Recaps

Morris followed Fred and George to the Shrieking Shack, where they had found Sirius Black in his black dog form. Morris attacked him to claim the five-thousand-Galleon bounty, and after Sirius transformed and tried to Apparate away, Morris stopped him with the Wailing Curse.

• Fred and George told Morris they had found a black dog matching Sirius Black's wanted notice in the Shrieking Shack.
• Morris entered the passage beneath the Whomping Willow using Shadow Concealment, while Fred and George followed him.
• Morris slipped through the trapdoor, found Sirius asleep as a black dog, and cast Incarcerous at him.
• Sirius dodged the spell, transformed into a man, and revealed the wand Guantou had lost.
• Sirius began to Apparate, but Morris cast the Wailing Curse and disrupted his concentration.

Morris captured Sirius Black after blocking his Disarming Charm and overwhelming him with summoned skeletons. He rejected Sirius's offer to pay later, stunned him, and confirmed to Fred and George that the bounty was five thousand Galleons.

• Sirius tried to disarm Morris, but Morris blocked the spell with a bone shield.
• Morris summoned skeletons that overwhelmed Sirius and took his wand.
• Sirius offered Morris money to let him go, but Morris demanded payment upfront.
• Morris stunned Sirius and dismissed the skeletons.
• Morris called Fred and George out of the secret passage and confirmed Sirius's bounty was five thousand Galleons.

Morris carried the unconscious Sirius Black to Hogsmeade to collect the bounty and learned that bounty hunters had crowded the village. He met Minister Fudge and Professor McGonagall at the Three Broomsticks and asked whether the bounty still stood.

• Morris put the unconscious Sirius Black in his suitcase and told Fred and George he planned to collect the bounty.
• Morris walked through crowded Hogsmeade and noticed many unfamiliar adult wizards, then went to the Three Broomsticks.
• Morris overheard Professor McGonagall warn Fudge that bounty hunters endangered Hogwarts students, while Fudge defended the bounty.
• Morris asked Fudge and Professor McGonagall to speak privately, then asked whether the bounty on Sirius Black still stood.

Morris brought Sirius Black to Minister Fudge and Professor McGonagall, who arranged for the Aurors to return him to Azkaban while Morris sought his reward. Back at Hogwarts, news of Sirius’s capture spread, and Harry felt safe enough to visit Hogsmeade openly.

• Morris opened his suitcase and revealed the unconscious Sirius Black to Fudge and Professor McGonagall.
• After McGonagall woke Sirius, he demanded to see Dumbledore and claimed Peter Pettigrew was an Animagus rat hiding with Ron Weasley.
• Fudge arranged for the Aurors to take Sirius back to Azkaban, while McGonagall urged him to pay Morris’s five-thousand-Galleon reward promptly.
• The Aurors took Sirius away, and Morris returned to Hogwarts expecting his reward.
• Morris told Fred and the gathered students that the Ministry had taken Sirius, and Harry felt relieved that he could visit Hogsmeade safely.

Morris discussed the twins’ dwindling joke-product funds and suggested expanding sales of Shadow Concealment Stones beyond Hogwarts. Dumbledore delivered Morris’s reward money and asked what Sirius Black had said, leaving Morris urging him to investigate Ron’s rat, Scabbers, as a possible Animagus.

• Morris refused Fred and George’s request to invest in their future joke shop, then suggested they sell Shadow Concealment Stones outside Hogwarts.
• Fred told Morris the twins had contacted several shops and were ready to expand their business across Britain.
• Professor Flitwick summoned Morris to Dumbledore’s office, where Dumbledore gave him the reward money from the Ministry of Magic.
• Dumbledore asked Morris whether Sirius Black had said anything unusual, and Morris reported Sirius’s claim that Peter was an Animagus who had betrayed them.
• Morris urged Dumbledore to find and investigate Ron’s rat, Scabbers, while Dumbledore worried Peter might escape before they could locate him.

Morris agreed to help Dumbledore find Peter Pettigrew, and Guantou quickly captured him in his rat form. Morris brought Peter and Ron to the Headmaster's Office, where Lupin confronted the rat and it began transforming.

• Dumbledore told Morris that Sirius needed Peter as a witness to prove he had been wrongly accused, and Morris agreed to search for him.
• Morris asked Guantou to look for Peter, and the next morning Guantou caught Scabbers in the Ravenclaw Common Room.
• Morris recognized Scabbers as an Animagus and brought him to Dumbledore's office, where Ron recognized and reclaimed his missing rat.
• Lupin confronted Scabbers as Peter, Dumbledore bound him, and the rat began to transform as Ron watched in confusion.

Dumbledore exposed Peter Pettigrew, who had been hiding as Ron’s rat, Scabbers, and took him with Lupin to the Ministry to testify about Sirius. The Daily Prophet later reported Sirius’s acquittal and Peter’s sentence to the Dementor’s Kiss, while Morris recounted the events to curious Hogwarts students.

• Dumbledore transformed Scabbers into Peter Pettigrew and bound him, while Morris explained that his cat, Guantou, had found Peter.
• Peter claimed he had hidden as Ron’s pet to escape Sirius, and Dumbledore told him he would have to testify before Sirius received the Dementor’s Kiss.
• Dumbledore, Lupin, and Peter left for the Ministry of Magic with Fawkes, while Morris and Ron stayed behind.
• The Daily Prophet reported that Sirius had been acquitted and Peter sentenced to the Dementor’s Kiss for his crimes.
• Morris told Kyle and a gathering of students how Scabbers had turned into Peter, prompting one student to worry about their own pet.

Morris learned that Peter Pettigrew had escaped Ministry custody using one of Morris's Shadow Concealment Stones. Dumbledore warned Morris to stop selling the stones to students, while Sirius remained determined to catch Peter himself.

• Ron Weasley entered the Great Hall looking exhausted, and Morris urged the other students to give him space.
• Morris went to Dumbledore's office and met Sirius Black, who thanked him for helping catch Peter.
• Dumbledore told Morris and Sirius that Peter had vanished from his cage while being transported to Azkaban and stolen an official's wand.
• Dumbledore showed Morris a gray pebble, and Morris identified it as a Shadow Concealment Stone and demonstrated how it let someone disappear into shadows.
• Morris admitted he had sold the stones to students, and Dumbledore told him not to sell any more.
• Sirius insisted that Peter had to be caught, but doubted the Ministry of Magic would manage it.

Morris completed his Animagus transformation aboard the Ship in a Bottle and became a raven. He discovered that the transformation had left a crude, semipermanent spell model in his mental world, whose connection to the Book of the Mage remained unclear.

• During a late-May thunderstorm, Morris retrieved the red Animagus potion from beneath a tree in the Forbidden Forest.
• When Centaurs approached, Morris summoned skeletons to distract them, then teleported back to the Ship in a Bottle.
• Morris asked Yanhua to guard the ship and took the potion while reciting the Animagus incantation.
• Morris transformed into a raven and tested his new form by flying around the room.
• Morris found a crude spell model in his mental world that brightened in raven form and dimmed in human form.

Morris tested his fast broomsticks with Fred and George after refusing Rita Skeeter’s interview. The test went well, but Yanhua reported that Rita had transformed into a small insect.

• Morris encountered Rita Skeeter questioning Ron about Peter, then refused her request for an interview.
• Rita followed Morris, but he stopped her with an invisible barrier and continued to the Quidditch Pitch.
• Morris gave Fred and George his latest broomsticks to test, and they praised their speed and handling.
• Yanhua landed on Morris’s shoulder and told him that Rita had turned into a little bug.

Morris caught Rita Skeeter spying on the Quidditch pitch as a beetle and forced her to agree to write an article for the Daily Prophet. He asked her to review Fred and George’s brooms, but Rita dismissed them as ordinary goods.

• Morris bound the beetle with Incarcerous and revealed that he knew it was Rita Skeeter, an illegal Animagus.
• Rita transformed back into a human in front of Fred and George, who realized she was an Animagus.
• Morris threatened to tell Dumbledore about Rita unless she wrote an article for him, and she reluctantly agreed to sign an agreement.
• Morris rejected Rita’s vague agreement and made her accept his terms instead.
• Morris asked Rita to write a Daily Prophet review of Fred and George’s brooms, and she mocked them as ordinary goods.

Morris asked Lupin whether he needed Wolfsbane Potion and learned that he had resigned. Sirius was set to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts next term, but Dumbledore planned to hire two professors to weaken the position’s curse.

• Rita agreed to write an article about Morris’s broom, and Morris returned to revising with the twins.
• During exam week, Morris visited Lupin and found his office cleared out; Lupin told him he had resigned.
• Sirius arrived with Harry and said his legal troubles were mostly resolved, while Harry announced that Sirius would teach Defence Against the Dark Arts next term.
• Morris warned Sirius that the Defence Against the Dark Arts post was cursed, and Harry urged Sirius not to take it.
• Dumbledore explained that Snape had shared the curse’s effects by teaching Lupin’s classes and said he would hire two Defence Against the Dark Arts professors, including a retired Auror.

At the end-of-year feast, Morris helped Ravenclaw win the House Cup and received a special award for capturing Sirius Black and Peter. After leaving Hogwarts for the summer, he Apparated to Knockturn Alley, where he ran into Lupin and discovered they were both heading to Frick’s shop.

• Dumbledore announced Ravenclaw as the House Cup winner after awarding Morris 150 points for capturing Sirius Black and Peter.
• Dumbledore presented Morris with the Special Award for Services to Hogwarts, and Morris accepted the trophy.
• Morris returned to Hogsmeade, boarded the Hogwarts Express, and Apparated from King's Cross to Knockturn Alley using his aura-concealing gem.
• An old witch approached Morris and offered to lead him out of Knockturn Alley, but Lupin arrived and drove her away; Morris secretly planted a seed of the Pain Curse on her.
• Morris and Lupin both arrived at Frick's shop, and Lupin asked whether Frick was the person Morris had come to visit.

Morris visited Frick’s shop with Lupin, collected his share from sold gems, and reclaimed the unusual skeleton Frick had recovered. Back aboard the Ship in a Bottle, Morris tested the skeleton and confirmed that spells bounced off or failed to affect it.

• Morris and Lupin arrived at Frick’s shop, where Lupin asked Frick for a job and learned he had no need for more staff.
• Frick gave Morris the proceeds from some sold gems and told him Mundungus Fletcher had stolen the missing goods, though Morris’s aura-concealing gems had already been sold.
• Frick brought out the recovered skeleton and gave it to Morris, explaining that it resisted all spells.
• Morris returned to the Ship in a Bottle, cast several spells at the skeleton, and watched them bounce off or have no effect.
• One spell struck Guantou and sheared off a tuft of fur, while Morris wondered why the skeleton resisted magic.

Morris studied the runes on the mysterious skeleton, then turned to finding a shop to sell his rune-powered brooms. At Quality Quidditch Supplies, Mrs Lawson began testing a broom that Morris claimed could fly twice as fast as a Firebolt.

• Morris discovered hidden defensive runes, including one called “Immortality,” on the skeleton, but his study revealed nothing else unusual.
• Morris turned the skeleton into an undead creature, then set it aside and decided to seek a shop partner for his brooms.
• Morris brought a broom to Quality Quidditch Supplies and asked to meet its boss, Mrs Lawson.
• Mrs Lawson inspected the broom, could not identify its charms, and agreed to test it after Morris claimed it could reach twice the speed of a Firebolt.
• Mrs Lawson used a magical mask to check that the broom was safe, then mounted it and began its flight test.

Morris tested his Phantom broom with Mrs Lawson, then signed an agreement making Quality Quidditch Supplies its exclusive British distributor. On his way through Knockturn Alley, he learned Aurors were investigating a possible werewolf gathering, and howls sounded from the alley they had just entered.

• Mrs Lawson tested Morris's broom and reported that it surpassed the Firebolt in performance, though it was less comfortable.
• Morris agreed to have Quality Quidditch Supplies distribute the Phantom series and signed a trial order for twelve brooms within two weeks.
• Morris went to Knockturn Alley and encountered two young Aurors who warned him that a tip had reported a possible werewolf gathering that night.
• Morris turned back to leave, but several wolf howls rang out from the alley the Aurors had entered.

Morris went to check on two Aurors facing a pack of werewolves in Knockturn Alley, but they Apparated with him to a nearby house. When reinforcements proved scarce and werewolves gathered outside, Kingsley Shacklebolt offered to take Morris home, just as claws scraped at the door.

• Morris found the injured Auror Sean and another Auror fleeing two werewolves, then Apparated with them to a nearby house.
• Sean told Morris that Ministry reinforcements were on the way, and Morris waited while Sean recovered.
• Kingsley Shacklebolt arrived alone, explaining that Scrimgeour had sent only him because the other Aurors were on assignment.
• Sean estimated that a dozen or more werewolves were rampaging nearby and proposed retreating.
• Kingsley offered to take Morris home, but footsteps and claws sounded outside the door.

Morris Black rescued Kingsley from a werewolf attack at a secret house, then escaped with the Aurors to the Leaky Cauldron. After returning to the Ship in a Bottle, he received a letter from Harry Potter inviting him to Grimmauld Place and asking for headache potion.

• A werewolf broke into the secret house and pinned Kingsley, but Morris pierced it with a Bone Summoning Spell.
• Morris spotted another werewolf outside the window and struck it with a bone spike before it escaped.
• Kingsley, Morris, Sean, and the female Auror Apparated to the Leaky Cauldron, where Kingsley thanked Morris and learned from Sean about Morris's earlier encounter with the Aurors.
• Morris returned to the Ship in a Bottle and received Harry Potter's letter inviting him to Grimmauld Place and asking for more potion.
• Morris sent Harry a reply with a bottle of potion, then went back to making broomsticks.

Morris learned that the Phantom Mark One had sold out at Quality Quidditch Supplies and met Ludo Bagman, who tested the broom and praised its speed. Bagman gave Morris a Quidditch World Cup ticket as Morris left.

• Morris read Rita Skeeter's glowing Daily Prophet article about the Phantom and received a letter from Mrs Lawson reporting good news.
• Mrs Lawson told Morris that the first batch had sold out and that two local teams had placed orders, while Morris limited production to twenty brooms a week.
• Ludo Bagman visited Quality Quidditch Supplies and asked Mrs Lawson again to join his betting pool, but she refused.
• Bagman learned that Morris designed the Phantom, then asked to try the broom after hearing the shop had sold out.
• Morris offered a fresh batch, and Bagman tested the broom, praised its speed, invited Morris to join his betting pool, and gave him a Quidditch World Cup ticket.

Morris returned to the Gap World and discovered an old man named Scrape, who claimed to be a god of death guarding the way to the world of the dead. After Scrape stopped him from going farther, Morris retreated but secretly extended his Mental Power toward him, making the encounter tense.

• Morris enlarged his teleportation circle and returned to the Gap World, where he followed the familiar path into thicker mist.
• Morris found an old, robed man who awakened and identified himself as a guard called Scrape.
• Scrape claimed to be a god of death and warned Morris that crossing farther into the mist would lead to the world of the dead and certain death.
• Morris questioned Scrape, but the man refused to answer most of his questions.
• Morris tried to pass Scrape, who teleported in front of him and drew his wand to block the way.
• Morris backed away and extended his Mental Power toward Scrape, beginning to make the situation tense.

Morris’s attempt to probe Scrape with Mental Power led the suspicious wizard to attack him. After enduring Scrape’s powerful magic, Morris launched a series of attacks, and gray mist crept onto Scrape as Morris struggled to keep fighting.

• Scrape noticed Morris’s Mental Power probe, demanded to know where he learned the ability, and declared him an enemy when Morris refused to answer.
• Scrape struck Morris with an unfamiliar spell, but Morris protected himself with a Bone Shield and survived the impact.
• Morris summoned his Bone Dragon and Basilisk, but Scrape used the Levitation Charm to lift them into the air.
• Morris released his undead companions to supply magic power and summoned skeletons, which Scrape destroyed with a chain of explosions.
• Morris bombarded Scrape’s powerful barrier with bone spikes until the attack subsided, while gray mist silently crept onto Scrape’s body.

Morris escaped Scrape’s lethal attack but discovered Scrape had cursed him with markings that drained his life force. Seeking answers, Morris went to Hogwarts to consult Professor Binns, while Professor McGonagall also asked him about designing the Phantom Flying Broomstick.

• Morris’s curses had no effect on Scrape, who prepared a devastating attack, so Morris teleported away with his undead creatures just before Scrape blasted a crater into the ground.
• Back in the Ship in a Bottle, Morris treated his injuries with potions and vowed to grow stronger and learn the secrets of the Gap World.
• Morris found black curse markings spreading across his face, but his antidote failed and Tom could not help him; he decided to seek advice from Professor Binns.
• Two days later, Morris arrived at Hogwarts wearing a mask to hide the markings, and Professor McGonagall escorted him toward the castle.
• Professor McGonagall asked whether Morris had designed the Phantom Flying Broomstick, and he confirmed that he had.

Morris sought Professor Binns’s help with a deathly curse left by a man calling himself Death, which was draining his life force and gave him about five years to live. After learning the curse might require a force of new life or creation to break, Morris met with Dumbledore, who examined the mark but questioned whether his attacker had truly been Death.

• Morris revealed the black markings on his face to Professor Binns and Professor McGonagall, explaining that they came from a duel with someone calling himself Death.
• Professor Binns identified the curse as carrying Death’s unique aura and said it might be countered by a power of new life, creation, continuation, and hope.
• Professor McGonagall offered to contact curse specialists, but Professor Binns suggested Morris seek Dumbledore’s help; McGonagall said Dumbledore was away for a week.
• Morris spent the summer searching Hogwarts’s library for information about Death and the curse, but found little as the mark’s condition remained uncertain.
• After Dumbledore returned, Morris showed him the mark, and Dumbledore asked whether the opponent had really been Death; Morris maintained that he was probably only a powerful wizard.

Morris used Fawkes’s tears to weaken the death curse on his face, and Dumbledore gave him a bottle of preserved tears to finish removing it. The curse became black mist that Morris gathered into a bead of pure death energy.

• Dumbledore summoned Fawkes, whose tear eased the markings on Morris’s face and weakened the curse.
• Dumbledore explained that Fawkes could not safely produce enough fresh tears, then retrieved a bottle of tears he had preserved.
• Morris hesitated to accept the precious gift, but Dumbledore asked only that he protect Hogwarts if it ever faced danger.
• Morris spread the preserved tears over his face, driving the curse from his skin as black mist.
• Morris used Energy Gathering to condense the mist into a small bead of pure death energy.

After recovering from Scrape’s curse, Morris studied the death energy crystal and then joined Kyle on the Portkey journey to the Quidditch World Cup. They reached the crowded campsite, where Kyle offered to share his magical tent.

• Dumbledore asked Morris about the god of death, and Morris recounted meeting Scrape while concealing the Gap World.
• Morris studied the crystal he had condensed and named the energy inside it the power of death.
• At Frick’s shop, Morris remembered the World Cup after the event ticket displayed its meeting instructions.
• Morris met Kyle and several other travelers at the Portkey site, and they arrived together at the campsite.
• Kyle told Morris he had brought a magical tent as they surveyed the crowded grounds.