Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore reflected that he was ready to leave the future to the younger generation, but Anton’s ideas had inspired him to embrace change. He proposed creating a fifth House at Hogwarts and declared that the Ministry would follow his recommendation.

• Dumbledore listened to the young wizards downstairs and told Grindelwald and McGonagall that the future belonged to them.
• Dumbledore told Anton he had studied Wizards as Gods and secretly learned Anton’s Transfiguration of Apparition.
• Dumbledore proposed establishing another House at Hogwarts alongside the Four Houses.
• Grindelwald questioned whether the Ministry and School Governors would support the proposal, but Dumbledore insisted they would follow his recommendation.

Anton discussed Dumbledore’s plans to place him at the center of Hogwarts’s proposed fifth house and the Top 100 Tournament, but insisted he would walk away if the deal did not suit him. He reflected on his magic and his command of time, ending with the confidence that he could overturn the entire game.

• After Dumbledore and McGonagall left the Old Cabin, Lupin warned Anton that Dumbledore seemed intent on putting him in charge of a new Hogwarts house.
• Anton said Dumbledore wanted to tie his Night School to Hogwarts and use the Top 100 Tournament to shape future competitions and keep events under his influence.
• Anton speculated that Hogwarts’s former headmistress Dilys Derwent had sensed the castle’s magic throughout its grounds, which might explain how Dumbledore learned about their Black Lake discussion.
• Lupin worried that Anton would face worldwide scrutiny as a fourth-year student leading a house, but Anton said he would walk away if Dumbledore demanded too much.
• Anton told Lupin that he could resurrect another Albus Dumbledore from the river of time and described time magic as his most powerful way to overturn the game.

As rumors about Dumbledore and Anthony Weasley spread, Dumbledore and the governors proposed a fifth Hogwarts house, Anton Academy. Draco warned Anton that ancient Pure-blood Families would target the Top 100 Tournament to undermine the Night School, and Anton unexpectedly took over Professor Burbage’s lesson with a lecture about Muggles and wizards.

• Rumors portrayed Dumbledore as a schemer and Anthony as his supposed third-generation Dark Lord, while the Ministry shut down the paper that published the claim and imprisoned its reporter.
• Dumbledore and the school governors proposed creating Anton Academy, drawing reporters to Hogwarts until McGonagall intervened.
• Draco told Anton that ancient Pure-blood Families led by Barty Crouch Sr. and Director Fawley had historically controlled magical education and would try to disrupt the Top 100 Tournament.
• Draco relayed Mr. Malfoy’s warning that Anton should prioritize the tournament’s safety and successful first run over ambitious competition plans.
• Professor Burbage called on Draco and Anton to explain themselves, and Anton began delivering a lecture on Muggles, wizards, and society that left her with little room to teach.

Anton clarified that Anton Academy’s Night School would provide practical magical training and new employment paths for marginalized adult wizards, while Cabin’s friends planned a temporary way to house their creatures and plants. The group assigned Anton to prepare a protected floor in the Sanctuary Tower and hire Dobby under a confidentiality agreement.

• Anton explained that the Night School would teach marginalized adult wizards to find their innate magic and use practical spells, rather than imitate Hogwarts or pursue grand ambitions.
• Anton rejected Dumbledore’s offer of a classroom in the castle and chose the Animal Paddock, while Cabin’s friends planned to move creatures and plants through a suitcase and Portkeys to the Sanctuary Tower.
• Hannah assigned Anton to adapt and protect a Sanctuary Tower floor and arrange for a House-elf to help care for the creatures and plants.
• Neville warned that Dobby’s desire for freedom made him untrustworthy, but Anton said he would hire Dobby for limited duties and bind him with a confidentiality agreement.

Anton freed Dobby from the Malfoys and hired him under a lifelong confidentiality vow, while exploring what magical contracts revealed about souls and Life Existence. Draco planned to reclaim the Chamber of Secrets as a base, as the students’ groups continued to develop into three rival organizations.

• Anton offered Dobby a paid job caring for Fantastic Beasts and Fantastic Plants, and Dobby accepted a lifelong confidentiality agreement sealed by magic.
• Anton reflected on how promises and contracts might connect to souls, the great tree, the Veil, and other forms of magic.
• Anton told Dobby to dress respectably and said they would travel to America the next day.
• Anton announced he would remove the three Dementors from the Chamber of Secrets and return it to Draco and his friends.
• Draco proposed using the Chamber as a base for his allies, as Cabin, Harry’s Trio, and Draco’s Quartet emerged as influential student organizations.

Anton brought Dobby to the Sanctuary Tower in New York and began reshaping its landscape so it could better support life. Dobby watched in awe as Anton raised mountains, redirected rivers, and transformed the sanctuary into a world of natural beauty.

• Anton used Dobby's house-elf travel magic to reach New York, then Apparated away before a Magical Congress Auror could stop him.
• Anton showed Dobby the Sanctuary Tower and told him to build a home there.
• Anton explained that the sanctuary's underground soil and water carried dark magical properties and needed sunlight, fresh air, rain, and varied terrain.
• Anton used his wand and the shared longing for beautiful scenery to reshape the sanctuary's mountains, rivers, hills, and plains.
• Dobby watched Anton's spellcasting and realized that a wizard's greatness could inspire house-elves to look up at him with genuine admiration.

Anton transformed the land around Cabin into a lush pasture and created a doorway Portkey to bring his friends there. The chapter ended with Hannah, Anna, and the others marveling at the rainbow across the mountain view.

• Anton used magic, ingredients, and seeds to shape a mountain range, bring rain, and make plants grow across the land.
• Anton asked Dobby where House-elves liked to live, then created a tree cottage and a cabin woven from Elephant-Eating Vine.
• Hannah named the floor the "Cabin Pasture," where plants, newly bred species, and Dark Magic Creatures could be raised.
• Anton installed a metal door in Cabin and opened it as a Portkey, bringing Neville, George, Fred, Hannah, Anna, and the others through.
• Neville nearly ran onto the balcony, while George and Fred tumbled together, and the group admired a rainbow stretching across the mountains.

Anton and the others made their vast pasture at the Sanctuary Tower Cabin’s new center of operations, planning animal habitats and personal buildings for their projects. As Cabin continued to expand, Anton glimpsed Percy working in a skyscraper beyond the sky.

• George, Fred, Anna, Hannah, and Anton moved animals, plants, and documents to the pasture, which became Cabin’s new base because it offered greater freedom and privacy.
• Anna advanced her work on the Magical Communication Device using ideas from Magical Theory and Lily Evans’s manuscripts.
• George and Fred proposed raising Fire Salamanders and Billywigs, while Anton suggested Acromantulas and Hannah considered other magical creatures.
• Neville said he wanted a home for his Animated Dolls, and Anton offered to help build a castle; Anna requested a Mechanical Factory, and Hannah asked for Greenhouses.
• Anton proposed planning the land for everyone’s buildings as George and Fred flew off to look for suitable animal habitats.
• Anton looked through the sky and saw Percy reviewing documents in an office atop a skyscraper.

Anton opened Night School in the Hogwarts paddock, where a group of students and guests inhabited dolls confined within an enchanted valley. He began the first lesson by explaining how mastering magic required mastering the mind, using the Repelling Charm to show how magic could shape its caster.

• Alchemical pillars confined the awakened dolls to the paddock valley, and Anton explained that a modified Repelling Charm created the boundary.
• Anton welcomed the varied students and guests to Night School, while Anna checked the Time-Turner mechanism that would stretch one hour into four.
• Dumbledore noticed the time magic but stayed quiet as the students and professors gathered around Anton's platform.
• Anton taught that magic was the power of the mind and warned that uncontrolled magic could warp a wizard's mind.
• Anton began using the Repelling Charm as a case study in how learning, mastering, and controlling magic affected the mind.

Anton taught a four-hour lesson on the Repelling Charm, showing how uncontrolled magic reflected and intensified a wizard’s emotions, while controlled magic could be shaped into defenses and flight. He left his students with a warning to understand how magic gradually changed their minds and to learn to control it.

• Anton recalled discovering the Repelling Charm in a first-year textbook and demonstrated it by blasting a boulder into the sky.
• Anton explained that suppressed emotions and uncontrolled magic could deepen isolation and sensitivity until an Obscurus began to grow.
• Anton used a Temporary Imperius Curse on himself, then cast the Repelling Charm to show how emotional rejection could push away people and objects.
• Anton shaped the Repelling Charm into a protective shield and used it to rise and fly, demonstrating its many possible applications.
• Anton concluded that wizards needed to understand the relationship between magic and the mind and carefully control the changes magic caused.

Hannah planned to make the Wizarding World’s recorded lessons a lasting source of support for Cabin. At Dumbledore’s office, Anton discovered that Barty Crouch Jr. had apparently altered Sirius’s gift to Harry, leaving Sirius’s Two-Way Mirror potentially in Death Eater hands.

• Hannah proposed adding a Points System and tasks to the Wizarding World, explaining that many students could not use a Pensieve and that the project would benefit Cabin.
• Anton arrived at Dumbledore’s office and learned that Harry could speak Parseltongue to the Runespoor in a glass jar.
• Anton questioned the Runespoor in Parseltongue and learned that Sirius had given it to Harry, though Sirius could not remember doing so.
• Anton concluded that Barty Crouch Jr. had influenced Sirius and that Sirius had meant to give Harry a Two-Way Mirror instead.
• Sirius revealed that he had one mirror but did not know where its twin was, and Anton warned that Death Eaters might possess it and have been listening.

Dumbledore discussed the danger posed by Tom and planned to disrupt his return by advancing the Top 100 Tournament. Anton borrowed Sirius's Two-Way Mirror and attached a memory of horror movies to it, leaving the unseen person on the other end in for a disturbing surprise.

• Moody took responsibility for failing to watch Sirius, while Dumbledore focused the group on assessing the information leak and protecting Snape.
• Sirius blamed himself and offered to leave, but Dumbledore refused and considered how Tom's return and Horcruxes could be countered through Fate or imprisonment.
• Dumbledore proposed bringing forward the Top 100 Tournament to disrupt Tom's plans.
• Anton asked to study Sirius's Two-Way Mirror, then used a Memory and spellcasting materials to make a flatbread-like object that attached to the mirror.

Anton decided to help Harry learn from Lily Potter’s magical manuscripts and took Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco to ask Minister Fudge how to retrieve them. Anton discovered that the Fudge they met was actually Lucius Malfoy in disguise, leaving him unsure whether the Death Eaters’ scheme targeted him or Harry.

• Fiennes told Anton that Harry needed more training and suggested that studying Lily Potter’s manuscripts could help him develop his magic.
• Anton decided to seek the return of Lily’s manuscripts and brought Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco to meet Minister Fudge.
• The disguised Fudge told Anton that he would need to petition the Wizengamot, and claimed the Department of Mysteries could not reject its ruling.
• Anton used Legilimency on Fudge, realized he was Lucius Malfoy using Polyjuice Potion, and wondered who the Death Eaters intended to target.

Anton explained the history of magic and the conflict between wizards and other intelligent beings as the group rode toward the Department of Mysteries. By reading Lucius Malfoy’s thoughts, Anton discovered that Lucius was pursuing Goblin Pedro and a political plan involving Dudley Dursley, while seeking to raise his family’s status in the coming era.

• Fudge led Anton, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco toward the Auror Office while criticizing the Department of Mysteries.
• Anton described ancient magic, the rise of human wizards, the destruction of Magical Creatures’ civilizations, and the Goblins’ loss of power.
• Hermione argued that Goblins deserved equal treatment, while Draco insisted that rights had to be won; Fudge explained that past cooperation had ended in conflict.
• Anton used Legilimency to discover that the disguised Lucius had come for Goblin Pedro and was involved in plans centered on Dudley Dursley and Vernon Dursley.
• Anton realized Lucius was taking a dangerous risk to improve the Malfoy family’s prospects in an approaching international era.

Anton accompanied Fudge and the others to the Auror Office to begin petitioning for Lily Potter’s magical manuscripts, while Old Ronaldo joined them despite Lucius’s attempt to send him away. Harry filled out the forms needed to petition the Wizengamot, leaving the request ready to be sent.

• Scrimgeour rejected Old Ronaldo’s attempt to claim a role for the Department of Magical Transportation in the Top 100 Tournament, then left to meet the Muggle Prime Minister.
• Old Ronaldo joined Fudge’s group and led Anton, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger to the Auror Office’s clerical department.
• Witch Patricia recognized Minister Fudge and explained that the department was overwhelmed with paperwork following the incident in New York.
• Fudge brought Harry forward and asked Patricia to process his request to reclaim Lily Potter’s magical manuscripts from the Department of Mysteries.
• Patricia gave Harry old forms for a Wizengamot petition, and Harry filled them out with Fudge’s help.

Anton watched Lucius impersonate Fudge to help Harry recover his mother’s magical manuscripts, then followed him to the Minister’s Office and exposed his possession magic. By disguising himself as Voldemort and using the Imperius Curse, Anton made Lucius reveal how he had prepared the spell while the real Fudge pretended to sleep in terror.

• Anton and Old Ronaldo noticed Fudge acting strangely as he helped Harry submit his property recovery case to the Wizengamot.
• Old Ronaldo warned that Harry’s successful lawsuit could open the way for many similar claims, but Anton let Fudge stamp the paperwork and send it onward.
• Lucius left the Minister’s Office, emerged from Fudge’s body, and burned the Runespoor used in his possession magic.
• Anton revealed that he had witnessed Lucius’s transformation and asked him to explain Professor Voldemort’s magic.
• Anton transformed into Voldemort and placed Lucius under the Imperius Curse, prompting Lucius to describe his Polyjuice Potion preparations.
• Fudge secretly watched from the sofa and stayed motionless as Lucius divulged the details.

After Lucius left, Fudge learned Anton’s priorities and saw a chance to turn Lucius’s scheme into a political advantage. Fudge promised to handle the fallout, then began explaining the Order of Merlin’s influence within the Ministry.

• Fudge asked Anton what he wanted from the situation, and Anton said he wanted Harry Potter protected and hoped to help Goblin Pedro.
• Fudge turned Anton’s concerns into a plan to gather support from Dumbledore, pure-blood families, Ministry officials, and the Auror Office.
• Fudge burned his notes and promised Anton he would manage the scheme, while warning that Dumbledore, You-Know-Who, the Department of Mysteries, and the goblins could affect the Top 100 Tournament.
• Fudge dismissed Lucius’s explanation of the Department of Mysteries and began describing the Order of Merlin as a concept rather than a powerful organization.

Fudge explained how the Order of Merlin had been weakened and absorbed into modern magical institutions, then argued that the rise of Muggle Squibs and recent global changes gave him a chance to reshape wizarding government. He urged Anton to seize control of the Top 100 Tournament while Fudge managed the Ministry, and proposed sending Umbridge to Hogwarts as a disposable buffer.

• Fudge described the Order of Merlin's history and how its power and members were divided among the Ministry, the Department of Mysteries, and the Wizengamot.
• Fudge argued that Muggle Squibs and the Globalization agenda created an opportunity for him to become president of the International Confederation of Wizards, with Anton's support.
• Anton wondered why Fudge had not made his proposal to Dumbledore, and Fudge said Anton had created the opportunities behind the changes.
• Fudge warned Anton that many factions would pursue the Top 100 Tournament and told him to take charge of its details and fight for control.
• Fudge offered to send Umbridge to Hogwarts as a buffer and suggested Anton kill her if she outlived her usefulness; Anton jokingly asked whether Fudge feared he might do the same to him.

Anton visited the Animagus Office and decided to take Harry, Draco, and Hermione on as apprentices, imagining them developing into formidable combat wizards. He left with the students to return to school, eager to see what they would become.

• Anton reflected on the odd pattern in his relationships with his mentors and hesitated over taking Harry as an apprentice.
• At the Animagus Office, Anton saw how Neville, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Draco, and Goyle helped keep the Werewolf Animagus Training Center running.
• Harry complained about Anton’s absence and the paperwork, while Draco mocked him and Ron threatened Draco with his wand.
• Watching Harry and Draco argue, Anton decided to train Harry, Draco, and Hermione as apprentices in combat magic.
• Anton called to the students and led them back to school.

Anton began training Harry, Draco, and Hermione in Sectumsempra, tailoring his instruction to each student's strengths. His harsh lesson left the students struggling to master the spell while others watched from a distance.

• Anton considered Ron's gentle, sensitive nature and planned to cultivate his talents through Everyday Magic and practice with the Fear Spirit.
• Anton told Harry to focus on powerful magic, Draco to develop precise control, and Hermione to broaden her knowledge and combine spells effectively.
• Anton began teaching the three Sectumsempra's Counter-Curse, explaining that they had to learn it before studying the attack spell.
• Anton demonstrated a devastating version of Sectumsempra and angrily coached Harry, Draco, and Hermione as they practiced.
• George and Fred watched Anton's brutal teaching from the hillside, while Goyle and Crabbe decided to leave without interrupting.