Chapter Summaries

At the Top 100 Tournament, Hermione eliminated Goyle and Harry, Ron, and Hermione sent Draco off the platform, leaving the three friends as the last contestants. When Hermione and Harry prepared to fight for the single championship, Ron chose their friendship over victory and withdrew.

• Goyle's snowman knocked Vanessa Baldini off the platform, while Hermione's Confundus Charm made Goyle step off after he was distracted by a Flobberworm.
• Hermione recognized the contest was becoming a fight between their group and Draco, so she helped Harry and Ron surround and defeat him.
• Hermione and Harry insisted that the match had to continue because only one person could become champion, and each wanted the title for personal reasons.
• Ron said he valued Harry and Hermione more than winning, put away his Wand, dismissed his conjured magic, bowed to them, and left the arena.

As Harry and Hermione prepared to duel, Anton used the tournament’s peak audience attention to begin a ritual that would turn Muggles in Hogsmeade into wizards. He connected the ritual to a Siren and warned his friends to relax as he prepared to link their thoughts to hers.

• Harry and Hermione faced each other on the platform but hesitated to attack because they felt it conflicted with their friendship.
• Grindelwald and Dumbledore noticed Anton seemed unreal, and Tom Riddle explained that his Flying Charm had left him halfway through Apparition in Hogsmeade.
• Grindelwald used Prophecy to locate Anton and sensed that the Muggles becoming wizards were connected to his Ritual Magic.
• Anton explained that the tournament’s peak attention was supplying collective magic, then overlapped its dueling platform with the platform at Barrel Cottage.
• Anton used a Siren and a Dark Magic Creature as ingredients in a ritual to turn Muggles into wizards, and told his friends to relax as he prepared to connect their thoughts to the Siren’s.

Harry and Hermione fought for the championship as Hermione’s spells put Harry on the defensive. Harry unleashed a vastly amplified Repelling Charm that destroyed the platform and sent Hermione flying, leaving him standing as champion.

• Harry attacked Hermione with Full-Force Repulsion, but Hermione used Bone Shield and Water Mist to confuse him and weaken his spell.
• Hermione combined Little Sparks with the Blasting Curse, nearly knocking Harry off the platform before his summoned Stag steadied him.
• Harry calmed himself with a breathing technique Anton had taught him, then aimed Full-Force Repulsion at everything around him.
• Harry’s spell blasted away the Fireflies, the Bubble Snail, Hermione, and parts of the platform and arena, forcing Dumbledore to cushion and slow the debris.
• Lockhart declared Harry the champion while Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Riddle reacted to the power Anton had taught him.

Anton used the Top 100 Tournament’s collective emotions to begin a ritual that would turn Muggles into wizards and help his friends at Cabin grow in their spellcasting. The ritual drew in the Longbottoms and two Aurors as well, and its participants began journeys through their own minds whose outcomes depended on fate.

• Anton decided the tournament’s emotional release could power a ritual to turn Muggles into wizards and strengthen his friends’ magic.
• As the tournament champion emerged, Anton used the resulting surge of collective magic to affect the Siren and form a Dark Magic Creature in her mind.
• Anton allowed the Longbottoms, Scrimgeour, and Montgomery to join his friends at Cabin in the ritual.
• The Siren’s cry sent the Muggles unconscious and left the wizards dazed as they entered journeys through their memories and emotions.
• Anton explained that the ritual would awaken each participant’s magical ability and imprint one aspect of their mind, while intense memories could grant great talent that might fade if the person moved on.

As the Top 100 Tournament’s audience unknowingly fueled a vast Ritual Magic, Harry unleashed his grief and hatred in a powerful attack on Voldemort, tearing Lily’s Love Magic from him. Anton witnessed the ritual’s brilliance from the surface of the moon before being drawn back to Barrel Cottage.

• Harry’s uncontrolled grief created a tornado and let him feel the connection between his heart, magic, and Wand.
• Harry cast Full-Force Repulsion at Voldemort, but Lily’s image emerged from Voldemort and blocked the attack with her Love Magic.
• Harry used a second blast to rip Lily’s Love Magic from Voldemort through the wound Severus had made in his chest.
• Voldemort prepared to retaliate, but Dumbledore stepped between him and Harry and reminded him that Harry was only a child.
• Anton watched the Ritual Magic bloom into a Sea of Stars, stood on the moon, and was pulled back to Barrel Cottage.

After Anton’s appearance on the moon caused a stir among Muggles, he reunited with the Cabin’s friends at the Sanctuary Tower in New York. They planned to transform the moon, while Anton began studying how to make travel there easier.

• Muggles and their leaders struggled to respond as photographs of Anton standing on the moon spread widely, while the Ministries of Magic argued over what to do.
• Tom Riddle gave a speech urging wizards to embrace Muggles and reject the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, but his words went largely unheeded.
• Anton told his friends about the moon at the Sanctuary Tower, where Old Voldy had agreed to connect its fireplace to the Floo Network subject to inspection.
• The Cabin’s friends discussed their holiday plans, including George and Fred’s fantastic-beast farm and Anna’s decision to stay at the Sanctuary Tower.
• George and Fred proposed using Fire Mammoths to change the moon’s environment, while Hannah, Neville, and Anna suggested complementary roles for fantastic plants, beasts, and a moon-base city.
• Anton began studying the Space Transmuter and other transportation methods as the Cabin’s friends launched a project to transform the moon.

Anton and Anna joined Hannah and Neville to see the air-producing flowers Hannah had cultivated. Hannah hoped to test whether the plants could survive in lunar soil and eventually grow on the moon.

• Anton studied the Space Transposer and its dangerous limitations while spending the holiday researching magic with Anna.
• Hannah summoned Anton and Anna with a magical firework, and Anton flew them to her hillside using the Free Windbird.
• Hannah and Neville showed them pink flowers that filled drifting bubbles with breathable gas produced from nutrients in the soil.
• Hannah explained that the flowers were a cross between Twin Beans and trumpet flowers and named them Free Snot Bubbles.
• Hannah said she still needed lunar soil to test whether the plants could survive there and produce air suitable for humans.

Anton visited the Floo-Pow Company after his followers took control of its factory, considering whether Floo Powder could help humanity reach the moon and enable new magical experiments. The chapter left him examining the company’s operations and the unique ability of Floo Powder to transport only part of a person.

• Anton imagined using humanity’s accumulated connection to the moon for magical experiments, including transforming people into Wizards or opening a passage between the moon and Mars.
• A fire-faced follower told Anton that they had taken complete control of the Floo Powder factory, while Anna stayed behind to work on the Moon Palace.
• Anton traveled through the Floo Network to Diagon Alley, where Camilla Hurst led him to the Floo-Pow Company headquarters.
• Hurst showed Anton the company’s concealed underground facilities and explained the Ministry’s role in protecting the Floo Powder recipe and monitoring shipments.
• Anton saw the portrait of Ignatia Wildsmith and considered how Floo Powder might let someone communicate across vast distances or travel partly to the moon.

Anton studied the Floo Powder factory and realized its production depended on how Potions ingredients, Alchemy tools, and environmental conditions transformed the mixture. After days of observation, he told Hurst to gather the ingredients so he could try making a batch himself.

• Hurst explained that workers stored their memories of making Floo Powder in helmets, which they could use only inside the factory.
• Anton identified the factory’s specialized wands and Eris Stone vat and recognized how the tools shaped the ingredients’ properties.
• Anton spent several days observing the production process and studying how mixing, drying, sunlight, wind, and other conditions changed the mixture.
• After seeing Moonlight shine over the factory, Anton excitedly asked Hurst to gather the ingredients so he could make Floo Powder.

Anton theorized that Floo Powder's space-traveling flames could be treated as a spell and planned to experiment with moonlight to add mystery to them. In New York, Tom Riddle ordered Professor Harris to continue using Dementors on Muggle Squib children despite five deaths, while Greengrass's mission to learn about controlling an Obscurus was revealed.

• Anton reasoned that Floo Powder's ingredients and flames could be understood through Potion-and-Charm Integration and Ritual Magic.
• Anton proposed replacing sunlight with moonlight to transform the flames and began preparing an experiment with Hurst.
• Greengrass asked Harris whether they could go back, and Harris silently feared the consequences of their service to Voldemort.
• Tom Riddle asked Harris about the Muggle Squib children, and Harris reported that five had died without forming an Obscurus.
• Tom gave Harris a new list of children and ordered him to continue the experiments, dismissing Harris's concern about the method.
• Tom told Harris that Greengrass had used a Time-Turner to meet Credence Dumbledore and learn to control an Obscurus, then demanded that Harris produce results.

Barty Crouch Jr. recruited Witch Hunters as the Witchers for Voldemort, while Dumbledore’s group debated how to respond to the threat and possible Muggle support. Anton then revealed a moonlight doorway spell that reached into the Order’s Fidelius-protected headquarters, leaving Snape startled when Anton called to him too.

• Barty Crouch Jr. offered Witch Hunters gold, weapons, recruits, and the possibility of learning magic in exchange for serving Voldemort and staying out of the Americas.
• Barty named the Witch Hunters the Witchers and gave them legal cover as pirates and explorers.
• Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, Sirius, Lupin, and Kingsley discussed the Witchers, their possible alliances, and how to prevent them from hurting anyone.
• Dumbledore ordered the Ministries of Magic to investigate the Witch Hunters and rejected using their violence to unite the Wizarding community.
• Anton opened a doorway made of moonlight into the Order’s headquarters, and Lupin dismissed him without revealing their secret address.
• Snape accused Lupin of making Anton a Secret-Keeper, but Anton’s moonlight doorway appeared before Snape and called to him.

Anton tested his moonlight-powered Floo Powder by opening a stable passage to Dumbledore, but sensed Contract Magic and closed it before entering. At the Order of the Phoenix meeting, Dumbledore admitted his past secrecy had divided the group and urged them to wait for a way to defeat Tom Riddle before going to war.

• Anton created Moonlight Floo Powder, which formed a stable Transit Passage without a fireplace or the Floo Network.
• Anton opened a passage to Dumbledore, sensed Contract Magic at the doorway, and closed it without entering.
• Dumbledore told the Order that Anton did not want to get involved and that the Fidelius Charm still protected the house's address.
• Dumbledore apologized for withholding too much in the past, while Sirius broke down over his friends' deaths and Lupin comforted him.
• Dumbledore said the Order should avoid rushing into war with Tom Riddle until the Magical Research Institute found a way to deal with Horcruxes.
• Dumbledore admitted he could have stood up to Grindelwald much earlier but had not.

Dumbledore told the Order of the Phoenix that he had supported Grindelwald’s and Tom Riddle’s changes to the Wizarding World and asked the Order to restrain and guide Riddle before eventually stopping him. Meanwhile, Anton appeared in Riddle’s guarded office through a portal, showed off his magic, and began investigating the spatial properties of Floo Powder.

• Dumbledore admitted that he had proposed “For the Greater Good” with Grindelwald and believed their actions had improved the Wizarding World.
• Dumbledore asked the Order of the Phoenix to support his plan to guide Tom Riddle’s changes, prevent intolerable disasters, and defeat him when the time was right.
• Dumbledore invited the Order members to join Hogwarts’ Magical Research Institute and learn under his guidance.
• Anton appeared through a glowing portal in Riddle’s fortified office, leaving Riddle stunned by the unexplained teleportation magic.
• Anton concluded that Floo Powder could stably warp space and penetrate many magical defenses, then considered developing a better research tool and converting the alchemical knowledge into Charms.

Anton explored the crowded American Magical Congress and learned how its Reclaimers and staff processed Muggle Squibs, assessed their talents, and recruited them for training or work. As he considered Tom Riddle’s growing political power, talk of the dangerous Death Wizard Ritual stirred a sense of dread about whether Riddle had truly changed.

• Anton watched John Eddy and his friends react to their talent assessments, and John decided to sign up for the Death Wizard Ritual despite his friends’ warnings.
• Anton used Legilimency to learn that the Magical Congress had organized Reclaimers to find Muggle Squibs, assess them, and direct them into training or work.
• Anton admired the Congress’s efficiency and considered how Tom Riddle could build power by acting like a respectable Speaker and outlasting Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
• Anton heard repeated mentions of the Death Wizard Ritual and wondered whether the Traces of Time meant Tom Riddle might still be beyond saving.

Anton discovered that the Death Wizard Ritual was recruiting Squibs through a dangerous experiment, then learned from Dumbledore that it involved artificially breeding Obscurials. Dumbledore urged Anton to stay out of the research, but Anton refused to yield to Fate.

• Anton explored the ritual office, where Squib families weighed whether to sign consent forms and collect settlement money for their children.
• Anton learned through people's thoughts about the hit movie “Super Soldier Man” and suspected Tom might be using media to influence the public.
• Anton asked Dumbledore about the Death Wizard Ritual and learned it was intended to artificially breed Obscurials.
• Anton challenged Dumbledore's belief that extreme emotions could control Obscurus magic, explaining the danger of minds being eroded by it.
• Dumbledore admitted his past pride had led him to suppress other wizards' magical paths, and said Anton's independent ideas had changed his perspective.
• Dumbledore asked Anton to avoid Tom's Obscurial research, but Anton said he would never yield to Fate.

Dumbledore explained to Anton how Voldemort’s organizing skills and ambitious projects could transform the Wizarding World, then revealed his own effort to develop a magical item using an Obscurus. Anton recognized that Dumbledore was preparing to compete with Voldemort in an arms race, while he planned to leave for the Sea of Stars.

• Dumbledore told Anton that Voldemort could bring Squibs into the Wizarding World, help reshape the Statute of Secrecy, and drive major magical projects.
• Dumbledore admitted that he had established the Magical Research Institute because he could not let Voldemort outdo him.
• Dumbledore gave Anton a Ring that summoned Credence’s Obscurus, and Anton identified the figure as an Obscurus formed from Credence’s mind.
• Dumbledore explained that he was combining Anton’s half-stacked Bloodline idea with Alchemy and Transfiguration to make a magical item with less influence on the user’s mind.
• Anton decided not to join Dumbledore and Voldemort’s arms race and planned to travel to the Sea of Stars.

Anton learned that Anna Rosier had taken the Sanctuary Tower residents to Muggle biology lessons, then visited Snape and discovered he was brewing an ancient soul-purifying Potion intended to counter Voldemort. Snape warned Anton to keep its recipe secret and asked him to make a Horcrux for testing once the Potion was finished.

• Dobby told Anton that Anna Rosier had arranged biology lessons for the Sanctuary Tower residents with a biologist, and Anton laughed that they had ended up in cram school too.
• Anton went to Snape's office, where Jillian Nicklaus welcomed him and Snape worked on a silvery Potion made with Unicorn Blood.
• Snape explained that the ancient Soul Purification Draught could strip away anything that was not part of a soul, and that he had improved the recipe using Anton's Charms and Patronus methods.
• Snape warned that the Potion might destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes and asked Anton to make him a Horcrux so he could test the finished brew.
• Snape urged Anton to keep the recipe secret, explaining that they might be the last two people who knew it, and Anton agreed.

Anton decided to form the Navigators, an organization that would pursue the Sea of Stars and help lead a new era of magical exploration. He prepared invitations and gathered nearly thirty founding members at the Sanctuary Tower.

• Anton realized that other wizards were catching up with him and felt eager to face new challenges.
• Anton named his new organization the Navigators and declared that its goal was the brilliant Sea of Stars.
• Anton summoned Fat Ball and its grown offspring, then sent them out with confidential invitations to meet at the Sanctuary Tower in New York.
• Anton reflected that Harry, Hermione, and the others had learned the foundations of Wizards as Gods and were ready to pursue their own paths beyond his private lessons.
• Anton prepared a round table and named chairs for nearly thirty prospective members, including Lockhart, Rookwood, Audrey Lockwood, witches, wizards, Ministry officials, and Lucius Malfoy.

Anton welcomed the people he had invited to join the Navigators, while Draco arrived in distress after his parents split the Malfoy family. The chapter ended as Anton promised the new members a journey to the Sea of Stars, and Lockhart realized he might get to join Anton’s lunar adventures.

• Fudge told Anton he wanted a closer partnership, and Anton asked him to address him more casually.
• Lockhart learned that Fudge had mastered several powerful spells and hoped Anton could help him advance in magic.
• Old Ronaldo advised Montgomery to tell Scrimgeour about the meeting only in general terms, while Fudge said Anton had nothing to hide.
• Draco told Anton that Lucius had split the Malfoy family, leaving Draco as head of the European Malfoys, and Anton welcomed him to the meeting.
• Anton declared everyone at the round table members of the Navigators and promised to take them to see the Sea of Stars.
• Fudge and Lockhart realized Anton’s invitation might involve the Moon, and Lockhart celebrated that he had arrived in time to take part.

Anton explained that the Navigator was a school of thought centered on the Sea of Stars, not a combat organization, and warned its members about future opposition to his theory of Mind Origins. He left them with a lesson on the Geocentric Theory, and the meeting ended in a relaxed atmosphere as the wizards listened and Lockhart took notes.

• Anton told the gathering that his ideas about Magic were a perspective rather than absolute truth, and contrasted Mind Origins with the Pure-blood belief in Bloodline Origins.
• Anton described how the Navigator might face fierce opposition if his ambitions stalled or his plans for transforming Squibs and Muggles disappointed people, while promising to protect those who stayed with him.
• Anton said members could leave freely but warned that those who attended the next meeting would need to reject betrayal and divided loyalties.
• Fudge questioned why Anton regarded his theory as only a school of thought, so Anton explained how the rigorous Geocentric Theory had once seemed to fit observations before being disproven.
• The wizards relaxed over tea and listened to Anton's lesson, while Lockhart took notes and considered learning from Hannah Abbott.