Chapter Summaries

Anthony used a maintenance charm that restored the marks of years to Hogwarts’ staircase handrail, including an old bloodstain that brought back Snape’s memories of Lily. Snape decided to move forward without hurting anyone else, then went to find whoever had revived the stain.

• Professor McGonagall punished George and Fred by assigning them and Anthony to clean Hogwarts after they mocked Anthony for his earlier spell-related punishment.
• Anthony found 32 Maintenance Charms for Castles and used its spell to reveal the accumulated marks and history on a staircase handrail.
• Snape told Alex that he could not forget Lily or begin a new life with Miss Nikolaus.
• The bloodstain on the handrail reminded Snape of the time his Sectumsempra wounded Lily when she protected James Potter.
• Snape resolved to keep moving forward and avoid hurting anyone else, then headed upstairs to confront whoever had restored the bloodstain.

Anton studied a spellbook of castle-maintenance magic while Snape explained the Black family’s inheritance and the damage caused by Pure-blood intermarriage. Dumbledore urged Anton and Snape to reject blood-purity arguments and embrace Muggles, while Anton reflected on improving his magic for individual targets.

• A portrait praised Anton for restoring Hogwarts’ dark green handrails, and Anton read spells for cleaning, reinforcing, and protecting the castle.
• Snape told Anton that the book belonged to Cygnus Black, then described the Black family’s marriages, Sirius’s inheritance, and his relatives’ motives for wanting him dead.
• Snape criticized Pure-blood intermarriage and contrasted the resulting idiots and madmen with gifted families such as the Weasleys.
• Dumbledore interrupted Snape, argued that Pure-blood supremacy served family interests, and warned Anton and Snape that continued intermarriage would hasten the disappearance of Pure-blood families.
• Dumbledore praised Anton’s handrail spell, and Anton admitted he had reflected on his tendency to focus on large-scale magic and needed to develop spells for individual targets.

Anthony and the Cabin Members prepared to move from Cabin to a new base by the Animal Paddock, while Neville received Anthony’s research on treating his parents. They left the old hut for Harry and his friends to use, and Neville felt he already had something better with the Cabin Members.

• Anthony gave Neville his Notebook on the Twisting Cage and A Ray of Sunshine Charm so Neville could learn to care for his parents.
• Anthony proposed that the Cabin Members move beside the Animal Paddock, where Hannah’s Wizard Hut could provide research rooms and a gathering loft.
• The Cabin Members spent a peaceful evening together before preparing to move their belongings the next morning.
• Anthony and the others transported their possessions, plants, Stone Guardians, and Elephant-Eating Vine hut to the Animal Paddock.
• Harry asked whether he could invite Dumbledore’s Army to the hut, and Anthony and Neville gave it to Harry and his friends to use in exchange for looking after the shop.

Anton and his friends created a towering new home from the Elephant-Eating Vine, while Hannah continued developing her banyan-root Wizard Hut. As they explored the vine house and chose rooms, the group planned a trip to the Muggle World to shop and look at castles.

• George and Fred learned from Hannah and Neville that they could afford a Muggle castle, and Anton gave them a book about castle maintenance.
• Anton planted the Elephant-Eating Vine and used magic to shape it into a tall house with a central hall and six rooms.
• Hannah chose to keep improving her Wizard Hut, and Neville promised to help with her research.
• The group explored the vine house’s spacious hall and rooms, and Anna suggested shopping for decorations and castles in the Muggle World.
• George and Fred shared a room, so Anton reshaped the vines to enlarge it and made a long slide from the house to the ground.
• Anna, Anton, Neville, George, Fred, and the others took turns racing down the slide.

Neville and his friends received Professor McGonagall’s permission to visit Werewolf Home, where Anton caught a man secretly watching him and called for the Aurors. The armed intruder was captured, leaving Anton and his friends to await the Ministry’s response.

• Professor McGonagall approved the group’s trip after setting rules for their conduct and warning George and Fred that poor O.W.L. results would cost them their Hogsmeade privileges, animal pens, and joke shop.
• Anton and his friends traveled by Floo to an industrial city, changed into Muggle clothes, and arrived at the Werewolf Home factory.
• Anton sensed someone watching him, and the guards surrounded the group after seeing him draw his wand.
• Anton used a spell to pull a camouflaged man into view and threw him to the ground when the man tried to attack.
• The werewolf guards restrained the intruder, and Anton identified his Barrett M82A1 rifle and camera before ordering someone to contact the Auror Office.

Scrimgeour investigated a mercenary who had spied on a Werewolf settlement and discovered that the man was a Muggle Squib with a weakened magical ability. Anton speculated that Muggle Squibs might form a distinct group, then left to furnish his new home while Scrimgeour considered buying a Muggle castle.

• Montgomery reported that the mercenary had taken an online job and obtained a photograph of an employee transforming into a Werewolf.
• Scrimgeour warned the Aurors that Wizards were vulnerable in a conflict with Muggles and ordered Montgomery to extract every detail from the mercenary.
• The mercenary Apparated when the Aurors untied him, but an Auror used Immobulus to bring him back.
• Anton examined the mercenary and identified him as the second successful case of a Muggle Squib, whose magical ability was extremely weak.
• Anton suggested that Muggle Squibs might become a distinct group and asked Scrimgeour to help arrange paperwork for buying Muggle castles.
• Scrimgeour told Anton to have Montgomery handle the paperwork, then wondered whether he should buy a castle himself.

After George and Fred were revealed as the buyers of two Muggle castles, the Weasleys visited Hogwarts, where Ron struggled to pitch products at the shop. Meanwhile, Scrimgeour showed Anton a memory of a wizard successfully transforming a mercenary through a dangerous ritual and raised the possibility of using a new group of weakly talented wizards to study Muggle reactions, leaving Anton warning against dividing the wizarding community.

• Arthur and Molly discovered from Ministry letters that two Muggle castles had been bought, and Arthur later learned that George and Fred were the buyers.
• The Weasleys visited Hogwarts, where Ron tried to sell Dungbombs at the shop and was caught off guard by Molly and Professor McGonagall.
• Scrimgeour showed Anton a memory of a masked wizard using a potion and an ancient ritual to give a mercenary the powers of a Diricawl.
• Anton recognized the ritual as dangerous and difficult to reproduce, while Scrimgeour wrongly concluded that the wizard could manufacture wizards in large numbers.
• Scrimgeour asked whether a new group of weaker wizards could help the Ministry observe Muggle reactions, and Anton warned that exploiting them could divide the wizarding community.
• Scrimgeour admitted he hoped Anton would grow more attached to the Auror Office and the Ministry, and Anton said Scrimgeour thought too highly of him.

Anton taught his friends in Cabin how to connect their strongest subjects through his theory of Potion-and-Charm Integration, then explored how music and memories might be incorporated into magic. As he played a tune from his former hometown, his emotions shaped a magical mirage that Anna watched from the window.

• After learning that their families and professors had scolded them over their grades, Anton agreed to help his friends study and transfigured a vine wall into a blackboard.
• Anton explained how encapsulated magic connected Charms with Potions and showed the relationship between a healing potion and Episkey.
• Anton outlined how his friends could build on their strengths by integrating multiple subjects, while linking his approach to Fiennes's theories and his own interest in Ritual Magic.
• Anton considered whether music and art could encapsulate the world and affect magic, then played "Original Scenery of Hometown" while riding a mammoth outside Cabin.
• As Anton's memories and emotions formed a misty vision of city buildings and traffic, Anna watched him, entranced.

Anton learned that Goyle had a hereditary appetite problem and concealed gifts in Astronomy and Divination, including possible Seer abilities. At Hagrid’s Magizoology lesson, Anton watched the students struggle with their Monster Books and wondered how others saw him.

• Anton discussed music with Draco, and Goyle recommended guitar after admitting he had once liked a Muggle girl.
• Goyle privately told Anton that his family’s appetite seemed to worsen across generations and that he was gifted at Astronomy and Divination.
• Goyle revealed that he feared people would mock him if they knew he could make a Prophecy, and Anton promised to keep his secret.
• The Slytherin and Gryffindor students followed Hagrid to an animal paddock, where he showed them how to calm their Monster Books by stroking their spines.
• Anton watched Hagrid teach and reflected on how unusual people devoted to their fields might seem to others.

During a Hippogriff lesson, Draco was badly injured when one attacked him, and Anton healed him with a powerful Charm. Anton praised Hagrid as an exceptional Magizoologist, leaving Draco determined to try riding a Hippogriff again.

• Anton ignored the Hippogriff lesson and recalled music while resting by the Animal Paddock.
• A Hippogriff injured Draco, and Hagrid struggled to restrain it as Hermione opened the gate.
• Anton healed Draco's arm with a Charm powered by a mouse's life force, astonishing the students.
• Anton explained the Hippogriff's danger rating and praised Hagrid as a super-top-tier Magizoologist.
• Draco agreed to try again, while Hagrid blushed at Anton's praise.

Anton and his friends began Hannah Abbott’s Heroes’ New Journey expansion for Comeback War Chess, using the Out-of-Body Charm to inhabit dolls and set off through a snowy village scenario. Grindelwald and Dumbledore watched them play from the underground Chamber.

• George and Fred left the Gryffindor Quidditch Team to focus on raising Fantastic Beasts and developing joke products, and Dudley Dursley joined the team.
• Hannah introduced the Heroes’ New Journey expansion and narrated a story about villagers facing terrifying beasts in winter.
• Anton and his friends prepared the village, its animated dolls, and the Fire Mammoths for the scenario.
• Anton cast the Out-of-Body Charm, and the group took control of dolls with different abilities.
• Hannah sent the heroes toward the village through a snowstorm as roars came from the forest.
• Grindelwald and Dumbledore watched the group’s adventure from the underground Chamber.

Anton and the others faced a Fire Mammoth while playing heroes, and Anton discovered that magical materials let their puppet bodies use magic. After defeating the mammoth and healing in its blood, the group headed toward the village as the Elephant-Eating Vine dragged away the carcass.

• George, Fred, Hannah, Neville, Anna, and Anton prepared to fight the Fire Mammoths in their puppet bodies, and Anton wondered why they could not cast magic.
• A Fire Mammoth charged the group, and Anton leaped at it and slashed its face with his Greatsword before its trunk smashed his shoulder and arm.
• The enraged mammoth knocked the others aside and nearly trampled Anna, but Anton rose and used Flame Slash to bring it down.
• Anton realized the Fire Mammoth's blood had made his Greatsword magical, then bathed in the blood and used Transfiguration to repair his body.
• Anton offered Anna the mammoth's power, and she accepted; the heroes then walked toward the village while the Elephant-Eating Vine dragged the carcass into the darkness.

After celebrating their victory, Anton and his friends planned the next stages of their cooperative project, including new dolls, weapons training, and magical equipment for Muggle heroes. Anton revealed that the Ministry of Magic might fund a Werewolf Animagus Training Center and that Professor Lupin had secured funding for Cabin to develop a Healing Potion, leaving the group ready to put their research to work.

• Anton and the others planned new dolls and villainous monsters, magical weapons for Muggle heroes, and weapons training at their newly bought Castle.
• Anna, George, and Fred agreed to work together on developing wireless communication, while George and Fred worried Cabin was running short on money.
• Anton told the group that Minister Fudge had invited him to establish a Werewolf Animagus Office and Training Center with ten official Ministry positions, though the proposal was still under discussion.
• Anton revealed that Professor Lupin had secured funding from the Werewolf Community Treatment Fund for Cabin to develop a Healing Potion.
• Fred proposed more experiments with Fluffy Rabbit droppings to lower treatment costs, and Neville brought out research on six Green Little Man Strains cultivated with them.

Anton learned that a disguised girl had attacked the Fat Lady’s portrait and discovered Harry had overheard a woman discussing a deal with Sirius Black. He researched the mirror spell and opened a dangerous book about a witch who made prosthetics from Fantastic Beasts’ bones, where he found himself transformed into a goat for a lesson on hide.

• George and Fred learned that the Fat Lady’s portrait had been slashed, and a witness reported that Peeves blamed a girl in camouflage.
• Anton wondered how the girl had entered Hogwarts and remembered he still lacked Harry’s blood for his ritual to find Sirius.
• Anton overheard Harry, Ron, and Hermione discussing a woman’s voice promising to help Sirius catch a rat in exchange for something.
• Anton asked Madam Pince about a mirror spell, learned it traded luck for information, and borrowed a dangerous book about dissecting a Fire Dragon.
• Anton entered the book’s scene and became a goat while a witch explained how to work with hide and a man sharpened a boning knife.

After recovering from an eight-hour binge of Dark Arts reading, Anton considered how powerful magical knowledge was kept within Pure-blood families and resumed studying Biological Magical Items. On his way to the School Kitchen, he sensed that a new portrait girl had a complete soul, reached into her frame with Soul Black Lines, and left her trembling before continuing on.

• Madam Pince woke Anton after he spent eight hours reading, gave him a Restorative Potion, and told him Anna Rosier had secured an excuse for his missed classes.
• Anton went to the School Kitchen and reflected that Pure-blood families had monopolized knowledge of Magical Items and other magical crafts.
• Anton continued studying the Mad Witch’s work on fixing Vitality in flesh and blood to create Magical Items that granted abilities such as enhanced vision.
• Anton noticed a new girl in a portrait and sensed that her emotions came from a complete soul rather than an ordinary painting.
• Anton sent Soul Black Lines into the frame and engulfed the girl, but found nothing; he apologized and went on, leaving her slumped and trembling as portrait gentlemen protested.

During the search for an intruder at Hogwarts, Anton revealed that Hermione’s Crookshanks and Ron’s Scabbers were Animagi hiding as pets. The revelation exposed Peter Pettigrew as the traitor and left Lupin struggling with memories of the Potters’ deaths and the suspicion he had endured.

• Anton told the Professors he had encountered no intruders, then admitted that two adult Wizards were hiding at Hogwarts in Animagus forms.
• Anton identified Crookshanks as an adult Witch who had become trapped in cat form and said he sensed a connection between her soul and Harry Potter.
• Anton revealed that Ron’s rat, Scabbers, was Peter Pettigrew, shocking McGonagall with how often the rat had been near the Order of the Phoenix and the Ministry.
• McGonagall explained that the Order had suspected Peter and Lupin before Sirius was blamed for betraying the Potters and killing Peter.
• Lupin overheard the revelation and struggled to explain his grief, recalling the deaths of the Potters and Peter and the suspicion cast on him.

At Hogwarts, Scabbers was exposed as Peter Pettigrew, and Anton told Lupin that Pettigrew had betrayed the Potters. As Snape demanded the truth and Harry pressed to learn which Potters Anton meant, Pettigrew seized Harry and threatened him with his own Wand.

• McGonagall asked Ron to bring Scabbers for an examination, but the rat escaped and animated objects chased him around the office.
• Dumbledore stopped Scabbers, who transformed into Peter Pettigrew; Ron, Harry, and Hermione learned that his pet rat had been a man.
• Lupin tearfully embraced Pettigrew, believing his old friend had been dead, until Anton said Pettigrew had told Voldemort about the Potters.
• Lupin questioned Pettigrew, and Snape demanded confirmation while threatening to use Veritaserum or the Imperius Curse.
• Harry demanded to know which Potters Anton meant, but Pettigrew shoved Lupin aside, grabbed Harry by the throat, and held Harry's Wand to his neck.

Peter Pettigrew threatened the professors, but a magical message from Voldemort interrupted the confrontation and brought Dumbledore into a deadly exchange with his former student. After Voldemort vanished, the professors argued over Pettigrew’s fate, while Lupin insisted he had to stay alive to clear Sirius’s name.

• Peter Pettigrew threatened to blow up the street unless the professors let him escape with Harry, but strange rifts formed and revealed the Dark Mark.
• Harry bit Pettigrew and escaped as Voldemort appeared through the Dark Mark, boasting that he was nearing his full power and challenging Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore killed Pettigrew, blasted off Voldemort’s arm, then restored Pettigrew to life before Voldemort severed the connection.
• Dumbledore sent Pettigrew back to the professors and left to investigate the mercenaries, while Lupin stopped Snape from killing Pettigrew so Sirius could be cleared.
• Professor McGonagall reprimanded Snape for attempting the Killing Curse, and Snape left after finding Anton had slipped away.

Grindelwald told Dumbledore that Muggle involvement would force the Wizarding World to reconsider how wizards and Muggles coexisted, while he remained content to watch from the sidelines. As Dementors searched Hogwarts for the infiltrating girl, Anton spent the night in the School Kitchen cooking with the House-elves and offered to teach them porridge recipes.

• Grindelwald explained to Dumbledore that he had brought Muggles onto the chessboard and expected them to carry forward his ideas without his direct involvement.
• Dumbledore apologized to Grindelwald, who said he had never blamed him.
• The Professors continued searching for the girl who had infiltrated Hogwarts, and Dementors swept through the castle late that night.
• Anton cooked Boiled Fish in the School Kitchen while the House-elves watched and praised his cooking.
• Anton realized the House-elves might prefer porridge to rice and named several varieties they could make.
• Anton invited the House-elves to gather so he could teach them porridge recipes as the Dementors passed the School Kitchen.

Harry agreed to help Anton locate Sirius through Ritual Magic, and the spell revealed Sirius strapped to an operating table in a laboratory. Anton captured the image in a Crystal Ball and sent Neville to take it to Dumbledore.

• Harry accepted Neville's offer to let Anton use Ritual Magic to find Sirius, and Ron and Hermione joined them.
• Anton told Harry that Sirius was his Godfather and explained that Harry, Draco, and other Pure-bloods shared distant family ties.
• Anton prepared a Rune Array using Draco's hair, then had Harry call out Sirius's name to establish the connection.
• The spell showed Sirius restrained in a laboratory while a middle-aged woman prepared a syringe, and Anton spotted a powerful Wizard concealing the location.
• Anton captured the vision in a Crystal Ball and asked Neville to deliver it to Dumbledore.