Recaps

Murphy built Umbrella Corporation around Cloud White Medicine while recruiting allies, developing Beauty Potion, and using Muggle technology to pursue magical research. Lucius Malfoy targeted Murphy's operation, and Murphy infiltrated Malfoy Manor after the factory workers were kidnapped.

• Murphy was rejected by Diagon Alley businesses and the Aurors, lost his Ministry job after attacking Belinda, Moore, Frez, and Dolfe, and began working with David Stick and Jim Stick to fund his plans.
• Murphy established Umbrella Corporation with Patrick Duncan, developed Cloud White Medicine, recruited Alex Wood, and expanded production despite running short of ingredients and money.
• Murphy arranged a dittany research farm, laundered gold through Locke, developed Beauty Potion, and won Lisandro Foley's cooperation in sourcing ingredients.
• Murphy demonstrated Essence of Dittany to Rita Levi-Montalcini, but she declined to endorse Cloud White Medicine without clinical verification and agreed only to consider studying it.
• Papede attacked Alex, prompting Murphy to burn the barn and hide Alex at Darkholm Manor, while Murphy opened a Knockturn Alley storefront as cover and replaced his traceable wand.
• Murphy and Patrick planned to develop Beauty Essence and pursue clinical approval, while Lucius Malfoy learned of Murphy's business and ordered his men to gather evidence and seize his Gringotts account.
• After Lucius's men attacked the factory and kidnapped five workers, Murphy packed his supplies, burned Darkholm Manor, and infiltrated Malfoy Manor to find them.
• Murphy overheard Narcissa Malfoy speaking with Lucius and Draco, considered taking Draco hostage, and was discovered by a house-elf.

Murphy turned Lucius Malfoy’s arrest into a public and political victory, then built Umbrella’s research operation and used magic to recruit Muggle scientists under secrecy oaths. The arc left him seeking a teacher for the researchers as the Ministry began investigating his potion business.

• Murphy escaped the exploding Malfoy Manor, erased the memories of five Muggles, and used an anonymous video to expose officials trying to seize Umbrella’s drug formula.
• Murphy accused Lucius Malfoy of being a Death Eater, but the Wizengamot convicted Lucius only of crimes involving Dark Magic items and sentenced him to prison and fines.
• Murphy cleared his own accusations of arson and secrecy violations, hired Locke as his agent, and opened Supreme Potion shops while concluding that he would have to change wizarding society.
• Murphy expanded Umbrella’s research operations, recruited Serika Wood to develop a secrecy charm, and questioned Tom Riddle’s diary for spells that could protect secrets.
• Murphy learned the Thorn Oath from the diary, tested it on Serika, and used a false future history to unsettle the diary and make it reveal magical knowledge.
• Murphy completed Western Mansion and demonstrated magic to the scholars he had recruited, inviting them to study it at Umbrella’s No. 1 Spell Research Institute under strict confidentiality rules.
• Murphy had the researchers sign agreements and swear the Thorn Oath, while Dawlish alerted Scrimgeour to possible Beauty Potion sales to Muggles and Murphy sought a teacher for the researchers.

Murphy expanded his research and business plans while maneuvering against the Aurors, using a staged identity and Rita Skeeter’s reporting to turn public opinion against them. Scrimgeour resigned, Sirius Black’s retrial was announced, and Murphy moved to build a wizarding security company and recruit Dobby.

• Murphy hired Alex as a tutor and sent him with Serika to guide Muggle researchers while Hunter Werner located Joachim’s village near Caerphilly Castle.
• Murphy confronted Lucius Malfoy over their failed partnership, offered him money to recruit allies, and warned him not to oppose Murphy with real evidence.
• After Hamoud Abra infiltrated Murphy’s warehouse, Murphy erased his memory, strengthened security, and began developing research groups for the Transfiguration Pathway and Spellcasting Path.
• Murphy and Boris Pishkov rescued Marianne and other captives from Isaac Milburn’s underground prison, then Murphy recruited Boris and authorized experiments on Isaac.
• Murphy arranged for Isaac to be altered into Alex Wood’s likeness and have Alex’s memories, then used the impostor to expose the Aurors’ interrogation practices.
• Rita Skeeter publicized the impostor’s death and the Aurors’ abuses, triggering public outrage, Scrimgeour’s resignation, and the Wizengamot’s decision to schedule Sirius Black’s retrial.
• Murphy and Lucius discussed backing Rasim Selwyn for Auror chief, and Murphy gained Dobby after Lucius dismissed the House-elf.
• Murphy named his planned wizarding security company Wizard Security Store and asked Locke about finding House-elves.

Murphy rescued Serika from Joachim’s village, cured her plague, and returned to expand the Institute’s research. He then began pursuing the electronics industry while continuing Umbrella’s magical and scientific projects.

• Murphy brought forty-three House-elves to the Charms Research Institute, learned Serika was trapped in a plague-stricken village, and prepared to rescue her.
• Murphy entered the village in protective gear, found Serika, and fought its undead inhabitants and Joachim while trying to break the curse trapping her.
• Serika discovered Joachim’s history and the Enslavement Mark, then cast the spell during Murphy’s battle with Joachim.
• Murphy’s magic lifted the village and its houses, but Serika’s condition worsened and the materials for her treatment were destroyed.
• Murphy recreated antibody-coated magnetic beads, made targeted T cells, and treated Serika before burning the village and confirming the plague was gone.
• Murphy returned to the Institute, welcomed nine Muggle researchers, and ordered studies of the Seed of the Mind, magical power, and vampire biology.
• Murphy made Boris his public stand-in and directed Patrick to recruit Tim Berners-Lee and assess plans for Umbrella to enter computing and semiconductors.
• Murphy formed a chip task force, ordered tests of Derrick’s wafer-enlargement idea, and visited the factory producing Beauty Potion.