Recaps

Murphy broke into the Malfoy home to recover stolen goods and rescue five Muggles, but Dobby’s self-punishment exposed him and sparked a fight with Lucius Malfoy. Murphy gathered the hostages and unleashed Fiendfyre and a box of nitroglycerin, leaving the battle amid a massive explosion.

• Murphy petrified Dobby, carried him into the cellar, recovered the stolen materials and potions, and took Tom Riddle's Diary from the Malfoy collection.
• Murphy freed Dobby and asked him to stay quiet, but Dobby punished himself by smashing into a wine rack and making a loud crash.
• Murphy fought the wizards upstairs, petrifying several, using Imperio on the red-nosed wizard, and drawing Lucius Malfoy into battle.
• Murphy gathered five Muggles and ordered them to grab a rope, while Lucius blasted a wizard Murphy had used as a shield.
• Murphy silenced the Muggles, cast Fiendfyre, and threw a bag containing twenty bottles of nitroglycerin into the flames, causing a huge explosion.

Murphy rescued five Muggles from Malfoy Manor and returned them safely before arranging a plan to gather evidence against the pharmaceutical companies pressuring Umbrella Corporation. A secretly recorded video and revelations about a factory explosion turned public opinion against the companies, leaving the scandal to grow.

• Murphy escaped Malfoy Manor with five Muggles by Portkey as the estate exploded, then erased their memories and left them in a safe wood.
• Murphy learned from Patrick that officials had blamed a factory explosion on a gas leak and that the Committee on Safety of Medicines had ordered Umbrella to disclose its formula or withdraw White Medicine.
• Murphy told Patrick to arrange meetings with pharmaceutical executives and the Committee director, then collect a strand of hair from each of them.
• An anonymous video showing pharmaceutical executives and a Committee official discussing how to seize Umbrella's drug formula spread through British media.
• Investigators uncovered further evidence of the meeting, and the public connected the scandal to the suspicious factory explosion and missing workers, materials, and medicines.

Public opinion swung in Umbrella Corporation’s favor after reports of its donations and Rita Levi-Montalcini’s endorsement of Cloud White Medicine. Murphy learned Lucius Malfoy had awakened and considered how to protect his plans from Lucius’s retaliation.

• Reports revealed Umbrella Corporation had donated White Medicine to victims of the London Underground fire, and Rita Levi-Montalcini publicly praised Cloud White Medicine’s effects.
• Patrick celebrated the public’s support for Umbrella, while Murphy explained how he had shaped the story to make the company its sympathetic protagonist.
• Lisandro told Murphy that Lucius Malfoy had awakened after nearly ten days unconscious at St Mungo’s Hospital.
• Murphy worried Lucius could expose his identity and noted that Gringotts had frozen his accounts and vault, threatening his access to potion ingredients.
• Murphy dismissed Lisandro’s suspicions about the Malfoy fire and decided to tell a story to the wizarding authorities, since only they could determine guilt.

Murphy Darkholme secured Minister Millicent Bagnold’s help by promising donations and offering her a personal gift, persuading her to intervene in his dispute with Gringotts. After visiting influential Ministry officials, he reported Lucius Malfoy to Auror Director Scrimgeour as a Death Eater plotting Voldemort’s resurrection.

• Murphy offered Millicent Bagnold fifty thousand Galleons and promised future donations to help ease the Ministry’s financial troubles.
• Murphy claimed Gringotts had frozen his inherited assets and offered Millicent ten thousand Galleons if she helped recover them.
• Millicent agreed to order Gringotts to release Murphy’s property and gave him a thousand-Galleon gift in return for his support.
• Murphy visited several influential Wizengamot officials and then met Auror Director Scrimgeour.
• Murphy reported Lucius Malfoy as a Death Eater carrying out a plan to resurrect Voldemort.

Murphy Darkholme presented evidence accusing Lucius Malfoy of recruiting his father into the Death Eaters, prompting the Wizengamot to reopen Lucius’s trial under the Purge Act. The hearing remained unresolved as Lucius disputed the letters Murphy produced.

• Lucius Malfoy told Aurors that Murphy Darkholme had destroyed his house, but Scrimgeour arrested him on suspicion of being a Death Eater and reopened his trial under the Purge Act.
• Murphy entered the packed Wizengamot courtroom and was startled when Dumbledore arrived as Chief Warlock.
• Murphy told the Wizengamot that his parents had been Death Eaters and accused Lucius of escaping justice.
• Murphy presented a letter signed L.M. that he said showed Lucius had recruited his father, Sanders Darkholm, into the Death Eaters.
• Lucius denied writing the recruitment letter, and Murphy presented a second letter to Sanders so the Wizengamot could compare its handwriting with the first.

Murphy presented forged debt letters and the Dark Lord’s diary as evidence against Lucius Malfoy at the tribunal. Lucius collapsed when Murphy summoned Dobby as a witness, but Dobby refused to betray his master, leaving Murphy unsure how to proceed.

• Murphy showed the tribunal two debt letters, and Dumbledore questioned where Murphy had found them before warning that the letters alone might not prove Lucius Malfoy’s intent.
• Murphy accused Lucius of hiding dark magic objects and revealed a diary he said had been given to Lucius by the Dark Lord.
• Lucius denied knowing the diary, so Murphy called Dobby to testify, and Lucius collapsed in his cage.
• Dumbledore silenced Lucius when he tried to order Dobby to stop.
• Dobby tried to hurt himself rather than betray Lucius, and Murphy threatened him but then looked to Dumbledore for help.

Murphy presented a notebook that appeared to implicate Lucius Malfoy and other Death Eaters in Voldemort’s return, while Lucius denied the evidence and accused Murphy of crimes. Dumbledore examined the notebook and asked Murphy where he had obtained it.

• Dumbledore persuaded Dobby to answer Murphy’s questions truthfully about the Malfoy cellar and identify the notebook as Lucius’s treasure.
• Murphy heated the blank notebook over an alcohol lamp, revealing entries naming Death Eaters and describing Lucius as Voldemort’s loyal servant.
• The assembled wizards reacted to the notebook’s contents, and Lucius denied that it was authentic or that he had been a Death Eater.
• Lucius accused Murphy of breaking into his home, causing a fire, violating wizarding secrecy, and selling potions to Muggles.
• Dumbledore examined the notebook and asked Murphy where he had obtained it.

Murphy used a forged diary to push for Lucius Malfoy’s retrial, but the tribunal found insufficient evidence to convict Lucius as a Death Eater and sentenced him for hoarding Dark Magic items. Lucius then produced Murphy’s wand and claimed it could prove Murphy had attacked his home, leaving Murphy’s own trial in question.

• Murphy admitted the diary came from a supposed contact named Tony Wayne, and Dumbledore supported reopening the trials of Crabbe, Goyle, Igor Karkaroff, and others.
• Dumbledore questioned Lucius about hoarding Dark Magic items, while Lucius accused Murphy of arson, murder, and violating the Statute of Secrecy.
• Murphy and Lucius traded accusations before the judges voted to convict Lucius of crimes involving Dark Magic items but not of being a Death Eater.
• Dumbledore sentenced Lucius to a fine of five thousand Galleons and three months in Azkaban.
• Lucius revealed that he had Murphy’s wand and claimed Prior Incantato and a witness would prove Murphy had attacked his home.

At Murphy’s trial, Lucius Malfoy tried to prove Murphy was a dark wizard by presenting a wand and witnesses who identified it as his, but Ollivander confirmed it was not Murphy’s wand. Lucius dropped his accusation that Murphy attacked his home and introduced goblin Locke as evidence that Murphy violated the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy.

• Lucius Malfoy presented a wand whose spell traces included Fiendfyre and the Cruciatus Curse, claiming it proved Murphy was a dark wizard.
• Belinda Pound and Frez Shafiq identified the wand as Murphy’s, while Murphy denied it and insulted both witnesses.
• Murphy asked the court to summon Garrick Ollivander, who identified Murphy’s actual wand as a fourteen-inch aspen wand with a phoenix feather core.
• Ollivander said the wand Lucius presented was not Murphy’s, and Dumbledore asked Lucius for other evidence after the wand accusation failed.
• Lucius withdrew his accusation that Murphy had attacked his home and called for the goblin Locke to present evidence of a secrecy violation.

Murphy Darkholme cleared himself of Lucius Malfoy’s accusations by exposing Malfoy’s scheme and challenging his claim that Cloud White Medicine was stolen wizarding potion. Lucius was left without proof as the Aurors prepared to take him to Azkaban.

• Murphy urged Locke to tell the truth, and Locke testified that he and Murphy had acted legally and that Lucius Malfoy had coached him to make false accusations.
• Scrimgeour announced that Bogrod had been arrested and Gringotts had verified Murphy’s funds as legal, then ordered Lucius taken to Azkaban.
• Lucius produced potion samples and ingredients, claiming Murphy had sold Essence of Dittany to Muggles, and demonstrated that Cloud White Medicine healed his wound.
• Murphy questioned whether the medicine was actually Essence of Dittany, and Dumbledore admitted he could not prove the two were the same substance.

After Lucius Malfoy was imprisoned and Murphy’s finances were restored, Murphy opened potion shops and considered how wizarding society’s self-sufficiency and attachment to tradition had thwarted his efforts to fit in. He decided he would remake the world rather than be assimilated, and the volume ended with him drawing his own wand.

• Lucius Malfoy was fined another thousand Galleons and sentenced to two months in prison, while his accusations against Murphy were dismissed for lack of evidence.
• Murphy hired Locke as his full agent, donated money to the Ministry of Magic, and received a VIP visitor permit arranged by Millicent.
• Murphy opened Supreme Potion shops in Knockturn Alley and Diagon Alley, launched steep discounts to compete with Slug & Jiggers Apothecary, and began recruiting potion makers for Beauty Potion production.
• Murphy reflected that magic made wizarding society self-sufficient and resistant to competition, specialization, and reform, explaining why his job hunt and unconventional methods had failed.
• Murphy concluded that he could not adapt to wizarding society and would have to change it, then drew his wand: an aspen wand with a phoenix feather core, fourteen inches long.

Murphy took advantage of the stock market crash to acquire research institutes and raise funds for Umbrella, then began construction of its biotech R&D base in Hertfordshire. He outlined the company’s research plans and hiring needs, while leaving the problem of protecting magical secrets unresolved.

• Murphy acquired three research institutions cheaply as pharmaceutical companies’ shares collapsed, then sold 8% of Umbrella’s shares for nearly one hundred million pounds.
• In spring 1988, Murphy and Patrick inspected the 970-acre Umbrella Group Biotech R&D Base, where construction had begun on the first of six zones.
• Patrick explained that Zone One would include a vertical White Medicine plantation, a medicinal-material cultivation and optimization base, and a White Medicine R&D center.
• Murphy ordered Patrick to rent temporary facilities, redirect the acquired institutes toward White Medicine research, hire qualified scholars, and expand the company’s administrative staff.
• When Patrick raised confidentiality concerns, Murphy proposed severe confidentiality agreements for researchers until he found a safer way to protect the wizarding world’s secrets.

Murphy recruited Serika Wood to develop a secrecy spell, but her research fell behind schedule as his Venus Series cosmetics became a major commercial success. When Murphy confronted her about the delays, Serika offered to let him hit her, and he ordered her to lie across his lap.

• Alex Wood told Murphy that his sister Serika, a former member of the Committee on Experimental Charms, might help with the secrecy spell.
• Murphy met Serika, asked her to develop a spell that would stop people from revealing secrets, and gave her one month to produce a viable research proposal.
• Murphy gave Serika a key to a rented factory building for the research and told her to ask Alex for whatever else she needed.
• Umbrella Group acquired Camelot Cosmetics Company, and Murphy launched the Venus Series cosmetics, which drew a flood of orders.
• After three months without a viable research plan, Murphy scolded Serika, who apologized and offered to let him hit her.
• Murphy told Serika to kneel and lie across his lap, then smacked her.

Murphy searched for a way to create a secrecy charm and decided to use Tom Riddle’s diary to learn about Dark Magic. He recruited Alex to test it, leaving Alex about to write his first message.

• After Serika left, Murphy reviewed the secrecy charm research but kept the team working while considering other approaches.
• Murphy asked Alex about a similar charm he had seen at Hogwarts, then wrote to Professor Filius Flitwick for advice.
• Flitwick replied that a charm capable of fully concealing secrets might involve Dark Magic and suggested books in Hogwarts’s Restricted Section.
• Murphy realized Tom Riddle’s diary might know about Dark Magic and decided to question it through a test.
• Murphy offered Alex ten Galleons for every sentence he wrote in the dangerous diary, and Alex agreed to begin.
• Murphy handed Alex a fountain pen and told him to write, “Hello, diary. I’m Lucius Malfoy.”

Murphy used Alex to question Tom Riddle’s diary and obtained the Thorn Oath, a Dark spell that punished Muggles who tried to break an oath. After learning and testing the spell, Murphy asked whether Tom knew better ones.

• Murphy had Alex pose as Lucius Malfoy and ask the diary questions, confirming that Tom Riddle could answer schoolwork and teach spells.
• Murphy asked Tom for a spell that could stop someone from revealing secrets, and Tom described Natasha’s Tongue-Tying Spell and the Thorn Oath.
• Murphy chose the Thorn Oath for his planned work with Muggles, while Alex objected to learning Dark Magic.
• Tom gave Murphy the spell’s name, pronunciation, gestures, and a diagram drawn from a book he had read.
• Murphy copied and practiced the Thorn Oath until he confirmed it worked, then asked Tom whether he knew better spells.

Murphy learned of a permanent mind-altering spell called Hell's Seed of the Mind and sought clues to the wizarding family that had preserved it. He also gave Serika a secrecy spell to test and asked her to investigate Joachim Hell's past, leaving the search underway.

• Murphy read that the Hell family had passed down a spell that permanently implanted a belief, sentence, or emotion in another person's mind.
• Alex identified Katal's Biographies of Dark Wizards as the source of the account and recalled that his sister had the book.
• Murphy photographed the book's rough drawing of a village in Caerphilly, Wales, where Joachim Hell had lived.
• Murphy summoned Serika Wood when she tried to run from him and learned that the other researchers had left while she continued working.
• Murphy gave Serika a secrecy spell to test and asked her to search the book for clues about Joachim Hell and Hell's Seed of the Mind.

Murphy tested the Thorn Oath on Serika and discovered that his orders could prevent her from breaking the oath, though maintaining control cost him magic. He defended using the spell on Muggles as protection for wizards, and Serika agreed to search for Hell's Seed of the Mind before realizing Murphy might have manipulated her.

• Serika asked Murphy to test the Thorn Oath on her, and Murphy made her swear never to disobey his orders.
• Murphy ordered Serika not to remove the oath, and she collapsed in pain when she tried to cast a counter-curse.
• Murphy realized the oath could enforce orders within its scope and that maintaining control consumed some of his magic.
• Serika warned Murphy that using the spell on Muggles violated the Muggle Protection Act, but Murphy argued that wizards needed protection from Muggles.
• Murphy told Serika to find Hell's Seed of the Mind as a way to avoid hurting anyone, and she promised to search for it before suspecting he had misled her.

Murphy tested Tom Riddle's Diary to assess its senses, perception, reasoning, and computing ability, then tried writing to it under a fabricated identity from the year 2077. The diary grew confused by Murphy's increasingly bizarre entries, ending with an account of a girl being shot for being a wizard.

• Murphy used Alex to test the diary with water, fire, blows, scrubbing, and other stimuli, concluding that it had none of the five senses.
• Murphy tested the diary's sense of time, logic, and arithmetic, finding that it lacked a clock, struggled with reasoning, and could answer some calculations.
• Murphy concluded that the diary was useful as an information lookup tool, sent Alex away, and began writing in it himself with an oil-based pen.
• Murphy claimed to be living in 2077, described radioactive dust and expensive paper, and gave the diary a series of contradictory dates and events.
• Murphy wrote that a girl had been shot because she was a wizard, leaving the diary faintly panicked about Muggles killing wizards.

The diary read Murphy’s account of a future where wizards were persecuted and learned that Voldemort had led a failed uprising against Arasaka Corporation. Murphy reported that Voldemort was killed by a gamma-ray cannon and that his Horcrux was found.

• Murphy wrote that accidental magic revealed he was a wizard, and he feared being killed after the mandatory test.
• Murphy described his mother transforming into a black monster before the Anti-Wizard Unit killed her.
• Murphy recorded that Voldemort attacked Night City, destroyed Arasaka Tower, and promised to free imprisoned wizards.
• Murphy wrote that Arasaka Corporation’s forces killed Voldemort with a gamma-ray cannon.
• Murphy reported that Voldemort’s Horcrux had been found.

Murphy convinced the diary that Arasaka Corporation had destroyed five Horcruxes and would destroy the last one, which he suspected was the notebook, if he turned it in. Believing the story and fearing for its survival, the diary offered to teach Murphy dark magic, and he asked what it could teach him.

• Murphy described Arasaka Corporation’s research footage showing a Horcrux destroyed by advanced technology and announced a bounty for the last one.
• Murphy suggested that the diary was the final Horcrux and considered handing it to Arasaka Corporation to end the war.
• Murphy’s account blamed Voldemort for starting a disastrous war against Muggles, and the diary realized that its future self had caused it.
• The diary urged Murphy not to betray wizardkind, then offered to teach him dark magic so they could escape.
• Murphy finally replied, asking the diary what it could teach him.

Murphy pressured the diary into teaching him Voldemort’s Flight Spell, which he hoped to master quickly to escape Arasaka Corporation. Meanwhile, Umbrella completed its Dittany research base and Murphy’s heavily fortified Western Mansion, where he welcomed guests.

• Murphy forced the diary to reveal a long list of spells, potions, and magical knowledge, then chose to learn the Flight Spell.
• The diary explained that the Flight Spell could lift a wizard using shadowy material, and Murphy pushed it to teach him the spell in two days.
• Umbrella completed Zone One of its biotechnology research base and relocated the research institutions it had acquired from Wellcome and Zeneca.
• Umbrella researchers isolated Dittany Promoter, filed more than twenty related patents, and published papers that drew major attention in biology.
• Murphy completed Western Mansion, a Staffordshire estate with a nineteen-level underground fortress that housed his No. 1 Spell Research Institute.
• Murphy welcomed guests in Western Mansion’s first-floor hall.

Murphys Anon gathered 108 scholars at Umbrella Corporation’s Western Mansion, hired them under strict confidentiality, and promised them an untouched field of research. He ended by preparing to demonstrate a trick with magic.

• Murphys Anon sealed the hall’s exits, silenced the crowd, and announced that the scholars had been hired by Umbrella Corporation.
• Murphys Anon explained the scholars’ closed working arrangements and confidentiality requirements, then gave them a chance to leave before revealing company secrets.
• Murphys Anon introduced himself as Umbrella Corporation’s founder and identified several scholars’ fields of expertise.
• Murphys Anon described the limits of modern research and invited the scholars to enter an unknown field of discovery.
• Murphys Anon announced that he would open the door to that field and cast “Leviosa.”

Murphy demonstrated magic to a crowd of scientists, turning their guesses into experiments and showing how little they understood the phenomena. He invited them to research magic, leaving them with the task of exploring its unknown principles.

• Murphy floated a lectern and its contents, then had Rollins Bogg test whether wires were holding them up.
• Murphy transformed a flowerpot into a stick and shrank it into a rod, while Rollins and William Boyle investigated the objects’ unexplained levitation.
• William Boyle tested his antigravity-field theory and considered other explanations, but admitted he needed more experiments.
• Murphy transformed the rod into a bird, used Wingardium Leviosa on Stefan Welch, and demonstrated further spells to the crowd.
• Murphy explained that calling something magic did not explain how it worked, and invited the gathered scientists to research magic.

Murphy showed the researchers around the institute and explained its training, work, and confidentiality rules. After the researchers challenged the threat of memory erasure and the ownership of their work, he addressed their concerns and began to explain the reward system.

• Murphy gave the researchers a tour of the institute and outlined its laboratories, residential floors, and support staff.
• Murphy explained that the researchers would study wizarding theory for two months, take exams, and work at the institute for over a year under strict restrictions on leaving and outside contact.
• Murphy told the researchers that signing the agreement would bind them to a magical oath, and that anyone who left would have their memories of the research erased.
• Several researchers objected to the memory erasure and questioned how their safety and research contributions would be protected.
• Murphy said Umbrella Corporation would own the institute's research, promised co-first authorship when results could be published, and described ways to protect rewards and research records.
• After answering questions about confidentiality and ownership, Murphy began to explain the reward system.

Murphy explained his goals for magical research to the Muggle researchers and organized their agreements and oaths, while Scrimgeour ordered an Auror to infiltrate Murphy’s potion shop for evidence. Murphy then sought Alex’s help with a new job.

• Murphy told the researchers he sought immortality, greater knowledge, and expanded capabilities, and Laura Kruger asked whether he would share a way to make others wizards or gods.
• Murphy had the researchers sign agreements and swear the Thorn Oath, which consumed nearly half his magical power.
• Dawlish told Scrimgeour that Murphy might be selling Beauty Potions to Muggles, and Scrimgeour ordered an Auror to infiltrate the potion shop with a camera.
• Murphy decided he needed a teacher for the Muggle researchers and approached the overworked Alex with a new job.