Chapter Summaries

In Azkaban, Adams endured the Dementors’ torment until Amy Miller’s devotion to Anthony Weasley inspired him to perform a Ritual Magic prayer. The ritual gave him immense magic and a bone wand, and he faced the startled Aurors with newfound confidence.

• Carl and her squad began patrolling Azkaban while complaining about the prison and its Dementors.
• Adams, tormented by painful memories and despairing over his unknown sentence, listened to Amy Miller repeat, “Weasley, our king.”
• Adams joined Amy’s prayer and performed a Ritual Magic sacrifice using his hair, fingernail, tooth, blood, and devotion to Anthony Weasley.
• Adams felt immense magic surge through him and glimpsed Anthony Weasley as he prayed for strength to escape.
• Adams’s tooth transformed into a twelve-inch bone wand, and he picked it up as two Aurors demanded to know what he was doing.

Adams freed the prisoners of Azkaban and led his chosen followers north toward the King, while his ritual magic invaded Anton. Lupin rescued Anton and carried him to the Headmaster’s office, revealing unexpected strength and skill as Anton recognized him as a worthy godfather.

• Adams turned the Aurors into frogs, freed Amy Miller and the other prisoners, and invited the devout to join him on ships bound for the Arctic.
• Anton was caught in Adams’s nested ritual and struggled to keep the invading magic from overwhelming his mind and body.
• A Ray of Sunshine held the foreign magic back from Anton’s soul, but his body went limp and he dropped the bloodied Dagger.
• Lupin transformed into a huge Werewolf, drove off Scrimgeour, Montgomery, and the other Auror, then Apparated away with Anton.
• Lupin carried Anton to the Headmaster’s office, and Anton reflected on Lupin’s expertise and remembered that he had called himself Anton’s godfather.

Fiennes and Snape treated Anton’s ritual-magic erosion by draining his magically saturated blood, which also restored his health. With Anton recovering, the two old wizards considered using his abundant life force to carve innate magic into his body.

• Lupin took Anton to the Hospital Wing, but Madam Pomfrey could not treat the foreign magic eroding his body.
• Fiennes explained that suppressing the ritual magic would cause a dangerous backlash, then prepared to guide it out through Anton’s blood.
• Fiennes used the Vampire’s Blade to cut Anton’s arm and drain his blood into an enlarged bucket, while Snape added Potions to preserve it.
• Anton felt the magic and accumulated impurities leave his body as his life force and health rapidly returned.
• Fiennes proposed carving innate magic into Anton with the Crackling Curse, and Snape brought out a book about the Patronus Charm and Sectumsempra for them to consider.

Anton decided to contain the powerful magic flowing into him by transforming himself into a viper, while Snape and Fiennes discussed the limits of their magical research. The chapter ended with Anton asking Snape to use Sectumsempra on him in half an hour.

• Anton traced the magic swelling within him to Adams's ritual and decided he needed to contain it before it turned him into a Dark Magic creature.
• Anton chose to use his Viper transformation to make a transformed body fully part of himself and contain the magic.
• Fiennes told Snape he could not draw the complex Magic Image or combine Snape's Patronus and Sectumsempra theories with his own work.
• Snape and Fiennes agreed Anton should receive special training, and Snape said he would speak with him.
• Anton transformed into a twelve-foot viper, and Snape learned through Legilimency that Anton wanted him to cast Sectumsempra in half an hour.

Anton transformed into a gigantic Viper before Snape used the Soul Scalpel and Anton’s thoughts to shift him into a state between life and death. Anton returned to human form and collapsed, while the Old Wizard realized Anton’s blood could help him revive in his created body.

• Anton’s Viper grew to the size of a Basilisk as the Old Wizard collected the magical blood Frogs it produced.
• Scrimgeour’s team interrogated the Black Panther Alemie until it died, then gathered the ritual evidence and prepared to have their memories erased.
• Scrimgeour learned that Azkaban’s prisoners had escaped and concluded that Adams had used the ritual magic to gain immense power.
• Snape sensed the life-and-death magic inside Anton and used the Soul Scalpel to make the giant Viper flicker between solid and Ghost-like states.
• Anton changed back into a Young Wizard and collapsed from exhaustion, and the Old Wizard saw a chance to use Anton’s blood to revive in his created body.

Anton woke from a dream about his past and a strange man who vanished after losing the last proof of his existence. Recovered and energized, he searched for Adams through their Soul Black Line and found the Dark Wizards stranded in the Arctic.

• Anton dreamed that his memories weighed him down as he crawled through the void, then saw a bare-chested man disappear after telling Julia that no one remembered him.
• Lupin and the others called to Anton in the hospital until he woke, and Madam Pomfrey examined him before sending everyone away to let him rest.
• The next day, Anton woke feeling refreshed, tossed Fat Ball aside, and magically cleared the cloudy sky with a loud cry.
• Anton examined his soul and saw a giant transparent serpent coiled around his Memory Planets, then searched for the Soul Black Line connecting him to Adams.
• In the Arctic, a shivering witch begged Amy to persuade a lunatic to feed them the antlered Great White Bears he had caught.

Amy confronted Adams as he prepared to sacrifice thirteen Antlered Great White Bears to meet King Weasley again. After King Weasley intervened through the ritual, Amy killed Adams, gained control of the ritual’s Magical Power, and vowed to lead the Dark Wizards and bears back to civilization.

• Amy summoned black worms for food and climbed onto Adams’s ice Altar with help from a Wizard who raised her on a hand of snow.
• Adams revealed his altered face and tried to use Amy as material for a ritual sacrifice.
• Adams’s ritual connected everyone to Anton, who condemned him, and Amy caught Adams’s Wand and killed him with Avada Kedavra.
• The ritual’s Magical Power flowed into Amy until King Weasley severed the connections, and her scars vanished.
• Amy promised to take the Dark Wizards and the Antlered Great White Bears back, despite the difficulty of returning from the Arctic.

Anton asked Scrimgeour to station him in Azkaban so he could teach the escaped Dark Wizards proper magic and help change their lives. He left the conversation determined to begin his new life as a wizard.

• Scrimgeour apologized to Anton and offered him three pieces of Box Magic in exchange for keeping Adams's case quiet.
• Anton agreed to help bring the escaped prisoners back to Azkaban but said he wanted to do something for them.
• Anton asked Scrimgeour to arrange for him to teach the prisoners in Azkaban, including during weekends while he was at school.
• Scrimgeour left Hogwarts in shock, while Anton told Lupin that he wanted to become part of the wizarding world and begin his new life.

After Madam Pomfrey treated Anton for the effects of Ritual Magic, she warned him that his unusual magical perception could lead to dangerous consequences if he tried to imitate her Second Sight. Anton decided to stop experimenting for now, but he began considering how Memory River could help him study the connections between people and magic.

• Madam Pomfrey explained that Misfortune Moths surrounded Anton and gave him a Negative-Cleansing Potion to remove the lingering effects of the Ritual Magic.
• Madam Pomfrey revealed that she used Second Sight to assess patients and warned Anton not to imitate the talent, which appeared only in witches.
• Anton secretly used Obliviate to erase the Magic Images he had observed, but Madam Pomfrey noticed that other insects had appeared around him.
• Anton decided to heed Madam Pomfrey's warning and reflected on the dangers of forcing his body to adapt, such as using Gillyweed permanently.
• Anton connected his studies of Magic Images and Memory River to his research on the Antlered Great White Bear and Adams's Ritual Magic, then took up the book Connections Between People.

Anton experimented with collecting Adams's soul through their connection, altering it and linking it to Death Eaters and Dark Wizards he had transformed into Antlered Great White Bears. As he prepared to leave the hospital wing, he considered teaching his classmates practical magic to help them prepare for life beyond Hogwarts.

• Anton concluded that intelligent beings' memories formed Memory Planets and followed a Soul Black Line to collect Adams's soul.
• Anton altered Adams's soul, passed the Antlered Great White Bear to him, and connected him to transformed Death Eaters and Dark Wizards.
• Anton felt lighter after changing the connections, then stopped his experiments when Madam Pomfrey said the Misfortune Moth would be eradicated that night.
• Anton reflected on how Ordinary Wizarding Level results shaped students' futures and how poorly prepared wizards could struggle in the wider world.
• Anton wondered whether he should teach his classmates practical magic, such as a Bread Charm, to help them find work.

Anton examined Filch and found that his memories, emotions, and soul shell were intact, but traces of Voldemort were suppressing his willpower. He proposed using a Willpower Potion to wake Filch, and Snape left to brew one.

• Snape healed Mrs. Norris and found Filch unconscious in the Hospital Ward.
• Anton explained that Voldemort’s attempt to change Filch into a Wizard had left his body and soul badly damaged.
• Anton used a modified Tickling Charm to check Filch’s memories and emotions, then concluded that weakened willpower was keeping him unconscious.
• Anton proposed giving Filch a Willpower Potion to counter Voldemort’s lingering influence and wake him.
• Snape offered to brew the Potion and left Anton waiting in the Hospital Ward.

Anton treated Filch with Snape’s potion and investigated how its magic changed the soul and reshaped the body. After discovering his Color-Changing Windbird’s memories had expanded, Anton leaped from a moving staircase into the depths of the soul, while Draco tried to arrange a meeting with Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

• Snape gave Filch the Willpower Potion, and Anton observed its magic transform Filch’s soul before altering his body.
• Snape lent Anton his personal notes on Dittany, and Filch recovered, thanked Anton, and realized he could do magic.
• Anton went to the library to research healing magic, then transformed into a Color-Changing Windbird and found its Memory Planet had become two spiraling lists linked to a galaxy.
• Draco approached Harry, Ron, and Hermione to propose a knowledge-sharing meeting that would include Anton, hoping Hermione might learn how to make her Muggle parents wizards.
• Harry asked Draco to guarantee the meeting would be peaceful and that Anton would attend; Draco claimed Anton was his best friend, then saw Anton leap from the staircase into darkness.

Anton discovered that the collective memories and emotions of humans formed magical nebulae that could shape creatures such as Werewolves, and he realized Muggles might have created Wizards in the same way. Draco invited him to teach at a study exchange and argued that Pure-blood Families would benefit from Muggle Squibs becoming Wizards; Anton ended the chapter convinced that Muggles had granted Wizards their Magic.

• Anton found that the Werewolf transformation drew on a nebula formed from human memories, emotions, and wills, including Muggle stories and fears.
• Anton wondered whether spreading legends of the Antlered Great White Bear could strengthen it, then considered how collective human emotions shaped Dementors and other beings.
• Draco invited Anton to teach about his book at a study exchange between Slytherin's and Gryffindor's Dumbledore's Army, and Anton worried the book would be too difficult for most students.
• Draco explained that Pure-blood Families could support turning Muggle Squibs into Wizards while preserving their own power through control of resources and institutions.
• Anton realized that if Muggles' minds could create magical beings, they might also have brought Wizards into existence, and he told Draco that Muggles had granted Wizards Magic.

Anton explained his theory for correcting the Animagus ritual to Professor McGonagall, who praised his research and encouraged him to publish it. She then gave Anton and several other students more freedom to visit Hogsmeade, provided they kept up with their studies.

• Anton explained that the Animagus ritual should not be completed until a heartbeat sounded from the Glass Bottle, and that drinking the potion too early could transform the wizard's original soul instead of the copied soul.
• McGonagall and Elphinstone Urquart reacted with astonishment to Anton's explanation, and McGonagall urged him to publish his research in Transfiguration Today.
• McGonagall revealed that Dumbledore planned to announce Lockhart as the new editor of the school magazine and that Dudley Dursley's arrival would distract from the change.
• McGonagall gave Anton permission to leave school freely and allowed George, Fred, Neville, and Hannah to visit Hogsmeade outside class hours, provided they completed their homework.
• McGonagall asked Anton to guide discussions for the two Dumbledore's Army study groups.

Anton joined George, Fred, Neville, and Hannah for a feast, where he learned that Hannah and Neville had grown magical mushrooms that sparked vivid, happy thoughts. The mushrooms led Anton to theorize that thought was part of the Ego and that Voldemort’s Diary Horcrux contained a piece of Voldemort’s thinking self, leaving Anton to realize he may have helped Voldemort understand how to restore his soul.

• Anton, George, and Fred shared a feast featuring a giant pepper-scented chicken, and Anton praised its flavor.
• Neville and Hannah brought vegetables for Anton’s hot pot, including a Mushroom-Flesh Tree whose little green growths produced a fragrant mist when cooked.
• Neville explained that the mushroom people climbed into the broth, absorbed it, and became meatball-like morsels, and the group began eating.
• As Anton ate the mushrooms, he connected their effect on thought to the Ego and wondered whether thought persisted in the Boundless Void, the World of the Dead, and portraits.
• Anton concluded that Tom Riddle’s Diary contained Voldemort’s thoughts and that Dumbledore had wanted Voldemort to return to school to recover them.
• Anton realized he had told Voldemort about the benefits of a whole soul, then snapped out of his thoughts and demanded that the others leave him some food.

Anton sensed someone accessing his memory of the Antlered Great White Bear and used a ritual to look into the wizard’s heart. The ritual revealed Death Eaters summoning Voldemort through Barty Crouch Jr., who appeared with Voldemort’s face on the back of his head.

• Anton followed a Soul Black Line to a Memory Planet linked to his memory of the Antlered Great White Bear and realized someone had accessed it.
• Anton asked Filch to take him to Professor Fiennes, then had Fiennes and Snape help prepare a ritual to reach the wizard’s mind.
• Anton performed the ritual, and a vision of Bella and several other Death Eaters appeared in the mist.
• Bella rejected the others’ warnings, activated the Dark Mark, and summoned a snake from its skull.
• Barty Crouch Jr. Apparated in as a gigantic Runespoor and transformed, revealing Voldemort’s face on the back of his head.
• Voldemort addressed the gathered Death Eaters, saying, “I felt your loyalty...”

Voldemort recovered his body, ordered the Death Eaters to master their Dark Magic, and used the Imperius Curse to guide them toward transforming their bodies. Anton survived the ritual and realized he should focus on improving his body before exploring the soul further.

• Voldemort revealed that Anthony Weasley had been his student and said he would go into hibernation to mend his damaged soul.
• Voldemort used the Imperius Curse to make the Death Eaters relive their first experiences with magic and accept Magical Power as part of their bodies.
• Bella and the other Death Eaters rose into the air as their Magical Power surged, and Voldemort Apparated away.
• Old Wizard Fiennes extinguished the ritual candles to stop Voldemort from following the magic to Anton.
• Anton told Old Wizard Fiennes that Pedro had once transferred Fiennes's Crackling Curse from Anton onto a White's Hand.

Anton left Dumbledore’s office with a clearer sense of his own path, then attended Snape’s Potions lesson on how magical power changed a Wizard’s body. As exams approached, Harry and Ron found themselves facing an unexpected offer from Draco to help them study.

• Anton considered how knowledge and Fate could shape events, then left Dumbledore’s office content to follow his own path.
• By the second Friday of May, students had grown tense about the exams scheduled for the first week of June, while Hermione remained determined to beat Anton.
• Snape taught the class about differences between Muggle and Wizard bodies and assigned an essay and a Swelling Solution brewing exercise.
• Hermione explained the assignments to Harry and Ron, and Harry realized he had begun to understand and enjoy Potions class.
• Draco offered to teach Harry and Ron how to brew Swelling Solution at the study group, but Ron rejected the idea and planned to ask Anton, Fred, George, or Percy instead.

At a student exchange, Anton announced a method for becoming a controllable Werewolf Animagus and encouraged students to pursue it. Draco, the Twins, and others offered help finding ingredients, while Fudge arrived to discuss a Ministry partnership with Cabin.

• Draco organized the exchange, and the students gathered by the Black Lake to hear lessons from representatives of both Dumbledore's Armies.
• When Draco introduced him, Anton announced that Wizards could use Ritual Magic and Potions theory to become Werewolf Animagi while retaining control of themselves.
• The students grew excited about the idea, and Draco offered free Death's-head Hawk-moth Pupae while promising to seek the other ingredients from the School Governors.
• George and Fred offered to find Wolf hair and secluded dew, while Hermione and other students discussed ways to obtain Mandrake leaves.
• Professor McGonagall called Anton over, but Fudge said he would speak with him publicly about a Ministry partnership with Cabin and asked Umbridge for a centuries-old Mandrake.

Fudge proposed using Anton’s research to strengthen the Aurors, while McGonagall recognized that it could enable a controllable Werewolf Animagus. Scrimgeour volunteered to test the transformation first, but the experts had not yet reached a verdict.

• Fudge asked Anton to estimate how many Werewolf Transformation Pills could be made from an ancient Mandrake, while Harry questioned why Aurors would not simply become Werewolves.
• McGonagall judged Anton’s Transfigurative Animagus research viable and suggested making controllable Werewolf Animagi, but Anton persuaded Fudge to consult Ministry experts.
• Anton warned McGonagall that Fudge wanted experts to shoulder blame if the transformation failed and hoped to use the plan to expand his influence in the Auror Office.
• Fudge returned with six experts, and Scrimgeour asked Anton whether the Werewolf Animagus was dangerous.
• Scrimgeour volunteered to undergo the transformation first and threatened to bite Anton if he became an uncontrollable Werewolf, while the experts argued over the research.