Recaps

Murphy stopped undercover Aurors from taking over the Magic Research Institute and gave Andrew Tuke instructions for accelerating the Animagus Potion. He then learned that werewolves had abducted a child in the London Docklands, but the Aurors might have taken control of the security store, so Murphy set out to find them himself.

• Kingsley's awakened undercover agents seized the Magic Research Institute, but Murphy subdued them and ended the rebellion.
• Murphy told Andrew Tuke that they no longer needed Petrifying Lizard venom and gave him instructions for speeding up the Animagus Potion to prepare an antidote.
• Murphy underwent medical tests, but the researchers could not explain his transformed body.
• Laura told Murphy that a caller named Moony had seen werewolves abduct a child near Surrey Docks.
• Murphy ordered a rescue, learned he could not reach the Watchmen, and decided to search the Docklands himself.

Murphy tracked down and captured seven werewolves while the injured patients recovered at the Magic Research Institute. After admitting his role in the danger to Patrick and his security team, Murphy recruited the infected guards with the promise of controlled werewolf transformations and announced their first target: the Aurors.

• Murphy used lightning ravens to locate seven werewolves in Surrey Docks, captured them alive, and returned to the Magic Research Institute with Little Ares.
• The dittany-enhanced Magic Power Potion helped Little Ares, Patrick, and the other patients recover, and they all woke the next day.
• Patrick remembered that Murphy had altered his memories, learned Murphy was a wizard, and watched him summon ravens.
• Murphy told Radwan Perry and the surviving security personnel that his enemies had targeted them, and promised generous compensation to the families of the nine dead men.
• Murphy explained that Wolfsbane Potion could suppress the infected guards' loss of reason and offered to develop controlled transformations that could be used without a full moon.
• Murphy persuaded the mercenaries to join him and said their first target would be the Aurors.

Murphy’s werewolves ambushed Aurors across Diagon Alley, leaving the force devastated and Barty Crouch furious. Crouch learned the injured Aurors had gone to Murphy’s Mercy Wizarding Hospital and rushed there.

• Murphy identified Auror spies around the shuttered security store and authorized his werewolf pack to attack them.
• Radwan ordered his teams to launch simultaneous attacks, aiming to cripple the Aurors and bite them without killing them if possible.
• Werewolves ambushed Grace Carter and Doris in a café, then attacked across Diagon Alley, biting Aurors and leaving widespread destruction.
• Barty Crouch berated Gawain Robards over the attacks and learned that Mercy Wizarding Hospital treated lycanthropy and had received the injured Aurors.
• Crouch ordered Robards to take him to Mercy Wizarding Hospital immediately.

Mercy Wizarding Hospital treated werewolf-bitten Aurors, undermining Barty Crouch’s case against Murphy Darkholme. Crouch tried to rush Murphy’s trial, but the Wizengamot postponed it because the Watchmen had captured Sirius.

• Mercy Wizarding Hospital cured several Aurors bitten by werewolves, and its patients learned that Elodie and Valya worked there alongside doctors from the Magic Research Institute.
• Barty Crouch questioned Elodie and Valya, who said Murphy had taken them with their consent and helped establish the hospital, though Crouch recognized their account as a prepared cover story.
• Crouch realized that the hospital’s success could invalidate the Aurors’ warrant against Murphy, so he returned to the Ministry and ordered an immediate trial in absentia.
• Gawain Robards told Crouch that the Wizengamot had postponed the trial to prioritize Death Eater cases.
• Robards revealed that the Watchmen had captured Sirius.

Murphy located Sirius Black through the ravens’ shared vision while tracking Aurors and searching for Peter Pettigrew. Sirius was cornered by Dementors and nearly lost his soul before Murphy struck one with lightning.

• Murphy used the ravens’ vision to search for Aurors and found Sirius Black hiding in Diagon Alley.
• Murphy broke the arcade’s Tetris record, entered the name Anon, and left to deal with Sirius.
• Sirius stayed in Diagon Alley, hoping to find Peter Pettigrew, despite the growing danger from Dementors.
• Dementors cornered Sirius, and his weak Patronus failed to protect him from their attack.
• Murphy struck one of the Dementors with lightning and wondered aloud whether a billion volts could kill them.

Murphy rescued Sirius from the Dementors, revealed that Peter Pettigrew had been captured, and arranged for Sirius to receive a retrial. With Pettigrew exposed in court, Sirius was declared innocent and regained his freedom.

• Murphy struck the Dementors with lightning, scattered them, and brought Sirius to his home.
• Murphy told Sirius that Peter Pettigrew was in his custody and explained that he wanted to clear Sirius's name while using the case against Barty Crouch.
• Sirius agreed to spare Pettigrew temporarily and testify at a retrial, while Murphy promised to ensure a fair hearing.
• The Daily Prophet reported on the Aurors, the Watchmen, and Sirius's arrest, helping the Watchmen's reputation grow.
• Dumbledore forced Pettigrew back into his true form at Sirius's trial, and Sirius was declared innocent, freed, and moved to tears.

The Daily Prophet’s coverage of Sirius’s innocence and Murphy Darkholme’s persecution turned public anger toward Barty Crouch and the Aurors. After Peter Pettigrew escaped during transport, Murphy confronted Crouch at home, exposed his hidden son, and left Crouch begging to cooperate.

• The Daily Prophet published Rita Skeeter’s articles praising Sirius’s innocence and questioning the Aurors’ authority for putting Sirius and Murphy on wanted lists.
• Gawain Robards told Barty Crouch that Peter Pettigrew had escaped while being escorted to Azkaban, and Crouch returned home fearing his career was over.
• Murphy ordered Winky out of the room with his Commanding Enchanting Voice and confronted Crouch about hiding Barty Crouch Jr.
• Crouch refused Murphy’s offer to cooperate, so Murphy beat him, tortured him with the Cruciatus Curse, and pulled Barty Crouch Jr. from the cupboard.
• Murphy prepared to leave with Barty Crouch Jr. for Azkaban, but Crouch grabbed his foot and asked what Murphy wanted him to do.

Murphy forced Barty Crouch to withdraw the wanted notice and apologize, then outlined reforms that could restore his reputation and help him become Minister for Magic. He left Crouch with a plan to curb the Aurors, establish Watchmen oversight, and arrest a list of suspected Death Eaters.

• Murphy stripped Barty Crouch Jr. of the Invisibility Cloak and restrained him, then offered old Barty Crouch a path to becoming Minister for Magic.
• Murphy told Crouch to withdraw the wanted notice and apologize to Murphy, Sirius, the injured Aurors, and those harmed by his handling of the werewolf problem.
• Murphy advised Crouch to blame Gawain Robards for past abuses and propose reducing the Aurors' authority while assigning them ordinary law enforcement and disaster-response work.
• Murphy proposed an independent Watchmen organization elected by its members to oversee the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and report its findings to the Wizengamot.
• Murphy gave Crouch a list of suspected Death Eaters, including the Carrow siblings, Yaxley, and Avery, and told him to arrest them and make them talk.

Patrick saw Umbrella’s success as a way to help lead humanity toward Murphy’s greater goal of uncovering the end of magic. Meanwhile, Barty Crouch reformed magical law enforcement and captured several Death Eaters, while Murphy sent the Lightning Ravens after a self-proclaimed Dark wizard and learned Fenrir Greyback was gathering werewolves in Suffolk.

• Patrick reflected on Blue Queen’s success and decided Umbrella should lead humanity toward collective ascension as part of Murphy’s necessary path.
• After Peter Pettigrew escaped, Barty Crouch apologized for past failures, lifted the wanted orders for Sirius and Murphy, and announced reforms to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
• Barty Crouch captured the Carrow siblings, who confessed that they had helped Peter escape to find Voldemort, and the Watchmen later captured Yaxley and Avery with Murphy’s covert assistance.
• Murphy tore up Harold Nielsen’s letter and ordered thirty Lightning Ravens to find him.
• A Lightning Raven reported that more than forty werewolves had gathered in Suffolk under Fenrir Greyback, and Murphy said he had finally caught him.

Greyback tried to restore his authority over his werewolf pack by challenging Remus Lupin to a bloody duel. Lupin accepted to give the others a chance at a better life, but Greyback transformed and attacked him, leaving Lupin apparently mortally wounded.

• Greyback decided to use a bloody duel to stop his pack from turning against him.
• Remus Lupin challenged Greyback's claims and urged the werewolves to seek help from Mercy Wizarding Hospital, Dumbledore, or Murphy.
• Greyback invoked the pack's tradition of fighting to the death, and Lupin accepted the duel after handing his wand away.
• Lupin told the werewolves to seek a better life if he lost, then entered the clearing to fight Greyback.
• Greyback partially transformed, pounced on Lupin, and tore at his neck with his fangs.

Murphy’s transformed Muggle soldiers ambushed Greyback’s pack and exacted revenge, while Murphy arranged for Lupin to receive emergency treatment. Greyback survived the attack, and Murphy questioned him about Albert Runcorn.

• Muggle soldiers surrounded Greyback’s gathering and shot him before revealing themselves.
• The soldiers injected Magic Power Potion, transformed into werewolves, and charged the pack under Radwan Perry’s command.
• Murphy watched the revenge attack as Lupin begged him to spare the werewolves, then sent Lupin to the Magic Research Institute for treatment.
• Murphy found Greyback alive and asked him where Albert Runcorn was.

Murphy confronted a gathering of wizards plotting against him and revealed his overwhelming power. He slaughtered many of them and left the survivors cowering as he commanded them to kneel and worship.

• The wizards argued over whether to flee, surrender, or wait for Greyback to kill Murphy.
• Murphy appeared in their hall, mocked them as stray dogs, and forced Albert Runcorn to kneel before him.
• Albert attacked Murphy with Reducto, but Murphy blocked the spell with his scaled hand and survived the wizards’ group assault.
• Murphy transformed, killed several wizards, and used lightning to disarm the rest and burn down the estate.
• Murphy summoned a storm that devastated the castle grounds and ordered the surviving wizards to kneel and worship.

Murphy consolidated his influence as Umbrella surged ahead in technology and Barty Crouch became Minister for Magic. Dumbledore learned that Kingsley Shacklebolt had fled to the United States, while the wizarding world faced an approaching long night.

• Ansetus told Murphy that their account of Peter Pettigrew’s attack had been published and that Barty Crouch had an eighty percent chance of becoming Minister.
• Umbrella sold two million Blue Queens, and American officials discovered that the company controlled its entire technology supply chain without relying on American technology.
• Rasim Selwyn became Head of the Auror Office, dismissed Kingsley Shacklebolt and other Aurors, and prompted an investigation that ended with Shacklebolt and three others escaping.
• Millicent Bagnold retired, Barty Crouch defeated Fudge to become Minister for Magic, and several other officials took new posts.
• Dumbledore learned that Shacklebolt had declined his protection and gone to the United States, then watched the sun sink as night approached.

At the Magic Research Institute’s first Magic Science Awards Ceremony, Murphy praised the researchers’ work and awarded the decade’s most important discoveries. He revealed that the Institute had found a dangerous method of turning Muggles into wizards, then gave the honored researchers wands and vowed to share magic with them.

• Laura helped Murphy manage his worsening symptoms backstage before he took morphine and went onstage.
• Murphy celebrated the Institute’s achievements and presented awards to researchers from several groups.
• Murphy named the ten most significant discoveries and gave their researchers money, company shares, contribution points, and gold medals.
• Murphy announced that the Institute had found a dangerous, imperfect way to transform Muggles into wizards.
• Murphy declared that he was willing to share magic, and he gave wands to the honored researchers.

Murphy visited the recovering Remus Lupin, offered him a role teaching the captured werewolves, and let him decide what should happen to Peter Pettigrew. After Lupin recovered, Murphy brought him to meet Sirius at his new home, where they reunited and met Harry.

• Murphy told Lupin that twelve werewolves had died and the rest had been saved, and explained that the survivors would be held and reformed before choosing their futures.
• Murphy asked Lupin to consider teaching the werewolves and showed him Peter Pettigrew, leaving his fate to Lupin; Lupin chose to let Murphy take him away.
• In mid-June, Murphy brought Lupin to Sirius's new home on Stoatshead Hill with wine to celebrate the move.
• Lupin and Sirius exchanged teasing remarks, embraced, and then met Harry, James and Lily's child.

Murphy learned that widespread cellular aging and genetic defects were causing tumors throughout his body, leaving him with an estimated one or two years to live. After using advanced treatments to suppress the cancer temporarily, he decided to seek the Philosopher’s Stone as a possible source of the Elixir of Life and resolved to retrieve it from Vault 713.

• Solans Batman told Murphy that tumors and aging cells throughout his body, likely worsened by the Dittany Promoter and repeated Animagus transformations, were causing his body to collapse and might leave him only one or two years to live.
• Doctors recommended cancer treatment and further research into slowing Murphy’s aging, but warned that aggressive treatments and foreign genetic material could destabilize his fragile body.
• Murphy underwent more than a dozen surgeries, then worked with researchers to develop technologies including CRISPR-Cas9 and CAR-T therapy, which reduced his cancer to a level that did not disrupt daily life.
• Murphy concluded that the cancer would return unless he solved the underlying aging problem and recalled that Nicolas Flamel’s Elixir of Life might help.
• Murphy decided to retrieve the Philosopher’s Stone from Vault 713 before Dumbledore could destroy it.

Murphy discovered that the Philosopher’s Stone was no longer in Vault 713 and suspected Hagrid had already taken it to Hogwarts. After abandoning the idea of cooperating with Voldemort, Murphy summoned Lucius Malfoy to Stoatshead Hill, where a lightning crow warned Lucius to come or face execution.

• Murphy entered Gringotts with Gold Buckle and used lightning crows to locate Vault 713.
• Murphy stunned Gold Buckle, opened Vault 713 with the Goblin’s hand, and found the Philosopher’s Stone missing.
• Murphy reasoned that Hagrid might have taken the Stone to Hogwarts early because Harry lived with Sirius, then decided against cooperating with Voldemort.
• Murphy returned to Vault 891, used a Commanding Enchanting Voice to conceal what had happened from Gold Buckle, and sent a lightning crow to summon Lucius Malfoy.
• Lucius worried that Murphy would punish him for staying neutral while Murphy defeated Runcorn’s faction and gained control of the Ministry.
• A lightning crow appeared in Lucius’s study and ordered him to go to Stoatshead Hill, warning him of execution if he did not obey.

Murphy forced Lucius Malfoy to sign a blood contract pledging unconditional service, then turned to discuss business with him. The chapter ended with Murphy asking about Lucius and Albert Runcorn's positions as Hogwarts governors.

• Murphy watched George, Fred, Ron, and Ginny Weasley drive Gnomes from the fields at Stoatshead Hill.
• Lucius Malfoy followed a crow to Murphy's courtyard, where crows mocked and watched him along the way.
• Murphy asked Lucius whether he wanted to live or die, and Lucius begged for mercy.
• Murphy presented Lucius with a contract requiring him to serve Murphy unconditionally, and Lucius signed it in blood to avoid death.
• After the contract bound Lucius to Murphy, Murphy asked whether Lucius and Albert Runcorn were both Hogwarts governors.

Murphy Darkholme joined Hogwarts’ Board of Governors and proposed a review of the school’s staff after criticism of graduate employment rates prompted a Ministry hearing. The review left the governors demanding dismissals, while Murphy argued that the brief interviews were not enough to judge the professors.

• Murphy donated money to Hogwarts and was elected to the Board of Governors after Albert Runcorn was presumed unable to serve.
• After the Daily Prophet criticized Hogwarts graduates’ employment prospects, Murphy proposed a comprehensive review of the school’s faculty and staff.
• On August 19, the governors questioned Argus Filch about discipline and his torture implements, and Murphy intervened to let him go.
• Sybill Trelawney gave alarming predictions before dropping and shattering her crystal ball, while the governors also mocked the ghost Professor Binns, Goblin Professor Flitwick, giant Hagrid, and stammering Quirrell.
• The governors blamed Hogwarts’ declining teaching quality on its professors and demanded that Dumbledore dismiss them, including Snape.
• Murphy argued that the governors could not fairly judge the professors based on brief interviews.

Murphy persuaded the school governors to appoint him as a resident governor at Hogwarts, giving him a legitimate route into the school while he pursued the Philosopher's Stone. He began planning to add a teaching post and use an agent to steal the Stone without drawing Dumbledore’s attention.

• Murphy argued that the governors should focus on improving Hogwarts education and proposed stationing one of them at the school to supervise its teaching.
• The governors agreed to Murphy’s proposal and chose him to serve as the resident supervisor.
• Murphy returned to the Magic Research Institute and considered why stealing the Philosopher’s Stone was his only viable way to obtain it.
• Murphy decided that becoming a professor as well as a governor could help him gain the faculty’s trust and intervene in the Stone’s protections.
• Murphy concluded that he would need an agent to pursue the Philosopher’s Stone while keeping Dumbledore from focusing on him.

Murphy used a fabricated future apocalypse to make Tom Riddle believe he was a desperate young wizard seeking help. Tom accepted the apparent chance to travel back and claim the Philosopher’s Stone, setting Murphy’s plan in motion.

• Murphy decided to avoid using Harry and chose the diary’s Tom Riddle as a proxy for obtaining the Philosopher’s Stone.
• In the Chamber of Secrets, Murphy used a false identity and invented records about a future war to persuade Tom that wizards faced extinction.
• Murphy’s fabricated journal described survivors fleeing the Arasaka Corporation’s machines and dying as they traveled toward the Scottish Highlands.
• The false account claimed the last survivor had a shattered Time-Turner and needed Tom to return to the past, claim the Philosopher’s Stone, and save the wizards.
• Tom sensed that the writer had opened his mind to the diary, and Murphy ended the account by urging him to become the Chosen One.

Murphy erased Albert Runcorn’s memories, transformed him into a young Muggle boy, and implanted a sequence of memories about Lucas’s past. The visions ended with a Muggle war machine warning wizards to surrender, while a wizard revealed that the system was not controlled by humans.

• Murphy questioned Albert Runcorn, erased his memories with Obliviate, and gave him Polyjuice Potion to transform him into a Muggle boy.
• Murphy implanted a memory of missiles destroying the boy’s home and a faceless man entrusting Lucas with the Wizard King’s final Horcrux.
• Murphy showed Runcorn memories of Lucas helping a bullied East Asian girl and later hearing her explain why she cherished the world and chose the name Lucas Light.
• In another memory, Lucas discovered a mechanical worker bee near a hive and warned the camp that it had been found.
• A silver, spider-like war machine emerged from the forest and ordered the wizards to surrender.
• A wizard reported that the Imperius Curse had failed on a Muggle engineer and that no humans commanded the war system.

Lucas led children fleeing the Crimson Network’s drone swarm after Angel Bolton told them of a prophecy promising a savior’s resurrection. Entrusted with a Time-Turner and the Philosopher’s Stone, Lucas traveled a hundred years into the past, where a diary addressed to Tom revealed that he had expected to be consumed.

• Angel Bolton urged the survivors to head to the Scottish Highlands in search of hope and told them of a prophecy about a resurrected savior.
• Lucas and the girl he hoped to see the sea with separated from the other refugees as they fled the drone swarm.
• The swarm attacked the gathered wizards, and Heavenfire struck after the girl was hit by lasers.
• Angel Bolton gave Lucas a Wolf Transformation Potion, then later entrusted him with a Time-Turner and instructed him to find Hogwarts’s ruins and use the Philosopher’s Stone to resurrect the King of Wizards.
• With mechanical forces surrounding him, Lucas wrote in a diary and turned the Time-Turner, arriving in a wizarding village in 1990 in a child’s body.
• A diary in the basement recorded Lucas telling Tom that he had expected Tom to consume him.

Murphy planted fabricated memories in Tom Riddle’s diary, setting up Tom to possess a child’s body and seek the Philosopher’s Stone, then placed a magical control spell on the child. Tom believed the memories, began draining the transformed Runcorn, and was caught off guard when strange magic from the passage started binding him to the diary.

• Murphy completed the false memories explaining that Lucas Brightson had arranged Tom’s resurrection and would give him his body.
• Murphy cast “Notam servitutis!” on Runcorn, who had been transformed into a child.
• Tom read Lucas Brightson’s memories of a future war with Muggles and became convinced that their technology made the conflict terrifying.
• Tom decided to pursue resurrection first, then master magic and Muggle technology so he could dominate both worlds and become a savior.
• As Tom drained Runcorn’s magic and life force, strange magic surged through the passage and began chaining him to the diary.

Murphy used the Seed of the Mind to seize control of Tom Riddle’s diary and studied Tom’s memories and the diary’s creation. He joined Tom’s consciousness to Lucas Brightson’s body and left him at the orphanage, where Lucas awoke with a fabricated identity and memories.

• Murphy’s Seed of the Mind bypassed the diary’s defenses, took control of Tom, and let Murphy explore the Horcrux’s memories.
• Murphy discovered that Tom had first created the diary as a self-aware magical portrait before turning it into a Horcrux.
• Murphy made sixteen-year-old Tom appear as a younger boy resembling Lucas Brightson, then bound Tom to Lucas’s body with the Seed of the Mind.
• Tom, now inhabiting Lucas’s body, returned to Reed Children’s Welfare Home and placed the diary in Lucas’s room.
• Lucas awoke the next morning and read in the diary that he was Lucas Tom Brightson and that a couple wanted to adopt him.