Chapter Summaries

Anton discovered that reversing Time Magic had revealed how Black Threads, Magic Images, Ritual Magic, and bodily magic fit together, giving him a new form of Biomimicry Charm and a way to recreate people through the Boundless Void. After surviving the Runespoor’s attacks, he decided to pursue the complete Horcrux inside it and collect Voldemort’s existence.

• Anton connected to a brain’s emotional information through a Black Thread and saw a world-spanning web of colored Magic Images, memories, and magical connections.
• Anton realized that the Boundless Void linked his knowledge of Soul Black Lines, Magic Images, Ritual Magic, and the Dark Green Cracks formed by the mind and body.
• Anton used the Elder Wand to reveal Memory Planets for people he knew and concluded that he could use the Boundless Void and Ritual Magic to recreate them.
• A Runespoor attacked Anton with the Killing Curse and then crushed him against a wall, but he reformed from black mist after each apparent death.
• Anton overwhelmed the Runespoor with the Cruciatus Curse and decided to extract Old Voldy’s complete Horcrux from the snake.

Anthony tracked Peter Pettigrew to the Time Hall and killed him, discovering that Peter’s death caused the connected Animagus to become Sirius Black. He left Sirius’s transformed body facing another killing curse.

• Anthony used magic in the Rotunda to locate Peter Pettigrew, who was hiding in the Time Hall.
• Anthony forced Peter back into human form, pinning him beneath a large clock.
• Peter claimed he could not control Barty Crouch Jr.’s transformations, but Anthony killed him with Avada Kedavra.
• Anthony saw Peter’s ghost pass through the door toward the Death Chamber and noticed the connections between Peter and something beyond it.
• Peter’s body transformed into Sirius Black, and Anthony cast Avada Kedavra at him.

Anton tried to remove Barty Crouch Jr. from Sirius, but Barty escaped by transferring Voldemort’s Horcrux into Anton’s hand. The Horcrux triggered an unpredictable transformation in Sirius, who began turning into a snake.

• Anton used a Soul Scalpel to search Sirius’s body for Barty Crouch Jr., while Sirius warned him against Dark Magic.
• Anton located Barty inside Sirius and used Black Threads and the Elder Wand to pull him out.
• Barty escaped by using the Polyhedral Animagus transformation to leave Voldemort’s Horcrux in Anton’s hand instead.
• Anton realized the Horcrux and the immature transformation technique were causing an unknown effect on Sirius.
• Sirius began hissing and trembling as his body swelled and Snake Scales spread across his skin, then lost consciousness.

Anthony tried to separate Sirius and Barty Crouch Jr. as their souls and Animagus forms fused amid chaotic Time-Turners. A violent surge swept Anthony away with a battered Golden Snitch, leaving him adrift in a torrent of time toward a lively street.

• Sirius and Barty Crouch Jr. began rapidly changing forms as their souls and Animagus transformations merged into a giant Runespoor-headed Black Dog.
• Dumbledore arrived searching for Anthony, but the Time Hall’s temporal distortions made him pass through Anthony and continue into the Prophecy Hall.
• Anthony used the Cruciatus Curse as a Soul Scalpel to separate Sirius and Barty, while both men struggled and the Time-Turners spun faster.
• A water droplet knocked the gemstone sphere inside the overturned Time-Turner off its disk, and Sirius charged at Barty as Barty wrapped himself around Sirius.
• The combined form exploded, tearing a battered Golden Snitch with a tiny beating heart free and hurling Anthony into a river of light among spinning Time-Turners.

After Voldemort’s defeat, the aged Fiennes reflected on how he had hidden through decades of conflict while secretly becoming a Charms and Potions Master. He considered using his research to be reborn in a child’s body, but recoiled from the Dark Wizard he had become and despaired over his life.

• Fiennes saw the Ministry posting verdicts against Death Eaters and realized he had survived by hiding until Voldemort’s defeat.
• He recalled choosing a life of caution and secrecy, despite becoming a Charms Master and Potions Master and developing powerful magic.
• Fiennes bought ice cream and watched children celebrating in Diagon Alley, envying their youth and vitality.
• He considered using his research to place his whole self inside a child and pursue rebirth through further work on the Crackling Curse and werewolves.
• Fiennes admitted to himself that he had killed many Apprentices for his research and hated the cruel Dark Wizard he had become.
• He reflected that his potion research had damaged his body and lamented that his life had amounted to nothing.

Fiennes used a Demon-Summoning Ritual to separate his memories and rejected self from his soul, hoping to send Anthony Weasley back to a new life as Anton. The ritual exploded, and Fiennes woke with his memories missing, unaware of what he had tried to do.

• Fiennes watched Anthony Weasley die after drinking a dangerous potion and realized the boy’s released Wizard Bloodline made him a suitable body for rebirth.
• Fiennes planned to merge his soul with Anthony Weasley’s body through a Demon-Summoning Ritual and decided to strip away the memories and evil he associated with his past.
• Fiennes performed the ritual, directing the Cruciatus Curse into his own eyes as a Veil appeared beside the Altar and the chamber exploded.
• Fiennes crawled from the ruins, found his Wand and drank a potion, then recognized himself as Alex Fiennes but could not remember the experiment or his missing memories.

Anton witnessed how the Golden Snitch sent him and Anna from his old life into the past, where he became Alex Fiennes and first encountered Pedro. The chapter ended with the Snitch’s time magic sweeping through Pedro’s world and Pedro striking Alex with the Cruciatus Curse.

• Anton realized that Fiennes had become a separate person and that he had anchored his Space Magic to Old Wizard Fiennes.
• A Golden Snitch slammed into Anton’s Time-Turner, sending the river of time into chaos.
• Anton saw his past self open the Golden Snitch at work, after Anna tried to stop him, and the two of them disappeared into multicolored mist.
• The Snitch’s time magic reached Pedro, turned his wife toward the Veil, transformed Nagini, and began correcting changes Pedro had made to time.
• Alex Fiennes recognized Anton’s memories and decided he had transmigrated into the world of Harry Potter.
• Pedro cursed Alex with the Cruciatus Curse when Alex tried to help him, teaching him to keep his head down.

Anton returned from the River of Time with new mastery of magic, while Sirius had become a Human Animagus with two souls sharing one body. Anton explained the transformation to Dumbledore, who recognized how difficult Sirius’s future would be.

• Anton returned to the Time Hall, caught the powerless Golden Snitch and Time-Turner, and found Sirius unconscious beside them.
• Anton realized time magic had merged Sirius and Barty Crouch Jr. into one body with two souls, and reflected on the magical knowledge and Voldemort Horcrux he had gained.
• Dumbledore rushed in, found Sirius unusually healthy, and asked Anton what had happened.
• Anton explained how Peter Pettigrew’s death, Voldemort’s separated Horcrux, and time magic had changed Sirius.
• Dumbledore compared Sirius’s predicament with Harry’s struggle against Tom’s Horcrux and worried that Sirius’s two independent minds would make his ordeal even harder.

Anton explained that Barty Crouch Jr.'s soul had fused with Sirius's, leaving Sirius to struggle against Barty's influence while they sought a remedy. As Anton and Dumbledore argued over the Elder Wand, Barty took control of Sirius, grabbed the wand, and Apparated away.

• Anton explained that Harry had two souls in one body, while Sirius and Barty Crouch Jr. shared a fused soul with two Egos.
• Sirius accepted his condition, and Anton proposed extracting Barty so Lockhart could erase Barty's memories with a Memory Charm.
• Dumbledore sent Anton and Sirius back to Hogwarts and agreed to have Lockhart attempt the temporary solution under Professor McGonagall's supervision.
• Anton tried to return the Elder Wand to Dumbledore, and they argued over who should keep it.
• Barty took control of Sirius, snatched the Elder Wand from Anton, and Apparated away, announcing that his mission was complete.

After Barty Crouch Jr. stole the Elder Wand, Dumbledore opened a Space Gate from the Ministry atrium to the sea near Azkaban and raced through it to confront Tom. Scrimgeour sent Aurors after him while Fudge ordered the Ministry evacuated, and Anton followed on his Firebolt.

• Anton taunted Dumbledore about Voldemort getting the Elder Wand and blamed Grindelwald for engineering the conflict.
• Scrimgeour arrived as Anton explained that Barty Crouch Jr. had stolen the Elder Wand, while Dumbledore mourned the danger Sirius might face.
• Dumbledore said he would go straight to Tom to settle the score, then opened a vast Space Gate in the Ministry fountain.
• A wave surged through the Space Gate and formed a crystal-clear Sailing Ship that carried Dumbledore toward Azkaban.
• Scrimgeour sent Aurors through the Space Gate, and Fudge ordered the Ministry evacuated and the gate guarded.
• Anton flew through the Space Gate on his Firebolt and followed Dumbledore toward Azkaban.

Dumbledore destroyed Azkaban with a series of enormous waves, and Anton realized the attack was meant to display Dumbledore’s strength and counter Voldemort’s growing power. Anton then saw that Barty Crouch Jr.’s mission could expose Snape’s secret help to him, leaving Snape in danger.

• Dumbledore sent enormous waves crashing into Azkaban, flattening the island and washing away its castle.
• Anton reasoned that Dumbledore had acted to damage Voldemort’s reputation and respond to the threat posed by Voldemort’s renewed intelligence and magical research.
• Anton realized Voldemort had relocated the Dementors, which had become a strategic resource for his research into Dark Magic.
• Anton recalled that Barty Crouch Jr. had been sent to find the Golden Snitch hidden in the Forbidden Forest and would report how he carried out the mission to Voldemort.
• Anton realized Voldemort could learn that Snape had secretly taught him the Flight Charm and infer that Snape still hated him over Lily’s death.

Anton flew to a reef near the shore and began calling for Voldemort, while Voldemort gathered his followers and accused Snape of betrayal. As Voldemort prepared to execute Snape with the Elder Wand, Snape thought of Gillian Nicholas and feared he would never return to Hogwarts.

• Anton decided to search for Snape himself, flew across the ocean, and called out Voldemort’s names from a reef.
• Voldemort told his followers to build power while other forces focused on St. Riddle, and he questioned Snape about teaching Anton the Flight Charm.
• Snape denied planning to turn Anton against Voldemort and explained that Anton was his apprentice; Barty Crouch Jr. accused Snape of loving Lily Evans and being disloyal.
• Lucius defended the followers’ loyalty, but Voldemort announced that a traitor would be executed.
• Snape thought of Gillian Nicholas waiting for him at Hogwarts as Voldemort drew the Elder Wand and declared that betrayal was forbidden.

Voldemort confronted Augustus Rookwood for betraying him, but Anton arrived and asked to take Rookwood away. Voldemort struck Anton with the Killing Curse, yet Anton survived and asked again to leave with Rookwood.

• Bella brought Augustus Rookwood before Voldemort, and the Death Eaters learned that he had betrayed Voldemort and joined the Weasleys.
• Voldemort questioned Lucius about punishing traitors, while Snape explained Rookwood's past service to the Death Eaters.
• The Dark Mark burned as someone called Voldemort's name, and Voldemort sent Bella and Barty Crouch Jr. to find the caller.
• Anton appeared beside Bella and asked Voldemort to let him take Rookwood away.
• Voldemort cast the Killing Curse at Anton, but Anton survived and asked whether he could take Rookwood with him.

Anton survived Voldemort’s Killing Curse and challenged him to keep attacking, claiming he had found a way to avoid death. As Voldemort unleashed a more powerful composite spell, Anton’s body became twisting black lines, but he continued to taunt him.

• Anton warned Voldemort to leave his people alone and threatened to oppose him if he did not.
• Anton told Voldemort that he could not kill him and declared that he would demonstrate his latest research.
• Voldemort attacked Anton with a composite Killing Curse that turned Anton’s chest into writhing black lines.
• Anton recognized that Voldemort’s spell combined the Killing Curse with other magic and urged him to continue.
• Voldemort intensified the spell, causing a nearby wizard to collapse, while Anton’s whole body became black lines threaded with red lightning.
• Anton mocked Voldemort and demanded more power.

Voldemort explained how he had studied Anton’s work on Horcruxes and developed a new curse, then used it against Anton. Anton realized the magic could let him record Voldemort’s Life Existence and eagerly invited the attack.

• Bella and Barty Crouch Jr. urged the Death Eaters to attack Anton, but Voldemort ordered them to stop.
• Voldemort recognized Anton’s transformation as advanced research based on Horcruxes and warned him about the dangers of resurrection through them.
• Voldemort said he had developed the Perception Reversal Curse from Anton’s work and his Soul Scalpel.
• Voldemort cast Avada Kedavra as emerald-green magic, and Anton sensed it could reveal Voldemort’s mind and let him record his Life Existence.
• Anton welcomed the spell and tapped his wand against his head, prompting Voldemort to sharpen his gaze and respond that Anton was asking for it.

Voldemort struck Anthony with the Perception Reversal Curse, but Anthony resisted its influence and used the attack to fully collect Voldemort’s Life Existence. He concealed his resistance by screaming and exploding into Black Threads, leaving Voldemort unaware of the spell’s failure.

• Voldemort unleashed an Emerald Lightning Sphere that engulfed and killed Anthony, turning him into Black Threads.
• Anthony realized Voldemort’s Perception Reversal Curse was trying to force a Runespoor Animagus transformation by inserting a half-Horcrux into his soul.
• A Ray of Sunshine drove the curse’s influence out of Anthony’s soul, and he fully depicted Voldemort in his Lake of the Mind and collected his Life Existence.
• Anthony recognized that Voldemort’s two-souled form was unstable because it was missing a third head, and decided to keep Voldemort believing the curse had worked.
• Anthony screamed and exploded into Black Threads, concealing that the curse had failed.

Anthony used an improved version of “Voldemort's Faint Sorrow” to overwhelm Voldemort and the Death Eaters with laughter, then spoke with Sirius, who planned to remain undercover. Anthony escaped with Rookwood, leaving Voldemort furious and Sirius to continue his infiltration.

• Anthony sang an improved “Voldemort's Faint Sorrow,” making Voldemort and the Death Eaters laugh uncontrollably.
• Anthony contacted Snape through reverse Legilimency, then discovered Sirius sharing control of Barty Crouch Jr.'s body.
• Sirius told Anthony he planned to gain control of the snake-headed Black Dog and infiltrate the Death Eaters to gather information for the Order of the Phoenix.
• Sirius asked Anthony to help teach Harry Dark Magic, and Anthony agreed.
• Anthony grabbed Rookwood and Disapparated as the laughter began to fade.
• Voldemort roared Anthony's name while his followers lay gasping on the floor.

After the exams, Neville planned to expand the Training Center and worried about negotiating with Fudge, while George and Fred revealed their new Snufflepuffs. The chapter ended with Hannah delighted by the creatures and Neville wondering how much their enchanted pockets could hold.

• George and Fred worried about their exam results and whether they could qualify for next year's Alchemy course.
• Neville said he planned to recruit more people for the Training Center, assign greater responsibilities to its current students, and bring in Percy, though he felt nervous about dealing with Fudge.
• George and Fred described their Snufflepuffs, creatures bred from a Puffskein and a Niffler, and presented one as a handbag.
• Hannah happily tried carrying the Snufflepuff and praised George and Fred, while Neville asked whether its enchanted pocket could hold an Experiment Table or even a house.

Anton finished painting Anna’s portrait and reflected on how portraits might preserve and share aspects of a person’s existence. He left his portrait collection in Cabin, confident in its defenses.

• Voldemort attacked Hermione and Ron in their frames, but Ron was unharmed by the Killing Curse because they were portraits, and Hermione knocked Voldemort down with a Stone.
• Hermione praised Anna and looked forward to visiting the Castle in Anna’s new portrait.
• Anton completed Anna’s portrait and explained his theory that a portrait’s memories could affect the Ego of the same Life Existence.
• Anton considered dangerous possibilities involving copied Life Existences, then decided not to pursue magic that tampered with life.
• Anton hung Anna’s portrait with the others and declined to move the collection to Anna’s Castle, trusting Cabin’s security.

After the final exams, Anton and Anna spent their summer studying until their family persuaded them to join Lupin on a trip to New York. As they set off to deal with a Dark Magic Creature, Anton reflected on Voldemort’s hidden presence in the city and the dangers surrounding America’s wizarding community.

• George and Fred celebrated earning eight Outstanding grades each, while Anton tied Hermione Granger for first place in the final exams.
• Anton painted portraits of Alex Fiennes, Severus Snape, and Albus Dumbledore, then continued painting his family during the summer holiday.
• Ilsa, Nagini, Rosier, and the other adults urged Anton and Anna to spend time outside their studies, so Lupin invited them to accompany him to New York.
• Rosier and Nagini explained the history of the Scourers and America’s strained relations between wizards and No-Majs, while Lupin said the Clement family had requested help with a Dark Magic Creature.
• Anton thought about Voldemort’s New York hideout, Grindelwald’s possible connection to Squib mercenaries, and the Squib gamers Spider-Man Peter and Spider-Woman Julie, whose game feedback George and Fred would monitor.
• Anton and Anna set off with Lupin for New York to investigate the Dark Magic Creature.