Chapter Summaries

As Aurors from the International Auror Organization and the Ministries converged on the Witch Hunters’ meeting place, Crabbe, Draco, and Hermione entered with competing suspicions about Crabbe’s plans. Crabbe threatened to detonate explosives with a phone, leaving Scrimgeour unconvinced.

• Crabbe told Draco and Hermione he intended to kill every Witch Hunter inside, prompting them to suspect Anton had given him a secret mission.
• Draco proposed that Crabbe use Fiendfyre to surround the building, while Hermione agreed to help in exchange for Crabbe revealing the truth afterward.
• Scrimgeour and Barty Crouch Sr. arrived with Aurors and questioned the three youngsters about their presence and Crabbe’s phone.
• Aurors blasted openings in the walls and surrounded Crabbe, Draco, and Hermione.
• Crabbe claimed the Witch Hunters had buried explosives beneath the meeting place and threatened to trigger them with his phone, but Scrimgeour challenged him to try.

Snape and his companions realized the Witch Hunters’ faith could twist Squibs into spellcasters and suspected the Dark Lord wanted to build a fanatical magical army. When Crabbe detonated a nuclear bomb at Scrimgeour’s gathering, Snape used a silver forest to stop the dead from reaching the Veil, including both wizards and Muggles.

• Fiennes and Snape examined the Witch Hunters and concluded that their extreme faith may have helped them twist their souls and gain magical abilities.
• Lockhart warned that the Dark Lord might know about the Witch Hunters, and Snape concluded that he wanted a loyal army powered by worship rather than a political empire.
• Crabbe agreed to Scrimgeour’s challenge and triggered the explosives the Witch Hunters had planted, revealing that the blast was a nuclear bomb.
• Scrimgeour and the Aurors tried to counter the explosion with spells, but they could not stop it from killing those nearby.
• Snape summoned a silver forest between the survivors and the Veil, halting their passage toward death and showing that the Muggle dead were there alongside the wizards.

Anton recognized that Snape had reached the realm of life by using the memories and emotions of the living to sustain the dead, and Snape restored the victims of the nuclear explosion. As the survivors returned, Barty Crouch Jr. struggled with his transformed identity while Crabbe suffered from the effects of entering death.

• Anton explained that people remain connected to the living through their memories and emotions, which Snape’s magic used to sustain them.
• Grindelwald and Dumbledore were astonished by Snape’s achievement, and Anton said he understood it through his theory of Wizards as Gods.
• Snape extended the Silver Forest into the Real World and restored the victims’ bodies and clothes to their pre-explosion state.
• Voldemort sensed the danger and Apparated away before he could witness the restoration.
• Barty Crouch Jr. recalled how his soul had begun turning into his father’s identity and memories, then told the Aurors to seize Crabbe.
• Crabbe suffered as jumbled memories and emotions flooded his thoughts after he entered the realm of death.

After Dumbledore and Snape restored the blast site and rescued those caught in Crabbe’s nuclear explosion, the Aurors argued with Barty Crouch Sr. over who would take custody of him. Voldemort arrived with the newly revealed Magic Corps to claim Crabbe, while Anton suspected the Corps were magically powerful but dangerously warped creations tied to Voldemort.

• Dumbledore erased the radiation and repaired the blast site, while Snape brought the victims back and restored the Muggles’ memories.
• Scrimgeour thanked Snape for saving everyone and questioned Crabbe about his ties to the Witch Hunters; Lockhart told Snape that Crabbe’s Memory had been altered.
• Barty Crouch Sr. tried to take Crabbe for trial, but Scrimgeour insisted that the Aurors had jurisdiction over the investigation.
• Voldemort arrived with Bella and more than a hundred masked Wizards, revealed the bodies inside the ruined house, and demanded that Crabbe answer to the Magical Congress.
• A member of Voldemort’s force identified it as the Magic Corps and warned that it would not allow Crabbe to be taken.
• Anton used Grindelwald’s Eyes to see Soul Black Lines linking the Magic Corps members to Voldemort and suspected they were powerful, distorted creations.

Anton observed how Voldemort used the Magic Corps’ painful memories and contract magic to create powerful zealots, while Voldemort tried to uncover who had burned down the Magical Congress and aided the Witch Hunters. Moody exposed Barty Crouch Jr.’s disguise and the conspiracy, and Voldemort ordered the Magic Corps to slaughter everyone as he left.

• Anton reasoned that the Magic Corps’ power came from the struggle between their painful pasts and their society-shaped identities, reinforced by their faith in Chairman Tom Riddle and bound to Voldemort by contract magic.
• Voldemort demanded that Crabbe reveal whether he had burned down the Magical Congress and sheltered the Witch Hunters, but Lockhart intervened, claiming to be the Memory Master and saying Crabbe’s memories might have been altered.
• Lockhart noticed that Barty Crouch Sr. had two sets of memories, and Moody revealed himself by casting Forced Reparifarge, transforming Crouch Sr. into Barty Crouch Jr.
• Moody said he would submit his memories to the International Wizengamot Management Authority to prove that Barty Crouch Jr. and the American Magical Congress had sheltered and directed the Witch Hunters, with help from the International Relations Coordination Committee.
• Voldemort left with Bella after his plans fell apart, and Chairman Tom Riddle ordered the Magic Corps to kill everyone.

During the battle, Snape revived Lockhart after a Killing Curse, and Lockhart discovered that his Memory Charm could disrupt the Magic Corps’ tortured memories. After one Corps leader died when Lockhart’s spell left him open to Scrimgeour’s attack, Lockhart strode forward to take on the rest.

• The Magic Corps attacked with powerful, specialized spells, and Anton, Grindelwald, and Dumbledore judged Voldemort’s method to have turned its members into one-spell war machines.
• A Magic Corps member hit Lockhart with a Killing Curse, but Snape used its counter-curse to bring him back from a vision of his memories and a translucent deer.
• The Aurors, Snape’s group, and Barty Crouch Jr.’s opponents fought amid the chaos as Hermione, Draco, and Crabbe tried to escape.
• Lockhart noticed that the Magic Corps leader’s memories were warped by pain and cast Obliviate on him.
• Scrimgeour’s spell tore apart the leader after Lockhart’s charm disrupted his attack, and Lockhart announced that he would take on the Magic Corps.

Barty Crouch Jr. tried to flee with allied politicians as the battle intensified, leaving Hermione and Draco under heavy attack. Ron protected Hermione with his Corpse Shield Charm, and her gratitude strengthened his resolve.

• Barty Crouch Jr. urged the politicians and their Aurors to escape with him to the Americas as Snape, Draco, and Hermione challenged him.
• Hermione and Draco retreated under pressure while Draco refused to abandon Crabbe.
• Hermione reflected on Anton’s words about her relationship with Magic as the Magic Corps unleashed a barrage at her and Draco.
• Ron appeared beside Hermione and used the Corpse Shield Charm to block the attacks by drawing strength from his desire to protect her.
• Hermione thanked Ron and called him the source of her strength, helping him maintain the barrier despite his pain.

Barty Crouch Jr. tried to escape with captured Ministry officials, but Hannah and Neville intercepted him. Neville killed Barty to avenge his parents, and Hannah burned his body and treated the ashes with an experimental potion that made resurrection difficult.

• Barty led Ministry officials and their Aurors away from the battle, but Hannah's enchanted Vines bound and dragged them toward her.
• Barty broke free of the Vines and threatened Hannah, then Neville appeared and attacked him with the Cruciatus Curse.
• Neville transformed into a Werewolf while continuing to cast spells, overpowered Barty, and tortured him with the Cruciatus Curse.
• Neville reminded Barty of his parents' suffering before tearing him apart with his claws.
• Hannah burned Barty's body and sprinkled his ashes with an experimental potion that erased his memories and weakened the chance of resurrection.

Voldemort encountered Harry Potter in the street, where Harry confronted him after secretly traveling to the Americas with Snape’s Hatred Magic. Voldemort defended his actions and challenged Harry’s assumptions about powerful Wizards, while Harry’s hatred and the spell’s terrible cost drove him toward a fight.

• Voldemort dismissed Severus Snape as a threat and expected Barty Crouch Jr. to face him.
• Harry Potter revealed that he had followed Voldemort to the Americas and learned Hatred Magic from Snape’s book.
• Harry realized that casting Hatred Magic consumed everything he loved, though his feelings for his parents and Cho Chang could fuel only one use.
• Harry asked Voldemort whether he regretted his evil deeds, and Voldemort declared that he regretted nothing.
• Voldemort defended his cause, condemned Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix, and argued that powerful Wizards could not claim to be good people.

Harry used Hatred Magic against Voldemort, drawing Bella into the spell through her Shared Pain charm and killing her. Snape shielded the unconscious Harry from Voldemort’s Killing Curse and revealed that he had developed the magic, leaving Voldemort confronting the limits of resurrection.

• Harry completed Hatred Magic and unleashed a phantom heart that trapped Voldemort in a void of burning love and hatred.
• Voldemort realized the spell had separated him from his body and feared that Bella and Barty Crouch Jr. might die before they could resurrect him.
• Bella used Shared Pain to join Voldemort in the spell, then reached for the blood-red flower and was destroyed by its explosion.
• Voldemort regained his senses, caught Bella’s body, and fired Avada Kedavra at the unconscious Harry.
• Snape’s silver doe absorbed Voldemort’s curse, and Snape told him that he had developed Hatred Magic to use against him.

Snape watched Tom Riddle escape with Bella’s corpse and warned that Voldemort’s retaliation was still to come. Hannah and Neville then confronted Scrimgeour over Crabbe and secured the right to take him back with the Pioneer Organization while the Confederation handled the matter through official channels.

• Snape chose not to save Bella and prepared to use a potion-laced dagger against Tom Riddle, but Tom escaped with Bella’s corpse as Aurors approached.
• Lockhart asked whether the battle was over, and Snape warned Scrimgeour that Voldemort’s retaliation was only beginning.
• Scrimgeour said he intended to arrest Crabbe and question Draco and Hermione, but Hannah declared that she would take them back to the Pioneer Organization.
• Neville blocked Scrimgeour when he challenged Hannah, who refused to hand Crabbe over and pointed out that the Pioneer Organization had caught more than a dozen defectors.
• Scrimgeour agreed to take the defectors and have the Confederation contact the Pioneer Organization through official channels, and Hannah asked Lockhart to help examine Crabbe.

Anton examined Crabbe after Voldemort’s memory manipulation and considered how Crabbe’s altered mind might make him suited to Fiendfyre and the moon project. Draco urged Hermione and the others to use the incident to gain influence at the International Confederation of Wizards, while Anton wondered whether Voldemort could revive Bella and Barty Crouch Jr.

• Snape explained that Harry had used a spell he invented and left with Fiennes, Jillian, and Filch.
• Lockhart found that Crabbe’s memories had been overwritten to frame Anton and drive a wedge between them, and he destroyed the false memories.
• Anton examined Crabbe’s soul and concluded that his altered thinking might make him better suited to casting Fiendfyre, which could help the moon project.
• Dumbledore said the International Confederation of Wizards would investigate the incident and told the others to cooperate while he handled the rest.
• Draco urged Hermione, Hannah, and Neville to use the public attention to gain a place on the International Confederation of Wizards’ stage, and Anton encouraged Hermione to recognize the authority magic gave her.
• Anton wondered whether Voldemort could bring Bella and Barty Crouch Jr. back to life and resolved to settle the score with his professor over Crabbe.

Hannah advised Draco and Hermione to avoid divisive reforms and use the changing political climate to gain influence for the Forerunners. At a Magical Congress meeting, Voldemort remained silent as his old Death Eaters watched him for a response.

• Hannah warned Draco against recruiting panicked Pure-blood Families and told Hermione that House-elf rights were a poor issue for her political proposal.
• Anna and Hannah suggested Hermione focus on the status of Muggle-born Wizards and Wizards transformed from ordinary Muggles, while Hannah planned to secure Forerunner positions during the trials of Pure-blood defectors.
• The Magical Congress headquarters in New York took shape around research institutes where Muggles and Wizards worked together, while Voldemort remained largely absent at the Institute of Magical Bloodline Research.
• Voldemort appeared at the weekly meeting, where attendees noted that Barty Crouch Jr. and Bellatrix Riddle were dead and the old Death Eaters had been pushed to the margins.
• Lucius Malfoy watched Voldemort sit silently after the meeting, offering no reaction to his followers.

Voldemort sought Anton’s help to resurrect Bella, offering the Forerunners access to the Magical Congress and its science-and-magic projects in exchange. Anton explained that he could make Bella reappear but could not restore her as herself, leaving Voldemort pressing him for a clear answer.

• Hannah and the others saw Ron and Goyle return from Moon Station, where someone had come looking for Anton.
• Ron said he needed time to understand Anton’s lessons, then talked about collecting moon stories for a future bestseller.
• Voldemort asked Anton to bring Bella back to life and offered the Forerunners participation in the Magical Congress in return.
• Voldemort described the Magical Congress’s cooperation with Muggles and its ambitious research into space and science.
• Anton explained how Horcruxes and Preserving Life worked differently, saying he could make Bella reappear but could not restore her true self.
• Voldemort grew increasingly angry and asked Anton again whether he could bring Bella back to life.

Anton explained to Voldemort how life, spirituality, and Horcruxes related, then revealed that Bella's spirituality still existed in the River of Spirituality. Voldemort was stunned and demanded to know why Anton had said he could not bring her back to life.

• Anton used magical scenes to explain how life experiences shaped a person's spirituality and how Horcruxes preserved different states of life.
• Anton told Voldemort that returning to youth through a Horcrux could force a person to bear later memories and changes, and that preserving only memories and one strong emotion could reduce the cost.
• Anton described the River of Spirituality as a web of connected spiritualities that persisted after death unless the dead were completely forgotten.
• Anton said he could see Salazar Slytherin's spirituality in the river and explained that forgotten people eventually vanished from both it and the River of Time.
• Anton plucked a glow from the River of Spirituality and identified it as Bella's spirituality.
• Voldemort sprang to his feet and urgently asked why Anton could not restore Bella to life if he could find her spirituality.

Anton explained to Voldemort that resurrecting Bella would restore her Life Existence and Thought, potentially changing who she was and making her memories conflict with her restored mind. Voldemort accepted that Bella might not love him again and left, asking Anton to tell her that he and their child would wait if she was still willing to return.

• Anton explained that Dark Magic twists Thought, altering memories, emotions, and will.
• Anton demonstrated how he could reshape Bella’s Life Existence, but warned that her restored Thought could drive her mad or shut down her mind.
• Anton said he could use Neville Longbottom’s spells to help Bella recover her memories without changing her emotions or will.
• Voldemort realized Bella might no longer love him after resurrection, and Anton said that choice would belong to her.
• After sitting in silence for a long time, Voldemort asked Anton to tell Bella that he and their child would wait if she was still willing to come back, then left.

Anton prepared to summon Bella’s soul and negotiated with Voldemort for the Forerunners’ involvement in the Magical Congress and control of the Crabbe and Goyle families. As the Cabin members gathered for the ritual, Hermione wrestled with her loyalties before realizing she had already been welcomed into Cabin as a companion in the study of Magic.

• Anton told Voldemort that he needed to call to Bella with heartfelt emotion to help locate her soul, and Voldemort agreed to participate.
• Voldemort agreed to let the Forerunners join Magical Congress affairs except the Magic Corps, while Anton asked for the Crabbe and Goyle families and promised to revive Bella.
• Hannah persuaded Neville, Ron, George, and Fred to help, while Draco urged Hermione and Goyle to join so they could support Anton and strengthen their families’ position.
• Hermione worried about helping Voldemort and betraying Harry, but Anton, Anna, and Hannah encouraged her to focus on Magic and explore research based on Muggle Collective Consciousness.
• Hermione asked how to join Cabin, and Hannah showed her that Cabin’s Chronicle already listed her as a member of the Magic study group.

Anton organized a resurrection ritual for Bella that drew the participants into the River of Spirituality, where they experienced magic and connections across life and death. Harry finally saw and touched his parents, while Voldemort called Bella’s name beside the enchanted egg.

• Hermione decided to pursue her own magical strength and visited Harry, who explained that he wanted to study Love Magic and Hatred Magic to find a way to kill Voldemort.
• Harry joined Goyle, Crabbe, and Professor Snape in examining the combined effects of Love Magic and Hatred Magic.
• Anton and the others completed the altar for Bella’s resurrection, assigning Draco, Neville, Harry, and Goyle roles in the ritual.
• Anton enchanted the Giant Puffskein egg and told Voldemort to call Bella’s name so her Spirituality could give rise to new life.
• Anton, Anna, and the other participants entered the River of Spirituality, where Hermione glimpsed the collective magic behind her charm and Harry reunited with Lily and James.

Anton explained to Anna how spells accumulate the spiritual traces of everyone who uses them, making widely practiced magic increasingly powerful. He considered turning the Magical Outburst into a spell that could gather the spirituality of intelligent beings across the planet, while Anna said wizarding history would remember him.

• Anton explained that actions in the River of Spirituality left lasting traces and joked that future visitors might see Voldemort grieving for Bella's spirit.
• Anton used his wand to trace the influence of his book, Wizards as Gods, through the River of Spirituality.
• Anton explained to Anna that each person who learned a spell drew on the spiritual traces of those who had used it before, strengthening the spell.
• Anna identified Anton's plan as the Magical Outburst of all humanity, and Anton said it might extend to all intelligent beings, including Goblins, centaurs, Fantastic Beasts, and Fantastic Plants.
• Anton considered turning the Magical Outburst into a spell that people could use to accumulate spirituality, potentially across an entire planet.
• Anna gazed at Anton and said wizarding history would remember him.

Voldemort faced a choice between reuniting with the Bella who loved him in the World of the Dead and resurrecting Bella at the cost of her love for him. He chose to let Bella live, then walked away as she emerged from the egg with no memory of loving him.

• Voldemort reflected on his Horcruxes, his connection to Harry, and how his choices had brought him to this point.
• Voldemort realized that Bella could live only if she no longer loved him, while the Bella who loved him would wait for him in the World of the Dead.
• Voldemort shed a tear onto the egg, wished Bella happiness, and walked away rather than kill the life inside it.
• Bella emerged from the cracking egg wearing Voldemort's robes, remembered her past but felt revulsion and emptiness instead of love.
• Anna asked where Voldemort had gone, and Anton explained that he had left because killing the Bella who loved him was too cruel.