Chapter Summaries

Muggles and wizards watched Anton’s Moon Station withstand a solar storm, though Anton realized the Moon had not undergone the magical transformation he hoped for. He planned to turn the Moon into Cabin’s territory and make Moon Station a source of income.

• Muggle scientists watched the Moon footage and struggled to reconcile its magical sights with their scientific observations.
• A bespectacled scientist revealed he had a Magical Bloodline and planned to join the Magical Congress as a Squib to help build a flying platform.
• Anton concluded that Moon Station had copied parts of Earth’s environment without causing a Moon-wide Magical Outburst, leaving people unable to walk beyond the station safely.
• A solar storm drove Anton and the others back inside Moon Station, while the Free Snot Bubbles survived and developed thicker, more elastic skins.
• Anton and Anna discussed moving Sanctuary Tower to the Moon, claiming it for Cabin, and charging admission to Moon Station.

After the lunar landing, Hannah proposed charging for access to the space transit channel and forming a company with wizard, Muggle, and Goblin partners. Anton left the venture to her and focused on documenting his Gray Magic research as Moon Station drew crowds.

• Hannah objected to charging visitors to the Moon, then suggested charging for use of Anton's space transit channel instead.
• Hannah proposed creating a Space Transit Channel Development Company with wizards, Muggles, and Goblins, and offered to fund Cabin and the Navigators.
• Anton observed how the lunar journey affected Cabin members and the Navigators, including Minister Cornelius Fudge and Gilderoy Lockhart.
• Anton declined interviews and organized his magical manuscripts, hoping future wizards would build on his work.
• Moon Station remained busy as more people made their way to the Moon.

After Fiendfyre destroyed the Magical Congress Headquarters, Tom Riddle tried to contain the political fallout as Linali Calhoun’s divination accused Vincent Crabbe of starting the fire. He ordered a rigorous investigation and had Crabbe Sr. detained, leaving the Crabbe family’s fate uncertain.

• Tom Riddle lamented that the Moon Landing had distracted the wizarding public from the Magical Congress’s destruction and thwarted his plans to blame Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix.
• Bella told Tom that Linali Calhoun had used divination to identify Vincent Crabbe as the caster of the Fiendfyre that killed her husband.
• Tom confronted Crabbe Sr., who denied that his son had started the fire and begged to take his place if Vincent were found guilty.
• Tom ordered the Aurors and the Department of Mysteries to investigate, promising punishment for Linali if her accusation proved false and consequences for Vincent if it proved true.
• Tom told Bella to place Crabbe Sr. in a cell, and she affirmed that the investigation had to serve his goal of uniting everyone.

After a botched treatment worsened Goyle’s injuries, Dumbledore and McGonagall stopped the loss of his life force but could not heal him, revealing that Love Magic had harmed him. Draco waited anxiously to see his friend, while Dumbledore wondered how Goyle had used Fate Magic powerfully enough to astonish Gellert.

• Sirius brought Goyle to St Mungo’s, where Healer Ms. Aretha Pez’s treatment caused his damaged eyes to explode and drain his life force.
• Draco arrived at the hospital and waited with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, thinking about his broken relationship with Pansy and his hopes for his friends and family.
• Professor McGonagall told Sirius that Goyle could not be healed, though the drain on his life force had stopped.
• Professor McGonagall identified the injury as Love Magic, and Dumbledore compared its power with the magic involved in making a Horcrux.
• Dumbledore let Draco visit Goyle and wondered what Goyle had done to fate to astonish Gellert.

Goyle explained that he used Love Magic in the Hall of Prophecy to save his parents, sacrificing his eyesight and vitality in the process. Meanwhile, Lucius confronted Old Goyle about the family's betrayal and warned that evidence could expose them to Riddle.

• Goyle told Dumbledore that he had entered the River of Fate and made his parents disappear from the scene by wishing they would be spared.
• Dumbledore told Goyle that he had paid the price for his parents' survival, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione reacted to his story.
• Lucius confronted Old Goyle about his recent argument with Crabbe Sr. and his break from the family's pact with the Malfoys.
• Lucius revealed that his man had used the Trace Charm and identified Young Crabbe and Young Goyle at the Magical Congress during the Order of the Phoenix infiltration.
• Lucius warned Old Goyle that Riddle might target the Goyle family if the Trace Charm evidence became public.

Old Goyle accepted Lucius’s order to free the Crabbes and flee to Anton, while the Order of the Phoenix discussed a Prophecy that might refer to Anton or Lockhart. At the hospital, Anton offered a simple magical remedy for Goyle’s blindness, and Goyle agreed to try it.

• Lucius ordered Old Goyle to break the Crabbe family out of the Magical Congress’s prison and take them to Anton, warning him he could not return.
• At the Order of the Phoenix’s new headquarters, Dumbledore and the others considered the Prophecy and whether it referred to Lockhart or Anton.
• Kingsley said Anton had learned powerful skills from his teachers, while Lupin privately considered Anton a more likely poet than Lockhart.
• Anton learned that Goyle could not safely receive a Magic Eyeball because it might explode near his Brain.
• Anton explained that Mandrake leaves mixed with saliva and dirt could let Goyle hear the shape of the world, and Goyle agreed to try the remedy.

Old Goyle used the Goyle family’s Fairy Tale Magic to rescue Crabbe Sr. and his family from a Magical Congress prison. The group emerged in London near St Mungo’s, where Old Goyle said his son was nearby.

• Goyle’s mother packed their belongings as Old Goyle stayed calm and reminded her not to speak of their plan to leave Voldemort.
• Old Goyle used the Goyle family Magic, “Goyle in Fairy Tales,” to enter a children’s picture book and travel toward the prison.
• An Owl carried the picture book into the prison, where the guards inspected it and allowed it to continue inside.
• The picture book reached a London alley, and Crabbe Sr., his wife, and child emerged with Old Goyle.
• Crabbe Sr. recognized St Mungo’s nearby, and Old Goyle said he had directed the Magic to find his son.

Grindelwald explained how the Goyle family’s history and the struggle over wizarding identity shaped the shifting loyalties of pure-blood families, including Lucius Malfoy’s break with Draco. As the chapter ended, Dumbledore reconsidered confronting the dangers of pure-blood lineages, while the gathered wizards recognized that their struggle against fate had to continue.

• Grindelwald traced the Order of Merlin’s divisions, the rise of the Ministry, and the changing strategies of Malfoy, Grindelwald, Dumbledore, and Voldemort.
• Grindelwald described how intermarriage among pure-blood families had produced severe problems in families such as the Dumbledores, Gaunts, Goyles, and Crabbes.
• Grindelwald explained that many pure-blood families had begun to abandon Voldemort and secretly hoped Anthony Weasley could free wizards from the limits of bloodline.
• Grindelwald connected the shifting wizarding factions to Lucius Malfoy’s falling-out with Draco and his decision to place Draco and the family’s subordinate houses under Anthony’s care.
• Dumbledore reconsidered the Obscuruses held in his ring and began to face the problem of pure-blood lineages, as the gathered wizards reflected on the need to keep struggling against fate.

Anton discovered that Snape had donated the Malfoy family’s hidden collection of magical books to Dumbledore’s Magical Research Institute in exchange for protecting the Malfoys from punishment for their allegiance to Voldemort. Snape taught Anton a spell that preserved magical memories as three-dimensional scenes, and Anton planned to search the collection for a way to replace Goyle’s missing eye and use magical printing to speed up copying the books.

• Anton found a practical book about Moonlight Grass and learned from Snape that it had come from the Malfoy family’s collection.
• Snape revealed that Lucius had given him the key to the Malfoys’ hidden book room, hoping Snape and Anton would protect Draco, and that Snape had donated the collection to Dumbledore.
• Snape explained that the books were being transcribed for the Magical Research Institute and Anton, then showed Anton his spell for preserving magical memories as three-dimensional scenes.
• Snape taught Anton the memory-preserving spell, which Anton quickly understood through the magical theories in Wizards as Gods.
• Anton decided to look through the Malfoy books for a spell to replace Goyle’s eye and teach his Levitation Charm Printing Technique to helpers so they could copy the collection faster.

Draco witnessed Goyle’s wish bring his family to the hospital, while Anton searched the Malfoy cellar for eye magic and found a promising book through a strange stroke of Fate. The chapter ended with Anton and Anna wondering whether the chance discovery was guided by magic.

• Draco teased Goyle about his Prophecy magic, and Goyle wished for his parents to visit.
• Old Goyle, his wife, the Crabbes, and Young Crabbe Apparated into the hospital room.
• Anton and his friends entered the Malfoy family’s vast hidden library beneath the haunted house in Derrick Valley.
• Anton and Anna searched the library for eye magic that could help Goyle and support Anton’s research.
• Anton followed a faint trace of Goyle’s influence on Fate, randomly pulled a book titled “Trust your eyes, you idiot,” and surprised Anna.

Anton and Anna read Malcolm McGonagall’s book about magical eyes and uncover the dangerous soul-splitting theory behind its True Eye. They then examine seven replacement eyes, and Anton realizes the Petal-Reflecting Mirror could link attacks on it directly to its wearer.

• Anton learned from Anna that Malcolm McGonagall was Professor McGonagall’s older younger brother and had joined the Saints.
• Anton read Malcolm’s theory that turning an eyeball into a True Eye split the owner’s soul and separated part of their fate.
• Anton warned Anna that losing a True Eye would leave its owner’s soul incomplete and bring dangerous consequences.
• Anton explained that Goyle’s missing eyes had not split his soul, because powerful magic was suppressing how his body expressed itself.
• Anton and Anna reviewed the seven magical eyes, including the Petal-Reflecting Mirror, which could provide vision from anywhere.
• Anton realized that the Petal-Reflecting Mirror could act as a window into its wearer’s mind, letting attacks on the mirror harm or kill the wearer.

Anton and Anna searched Mr. McGonagall’s book for a magical eye suited to Goyle and discovered the Palette of the Mind, an invention designed to reveal the life force behind a person’s actions. Anton recognized it as the Ego he had been trying to study, but its construction was so complicated that he asked Anna to help him.

• Anna found the Diviner’s Crystal Eyeballs, and Anton decided they were a safe, suitable magical item for Goyle.
• Anton concluded that Anna would need to make the crystal lenses because magical items were outside his area of expertise.
• Anna and Anton discovered Mr. McGonagall’s description of the Palette of the Mind, which could reveal the life force behind real actions rather than ordinary thoughts.
• Anton recognized the Palette’s subject as the Ego he had overlooked in his magical theories.
• Anton asked Anna to help him build the Palette, and she told him to say something nice.

Pedro used St. Riddle to build a Goblin sweets business and saw Vernon become a strict magic tutor to Harry. Harry resisted practicing the Mending Charm and missed Hogwarts and Sirius.

• Pedro gained St. Riddle from Dumbledore and set out to help Goblins integrate into wizarding society through a magical sweets business.
• Pedro relied on Rosier and Lupin for help and joked that a strange curse of fate connected their line and those close to them.
• Vernon, who considered himself Anton’s student, became head of a Goblin-run factory and made Harry practice magic at the Dursleys’ office.
• Vernon ordered Harry to repair broken ceramic with Reparo while Dudley practiced Potions.
• Dudley offered Harry Professor Snape’s notes, but Harry refused and reluctantly tried the Mending Charm, then thought about how much he missed Hogwarts and Sirius.

Chairman Riddle blamed European wizards and Phoenix infiltrators for the destruction of the American Magical Congress headquarters, then announced a sweeping reorganization and the creation of a large wizarding army. At Grimmauld Place, the Order of the Phoenix argued over the threat, and Dumbledore decided to seek a worldwide response through the International Confederation of Wizards.

• Chairman Riddle addressed the crowd at the ruined headquarters, blamed European wizards and infiltrators for the attack, and urged people to fight for their home.
• Riddle announced seven departments of magic, an Auror Office expanded to three thousand members, and a thirty-thousand-strong Homeland Guard.
• Riddle abolished restrictions on combat magic and promised those joining the Aurors or Homeland Guard the right to use it.
• At Grimmauld Place, Sirius, Lupin, Kingsley, and Arthur debated the threat posed by Riddle's army, while Dumbledore watched the report in a magic mirror.
• Dumbledore proposed that Magical Congresses around the world respond and that the International Confederation of Wizards convene a meeting.

Anton urged the Navigators to keep pursuing their lunar plans despite Voldemort’s preparations for war. As the school year began, he proposed expanding the Earth-Moon Transit Tunnel into an independent network of spatial tunnels across Earth.

• Anton reminded Fudge and the Navigators that their goal was the Sea of Stars, and he set out plans to move Sanctuary Tower to Moon Station and develop the moon.
• The group divided its work among the Transit Tunnel, fire dragon acquisition, Goyle’s glasses, the Palette of the Mind, copying magical books, and building a lunar Wizarding World.
• By the end of August, Anton and his friends prepared to teach at Azkaban Academy while the Navigators continued training there and worked to build magical strength.
• Hannah and Neville told Cabin that people feared developing the Earth-Moon Transit Tunnel near Voldemort, and Anton proposed connecting it to other locations through new spatial tunnels.
• Anton suggested using his Azkaban Academy lesson on Will to build an Earth-wide spatial transit network, which he jokingly named the Cheese Tunnel Network.

Hannah argued that their expanding organization needed a clearer structure, while Anton considered separating Azkaban Academy from Hogwarts and preparing for life beyond school. As they arrived at Hogwarts, Neville’s bedtime story prompted the group to speculate about the magical space around the school.

• Hannah described how their academy, factories, newspaper, Navigators, and transportation network had grown into something like a Magical Congress, and said their current operations were disorganized.
• Hannah listed misplaced responsibilities, including the twins buying dragons and Fudge managing too many tasks, while Anton admitted that organizational structures were not his strength.
• Anton suggested that this might be their last year at Hogwarts and that they could graduate alongside George and Fred after their examinations.
• Hagrid met the students at the station, and they reached the Black Lake by passing through a copse beside the Forbidden Forest.
• Neville told the group the story of “Mitchell’s Wonderful Holiday,” and Anton suggested it might explain the spatial magic around Hogwarts.
• George and Fred revealed that they had once told Ron the story as a ghost story to frighten him away from the back garden.

At Hogwarts’ opening feast, Dumbledore stepped down as Headmaster and named Minerva McGonagall his successor, prompting Anton to consider the future of Azkaban Academy. Later, Cabin agreed to separate magical research from profit-driven operations and chose a new name for their organization.

• Dumbledore announced his retirement as Headmaster and introduced Minerva McGonagall as Hogwarts’ new Headmistress.
• Anton considered whether Azkaban Academy should separate from Hogwarts under McGonagall’s leadership.
• Anton told Cabin that its purpose was to advance and share magic, not pursue power or profit, and George and Fred agreed.
• Cabin agreed that Ron and Goyle could join, while profit-making operations would belong to the Navigators and magical institutions would remain with Cabin.
• Anna suggested the name “The Forerunners,” and the group enthusiastically adopted it.

Anton and the Cabin’s allies expanded Azkaban Academy, reorganized the Forerunners, and prepared a network of magical passages while Voldemort pursued dangerous experiments. After a half-month of quiet change, a massive nuclear power plant explosion and a clash involving Muggle troops, a witch-hunting organization, and the Ministry of Magic shook the world.

• Neville worked to expand the Animagus Office worldwide and continued research into the Twisting Cage spell and werewolf transformations.
• Professor McGonagall offered Azkaban Academy freedom and support if it remained Hogwarts’ fifth great house, and Anton accepted.
• Dumbledore’s intelligence revealed that Voldemort was trying to create an army of Obscurial-blood wizards modeled on Credence.
• Anton began building a secret Earth’s Cheese Tunnel Network by linking the Cabin’s important locations with Transit Passages.
• A massive nuclear power plant explosion and a clash between Muggle troops, a witch-hunting organization, and the Ministry of Magic made headlines around the world.

Anton learned that a battle between the Ministry and Witch Hunters had ended in a catastrophic explosion at a central European nuclear power plant. Snape identified Barty Crouch Jr. as the Witch Hunters’ leader and began preparing to confront him, expecting Voldemort to intervene.

• At breakfast, Draco showed Anton a Daily Prophet report describing a nuclear power plant explosion caused during a battle between Aurors and Witch Hunters.
• Anton suspected the explosion might have been deliberate and wondered which wizarding or Muggle faction was behind it.
• Snape told Anton and Old Wizard Fiennes that Barty Crouch Jr. had brought Witch Hunters from the Americas and allied with Muggle factions.
• Fiennes described the Witch Hunters’ families, while Anton argued that their elderly members and children were also part of the inherited organization.
• Snape declared that the Witch Hunters deserved to die and prepared destructive Potions before saying he would go after Barty Crouch Jr.
• Anton realized that Snape expected Voldemort to come to Barty Crouch Jr.’s rescue and was a far more powerful wizard than people had assumed.

Ron sought refuge in Cabin from Harry and Hermione’s troubles and joined Anton’s knowledge-sharing tea party, where Anton explained how traces and memories connected spells, Horcruxes, and the preservation of life existence. Anton revealed a portrait containing a preserved version of Ron, leaving Ron startled and amused by meeting his counterpart.

• Ron grew weary of Harry’s obsession with Voldemort and Hermione’s uncertainty, so he went to Cabin to find peace and began collecting stories about the moon.
• Anton returned to Cabin and hosted a knowledge-sharing tea party, where he described traces in the River of Time and their links to spells, memories, and Horcruxes.
• Anton explained that a large-scale Memory Charm could erase a person’s existence from others’ memories and described his method for preserving life existence.
• Anton summoned a portrait containing a preserved version of Ron, and both Rons insulted each other before the Cabin members burst into laughter.
• Ron and his portrait counterpart realized that their exchange reminded them of George looking at Fred.