Recaps

Manus secured a lighter school workload while preparing for the dangers surrounding Hogwarts, then pursued research into potions, magical creatures, and textile-making. The arc left him planning a modified silk-producing creature and new magical clothing.

• Manus arranged Potions discussions with Staky, developed a shifting purple dye, and decided to drop Arithmancy while keeping Ancient Runes.
• Flitwick and McGonagall arranged a demanding homework exemption for Manus, while keeping the upcoming Potions Championship from him until he learned of it himself.
• After a violent fight between Gryffindor and Slytherin students, McGonagall imposed stricter controls at Hogwarts, and Manus warned his family to stay home.
• Manus advanced his Star Magic research, then watched Potter win Gryffindor’s first Quidditch match on Gungnir and distributed Quidditch World Cup tickets.
• Manus traded with Borgin for two Runespoors and Re’em blood, discovered the Runespoors had been stolen, and arranged to return them to their owner, Mnyiam.
• Manus experimented with Re’em horn in a Strengthening Potion and shared Re’em beef with Severus and Hagrid.
• Newt and Mnyiam collected the Runespoors, and Manus received Runespoor eggs and Mnyiam’s contact information as compensation.
• Manus studied a mysterious thread, planned to obtain an Acromantula for silk research, and began designing magical clothes and boots.

Manus took responsibility for guiding Barty Jr., developed Latiku’s spider colony, and discovered that Sleipnir could travel through Misty Illusion. As Hogwarts faced a Quidditch World Cup wand controversy, Manus agreed to trade Broomstick-making techniques with Potter for books.

• Manus accepted that Barty Jr. needed his guidance and began directing the boy’s studies after the Demiguise showed him a possible future among Death Eaters.
• Manus collected Acromantula eggs from Hagrid, bred spiders with specialized silk and venom, and created Latiku to organize the colony.
• Manus crossed the transformed pool during Hicks’s practical Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson and earned Ravenclaw ten points.
• Latiku produced silk and used web vibrations to influence soul power, while Manus encouraged its research but limited its expansion.
• Sleipnir vanished from the Creature Garden and revealed that he could run through Misty Illusion, carrying Manus between distant locations.
• Manus studied Sleipnir’s connection to the boundary between life and death and resumed research into the Astral Plane and its positioning.
• After learning that Royston Idle proposed banning spectators’ wands at the Quidditch World Cup, Manus and Bellows discussed attending without using magic.
• Potter offered books from the Potter Family collection for Manus’s Broomstick-making techniques, and Manus accepted the trade.

Manus developed the Delicious Potion, tested it with friends, and helped Staky escape Voldemort after she was presumed murdered. The school settled into an uneasy Christmas and resumed its studies, while Manus invited Bellows to join a trip and Bellows encountered a merperson during his practical exam.

• Manus brewed the Beauty Potion for Staky and warned her that Voldemort might still pursue her, then developed the Delicious Potion and tested its effects on food.
• Manus hosted a meal for Severus, Lily, Bellows, Barty Jr., Pandora, Grogan, and Hagrid, and his friends sampled the potion’s dishes while discussing their studies.
• Dumbledore announced Staky’s apparent murder, then revealed to Manus that a Polyjuice-disguised Death Eater had been killed in her place and Staky escaped to France.
• Manus drove Peeves away with Muninn’s Patronus and later organized a huge snowball fight that brought students from all four houses together.
• Manus used his Cure Minor Ailments Charm to treat Bellows and other students, then invited Bellows to travel with him, Severus, and Lily to the Quidditch World Cup.
• Bellows completed his practical exam by freezing Grindylows, but a merperson sank his boat and appeared in the divided water.

Manus took Barty Jr. and his companions to Australia for the Quidditch World Cup, where they encountered a wand ban, political protests, and a former member of The Greater Good. Back at Hogwarts, Sybill joined Ravenclaw and Millicent Bagnold became the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, leaving Manus worried that Voldemort would target her.

• Bellows completed Manus’s merperson exam, and Manus explained that the experience mattered more than the grade.
• Manus helped Barty Jr. finish the Ancient Runes exam, gave him an enchanted pocket watch, and took him and Winky to Australia with the others.
• Manus visited Paris Trelawney, discussed his unusual approach to the Third Eye, and promised to look after Sybill at Hogwarts.
• At the Quidditch World Cup, Manus’s group saw the wand ban cause trouble, watched Syria defeat Bulgaria, and met Kaspar, who had once belonged to The Greater Good.
• Lily considered joining a protest against the wand ban, and Manus urged her to examine her own convictions and accept responsibility for her choices.
• After Syria won the tournament, Royston resigned as Quidditch Committee chairman, and Manus brought the group back to Britain.
• Manus welcomed Sybill to Hogwarts, learned that Millicent Bagnold would teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, and watched Sybill get sorted into Ravenclaw.
• Bagnold told Hogwarts students she would teach them to protect themselves, and Manus feared Voldemort would retaliate against her.