Chapter Summaries

Lockhart watched the Cabin debate whether to widely introduce Muggle-to-Wizard Transformation and fold it into the Animagus Office. The discussion exposed differing views on timing, influence, and pure-blood families, but the group had not reached a decision by the chapter’s end.

• Lockhart returned to the Cabin hoping Anton would write an article, but found its members holding an important meeting.
• Hermione argued against a broad rollout for now, while Draco proposed introducing it in stages to gain supporters and expand the Cabin’s influence.
• Harry accused Draco of opposing Hermione just to cause trouble, and their argument drew in the other members.
• Neville explained that pure-blood families’ control of resources mattered more than bloodline ideology, and Hannah clarified how the Cabin had discussed breaking those restrictions.
• Goyle defended the potential contributions of pure-blood families, and Ron confirmed that a Goyle ancestor had earned an Order of Merlin for helping Muggles.
• Anton watched the debate without offering a position, leaving the question of how to introduce the transformation unresolved.

Professor Fiennes kept Snape’s body alive with a young Acromantula and believed conversation could call his soul back. Anton received and began reading Snape’s book on the Patronus Charm, hoping Snape would wake and learn to value himself.

• Fiennes explained to Anton that the Acromantula had taken control of Snape’s body and instructed Gillian Nicholas to talk to Snape while he prepared nourishing potion.
• Fiennes complained that Anton’s Night School textbooks had pushed Hogwarts professors to write textbooks of their own.
• Fiennes gave Anton Snape’s book, Defense Against the Dark Arts: The Patronus Charm, dedicated to his dear apprentice, Anthony Weasley.
• Anton read Snape’s ideas on love and the Patronus Charm, then hoped Snape would return to life by finding greater self-love.

Dumbledore took Anton to find Horace Slughorn, whose connections and expertise might help Anton and who could use protection from Tom Riddle. On the way, Anton demonstrated a new approach to Gray Magic based on Muggle science, leaving Dumbledore excited by the possibilities ahead.

• Dumbledore explained that Horace Slughorn was hiding from Tom Riddle's people and might agree to work for Anton in exchange for protection.
• Dumbledore and Anton found Slughorn's house protected by a sophisticated anti-intrusion spell.
• Anton used mist and the refraction of light to reveal a room inside the protected house, surprising Dumbledore with unfamiliar magic.
• Anton explained that he was combining Gray Magic with Muggles' collective belief in scientific principles to create new magical possibilities.
• Dumbledore recognized the potential of Anton's idea and felt his old wonder at magic return.

Anton and Dumbledore found Horace Slughorn hiding in a Muggle house and persuaded him to consider joining them. Anton offered Slughorn a role in making ritual magic that could turn Muggles into wizards more widely available.

• Slughorn staged the wreckage of a fierce battle, transformed himself into an armchair, and pretended his hiding place had been attacked.
• Dumbledore and Anton entered the house, and Dumbledore exposed Slughorn by jabbing the armchair with his wand.
• Slughorn complained that Anton had ignored his invitations, while Anton explained that he focused on magic and had come to meet him in person.
• Anton restored the contaminated fire dragon blood and offered Slughorn protection and a chance to explore a greater magical world.
• Anton asked Slughorn to help make ritual magic capable of turning Muggles into wizards more widespread, and Slughorn asked what he would have him do.

Slughorn warned Anton to distance himself from Pedro, but Anton reaffirmed that Pedro was family and explained how his magical research could help goblins and humans share magical abilities. The discussion ended with Anton planning to reveal an Antlered Great White Bear Animagus at the Top 100 Tournament, while an excited Slughorn prepared to return to Hogwarts.

• Slughorn told Anton that Dirk Cresswell had shared information about Pedro's dealings with Gringotts, the Department of Mysteries, the International Order of Merlin, and the Death Eaters, and urged Anton to keep away from Pedro.
• Anton calmly declared that Pedro was his family and compared that bond to his continuing regard for Voldemort as his professor, shocking Slughorn.
• Anton explained his theory that magical power connected humans and other magical creatures, and that improved Animagus transformations could let goblins become human and humans take on goblin abilities.
• Anton said he had planned to develop a Goblin Human Animagus for Pedro, but Uncle Lupin and Uncle Rosier had warned Pedro not to involve him in goblin affairs.
• Anton revealed that he planned to introduce an Antlered Great White Bear Animagus as the prize for the Top 100 Tournament's third-task champion, and Slughorn hurriedly prepared to go to Hogwarts.

Anton returned to Hogwarts and considered how magical education and politics were changing. He realized Lucius Malfoy had positioned his family between Anton and the Death Eaters’ expanding influence in America, leaving Anton to decide how to respond.

• Dumbledore showed Horace Slughorn around Hogwarts so he could prepare to teach First Years and Fifth Years the next day.
• Anton watched Harry and Dudley work together during a Quidditch match, then continued toward Cabin after seeing Moody with Hagrid.
• Anton reflected on how unchecked Auror power had shaped American Wizarding politics and how the Graves family dominated the Magical Congress.
• Anton learned that Lucius Malfoy had become a leader in the Magical Congress and might seek its speakership as Death Eaters gained influence in America.
• Anton connected Draco’s message about the Malfoys defending Sanctuary Tower with Lucius’s political maneuvering and concluded that Lucius was hedging his loyalties.

Anton handled Cabin’s training and magical research before revealing the Hair Ionic Straightening Charm, which excited Hermione, Anna, and Hannah. He agreed to teach them the spell, leaving his paper for Professor Lockhart unfinished.

• Anton watched Draco and Crabbe duel, reflecting on Crabbe’s Fiendfyre affinity and directing him to master control and defensive magic before pursuing more destructive spells.
• A Cockatrice-like Whole-Village Pepper-Scented Chicken charged Anton, who stopped it with Levitation Charms before George and Fred revealed their prank and discussed its potion ingredients.
• Anton worked on a Wizard Tournament Gazette paper explaining Wizard Bloodlines as part of his Gray Magic research.
• Anna, Hannah, and Hermione noticed Anton’s Hair Ionic Straightening Charm and eagerly asked to learn it.
• Anton agreed to teach the three girls the simple spell despite having an unfinished paper for Professor Lockhart.

Anton taught Hermione and the others an everyday hair-styling spell, explaining that its results depended on memory and emotion after Hermione’s first attempt left her hair wildly spiked. He then connected the spread of everyday magic to the growing integration of Muggles and wizards, a change he intended to address through magic.

• Anton gathered Hermione, Hannah, Anna, Fred, George, and the others to teach them Ionic Hair Straightening.
• Hermione cast the spell before Anton finished explaining and ended up with hair sticking out like a hedgehog’s spines.
• Anton explained that the spell depended on memory, a clear hairstyle reference, and emotion, including collective approval of famous people’s appearances.
• Anna comforted Hermione while glaring at the boys who laughed, and Hermione checked her hair with a Water Mist Mirror.
• Anton reflected that everyday magic could spread widely as Muggles and wizards increasingly influenced one another.

Anton’s Hair Ionic Straightening Charm became a sensation, while Hannah warned that Wizarding World was straining under its growing popularity. After she explained her vision of using it as a magical information network, Anton proposed recruiting Muggle programmers, transforming them into wizards, and training them as the Cabin Knights.

• The Hair Ionic Straightening Charm spread through Hogwarts and the wider Wizarding World, and Hannah’s recorded lesson sold more than sixty thousand copies in a week.
• Anton joined the Cabin’s late-night meeting, where Hannah worried that Wizarding World was becoming unstable and the others urged her to reduce her workload.
• Hannah explained that Muggle computers and the internet inspired her to develop Wizarding World into a network for storing and finding knowledge.
• Anton proposed recruiting suitable Muggle programmers, transforming them into wizards, and training them at Azkaban Academy as the Cabin Knights.
• Hannah excitedly approved Anton’s plan, and the Cabin members laughed together.

As Hogwarts prepared for the third task of the Top 100 Tournament, Anton was summoned to Dumbledore’s office, where Dumbledore gathered powerful wizards and Goblin Pedro to discuss developing a human “Goblin Animagus.” Pedro agreed to help in exchange for Dumbledore’s promise to free goblin factory workers, but the gathering left him surrounded by people with a history of conflict with him.

• Hogwarts’s unusual climate and thriving Forbidden Forest continued to draw attention as Grindelwald arrived with Durmstrang’s competing students a week before the third task.
• Slughorn settled into teaching Potions and temporarily leading Slytherin while Anton was called to Dumbledore’s office.
• Dumbledore explained Anton’s theory of grafting science onto magic to Grindelwald and Nicolas Flamel before Lupin arrived with Pedro.
• Dumbledore asked Pedro to help develop a human Goblin Animagus and promised to free goblin employees in the factories.
• Pedro chose a seat beside Anton, mindful of his past conflicts with Dumbledore, Flamel, Grindelwald, and Flitwick, while Lupin joined him and Fiennes.

Anton and the others used an improved Wizard’s Eye Potion to study magical life, prompting Dumbledore to argue that they should research only the human Goblin Animagus. Anton challenged Dumbledore’s stance and defended Pedro, but Pedro persuaded him to accept the limited research plan, leaving Anton and Dumbledore still at odds.

• Anton drank the improved Wizard’s Eye Potion and saw the magical lines and bloodlines in people and objects.
• Dumbledore concluded that magical power connected humans, goblins, portraits, and potion ingredients, then insisted they study only the human Goblin Animagus.
• Anton refused to abandon his promise to Pedro, threatened to turn humanity into goblins through Ritual Magic, and accused Dumbledore of rejecting the principles he had taught him.
• Pedro asked Anton to accept Dumbledore’s proposal, and Fiennes urged everyone to begin before the Potion’s effects wore off.
• Anton agreed to study only the human Goblin Animagus for now, but said he would begin researching the goblin Human Animagus after Dumbledore died.

The chapter described the many projects growing under Anton’s influence, then turned to the start of the Top 100 Tournament’s third task, “Hogwarts in the Sky.” Goyle discovered that Ron had invited his Muggle crush, Mia Hirsch, to watch, and he and his friends vowed to win the tournament.

• Anton’s influence drove collaborative projects in wizarding and Muggle society, while he and other prominent figures researched the Human Goblin Animagus and Anton continued teaching Everyday Magic.
• Lockhart opened the third task of the Top 100 Tournament as cheering spectators welcomed the champions and waved fan flags.
• Goyle spotted Mia Hirsch among the spectators and learned that Ron had helped arrange her invitation after Dudley mentioned Goyle’s feelings.
• Goyle resolved to win the tournament, and Draco, Crabbe, and Dudley declared that they would win too.

The third task of the Top 100 Tournament began, requiring champions to travel from Azkaban Island to Hogwarts Castle atop a mountain in the sky. Several contestants took flight using transformations or magic, while Rolf Scamander struggled to calm the Thestrals he hoped to ride.

• Lockhart explained that the champions could use the island’s resources and declared the third task begun.
• A Durmstrang student transformed his back into white wings and flew toward Hogwarts.
• Megan used Thestral Wing Transfiguration to fly past the Durmstrang student, drawing cheers from the Witch Tribe.
• Hermione Granger transformed a tree into a fire dragon with the Guardian Knight Charm, climbed onto it, and took off.
• Rolf Scamander found Thestrals in a forest but failed to calm the agitated beasts.

As the Champions searched Azkaban Island for a way to reach Hogwarts in the sky, Ron Weasley chose to try repairing and flying a crashed helicopter. His decision drew the world’s attention, while Arthur Weasley struggled to believe his son could succeed.

• Spectators discussed a crashed helicopter on Azkaban Island and debated the repairs and piloting skills it would take to use it.
• Rolf Scamander found a Crab-Shelled Hairy Monkey and led it toward the shore, prompting spectators to guess that he planned to swim to Knight Mountain and climb it.
• Ron Weasley stopped at the helicopter and decided to try it, while Arthur doubted he could fly it.
• Lockhart interviewed Ron for the Magic Mirrors and announced his plan to audiences around the world.
• Jim Hack encouraged Arthur to see the attention as an opportunity, and Arthur began wondering whether he had underestimated his sons.

Ron used his knowledge of Fantastic Botany to persuade a Great Tree to lower a wrecked Helicopter, then repaired and animated it with magic. He flew off toward Hogwarts in the Sky as Arthur proudly watched.

• Ron approached the Great Tree and communicated with it, prompting it to set the Helicopter on the ground.
• Ron used a Mending Charm to repair the Helicopter while Arthur and the spectators watched in amazement.
• Ron told Lockhart he had learned the Object-Animating Charm from Anton's book and cast Spirituality Awakening on the Helicopter.
• The Helicopter came to life, started itself, and invited Ron aboard.
• Ron boarded the Helicopter and flew toward Hogwarts in the Sky, while Arthur celebrated that Ron was his son.

At the challenge to reach Hogwarts in the sky, the contestants tried a variety of magical methods, and Ron’s animated helicopter crashed after Hogwarts’s magic interfered with it. Dumbledore admitted that the competition was also helping him gather information to improve Hogwarts’s defenses, leaving Grindelwald and Anton to recognize they had all been used.

• Scrimgeour and Professor McGonagall tried to save Ron when the magically interfered helicopter collided with the Whomping Willow, and enchanted grass caught it before Ron was hurt.
• Scrimgeour praised Ron’s Object-Animating Charm and left after Professor McGonagall warned Ron to plan for mistakes when using unfamiliar magic.
• Contestants attempted to reach Hogwarts using crude Flying Carpets, Harry’s improvised Flying Broomstick, Goyle’s inflated Ashwinder, and other inventive methods.
• Draco searched for a tree to copy Harry’s broomstick idea without using an apple tree, while Crabbe wandered in confusion and an Egyptian student sought materials for a hang glider after being repelled by Hogwarts’s defenses.
• Grindelwald realized the contestants were effectively testing ways through Hogwarts’s Protective Magic, and Dumbledore explained that he wanted the information to improve the school’s defenses.
• Anton agreed with Grindelwald that Dumbledore had used them all.

As the contest’s difficult trial ended, Grindelwald reflected on the changes he had helped bring to the Wizarding World and the possibilities ahead. Anton revealed that he could turn people into Antlered Great White Bears with a simple Wand tap, while Dudley impressed everyone by brewing a potion to grow beanstalks and climbing them into the clouds.

• Grindelwald and Anton discussed the few contestants who had passed the trial, including Goyle, whose persistent spellcasting had inflated an Ashwinder without making it explode.
• Grindelwald reflected on how his past actions and later reforms had opened opportunities for Half-blood and Muggle-born wizards, and how he had secretly placed Saints among Voldemort’s Death Eaters.
• Grindelwald asked Anton when he had used Ritual Magic to make contestants Antlered Great White Bear Animagi, and Anton explained that a Wand tap could impose the transformation through magic modeled on Werewolf infection.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald struggled to understand Anton’s explanation, and Dumbledore pointed out Dudley’s surprising feat in the distance.
• Anton recognized that Dudley had brewed an out-of-control Maturation and Enlargement Potion to grow enormous beanstalks, then watched Dudley begin climbing them.

As the Top 100 Tournament’s third challenge ended, Anton’s hidden Ritual Magic continued taking effect while he hoped to use it to bring someone back from the River of Time. The competition selected ninety-eight finishers, and Lockhart announced the ranking rounds and the winners’ Antlered Great White Bear Animagus forms.

• Anton considered using Gray Magic to separate Barty Crouch Jr. from Sirius and imprint traces of Harry onto Voldemort, whose Ritual Magic had trapped him in a balance connected to many people.
• Anton’s unseen spellcasting gathered strength as the competition and its audience’s collective thoughts built pressure on the contestants.
• Ginny cried as Percy tried to comfort her, and several Young Wizards gave up after one contestant broke down and quit.
• The competition ended with ninety-eight finishers, and Lockhart announced that the Top 100 Tournament’s ranking rounds would take place in a month.
• Lockhart told the audience that the contestants would receive Antlered Great White Bear Animagus forms through Anthony Weasley’s Ritual Magic and prepared to welcome the Champions.

Anton’s ritual transformed the young Wizards onstage into their Animagus forms, while Snape said goodbye to Lily in the River of Time and awakened in Hogwarts beside Gillian. Snape chose to return to the people and life waiting for him.

• Anton’s ritual caused the young Wizards onstage to transform, and Harry Potter became a Great White Bear with Purple Antlers.
• Grindelwald saw that Voldemort’s Fate had drastically changed after Harry’s transformation.
• In the River of Time, Snape told Lily that he was grateful they had met and said goodbye before choosing to move forward.
• Snape awakened in the Potions professor’s bedroom, where Gillian cried with relief at seeing him awake.
• Snape comforted Gillian and said that everything he could not bear to leave behind was there.

Anton used his magical insight to reshape Voldemort’s ritual, while Zhen led Jessi and Ado into the abandoned quarry to investigate the Church of Insects. The party found church members gathered around a campfire, and Zhen’s confrontation with them turned into a battle.

• Anton recognized that Voldemort’s ritual relied on magical methods Anton had developed and began altering it with his wand.
• Zhen encouraged Jessi to pursue archery with special ammunition and promised to help her find a suitable companion after the mission.
• Ado joined Zhen and Jessi on the journey to the frontier, where Zhen explained that they were searching for the Church of Insects near the quarry.
• Zhen entered the abandoned quarry with the party and triggered a special mission to recover dwarven Obsidian Treasure Chests.
• Zhen led the group through a tunnel to a camp where suspected Church of Insects members were meeting.
• Zhen refused to leave when the church members challenged him, attacked with a vine, and began fighting as his Tyrant Tree Monster blocked their escape.