Recaps

Morris agreed to join the Order of the Phoenix but said he would focus on researching magic rather than searching for Voldemort. He donated a box of Shadow Concealment Stones to help protect the Order as Dumbledore began assigning search groups.

• Dumbledore invited Morris to join the Order of the Phoenix, and Morris accepted.
• Dedalus questioned Morris's suitability, but Sirius identified him as Triwizard Tournament Champion Morris Black.
• Dumbledore explained that Voldemort had an incomplete body and asked the Order to search for him.
• Morris said he had little time to help because he needed to research magic, and claimed he could eventually defeat Voldemort.
• Dumbledore asked Morris to supply protective items, so Morris produced a box of Shadow Concealment Stones and demonstrated one.
• Morris gave the stones to the Order for free, and Dumbledore began assigning search groups.

Phoebe struggled with her loose job at the Phantom Flying Broomstick Company until Morris returned from Somerset and explained that he had explored ancient ruins filled with dark creatures and Inferi. He left Phoebe free to manage sales as she wished, while Fred and George asked to join his next adventure.

• Phoebe delivered Phantom Flying Broomsticks to Mrs Lawson and reflected on her work expanding the company into foreign markets.
• Fred and George told Phoebe that Morris would arrive soon, and Morris joined them after returning from Somerset.
• Phoebe gave Morris her work report and learned that she could decide how to manage sales of the broomsticks he produced each month.
• Morris told Fred, George, and Phoebe that he had followed criminals to ancient ruins, where the criminals died and he faced dark creatures and hundreds of Inferi.
• George asked to join Morris on his next adventure, but Morris refused because he did not want Mrs. Weasley to shout at him.

Morris brought Phoebe to the Ship in a Bottle and introduced her to the Explorers’ secret meditation method. Phoebe mastered mental power and the Sound Transmission Technique in minutes, and Morris announced that it was time for the next step.

• Morris used Apparition with Guantou to take Phoebe and the Weasley Twins to the deserted island where the Ship in a Bottle was kept.
• On the ship, Morris confirmed that Phoebe had officially joined the Explorers and gave her the Wizard Meditation Method to study.
• Phoebe quickly sensed and controlled her mental power, astonishing Fred and George, who had expected her training to take more than a month.
• Phoebe learned the Sound Transmission Technique within minutes and sent messages into the others’ minds in French.
• Morris announced that the group had mastered mental power and was ready for the next step.

Morris taught Phoebe and the Weasley twins the Fireball Spell, which Phoebe quickly learned while Fred and George struggled. After the twins returned home, Phoebe stayed to watch television and have dinner with Morris.

• Morris demonstrated his self-created Fireball Spell and showed the trio how to learn its spell model from a blank parchment.
• Phoebe successfully cast the Fireball Spell, while Fred and George failed to get the knack of it.
• Morris told them he had learned Meditation and the Fireball Spell from an ancient book and asked them to keep it secret.
• Fred and George realized it was late, so Morris sent them to Diagon Alley with Guantou to find Percy.
• Phoebe said Mrs Lawson had given her a place to stay, then chose to remain with Morris to watch television and eat dinner.

Morris began using the Bone Dragon to increase the Ship in a Bottle’s speed and reflected on his ambitions to explore space. He then visited Gellert Grindelwald at Nurmengard to ask about prophecy, but Grindelwald warned him not to trust it and told him he could not become a Seer.

• Phoebe woke aboard Morris’s ship, hurried off to meet Mrs Lawson, and left Morris to consider her responsible help with his broom business.
• Morris sent the Bone Dragon out to pull the Ship in a Bottle faster and decided he needed a more efficient way to travel through space.
• Morris visited Gellert Grindelwald in his cell at Nurmengard and asked how prophecy worked.
• Grindelwald explained that visions could not be forced and might mislead those who relied on them.
• Grindelwald told Morris he could not become a Seer and urged him to leave before the next inspection.

Morris asked Grindelwald for a prophecy, and Grindelwald read his blood and gave him a memory of what he had seen. Morris returned to Hogwarts to view the memory in Dumbledore’s Pensieve, where he found Sirius in the Headmaster’s Office.

• Morris persuaded Grindelwald to attempt a prophecy using his blood.
• Grindelwald studied Morris’s blood, then extracted a memory of his vision into a crystal vial and gave it to Morris.
• Morris returned to Hogwarts and asked Dumbledore to borrow the Pensieve.
• Morris entered the Headmaster’s Office and found Dumbledore with Sirius; Dumbledore pointed out the empty Pensieve.

Morris used the Pensieve to view a memory from Grindelwald and saw the Deathly Hallows symbol form in blood. He told Dumbledore he intended to collect the Hallows, while Sirius learned he would leave his teaching post for a more important task.

• Morris entered Grindelwald’s memory in the Pensieve and saw the Deathly Hallows symbol appear in the blood.
• Morris wondered whether Grindelwald wanted him to seek the Hallows, including the Elder Wand, Invisibility Cloak, and Resurrection Stone.
• Sirius told Morris that he had survived a full term as Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor and planned to teach again next year.
• Dumbledore told Sirius he could not continue teaching because he had a more important task for him, and said the Ministry would send several people to help at Hogwarts.
• Morris asked Dumbledore about the Deathly Hallows and said he planned to collect them, prompting Dumbledore to ask what he would do with them.

Morris learned that Dumbledore possessed the wand known as the Elder Wand, then traveled to the Ministry of Magic at Hardy's invitation to visit the Department of Mysteries. He arrived at the Ministry and ran into Arthur Weasley while waiting for Hardy.

• Morris asked Dumbledore about the Deathly Hallows and sensed that Dumbledore's wand might be the Elder Wand.
• Dumbledore confirmed that his wand was called the Elder Wand, though he doubted it made its owner invincible, and said the Invisibility Cloak and Resurrection Stone were not in his possession.
• Morris returned to the Ship in a Bottle and decided to seek information about the other Hallows from Diagon Alley brokers.
• Morris entered the Ministry of Magic through the red telephone box and waited at the reception desk for Hardy.
• Arthur Weasley recognized Morris in the Ministry hall and asked why he was there.

Morris visited the Ministry of Magic, where Arthur Weasley warned him that the Order of the Phoenix was dangerous and the Weasley twins discussed a Ministry purchase. Mr. Hardy brought Morris to the Department of Mysteries and invited him to join the Unspeakables, then offered him a choice of rooms to explore.

• Arthur Weasley quietly told Morris that he was also in the Order of the Phoenix and warned him that the work could be dangerous.
• George and Fred arrived at the Ministry to deliver goods ordered by its purchasing department, but kept the details of their inventions secret from Arthur.
• Mr. Hardy greeted Morris and invited him to join the Unspeakables, then led him down to the Department of Mysteries.
• Mr. Hardy showed Morris the circular hall with a fire-lit pit and several doors, and told him to choose a room to enter.

Hardy showed Morris the Department of Mysteries’ Death Chamber and explained the dangers of the Door of Death. After Morris tested it with an Inferius, Hardy sent Robert Hilliard to show him the Time Chamber.

• Hardy explained that the Unspeakables were older than the Ministry of Magic and that the Door of Death was believed to lead to the world of the dead.
• Hardy warned Morris that at least ten Unspeakables had entered the doorway and never returned.
• Morris tossed a Galleon through the veil and confirmed that it passed through, then sent an Inferius inside with a Surveillance Crystal Ball.
• The Inferius disappeared while the crystal ball fell back, leaving Morris unable to observe what lay beyond the doorway.
• Hardy gave Robert Hilliard permission to show Morris the Time Chamber, where Robert researched Time-Turners.

Morris discovered that the stone used to make Time-Turners reacted to his Mental Power and transported him into his Ship in a Bottle. He returned to the Time Chamber, leaving Robert and Hardy surprised by the stone’s unexplained ability.

• Robert led Morris and Hardy into the Time Chamber, where he showed them the broken Time-Turner Morris had once damaged.
• Robert and Hardy took Morris to a hidden storeroom and revealed a stone that was the raw material used in Time-Turner hourglasses.
• Morris touched the stone, but nothing happened until he extended his Mental Power toward it.
• The stone transported Morris into his Ship in a Bottle, where he found no inhabitants or magical items and discovered his pocket watch had stopped.
• Morris used his Mental Power on the stone again and returned to the Time Chamber before Robert and Hardy.

Morris discovered that the Ageless Stone sent him to a place where time did not pass, then agreed to join the Department of Mysteries after graduating from Hogwarts. After lunch, Fred and George showed him the Ministry of Magic’s order for their protective clothing.

• Morris told Hardy and Robert that the Ageless Stone had taken him somewhere time did not pass, and Robert urged him to help research it.
• Hardy took Morris and Robert to the Ministry of Magic dining hall, where Morris agreed to become an Unspeakable after graduating from Hogwarts.
• Hardy said Morris would first study under him, then had Morris sign a contract.
• After lunch, Hardy left Morris in the Ministry hall, where Fred and George found him and showed him their Shield Hat, Shield Gloves, and Shield Cloak.
• George explained that the Shield Hat could reflect a jinx back at its caster when its wearer looked them in the eye.

Morris inspected the Weasley twins’ magical inventions and cautioned them to keep their Meditation and Fireball Spell work secret. He met Unspeakable Saul Croaker and Minister Fudge, then waited in the Department of Mysteries for Hardy, but Robert arrived instead.

• Morris examined the twins’ Shield Hat and unstable Fireball Spell gloves, and told them not to reveal their work on Meditation or the spell.
• Fred and George left to buy supplies for the Ministry of Magic’s order.
• Morris met Saul Croaker in the corridor and learned that Croaker was an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries.
• Fudge welcomed Morris as a Department of Mysteries intern and said he looked forward to Morris joining officially after Hogwarts.
• Morris waited in the main hall for Hardy, but Robert arrived instead.

Hardy took Morris to the global Unspeakables’ library, where they discovered a vast collection of magical research and learned that only the two of them could enter from Britain. The library’s ranking system remained a mystery, and Hardy admitted that he was a newcomer too.

• Hardy led Morris through the flames in the Department of Mysteries to a hidden library belonging to the Unspeakables.
• Hardy lit the enormous library and explained that it stored research by Unspeakables from around the world, including ancient work written in unreadable Etruscan.
• Hardy told Morris that they were the only people in Britain who could enter the library and that its books could only be read there.
• Morris learned that the library had a ranking system, but Hardy did not know how anyone advanced through its ranks.

Morris explored the Unspeakables' library and learned that he might need to raise his rank to uncover its secrets. When he and Robert returned to the Time Chamber, they found the Ageless Stone stolen and confronted a thief who looked exactly like Morris.

• Hardy told Morris the library had selected him to become an Unspeakable and suggested he submit research to raise his library access.
• Morris searched the library, found little he could read, and received a note urging him to raise his rank to learn more secrets.
• Morris met Robert, who said he had been in his office since lunch despite Morris believing they had spoken earlier.
• Morris and Robert found the Time Chamber storeroom ransacked and discovered that the Ageless Stone had been stolen.
• Morris's spell was deflected by the scorched Ageless Stone, revealing a cloaked thief who looked exactly like Morris.

Morris and Robert chased a disguised intruder who stole something from the Department of Mysteries, but the fugitive escaped the Ministry. Fudge ordered Scrimgeour to investigate and identify the intruder.

• Robert confronted a fake version of himself in the Time Chamber, and Morris attacked as the impostor tried to flee.
• Morris and Robert chased the intruder through the Department of Mysteries and the Ministry corridors, but he escaped through the lift ceiling.
• Robert alerted the Ministry, and he and Morris climbed the stairs to the first-floor atrium, where they met Aurors led by Rufus Scrimgeour.
• Scrimgeour told Robert that the intruder had escaped, and Robert explained what had happened to Fudge.
• Fudge ordered Scrimgeour to investigate the break-in and establish the intruder's identity.

After the Ageless Stone was stolen from the Ministry, Morris continued working with the Unspeakables and spent his day off exploring a Muggle town. There he met Oliver Webster, a wizard who ran a small restaurant, and noticed Oliver watching him closely.

• Morris and Robert told Scrimgeour that the stolen Ageless Stone was valuable material for making Time-Turners, but the Aurors found no clues to the thief.
• Fudge ordered Morris and Robert to keep the theft secret, and Morris spent the following weeks at the Ministry studying with Robert and learning about the Unspeakables' work.
• On his day off, Morris rode his Undead Unicorn from the Ship in a Bottle to a Muggle town, thinking about how vulnerable a wizard's body could be.
• Morris entered a small restaurant and ordered banoffee pie and tea from its owner, who recognized his wizarding robes and offered him the meal for free.
• The owner introduced himself as Oliver Webster and said the restaurant was not connected to the Floo Network; Morris then noticed Oliver staring at him as he ate.

Morris met Oliver, a Squib who asked to see magic, and accidentally broke Oliver’s old wand. Morris offered him a replacement and modified a Whip Wand with a Gap Energy Crystal, leaving Oliver to try it again.

• Oliver told Morris he was a Squib and asked him to demonstrate magic, so Morris transformed a table into a suit of armor.
• Oliver showed Morris his old wand, which cracked and exploded after Morris tested it.
• Morris checked his own wand, concluded Oliver’s wand had been faulty, and offered to replace it.
• Oliver chose a Whip Wand from Morris’s collection, but it did not work in his hands.
• Morris added a Gap Energy Crystal to the Whip Wand and told Oliver to press the protrusion at its base.

Morris gave Oliver a modified wand that transformed into a self-recharging whip, then visited Quality Quidditch Supplies and discussed the Firebolt II with Mrs Lawson. He learned Phoebe had gone to France for her holiday, and Mrs Lawson urged him to pursue her before he prepared to leave through the shop’s fireplace.

• Morris gave Oliver a Gap Energy Crystal-powered wand that became a whip, and Oliver delighted in controlling it.
• Morris went to Diagon Alley and saw that Quality Quidditch Supplies was displaying the new Firebolt II.
• Mrs Lawson warned Morris that the Firebolt II might hurt Phantom sales, and Morris said he could upgrade his broom when he had time.
• Morris asked where Phoebe was, and Mrs Lawson told him she had gone to France to visit her family during her holiday.
• Mrs Lawson asked if Morris and Phoebe were dating, then encouraged him to make a move; Morris said he was not considering romance.
• Morris asked to use Mrs Lawson’s fireplace, and she showed him where to find it and the Floo Powder.

Morris attended an Order of the Phoenix meeting at 12 Grimmauld Place, where Dumbledore assigned him to investigate a suspected Death Eater base. Afterward, Morris told Harry and the others that Voldemort might be targeting Harry and learned that the mission would begin the next morning.

• Morris arrived at 12 Grimmauld Place and met Fred and George, who said they had finished their Apparition lessons but were not allowed to join the Order.
• Dumbledore told the Order that Voldemort had gathered old Death Eaters and was looking for Harry, and Sirius said Voldemort wanted Harry's blood.
• Dumbledore assigned Morris, Sirius, Lupin, and others to investigate a suspected Death Eater base, warning them that it might be a trap.
• Morris joined Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, and George upstairs and told them about his assignment and the danger Voldemort posed to Harry.
• Sirius told Morris that the operation was scheduled for the next morning to prevent a mole from warning the Death Eaters.

Morris and the others traveled to the Cambrian Mountains to investigate reports of Death Eater activity, while Mundungus Fletcher refused to join them. Morris infiltrated a lit house and found the stolen Ageless Stone, but only half of it remained.

• Mundungus Fletcher tried to avoid the mission, and Frick released him when he insisted on staying behind.
• Sirius showed the team a map of the Cambrian Mountains and transported them there with a Portkey.
• Morris split from the others and approached the only house with a light, where a masked man demanded to see his mark.
• Guantou stunned the masked man, and Morris took his wand, mask, and robes before binding him in the shadows.
• Morris entered the house and found the Ageless Stone beside a masked man's parchment, with half the stone missing.
• When the man reached for his wand, Morris disarmed him with Expelliarmus.

Morris captured two Death Eaters and learned that Voldemort had sent the Avery family member to study the Ageless Stone. As Morris and his allies prepared to leave, Voldemort arrived and attacked, leaving Morris to face him with his undead army.

• Morris interrogated a Death Eater with Veritaserum and discovered that Voldemort had sent him to study the Ageless Stone, whose other half he could not locate.
• Morris joined Sirius and Lupin with the two captured Death Eaters, and Frick returned injured after finding ordinary traps in the houses he had searched.
• Voldemort attacked the group with the Killing Curse, which Morris blocked with a bone shield.
• Morris told Sirius to escape with the prisoners and summoned his undead creatures to stand against Voldemort.
• Voldemort demanded the Ageless Stone, then cast Fiendfyre at the Inferi.

Morris and Voldemort clashed, and Voldemort revealed that he still held a grudge over their encounter through Quirrell years earlier. After Sirius, Lupin, and Frick tried to help, Voldemort challenged Morris to a duel as Morris's Inferi swarmed him.

• Morris's Bone Dragon devoured Voldemort's Fiendfyre and sent its flames surging toward him, but Voldemort Apparated behind Morris and attacked.
• Morris dodged Voldemort's Killing Curse, and Voldemort recognized him from their encounter through Quirrell years earlier, when Morris had kicked him in the head.
• Sirius and the others attacked Voldemort, who deflected their spells and targeted Frick with the Killing Curse.
• Frick used his Shadow Concealment Stone to hide, but Voldemort dragged him out; Guantou then Apparated away with him.
• Morris told Sirius and Lupin to keep safe, and they moved to a rooftop to support him while Voldemort proposed a one-on-one duel.
• Morris warned that he could not promise a one-on-one fight, and his Inferi swarmed Voldemort.

Morris used a Death Energy Crystal to erode Voldemort’s life force, forcing him to flee after his Killing Curse missed. Morris and his companions returned to Grimmauld Place, where Dumbledore learned they had encountered Voldemort.

• Morris struck Voldemort with a Pain Curse and death energy, causing black patterns to spread across Voldemort’s face.
• Voldemort cast the Killing Curse at Morris, but Morris escaped with Fixed-Point Teleportation and the curse destroyed the house where Sirius and Lupin were hiding.
• Voldemort grabbed two Death Eaters and Apparated away, while Morris recalled his undead creatures and reunited with Sirius, Lupin, Frick, and Guantou.
• Morris secretly kept half of the Ageless Stone and returned with the others to Grimmauld Place.
• Sirius told Dumbledore that they had encountered Voldemort, and Dumbledore said he had been investigating elsewhere.

After returning from his encounter with Voldemort, Morris spent the day at the old Black house with Harry and the Weasleys. At midnight, Dumbledore asked Morris to help search the Gaunt family's old house for a Horcrux.

• Morris told Harry that he had encountered Voldemort but returned unharmed, and said Voldemort still needed time to regain his strength.
• Morris offered to sneak Harry outside, but Arthur said Harry needed to remain in the old Black house.
• Morris stayed at the house, finished his holiday homework, and lent it to Harry and Ron.
• Dumbledore arrived at midnight and asked Morris how many Horcruxes Voldemort had made; Morris estimated at least seven.
• Dumbledore told Morris he had an idea about another Horcrux and set off with him for the Gaunt family's old house.