Chapter Summaries

Anton studied how a Wizard’s will could shape Magical Items and discovered that Zolin’s crown had been made from the Dark Magic Creature A Thousand Feet and Mouths. Lupin explained the creature’s connection to Mysticism and gave Anton a Desert Sapphire, which could help remove it from a person.

• Ron happily left with a palm-sized lizard that George and Fred claimed had inherited some of Fat Ball’s bloodline.
• Anton read Zolin’s Crown of Flowers and learned that Zolin had used A Thousand Feet and Mouths to create a crown that disrupted a Wizard’s Magical Power.
• Anton connected the book’s theories about will and Magical Items to his ideas about Fantastic Beast Animagi and Muggle Squibs.
• Anton asked Lupin about A Thousand Feet and Mouths, and Lupin explained that the creature parasitized people and whispered to them underwater.
• Lupin gave Anton a Desert Sapphire and explained that it could dry out and dislodge A Thousand Feet and Mouths.

Anton visited Arthur Weasley to ask about the Weasley family's knowledge of Magical Items and Alchemy, and learned that their inherited Memory Palace shared wisdom among all who carried the family bloodline. Arthur explained that joining the family would let Anton draw on its knowledge while adding his own wisdom to it, leaving Anton to consider what that bond would mean.

• Anton turned a jar of sand into a bracelet with a frog inside and reflected on his interest in magical research and items.
• Harry stayed behind at Hogwarts while the other students went to Hogsmeade, and he looked forward to learning a spell from an old wizard in Cabin's basement.
• Anton visited the newly prepared castle before traveling to the Ministry of Magic to ask Arthur about the Weasley family's inherited knowledge.
• Arthur described how the Weasley family shared resources and recounted his father's choice to spend an unexpected bonus on a trip around the world.
• Arthur revealed that the Weasleys' Memory Palace existed in their bloodline and explained that its benefits came with the duty to contribute one's own wisdom.
• Arthur urged Anton to take his time and pursue a complete life of his own, and Anton nodded as he considered the choice.

Anton considered how the Weasley family’s Palace of Knowledge might connect to a collective consciousness river, then traveled to a seaport disguised as Tom Riddle. There, Phoebe Johnson introduced herself as an emissary of the Evolutionaries Association and invited him to visit its headquarters.

• Anton suspected the Weasley family’s Palace of Knowledge used a collective consciousness river to preserve and share family knowledge, but rejected the idea of abusing its access permissions.
• Anton returned to the castle where the Cabin Members were training, then left alone with Professor Lupin’s permission slip.
• Anton transformed himself into Tom Riddle and went to a seaport bar, where he reflected on the prospect of war between wizards and Muggles and toasted to peace.
• Phoebe Johnson approached Anton, demonstrated a weak blue flame, and introduced herself as the Evolutionaries Association’s Underworld Fire Messenger.
• Anton agreed to visit the association’s headquarters, and Phoebe drove him away in her red convertible.

Anton visited the Potter family’s Karina Biotechnology headquarters, where Karina Potter sought his support for her branch’s ambitions and explained its work transforming Muggle Squibs into wizards. He learned the Saints were backing the project and promoting a booklet that urged wizards to resist the Ministry, then agreed to inspect the Potter family’s methods while remaining wary of Harlick Urquhart.

• Phoebe Johnson escorted Anton through Karina Biotechnology’s offices and training area to meet Karina Potter, Linette Potter, and Harlick Urquhart.
• Karina Potter described her branch’s potion-making history, its dispute with Henry Potter’s line, and its efforts to reclaim a seat in the Extraordinary Society of Potioneers.
• Karina explained that her branch had improved Anthony Weasley’s method for awakening Muggle Squibs and showed Anton a booklet funded by the Saints that praised Voldemort and urged resistance to the Ministry.
• Karina said her family and the Society wanted to avoid war with Muggles and instead use companies, Muggle science, and modern farming methods to advance their interests.
• Anton agreed to see how the improved method worked, then recognized Harlick as the wizard who had once disrupted his ritual search for Sirius.

Anton inspected the Potter family’s underground research into a Potion that awakened magic in Squibs, identified how it worked, and learned that it had given Inna Potter the ability to enter paintings. He offered the Potters a chance to continue their research and left Karina with one of Hannah’s linked Love Magic Beans, which Karina mistook for something dangerous to her pregnancy.

• Anton recognized the complex’s protective charm as a combination of Muggle-Repelling, Anti-Mapping, and Anti-Apparition magic, and Harlick Urquhart explained that it was the Urquhart family’s Dungeon Guardian Charm.
• Karina Potter led Anton through the heavily guarded underground facility, where he saw pregnant women under guard and learned that Sirius might be somewhere beneath the building.
• Linette Potter explained that the Potters used Extreme-Hatred Evil Spirits in a Potion to awaken magic in Squibs, and Anton touched an evil spirit without suffering its expected effects.
• Anton deduced that the Potion stimulated Squibs to create wizard Animagi and that it often awakened Dark magic, while Karina revealed that it had turned her daughter Inna Potter into a witch with the ability to enter paintings.
• Anton took a sample of the Potion, gave Karina a Love Magic Bean, and told the Potters to crush it when they achieved a breakthrough in their research.
• After Anton vanished, Karina rushed to get a Potion to make herself vomit, while Anton revealed that the bean was one of a linked pair developed by Hannah.

Anton watched Dudley perform an astonishing Quidditch stunt and learned that Vernon had sent Firebolts to Harry, Dudley, and him. Suspecting the Saints and Grindelwald were maneuvering the goblins and people around him, Anton decided to speak with Vernon and threatened to turn anyone who targeted his allies into artificial intelligence.

• Anton watched Dudley hit a Bludger in midair, dodge a fall, and catch his Flying Broomstick during a Quidditch match.
• Harry received a Firebolt, and Anton soon received one too, along with a letter from Vernon asking for guidance about the goblins.
• Fiennes warned Anton to stay away from the goblins, while Anton suspected the Saints had encouraged their interest in Dudley and Vernon.
• Anton realized Lupin’s new Ministry position would put him in authority over the goblins and suspected Grindelwald had arranged events involving Dumbledore, Voldemort, and himself.
• Anton told Fiennes he would turn the Saints into artificial intelligence if they targeted his allies, then decided he needed to speak with Vernon.

Anton gave George and Fred Snape’s method for testing Potion Ingredients and began studying a Dark Magic Creature for his Potion research. He helped Neville pursue the Soul-Transferring Charm, then found Anna training herself to exhaustion and carried her back to Cabin, reflecting on his past and his sense of home.

• Anton gave George and Fred Snape’s Ingredient-testing method after they signed a magical agreement, and they began reading the documents before helping with his experiments.
• Neville showed Anton Twin Beans and asked to learn the Soul-Transferring Charm, hoping its connection to the beans could help him treat his parents.
• Anton made Neville a memory mirror containing his experiences with the Soul-Transferring Charm and warned him about the risks of using it.
• After working late, Anton sensed Anna’s stubborn perseverance and found her exhausted from practicing archery alone.
• Anton checked Anna, carried her back to Cabin, and remembered his former girlfriend and the feeling of home as he walked with Anna.

Anton watched Fiennes complete his Resurrection Ritual, then studied the new theory of bloodlines and began revising his approach to the Werewolf potion. The chapter ended with Anton and his friends preparing an experiment to destroy a Werewolf body and merge its bloodline into a Wizard.

• Fiennes performed the Resurrection Ritual using an Acromantula, and Snape transferred his soul into a newly restored body.
• Snape explained his theory of soul traces, while Fiennes added time as another element shaping a person’s life and identity.
• Fiennes gave Anton and Snape’s book on the resurrection theory to Anton, then left to enjoy his new life.
• Anton read the book and connected its theories to bloodlines, concluding that Wizard bloodlines could exist in both the body and soul.
• Anton summoned Neville, George, and Fred to prepare ingredients and announced that the Human Deformation Removal Potion should destroy a Werewolf body so its bloodline could merge with a Wizard.
• Anton proposed testing the resulting potion on Werewolf subjects and said he could use the results to investigate how Muggle Squibs might gain magic.

Anton and the Cabin group prepared and performed a potion-and-ritual experiment to destroy his Color-Changing Windbird Animagus and inherit its ability. The experiment succeeded, leaving Anton able to make his hand invisible, and he proposed repeating it so the others could gain the Werewolf Animagus as an innate ability.

• Anton divided the potion experiments among the Cabin group while he designed a targeting ritual to destroy an Animagus without harming its wizard.
• Anton prepared a hexagram ritual using six ingredients and planned to resurrect his previous-life body, kill it, and merge it into his current body.
• George and Fred guarded the Animal Paddock, Neville and Hannah protected Cabin with Elephant-Eating Vines, and Anna cast a protective Charm before Anton began the ritual.
• Anton recited the Ancient Runes incantation as the ingredients reacted and the potion vanished from its sealed bottle.
• After the ritual ended, Anton showed the group that his right hand could become invisible, an ability inherited from his Color-Changing Windbird doppelganger.
• Anton proposed repeating the experiment so the group could inherit the Werewolf Animagus as an innate ability.

Anton assembled Hogwarts experts to assess the cottage’s research into removing a Werewolf Animagus bloodline, warning that combining wizard and Fantastic Beast traits could be dangerous. Neville confidently presented his own work on Resonance Between Kindred Souls, and Anton felt proud of how far he had come.

• Anton explained the risks of adding Fantastic Beast bloodlines, citing Rodolphus, Lupin, Lockhart, and the Birmingham witches as cautionary examples.
• Anton invited Snape, Sprout, Hagrid, McGonagall, and other Hogwarts teachers to review the cottage’s research.
• McGonagall and Flitwick praised Neville’s work, encouraging him to explain his research himself.
• Neville gathered his courage and described how his study of Hannah’s Twin Beans and Potion-Spell Integration Theory led to Resonance Between Kindred Souls.
• Anton watched Neville present confidently and felt that helping him grow had been even more rewarding than becoming powerful himself.

Anton and Professor McGonagall connected the death's-head hawkmoth pupa’s role in Animagus Transformation to changes in the heart, lungs, and vitality. McGonagall brought experts into Anton’s Cabin project, leaving the research team poised to expand further.

• Professor Sprout and Professor Snape identified the medicinal properties of the Fluffy Rabbits’ yellow crystal spheres and dissolved them into a potion using rabbit blood.
• Professor McGonagall explained to Anton that the death's-head hawkmoth pupa was essential to the bodily transformation in Animagus Transformation, and that many wizards failed at this stage.
• Anton showed McGonagall his Heart-Rending Lung-Splitting Potion formula and proposed that transformation-related bloodline changes began in the heart.
• McGonagall suggested studying the lungs and invited Mrs. Marsa, a breathing researcher at the French Ministry of Magic, to join the project.
• McGonagall took Anton around the world to invite experts, firmly presenting the research as Anton’s Cabin project and the others as its helpers.

As powerful wizards joined the cottage’s Animagus research, Anton accepted appointment as Director of the Animagus Research and Training Office while keeping the cottage independent. He realized he had become part of the wizarding world, as Hannah imagined their group would usher in a new era.

• Anton’s Elephant-Eating Vine expanded the cottage as more masters joined, including Dumbledore, who protected the site and enabled Apparition there.
• The masters contributed advanced knowledge to the project, while Anthony Weasley impressed them with how quickly he learned and the insights he offered.
• At the end of November, Fudge presented Anton with an appointment as Director of the Animagus Research and Training Office, and Anton signed the Ministry document.
• Fudge explained that the office’s training and research centers would be established in Hogsmeade and that the cottage could remain a private club, separate from the Ministry.
• Anton accepted that he had become an important part of the wizarding world, while Hannah wrote that their group would become legends and usher in a new era.

Anton confided in Anna that he felt out of place in the Wizarding World and feared that his research might trigger a war, leaving him unsure whether to pursue changing society. Anna promised to stand by him whatever he chose, then kissed him.

• Anna told Anton that she and her family had moved back to Grimmauld Place, where her father had bought the house next door to 11 Grimmauld Place.
• Anton explained that he felt unable to return to his old life and struggled to fit into a world divided between Wizards and Muggles.
• Anton told Anna that his research could let ordinary Wizards and Muggles become Wizards, but worried that powerful factions might turn it into a war.
• Anna promised to stay by Anton whether he became an observer, a participant, or a changemaker, then kissed him.

Anton and Cabin continued their Fantastic Beasts bloodline-stacking research after the senior wizards left, while he warned Hannah to keep the work secret. He and Anna prepared to meet Mr. Dursley, though Anna feared Pedro’s involvement would complicate matters.

• Anton explained that the experts had shifted to exchanging letters and publishing research in Transfiguration Today after he became director of the Animagus Office.
• Anton and the others discussed how Werewolf blood had improved Neville’s strength, George’s agility, Fred’s eyesight, and Anna’s endurance and flexibility.
• Anton warned Hannah not to share her records, and George and Fred confirmed they had kept Fluffy Rabbit droppings from being sold.
• Neville said he was more interested in new ideas about the Cruciatus Curse, while Hannah continued cultivating the Green Little Man strain.
• Anton said he and Anna would visit Mr. Dursley the next day, and Anna warned that Pedro’s involvement could make the meeting difficult.

Anton and Anna visited Vernon Dursley and learned that Petunia had left after sending him divorce papers, though Vernon believed she had been abducted by wizards. Anton discovered the papers could not be traced and suspected Petunia had been taken because of her Evans family bloodline, leaving him worried about what the conspirators intended.

• Anton and Anna arrived at the Dursley home and found Vernon haggard and distressed.
• Vernon told them Petunia had left after sending divorce papers, and said the Goblins who monitored him had refused to help find her.
• Anton urged Vernon to contact Dumbledore or the Aurors, then learned Vernon had received a threatening nightmare and had secretly sent Anton a plea for help.
• Anton used a spell on the divorce papers, but the tracking magic failed because someone had blocked it.
• Anton performed a search spell and suspected Petunia had been abducted for her possible Potions talent and Evans family bloodline.

Petunia Dursley was held by three surviving warrior witches, who hoped to use her to learn what the wizards were doing and negotiate for their captured sisters. When Mrs. Ander’s group attacked, Megan fought back while her companions rescued Petunia and another captive, then counterattacked from the sewers.

• Megan brought Petunia food and urged her to cooperate, but Petunia despaired over her condition and the sisters who had been lost.
• Megan left after being told the wizards had been spotted, and Mrs. Ander’s group attacked the house while holding a bound witch captive.
• Megan fired a Gatling gun at the wizards, but their conjured wall overwhelmed the house, forcing her to flee through a sewer with Petunia.
• A warrior witch burst from underground, killed the burly wizard, seized the bound captive, and escaped the wizards’ spells through the sewer.
• A Gatling gun emerged from a different sewer entrance and tore apart a witch who had approached too closely.

Mrs. Ander’s team captured the injured Battle Witches and planned to investigate their use of Great White Bear bloodlines, but Anton Weasley opened a Transit Passage into their midst. As Mrs. Ander and her team tried to flee, Anton surrounded them with more passages.

• Mrs. Ander used an invisible force to stop the bullets and restrain Megan and Petunia while the old witch healed the wounded witch and restored Kate Williams’s heart.
• Kate detected a young married witch in the sewer, summoned a giant python, and helped subdue her with Mrs. Ander’s team.
• Mrs. Ander ordered the captives placed in cages so her team could investigate how they fused Great White Bear Dark Magic Creature Bloodlines.
• Anton Weasley opened a Transit Passage, recognized Kate Williams, and spoke to Mrs. Ander’s team from the other side.
• Mrs. Ander bound Kate and tried to escape in a concealed car, but Anton opened Transit Passages all around the group.

Anton confronted the Department of Mysteries Unspeakables after they abducted Petunia to study her, and rescued her with Anna and Vernon. He left the Unspeakables trapped in helpless laughter while he examined the witches’ unusual magic.

• Mrs. Ander and four other Unspeakables claimed authority over their operation and said neither Anton nor Dumbledore could interfere.
• Anton refused to obey their warning and pointed his Wand at the Unspeakables, while Kate Williams cowered at the sight of him.
• Mrs. Ander altered the surroundings with Transfiguration, and Cassira Kingsley warned that Anton could not cross their defensive barrier safely.
• Anton cast Lumos to blind the Unspeakables, then turned their counterattack into uncontrollable laughter.
• Anton brought Anna and Vernon through the Transit Passage, and Vernon caught Petunia as she fell from the air.
• Anna waited beside Anton while he studied the immobilized witches and their magic.

Anton confronted the Unspeakables and learned the Witch Tribe’s origins, including the curse and bloodline ritual behind its traditions. Mrs. Ander withdrew, while Megan and the Young Married Witch begged Anton to save their captured sisters.

• Anton subdued the two Battle Witches while studying Mrs. Ander's unusual Transfiguration, then demanded to take them with him.
• Mrs. Ander revealed that Petunia was an Experimental Subject whose heart had been switched with a Battle Witch's, and explained the Witch Tribe's plan to use her in a trade.
• Mrs. Ander traced the Witch Tribe to an Ancient Witch who fused with a Bear-Headed Man, became a Great White Bear in sunlight, and founded the tribe through her daughters.
• Megan recognized the origin of the tribe's Birthday Sleep Day rule and accused Mrs. Ander of plotting against them.
• Mrs. Ander saluted Anton and left with the Unspeakables, while Megan and the Young Married Witch knelt and begged him to save their captured sisters.

Anton brought Vernon and Petunia to the Ministry after Petunia briefly transformed, directing them to seek help from the Aurors. At Lupin’s office, Anton suspected the Saints were behind the Goblin scheme, and Lupin decided to contact Pedro after learning Grindelwald was teaching Dark Magic at Hogwarts.

• Anton questioned whether the wizarding community could offer a refuge to newly made wizards, then noticed Petunia’s failed transformation into a furry creature.
• Anton took Vernon and Petunia to the Ministry and directed them to tell the Aurors the truth, while hinting Vernon could use his family’s connections to demand justice.
• Arthur recognized Vernon at the Ministry and accompanied the group toward the Auror Command Room.
• Anton and Anna went with Arthur to Lupin’s office, where Anton said the Saints might be behind the Goblin scheme involving Muggle Squibs.
• Arthur revealed that Grindelwald was at Hogwarts teaching his son Dark Magic, and Lupin resolved to contact Pedro.