Chapter Summaries

Manus finished strengthening the Blood Burning Technique and manually modified it to burn seventy-four times his maximum Fluid Measure per second, while considering how to control the resulting blood energy. He planned to deliver the repaired mirror and visit Hagrid to arrange Bob’s return to the wild, though he did not know where Common Welsh Greens lived.

• Manus finished strengthening the Blood Burning Technique to its limit and manually modified it to burn seventy-four times his maximum Fluid Measure per second.
• Manus tested his control over soul-based blood energy by gathering the grayish-white motes and using the Blood Explosion Technique.
• Manus confirmed that the Rust Prevention Solution had dried and decided to deliver the mirror to the abandoned classroom the next morning.
• Manus decided to visit Hagrid and discuss returning the adolescent Bob to the wild because the Magic Mirror could no longer provide enough food.
• Manus considered sending Huginn to find where wild Common Welsh Greens roamed.

Manus reflected on Dumbledore’s reliance on the Mirror of Erised and the risks of acting on assumptions about The Greater Good. After Pandora brought him her essay, he advised her to set a clear goal for her studies and prioritize knowledge accordingly.

• Manus placed a replica of the Mirror of Erised in an abandoned classroom, and an unnamed professor slipped in after him.
• Manus considered Dumbledore’s grief, the Resurrection Stone, and how little he understood about The Greater Good, deciding to avoid rash actions.
• Pandora met Manus during his morning run and explained that her studies left her feeling short of time.
• Manus explained the benefits of exercise and suggested Pandora try jogging in the garden instead of running laps around the castle.
• Manus told Pandora to define her learning goal before planning what to study, and she pondered his advice while he commented on her essay.

Manus encouraged Grogan to define what he wanted to learn at Hogwarts before visiting Hagrid, where he found a frightened black puppy named Fang hiding beneath a cabinet. Hagrid welcomed Manus and introduced the puppy, whom Manus pulled from its hiding place.

• Pandora left with Manus’s paper and draft sheets, apparently heading to the library.
• Grogan emerged from behind a door and asked to join Manus’s morning exercises, and Manus suggested he start with an easier garden jog.
• Manus told Grogan to consider what kind of person he wanted to become during his years at Hogwarts.
• Manus visited Hagrid’s Hut and was greeted warmly by Hagrid, who said he had a little fellow to introduce.
• Manus found Fang trembling beneath a cabinet and pulled the black puppy out by the back of its neck.

Manus met Hagrid’s puppy Fang and discovered that his fearful behavior came from believing himself weak, not from being naturally timid. After Manus used a Kindness Spell to calm him, Fang was able to communicate, and Manus considered explaining the misunderstanding to him.

• Hagrid told Manus that Fang had been found in a rubbish heap and had spent nearly a month hiding from visitors and strangers.
• Manus wondered whether Hagrid planned to train Fang as a hunting dog, and Hagrid said Fang could stay home if he did not want to enter the Forbidden Forest.
• Manus took Fang from Hagrid, and Fang struggled until Manus cast a Kindness Spell on him.
• Fang calmed down and licked Manus, delighting Hagrid, who thought his own comforting had helped.
• Manus spoke with Fang and learned that Fang acted frightened because he believed he was too weak to defend himself.
• Manus realized Fang had mistaken the powerful Hagrid’s destructive care for evidence that everyone was dangerous, and decided to explain things to him.

Manus told Hagrid that Bob would be ready to return to the wild soon and arranged for them to meet next month. After finding a suitable Common Welsh Green population, Manus prepared to take Hagrid there, using Huginn and Muninn to help make the journey safer.

• Manus told Hagrid that Bob had grown enough to return to the wild and promised to take him to meet the Dragon next month.
• Hogwarts remained peaceful for a month while Manus studied, and Lily and Severus worked on First-Circle Magic and secret research of their own.
• Huginn surveyed Wales in five days and found a suitable wild population of Common Welsh Greens for Bob.
• Manus visited Hagrid on Friday to set off, relying on Huginn and Muninn as anchors and safeguards for the Portkey journey.

Manus took Hagrid to a seaside cliff so he could spend time with Bob before the Dragon’s future clansmen arrived. Hagrid and Bob joyfully reunited, while Manus considered whether his magical creatures should keep living in the Magic Mirror.

• Manus reflected on his approach to magic and the role of mages before Hagrid finished packing.
• Manus used a black feather to take Hagrid to a cliff by the sea and told him they had thirty-five minutes before Bob’s future clansmen arrived.
• Huginn delivered a suitcase, and Manus released Bob from it.
• Manus watched Bob explore the real world and wondered whether long-term life in the Magic Mirror was safe for magical creatures.
• Hagrid hugged Bob, celebrated that Bob remembered him, and let the Dragon lick his face.

Manus and Hagrid said goodbye to Bob as it joined its kin, and Manus gave it a feather it could use to contact him in an emergency. They returned to Hagrid’s Hut, where Hagrid praised how easy the journey had been and described his difficult experiences with magical travel.

• Hagrid gave Bob a basket packed with brandy-soaked mutton, then broke down crying as Bob prepared to leave.
• Manus gave Bob Muninn’s feather and explained that it could use the feather to contact him if it faced serious danger.
• Bob bowed to Manus, then flew away with its kin while Hagrid waved and sobbed.
• Manus told Hagrid that Bob would have a freer, happier life and urged him to return to work.
• Manus used a feather to bring himself and Hagrid back to Hagrid’s Hut, where Hagrid compared the trip favorably to Portkeys and the Knight Bus.

Manus worried that Portkeys might be dangerously unprotected, then learned Hagrid had found him a gift that had not arrived yet. Back at the castle, Manus resumed his research into Astral Observation Magic and puzzled over its distinct lunar branches.

• Manus wondered whether Portkeys could send travelers through dangerous dimensional rifts and decided he would avoid using them.
• Manus showed Hagrid Huginn's feather and said he was leaving, then urged Hagrid to wash his face before students saw him.
• Hagrid reminded Manus of his promised gift and said he had found something Manus would love, though it had not arrived yet.
• Manus returned to the castle, reflected on the gift, and resumed working on Astral Observation Magic.
• Manus studied the Skill Panel and questioned why the moon, full moon, and dark moon appeared as separate branches of Astral Observation Magic.

Manus weighed the dangers of studying Astral Observation Magic and chose to develop it through cautious observation of nearby celestial bodies. He planned to begin with the safest targets and wondered whether meteorites could serve as his first subjects.

• Manus considered using the Skill Panel to study celestial powers indirectly or developing Astral Observation Magic by observing celestial bodies he could access.
• Manus tested an improved Star Magic crystal and found that his adjustments greatly increased its physical force and gave it an infection effect.
• Manus decided to risk stargazing with safeguards, beginning with ordinary targets within the Solar System, and planned to renovate the Mage Tower's Astronomical Observation Room.
• Manus joined the others atop the Astronomy Tower for Aurelia's lesson on Jupiter's moons and considered starting his research with asteroids or comets.
• Manus wondered whether meteorites counted as celestial bodies and whether their passage through Earth's gravity had weakened them enough to make them safer to observe.

Manus planned to buy meteorites as a starting point for learning Astral Observation Magic, but struggled to obtain enough Pound Sterling to purchase them in the Muggle world. He left Lily with a thousand Galleons to fund purchases and considered other ways to get currency, ultimately deciding against traveling to the Moon for meteorites.

• Manus researched ways to buy meteorites and chose auction houses and private sellers as sources.
• Manus asked Lily to purchase meteorites for him and gave her a thousand Galleons as a deposit.
• Manus calculated that rare meteorites could cost far more than his deposit and considered withdrawing his Gringotts savings.
• Manus realized the Evans family and his other contacts could exchange only limited amounts of Pound Sterling for his Galleons.
• Manus considered traveling to the Moon to collect meteorites himself but abandoned the idea because he did not know whether it was safe.

Manus watched Lily and Severus resume their sparring, where Severus used his newly developed Sectumsempra to badly wound Lily before she conceded. Manus healed her, and Severus revealed that only Sectumsempra’s counterspell could mend its injuries.

• Manus decided to spend money on meteorites, while keeping Lily’s proxy-purchasing arrangement as an option.
• Manus began Lily and Severus’s sparring match, and they exchanged Charms without incantations.
• Severus caught Lily with a prepared Daze Spell and followed it with Sectumsempra, cutting deeply into her wand arm.
• Lily conceded, and Manus healed her with magic that surprised both students.
• Severus explained that Sectumsempra’s counterspell, Episkey (Vulnera-Sanentur), healed the injuries he had tested on rabbits.

Severus used his newly completed Sectumsempra to win a duel against Lily, and Manus quickly healed her injury with a new kind of magic. Manus then gave Severus and Lily potions that could reproduce the healing effect for physical injuries.

• Manus considered Sectumsempra's value and how its counterspell required a genuine desire to save someone.
• Severus reassured Lily that he had researched Sectumsempra since first year, after she felt discouraged by the gap between their spells.
• Lily realized Severus had used her as a test for his new spell and called him a bastard, prompting him to hide behind Manus.
• Manus healed Lily's badly cut arm in seconds and explained that he had used a different kind of magic.
• Manus gave Severus and Lily bottles of potion that could heal physical injuries but not diseases.

Manus gave Severus a powerful healing potion while concealing its true ingredients behind protective magic that hid his essence. Later, Manus saw his first paper published in Transfiguration Today and reviewed the other articles in the issue.

• Manus gave Severus a scarlet healing potion and said its formula and rare ingredients were secret.
• Severus secretly used Scarpin's Revelaspell on the potion but could not identify its main ingredient or sense Manus's distinctive qualities.
• Manus's protective Charms shielded his attributes, traits, power, and essence by combining the Fidelius Charm, Mystery Magic, and Qi Magic.
• Manus returned to the dormitory, rested in mental time, and received the latest issue of Transfiguration Today from Minerva.
• Manus checked that his first published paper had not been altered, then read articles about Animagus transformations and Human Transfiguration.

Manus discussed Human Transfiguration with the author of a paper by a Metamorphmagus, then stopped replying after the author hinted at studying the human body together. At the Transfiguration Club, McGonagall began the meeting by asking its members to choose a topic.

• Manus studied the Metamorphmagus's paper and exchanged letters with its author about Human Transfiguration.
• Manus closed the owl address he had set up for the author after suspecting the author's research plans had crossed a line.
• Manus brought Transfiguration Today to the Transfiguration Club and discussed its latest issue and Butterbeer with Edmund Bagnold.
• McGonagall arrived with two other members, explained that Miss Shackle was absent, and asked the club to choose a topic.

At a Transfiguration Club meeting, Manus argued that innate magical abilities could be learned later in some form and discussed how Metamorphmagi's experience could inform Human Transfiguration. Afterward, he clarified to Edmund that while the Third Eye itself was innate, people could learn to make predictions.

• McGonagall recapped the previous meeting and invited Manus to suggest a topic, so he proposed an article about Metamorphmagi.
• Manus told Cornfoot that innate abilities were only a higher starting point and that training could let others master similar skills.
• When a Slytherin asked about Parseltongue, Manus said Snake Language could be learned and challenged him to test his ability.
• Manus told Edmund that predictions could be learned, though the Third Eye was defined as an innate power to foresee the future.
• The club discussed using Metamorphmagi's ideas to change height and build, and Manus later explained prediction to Edmund by asking him to forecast the weather.

Manus explained the principles and limits of Divination Magic to Edmund, then advised him about confessing to the girl he loved. After Edmund’s confession succeeded, Hogwarts students mistakenly gained a reputation for Manus as a master of love divination, and Elizabeth defended the title.

• Manus explained to Edmund how divination gathered information and why predictions about the future were difficult and risky.
• Edmund asked Manus to divine whether he and the girl he loved would have a happy future, but Manus said he could not predict something so subjective.
• Manus encouraged Edmund to speak honestly and offered advice on choosing the right moment and atmosphere for his confession.
• Edmund’s confession succeeded, and the story spread through the girl’s best friend until students at Hogwarts began calling Manus a master of love divination.
• Manus protested that he had never been in a relationship, but Elizabeth claimed that his lack of romantic success proved he was a true master.

Manus explained to Elizabeth that he studied Muggle knowledge and meteorites to understand magic, which he viewed as a system with underlying principles rather than a miraculous power. He demonstrated the structure behind the Levitation Charm, leaving Elizabeth astonished.

• Elizabeth gave Manus nine high-quality meteorites that her father had acquired through an old classmate, and Manus put them away after discussing their cost.
• Elizabeth asked whether Manus planned to study Astronomy because his interests spanned Potions, Alchemy, Muggle knowledge, Transfiguration, and meteorites.
• Manus told Elizabeth that his real aim was to study magic, including through Muggle knowledge, and asked her what she thought magic was.
• Manus compared magic to Muggle science and traced Runic Structures in the air, causing a book to float with the Levitation Charm.
• Manus told Elizabeth that Wingardium Leviosa was the command and that the Runic Structures showed the charm's internal structure.

Manus explained to Elizabeth that magic and technology were different perspectives on the same underlying reality, leaving her to realize why Pandora’s studies had shaken her worldview. Later, Manus attempted to observe nine meteorites, accidentally exposed himself to Earth’s immense energy, and contained the transformed remains of his abandoned body.

• Manus explained the relationship between magic, technology, and different magical systems, and Elizabeth connected his lessons to Pandora’s recent behavior.
• Manus decided to seek more ways to exchange Galleons for Pound Sterling and arranged notices in the Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Hufflepuff common rooms.
• Manus refined his Stargazing ability and prepared to study nine meteorites as beginner subjects for Star Magic.
• Manus activated Stargazing, but a vast field of energy overwhelmed his vision when he looked at the meteorites.
• Manus abandoned his body and re-formed it with his soul, while the old body crystallized and began to grow under the energy’s influence.
• Manus recognized that the energy came from Earth and used the Elder Wand to contain the expanding crystal remains within a complex boundary.

Manus studied the crystal sphere formed from his discarded body and discovered it could reproduce aspects of Earth’s power after celestial observation. He saw potential for using Astral Observation Magic to strengthen the Magic Emitter, then returned to developing Star Magic.

• Manus stored the crystal sphere and reconsidered how his body had transformed while exposed to Earth’s energy field.
• Manus used [Cosmic Observation] and noticed the crystal sphere carried a colored field resembling Earth’s.
• Manus theorized that observation and assimilation had let the crystal sphere filter and retain some of a celestial body’s power.
• Manus considered using Astral Observation Magic to draw on celestial bodies and improve the Magic Emitter, which lacked access to the Four-Element Plane.
• Manus used the crystal sphere as a reference while studying the nine meteorites and gave Star Magic a general direction.
• Manus inspected the draft Magic Model for the first Star Magic spell, then decided to rest.

Manus met with Dumbledore after his notices advertising Galleon-to-Pound Sterling exchanges were removed. Dumbledore warned that Goblins opposed exchanging their currency for Pounds, but Manus insisted wizarding law did not recognize their claims and refused to yield.

• Manus found his notices removed from the Hogwarts common rooms and went to Dumbledore's office after class.
• Dumbledore asked why Manus wanted Pounds Sterling, and Manus explained that he planned to buy meteorites for research.
• Dumbledore explained that Goblins considered their coins their own creations and would not allow people to exchange them for paper money.
• Manus argued that Goblin demands about currency were illegal under wizarding law, while Dumbledore warned that law would not protect him from someone willing to break it.
• Manus declared that he would not compromise with evildoers or yield to them.