Recaps

Manus explored Hogwarts, taught Lily and Severus, and pursued new ways to study magic while forming friendships with students and Hagrid. His questions about an Obscurus led Bellows to begin revealing the traumatic secret behind his past.

• McGonagall taught the first Transfiguration lesson, and Manus and Lily succeeded at the Switching Spell with Manus helping Lily improve.
• Manus explored Hogwarts and took the Mirror of Erised, which showed Lily her ambitions and Severus his longing for family.
• After Lily fought James Potter and his friends, McGonagall punished the boys and encouraged Lily to trust her talent.
• Manus investigated magical creatures, plants, Hogwarts resources, and the kitchen, while planning to use the Mirror as a vessel for an Undetectable Extension Charm.
• Manus helped Pandora improve her Potions work, explored an old dueling ground, and began regular Saturday tea visits with Hagrid, who gave him Unicorn Hair.
• Manus questioned Professor Binns about historical Obscurial incidents and suspected that a black, magical lump he had found in a cabinet was an Obscurus.
• Bellows grew alarmed when Manus mentioned Obscuruses, then woke him at night and described a fire-wrapped black-red mass attacking him and his parents when he was a child.
• When Bellows broke down before finishing his story, Manus comforted him and gave him tissues.

Manus explored Rowena Ravenclaw’s hidden chamber, helped Pandora’s writing spread through Hogwarts, and trained Severus to brew an improved Wolfsbane Potion. As Lily and Severus prepared for a suspected Werewolf, Manus’s birds tracked Remus to the Whomping Willow.

• Manus opened the secret door from the Ravenclaw Common Room and discovered a workshop, where Rowena Ravenclaw gave him her books and instruments and asked him to find news of Helena.
• Manus failed to open another secret door and joined Lily, Pandora, and the others for Astronomy, where Lily warned Potter to leave Pandora alone.
• Manus introduced Severus to Hagrid and helped him prepare Wellington steaks, while Pandora’s romantic story about Manus and Lily spread through Hogwarts.
• Severus found that the Wiggentree Manus had made had a broken branch, and Manus concluded that a Werewolf was nearby and began teaching Severus to brew Wolfsbane Potion.
• Manus told Slughorn that he had invented a potion that killed Werewolves, and Slughorn recognized its significance while Manus tried to keep the invention’s reputation manageable.
• Severus learned about his mother Eileen Prince’s achievements and resolved to help her choose her own path, then succeeded in brewing Wolfsbane Potion under Manus’s guidance.
• Lily and Severus prepared Potions and wands for the full moon as Manus watched through Huginn and Muninn and saw Remus enter the Whomping Willow.

Manus uncovered the truth about Moaning Myrtle’s murder and explored a hidden space filled with the remains of abandoned Magical Creatures. Meanwhile, he helped Lily and Severus improve their dueling and gave Bob a new home inside the Magic Mirror.

• Manus told Lily and Severus that Remus Lupin was the Werewolf, gave them Wolfsbane Potion, and warned them that challenging Dumbledore would accomplish little.
• Manus and Lily discovered that Hagrid’s baby dragon Bob needed to live and learn in a suitable environment, so Manus took him to a habitat inside the Magic Mirror.
• Manus learned from Aragog that a student had died at Hogwarts years earlier and questioned Moaning Myrtle about her murder.
• Moaning Myrtle recalled a boy speaking in a hissing dialect, and Manus found a snake-marked hidden door and concluded that Voldemort had released the Basilisk that killed her.
• Manus trained Lily and Severus in combat, then explained how they could improve their tactics, flexibility, and ability to plan ahead.
• Manus discovered that the hidden door opened into many rooms and eventually entered a vast space after wishing for a place to raise Magical Creatures.
• Manus found the bones of Nifflers, Fairies, Jobberknolls, and other creatures, along with magical Phoenix Nirvana Ashes, and buried the remains.
• Manus discovered a Unicorn skeleton and went to examine it.

Manus claimed the Basilisk’s Death Trait and gained a heightened ability to sense gazes, then investigated the hidden rooms and experimented with the forces of life, death, and souls. The stretch ended with Manus, Severus, and Lily exploring a cluttered storage room, where Manus found a damaged cabinet that might be a Disappearing Cabinet.

• Manus buried the Unicorn’s remains, then took Edmund Bagno’s place in a Wizard’s Chess game and defeated Pante, who invited him to represent Hogwarts in the Inter-School Wizard’s Chess Championship.
• Manus revised his magical-item designs, considered a cloak and Magic Mirror modifications, then set aside Soul Magic research to focus on the Basilisk’s chamber and sealing magic.
• Manus taught Lily Hexes firsthand with Root-Marrow Misgrowth, then trained her and Severus in combat and demonstrated how he combined magic to make an ice spike and a fireball dangerously effective.
• Manus entered the secret passage beneath the third-floor girls’ bathroom, found the dead Basilisk, and confirmed that its scales resisted amplified magic but could be pierced by pure Magic Arrows.
• Manus trapped the Basilisk’s Death Trait inside an Elder branch, tested the resulting wand, and chose Petrifying Gaze as his baptism reward, which altered his eyes and heightened his perception.
• Manus reassured Moaning Myrtle that the Basilisk was dead and asked her to learn what the ghosts knew about Helena Ravenclaw, while he investigated his new sensitivity and the hidden rooms on the Seventh Floor.
• Manus found that life and death produced a force unlike a soul, used a wisp of soul to restore Dittany tissue from ashes, and continued searching for a material that could carry a soul.
• Manus explored a disorganized storage room with Severus and Lily, rescued Lily from a falling table, and found a damaged magical cabinet with transportation runes that he suspected was a Disappearing Cabinet.