Recaps

Manus and Jasper discussed the value of learning alchemy before Professor Sprout taught the students how to handle the dangerous Chinese Chomping Cabbage. The students learned how to identify and harvest one safely, then began trying it themselves.

• Jasper told Manus he had no interest in alchemy and would not attend lessons just to pursue the five thousand Galleons.
• Sprout warned the students about the cold before leading them into the greenhouse’s isolated area to study Chinese Chomping Cabbages.
• Sprout explained that the cabbages could bite through flesh and bone, and demonstrated how one attacked and destroyed a wooden dummy.
• Sprout described how to harvest a cabbage safely and called students forward to try handling them one at a time.

Manus showed the students how to handle a Chinese Chomping Cabbage safely, then explained that his goal was to understand the rules governing the world and make his visions real. His bold definition of magic left the gathered wizards stunned.

• Manus demonstrated how to inspect and harvest a Chinese Chomping Cabbage, advising the students to pinch its broken stem and throw it before worrying about the leaves.
• Sprout awarded Ravenclaw House ten points and warned the students not to neglect identifying the cabbage's leaves.
• Jasper asked Manus what goal guided his interest in so many kinds of knowledge, including Muggle knowledge.
• Manus said his goal was the splendor of magic, which he defined as understanding the world's rules and using them to change reality.
• Manus demonstrated his point by sending water into a flowerpot, and the gathered wizards fell silent at his ambition.

After Manus’s claims about magic unsettled the students, he prepared to face the Slytherins who were coming to confront him. At the same time, he watched Millicent Bagnold battle Death Eaters in Hogsmeade while Dumbledore’s trap for Voldemort unfolded.

• Manus told the wizards that Muggles could use magic and said they only needed to bear witness.
• Severus warned Manus that his remarks had stirred up Slytherin, but Manus told him to stay calm and continue working on his potion.
• Manus watched through Muninn as Millicent Bagnold killed four Death Eaters and fought two more in Hogsmeade.
• More Death Eaters Apparated into Hogsmeade while Manus considered how he could exploit the dangers of their crude transportation magic.
• Manus went to the open area behind the Great Hall to receive the approaching Slytherin students.

Manus confronted Amycus, Alecto, and a group of Slytherins who came to challenge him over his views on blood status. He redirected their spells into a powerful explosion that left fifty-seven students injured or sprawled on the floor, while he remained unharmed.

• Amycus tried to claim Manus as a pure-blood ally, but Manus rejected his standards for friendship and mocked the value of blood status.
• Amycus and Alecto laughed at Manus and declared they would teach him to respect power, prompting more than twenty Slytherins to cast spells at him.
• Manus analyzed and redirected the incoming magic, combining the spells into an explosion that blasted fifty-seven Slytherins off their feet.
• Manus told the Slytherins to respect knowledge and compared their poor control of magic unfavorably to Muggles learning to use guns.

Manus explained that the Slytherin students had been injured when their own spells exploded after colliding, while Slughorn, Flitwick, and Madam Pomfrey struggled to make sense of the scene. The wounded students were taken to the Hospital Wing, where Manus gave his account of how the fight began.

• Manus noticed McGonagall in Hogsmeade Village before Slughorn arrived behind the Great Hall.
• Slughorn and Flitwick found the injured Slytherin students, and Manus claimed their own spells had exploded.
• Slughorn and Flitwick carried the students to the Hospital Wing, where Madam Pomfrey scolded them and the professors.
• Madam Pomfrey learned that all the injured students were from Slytherin and questioned how their wounds had been caused.
• Manus said the Slytherins had confronted him after his Herbology comment upset them, then injured themselves when their spells collided.

Manus offered to use Zone of Truth to verify the Slytherin students’ accusations, and Slughorn and Flitwick tested the spell in the Hospital Wing. The spell confirmed Manus had not lied, leaving Slughorn to punish the students before the professors left under Madam Pomfrey’s glare.

• Manus offered to cast Zone of Truth after a Slytherin student accused him of lying.
• Manus cast the spell, and Slughorn entered it to test whether it prevented lies.
• Flitwick asked Slughorn where he hid the Mead in his office, but Slughorn chose not to answer.
• Slughorn questioned the Slytherin student inside the zone, and the student could not claim Manus had lied.
• Slughorn took one hundred and fifty points from Slytherin and assigned the students detention.
• Slughorn and Flitwick left the Hospital Wing after Madam Pomfrey pressed them to go.

Manus watched the battle in Hogsmeade Village as the Order of the Phoenix pushed back Voldemort’s forces, observing the combat magic and the Black family’s fighters. Voldemort entered the battle and cast the Killing Curse, but Muninn judged that it merely severed the victims’ souls from their bodies and was not a reliable way to kill a mage.

• Manus waited in the Hospital Wing while Madam Pomfrey tended to the patients, then observed the expanding battle in Hogsmeade Village.
• Muninn identified Dumbledore’s allies as the Order of the Phoenix, whose fighters drove the Death Eaters back.
• Manus watched Bellatrix Black, her husband, and other familiar faces fight, and wondered why Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa were absent while Abraxas Malfoy fought.
• Voldemort entered the battle and cast the Killing Curse, killing two targets while a third dodged.
• Muninn examined the victims and concluded that the Killing Curse severed the connection between soul and body, making it unreliable against a mage.

Manus observed two victims of Voldemort’s Killing Curse enter the Misty Illusion, which appeared to them as King’s Cross Station and the Hogwarts Express. Back in Hogsmeade, Dumbledore joined the battle and fought Voldemort while both wizards attacked others around them.

• Manus watched the souls of two victims enter the Misty Illusion, and Sleipnir raced there but arrived too late to catch them.
• Manus saw that the Misty Illusion had taken the form of King’s Cross Station and the Hogwarts Express for the departing souls.
• Manus called Sleipnir back to the Mental World and reassured him that he was only curious about the souls.
• Voldemort cast Fiendfyre across the square, killing eight Order of the Phoenix wizards as well as several of his own fighters, then extinguished the flames.
• Dumbledore animated the statues in the square and attacked Dark Wizards while trading powerful spells with Voldemort.

Dumbledore trapped Voldemort and both sides inside an Anti-Apparition Charm, but Voldemort unleashed Fiendfyre across Hogsmeade to threaten everyone around them. The chapter ended with Voldemort turning Dumbledore’s summoned water into a corrosive, blood-red liquid.

• Dumbledore and Voldemort continued their fierce duel as the nearby fighters moved away from them.
• Dumbledore signaled Bagnold, prompting the Death Eaters to worry about incoming reinforcements.
• Voldemort ordered the Death Eaters to retreat, but they discovered that an Anti-Apparition Charm prevented them from escaping.
• Dumbledore revealed that the trapped sides would have to defeat each other or escape on foot, and declared it was time to settle their grievances with Voldemort.
• Voldemort unleashed Fiendfyre across the battlefield and Hogsmeade, then transformed Dumbledore’s summoned water into a dark red liquid that hissed against vegetation.

Dumbledore and Voldemort fought fiercely, with Dumbledore using the Elder Wand and the Killing Curse to suppress Voldemort, who remained difficult to harm. While Manus hoped Dumbledore had a decisive spell, Madam Pomfrey arrived to discuss the validation of Manus's Wound-Healing Potion.

• Manus recognized Voldemort's mastery of Dark Magic as Dumbledore adapted his attacks against Voldemort's magical resistance.
• Dumbledore used Occlumency to buffer extreme emotions, then met Voldemort's Killing Curse with his own and forced Voldemort to dodge.
• Dumbledore struck Voldemort with lightning and another Killing Curse, but Voldemort survived and the duel settled into a stalemate.
• Manus secretly helped the Aurors maintain the Anti-Apparition Charm while Voldemort considered retreating.
• Madam Pomfrey told Manus that the Monthly Potion Digest's Potions Masters struggled to fit his Wound-Healing Potion into their framework, so she had come to discuss its rigorous validation.

Madam Pomfrey explained the healers’ authority over approving medicinal potions and told Manus that his Wound-Healing Potion had passed review, with only efficacy testing left. Manus agreed to supply potions for volunteer patients and realized they were likely injured members of the Order of the Phoenix facing the raging Fiendfyre.

• Madam Pomfrey explained that healers had authority to verify medicinal potions after reckless potioneers died testing their own brews.
• Madam Pomfrey praised Manus’s detailed research and said the Wound-Healing Potion needed only an efficacy test.
• Manus agreed to provide the potion, and Madam Pomfrey offered a contract reimbursing him for ingredients.
• Madam Pomfrey said she wanted as much potion as Manus could provide because injured volunteers were ready for testing.
• Manus suspected the patients were members of the Order of the Phoenix and looked toward the battle, where Fiendfyre still raged.

Manus watched Dumbledore fight Voldemort but chose not to intervene, then supplied Madam Pomfrey with his stock of Wound-Healing Potion for the wounded Order members. Back at the dormitory, Bellows asked about the potion and raised the question of paying for the healing potion his mother used.

• Manus decided not to secretly help Dumbledore kill Voldemort because the risks of revealing his abilities outweighed the benefit.
• Manus estimated the Order members’ need for medicine, and Madam Pomfrey contracted to buy all eighty-seven bottles of his Wound-Healing Potion.
• Manus wondered who would pay for the potions, reasoning that public funds might cover treatment for the Order members while he gained useful test subjects.
• Bellows saw Manus collecting potions in the dormitory and asked what they did.
• Manus explained that the potion treated external physical wounds and removed scars, then Bellows said his family should pay for his mother’s healing potion.

Manus proposed adjusting Mrs. Travers's treatment to gently nourish her weakened soul, leaving Bellows unsure whether to accept and deciding to consult his father. Meanwhile, Manus reflected that Voldemort had escaped the battle after redirecting Fiendfyre at the wizards maintaining the Anti-Apparition Charm.

• Manus told Bellows he had a tentative plan to account for the damage to his mother's soul, but said the treatment was not ready and could be refused.
• Manus explained that his proposed treatment would be gentle and that Bellows could continue buying healing potions instead.
• Manus left Bellows to write to his father about the decision, then delivered Wound-Healing Potion to Madam Pomfrey.
• Voldemort used dark magic to sacrifice part of his body and redirect Fiendfyre at the wizards maintaining the Anti-Apparition Charm.
• Voldemort escaped with half his body while Dumbledore and the others pursued him.

Manus realized Voldemort’s true strength lay in surviving through spells from Bone · Blood · Flesh, and decided to help Dumbledore strengthen his attacks. After Dumbledore’s failed pursuit, the battle’s heavy casualties and destruction began affecting Hogwarts and Hogsmeade.

• Manus recognized that Voldemort had used a spell from Bone · Blood · Flesh and reasoned that Dumbledore was unlikely to kill him without a decisive advantage.
• Manus decided to find an excuse to give Dumbledore a Spider-Silk Scarf to increase the power of his spells.
• Dumbledore returned from the pursuit without killing Voldemort, while many injured wizards required treatment beyond the Hospital Wing’s resources.
• Madam Pomfrey informed Manus that his Wound-Healing Potion had passed testing.
• Hogwarts felt the aftermath as Hogsmeade residents rebuilt after Voldemort’s Fiendfyre destroyed much of the village, and families mourned those killed.

After the bloody battle in Hogsmeade, Hogwarts held a subdued Halloween Feast as the injured recovered and both sides counted their losses. Manus suspected Dumbledore might be exaggerating his injuries to lure Voldemort, while Professor Bagnold’s apparent good health surprised the students.

• Dumbledore attended the Halloween Feast still pale and recovering from a curse that had left black blood flowing from his arm.
• Manus observed that professors and students had stopped pursuing earlier disputes as casualties from the Hogsmeade battle weighed on both sides.
• Bellows told Jasper and Quirinus that St. Mungo’s had admitted at least a hundred people in recent days, many likely wounded in the battle.
• Quirinus wondered whether the fighting would quiet down enough for him to conduct field research, and Jasper warned him to be cautious.
• Manus suspected Dumbledore might be feigning the severity of his injuries to tempt Voldemort into attacking Hogwarts, but kept the thought to himself.
• Jasper remarked on Professor Bagnold’s survival after facing Voldemort, and Manus told him he was overthinking his suspicions about her.

Manus weighed Bagnold’s unlikely survival and the war’s effects on his plans, then built a small circle for students interested in preparing for what came next. The circle had begun choosing research topics as students from multiple houses approached him.

• Manus concluded that Bagnold’s survival depended on strength and luck, and decided to keep observing her as an apparent exception to the Defense Against the Dark Arts position’s Curse.
• Manus reflected that the battle had disrupted his plan to use conflict with Slytherin to spread his slogans, though his earlier remarks had still drawn interested students.
• Students from several houses contacted Manus to ask about his views, and he outlined the organizational basics he wanted to establish: a platform, goals, welfare and security, and rules.
• Ignis asked Manus how his small circle was progressing, and Manus said it was going smoothly and had chosen several preliminary research topics.

Manus established an organization for capable Slytherins, offering research projects, credit-based rewards, and protection. Ignis joined after signing a magical contract and discovered that its decorative patterns had secretly used the Fidelius Charm to convey members-only information.

• Manus recruited capable Slytherins by offering research work, guidance, protection, and credits redeemable for goods and Galleons.
• Manus asked Ignis whether he wanted to join, and Ignis explained that he wanted opportunities beyond his family's conservative approach.
• Manus presented Ignis with the organization's contract, and Ignis signed it after reviewing the terms.
• Ignis received hidden information about the organization through the Fidelius Charm and recognized the spell's use.
• Manus called the contract's patterns the organization's first lesson, and Ignis checked that they had only conveyed Fidelius-related information.

Manus agreed to name the study group the Wizard Sage Party after Ignis and Pandora argued that it needed an official name. After rejecting the idea of a distinctive emblem, he adjourned the meeting, but Hector Shafiq stopped him to speak privately.

• Ignis urged Manus to give the organization a more impressive name, and Pandora later warned that outsiders might name it if its members did not.
• Manus agreed to choose a name and settled on Wizard Sage Party, dismissing Pandora's suggestion of Fairy Forest.
• Pandora proposed creating a distinctive emblem, but Manus rejected the idea because it could cause alarm or attract Aurors.
• Manus adjourned the meeting, and Hector Shafiq stopped him to talk in private.

Manus considered whether Regulus Black, a former peripheral member of the Death Eaters, could join the Wizard Sage Party. He allowed Regulus to apply and left the decision to a test of his abilities and views.

• The Wizard Sage Party members settled on calling Manus “King,” a title that could mean either his surname or a monarch.
• Hector privately asked Manus whether someone with ties to the Death Eaters could join the Wizard Sage Party.
• Manus asked who the applicant was, and Hector named Regulus Black, who had never received the Dark Mark.
• Manus decided the party had no rule forbidding Regulus from applying and gave Hector a test paper covering Regulus’s abilities and beliefs.

Manus suspected Regulus had an ulterior motive for seeking entry into the Wizard Sage Party, so he posted a research task that could expose pure-blood ideology and offered information about the Resurrection Stone as bait for Voldemort. He expanded the Party’s magical-item redemption list to protect its members, then checked on his potions and found the Weight Loss Potion still unfinished.

• Hector took Manus’s test back to Regulus, while Manus doubted Regulus had genuinely abandoned pure-blood supremacy.
• Manus posted a 5,000-credit research task to measure wizard blood concentration and offered information about the Resurrection Stone as an alternative reward.
• Manus added protective magical items in several price tiers to the Wizard Sage Party’s redemption list.
• Manus went to the Potions Room and found that the Weight Loss Potion remained cloudy and unfinished.

Manus tested a Restoration Potion enhanced with Beauty Potion and found that it restored a rabbit’s severed leg in silver rather than gold. After considering what else the potion might improve, he noticed a clue that suggested Beauty Potion had enhanced the Restoration Potion’s restorative limits.

• Manus examined the silver-colored potion and wondered whether Beauty Potion had only changed the color of restored limbs.
• Manus gave the potion to an anesthetized rabbit and watched its severed leg grow back silver, prompting him to doubt his understanding of Potions.
• Manus grilled and ate the rabbit’s restored leg, confirmed that its flavor had not improved, and considered whether the potion might heal magical, spiritual, or genetic deficiencies.
• Manus decided to brew several batches of Restoration Potion with and without Beauty Potion so he could test their limits.
• Manus noticed a rabbit near his feet, inspected its silver leg, and realized what aspect of the Restoration Potion Beauty Potion had enhanced.

Manus discovered that the Restoration Potion created a lifelike, self-repairing prosthesis rather than regrowing a real limb, and that repeated repairs could drain the wearer’s body. He decided to develop more artificial-looking options and prepared a larger round of tests.

• Manus tested repeated limb restoration on a rabbit and found that each regeneration consumed substantial resources, leaving the rabbit emaciated and near death.
• Manus concluded that the potion made a prosthetic limb that the rabbit’s body treated as intact but that the healing potion could not repair.
• Manus cut away the silver prosthesis and part of the rabbit’s limb, allowing the healing potion’s lingering effects to restore real flesh and bone.
• Manus decided to weaken the potion’s effect and create prostheses in several styles for people with disabilities to choose from.
• Manus began brewing twenty batches of the Restoration Potion and planned to request reimbursement from the school for the supplies.

Manus was surprised when Dumbledore sought information about the Resurrection Stone, apparently hoping to join the Wizard Sage Party. Manus made their conversation about the Deathly Hallows, left unfinished seven years earlier, Dumbledore’s assessment, and they began with the Elder Wand.

• Manus spent his spare time brewing potions while waiting for Voldemort and Regulus Black to make their next moves.
• Dumbledore summoned Manus and asked about the Wizard Sage Party’s lead on the Resurrection Stone.
• Manus questioned Dumbledore’s claim that he sought the information out of curiosity and reminded him of their discussion about The Tale of the Three Brothers seven years earlier.
• Manus proposed that Dumbledore finish their conversation about the Deathly Hallows as his assessment for joining the party.
• Dumbledore took out the Elder Wand and described the eldest brother’s wish to conquer death, then shook his head.

Manus discussed the Deathly Hallows with Dumbledore, explaining the Elder Wand’s limits and the Invisibility Cloak’s outdated protections. He revealed that he had already seen the actual cloak at Hogwarts, surprising Dumbledore.

• Manus told Dumbledore that the Elder Wand could aid its owner in direct confrontation but could not protect them or grant other abilities.
• Manus explained that the youngest brother’s attitude toward death meant accepting it calmly when one’s time came, and said Voldemort’s willingness to harm others to survive was the real problem.
• Dumbledore agreed with Manus and reflected on his mature judgment and accepting attitude toward others.
• Manus said the Invisibility Cloak’s protections had fallen behind modern detection magic.
• Dumbledore was surprised when Manus said he had seen the actual Invisibility Cloak at Hogwarts.

Manus explained that the Resurrection Stone was inferior to ghosts and asked Dumbledore when he first wanted to resurrect someone. Dumbledore froze at the question, leaving his answer for later.

• Manus pressed Dumbledore to explain the Resurrection Stone, and Dumbledore regretted not choosing it earlier.
• Dumbledore described the Stone as the most wondrous Hallow and recalled his guilt and longing for the dead.
• Manus said the Elder Wand and Invisibility Cloak had real advantages, but the Resurrection Stone was weaker than its counterpart, a ghost.
• Manus explained that ghosts reflected the deceased, while the Resurrection Stone reflected the user, then offered to share more if Dumbledore answered a question.
• Manus asked whether Dumbledore's desire to resurrect someone had only begun recently, and Dumbledore froze.