Chapter Summaries

As Ilsa drove Anna and Anton to the airport, Lupin explained how wizards’ enemies had changed over time and reflected on his role in protecting Dumbledore’s Horcrux. As the group boarded their plane, Lupin recognized that a new era—and new Dark Magic Creatures born from human conflict—was approaching.

• Lupin taught Anna and Anton that magical studies had shifted as wizards’ enemies changed from Fantastic Beasts, Fantastic Plants, and Dark Magic Creatures to Muggles and Dark Wizards.
• Lupin explained that the Statute of Secrecy left Muggles to face Dark Magic Creatures, which could arise from their negative emotions and latent magic.
• Ilsa dropped Lupin, Anna, and Anton at the airport, where she saw them off before they boarded the plane.
• Lupin reflected that Anton’s arrival had made Dumbledore value his life, and that Lupin had been entrusted with guarding Dumbledore’s Horcrux and preparing a Resurrection Ritual.
• Lupin anticipated a fourth transformation in the Wizarding World, in which conflict involving Muggle technology would breed new Dark Magic Creatures, and resolved to serve humanity through his work.

Lupin investigated a girl believed to be haunted and identified a Desire Elf tied to an unhealed emotional wound. While Lupin entered her room with the family, Anton discovered that the building-wide magical disturbance did not come from her room.

• Lupin, Anton, and Anna registered at the Magical Congress in New York and met Rip, who asked Lupin to investigate his niece.
• Rip explained that his Muggle relatives believed the girl had a mental illness, while he suspected a Dark Magic Creature was affecting her.
• Lupin identified the creature as a Desire Elf and explained that it could not be killed until the wound in the girl's heart healed.
• Lupin reassured the girl and asked to speak with her in her room alongside her parents.
• Anton noticed the gloomy Magic Images covered the entire building, then left the apartment to trace the currents of Magical Power.

Anton discovered that the apartment building was saturated with faint magic produced by its Muggle residents and their environment. As the residents protested being forced from their homes, their anger and sorrow intensified the magic, while Lupin prepared to seek permission to banish a Destruction Shadow attached to a little girl.

• Anton sensed a vast, sorrowful magical presence throughout the apartment building.
• Residents confronted the investor’s representatives over plans to sell the building, and Tom and his wife argued about their family’s future.
• Anton found a Destruction Shadow behind the weeping little girl, and Lupin began documenting it for the Magical Congress.
• Anton proposed that the residents’ emotions and the environment had created the building’s immense but faint pool of magic.
• As protesters and a crowd gathered outside, the magical presence surged with the residents’ growing frustration.

Lupin treated the little girl while Anton studied how the apartment building’s conflicts changed the surrounding Magical Power, and he took Anton and Anna sightseeing in New York. The trio discovered a hidden wizarding street beneath Central Park, where Anton heard that the Quidditch World Cup was the main topic of conversation.

• Lupin secured approval to capture Destruction Shadow and began daily treatment sessions that gradually cheered the little girl, though her troubles continued.
• A businessman’s efforts to persuade some tenants deepened divisions in the apartment building, and Anton observed the resulting changes in its Magical Power.
• Anton and Anna discussed how the collective feelings of a country might affect its fortune and create a Dark Magic Creature.
• After their treatment sessions, Lupin drove Anton and Anna around New York and led them through a rabbit hole into Central Park Underground Street.
• Lupin went to investigate local matters while Anton noticed that the wizards at a restaurant were discussing the upcoming Quidditch World Cup.

Lupin discovered that Squibs were being deliberately transformed to spread Wizarding culture among Muggles, risking a crisis between Wizarding and Muggle governments, and sent Dumbledore a warning. A sniper then shot down the Owl carrying Lupin’s message over the sea.

• Lupin told Anton and Anna that investors interested in a New York building had noticed Squibs among their ranks, and explained that Squibs were being targeted for transformation.
• Lupin warned that the effort to turn Wizarding culture into a Muggle trend could violate the Statute of Secrecy and provoke conflict between European Wizarding and Muggle governments.
• Anton decided to write to Dumbledore, and Lupin prepared a detailed message for an Owl post carrier.
• Rip invited Lupin to visit his estate after Lupin treated Rip’s niece, while Lupin noted that curing her Destruction Shadow would require her parents’ cooperation.
• A muscular sniper on a boat used a Barrett Sniper Rifle to shoot down Lupin’s Owl over the sea.

Anton and Anna visited Julia Ashley’s apartment building so Anton could study the magic gathered from its residents’ dark emotions. They found the residents divided over whether to leave, with some accepting help to find an organ match for a sick woman’s mother.

• Lupin investigated werewolves in America as potential allies for a conspiracy involving Muggle Squibs and ritual magic, while Anton completed Life-Existence Drawings of Lupin and Anna.
• Anna invited Anton to visit Julia Ashley, retrieved Lupin’s car from his suitcase, and drove them to the apartment building.
• Anton observed that the building was covered in faint magic produced by its residents’ collective dark sides and explained that it could not form a unified spell.
• Anton and Anna found the residents arguing in opposing groups as Julia’s mother urged them to stand together against being divided.
• A middle-aged resident said he was leaving because someone had offered to help find an organ match for his child’s mother, and he demanded that the others let his family pass.

Anton and Anna tried to help the residents of an apartment building targeted by a developer, but Anton’s Muggle-Repelling Charm only made many people leave. As Anton studied the building’s unusual magical power, armed mercenaries returned and fired a rocket at the building, forcing him to Apparate Anna to safety.

• The developer’s men arrived with protestors who accused the residents of oppressing the weak, while Anton and Anna watched from afar.
• Anton cast the Muggle-Repelling Charm, dispersing the protestors and causing many residents to leave as well.
• Anna went to speak with Julia, while Anton studied the magical power surrounding the building and considered how it might create a Dark Magic Creature.
• A second motorcade arrived carrying armed mercenaries, and Anton sensed faint magical power within them.
• One mercenary fired a rocket at the apartment building, and Anton Apparated with Anna to the roof across the street.

Anton and Anna came under attack from armed mercenaries, and Anton’s Wizard Bloodline instinctively warped space to help him evade a bullet before his body recovered from a second gunshot. After shielding Anna and striking back, Anton suspected the mercenaries were hunting wizards and possibly testing whether they could kill him.

• Anna and Anton watched mercenaries fire a rocket-propelled grenade at an apartment building in Manhattan.
• Anton sensed danger and shielded Anna, but a .50 BMG bullet struck him as his Wizard Bloodline surged and warped its trajectory around him.
• A second bullet tore through Anton’s shoulder, but Black Threads restored his body before he landed.
• Anton cast Colossal Reversal to shield himself and Anna, then sent a spell back toward a rooftop mercenary, whose body and firearms exploded apart.
• Anna realized the mercenaries were targeting wizards, and Anton stopped her from casting the Killing Curse before covering the building with a huge shield.
• Anton wondered whether the attack was part of a Witch Hunt, a plot against Lupin, or a test of whether armed Squib mercenaries could kill him.

Anton and Anna stopped a heavily armed Squib mercenary team that had attacked an apartment building while targeting Remus John Lupin. After discovering that a sniper called Scarface had also targeted Anton, Anton waited at the crime scene and spotted a suspicious wizard as night fell.

• Anton used compound spells to disarm the mercenaries, ground their broomsticks, and question them about their mission.
• The blonde mercenary said the team had been hired through the Mysterious Force website to kill Remus John Lupin.
• Anton recreated Scarface’s appearance from the blood on the street, and the blonde mercenary identified him as a top-ranked figure on the website.
• Anton killed the remaining mercenaries and the blonde woman after learning that Scarface had not been part of their team.
• Anton concealed the weapons and repaired the apartment building before Muggle police and Aurors treated the incident as a criminal gang dispute.
• Anton stayed with Anna at the scene and spotted a wizard whose soul was twisted by Dark Magic.

Anthony and Anna followed a Dark Wizard who had recorded Anthony killing the Mercenaries and sent the evidence to a newspaper. Back at the hotel, Anthony began extracting the wizard’s memories with an Ancient Goblin Memory-Stripping Spell to learn who had hired him and why.

• Anthony and Anna used Little Waltz Phantom Traversal to follow the Dark Wizard and overheard him report that he had sent photos and recordings of Anthony to a newspaper.
• Anthony petrified the wizard, took his phone, and brought him back to the hotel while the caller on the other end remained unidentified.
• Anthony learned the wizard had used a Concealed Treasure Box to hide a Magical Video Recorder and noted that he might recognize the caller by their breathing.
• Anthony dismissed the wizard’s offer to answer questions under Veritaserum and prepared a memory-collecting basin using water, Sneezing Grass, Silent Bird feather extract, and Dragon Blood.
• Anthony cast the Goblin Memory-Stripping Spell, drawing the wizard’s memories into the basin as the man’s voice and emotional expression faded.

Anton learned that Celad Williams had used an ancient Concealed Treasure Box to hide his information-gathering equipment, and discovered that someone had orchestrated the attack and publicity against him. He prepared to investigate the person behind the scheme while Anna examined the Magical Video Recorder.

• Anton reviewed Celad Williams's memories and kept the information about the Concealed Treasure Box.
• Anton showed the box to Anna and explained its similarity to the magic concealing Pedro and Witch Volkanova's former house.
• Anton gave Anna the Magical Video Recorder and asked her to figure out how it worked before the Aurors arrived.
• Anton concluded that someone had arranged the Squib Mercenaries' attack and sent evidence of his actions to the newspaper to draw him into a conflict.
• Anna suspected Voldemort, but Anton doubted that the apparent scheme pointed to him and set out to deal with the Magical Congress and expose the person pulling the strings.

Anton analyzed the improved Developing Potion in a magical camera and used his own potion-making to produce photographs of a captured wizard committing atrocities. He then altered the wizard’s memories to support a story about a conspiracy and a hidden mastermind.

• Anna removed a glass bottle of Developing Potion from the magical camera, and Anton examined its ingredients and effects.
• Anton identified traces of Greening Potion and Rebirth Potion, then explained their origins and discussed the author Daisy Hookum with Anna.
• Anton combined additional ingredients with the Developing Potion, causing the camera to produce photographs of the captured wizard using Confundus Charms to make mercenaries kill one another.
• Anton presented the photographs as evidence of the wizard’s crimes and claimed a terrifying figure had orchestrated the events and tried to frame him.
• Anton returned the wizard’s memory to his temple, while Anna joined him in denouncing the supposed villains.

Celad Williams escaped home with evidence of his crimes and planned to kill the Dark Wizard controlling him. Meanwhile, Eva Miles led Aurors to arrest Anthony Weasley, believing the law would let her bring down the rising young Wizard.

• Celad Williams Apparated home with photographs proving he had used the Confundus Charm to make Squibs kill one another.
• After celebrating his escape, Celad decided to seek freedom by killing the Wizard who had ordered him to commit crimes.
• Editor-in-Chief Bode showed Eva Miles the magical photographs, and she vowed to hold Anthony Weasley responsible for the massacre.
• Eva Miles gathered more than twenty Aurors and Apparated with them to the hotel where Anthony Weasley was staying.
• Eva ordered the Aurors to conceal themselves and surround the hotel with a pale blue barrier.

American Aurors tried to arrest Anthony Weasley and Anna over a suspected massacre, but Anthony overpowered them and declared that the Magical Congress had no right to charge him. He left them bound in the hotel room for three days while he and Anna moved to another hotel.

• Eva Miles's Aurors burst into Anthony Weasley's hotel room, seized his wand, and presented a photograph as evidence that he had massacred Muggles.
• Anthony refused to go with the Aurors and challenged the authenticity of their evidence and the American wizarding legal process.
• Anna broke through the adjoining wall and joined Anthony after the Aurors accused her of resisting arrest and assaulting an Auror.
• Eva Miles ordered the Aurors to cast arrest spells, but Anthony warped space to deflect them and used his wand to bind the Aurors, including Eva.
• Anthony explained that they would remain bound for three days, warned Eva that he would destroy the Magical Congress if it convicted him, and left with Anna and his Suitcase.

Anton and Anna stayed in a hotel to watch the Aurors and draw the force targeting Anton into a wider conflict with the Magical Congress. While Anna explored new technology, Anton researched the Developing Potion and its connection to traces of life, leaving him with a promising new direction for magical study.

• Anton used Greedy Gaze to watch the Aurors below and explained to Anna that he suspected a larger force was orchestrating the attacks against him.
• Anna urged Anton to find and kill whoever was behind the conspiracy, and Anton decided to wait for an opportunity to involve the Magical Congress.
• Anna bought and admired a new IBM touchscreen phone, while Anton continued researching his Developing Potion.
• Anna announced she would invent magical technology and build an aerospace plane, and Anton suggested that Apparition might eventually support space travel.
• Anton connected the Developing Potion to Snape’s ideas about the rhythms of objects and to his own research on the soul’s element of traces.

Eva Miles and the other Aurors remained trapped under Anthony Weasley's Full Body-Bind Curse while Anton monitored their growing despair from upstairs. After observing how the simulated environment affected their minds, Anton considered changing it to create a Dark Magic Creature.

• Eva tried Wandless Magic and repeatedly cast counter-curses and other spells, but none could free her or her immobilized colleagues.
• As hours passed, Eva's fear and despair grew while the Aurors' expressions shifted from hope to blankness.
• Anton used Legilimency through his Lake of the Mind to monitor the Aurors and study how their environment affected their minds.
• Anton considered whether the Simulated Environment could create a Dark Magic Creature and looked over his Developing Potion research notes for an idea.

Anton used Ritual Magic and Developing Potion to set a new curse called “Traces of Time” brewing above the well opening. As he and Anna ate dinner, armed mercenaries broke into the room and fired on the immobilized Aurors, leaving Eva Miles facing an oncoming bullet.

• Anton studied a Witch’s repeating-time curse and adapted its magical principles to create “Traces of Time.”
• Anton used his Wand, Developing Potion, 138 Candles, and spellcasting materials to begin the ritual above the well opening.
• Anton and Anna ate lobster and other food while the new magic brewed.
• Anna spotted armed men descending the building and warned Anton that they were entering downstairs.
• Mercenaries broke through reinforced glass and fired at the immobilized Aurors as Eva Miles watched a bullet fly toward her forehead.

Anthony used Traces of Time and Ritual Magic to make the room trap anyone who entered in a repeating sequence, then petrified the Aurors and Squib Mercenaries. As more mercenaries arrived, the cycle continued, leaving them all frozen as stone statues.

• Anthony and Anna watched as Squib Mercenaries broke into the hotel room and opened fire on the Aurors.
• Anthony’s magic rewound the scene, let him take Eva Miles’s Wand, and caused his Full Body-Bind Curse to petrify everyone in the room.
• Eva Miles realized the curse would last three days and feared more intruders would be caught in the same trap.
• A mercenary team heard no response from their comrades, sent others to investigate, and received Anthony’s repeated words over the radio.
• Additional mercenaries entered the room, where Anthony appeared and petrified the last arrival as the scene began again.

Anton and Anna investigated how shared emotional states could give rise to Dark Magic Creatures, using Eva Miles’s despair as an example. Their research led them to speculate that hostility online might create Internet Dark Magic Creatures, a theory Anton named “Anton and Anna’s Conjecture.”

• Anton explained that his “Traces of Time” spell might create an environment where people developed shared emotions and produced a Dark Magic Creature.
• Eva Miles endured a night of terror while trapped and frozen, then panicked when a bird flew into the room and Anton turned it to stone.
• As Eva spiraled into despair and cursed those around her, Anton sensed Dark Magic spreading between people and influencing them in return.
• Anton proposed that intense negativity in places such as struggling companies, schools, and violent streets could give rise to Dark Magic Creatures.
• Anna suggested that hostility on Internet forums might create an Internet Ghost, and Anton agreed that online memories and emotions could become both prey and a source of new creatures.
• Anton named their idea “Anton and Anna’s Conjecture,” while Anna warned that people might think them crazy for being ahead of their time.

Eva Miles’s repeated ordeal helped Anton observe a Dark Magic Environment forming from collective fear, while Lupin secretly followed a ship carrying Werewolves and recognized its masked captor as Mulciber. Lupin set out to confirm whether Voldemort was involved in training the Squib Mercenaries so he could bring the intelligence to Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix.

• Eva Miles broke down as a familiar newcomer triggered the cycle again, while the group’s mounting fear twisted their reflections into a Dark Magic Environment.
• Anton observed the environment form from the collective consciousness and explained that it would now affect the people in the room.
• A masked Dark Wizard threatened a shipload of Werewolves and said they would be taken to a destination with supplies and food.
• Lupin concealed himself among the Werewolves and recognized the masked Dark Wizard as Mulciber, a dangerous Death Eater.
• Lupin decided to confirm whether Mulciber was taking the Werewolves to infect or train Squib Mercenaries, which could reveal Voldemort’s role behind them.