Chapter Summaries

As the Hogwarts train returned from the holidays, Anthony heard rumors about a new prison and reflected on Dumbledore’s willingness to accept political sacrifices for a distant future. He then turned away from those concerns and felt a warm, liberating connection to the winter scenery.

• The young wizards discussed rumors that the Dementors had left to pursue a wrongly imprisoned fugitive and that a new prison was being planned.
• A student claimed Anthony’s research suggested Dementor victims were more receptive to Dark Magic, and another said his architect father had been asked to design a prison for the Ministry.
• Anthony suspected Dumbledore was allowing Voldemort’s plans to proceed, and wondered whether his own research and projects were pieces in Dumbledore’s political game.
• Anthony let go of his suspicions and sensed the emotions nature stirred in him as he admired the sunlit hills and snow.
• Anthony felt his heart merge with the bright landscape and reflected that the world had seemed transformed into vivid color since his soul’s full integration and ordeal in Voldemort’s Fiendfyre.

On the train, a girl under the Imperius Curse delivered a warning from Voldy about the changing times before she recovered and fled. Anna told Anton that Pedro’s time magic was anchored to the witch Volkanova, prompting Anton to consider whether his own magic could restore the dead; he resolved to pursue magic cautiously and stay out of politics.

• In the dark tunnel, an Imperiused girl delivered Voldy’s warning to Anton, asking who would become the Dark Lord if Voldy became a celebrated sage in the New Era.
• When sunlight returned, the girl came to her senses, apologized to Anton, and fled in embarrassment.
• Anna explained that Travelers of Time and Memory anchored themselves to partners, and that Pedro had traveled into the past and killed himself to marry the witch Volkanova.
• Anton realized Pedro might have asked him to develop a Human Animagus for Goblins in hopes of using it to reach Volkanova, though undoing the past’s fixation could erase the Goblins’ history.
• Anton considered how his soul magic might resurrect the dead, but chose restraint and decided to focus on magic rather than politics.

Anton returned to Hogwarts and learned that Draco and Pansy had fought after Draco helped Goyle visit the Muggle girl he loved. On the way to the Great Hall, Anton observed that Goyle and Crabbe’s intense hunger might be connected to their magic and considered what would happen once they ate.

• Anton found Fane addressing the Slytherins and noticed Draco was absent.
• Crabbe told Anton that Pansy had fought with Draco after learning he had taken Goyle to see a Muggle girl.
• Goyle admitted he missed the girl and insisted Muggles were not disgusting, but he was too shy to speak to her when he visited.
• Anton suggested Goyle might someday be able to turn the girl into a wizard, then reassured him that his comment about the moon had been romantic.
• Goyle and Crabbe hurried to the Great Hall for food while Anton observed their ravenous emotions and wondered how eating might affect their magic.

Snape praised Anton’s magical potential and explained why mastering a Flying Broomstick mattered more than relying on other forms of travel. He left Anton pondering Quidditch’s importance and the dangers of high-speed broom flight.

• Snape met Anton and led him to the elevated bridge, where he said he had expected Anton to pursue a political career after the war.
• Snape recalled Voldemort’s extraordinary skill in Potions and other magic, and warned Anton not to become arrogant after using his powerful howling spell.
• Snape urged Anton to master Flying Broomsticks, explaining that Apparition, Thestrals, the Floo Network, and Portkeys each had serious limitations.
• Snape questioned Anton about Quidditch’s influence on school house points and political careers, but Anton could not explain its importance.
• Anton reflected that high-speed broom flight was dangerous and said he had no desire to risk his life for sport.

Snape explained the history and dangers of broomstick-based wizard combat, then urged Anton to learn the Dark Lord’s secret Flight Charm so he could understand and prepare for the Dark Lord’s fighting style. Snape left Anton with the spell’s significance and a warning to keep it secret.

• Snape told Anton that broomstick combat had once dominated wizarding warfare, prompting authorities to restrict War Magic after the style caused widespread deaths.
• Snape described spells designed for aerial combat and warned Anton that reviving the old fighting style would earn him the hatred of wizards who remembered its history.
• Snape revealed that Voldemort had invented a powerful Flight Charm and that Snape had learned it as a reward for telling him about the Prophecy.
• Anton refused to learn the Charm when Snape explained that Voldemort would kill him if he found out, but Snape insisted that Anton needed it to understand advanced combat magic.
• Snape told Anton he might one day be the only person able to defeat Voldemort, urged him to master the Charm in secret, and walked back toward the Castle.

Anthony reconsidered his approach to magic after Snape’s account of aerial combat, then joined Hogwarts in welcoming Sirius Black as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. Sirius entered to enthusiastic cheers, while Anthony privately wondered about the Black family’s future and left Sirius laughing at his unfamiliar praise.

• Anthony reflected on how broomstick combat could reshape his ideas about becoming a powerful wizard.
• Dumbledore announced that Lupin had left teaching and Snape had stepped down from Defence Against the Dark Arts to focus on Potions research.
• Dumbledore introduced Sirius Black as the new professor and explained that he had been wrongly imprisoned and cleared of his name.
• The Weasley twins joked about Anthony’s time in Azkaban, and students laughed as they welcomed Sirius.
• Sirius entered the Great Hall to loud cheers, and Anthony shouted “Badass!” until Sirius laughed along.

After the welcome-back feast, Dumbledore spoke with Anton about his decision to keep the recent battle quiet and offered to teach him new kinds of Magic. Anton agreed to stay at school for the next six months and study, while remaining involved in the magical research at his Cabin.

• Anton joined the Young Wizards’ cheers at the feast, then Dumbledore invited him for a walk after dinner.
• Dumbledore said he had suppressed news of Anton’s victory over Voldemort and offered to make it up to him with lessons in Magic.
• Anton questioned whether Dumbledore intended to keep him out of the coming conflict, and Dumbledore admitted he had considered doing so.
• Dumbledore assigned Anton to ride a Flying Broomstick and consider how it worked, then proposed studying magical crafts such as Broomsticks, Wands, and Cauldrons.
• Anton agreed to stay at school and learn from Dumbledore, while accepting that he also had responsibilities toward the magical research at his Cabin.

Anton followed Goyle and Crabbe to the hidden Pillar Chamber, where Draco was practicing Quidditch alone. After Goyle tried to make peace with Draco, Anton joined him in chasing the Golden Snitch, drawing Draco into the race.

• Goyle told Anton he would use a Memory Charm to forget the Muggle girl and reassure his mother, while Crabbe said Draco had gone to the Pillar Chamber.
• Crabbe led Anton and Goyle through a secret passage beneath a suit of armor into the Pillar Chamber, a hidden practice space used by their families for generations.
• Anton and the others found Draco flying alone and chasing the Golden Snitch among the chamber's pillars.
• Goyle told Draco he would forget the girl so Draco and Pansy could stop arguing, but Draco rebuffed him.
• Anton summoned a Nimbus 2000, snatched the Golden Snitch, and raced Draco through the air until they chased it into the pillars.

Anton and Draco played a long Quidditch match in the Chamber of Secrets, where Anton noticed prison-related magic patterns on the stone pillars. After Draco won the Snitch, he explained that his conflict with Pansy stemmed from his plan to ally with Dudley Dursley and strengthen the Malfoy family, leaving him torn between family duty and his relationship.

• Anton used the Augurey's Eye to spot prison-like magic patterns on the Chamber's stone pillars and suspected they controlled Hogwarts's Imprisonment.
• Anton let Draco catch the Golden Snitch after two hours of flying, and the exhausted friends rested together.
• Draco asked Goyle not to use a Memory Charm to forget the Muggle girl, and Goyle agreed that his feelings were real.
• Draco told Anton that he planned to win Dudley Dursley over as an ally to benefit the Malfoy family, but Pansy opposed the plan and demanded he choose between Dudley and her.
• Draco said he felt bound by his responsibility as the Malfoy family's heir, and Anton could only wish him well.

Professor Sirius taught the students how Dark Magic was classified and introduced the Blasting Curse, while Anton used the lesson to develop his own theories about magic and the soul. After class, Hermione noticed Anton’s Notebook and wanted to read it, but left without approaching him.

• Professor Sirius explained that Dark Magic included Jinxes, Poison Jinxes, and Curses, then taught the class about the Blasting Curse, Confringo.
• Sirius described how a wizard’s emotions could shape a spell’s effects, prompting Anton to write down ideas about the Six Elements of the Soul in his Notebook.
• Draco reminded Anton that class had ended, and Anton told Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe that he was gathering his ideas for a book to train Ministry staff.
• Hermione admired Anton’s Notebook and considered asking to read it, but left without speaking to him.

Anton organized his magical research before discovering that someone had used George and Fred’s prank to conceal a nighttime visit by Sirius Black. Sirius questioned Inna Potter about Grindelwald, and Anton suspected Dumbledore was watching as the mystery deepened.

• Anton worked on organizing his magical knowledge at the New Cabin while ignoring letters from people asking about his Flame White Bear transformation.
• George and Fred tested a foul-smelling invention that caused the portraits and Ghosts in Hogwarts Castle to fall quiet.
• Anton used his Color-Changing Windbird form to investigate and saw Sirius Black approach a portrait while invisible.
• Sirius woke Inna Potter, learned that Anthony Weasley had fused her with the frame, and ordered her to look for information about Grindelwald.
• Sirius threatened Inna Potter and left, while Anton wondered whether Dumbledore had kept her portrait to lure Sirius out.

Snape began teaching Anton the Dark Lord’s complex Flight Charm, demonstrating how it distorted spatial awareness and enabled simultaneous spellcasting. He warned Anton that learning it required confronting the self, while Anton wondered whether the charm had helped Voldemort cut love from his psyche.

• Anton left the Cabin’s weekend work at the Training Center to the others because Snape had arranged a full day of instruction.
• Snape brought Anton to a hidden chamber and explained that the Flight Charm was far more complex than a gesture, incantation, and emotion.
• Snape demonstrated how the charm made attacks from any direction seem to come straight toward him, and Anton’s will-powered spell forced Snape to deflect it directly.
• Snape explained that the charm erased spatial awareness, distorted space, and allowed him to maintain flight while casting counter-curses.
• Snape took Anton to his office to prepare potions and warned that the charm’s effects could be frightening and psychologically dangerous.
• Anton wondered whether learning the Flight Charm had led Voldemort to remove love from his own psyche.

Anton and Snape discussed the ingredients and symbolism of Voldemort’s Flight Charm ritual, including how a Gender-Swapping Potion might help produce the required egg. Snape explained the full process, and Anton was left wondering whether Tom Riddle had incorporated Moaning Myrtle into the ritual.

• Miss Nikolaus made milk candies for Fat Ball while Anton and Snape discussed a Gender-Swapping Potion and the breeding of Basilisks.
• Snape linked the Basilisk’s fear of a rooster’s crow to the astronomical phrase “eternity in an instant,” and Anton recorded their theory.
• Snape explained that a hen given the potion could become a rooster and keep incubating its egg until it was nearly ready to hatch.
• Snape described the Flight Charm ritual, which used the egg, Viper Saliva Foam, storm rainwater, Anton’s Wand, a Golden Snitch, and a heart that formed inside the potion.
• Snape suggested Moaning Myrtle’s pool as the place to swallow the finished potion, and Anton suspected Tom Riddle had tied Myrtle’s death to the ritual.

Anton discovered that Lockhart’s old Headmaster spell still opened a hidden compartment containing the former Headmaster’s collection, and he found a book of advanced Dark Magic inside. After reading late into the night, Anton noticed that his friends returned from the Animagus Training Center unhappy and resolved to investigate what was wrong.

• Anton checked the magical miniature landscape and watched the Squib Animagus doubles progress through their training under Adams and the other guides.
• Anton used Lockhart’s spell to open a hidden compartment containing the Headmaster’s books and documents, revealing that Lockhart still had access to Headmaster privileges.
• Anton retrieved Secrets of the Darkest Art and studied its Magic Images, Horcrux instructions, and account of the Existence-Erasing Curse.
• Anton read until late at night, when Hannah and the others returned exhausted from the Training Center and stayed at Cabin.
• Anton noticed that his friends seemed unhappy rather than merely tired and decided to observe them again the next day.

Dumbledore taught Anton a Flying Broomstick technique called the Pillar of the Collapsing World, revealing that it drew on the broom’s wand-like construction. After Anton briefly used the Soul-Transferring Charm to observe Dumbledore’s perspective, Dumbledore showed him how the technique could help summon and cast spells with a wand at a distance.

• Dumbledore arrived at the New Cabin with two Flying Broomsticks and invited Anton to learn a trick for staying on one.
• Dumbledore demonstrated walking and performing aerial maneuvers while standing on his Flying Broomstick, then asked Anton to use the Soul-Transferring Charm on him.
• Anton briefly entered Dumbledore’s body and felt the immense force of his magical defenses before returning to his own body.
• Dumbledore explained that he and Grindelwald had named the technique the Pillar of the Collapsing World and connected it to the broom’s construction from Ash Tree wood and Occamy feathers.
• Dumbledore showed Anton that mastering the technique could allow him to summon a wand and cast Lumos while the wand floated at a distance.
• Dumbledore and Anton landed and agreed to discuss how Flying Broomsticks and wands were made to understand the magic behind them.

Dumbledore taught Anton how a wizard’s temperament could shape the choice of magical materials, wands, and Broomsticks. Anna revealed that her future self had warned her Anton’s research could destroy the Wizarding World, then gave him the Angonara Rabbit as a clue to his own path.

• Dumbledore explained how magical materials and wand temperaments could complement a wizard, drawing on examples from several magical fields.
• Dumbledore discussed how Fiennes, Snape, Voldemort, and Anton each approached magic differently, leaving Anton with an idea he could not yet express.
• Anna told Anton that a future version of herself had warned her to stop the terrifying Dark Lord from researching further, and Anton realized she meant him.
• Anna revealed that one of her future selves had once guided Anton away from dangerous Animated Object experiments and that she had made him her anchor in time travel.
• Anna gave Anton the Angonara Rabbit and repeated a cryptic message that the creature represented his desire and would help him find his own path.
• Anton tossed the rabbit aside and kissed Anna.

After a miserable first day at the Animagus Training Center, Anton told his friends to set firm rules for trainees and offered them the choice to work at the Research Center instead. He reflected on his long-term plans for the office but decided there was no need to make his friends unhappy while he was only staking a claim.

• George, Fred, Neville, Hannah, and Anna described rude or careless trainees who ignored instructions and wasted potion ingredients at the Training Center.
• Anton told them the Training Center was not a service department and that trainees had to follow instructions or leave.
• Anton explained that he had secured control of the Research Center and Training Center while Minister Fudge helped draft Animagus laws and took charge of regulation.
• Anton joked that the trainees were experimental subjects, and his friends laughed and relaxed around the Cabin.
• Anton suggested his friends could leave the Training Center and become Research Center staff if the work was harming their magical development.
• Anton considered his plans to use the office for magical research but decided not to push his friends into work they disliked.

Anton and his friends discussed recruiting students to staff the Training Center, and Neville proposed Draco Malfoy and Hermione as complementary candidates. Anton put Neville in charge of recruiting them and imagined the rival groups and political forces that might gather around the new department.

• George and Fred joked about Percy running the Training Center, and Anton asked whether he should bring Percy in.
• Hannah named Percy, Cedric, and Fane as promising older students, while Neville urged Anton to recruit people their own age.
• Neville suggested Draco Malfoy for his people skills and Hermione for her magical ability, despite Hannah, George, and Fred objecting to Draco.
• Anton approved Neville’s proposal and assigned him to recruit the new members, with Hannah offering to help.
• Anton considered which students Draco and Hermione might recruit and anticipated that Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix could try to infiltrate the department.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed Lockhart into a secret chamber beneath Hogwarts and discovered that he was working with Grindelwald’s Saints to break Dumbledore’s protective magic. The chapter ended with Draco unconscious after Lockhart stunned him, while Minister Yaxley accepted Lockhart as a Saint and the three adults resumed their work.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed Lockhart into the Slytherin Common Room and watched him open a hidden passage beneath a bronze statue.
• Lockhart summoned Professor Harris, Editor Greengrass, and Minister Yaxley to the underground chamber to help undo Dumbledore’s protective magic for Grindelwald.
• The three children hid under the Invisibility Cloak as the adults examined the magic protecting Hogwarts and argued over the operation.
• A Golden Snitch flew toward the children, but Draco arrived on a broomstick and greeted his grandmother, Minister Yaxley, before Lockhart stunned him.
• Lockhart challenged the others to finish the mission, and Minister Yaxley recognized him as a Saint while Harris and Greengrass returned to work.

Lockhart received a magical seed from the Saints, who hoped it would help Grindelwald escape Dumbledore’s restraints, but Harry and his friends stole it and fled. Anton stopped the Saints from pursuing them, preserved their curse-breaking ritual for study, and left Dumbledore grieving in hiding.

• Minister Yaxley told Lockhart she would protect him and explained why she resented Dumbledore, while Editor Greengrass, Professor Harris, and Yaxley performed a combined spell to break Grindelwald’s curse.
• Yaxley gave Lockhart a seed produced by the ritual and asked him to deliver it to Grindelwald at Nurmengard.
• Harry summoned the seed, and Ron and Hermione helped him escape through the gale at the Underground Chamber entrance after Harris’s spell struck Harry’s golden shield.
• Anton appeared, froze Harris, and told the Saints to leave the ritual intact; the three Apparated away when Anton threatened them.
• Anton stored the ritual’s scene in a Weather Ball, carried Draco away, and asked the hidden Dumbledore whether he was satisfied with how Anton had handled things.