identified Alemie as a Dark Magic Creature likely to arise from the mountain’s anger, and Anton warned that it judged its master’s loyalty harshly.
• Scrimgeour recounted an Auror case in which an Alemie killed a man despite his loyalty to his wife, then brought Montgomery a cage of unusually lively Chocolate Frogs.
• Anton examined a Chocolate Frog and found that it had intense emotions despite lacking a soul, memories, thoughts, or will.
• Anton explained that the Chocolate Frogs’ emotions acted like a Curse, and Lyle realized Mary’s heartbreak had affected the sweets she made.
• Montgomery said Mary should be taken away and sentenced to death, but Scrimgeour proposed investigating why Amiduo Duoduo had survived three years and offered to spare Mary if she stopped making Chocolate Frogs.
• Scrimgeour invited both Mr. Lupins to investigate with the Auror Office, and Lyle comforted Mary as she mourned.

The Aurors and Remus Lupin investigated the cave ritual that had kept Mary alive, while Anton interpreted the meaning of its offerings. They found no clear cause for the ritual’s alteration or the Dark Magic in the area, and Scrimgeour turned to Anton for an answer.

• Montgomery warned Anton not to trust experts blindly and urged him to keep his Wand ready as the group approached the cave.
• The Aurors cast detection Charms and entered the cave, where Lupin sensed concentrated Dark Magic and Anton felt sorrow and despair in the wind.
• The team found a red-Rune ritual with six offerings, and an Auror explained its links to ancient rites that traded souls for strength and freedom from bodily needs.
• Anton explained that the Wasabi Ghost-Eye Flower represented an inescapable pain and concluded that the altered ritual had given Mary an extreme life force.
• Scrimgeour questioned whether the ritual had drained life from the land, but Lupin said nature could not be depleted by one being and might instead create Dark Magic Creatures in response to greed.
• After Montgomery reported finding no other disturbance or Alemie nearby, Scrimgeour looked to Anton and asked what he was doing.

Anton and the Aurors revived the Ritual Magic and summoned Alemie, while Anton discovered that an unknown wizard behind the ritual was linked to his own memories. A glimpse of that wizard showed him performing a bizarre plea to Weasley for the power to escape Azkaban.

• Anton examined blood runes, and Lupin used magic to reveal Alemie as a wounded, four-eared black panther.
• Scrimgeour summoned the dead and was bitten by Alemie, then decided to restart the Ritual Magic despite Anton and Lupin warning him of the danger.
• The Aurors resumed the ritual, and Scrimgeour called on Alemie to appear and offered to help it become free.
• Anton saw that Alemie's Memory Planet connected to Amiduo Duoduo's and to an unknown wizard's, while a Soul Black Line also linked that wizard to Anton.
• Anton touched the connection and saw a middle-aged wizard in Azkaban pull out a tooth and bury it while asking Weasley to grant him the power to escape.

Anton discovered that Adams's Ritual Magic linked Adams, Alemie, and Amiduo Duoduo in a cycle that was rapidly growing stronger, potentially turning Adams into a new Dark Lord. Anton warned the others and tried to stop the ritual, but Scrimgeour confronted him as the Aurors took sides.

• Anton realized the ritual drew Magical Power from Alemie and Amiduo Duoduo and fed it back through Adams, forming a cycle fueled by greed, despair, and attachment.
• Anton sensed Adams's despair in Azkaban resonating with Alemie and Amiduo Duoduo, causing the cycle's power to surge and making him fear Adams could become a third Dark Lord.
• Anton switched back to ordinary sight and shouted for the others to cut off the ritual as Alemie trembled beneath the blood runes.
• Lupin tried to disrupt the ritual with a gust of wind, but Scrimgeour stopped it with Finite Incantatem.
• Anton warned that Adams was using the ritual to grow stronger and tried to pull the Dagger from the ground, but Scrimgeour held him at wandpoint.
• Lupin disarmed Scrimgeour, while another Auror aimed at Lupin and Montgomery ordered Anton to let go, asking Scrimgeour to hear his explanation.