Chapter Summaries

Anton returned to the dormitory, planned to use Draco’s flying practice chamber, and offered to help Draco, Goyle, and Black improve their abilities. When Professor Snape’s Owl arrived, Anton hid his Suitcase beneath his bed, revealing the Elephant-Eating Vine he kept there and prompting Draco to discover that Goyle and Black had been eating the pets’ Animal Feed.

• Anton asked Draco to let him use the Pillar Chamber and considered the roommates’ potential as students.
• Anton offered to help Draco, Goyle, and Black improve their abilities, and Draco eagerly welcomed the idea.
• Professor Snape’s Owl arrived, so Anton hid his Suitcase beneath his Four-Poster Bed, where the Elephant-Eating Vine pulled it under.
• Draco discovered the vine under Anton’s bed and learned that Goyle and Black regularly fed it and Fat Ball.
• Goyle and Black admitted that they had eaten the Animal Feed, shocking Draco.

Anton explained to Snape and Old Wizard Fiennes that Voldemort was using loyalty tests, promises of profit, and fear to bind the Death Eaters to him. He concluded that Voldemort had become more rational but still operated like a gangster boss, while Snape remained uncertain how to oppose him.

• Anton recalled that Fiennes had urged Snape to focus on teaching Harry Potter and preparing him to face Voldemort, but Snape had refused.
• Snape described his growing difficulty understanding Voldemort, and Fiennes asked Anton to analyze the Dark Lord's plans.
• Anton argued that Voldemort was drawing uncertain Death Eaters and new recruits into his schemes by involving them in the occupation of St. Riddle and turning them against the International Statute of Secrecy.
• Anton explained that Voldemort used the spoils of conquest to make the Death Eaters fight for profit and made himself their only protector.
• Anton said Voldemort's occupation of Azkaban reminded his followers that failure would mean returning to prison, then called him a gangster boss.

Snape admitted that he stayed at Hogwarts to protect the students and find the dark wizard hiding in the school, and he realized he was beginning a new life among friends. Professor McGonagall then asked Anton to help free Inna Potter, who had become trapped inside a portrait after sneaking into Hogwarts to search for Peter Pettigrew.

• Snape told Fiennes and Anton that he had to remain at Hogwarts to protect the children and uncover the identity of the dark wizard in the castle.
• Fiennes teased Snape for having lived more like a dead man than a ghost, and Snape reflected that he might no longer be so lonely.
• Snape sent Anton away while he and Fiennes stayed behind to drink Anton's wine and eat roast beef made with Anton's charm.
• Professor McGonagall told Anton that Inna Potter had damaged the Fat Lady's portrait while trying to help her family find Peter Pettigrew, and that she was now unable to leave a portrait.
• Anton agreed to help Inna, and McGonagall brought him to Dumbledore's office.

Anton studied books on magical portrait-making with Dumbledore, then faced the crying girl trapped in a painting. He revealed that his Soul Black Threads had let him enter the portrait, but he still did not know how he had trapped her.

• Anton read about portrait-making and learned that the craft depended on several forms of magic and was taught outside Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore explained that the painters' community rejected his proposal to broaden magical education, and he offered Anton books from the Dumbledore family collection.
• Professor McGonagall redirected Anton and Dumbledore to the sobbing girl in the portrait, and Dumbledore told Anton to deal with the situation he had caused.
• Anton said he had entered the strange painting using an ability he could not name, then shaped his arm into Soul Black Threads.
• Anton asked Dumbledore whether he knew what the Soul Black Threads were.

Dumbledore revealed that the Dumbledore family’s generations of Pure-blood intermarriage had made its members unusually prone to becoming Obscurials, and gave Anton a Ring containing an Obscurus to study. Anton agreed to free the girl trapped in a portrait and proposed researching ways to overcome the family’s condition, leaving Dumbledore stunned by his suggestion that he and Aberforth could still have children.

• Dumbledore explained to Professor McGonagall and Anton that the Dumbledore family’s sensitivity to magic made its descendants prone to becoming Obscurials, and showed them the Obscurus he identified as Ariana.
• Dumbledore gave Anton a Ring containing another Obscurus, named Aji Abra, and asked him to free the girl trapped in a portrait.
• Anton accepted the task and added the Ring’s Obscurus to his collection of specimens for researching Soul Black Lines.
• Anton proposed using Fantastic Beast bloodlines or the removal of Wizard Bloodline traits to address the Dumbledore family’s condition and offered to research a way for Dumbledore or Aberforth to continue the family line.
• Anton joked that Dumbledore and Aberforth were still young compared with Nicolas Flamel, then fled the office as Professor McGonagall laughed.

Professor McGonagall confronted Anton about his reckless trip to Azkaban, and he explained how Ron and Hermione’s Dark Magic training had led him to Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange. Dumbledore realized their spell could expose a Hogwarts informant and watched them practice, where he noticed Sirius looking strangely at Harry.

• Professor McGonagall told Anton that Dumbledore was exhausted and vowed to find the dangerous wizard who had frightened her students.
• Anton admitted that he had visited Azkaban and fought Bellatrix Lestrange in front of Voldemort, so McGonagall dragged him to Dumbledore’s office.
• Anton explained how he taught Ron and Hermione Dark Magic, arguing that their spells could help them overcome personal insecurities.
• Anton recounted his Azkaban trip, and Dumbledore realized Ron and Hermione’s magic could reveal who was leaking information to Voldemort.
• Dumbledore used his Elder Wand to watch Ron and Hermione practice Fear Spirit with Harry and Sirius, then grew suspicious of Sirius’s expression toward Harry.

Anton reconsidered his theory of souls after studying the Dementors and wondered whether supposedly bodiless magical creatures had bodies after all. He tested the idea in the Pillar Chamber, where he seized one Dementor and sent Black Threads into its face.

• Anton decided that his theory of wizards as gods could not include the Soul Shell, since explaining it might spread the principles of Horcruxes.
• During Muggle Studies, Hermione watched the Slytherins take notes while Anton reflected on the differences between wizards, magical creatures, and bodiless beings.
• Anton reasoned that Dementors, Boggarts, and Obscuruses might consist of a soul's Ego and Soul Shell, and wondered whether Dementors had bodies.
• Anton hurried to the Pillar Chamber, where three Dementors gathered around him and stirred his positive emotions with their magic.
• Anton cast Expecto Patronum, seized one Dementor, and drove Black Threads from his arm into its eye sockets.

Anton experimented on Dementors and concluded that an ancient Dark Wizard had created them while researching an artificial Wizard Bloodline and a way to evade death. His observations led him to name his own magical path “Existence Magic,” and he began another experiment to test what remained when a Dementor left its robe.

• Anton used a Dementor to recreate the process that transformed its emotions and body into a peaceful, ghostlike soul, which vanished after saying no one remembered it.
• Anton concluded that the Wizard at Azkaban Castle had transformed Sailors into Dementors while studying Wizard Bloodlines and trying to create a death-defying robe.
• Anton compared the senior master's Life Magic with his own focus on the mind and decided to call his path “Existence Magic.”
• Anton drew another Dementor close and began layering spells to test whether it would leave behind a Wizarding Robe carrying the aura of death.

Anton transformed two Dementors into human souls and discovered that their robes could extend emotional information through magic. When he combined a robe with an Obscurus, a girl named Olaro appeared and claimed Anton was Alex Fiennes, leaving him bewildered.

• Anton used the Displacement Soul Curse to free a woman and a boy from two Dementor robes, and both entered a veil on the Lake of the Mind.
• Anton tested a robe’s ability to contain Ego and emotions, becoming ghostlike and extending emotional magic through five meters of information black lines.
• Anton theorized that a Dementor robe could contain an Obscurus and combined one robe with the Obscurus inside Dumbledore’s ring.
• A girl emerged from the fused Obscurus and robe, resembled Angonara’s human form, and called Anton Alex Fiennes while introducing herself as Olaro.
• Anton brought Olaro to Fiennes, who teased him about Anna and threatened to tell her about the girl.

Anton questioned Old Wizard Fiennes about Olaro and learned that Fiennes remembered her only as a fellow apprentice, while Anton wondered whether the Obscurus he had created was truly Olaro. The Obscurus vanished into Anton’s Ring, and Anna arrived, noticing that Time Magic had seemed to ripple around him.

• Anton asked Old Wizard Fiennes about Olaro, and Fiennes consulted his diary before explaining that she had been his close apprentice partner, not a lover.
• Anton left with Olaro and asked whether she knew Fiennes, but she insisted that Anton was Alex Fiennes.
• Anton considered whether Olaro was a prank-loving Elf or a Dark Magic creature and recalled the diary’s account of Olaro’s studies and death.
• Olaro grew tired, dissolved into black lines and smoke, and slipped into the Ring on Anton’s finger.
• Anna approached Anton and said she had seen Time Magic rippling around him before it disappeared.

Anton continued his magical research and lessons as Hogwarts prepared for final exams, while Dumbledore received Grindelwald’s explanation of Olaro’s origins. The chapter revealed that Olaro was an Obscurus created when she destroyed herself with Dark Magic, leaving Anton to wonder how Fate had brought her to him.

• Anton organized his research priorities, including writing Wizards as Gods and studying the Magic of the Boundless Void and the Soul Black Line.
• As the final exams approached, Anton continued teaching his students, and George and Fred grew anxious about their Ordinary Wizarding Level examinations.
• Dumbledore’s Phoenix brought Anton to him, and Dumbledore said Grindelwald had answered his question about Olaro.
• Anton read Grindelwald’s letter and learned that Olaro’s Obscurus had formed after she blew herself apart with Dark Magic.
• Grindelwald explained that Andrei Rosier had collected the Obscurus, and that Vinda Rosier later brought it to him for his research.

Anton struggled to understand Olaro’s letter and kept her identity secret from Dumbledore, who lent him the Elder Wand for study as the political situation grew unstable. Dumbledore revealed Anton was the wand’s master, then arranged a meeting with Sirius that might expose whether something was wrong with him.

• Anton reasoned that Olaro might have mistaken him for Fiennes because Fiennes had promised to resurrect her, but he chose not to tell Dumbledore about the letter.
• Dumbledore lent Anton the Elder Wand and said practical wandmaking lessons would wait until next school year because Tom, the Aurors, and other groups were stirring up conflict.
• Dumbledore explained that Anton had become the Elder Wand’s master when he killed Dumbledore in the Hospital Wing, and Anton tested the wand successfully.
• Dumbledore revealed he had fought Tom while the Elder Wand suppressed his spellcasting, after returning from the World of the Dead with his mind restored.
• Sirius entered to report that Harry, Ron, and the others had begun studying Dark Magic, then noticed the Elder Wand in Anton’s hand.
• Anton suspected Dumbledore had arranged the encounter to test Sirius and left, hoping Sirius would try to take the wand and reveal what was wrong with him.

Anton used Anna’s Time-Turner to visit Pedro, hoping to learn about Olaro and Time Magic. Olaro’s appearance erased Pedro’s possible futures, and Pedro revealed that Anton had collected the memories of the time when Pedro took Olaro as an Apprentice.

• Anton reviewed the clues about Olaro and decided to ask Pedro for answers using Anna’s Time-Turner.
• Anton traveled to Pedro’s room, where several versions of Pedro were gathered, and entered with Olaro.
• When the future Pedros saw Olaro, they vanished, and the past Pedro returned to his own time.
• Pedro told Anton that Olaro’s appearance had erased those possible futures, then admitted he did not remember taking her as an Apprentice.
• Pedro said a Time Traveler had collected those memories, and Anton learned that he himself had done it.

Pedro explained his theory of time and told Anton that the memories he brought from another world gave him extraordinary magical talent without the costs Pedro had endured. Pedro ended the conversation bitterly jealous of Anton’s advantages.

• Pedro described the River of Time as the combined memories of all Sentient Beings and used cigar smoke to show how Anton’s history joined it.
• Pedro recounted Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to explain how one person could carry a unique span of time and memory.
• Pedro said Anton’s memories from his former world belonged to him alone and formed a history he had collected.
• Pedro listed Anton’s unusual magical abilities and resilience as benefits he gained without paying a price for Time Reversal.
• Pedro grew tearful and complained that Anton had escaped the hardships he had endured for hundreds of years.

Pedro explained that Time Magic drew power from connections among living beings and urged Anton to investigate his ties to Fiennes and Olaro. He warned Anton that Olaro was a possible past affected by Time Magic and Dark Magic, but Anton chose to keep exploring the mystery.

• Pedro explained that people’s connections and shared memories could give Anton access to greater magical power.
• Pedro told Anton to investigate why Olaro had sought him out and why he had collected memories of Fiennes and Olaro as Pedro’s Apprentices.
• Pedro recognized that Olaro had memories but no emotions and identified her as a possible past affected by Time Magic and Dark Magic.
• Pedro suggested killing Olaro, but Anton refused, believing Fate and Human Heart Magic had brought her to him.
• Anton decided to preserve Olaro and pursue the mystery behind her appearance and her connection to Fiennes.

Anton figured out that an Obscurus lacked a Soul Shell and that the Dementor Robe made up for it, then used the Time-Turner to show Anna a past scene. The scene left Neville and Harry reunited at Dumbledore’s Army practice but arguing over outdated dueling methods.

• Anton studied the Dementor Robe and concluded that an Obscurus formed when magic and intense emotions burst through the Soul Shell, while the robe replaced the missing part.
• Anton used the Time-Turner to take Anna back to a Dumbledore’s Army meeting where Harry and students practiced the Waterproofing Charm.
• Neville arrived with a suitcase, and Harry invited him to join the practice; Neville accepted, choosing friendship over his work.
• Neville told Harry that the old spell-casting methods were outdated, while Harry defended the training taught by Professor Flitwick.

Neville persuaded Harry to learn Werewolf Animagus and weighed whether to help the Auror Office develop new combat tactics or keep training opportunities open to disadvantaged people. Meanwhile, Anton observed transformations and discovered that the body and bloodlines, not just the soul, could harness magic, giving him a new direction for his research.

• Neville convinced Harry that mastering Werewolf Animagus could improve his combat and Quidditch abilities, then offered to teach him the transformation.
• Neville recalled his growth in the Hut Club and considered Scrimgeour's proposal to train Aurors and research Werewolf Animagus tactics, but hesitated because he wanted to preserve places for disadvantaged people and had to accommodate pure-blood families.
• Anton used a Time-Turner and the Black Lake's reflective water to examine young wizards changing between human and werewolf forms.
• Anton saw black threads and red lightning connecting their changing bodies, and concluded that both bodies and souls could harness magic.
• Anton connected this discovery to his research into wandmaking, magical bloodlines, Herbology, and Potions, while Anna listened warmly.

Anton took Anna sightseeing through time before his Flight Charm ritual matured and he pursued the stolen Golden Snitch to the Ministry of Magic. There, a gigantic Runespoor ambushed him and swallowed him as its body radiated the power of the Killing Curse.

• Anton and Anna traveled through time, explored his original era, and returned to their own time after camping and barbecuing.
• Anton woke at two in the morning when his Flight Charm ritual matured and sensed that someone had taken his Golden Snitch far from the Forbidden Forest.
• Anton realized Dumbledore might have arranged the theft, then flew after the Snitch and cast the Killing Curse at its thief near the Ministry of Magic.
• Anton Apparated into the Ministry, where a gigantic Runespoor attacked him and swallowed him along with part of the corridor.

Harry dreamed that he was a Runespoor attacking Arthur Weasley at the Ministry of Magic, then woke and warned Ron and the professors. Dumbledore confirmed that a Runespoor had attacked Mr. Weasley and left to respond, while Professor McGonagall stayed behind to contact Molly and monitor the school.

• Harry dreamed that he was a Runespoor hunting and biting Mr. Weasley at the Ministry of Magic.
• Harry woke in pain and told Ron that his father had been badly injured by a giant snake.
• Professor McGonagall believed Harry and brought him and Ron to Dumbledore's office.
• Harry described seeing the attack, and Dumbledore confirmed through a portrait that a Runespoor had attacked Mr. Weasley.
• Dumbledore left to respond while Professor McGonagall prepared to contact Molly and oversee messages at Hogwarts.

Anton was killed by Voldemort’s Runespoor but survived as a mass of Soul Black Lines and Body Black Lines, struggling against the extreme emotions amplified by his Magical Power. After hiding in a tank of mind-enhancing potion at the Department of Mysteries, he regained control and planned to use the heart inside the Golden Snitch to return to life.

• Voldemort’s Runespoor, containing Sirius, Peter Pettigrew, Barty Crouch Jr., and Voldemort’s Horcrux, ambushed Anton and killed him.
• Anton survived as a powerful, Obscurus-like mass of black threads, but amplified anger and other emotions overwhelmed his thoughts.
• Anton fled through the Ministry of Magic and hid in a tank of dark green potion filled with floating brains.
• The potion helped Anton regain control, and he realized he needed a heart to restore his body and Bloodline.
• Anton decided to use the heart inside the Golden Snitch and prepare to ambush Voldemort and the others.