Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore gave Anton his notes and a reading list to explain his Transfiguration research, then asked him to escort Dudley Dursley to buy schoolbooks before term began. After Neville woke in hospital, Anton examined him and judged that his mind and soul had recovered well.

• Dumbledore gave Anton a list of books and his notes on Mermish, explaining that they formed the foundations of his Transfiguration system.
• Anton agreed to represent Hogwarts when Dudley Dursley bought his schoolbooks and to explain wizarding rules to the Dursley family.
• Professor McGonagall arrived with news that Neville had woken, and Neville's Uncle Algie and grandmother confronted him about his dangerous experiments.
• Anton quietly examined Neville with his wand and said that Neville was healthy and that his soul seemed more complete than before.

Neville used the Twisted Cage spell on himself and Anton, revealing how it recreated the mental torment of prolonged Cruciatus torture and helping Anton understand how to restore a damaged mind. The group recognized the spell as a possible counter-curse, while Augusta continued to accuse Snape of having a hidden role in the attack on Neville’s parents.

• Neville reclaimed his wand and cast Twisted Cage on himself, enduring intense pain as Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore watched.
• Anton asked Neville to cast the spell on him and described the terror, pain, and urge to retreat into himself that it caused.
• Neville explained that Twisted Cage recreated the effects of prolonged Cruciatus torture, and Anton realized that restoring the mind meant guiding its hidden will, emotions, and memories back out.
• Anton connected the Ray of Sunshine Charm and Snape’s research with repairing the mind and soul, while McGonagall praised Neville for developing a counter-curse to an Unforgivable Curse.
• Augusta accused Snape of having a hidden motive and blamed him for looking the other way during the torture of Neville’s parents, but Dumbledore defended him.

As final exams approached, Anton, Hannah, Neville, and George and Fred joked about studying, Magizoology, and Neville’s experiments in the Cabin. Anton proposed helping Neville create a magical assistant that inherited his Herbology talent, and the group ended the day laughing together.

• George and Fred complained that Professor McGonagall had scolded them for neglecting their studies and threatened to close their Animal Paddock and tell their mother.
• Anton and the others teased George and Fred about Magizoology, while the twins joked about the famous Magizoologists who had dropped out of school.
• Hannah suggested playing Comeback War Chess, but everyone explained they were busy studying, gathering experiment materials, or carving Dolls.
• Neville said herb processing required individual care, and Anton suggested modifying the Loyal Maid spell to create a helper with Neville’s Herbology talent.
• George and Fred teased Neville that his magical helper would be like a child, while Anton photographed the laughing group and pinned the picture on the wall.

George and Fred showed Anton, Neville, and Hannah their expanding magical-animal farm, while Hannah revealed the protective Wizard’s Little House she and Neville had created. Anton felt encouraged by his friends’ talents, set aside his research into treating Cruciatus victims until the holidays, and joined their debate over a long-haired robe for Hagrid.

• George and Fred showed their friends five large-scale magical-animal breeding projects, including Fire Mammoths whose urine filled a hidden pool beneath a Trapdoor.
• Hannah revealed that she and Neville had created the Wizard’s Little House by combining Elephant-Eating Vine, Whomping Willow, and Pink-Root Banyan, and Anton tested its defenses with a stone mannequin.
• Anton admired his friends’ accomplishments and felt less alone, while reflecting on Neville’s proposed use of the A Ray of Sunshine Charm to treat minds damaged by the Cruciatus Curse.
• Anton postponed testing Neville’s treatment on Bella until after exams, when he planned to visit her in Azkaban during the holidays.
• George and Fred proposed making Hagrid a long-haired Wizarding Robe from Fire Mammoth hides, and Anton, Neville, and Hannah argued over which color fur would suit it.

Anton and his friends prepared the Fire Mammoth’s hide and skeleton for a clothing project, while Anton attempted to paint a picture from memories of his previous life. After Lockhart harshly criticized the painting and urged Anton to appreciate the beauty of the world, Anton was ushered from Lockhart’s Office and encountered Professor McGonagall.

• Hannah asked Anton to preserve the Fire Mammoth’s bones for a helmet and robes, so Anton magically extracted the complete skeleton for her to design with.
• George and Fred treated the Mammoth’s hide with a foul-smelling potion Neville had prepared to soften it.
• Anton fetched paints and a curtain, searched his memories for inspiration, and attempted his first painting while his friends worked at Cabin.
• Lockhart dismissed Anton’s painting as a mess and told him to give up learning to paint.
• Lockhart advised Anton to open himself to the world’s beauty, but Anton mistook the advice for an explanation of magic, prompting Lockhart to send him out.
• Anton left Lockhart’s Office and greeted Professor McGonagall after hearing her giggle.

After finishing exams, Anton planned a holiday that included working as an Auror Office expert at Azkaban and taking art and music classes. At the End-of-Term Feast, Dumbledore publicly praised Anton’s many achievements and urged the students to pursue new ideas, leaving Anton uneasy about being held up as an example.

• Anton discussed holiday plans with Hannah, George, Fred, and Neville, then revealed that he would visit Azkaban as an Auror Office expert and take art and music classes.
• At the End-of-Term Feast, Dumbledore awarded points for students’ accomplishments and described Anton’s many inventions, rescues, discoveries, and research breakthroughs.
• Dumbledore told the students that Anton’s work was changing the Wizarding World and encouraged them to think, reflect, and explore rather than follow old paths.
• Anton felt proud of what he had accomplished but wondered whether Dumbledore expected him to serve as a model study machine.

Anton took over managing Azkaban’s Judgment Arena and silenced the prisoners before proposing lessons on resisting Dark magic. The chapter ended with him taking their silence as agreement to begin helping them recover and return to ordinary life.

• Scrimgeour gave Anton a lighter and explained that Aurors enforced the law without judging whether prisoners deserved sympathy, while offering him three sentence-reduction slots.
• Scrimgeour showed Anton Azkaban’s Judgment Arena and granted him basic permissions to manage its cells and prisoners.
• Scrimgeour left Azkaban, leaving Anton in charge of the arena.
• Anton used the arena’s magic to seal every prisoner’s mouth and stop the noise.
• Anton told the prisoners he wanted to teach them how to understand and break free of Dark magic before discussing their return to work, then treated their silence as agreement.

Anton used the Twisted Prison to study how Dark Magic affected prisoners’ souls, then began learning painting in Paris while continuing to teach at Azkaban and sleep at home in Hogsmeade. His vacation settled into a busy routine across the three places.

• Anton explained that Dark Magic gradually consumed a wizard’s positive emotions until the wizard became a Beast, then cast Twisted Prison over Azkaban to examine the prisoners’ souls.
• After collecting research material, Anton sent the exhausted prisoners back to their cells and returned to Hogsmeade for a family meal and an evening at home.
• Anton traveled to Paris to study painting, but a poor painter he met said he could not teach him and recommended Chen Moshui instead.
• Anton met the penniless Chen Moshui and took both him and the first painter as his teachers, using his money to support their lessons.
• Anton began spending his days studying painting in Paris, his evenings teaching at Azkaban, and his nights sleeping in Hogsmeade Village.

Anton discovered that painting could channel emotion like spellcasting, then developed a theory that magical Bloodlines formed through repeated use of magic and could merge with Fantastic Beast traits. He concluded that Dementors might strengthen Dark Magic talent by draining positive emotions, leaving him to consider how to balance those emotions in Dark Wizards.

• Anton painted an eerie laughing face that made Chen Moshui and Chris laugh uncontrollably, then used Obliviate on them.
• Anton reasoned that Dudley had gained a Dwarf Hog Bloodline through a failed Animagus transformation, which triggered a new Magical Outburst and made him a Wizard.
• Anton studied Azkaban records and concluded that repeated use of Dark Magic could build Bloodlines, while Half-blood ancestry could alter how those Bloodlines developed.
• Anton realized Rodolphus had acquired Antlered Great White Bear traits after Anton transformed him, suggesting that Animagus bodies could merge with a Wizard's Bloodline.
• Anton proposed balancing Dark Wizards' negative emotions with positive ones, then noticed a Dementor draining a Dark Wizard and suspected Dementors could strengthen Dark Magic talent.

Anton experimented on Azkaban’s prisoners by magically cramming knowledge into their memories and harvesting their insights. He told Montgomery he planned to balance their souls so that most would become ordinary Wizards, leaving Montgomery stunned that Anton was genuinely teaching them.

• Anton used the Twisted Prison and the Boundless Void to send magical knowledge to more than two hundred Dark Wizards and collect insights from their thoughts.
• Montgomery and an Auror discussed Anton’s nightly spellwork, with the Auror describing the prisoners as unusually well-behaved afterward.
• Anton left Azkaban on schedule and greeted Montgomery and the other Auror.
• Anton explained that he intended to teach the prisoners the standard curriculum and adjust their souls so most would no longer be influenced by Dark Magic.
• Montgomery was astonished when Anton confirmed that he was really teaching the prisoners.

Anton spent the summer painting, learning piano, and staying busy while the people around him built a quiet life together. As the holiday ended, his teaching at Azkaban came to an end.

• Anton thanked his painting teachers by asking Lupin to arrange an exhibition for them.
• Anton practiced painting in Hogsmeade and began piano lessons with Anna, Aunt Ilsa, Nagini, and Mr. Rosier.
• Lupin worked to support the Werewolf community with help from Lucius and Rosier, while Pedro struggled with the Goblin Factory and Fiennes watched over his body.
• Mr. Rosier befriended Urquart and Aberforth as the three old men spent time around the village and the Hog's Head.
• The Twins told Anton that Arthur had won a Daily Prophet prize and taken the family to Egypt, while Neville sent Anton a four-armed Doll Maid.
• Hannah helped at the Leaky Cauldron, and Anton's teaching at Azkaban finally ended.

Anton and Montgomery tested Azkaban prisoners’ ability to cast the Patronus Charm as part of a release review, while Scrimgeour reported that Sirius Black had escaped detection and asked Anton to deal with Harry Potter. Anton volunteered to visit Harry and the Dursley family, revealing that he had turned a Muggle child into a Wizard.

• Montgomery coached a scarred prisoner into casting the Patronus Charm, and Anton approved him for sentence reduction and release.
• Anton questioned whether casting a Patronus was enough to prove prisoners had recovered from Dark Magic, while Montgomery defended the test.
• Scrimgeour told Anton that Sirius Black had escaped the Ministry’s roundup and showed a photograph of him armed and disguised as a Muggle police officer.
• Scrimgeour warned that Sirius might target Harry Potter, whom the Ministry treated as a rallying symbol against You-Know-Who.
• Anton volunteered to take responsibility for Harry and visit the Dursley family, and Scrimgeour asked about the Muggle child Anton had turned into a Wizard.

Harry Potter struggled to adjust to the Dursleys treating him kindly while Vernon became intensely involved in his magical studies. The surreal summer took another turn when an Owl crashed into the window, apparently bringing Dudley's Hogwarts acceptance letter.

• Harry watched TV while Dudley played a game, and Vernon returned home hoping an Owl had delivered a Hogwarts letter for Dudley.
• Vernon scolded Harry for watching TV instead of studying, then locked him in his room until he finished his homework.
• Vernon inspected Harry's Herbology essay, criticized its length, repetition, spelling, and organization, and marked it up.
• An Owl flew into the window, and Harry rushed toward the door, delighted that Dudley's acceptance letter had arrived.

Anthony visited Harry and the Dursleys with Anna and explained the Wizarding World’s history and institutions. He laid out a promising future for Dudley as a Quidditch player, Ministry employee, or Potions student, leaving Vernon excited and Harry imagining Dudley at Hogwarts.

• Vernon told Harry that Anthony had arranged to visit, and Anthony arrived with Anna and breakfast.
• Anthony explained the history of the Order of Merlin, the Ministry of Magic, and the International Statute of Secrecy to the gathered family.
• Anthony said wizarding schools and the Ministry offered paths for advancement to people from non-Pure-blood families.
• Anthony described Dudley’s magical bloodlines and said his athletic abilities could make him an excellent Quidditch player.
• Anthony suggested Dudley could work in the Department of Magical Games and Sports or become a Quidditch professor, and noted his potential in Potions.
• Vernon grew excited about Dudley’s prospects while Harry struggled to imagine Dudley playing Quidditch and excelling in Potions.

Anton explained the Wizarding World’s power, economy, and customs to Harry and the Dursleys before sending them to shop in Diagon Alley. He then took Anna to Knockturn Alley, where he sought materials for a ritual to contact Sirius and discussed a troubling vision of Sirius’s future.

• Anton told the Dursleys about the Sacred Twenty-Eight, the wandmaking craft, and the Wizarding World’s closed economy.
• Anton summoned the Knight Bus and took Harry and the Dursleys to the Leaky Cauldron, where Vernon learned about wizarding currency and travel.
• Anton sent Harry and the Dursleys to buy school supplies while he and Anna went to Knockturn Alley.
• Anton described his dream of Sirius being used in a Muggle experiment and suggested it might be a prophecy.
• Anton entered an old witch’s shop to find materials for a ritual using Harry’s blood to contact Sirius’s spirit.
• Anton and Anna spotted an eye in a jar that blinked, startling Anton.

Vernon impressed Anton by securing a position as Gringotts' Specially Invited Muggle Expert, and Anton helped the Dursleys visit the Wizarding World before giving them a way to contact him. On the Hogwarts train, Neville revealed his animated Figurines, which Anton suspected could be useful.

• Vernon told Anton he had advised Gringotts on finance and earned a position as its Specially Invited Muggle Expert to help Dudley at school.
• Anton took the Dursleys through the Floo Network to his home, where Anna cleaned the soot from them, and Vernon gave Anton two Magic Radios.
• Anton arranged for Anna's House-elves to watch over Harry and accepted the radios after Anna showed interest in them.
• On the train, Neville, Hannah, George, Fred, Anton, and Anna joked about the animated Dolls Neville had sent the others, and George and Fred feared their mother had intercepted theirs.
• Neville opened his Suitcase to reveal a collection of animated Figurines, and Anton said they might be useful.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Dudley were caught in a sudden train stoppage as a Dementor entered their compartment and drained their happiness. Harry fainted, but Anthony confronted the creature, and the group recovered after it left.

• Dudley shared sweets with Ron and Hermione while Hermione studied Anthony’s book and recalled testing its spell on Malfoy.
• The train shuddered to a stop in heavy rain, the lights went out, and Ginny entered the compartment.
• Dudley lit the compartment with a flashlight as Harry noticed a Dementor approaching through the open door.
• The Dementor drained the group’s positive emotions, and Harry fainted after hearing a woman scream.
• Anthony confronted the Dementor and drove it away, then told the students to find the Prefects and give anyone unwell some chocolate.

Dumbledore announced several staff changes and introduced three special students at Hogwarts’s Sorting Ceremony. Filch was sorted into Hufflepuff, Anna Rosier into Ravenclaw, and Dudley Dursley into Gryffindor, leaving Harry worried that Dudley might join his Quidditch team.

• Dumbledore warned students to avoid conflicts with the Dementors and welcomed Gilderoy Lockhart back as Deputy Headmaster and Hogwarts Weekly editor.
• Dumbledore announced that Snape would replace Lupin for the second half of the Defense Against the Dark Arts course and that Hagrid would teach Care of Magical Creatures.
• Dumbledore introduced Filch as an auditing student, Anna Rosier as a Durmstrang transfer, and Dudley Dursley as Harry Potter’s cousin.
• Filch was sorted into Hufflepuff, Anna into Ravenclaw, and Dudley into Gryffindor.
• Harry worried that Dudley’s Quidditch talent could eventually make him a Gryffindor teammate.

After Harry worried about being the only student who fainted before the Dementors, Anton explained how emotions influenced Magic to a crowd of students. He demonstrated the principle by turning the basic Lumos Charm into a blazing, five-meter sun that scorched the Great Hall, leaving Draco unresponsive.

• Harry entered the Great Hall with Ron and Hermione and found students gathered around Anton at the Slytherin table, discussing Dementors and Azkaban.
• Anton explained that extreme emotions could strengthen Magic, while Dark Magic intensified emotions at the cost of changing a wizard.
• Anton warned Draco that surrendering to extreme negative emotions could lead to becoming like a Dementor, and described how uncontrolled Magic could affect people nearby.
• Hermione took notes on Anton's explanation while Ron and Harry teased her about her earlier admiration for Lockhart.
• At Draco's request, Anton demonstrated the Lighting Charm, casting Lumos to create a huge, scorching sun above the Great Hall.
• Anton asked Draco what he thought of the demonstration, but Draco appeared unresponsive.

Anton attended Muggle Studies, where Professor Burbage discussed how modern Muggle communications posed a crisis and an opportunity for wizardkind. As the class continued, Anton paid little attention and instead thought about music from his previous life.

• Draco told Anton he had found his Innate Spell in Lumos, and Anton promised to guide him further.
• Madam Pomfrey had the students drink large amounts of a potion, leaving green smoke drifting from their hair throughout the day.
• Anton joined Draco and Hermione in Professor Burbage's Muggle Studies class, which only a dozen students had chosen, most of them Slytherins.
• Professor Burbage corrected Draco for calling Muggles enemies and began teaching how industrialization, telephones, and computers had accelerated Muggle communication.
• Anton found flaws in Professor Burbage's account but stayed quiet and let his thoughts return to music, including Original Scenery of Hometown.