Recaps

Manus sold the King Family’s right to supply national Quidditch teams, then pursued old magical clothing techniques and received Margaret’s research. A hidden Portkey led him to a chamber beneath Mount Etna, where he recovered ancient textiles and an Ember Dragon Heart before discovering a giant Ashwinder guarding eggs.

• Manus imprisoned Fake Craigus, Kreigs, and two other plotters after uncovering their plan to kill him, then finished the school year as Ravenclaw won the House Cup.
• Manus persuaded Grogan to compare the Death Eaters’ rules with Ministry law and later told Bellows he would supply rival Houses with less powerful Broomsticks.
• Manus sold seven merchants the King Family’s right to supply national Quidditch teams and visited Feilite to learn about Magical Textiles.
• Manus met Mrs. Margaret, showed her his Unicorn Cloak, and accepted her research box in exchange for drinks from the King Winery.
• Manus found a concealed Portkey in the box and sent Muninn through it to a cave beneath Mount Etna.
• Manus and Huginn entered the volcanic chamber, preserved its fragile Magical Textiles, and recovered a Dragon Heartstring robe as magma engulfed the building.
• Manus sent Muninn into the magma, where he found an Ember Dragon Heart, then joined him in a cavern beneath another volcano and saw a huge Ashwinder coiled around its eggs.

Manus named the Serpent of Etna, earned the Order of Merlin, and began a consequential exchange with Nicolas Flamel about Alchemy. As he studied ways to create life and cure innate defects, Petunia asked to learn magic and Manus warned her of the cost and danger.

• Manus used the Ember Dragon Heart to hatch an Ashwinder egg, named the surviving creature Yggdrasil, and called its special breed the Serpent of Etna.
• Manus completed the foals Sleipnir and Pegasus, then received the Order of Merlin, First Class, at a Ministry ceremony.
• Theseus and Newt Scamander told Manus about the Ministry’s difficulty handling seized Magical Creatures, and Manus proposed auctioning them under Ministry inspection.
• Manus recovered the Dragon Robe and learned from Madam Margaret that its accumulated magic would eventually erupt through its wearer.
• Manus met Nicolas Flamel, discussed the stages of Alchemy, and showed him a meteorite crystal that Nicolas determined could not be transformed by the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Aivina told Manus that Andromeda had been struck from the Black family tree and that Walburga was fighting with Sirius over his place in the family.
• Petunia asked Manus to teach her magic, and he warned her that she would face severe hardships and distrust from both Muggles and wizards.
• Manus studied Alchemy as a possible means of curing innate defects and used the Black Earth Technique to turn a twig into lifeless black matter.

Manus advanced his Alchemy and Soul research while beginning third year at Hogwarts with a Time-Turner. His experiments suggested that his memories and past selves connected to his Soul System, and Divination briefly showed him Dumbledore and Grindelwald making a Blood Pact.

• Manus created an oak sapling with the Black Earth Technique, refined his Alchemy studies, and began seeking a ritual that could let him devour and renew himself.
• Manus studied Dragon Vein Alchemy and concluded that Nidhogg’s cycle of division and reunion might inspire the ritual of perfection he needed.
• Manus reassured Bellows that he would pursue a way to heal Mrs. Travers’s soul damage, while Bellows decided to earn money through curse-breaking or correspondence teaching.
• Manus returned to Hogwarts, met the new caretaker Argus Filch, and received a Time-Turner from Flitwick after reviewing its rules and precautions.
• Manus told Bellows that he had brewed an Elixir of Life but explained that its effects were slight, then promised to help Mrs. Travers recover by studying soul damage.
• Manus used the Time-Turner to attend an earlier class and discovered that his past and present selves seemed joined through his Soul System, allowing him to connect with memory-images of himself.
• Manus attended Divination with Severus and saw a vision of Dumbledore and Grindelwald making a Blood Pact, but his crystal ball showed only mist when he asked who killed Dumbledore’s sister.
• Manus continued his Time-Turner experiments by the Black Lake and reasoned that his connection to the past seemed to change it immediately.

Manus tested his immunity to changes in time, developed his dueling skills, and guided Barty Jr. toward original magical research. He pursued new potion experiments and ended the stretch considering which classes to drop after Staky recognized his Time-Turner.

• Manus trained with Flitwick in the Room of Requirement, using non-verbal spells, Apparition, and his Statue Summoning Charm to win their duels.
• Manus helped Severus after Professor Staky questioned him under Veritaserum, while Lily and Severus enjoyed more free time from their usual training.
• Manus threw away the Time-Turner during its scheduled use and watched it turn to dust, concluding that the Soul System kept him immune to changes in his personal timeline.
• Manus encouraged Barty Jr. to rethink his paper on the Banishing Charm, demonstrated its uses in combat, and urged him to submit the completed work to British Oak Wand.
• Manus warned his classmates about Death Eaters near Hogsmeade and wrote to Dumbledore arguing that Filch was unsuited to his job at Hogwarts.
• Manus discussed Beauty Potions with Staky, then tested his crimson potion on Slimes and found that tiny doses delivered as a mist produced the best result.
• Manus used a second body to attend Ancient Runes and History of Magic at once, helped Black complete his assignment, and met Staky, who recognized his Time-Turner and advised him to drop Divination and Muggle Studies.