Recaps

Regulus advanced his Transfiguration, Space Magic, and understanding of his soul while helping students and investigating a first-year duel. The arc left him preparing to study a Whomping Willow and aware that Andromeda’s wedding was approaching.

• Regulus demonstrated Spatial Transfiguration to Professor McGonagall and considered what made an object remain itself.
• Sirius suspected Remus was a werewolf, and Regulus secretly watched Remus transform in the Shrieking Shack with Dumbledore.
• Regulus meditated on his sense of self, clarified his Soul Avatar, and added Saiph to his star model.
• Regulus developed a Spatial Network that stored and redirected spells, then used it to send six Disarming Charms at once.
• Regulus stopped Geoffrey Selwyn’s duel after discovering he had taken a potion, helped Rosalie Selwyn learn the Shield Charm, and received thirty points for Slytherin.
• Regulus studied the Whomping Willow’s magical vibrations with Professor Sprout and asked Orion to obtain a mature tree for him.
• Orion promised to secure the Whomping Willow and told Regulus when and where Andromeda’s wedding would take place.

Regulus explored the soul, alchemy, and new ways to use magic while pursuing his plan to make Saiph shine. After testing an emotion-carrying light spell on Aragog’s clan, he began openly drawing Samuel Vance and Lena Costa into his circle, leaving his challenge to Slytherin’s pure-blood order in motion.

• Regulus studied his glowing soul figure, experimented with Fiendfyre to build a flying device, and flew at near-supersonic speed before Dumbledore warned McGonagall to trust his choices.
• Regulus traveled with Dumbledore to Andromeda’s wedding, escorted her to Ted, gave her a Gringotts vault key, and then met Nicolas Flamel, who taught him about souls, anchors, and experience.
• Regulus told Nicolas that he wanted to discover what lay among the stars, received a rune-engraved Metal Ball for future visits, and returned to Hogwarts with his six stars unchanged.
• Regulus paired Avery with Samuel Vance, then demonstrated his dueling skill against Professor Vance and earned Slytherin twenty points.
• Regulus combined Lumos with Legilimency and tested the resulting emotion-carrying light on Baruk, briefly making the Acromantula feel stronger and fit to lead before promising Aragog a favor and demanding secrecy.
• Regulus refined his understanding of sound and light magic, encouraged Lily to improve her spellwork, and received Orion’s news that two mature Whomping Willows would arrive in Cornwall before Christmas.
• Regulus practiced encoding Lumos and launching spells through the Spatial Network, then invited Samuel and Lena Costa to lunch and arranged to meet them in the Library as a deliberate show of defiance toward Bellatrix.

Regulus trained Lily, developed his Spatial Transfiguration, and navigated growing tensions with Bellatrix, the Lestranges, and Sirius. The arc left Sirius reconsidering his choices while Regulus continued strengthening his allies and testing his abilities.

• Regulus arranged for Lina and Samuel to gather Muggle books, began secretly training Lily, and drew Snape into his plans after learning Rababstan Lestrange was investigating them.
• Regulus tested the Starry Sky Kite at Hogwarts, then visited the Acromantulas and began considering whether he could reshape Baruk’s magical structure.
• Regulus trained Lily in dueling and magic control, encouraged her to stand up to bullying, and asked her to teach Sirius and James a lesson.
• Regulus returned Bellatrix Lestrange’s warning with “O?” and, while visiting Professor McGonagall, praised Sirius’s progress and learned a new approach to Spatial Transfiguration.
• Regulus told Sirius that power meant shaping choices, understanding more, and bearing consequences, leaving Sirius to reflect on his family and his decisions.
• Bellatrix decided to confront Regulus at the Black Ancestral Home, while Sirius agreed to explore the Forbidden Forest with James and Lupin and Regulus studied human transfiguration.
• Snape investigated Lina and Samuel for Rababstan, but Avery warned him off, and Snape planned to brew fake Veritaserum for profit.
• Regulus mastered a technique for briefly twisting space and used it to shatter a dummy, then defeated Hermes in a duel and identified Apparition as the spell Avery had seen.

Regulus prepared to confront Bellatrix and the Lestranges at the Christmas Banquet, while bringing Sirius back into the Black family’s affairs and securing an escape through Fawkes. As the banquet approached, Regulus arranged to test Dark Enlightenment and assigned Sirius a role in the plan.

• Regulus helped Lily develop a Patronus by teaching her to seek her own longing for the future, and he resolved to help her choose a life beyond her relationships.
• Regulus learned that Snape was helping Rababstan target Costa and Vance, planned to confront Bellatrix at the Christmas Banquet, and asked Dumbledore for an escape method that could bypass magical protections.
• Dumbledore showed Regulus how Fawkes could travel past protections and gave him a tail feather to summon the Phoenix in an emergency.
• Regulus took Baruk from Aragog, shrank the Acromantula, and began planning ways to strengthen it before testing the Severing Charm again.
• Regulus’s group disrupted Snape and Rababstan’s attempt to use Veritaserum on Costa, but Rababstan escaped and Regulus decided the attempt implicated him.
• Sirius chose to return to Grimmauld Place, where Regulus and Orion prepared him to attend the Lestrange Christmas Banquet and observe Voldemort’s supporters.
• Regulus told Orion he planned to make Dark Enlightenment appear to corrupt him at the banquet while testing its effects on his soul, and Orion backed his decision.
• Regulus freed Sirius, assigned him to deal with Rababstan at the banquet, and then focused on the Bone Box as the Star Orbit turned into view.