Recaps

Manus explored the limits of his Skill Module, learned about the wizarding world and began uncovering how magic worked through Potions. After brewing a Draught of Living Death, he persuaded Aivina to test his mental defenses as the first step toward learning Charms.

• Manus comforted Severus after hearing about Tobias’s abuse, then resolved to help train him into a capable mage.
• Manus experimented with the Skill Module, upgraded Fireball, and began studying Nature Magic before his fifth birthday.
• During a family picnic, Manus experienced a Magical Outburst, and Griffin and Aivina explained that it marked the beginning of his magical growth.
• Manus learned about Pure-blood status and the King Family’s divisions, then shifted his research toward understanding magic systems.
• Eileen taught Manus advanced Charms and demonstrated how to brew Draught of Living Death, prompting him to develop a theory about Potions and symbolic associations.
• Manus successfully brewed his own Draught of Living Death, astonishing Eileen and delighting Aivina.
• Griffin and Aivina gave Manus the family’s ancient magical texts, but he found that they recorded spells without explaining their principles.
• Aivina tested Manus with Legilimency, and he passed six rounds by keeping his memories submerged in his Spirit Sea before agreeing to stop.

Manus celebrated his seventh birthday at the King Family Ancestral Home, where he met Dumbledore, learned more about Hogwarts, and received a wand and a new connection to his family’s history. After returning home, he completed his Mental Core, visited Severus, tested his magic, and received belated birthday gifts from Dumbledore and Severus.

• Griffin told Manus’s grandfather about Manus’s Magical Outburst, and the family traveled to the King Family Ancestral Home for Manus’s birthday.
• Manus met Madam Paget and his grandmother, who warned him about Voldemort and told him to leave Britain if the family’s situation worsened.
• Aivina took Manus through a hidden passage to the family library, gave him a concealed spare wand, and introduced him to Nati.
• Manus studied Charms books with Scholar's Touch, learned the King Family’s history, and impressed Dumbledore by solving a Hogwarts timetable problem.
• Manus discussed Hogwarts, books, and the Deathly Hallows with Dumbledore, who returned to Hogwarts convinced Manus was an exceptional discovery.
• Manus completed his Mental Core on the carriage ride home, then visited Severus and shared his birthday cake with him.
• Manus tested healing and travel spells, passed out after casting Teleport, and concluded that his magic drew on his physical stamina.
• Dumbledore sent Manus belated birthday wishes and a gift, while Manus identified Severus’s birthday present as a Pepperup Potion.

Manus and Severus discovered a werewolf near the Snape home, and Manus killed it and used its remains for a Beast Blood Baptism that increased his vitality. As Lily joined their friendship and prepared for Hogwarts, Manus took her and Severus to Diagon Alley, where they began buying school supplies and Manus went to choose a wand.

• Manus and Severus used an enchanted beetle and the Magic Mirror to locate Fred Hones, a werewolf hiding in the woods near the Snape home.
• Manus brewed Wolfsbane Potion and sent Huginn to attack Fred Hones, then found the werewolf dead and concealed his body when Lily arrived looking for her rabbit.
• Manus befriended Lily, told her she was a witch, and later used Fred Hones's remains in a Beast Blood Baptism, choosing vitality over Transfiguration talent.
• Manus welcomed Lily and Severus to his home, began teaching Lily magic, and discussed Hogwarts, Voldemort's war, and their hopes for Sorting.
• Manus, Lily, and Severus traveled with their parents to the Leaky Cauldron and entered Diagon Alley, where they bought supplies and chose owls, including Manus's owl Minerva.
• Manus bought his schoolbooks at Flourish and Blotts and received an overlooked Invisible Book of Invisibility for free.
• Manus went with Griffin to Ollivanders, where Garrick Ollivander began measuring him for a wand.

Manus chose Ravenclaw and began his first year at Hogwarts, building connections while displaying unusually advanced magical skill. He started exploring the castle and planning his studies, while keeping Lily and Severus connected through letters.

• Garrick’s wands repeatedly reacted to Manus, and Manus chose a Hornbeam wand while secretly accepting a Yew wand as a spare.
• Manus returned to Cokeworth with Lily and Severus, trained them in defensive spells, and boarded the Hogwarts Express with them.
• Hagrid led the first-years to Hogwarts, where Manus met Pandora and Professor McGonagall stopped a fight sparked by an insult to Muggle-born students.
• The Sorting Hat placed Sirius Black in Gryffindor and assigned Manus to Ravenclaw after failing to read his mind, while Lily joined Gryffindor and Severus joined Slytherin.
• Manus answered the Ravenclaw door knocker’s riddle, entered the common room, and began investigating its magical doors and Hogwarts’s layout.
• Manus met Bellows Travers, exercised using Attachment Magic, and studied the castle while preparing to gather knowledge and resources.
• Manus impressed Professor Flitwick by mastering Spongify and helping classmates, then told Flitwick about his extensive reading of spellbooks and Dark Magic.
• Manus borrowed books from the library and joined Lily for Transfiguration, where he explained the moving-staircase pattern and promised to send Severus a letter through Huginn.