Recaps

Murphy used the werewolf attacks on Supreme Potion employees and the Aurors’ refusal to respond to promote the Watchmen Wizard Security Store as a public alternative to Auror protection. He sent trained Watchmen to guard the shop assistants and urged them to face the werewolves confidently.

• Murphy brought the bitten shop assistants and Healer Elodie Russell to the Magic Research Institute, where the Transfiguration Research Group could study their werewolf wounds.
• Murphy told Isaac to list the remaining shop assistants’ names and addresses, arrange their protection, and report the attacks to the Aurors.
• After Auror Headquarters ignored three days of reports, Rita Skeeter and Murphy criticized their inaction in the Daily Prophet, and Murphy promoted the Watchmen Wizard Security Store.
• The Watchmen recruited more combat wizards and deployed them in pairs to guard the Supreme Potion shop assistants, using improved goblin coins to summon support.
• Murphy told the Watchmen they were better prepared than the werewolves and urged them to protect the employees and seize glory.

After the Watchmen drove off the werewolves, Murphy remained wary of another attack and began arranging protection for Umbrella’s key personnel. He also pushed Patrick to accelerate the computer project and recruited Radwan Perry to form Umbrella’s own armed security team.

• The Watchmen captured a werewolf wizard, and their victories were celebrated in Rita’s reports as werewolf attacks dwindled and then stopped.
• Murphy visited Patrick and assigned security guards to protect him and his family from possible threats.
• Patrick told Murphy that the operating system was less than forty percent complete and could take another year; Murphy ordered more hiring and demanded a desktop launch within six months, citing The Lion King’s imminent release as a source of funds.
• Murphy asked Radwan Perry to leave his security company and build an Umbrella security team from former military comrades, offering higher pay and a two-week deadline.
• Murphy warned Radwan that the team might face unusual enemies and told him to obtain all necessary equipment.

Murphy investigated the werewolf attacks and learned Greyback was planning a larger strike, then devised a plan to draw the Aurors into action. He arrived at the Burrow and recognized the rat in Ron Weasley’s arms as Peter Pettigrew.

• Murphy found the Malfoys had left for Rome and learned from the captured werewolves that Greyback was preparing a major attack with a growing group of more than thirty werewolves.
• Murphy considered using Sirius to provoke Barty Crouch into sending out the Aurors.
• Murphy visited his newly acquired property near Stoatshead Hill and told House-elf Tata to renovate its mill and tower.
• Murphy went to the Burrow, where Fred Weasley and George Weasley tricked Ron Weasley into believing he had learned a Transfiguration Spell.
• Murphy greeted the boys and recognized the gray rat in Ron Weasley’s arms as Peter Pettigrew.

Murphy visited the Weasleys and secretly captured Scabbers, whom he identified as Peter Pettigrew, then arranged for the rat to be photographed and publicized. He visited Azkaban with Minister Millicent, and three days later Sirius escaped.

• Murphy introduced himself to Molly Weasley and chatted with her while the Weasley children listened nearby.
• Murphy slipped away from the Burrow, captured Scabbers, and replaced him with a similar-looking rat before returning to the bathroom.
• Murphy gave Scabbers to Blanco Lloyd while Rita Skeeter interviewed him, and several Daily Prophet reports published the rat’s photographs.
• Murphy persuaded Minister Millicent to take him to Azkaban so he could visit his parents’ graves and bring their remains home.
• Three days after Murphy’s visit to Azkaban, news broke that Sirius had escaped.

Sirius Black’s escape and the arrival of Dementors brought panic to Diagon Alley, creating a surge of business for Murphy’s Watchmen security service. As Murphy prepared the Watchmen for a possible werewolf attack, his chip project advanced while the operating-system team struggled with his ambitious requirements, leaving him considering another use of Total Recall.

• The Daily Prophet’s reports of Sirius Black’s escape and a supposed sighting in Diagon Alley prompted complaints to Minister Millicent and forced Aurors to patrol the area.
• The Ministry allowed Dementors into Diagon Alley under Auror supervision, but they preyed on the happiness of passersby whenever they could.
• Murphy advertised Watchmen protection, and demand surged after the Dementors arrived, helping the Watcher Security Shop open for business.
• On July 6, Murphy equipped the Watchmen with anti-werewolf gear and told them to prioritize survival and draw werewolves toward Auror patrols if necessary.
• The full moon passed without a werewolf attack, while Murphy’s laboratory completed an oversized lithography machine and began designing new chips.
• Bob Henderson told Murphy that the operating system’s scale and technical demands had overwhelmed the development team, and Murphy considered using Total Recall again.

Murphy learned that using Total Recall was causing his brain to degenerate, forcing him to choose between abandoning his ambitions for Umbrella’s chip business and pursuing them at further risk. After reflecting on his impatience and desire for power, he decided to press on, and Patrick agreed to support him.

• Murphy used Total Recall to recover network protocol and system architecture knowledge, which Bob Henderson said could save about a month of development.
• Funes warned Murphy that repeated use of Total Recall was causing neural degeneration and told him to stop.
• Murphy told Patrick he feared losing Umbrella if he continued pursuing chip design and software, but also feared wasting his work by becoming a foundry for other companies.
• Patrick asked why Murphy was in such a hurry, and Murphy realized he was driven by his weakness and his ambition to reach the power of the wizards he admired.
• Murphy decided to risk everything and follow his own path, and Patrick accepted his decision and urged him to go create his world.

Murphy learned that a Patronus could guide a high-level Animagus transformation toward a safer result, and he used Peter Pettigrew to help the researchers test the method. Meanwhile, his companies expanded across film, finance, and technology as Murphy prepared for his own transformation.

• Andrew Tuke explained that high-level Animagus transformations could be guided by a Patronus to reduce harmful mutations and improve the chance of success.
• Murphy gave Andrew Tuke Peter Pettigrew, already a stable Animagus, for the research team's analysis.
• Pickett's The Lion King became a global hit, and Camelot completed its public listing, easing Murphy's funding pressure.
• Murphy bought chip design and manufacturing companies, acquired LCD panel makers, and partnered with Seagate to develop hard drives.
• Murphy put one billion pounds into a contribution-based development pool for the desktop system team, sharply increasing competition and development speed.
• As Sophon Technology's aggressive expansion drew worldwide attention, Murphy ignored most invitations and secluded himself to prepare for his advanced Animagus transformation.

Murphy and the Transfiguration Research Group advanced their Animagus trials, and wizard Winston Robinson successfully completed the Patronus Induction Method. As a powerful storm arrived, Murphy reached the moment of his own transformation, collected the potion, and drank it.

• Murphy felt a second heartbeat while mentally guiding his Animagus transformation toward his desired traits.
• The Transfiguration Research Group reported that Winston Robinson had successfully become an advanced Animagus, with the fatality rate recalculated below 3%.
• Murphy ordered Newcastle to stop artificial rainfall so a storm could gather around the potion he had prepared there.
• As lightning flashed, Murphy found himself on a mountaintop without using his wand and went into the cave to retrieve the potion.
• Murphy watched the potion turn blood-red, thanked the raven Patronus, and drank the potion beneath the storm.

Murphy transformed into a raven and discovered that he could fly at supersonic speeds before returning to human form. At the Magic Research Institute, Andrew Tuke’s examination revealed extensive physical changes, and he began describing the remarkable alterations to Murphy’s brain.

• Murphy transformed into a raven, flew through the storm at supersonic speed, and found his senses and flight had improved.
• Murphy changed back, noticed his enhanced night vision remained, and used Apparition to return to the Magic Research Institute.
• Murphy asked Andrew Tuke to arrange a full physical examination, which found changes to his eyes, eyebrows, bones, muscles, and lungs.
• Andrew explained that Murphy’s strength, agility, oxygen intake, and heartbeat had increased dramatically, while warning that reproduction with an ordinary human could be difficult.
• Murphy asked whether his brain had changed, and Andrew called it a miracle.

After his advanced raven Animagus transformation greatly enhanced his mental abilities, Murphy spent a month studying in the library and then directed several research projects. He proposed a new use for developing solution to improve photolithography before convening Turing Technology’s desktop system engineers to review their progress.

• Andrew told Murphy that his brain had more than four times the neurons of an ordinary human and that his memory, reasoning, and other abilities had improved dramatically.
• Murphy decided he needed knowledge to make use of his enhanced mental abilities and spent a month studying in the library.
• Murphy gave the Transfiguration Research Group experiments to pursue on advanced Animagus transformations, magical Animagi, Patronuses, and werewolf transformations.
• Murphy proposed that developing solution could make photoresist gather, spread, or move in patterns, and Derrick Preston agreed to begin testing the idea.
• Murphy summoned Turing Technology’s senior engineers and project managers to report on desktop system development, beginning with Mr. Albert of the Graphical Interface R&D Group.

Murphy guided his teams through design and technical problems, supplied Pickett with scripts, and oversaw advances in chip production and a new desktop computer. After Patrick was overwhelmed by the finished prototype, Murphy asked him to present it to the world.

• Murphy directed the interface team to use smooth animations and create a prominent Start menu, and he gave the network team a leasing-based approach to IP allocation.
• The engineers marveled at Murphy's technical knowledge, and he encouraged them to finish the desktop system by year's end.
• Pickett released Legend of the Magic Lamp, prompting a Disney producer to discover that it resembled the Aladdin project he was preparing to propose.
• Murphy gave Pickett's management ten scripts and set their production order for the next three years.
• Umbrella advanced its chip process to 0.2 microns, began producing its own chips, and moved the completed desktop system into polishing and optimization.
• Before Christmas, Murphy showed Patrick the computer prototype, and he asked Patrick to hold its launch event and present it to the world.

Umbrella Corporation’s heavily publicized Sophon Technology launch drew industry leaders and the media to Birmingham. Murphys confidently bet that it would be one of electronics history’s greatest launches, and Patrick opened the event as the countdown ended.

• The launch packed Birmingham’s convention hall with distributors, media, and representatives from Intel, Apple, and Microsoft.
• Steve Ballmer bet Paul Otellini that the launch would be a failure, while Murphys wagered that it would be one of the greatest launches in electronics history.
• A dramatic countdown, sound effects, and enormous display introduced Umbrella’s logo to the audience.
• Patrick appeared onstage and welcomed the guests to Umbrella’s product launch.

Patrick unveiled Umbrella Corporation’s Blue Queen personal computer and demonstrated its Cornerstone operating system, emphasizing its speed, compatibility, and smooth interface. He left the audience with Umbrella’s claim that its powerful hardware could deliver a rich experience without compromising performance.

• Patrick thanked Murphys Anon and Umbrella Corporation, then explained how Murphys had persuaded him to enter the electronics industry.
• Patrick introduced the Blue Queen and showed its silver-gray design in an animated presentation.
• Patrick described Blue Queen’s six major technologies, then powered on the computer and demonstrated its three-second startup into Cornerstone.
• Patrick explained Cornerstone’s design principles, including hardware portability, software compatibility, ease of use, and high performance.
• Steve Ballmer questioned how Cornerstone could run high-resolution animations at 60 frames per second, and Patrick said Umbrella solved the problem by building more capable hardware.

Patrick showcased the Blue Queen Computer’s advanced components, including its Cornerstone System, Blue Dragon Graphics Card, solid-state drive, hard drive, memory, LCD monitor, and Silver Dragon One processor. Industry representatives recognized that Umbrella Corporation’s technology far outstripped theirs, and Nintendo and IBM’s representatives moved to report what they had learned.

• Patrick explained that the 200M Cornerstone System required powerful hardware and said the Blue Queen Computer could run it smoothly.
• Patrick demonstrated the Blue Dragon Graphics Card with a 3D Counter-Strike demo, prompting a Nintendo representative to ask about the GPU and its availability.
• Patrick told the Nintendo representative that Umbrella Corporation planned to sell the Blue Dragon GPU next year, after prioritizing its own products.
• An IBM representative asked about the solid-state drive, and Patrick revealed a 500M model with a ten-thousand-pound price tag.
• Patrick presented the computer’s 100G hard drive, 50M of memory, widescreen LCD monitor, and Silver Dragon One processor, whose specifications dwarfed contemporary chips.
• IBM, Intel, and Microsoft’s representatives understood why Patrick had warned them not to hate him after the meeting.

After Umbrella’s launch stunned the electronics industry, Murphy celebrated with Patrick, then visited the Magic Research Institute to test werewolf transformation. The next morning, Laura told him that werewolves had massacred the Muggle Security Team and badly wounded Patrick.

• CNN called Umbrella’s product launch a “massacre,” and Steve Jobs said Apple shares were now worthless.
• Patrick thanked Murphy for choosing him as a partner and asked him to be Little Ares’s godfather, but Murphy declined awkwardly.
• Murphy heard Andrew Tuke’s report that werewolf transformations were linked to rabies and affected by psychological factors.
• Murphy warned Laura to alert the security teams because it was a full moon, then the researchers tested controlling transformations by replacing a werewolf’s mental image of the moon.
• Laura woke Murphy the next morning and reported that werewolves had attacked the Muggle Security Team and badly wounded Patrick.

After learning that Patrick was near death and his son Ares had been taken by werewolves, Murphy forced his way into St Mungo's Hospital. He left with the injured Muggle security team, Patrick, Audrey, and trainee healer Valia Oster, taking them to the Magic Research Institute for treatment.

• Murphy learned that Patrick was unconscious with a torn throat, Audrey had been scratched by a werewolf, and Ares was missing.
• At St Mungo's Hospital, Kingsley Shacklebolt tried to provoke Murphy into revealing his connection to Umbrella, but Murphy used his voice to make Kingsley step aside.
• Murphy punched Hippocrates out of the way and found Patrick, Audrey, fourteen injured guards, and nine dead guards in the ward.
• Murphy bound the patients and corpses together, recruited the frightened trainee healer Valia Oster, and cast a Portkey Charm to take them all to the Magic Research Institute.

After Greyback abducted Ares during a werewolf attack on Patrick’s villa, Murphy launched a search and helped the Magic Research Institute treat the wounded. The researchers proposed using a personalized Magic Power Potion to help bitten Muggles survive transformation, leaving Murphy to consider a method developed in a project to turn Muggles into wizards.

• Murphy learned that Greyback’s pack had attacked Patrick’s villa, killed several guards, bitten the survivors, and taken Ares after injuring Audrey.
• Murphy ordered Rita Skeeter to publicize a bounty for information about the werewolves and assembled teams to treat the injured.
• Elodie explained that Audrey’s scratches could be treated, while the bitten Muggles faced rapid organ failure as magical rabies spread.
• Andrew said the bitten Muggles might survive by completing their transformation, but they needed a precise supply of magic power.
• Hordan revealed that the team had developed an injectable Magic Power Potion, and Andrew proposed using a Muggle’s Polyjuice-derived signature to make a potion compatible with each patient.
• Andrew told Murphy that the method came from a subproject on transforming Muggles into wizards and offered to shut it down if Murphy objected.

Murphy approved Andrew’s effort to develop a potion that could give wizards Muggle-like magical traits, then rushed to find a way to preserve Patrick while the potion was being made. As Murphy traveled to the Grand Canyon to hunt for a Petrifying Lizard, Kingsley pushed to have him declared wanted, and Gawain agreed to report the matter to Barty Crouch.

• Murphy told Andrew that magic should be shared and learned that the proposed Magic Power Potion would take at least half a month to make.
• Murphy and the medical experts concluded that true petrification could preserve Patrick, but Lisandro reported that Petrifying Lizard venom was unavailable locally.
• Lisandro learned that an explorer had seen a Petrifying Lizard in Arizona’s Grand Canyon, so Murphy arranged a Portkey trip to the United States.
• Murphy instructed Laura Kruger to oversee the institute and send the Watchmen to recover Ares safely if they received news of him.
• Kingsley asked Gawain Robards to issue a wanted notice for Murphy, and Gawain agreed to report the request to Barty Crouch.
• Murphy arrived in San Francisco, located the explorer’s map, and flew toward the Grand Canyon in crow form at supersonic speed.

Murphy flew from San Francisco to the Grand Canyon at Mach 3, where he accidentally injured a Thunderbird and escaped its attacks. After failing to find a Petrifying Lizard, he asked a courting American crow if it knew where one was.

• Murphy flew through a storm cloud and collided with a Thunderbird, tearing a hole in its wing.
• The enraged Thunderbird struck Murphy with lightning and attacked him, but Murphy escaped by transforming and Apparating behind rocks.
• Murphy searched the Grand Canyon for more than two hours but could not find the Petrifying Lizard.
• An American crow courted Murphy, and he asked it whether it knew where a petrifying reptile lived.

Murphy traveled to the Colorado Grand Canyon, persuaded local crows to lead him to a Petrifying Lizard, and defeated it with magic and a hydraulic hammer. As he prepared to collect its venom, a Thunderbird swooped down on him.

• Murphy told Miss Bugs Are Tasty and the Guguagua Clan a fabricated tale of his parents’ deaths and demonstrated his magic to win their help finding the Petrifying Lizard.
• Kingsley Shacklebolt learned Murphy had gone to the United States and ordered the Aurors to alert American authorities, seize Murphy’s properties, and activate deep-cover agents.
• Hundreds of crows gathered at the Petrifying Lizard’s valley lair to watch Murphy confront the creature.
• Murphy transformed into a hairless ape, dodged the lizard’s venom, bound its legs with transfiguration, and knocked it unconscious with a hydraulic pile driver.
• Murphy put on dragonhide gloves to collect the lizard’s venom, but a Thunderbird swooped down toward him.

Murphy was battered by the Thunderbird and poisoned by the Petrifying Lizard while trying to escape. After his suitcase exploded and left him badly injured, he realized he had grabbed Dittany Promoter instead of healing potion, and the enraged Thunderbird descended on him again.

• The Thunderbird interrupted Murphy’s Apparition, pinned him down, and pursued him as he escaped in raven form among the crows.
• Murphy dodged the Thunderbird and the Petrifying Lizard’s venom, but the venom petrified his left arm and began spreading across his body.
• Murphy summoned his suitcase for Mandrake Juice, but the Thunderbird crushed it and spilled its contents across the ground.
• The Thunderbird’s lightning ignited the scattered supplies and explosives, blasting Murphy across the area and leaving him gravely wounded.
• Murphy mistook Dittany Promoter for Essence of Dittany, then saw the Thunderbird return amid a fiery tornado, shrieking in pain.

Murphy drank a Dittany Promoter as the Thunderbird prepared to kill him, transforming into a monstrous creature and fighting back. He killed the Thunderbird and swallowed its brain, ending the chapter transformed and standing over its crushed corpse.

• The Thunderbird killed the petrifying lizard, swallowed its brain, and fixed Murphy with a murderous gaze.
• Murphy, badly injured and holding a broken wand, challenged the Thunderbird and drank the Dittany Promoter.
• The potion transformed Murphy into a giant, regenerating monster, and he attacked the Thunderbird in midair.
• The Thunderbird summoned a tornado, but Murphy grew enormous wings, caught it, and tore its head apart.
• Murphy crushed the Thunderbird's corpse, swallowed its brain, and howled at the sky.

Murphy’s failed Animagus potion triggered a deadly transformation, and he used the crows and a superbrain to try to shape it before the potion’s effects ran out. As lightning burned away most of his brain, he gained a brief chance to think at the speed of light, with only five microseconds left.

• American Aurors led by Captain Mary spotted a massive tornado of black clouds near the Grand Canyon and flew toward it.
• Murphy’s body mutated into a huge mass of flesh, but he fought to survive and began chanting the Animagus incantation.
• Miss Bugs Are Tasty defended Murphy as the crows joined his chant and spiraled around him, summoning a vast storm and lightning.
• Mary and the other Aurors saw Murphy rise inside the tornado, then fold his wings around himself like an enormous egg as lightning struck him.
• Murphy used Total Recall and a rapidly growing superbrain to understand that the potion had begun transforming him into a Thunderbird and Petrifying Lizard Animagus, and that he had to complete the ritual to survive.
• Lightning formed an electromagnetic neural network in Murphy’s brain; he burned away most of his cortex and gained five microseconds to think at the speed of light.

Murphy gambled on using a mysterious hide to survive an extreme Animagus transformation, and emerged from a black egg as a creature combining Thunderbird, Petrifying Lizard, and unknown traits. After learning that American Aurors were looking for him under a British warrant, he vanished in a storm of lightning.

• Murphy used the nearly indestructible hide to contain his transformation, despite knowing its unknown magic could cause further mutations.
• A sphere of protection swallowed the storm, crows, and Murphy, leaving a black, scaly egg suspended in the air.
• Mary identified Petrifying Lizard scales and Thunderbird feathers, then touched the egg and caused it to crack and explode.
• Murphy emerged as a horned, feathered, scaled humanoid and stopped his crows from attacking the Aurors.
• Mary told Murphy that the British Aurors had issued a warrant for him, and he summoned the crows into enormous wings and flew away in a bolt of lightning.

Murphy survived his unstable multiple Animagus transformation and used lightning to travel back to the Potions Laboratory, where he was attacked by Bertram and two wizards. After overpowering them, Murphy took Bertram's wand and used Legilimency to find out what was happening.

• Murphy's thunderbird, basilisk, and goat-like transformation receded, leaving him badly injured and with lightning powers he could barely control.
• Murphy tried to travel toward London by lightning, but the journey worsened his condition, so he recalled how he had once performed wandless Apparition.
• Murphy entered a silent state of concentration and Apparated into a meeting room at the Potions Laboratory, where the lightning-linked arrival short-circuited nearby equipment.
• Bertram and two wizards recognized Murphy and attacked after noticing he had no wand, but Murphy swiftly incapacitated all three.
• Murphy picked up Bertram and summoned his wand, then cast Legilimency on him.