Chapter Summaries

Anton realized Animagus magic drew out and amplified a wizard’s beastly instincts, then resisted becoming an animal during Adams’s ritual. His repeated transformations strengthened his will and triggered a Magical Outburst, leaving Megan and Nora stunned as Anna escaped.

• Anton concluded that Animagus magic excavated a wizard’s bestial instincts and linked the apparent creature consciousness rivers to human souls.
• Anton transferred the insights of his red-haired body to his black-haired self, while Adams continued the Animagus ritual under King Weasley’s orders.
• The black-haired Anton repeatedly rejected becoming a beast, transformed back into a human, and exploded, forcing Adams to rebuild the ritual.
• Anton’s strengthened will made the ritual increasingly difficult, until he broke his connection to Adams’s world and returned to his body.
• Anton’s magic erupted in a Magical Outburst as Anna held him, and she Apparated away when Megan and Nora rushed in.

Megan reconsidered her future after witnessing Anton’s Magical Outburst, while Anton discovered that Anna had been his ex-girlfriend in his past life. He changed his plans for his revived past-life body and prepared to let it take the lead for the remaining six days of the holiday.

• Megan reflected on her and Nora’s uncertain finances and her wish to build a family rather than continue the Witch Tribe’s traditions.
• Megan saw Anton suffer a Magical Outburst, sensed an opportunity, and took Nora away to think about it.
• Anton emerged from an icebound coffin and realized that Anna had traveled through his memories and time to become his ex-girlfriend.
• Anton reconsidered severing the bond between his past life and present life, since Anna connected the two.
• Anton used the Elephant-Eating Vine to seal the room and planned to become his revived past-life body’s Subconscious while it took the lead for six days.

Anton fused his resurrected previous-life self with his own body through an Animagus ritual, waking with heightened senses and a stronger physique. Megan offered to teach him the Witch Tribe’s Combat Magic before they parted ways.

• Anton used a life-bond ritual to fuse his resurrected previous-life self with his own body.
• Anton woke covered in grime and blood, noticed his pendant, and suspected that refusing the Animagus transformation could make him stronger.
• Anton hurried to shower and wash his clothes while the landladies slept, but Megan found him in the bathroom.
• Megan used Scourgify to dry Anton and his clothes, then offered to teach him the Witch Tribe’s Combat Magic.
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Megan and Nora began a fire-based ritual to strengthen Anton’s body, coating him in painful magical Runes as he tried to memorize every detail. Anna watched from nearby, torn between intervening and respecting Anton’s reasons for reliving what happened after he crossed over.

• Anton helped clean Megan and Nora’s shop, and Megan explained the Ancient Witch Tribe’s spiritual traditions and offered to teach him simple Combat Magic.
• Megan and Nora took Anton to an abandoned Cabin courtyard, where Nora set up Banishment Sticks to keep Muggles away.
• Megan mixed Potions and other ingredients into a paste, added her blood, and cut Anton’s palm for the ritual.
• Nora set a tree trunk ablaze while Megan covered Anton’s naked body with painful Runes, and Anton struggled to endure the cold while memorizing them.
• Anna watched Anton suffer from nearby and fought the urge to rush in and stop the ritual.

Anton reflected on how his years of surviving near death had left him detached from everything but magic, then decided to reclaim his human desires and purpose. He merged with his resurrected body through a modified flame-enhancement ritual, which ended in a towering blaze.

• Anton watched his past self endure the Witch Tribe’s painful flame-enhancement ritual and recognized how strongly that version of him had wanted to live and become great.
• Anton realized that repeated brushes with death had left him emotionally detached, and he resolved to end his post-climax lull.
• Anton found Anna watching his past self, kissed her, and told her to wait until she was grown up before anything naughty happened.
• Anton froze the ritual with an advanced Full Body-Bind Curse and prepared to adapt the flame-enhancement ritual for his Wizarding World.
• Anton joined his resurrected body as Megan and Nora continued the ritual, while Adams nested a second ritual around it.
• The two bodies’ heartbeats synchronized, and the flames surged upward, engulfing Megan and Nora.

Anton escaped the influence of fate and reunited with Anna as his experiments transformed Nora and Megan, leaving him resolved to use the Wizarding World and his research to reshape wizarding society. Dumbledore and Grindelwald also agreed to visit Ariana together.

• Anna explained to Adams that Anton had escaped fate by merging with his backup body, and she reflected on the many lives his actions had changed.
• Grindelwald admitted that Anton had broken free of the fate he had guided, then agreed to visit Ariana with Dumbledore and Aberforth.
• Nora discovered her new strength, while Megan confronted Anton and attacked him with power from her Flame-Furred Bear bloodline.
• Anton explained that he had improved the tribe’s Flame Enhancement Recipe and warned Megan and Nora to train their emotions and control their magic.
• Anton decided to recruit helpers and spread his Animagus research through the Wizarding World so he could transform wizarding society.

Anton went to Fudge to seek help for the people exiled to the Arctic, and discovered that Fudge had already arranged a public campaign to pardon them and recruit them into the Animagus Research and Training Office. The chapter ended with Anton signing Fudge’s letter of appeal as Fudge prepared to publicize the plan.

• Anton told Anna he would not form a faction and explained that a group of branded escapees had been struggling to survive in the Arctic.
• Fudge described his political ambitions and suggested bringing families and representatives from several wizarding factions into Anton’s office.
• Fudge revealed the Exile Punishment Decree and showed Anton the articles and advocacy campaign he had arranged to win sympathy for the Arctic prisoners.
• Fudge presented a letter asking for the prisoners to be pardoned and recruited into Anton’s office, and Anton signed it.
• Fudge staged a photograph of Anton handing him the letter and promised the Daily Prophet would report the appeal the next day.

Anton and the Ministry brought the Dark Wizards back from the Arctic, cleared their criminal records, and made them employees of his Animagus Research and Training Office. The fanatical new recruits left for three days to attend to personal matters before meeting Anton again to travel to the office’s Hogsmeade outpost.

• The Dark Wizards hid their comfortable Arctic settlement when Fudge, Umbridge, Scrimgeour, Anton, Rita Skeeter, and others arrived to offer them pardons and bring them home.
• Amy Miller led the Dark Wizards aboard the ship, where they collected their confiscated Wands and silently endured Rita’s efforts to portray them as starving and miserable.
• Fudge brought the rescued wizards to the Ministry, where grassroots organizations welcomed them before Anton announced that their records were cleared and they were now employees of his office.
• Hurst, Keaton, and Amy affirmed their loyalty to Anton, who warned the recruits to abandon their old criminal ways and follow his rules.
• Anton gave the Dark Wizards three days off and told them to meet him afterward for the journey to the Animagus Research and Training Office’s Hogsmeade outpost.

Anton accompanied Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape to Lee Jordan’s Wizengamot hearing after Lee transformed into a Werewolf Animagus and caused a building to collapse while defending his mother from discrimination. Anton stepped forward to argue that his Animagus Research and Training Office should advise the court, leaving the Wizengamot to consider his intervention and its broader implications.

• Anton decided to give the Borderlands Dark Wizards remedial education and eventually train the most capable through a master-and-apprentice system.
• Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape told Anton that Lee Jordan had wrecked a high-rise after witnessing his mother being humiliated, nearly killing hundreds of people.
• Snape warned Anton not to take responsibility for Lee’s actions because the case was entangled with the politically charged Muggle Squib issue.
• Anton stood beside Lee and declared that the Ministry should consider advice from his office because it lacked regulations governing crimes committed by Animagi.
• Anton addressed Chairman Dumbledore, prompting the gallery and Wizengamot members to debate whether Anton was seeking influence over Animagi law and the Muggle Squib issue.
• Snape watched proudly as Anton confronted the Wizengamot, pleased that his student had returned to his former, bold self.

Lee Jordan faced trial for causing a building to collapse while transformed into a Werewolf, and Anthony Weasley defended him before the Wizengamot. Barty Crouch challenged Anthony’s argument and shifted the dispute toward Animagi who could take the forms of Fantastic Beasts, leaving Professor McGonagall hopeful as Anthony remained composed.

• Anthony calmed Lee Jordan with a telepathic message and warmth before approaching the judges’ platform.
• Anthony confronted court recorder Peter Lawrence, learned he was his deputy, and said he would seek Minister for Magic Fudge’s approval to dismiss him after the trial.
• Anthony argued that Lee Jordan had acted in self-defense and should not be held responsible for the collapse, citing a Ministry precedent.
• Barty Crouch rejected Anthony’s defense and argued that Lee Jordan should be punished to deter Animagi from breaking the law.
• Barty Crouch warned that Animagi who could take Fantastic Beast forms posed a broader threat, and Professor McGonagall watched Anthony with cautious hope.

As Lee Jordan’s trial drew influential Wizards into the Courtroom, Anton realized the dispute had grown into a struggle over the status of Muggle Squibs and the International Statute of Secrecy. He listened as factions and rumors gathered around him, leaving the Courtroom poised to become the flashpoint for a wider conflict.

• Barty Crouch Sr. widened the controversy around Lee Jordan, drawing attention to the fate of Muggle Squibs and bringing rival interests into the Courtroom.
• Dumbledore allowed the Courtroom to expand as Ministry officials and representatives of different factions arrived.
• Anton reassured the bewildered Lee Jordan, then used his enhanced perception to gather information from the crowded Courtroom.
• Anton learned that the Exploration Faction favored limited contact between weakened Wizards and Muggles, while the Inclusion Faction opposed exposing them to Muggles.
• Rumors linked the American Magical Congress to a Squib mercenary army in Africa and to Muggle families whose status under the International Statute of Secrecy was uncertain.
• Anton suspected Grindelwald was behind the upheaval and remained cheerfully at the center of the growing crisis.

Anthony defended Lee Jordan by arguing that Animagus transformations impair a wizard’s control and that Lee’s actions showed he meant no harm. As Anthony offered to demonstrate, the courtroom braced for a spell because people feared his reputation for mischief.

• Barty Crouch Sr. demanded that Anthony explain whether Lee Jordan had deliberately used magic to harm Muggles.
• Anthony argued that Animagus transformations were influenced by Dark Magic, and that Lee’s choice to attack a pillar instead of an armed enemy showed his kind nature.
• Anthony suggested that the Wizengamot consider alternatives to imprisoning people whose minds were affected by Dark Magic, and he cited a historical Dancing Charm disaster to counter Crouch’s criticism of his invention.
• Crouch’s thoughts revealed that he opposed Anthony’s proposed office because he feared Dumbledore’s growing influence and the office’s potential power.
• Anthony drew his Wand and offered a demonstration, prompting several people in the courtroom to cast Shield Charms.
• Madam Bones said she had heard stories about Anthony’s spells from her niece, and Dumbledore teased him about his reputation at school.

Anton demonstrated how animal nature could erode human nature by transforming Barty Crouch Sr. into a werewolf in the Wizengamot courtroom. Crouch attacked Anton in a rage as the assembled wizards watched in alarm.

• Barty Crouch Sr. tried to provoke Anton into attacking him so he could use the incident against him politically.
• Anton prepared a potion in midair, impressing Karina Potter, Mr. Akingbade, Griselda Marchbanks, and the other wizards present.
• Anton transformed the potion into blood-red mist that swallowed Crouch and merged a Death's-head Hawk-moth Pupa with him.
• Crouch became a purple-red-furred werewolf and recoiled at his new body.
• Crouch roared and lunged at Anton while McGonagall, Snape, Lupin, Old Ronaldo, Fudge, and others shouted warnings.

Anton demonstrated how an Animagus beast nature could overwhelm human control by helping Barty Crouch Sr. transform into and out of his werewolf form. Dumbledore cleared Lee Jordan of the charge, then began the hearing on Sirius’s alleged murder of Peter Pettigrew, with Harry and the Weasleys arriving to watch.

• Barty Crouch Sr. attacked Anton in werewolf form, but Anton dodged with Little Waltz Phantom Traversal and explained how the beast nature could affect a wizard.
• As Crouch became more ferocious, Anton restrained him with a transformed Flame White Bear arm and coached him until he returned to human form.
• Anton asked the court to give Lee Jordan a chance, and Dumbledore declared the charge against Lee unfounded.
• Dumbledore announced a new hearing about Sirius’s alleged murder of Peter Pettigrew, and Aurors brought Sirius and Peter Pettigrew to the trial platform.
• Fred said he, George, and Ron had come with Harry, who stood silently with clenched fists.

A missile attack on Hogsmeade by Squib mercenaries interrupted Sirius Black’s trial and raised fears that the Muggle-Repelling Charm no longer protected the Wizarding World. As Dumbledore left to respond, Voldemort appeared in the courtroom and Peter Pettigrew rushed to join him.

• Peter Pettigrew was brought to the defendants’ stand, where Sirius Black struggled against the Aurors and threatened to kill him before they stunned and restrained Sirius.
• An injured Auror reported that Squib mercenaries had attacked Hogsmeade with missiles and were unaffected by the Muggle-Repelling Charm.
• Minister Fudge prepared for war, but Dumbledore offered to handle the attack and asked Fudge to let Sirius’s trial continue; Fudge sent Scrimgeour with him.
• Dumbledore asked Anton to keep order in the courtroom while he and Professor McGonagall went to Hogsmeade.
• Voldemort emerged from the gallery during the trial, and Peter Pettigrew broke free of his chains and hurried to greet him.

Voldemort appeared in the Ministry courtroom, claimed Azkaban, and invited the wizarding world to join him in changing the world. When Peter Pettigrew pointed out Harry Potter, Anton examined Voldemort and suspected that Tom Riddle's soul still shared his body.

• Voldemort entered the crowded Ministry courtroom and announced that he intended to take Azkaban as his home.
• Voldemort challenged Fudge and the Wizengamot to object, but no one spoke up.
• Voldemort described his changed views, criticized Dumbledore and the International Statute of Secrecy, and invited wizards to ally with him in Azkaban.
• Peter Pettigrew pointed out Harry Potter, prompting Voldemort to turn back toward the crowd.
• Anton used his unusual vision to study Voldemort and suspected that Voldemort and Tom Riddle remained as two souls in one body.

Voldemort advanced on Harry Potter and the gathered wizards, but Anton stepped forward to face his former professor. As the crowd prepared for a fight and Rita recorded the scene, Voldemort and Anton moved into the open space to test a spell.

• Voldemort planned to kill Harry Potter and Peter Pettigrew while reflecting on his plan to merge his soul with the fate of a transformed wizarding world.
• Arthur Weasley shielded Harry as Lupin freed Sirius, and the two joined Arthur while more wizards raised their wands against Voldemort.
• Anton stepped in front of Lupin and exchanged taunts with Voldemort, who said he would rather kill Anton than Harry Potter.
• Fudge stood between Voldemort and Anton to defend the young wizard, then stepped aside when Anton promised to demonstrate a new spell.
• Voldemort and Anton moved toward the open space below the courtroom platform as Lupin and the others readied themselves and Rita recorded the confrontation.

Anton fought Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic, surviving the Killing Curse with his Animated Object Sprite Charm and unleashing a stone Fire Dragon. Voldemort's Fiendfyre overwhelmed the Ministry, and Fudge's emergency spell hurled the gathered wizards into the London sky as the blaze became visible to Muggles.

• Voldemort praised Anton before attacking him with the Killing Curse, but Anton survived by using his Animated Object Sprite Charm.
• Anton transformed the courtroom into a gigantic stone Fire Dragon and crushed the surrounding area, while Voldemort escaped and acknowledged Anton as a worthy opponent.
• Voldemort unleashed Fiendfyre, and the assembled wizards' Counter-Curses failed to keep the flames contained.
• Fudge activated the Ministry's defensive magic, which hurled the wizards from the underground courtroom into the sky above London.
• A Muggle family spotted the Fiendfyre burning atop the Ministry of Magic and mistook it for a giant torch.

Anton endured Voldemort’s Fiendfyre, transformed into a Flame White Bear, and attacked his former professor with torrents of lava. Voldemort then used an overwhelming Levitation Charm to lift seven streets and bring them crashing down on the Ministry, leaving Anton pinned beneath the falling destruction.

• Wizards rescued many people falling from the Ministry, while others crashed to the ground, and nearby wizards joined their magic to shield the building from Fiendfyre.
• Lupin tried to fly to Anton, but Arthur stopped him as a water screen showed Anton trapped in the flames and Voldemort watching.
• Anton transformed into a Flame White Bear and hurled lava at Voldemort, who dodged his attacks and praised Anton’s use of the magic he had taught him.
• Voldemort raised his wand and used the Levitation Charm to tear up seven streets around the Ministry and force Anton back into human form.
• Anton struggled to raise his wand under Voldemort’s pressure and cast Petrificus Totalus as the lifted streets began crashing down toward the Ministry.

Anton turned the tide against Voldemort with a modified Banshee’s Wail that vibrated their unstable souls and rendered London’s inhabitants unconscious. As Dumbledore watched, the charm spread across the city, leaving Anton immersed in a song and his magic growing turbulent.

• Anton used the Full Body-Bind Curse to free himself from Voldemort’s magical pressure and briefly petrified him.
• Anton adapted his Banshee’s Wail into a charm that weakened Voldemort by shaking the two souls within his body.
• Voldemort struggled to fight back as Anton sang “Voldemort’s Faint Sorrow,” repeatedly knocking Voldemort unconscious and making him plead for the song to stop.
• Anton’s charm spread through London, causing wizards, Muggles, and distant riders to collapse while a Ray of Sunshine protected their souls.
• Dumbledore arrived, resisted the charm with the Elder Wand, and watched Tom Apparate away as the city fell quiet and dark around Anton.
• Dumbledore refrained from stopping Anton when he sensed the boy’s magic growing turbulent and wild.