Chapter Summaries

Anton visited Fudge to discuss the Department of Mysteries and the Muggle Squib crisis, while considering how he might help shape the changing wizarding world. Fudge agreed to support the Dursleys and their allies after Anton shared what he knew.

• Anton told Anna he wanted to see how Fudge, Dumbledore, and the Department of Mysteries handled the crisis before deciding what to do.
• Anton explained that he had helped develop Muggle Squib research and said he wanted to change the wizarding world rather than accept its old ways.
• Umbridge met Anton in the Ministry corridor, and Fudge warmly welcomed him into his office.
• Fudge offered Anton an autonomous office site beside his own building and suggested using Umbridge as an assistant.
• Anton told Fudge about the Department of Mysteries and Harry Potter, prompting Fudge to consider seeking Dumbledore's support.
• Scrimgeour arrived with the Dursleys and two Battle Witches, and Fudge said Anton had come to ask for his help and promised to support them.

Anton and Anna visited the Ministry of Magic Records Room, where Fudge provided Anna with a time-travel book and Anton with secret records of American experiments on Muggle Squibs. Anton discovered that the experiments used Voodoo Dolls to draw out a Squib’s Wizard Bloodline, leaving him with a new approach to magical bloodline development.

• Vernon Dursley, Megan, and Norma remained caught in the conflict over the Department of Mysteries’ experiments, while Anton chose to observe the outcome rather than intervene.
• Fudge’s House-elf led Anton and Anna through a disorienting route guarded by a Fire Dragon to the Records Room.
• The House-elf gave Anna an Ancient Wizard’s travelogue about time travel and gave Anton secret records of American research into Muggle Squibs in Africa.
• Anton read that the American experiments used Voodoo Dolls to preserve a Fantastic Beast’s bloodline and trigger a Magical Outburst in a Muggle Squib to uncover their Wizard Bloodline.

Anton studied an American magical experiment that had turned a Muggle Squib into a wizard by purifying their ancestral wizard bloodline, and he realized how its ideas could improve several of his own projects. Excited, he tried to explain his new plan to Anna, who remained frustrated that he seemed to think only about magic.

• Anton examined the experimental records and inferred how the researchers used a Voodoo Doll backup to purify a Squib’s wizard bloodline; three attempts succeeded, including one that produced a normal young wizard.
• Anton considered the researchers’ belief in human bloodline purity and connected it to Lupin’s emotional response to the possibility of becoming human again.
• Anton realized the experiment could help improve the Human Deformation Removal Potion, the Werewolf Animagus ritual, the process of turning Squibs into wizards, and the ritual for stacking and destroying Fantastic Beast bloodlines.
• Anton turned to share his discovery with Anna and found her dozing at the table, then woke her and began describing how their Comeback War Chess could help.
• Anna listened as Anton rambled about magic and thought that he was oblivious to her feelings and to the other women around him.

Anton proposed a four-stage method combining the Cabin Collective's research to awaken the wizard bloodline already inside Muggle Squibs and trigger a Magical Outburst. The group realized they could turn the process into a War Chess game, while Anna compared it to a novel about a tiger transforming and evolving.

• Anton announced that he had written “Muggles, Werewolves, and Pure-bloods 2,” but clarified that it was a project combining the group's research rather than a book for publication.
• Anton explained how their work on Fantastic Beast bloodlines, Werewolves, Angnagara, and bodily transformations could be used to reshape a person's body and awaken their magic.
• Neville identified the idea as the Soul-Transferring Charm, George and Fred connected it to Hufflepuff's Legacy, Hannah to their War Chess, and Anna to their ritual for destroying Fantastic Beast magic.
• Anton outlined a four-step process that would reshape a person's Animagus forms, access their wizard bloodline, and destroy their body to trigger a Magical Outburst.
• Hannah and Anna suggested combining the steps into a game, and Anna compared the process to a story about someone reincarnated as a Siberian tiger.

Anton accompanied Dumbledore to an International Confederation of Wizards meeting, where Dumbledore condemned violations of secrecy and threats of conflict between wizards and Muggles. After displaying the heads of those he had punished, Dumbledore left the world’s leading wizards silent, while Anton realized the crackdown served the powerful rather than heralding Fudge’s era.

• Dumbledore brought Anton to the International Confederation of Wizards meeting and explained that he had kept Anton’s achievements and influence out of public view until now.
• Anton met familiar figures and influential wizards before Dumbledore addressed the gathering as Confederation president.
• Dumbledore reaffirmed that wizards and Muggles were one people and threatened severe punishment for those who violated secrecy or incited hostility between them.
• Goblin servants displayed the heads of goblins, wizards, and house-elves whom Dumbledore had punished, leaving the assembled leaders silent.
• Carina asked whether research into Muggle Squibs was forbidden, and Babajide Akingbade said it could proceed under official oversight.
• Fudge told Anton that their era had arrived, but Anton concluded that the meeting marked an era of power and Dumbledore’s enforcement of his limits.

The International Confederation of Wizards established a review of the Department of Mysteries’ research into “Muggle Squibs,” and Fudge arranged for Anton to lead the Ministry’s review team. Snape urged Anton to treat politics as a brief distraction from studying magic, and they returned to school before the review began after Christmas.

• The International Confederation of Wizards reaffirmed the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy and announced a review of the Department of Mysteries’ research.
• Fudge told Anton that the Ministry had appointed him deputy chair and leader of the review team, alongside Dumbledore, McGonagall, Lupin, Snape, Scrimgeour, and Lucius Malfoy.
• Fudge explained that the team’s appointments balanced different groups and gave him a way to influence the Department of Mysteries.
• After the meeting, Snape warned Anton that political involvement could distract him from learning and described how his own fixation on Emotions and personal idol worship had stalled his progress.
• Snape told Anton to see political opportunities as scenery by the roadside on a long path of magical study, then took him back to school as the review was set to begin after Christmas.

Anton and Cabin built the Ministry of Magic’s Animagus Research and Training Office in Hogsmeade and prepared to begin work there. After the building was finished, Neville asked Anton to accompany him to St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

• Anton explained to Cabin’s friends how the Ministry’s office and Cabin’s influence fit into the Wizarding World’s power structure.
• Anna and Cabin’s friends constructed the office, using an Elephant-Eating Vine, Dragon Blood, and their Map Construction Charm.
• The group installed a Doll as the office’s gatekeeper and completed the reception hall, research center, and training center.
• Anton said the Ministry still needed to add protective spells and defenses, and announced that Cabin’s friends were now Ministry employees.
• George and Fred planned to tell their family about their new jobs, while Hannah and Anna discussed fixing up Barrel Cottage.
• Neville asked Anton to go with him to St Mungo’s because he felt nervous after finishing the development of his magic.

Anton helped Neville enter Alice Longbottom’s soul and guide her lost self back to her body. The chapter ended with Alice recognizing Neville and embracing him.

• Anton visited St Mungo’s with Neville and met Neville’s parents, Frank and Alice Longbottom, who were hospitalized with injuries from the Cruciatus Curse.
• Alice gave Neville a Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum wrapper, and Neville kept it despite his grandmother telling him to throw it away.
• Anton used a photograph and several spells to create a space where Neville could search for Alice’s lost Ego.
• Neville found Alice’s phantom in a warped part of her soul and struggled to lead her back while Anton helped him reach it.
• Alice’s soul returned to her body, and she recognized Neville before holding him and calling him her child.

After healing Frank Longbottom, Anton left St Mungo’s and reflected on his loneliness while wandering through London at Christmas. He found a bullied boy named Peter whose faint magical outburst caught his attention, and left him a mysterious Christmas present.

• Anton credited Neville Longbottom with developing the treatment that healed Frank and watched Neville reunite with his family.
• Anton left the hospital and walked through London, thinking about his childhood in an orphanage and his hopes for a family of his own.
• Dressed as Santa Claus, Anton amused children on the street before hearing bullies mock and rob a boy named Peter in an alley.
• Anton sensed a faint magical outburst from Peter, whose grief had barely lifted a corner of his Spider-Man comic.
• Anton approached Peter as Santa Claus, asked if he wanted to truly live, gave him a large wrapped box, and disappeared.

Peter discovered that the strange helmet transformed him into a spider, while Anton presented the Cabin’s experiment for awakening magical power in Muggle Squibs to the Review Committee. The project received approval, and Lucius offered to fund it.

• Peter opened the helmet Santa Claus had left him, put it on, and collapsed after a sudden pain struck his head.
• Peter woke in a forest with a spider’s body and instincts, hunted for food, built a web, and saw his reflection in the water.
• When Peter heard his mother calling, he woke in his room, removed the helmet, and stared at his hands in shock.
• Anton explained that the Cabin’s experiment used a Voodoo Doll to replicate a body and an Animagus transformation to awaken magical power in Muggle Squibs.
• Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Snape, Lupin, and Lucius approved the project, and Dumbledore led the reviewers outside.
• Lucius told Anton that the Malfoy family would donate to the project and invited him to call him Uncle Lucius.

Anton and the Cabin Members refined their plan to treat werewolves by combining it with their research into Muggle Squibs and Animagus transformations. They named their expanded Live-Action War Chess project Wizarding World 1.0, and Anna dubbed them the "Wizarding World 1.0" Cabin Development Team.

• Anton reflected on his growing authority, his limits against Voldemort, and his determination to keep his loved ones safe while training Neville.
• At the Cabin gathering, Anton explained how their findings on the ego and bodily bloodlines could simplify the backup-body Animagus ritual and the process of turning werewolves into wizards.
• Neville and Hannah suggested ways to fund the Ministry-commissioned work through the Animagus Research Laboratory and international subsidies.
• The Cabin Members proposed names for their expanded Live-Action War Chess, rejected George's "Bloody Night" and Fred's "Morning Rise," and settled on Wizarding World 1.0.
• Anna nicknamed the Cabin the "Wizarding World 1.0" Cabin Development Team.

Peter invited Julie to try the full-dive helmet, but she suffered a violent reaction and collapsed. In Cabin, Anton and the others found Peter’s Animagus replica convulsing and rushed to investigate.

• Peter posted about his dream-world experience on the school forum and became popular at school.
• Julie persuaded Peter to let her help write his next post, and he invited her to his house to try the helmet.
• Julie put on the helmet, began bleeding from the nose, and collapsed while convulsing.
• Anna spotted an error with Peter’s login account, and Anton found his spider replica convulsing in the paddock.
• Anna carried Anton toward Peter while George and Fred followed, and Hannah pursued them on a broomstick.

Anton and his friends discovered that a Muggle girl was forcing her soul into Peter’s unstable Animagus body through their ritual helmet, so they set out to find Peter and intervene. They reached Peter’s house and learned that he and the girl were upstairs.

• Anton examined the spider and determined that the Muggle girl’s soul was entering Peter’s Animagus body and might awaken his magical bloodline.
• Hannah warned that removing the helmet could kill the girl and went to check Peter’s house, while Fred fetched their equipment.
• Anton used the ritual bond between Peter and the spider to cast a Full Body-Bind Curse on Peter from a distance.
• The five friends flew out of Hogwarts, Apparated to Peter’s house, and entered under protective spells.
• Hannah’s magical plants revealed that Peter’s parents were away and that Peter and a blonde girl were in a room on the second floor.

Anton and his friends examined the ritual linking Peter, Julie, and the spider Animagus, then chose to let the transformation continue. As Julie and Peter began fighting for control, the twins and Hannah suggested connecting them with Super Extendable Ears, leaving everyone waiting for Anton’s decision.

• Anton realized he might need to rediscover the wonder he had felt when he first encountered magic, then set the thought aside to deal with Julie and Peter.
• Anton explained that the ritual had merged Peter, the helmet, and the spider, and warned that Julie or Peter might die as the transformation continued.
• Peter tried to remove the helmet from Julie but was struck down as it lit up and linked him, Julie, and the spider with streams of magic.
• Anton chose to let the transformation continue, reasoning that Julie could be revived with a Soul Placement Potion if necessary.
• Julie and Peter arched and screamed as Anna sensed them fighting for control of the Animagus form.
• George, Fred, and Hannah proposed using Super Extendable Ears to strengthen the connection, and the group waited for Anton to decide.

Anton and his friends performed a ritual to merge Peter and Julie’s souls and Spider Animagus bloodline, hoping to create a new magical bloodline. Peter and Julie emerged from a dissolving cocoon at dawn with no clear explanation of what had happened, aside from two strange boxes left on the bed.

• Anton concluded that Peter and Julie’s souls were weakening each other and planned to combine their Egos while guiding the spider bloodline into them.
• Anton, Hannah, Anna, George, and Fred prepared a ritual using the Spider Animagus, magical tools, and offerings in Peter’s room.
• Anton recited an ancient Egyptian incantation as Julie’s Helmet broke apart and Peter and Julie became enclosed in a growing spider-silk cocoon.
• After two heartbeats burst, Julie and Peter woke inside the cocoon and argued about what had happened.
• Julie and Peter crawled out at dawn, and the cocoon melted away in the sunlight, leaving two black cardboard boxes on the bed.

Peter and Julie used mysterious necklaces to enter the Wizarding World, where they learned their devices and missions were tied to King Weasley and a secrecy law. Back at Hogwarts, Anton and the others discussed how to use the new visitors as testers for their products, plants, and creatures.

• Julie opened a box, tried the necklace, and entered a starry space where she learned Wizarding World 1.0 would be unavailable for three days.
• Peter discovered he had Spider-Man’s powers, opened the second box, and used its necklace to enter the Wizarding World with Julie.
• Sixteen people gathered on a platform, where Adams welcomed them as chosen ones and warned them to keep the Log-in Device secret from Muggles.
• Anton and the others watched the visitors through images at Hogwarts and discussed adding a points system with joke items as rewards.
• George, Fred, and Hannah proposed using the visitors to test joke products, plants, and Fantastic Beasts, while Anton warned them not to kill their test subjects.

Cabin’s members headed home for Christmas, while Anton spent the holiday with family and friends at 11 Grimmauld Place. Pedro arrived troubled by Goblins’ struggles for freedom, and Anton offered to let them visit his Wizarding World.

• Cabin’s members decided to go home for Christmas, and George and Fred took Harry Potter and Ron to report their plans to Professor McGonagall before leaving Hogwarts by broomstick.
• Anton returned to 11 Grimmauld Place, where he and his family and friends celebrated Christmas together.
• Old Wizard Fiennes came home and asked whether his foolish teacher had returned, prompting Rosier to mention a Goblin riot at Pedro’s factory.
• Pedro arrived and explained that Goblins had grown accustomed to domestication and were divided over whether his factory helped or exploited them.
• Pedro abandoned his plan to study the Goblins’ Way of Survival and Human Animagus transformation, and Anton offered to give Goblins Log-in Devices to visit his Wizarding World.

Drunk and homesick, Anton used the watch to revisit memories of his past life before magically resurrecting his former body. The new Anton wandered into the snow and woke believing he had crossed into another world, where Anna pretended to be his system.

• Anton watched fireworks and movies with his family, then asked Anna for the watch Pedro had given him.
• Anton used the watch to revisit memories of his life before crossing worlds and grew emotional as he watched his younger self.
• Anton used spell materials and magic to resurrect his former body, then sent the new Anton away with a week to live on his own.
• Anna followed the new Anton through the snowy streets and watched him wake in an alley, confused about his location.
• Anna pretended to be a system called Wizard's System for Conquering the Flower City, and Anton realized that she was speaking to him.

Anton tried to survive in the unfamiliar Muggle world while believing a prank system had promised him an Animagus reward. Anna followed him in disguise, but he eventually entered a Wizard’s shop, where Megan took him in for his cooking skills.

• Anton planned to start over by gaining an Animagus form and exploring magic freely.
• Anna used a fake system quest to tease Anton and secretly followed him while disguised as an older woman.
• Anton searched for work and food across the snowy streets, pitching his cooking and other skills but repeatedly getting thrown out.
• Anna watched Anton struggle and hesitated to reveal herself, moved by his determination.
• Anton entered a Wizard’s shop, where Megan discussed keeping him because he could cook and might have Wizard Bloodline.
• Anna recognized Megan, but she disappeared before Megan could identify her.

Anton began an Animagus ritual but resisted the transformation, forcing Anna and Adams to repeat the process as his copied bodies repeatedly became monsters and exploded. Anna left the ritual to comfort the original Anton, who quieted as she held him and promised to stay beside him.

• Anton found a metal tag on his chest, pressed its button, and was pulled into a painful vision of his soul and animal nature.
• Anna and Adams watched Anton resist the Animagus ritual as his copied body twisted through monstrous forms.
• The ritual's magic overwhelmed Anton's copied body, which exploded, but Anna ordered Adams to keep making copies and repeating the process.
• Anna left the ritual and found Anton struggling in a nightmare in the room above Megan's shop.
• Anna wiped Anton's sweat, held his head against her chest, and whispered that she was beside him, calming his trembling.