Chapter Summaries

Anton heard Karina Potter describe a breakthrough that used Sirius’s Horcrux to create an enchanted object capable of triggering a Squib’s Magical Outburst. He took the invention and left, while suspecting that someone had impersonated Sirius at Hogwarts.

• Anton waited for Voldemort to appear but focused instead on the Potter family’s research into awakening Squibs’ magic.
• Karina Potter explained how Sirius’s bloodline and the Black family’s history had guided their experiments.
• Karina revealed that the researchers had transformed Sirius’s Horcrux into a Wraith and enchanted it into a device that could trigger a Squib’s Magical Outburst.
• Anton recalled Sirius’s suspicious behavior and considered whether Barty Crouch Jr. had used Polyjuice Potion to impersonate him at Hogwarts.
• Harlick Urquhart packed the enchanted device into a suitcase, and Anton praised Karina’s research before taking it and vanishing.

Harry, Hermione, and Ron asked Sirius whether learning Dark Magic from Grindelwald meant they would become Dark Wizards, while Anton and Dumbledore watched and debated Sirius’s unusual behavior. Anton planned an adult night school for Dark Wizards, Battle Witches, and Muggle Squibs, then used Mind Magic on Dumbledore before escaping to bed.

• Harry, Hermione, and Ron told Sirius they had studied Dark Magic with Grindelwald, who had left and promised to return near the end of term for a final exam.
• Sirius reassured the children that studying Dark Magic did not automatically make them Dark Wizards and promised to help when Grindelwald returned.
• Anton and Dumbledore secretly watched the conversation, and Anton pointed out Sirius’s unexplained failure to thank him, the Plain Speaking potion in the cocoa, and his stock of Dittany.
• Dumbledore said he believed Sirius was not Barty Crouch Jr. and thought Sirius’s combat-focused teaching reflected concern about the Wizarding World.
• Anton told Dumbledore he was preparing an adult night school for Dark Wizards, Battle Witches, and Muggle Squibs, and promised to bring him the teaching materials.
• Anton used Mind Magic on Dumbledore, then hurried away as Dumbledore realized what he had done.

Anton explained to Dumbledore that his book, “Wizards as Gods,” was a gift to the world and a framework for exploring magic. He revealed that it would initially be used only in the adult Night School he was starting, leaving its wider publication for the future.

• Dumbledore read Anton’s systematic account of magic and was astonished that Anton had shared his ideas so openly.
• Anton said his book was a gift to the world and described how he had moved from exploring the mind to exploring the wider world of magic.
• Dumbledore recalled Anton bringing Grindelwald to Hogwarts while Dumbledore was recovering in the Hospital Wing, and accused Anton of wanting to watch the resulting chaos.
• Anton explained that he hoped more people would join him on the lonely Path of Magic, and Dumbledore said the book inspired him to write his own work.
• Anton told Dumbledore that “Wizards as Gods” would serve as an internal textbook for his adult Night School rather than being published for the wider Wizarding World.

Anton wrote an essay arguing that prolonged exposure to soul-affecting Dark Magic could psychologically distort people and harm the Magical World. Meanwhile, a masked figure interrogated Lockhart about Grindelwald, but Lockhart secretly used Twin Beans to send a warning after the intruder erased his memory.

• Anton drafted an essay about the psychological effects of Dark Magic and imagined Professor Voldemort reading it.
• A masked stranger trapped Lockhart against a wall with a Transfigured skeleton and demanded to know where Grindelwald had gone.
• Lockhart told the stranger that Grindelwald had gone to the United States and revealed how to contact him through the Unlucky Spider Tavern in Knockturn Alley.
• The stranger cast a Memory Charm on Lockhart and left him alone in the office.
• Lockhart used the castle to check that no one else was present, then crushed nine Twin Beans to send a warning about the intruder.

Anton helped Lockhart identify the masked wizard who had threatened him by using a Boggart and a ritual curse to locate the attacker. After green smoke rose from Hogwarts Castle, Anton flew toward the source, suspecting it was Barty Crouch Jr.

• Lockhart told Anton that a masked wizard had threatened him and asked him about Grindelwald.
• Anton used a Boggart to make Lockhart relive the encounter and reveal the masked wizard's appearance.
• Anton performed a ritual curse using the Boggart's reflection of the attacker, causing green smoke to rise from a corner of Hogwarts Castle.
• Anton and Lockhart took Firebolts, and Anton raced toward the smoke to investigate whether the attacker was Barty Crouch Jr.

Anton chased a green-smoke-cloaked intruder through Hogwarts, using spells and his knowledge of the castle to cut off the escape route. He reached the stairs to the Viaduct first and beckoned the intruder toward him.

• Anton pursued the green-smoke figure through a classroom corridor and used magic to deflect shattered glass and freeze the paintings in its path.
• The intruder escaped through a hidden passage, while Anton flooded it with light and mist before following the green smoke.
• Anton deduced that the intruder was heading for the Viaduct, where Apparition was permitted, and raced down the moving staircases as students fled.
• Anton fired a series of spells at the intruder, observing how its rapid movement magic let it evade attacks.
• Anton anticipated the intruder's route and reached the Viaduct stairs first, then beckoned, "You, come here~"

Anton and the professors thwarted a masked intruder’s attack at Hogwarts, but the intruder vanished despite Anton’s Sectumsempra. Anton suspected the Monster Mask was connected to Sirius and looked forward to tracking down its wearer.

• The masked intruder seized nearby Young Wizards with dragon-like claws and demanded that Anton leave the entrance.
• Anton cast Sectumsempra, shattering the conjured claws and striking the intruder as the professors rescued the students from the ensuing explosion.
• Anton and the professors searched the area but found that the masked intruder had vanished without a trace.
• Anton examined Sirius and confirmed he was still himself, though Anton’s Prophecy suggested the Monster Mask had some connection to him.
• Anton grew excited at the prospect of finding the intruder, possibly one of Barty Crouch Jr.’s people, and bringing him to his workbench.

Dumbledore gathered the professors to discuss how to protect Hogwarts, and Anthony Weasley exposed the Marauder’s Map’s repeated failure to detect intruders. Sirius saw the map’s message from his friends and was overwhelmed by memories, while Snape removed Anthony from the meeting.

• McGonagall urged Dumbledore and the professors to find a way to protect the students, and Dumbledore asked Sirius for his thoughts.
• Sirius mentioned the Marauder’s Map, but Anthony Weasley produced it and listed numerous intruders it had failed to detect.
• Anthony joked that Hogwarts’s protections were full of holes, and Sirius read the map’s message from Padfoot, Prongs, Moony, and Wormtail.
• Sirius wept over the map as he remembered James, Lupin, and Peter and wondered what Remus had endured.
• Snape dragged Anthony out of the professors’ meeting, then returned alone and explained that Anthony did not belong there.

After the Masked Man’s capture, Anton reflected on how innate magical talent and extreme emotions connected to different forms of magic. He contrasted Dumbledore’s world-centered Human Heart Magic with Voldemort’s self-centered ego magic, and concluded that his own path could eventually let him confront Voldemort.

• Anton greeted Hogwarts students who admired him after he captured the Masked Man, then headed toward the Forbidden Forest.
• Anton connected his Levitation Charm talent to the Potter family’s research into awakening squibs’ magic through extreme emotions.
• Anton considered how powerful wizards’ magical theories reflected their worldviews, contrasting Dumbledore’s Human Heart Magic with Voldemort’s ego magic.
• Anton reasoned that Dumbledore’s magic could build a human-hearted torrent capable of destroying Voldemort’s Horcruxes and overwhelming Voldemort himself.
• Anton resolved to continue along his own magical path and smiled as he watched the stars reflected in the Black Lake.

Anthony received reports suggesting Grindelwald was using Muggle forces and online influence to pressure the Wizarding World, while Dumbledore prepared to counter the upheaval. Petunia then warned Anthony that Vernon had returned to the wizarding world to advance Dudley’s future, and Anthony reassured Dudley before sending him away.

• Rookwood reported that the Malfoys might be tied to Grindelwald’s forces and that the Mysterious Force forum was suspected of backing attacks on Hogsmeade and Werewolf Home.
• Anthony pieced together the reports and suspected Dumbledore and Grindelwald were maneuvering against each other while preparing for broader conflict.
• Dudley brought Anthony a letter from Petunia, who warned that Vernon had contacted former Goblin colleagues and the Department of Mysteries to help Dudley become Minister for Magic.
• Anthony burned Petunia’s letter, reassured Dudley that his mother’s heart was fine, and encouraged him to keep learning Potions from Snape.
• Dudley left Cabin, and Anthony recognized the boy’s cautious deference as respect for a godfather.

As turmoil spread through the Wizarding World and other schools, Anton remained focused on magic at Hogwarts. His eye magic evolved into a new ability he named the Lake of the Mind, and he began exploring how it let him perceive the Magical World.

• Rumors of Voldemort's return, Grindelwald's freedom, and unrest across the Wizarding World spread, while Hogwarts remained peaceful under Dumbledore's protection.
• McGonagall's attempt to organize a second European Schools Quidditch League failed as Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were disrupted by infighting and political tensions.
• Anton reflected on how his lessons from Fiennes, Voldemort, and Dumbledore had shaped his magical theories and his evolving eye magic.
• After his battle with the Masked Man, Anton's eye magic transformed, combining his powers of observation, time-sense, emotional perception, and mental calm.
• Anton examined his changed eyes and named his new ability the Lake of the Mind.

Anton used the Lake of the Mind to discover that his ability to observe the Memory Planets and Boundless Void was mysteriously fading, though he could not identify its source. Believing the phenomenon pointed toward a coming problem and a chance to create new magic, he drank Felix Felicis to help investigate.

• Anton realized the magic that let him see the Memory Planets and the Soul Black Line had no clear source in his known abilities.
• Anton observed the Boundless Void fading over several days and estimated it would disappear in three or four years if the decline continued at the same rate.
• Anton concluded that the Lake of the Mind was pointing him toward a future problem and might guide him to create a new magic.
• Anton decided to use Felix Felicis to investigate the fading and drank a bottle from his Snuffbox.

Anton encountered Professor Trelawney after she fell down the stairs, and she gave him a cryptic instruction to visit her office that night. While Hermione agreed to work out the strange astronomical time, Harry told Ron about a ritual to forget the black magic they had learned from Grindelwald, and Ron agreed to help.

• Anton found Professor Trelawney after she tumbled down the stairs and helped gather her scattered belongings.
• Professor Trelawney claimed something terrible that did not exist in the world was happening to Anton and told him to come to her office at the hour of the Nineteenth Hek of the Celestial Palace.
• Anton asked Hermione to calculate the mysterious time, and she agreed to research it after dinner.
• Ron warned Hermione that Anton's magical research was dangerous, but Hermione said she wanted to ask Anton about turning Muggles into wizards.
• Harry told Ron about a ritual that could make them forget the black magic they learned from Grindelwald, and Ron agreed to help prepare it that night.

Hermione used astrological charts to calculate when Neptune would reach a point in the Celestial Palace, prompting Anton to suspect Dumbledore’s Mind Magic involved Fate as well as the mind. Anton then hurried to Professor Trelawney’s classroom, where he found her preparing a Divination exercise.

• Hermione calculated that Neptune would reach the Nineteenth Hek at 8:45 and interpreted the result as “Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water.”
• Anton realized that Fate could lead different people down different paths and wondered whether Dumbledore had deliberately taught him only part of Mind Magic.
• Hermione warned Anton that it was already 8:26, and he thanked her before rushing off.
• Anton arrived at Professor Trelawney’s classroom in the North Tower and examined the strange plant spice brewing in a copper teapot.
• Professor Trelawney brought in a basin of Clean Water, placed a red insect inside, and watched the water begin to boil.

Anton tried Professor Trelawney’s tea-leaf divination and saw a pattern resembling Goblin Pedro’s face, though he doubted the reading was reliable. He left after Professor Trelawney fell asleep, newly curious about the wider Magical World beyond Charms.

• Professor Trelawney explained her tea-leaf divination method and praised the Spirituality she sensed around Anton.
• Anton handled the cold, blood-drawing tea leaves and tossed them into boiling water before looking for patterns in the basin.
• Anton saw tea leaves that resembled Pedro’s face, and Professor Trelawney pulled him away, saying his Spirituality had become stagnant.
• Professor Trelawney told Anton to trust the reading, then drank Rum and fell asleep in her chair.
• Anton covered Professor Trelawney with a blanket, cleaned the basin with Scourgify, and left the tower thinking about exploring other kinds of Magic.

Anton and Old Wizard Fiennes discussed Pedro’s strange schedule and realized that changing Nagini’s fate might have caused a major shift in history. Their conversation ended when Anton ate Fiennes’s roasted Acromantula leg and was thrown out, where he greeted Professor McGonagall.

• Anton bargained with Fiennes for three roasted Acromantula legs and refused to give him the Snuffbox.
• Fiennes told Anton that Pedro’s factory manager ran the factory and that Pedro appeared around two months before Christmas and at Christmas.
• Anton recalled that Pedro’s first unusual appearance had coincided with their time-travel mission to save Nagini, and suspected that changing her fate had caused a huge impact.
• Anton connected the change to Rosier’s repeated attempts to save Nagini and wondered whether Pedro had asked him to research the Goblin Human Animagus because of Time Magic.
• Anton ate a roasted Acromantula leg, enraging Fiennes, who threw him out of the office, where Anton greeted Professor McGonagall.

Anton prepared to use Anna's Time-Turner to find Pedro and created a new Horcrux as a backup save point. After explaining his deeper understanding of Horcruxes, Ghosts, and Magical portraits, he began choosing a time to travel to.

• Anton learned that nobody knew where Pedro was and went to the hidden chamber beneath the Elephant-Eating Vine Cabin.
• Anton gathered his Resurrection Stone, Horcrux, cloak, and Time-Turner, planning to search for Pedro around Christmas or two months before it.
• Anton concluded that Horcruxes preserved a copy of a wizard's true self, and explained how Ghosts and Magical portraits could persist in the real world.
• Anton used a Color-Changing Windbird and the Cruciatus Curse to make another Horcrux, then buried it underground as a new save point.
• Anton took Anna's Time-Turner and considered when to travel, mindful of avoiding his past self and wary of Time Magic.

Anton traveled back in time to a night when Goblin Pedro was alone at 10 Grimmauld Place, after reflecting on Hogwarts’ role as a refuge for endangered Fantastic Beasts and studying Voldemort’s possession magic. He left the story flying toward the house, hidden from sight.

• Hagrid explained to George and Fred that Magizoology helped protect endangered creatures and that Hogwarts served as a refuge for Fantastic Beasts.
• Anton emerged from the ground, activated his Color-Changing Windbird bloodline, and flew into the night on his Firebolt.
• Anton observed Voldemort possessing Barty Crouch Jr. through a Runespoor and considered whether its three heads could inspire magic involving three souls.
• Anton confirmed that Mr. Rosier, Aunt Ilsa, and Nagini were away, leaving Goblin Pedro alone at 10 Grimmauld Place.
• Anton flew toward 10 Grimmauld Place, judging the quiet night a suitable time to travel back to.

Pedro tried to escape Anton by traveling through time, but Anton tracked him across different eras and witnessed the dangers and history of the wizarding world. Pedro eventually returned to the cabinet at No. 10 Grimmauld Place and agreed to talk outside, warning Anton to keep his distance because of the Time Magic around him.

• Pedro's past and future selves fled their housewarming party when Anton arrived, and Anton stopped present-day Pedro from using his Time-Turner.
• Pedro vanished into medieval Europe, but Anton tracked him there using a technique adapted from Apparition tracking.
• Pedro escaped to a battlefield where wizards fought Goblins, and Anton watched them use the Killing Curse in varied ways.
• Pedro took Anton through the Victorian Era and ancient Mesopotamia, showing him persecution of witches and the dangerous early struggles of wizards.
• Pedro returned to the cabinet at No. 10 Grimmauld Place and asked Anton to talk outside while keeping his distance.

Pedro told Anton how his attempts to change history had repeatedly been undone by Time Correction, leaving his wife dead, Nagini cursed, and the Goblins without hope of returning. Anton argued that time and fate were not fixed, and that magic could create new possibilities.

• Pedro confessed that he had used Time Magic to change history for Nilda, Nagini, and his students, but Time Correction had reversed his changes and erased their memories.
• Pedro explained that he had hoped to restore the Goblins by joining them with a weakened Wizarding World, but powerful wizards who should have died were still alive.
• Pedro revealed that he had asked Anton at Christmas to complete the Goblin Human Animagus so the Goblins would retain a possibility for the future.
• Anton told Pedro that time, fate, and the world were constantly changing, and that magic could turn the impossible into the possible.