Recaps

Harry witnessed a masked rider steal a unicorn’s corpse from Quirrell and felt intense pain in his scar before Firenze found him. Meanwhile, Morris failed to transform the unicorn into an undead creature, buried its preserved corpse, and planned to retrieve it during the summer holidays.

• Harry watched a masked figure on a skeletal horse knock Quirrell away and take the unicorn’s corpse, then collapsed as pain struck his scar.
• Firenze found Harry, described Quirrell as a soul consumed by darkness, and admitted he could not read the masked figure’s course.
• Morris escaped the centaurs with the unicorn’s corpse and examined it, concluding Quirrell had killed it for its blood.
• Morris’s undead transformation ritual failed when the unicorn’s soul refused to submit and vanished.
• Morris preserved the corpse, sealed it in a coffin, buried it, and left on the skeleton unicorn, intending to return during the summer holidays.

Morris reassured Harry after hearing about the Forbidden Forest and Voldemort, then finished exams and spent a quiet afternoon by the lake. When Harry suddenly remembered something and rushed off with Ron and Hermione to find Hagrid, Morris suspected a crucial moment had arrived.

• Morris gave Cho advice about brewing Pepperup Potion and told Harry, Ron, and Hermione to get the Philosopher’s Stone before Snape could take it.
• Harry told Morris that a dark figure had been drinking unicorn blood in the Forbidden Forest and that Firenze had identified him as Voldemort.
• Morris encouraged Harry to seek the Philosopher’s Stone and promised to help if needed.
• Morris completed the first-year exams, finding most of them easy but the Potions paper unexpectedly advanced.
• By the lake after exams, Morris gave Harry a headache potion, and Harry soon remembered something and left with Ron and Hermione to find Hagrid.

Morris followed Harry and his friends into the underground chambers, where he found Ron unconscious and the Troll dead before being stopped by purple flames. In the final room, Harry fought Quirrell until a white-armored knight on a skeletal horse struck Quirrell down, and Harry passed out.

• Morris agreed to delay Snape but instead followed Harry and his friends into the forbidden corridor.
• Morris found the Three-Headed Dog's room open and followed the trail through the solved chambers, where he found Ron unconscious and the Troll dead.
• Hermione rushed past Morris toward help, and he found purple flames blocking the way to the final room.
• Harry discovered that Quirrell was serving Voldemort and fought back by grabbing him, causing Quirrell pain.
• A white-armored knight riding a skeletal horse slammed into Quirrell, and Harry lost consciousness.

Morris defeated Quirrell and Voldemort, then discovered Dumbledore had been watching as he examined the Philosopher's Stone. Dumbledore took the Stone to destroy it, and agreed to let Morris witness its destruction.

• Morris used his Skeleton Unicorn to knock Quirrell down and found Voldemort still clinging to life in the back of Quirrell's head.
• Voldemort tried to tempt Morris into taking the Philosopher's Stone, but Morris stomped on Quirrell's head, exhausting Voldemort's remaining strength and destroying his face.
• Morris checked that Harry was alive and revealed Dumbledore, who had been concealed nearby.
• Morris took the Philosopher's Stone from Harry's pocket and examined it before handing it to Dumbledore, who said he intended to destroy it.
• Morris asked to witness the Stone's destruction, and Dumbledore agreed, raising it in his hand.

Morris collected some of the magic released when Dumbledore destroyed the Philosopher’s Stone, forming an energy crystal, then helped take Harry and Ron for treatment. At the End-of-Year Feast, Dumbledore awarded Gryffindor enough points to take the House Cup from Slytherin, while Morris planned to test his crystals during the summer.

• Morris used Energy Gathering to condense some of the Philosopher’s Stone’s released magic into an energy crystal, and Dumbledore let him keep it.
• Dumbledore asked Morris to take the unconscious Harry to Madam Pomfrey, and Morris also collected Ron from the chessboard room.
• Students heard a simplified account of Harry’s confrontation with Quirrell, and Ravenclaw won the final Quidditch match.
• At the End-of-Year Feast, Morris considered using his two energy crystals for Guantou’s next Undead Creature Advancement Ritual.
• Dumbledore awarded Gryffindor a large number of points, changing the decorations and taking the House Cup from Slytherin.

After returning to London for the summer, Morris visited Frick in Knockturn Alley and learned that a bestselling author had ordered twelve skeleton dogs. He agreed to stay in Frick’s basement while preparing to attempt Guantou and Yanhua’s second advancement ritual.

• Morris left King’s Cross, took the Knight Bus to the Leaky Cauldron, and went to Frick’s shop in Knockturn Alley.
• Morris met Madam Caroline, who praised the skeleton dog he had sold her and collected a bone-maintenance potion from Frick.
• Frick told Morris that a bestselling author had ordered twelve skeleton dogs for three thousand five hundred Galleons.
• Morris agreed to make the skeleton dogs if Frick provided materials and a room for him.
• Morris chose to stay in Frick’s basement and planned to attempt Guantou and Yanhua’s second advancement ritual.

Morris performed advancement rituals for Guantou and Yanhua, using stored blood and magical energy. Guantou gained an unreliable ability to ignite things, while Yanhua strengthened its shadow manipulation and learned to summon lasting shadow clones.

• Morris finished preparing twelve Skeleton Dogs, raised the Unicorn corpse as an undead creature, and collected his blood for Guantou's ritual.
• Morris performed Guantou's advancement ritual with a Philosopher's Stone energy crystal, but Guantou initially seemed to gain no new ability.
• Guantou's jealousy of Yanhua triggered a flame that singed Yanhua's wing, though Guantou could not reliably set a branch alight.
• Morris performed Yanhua's second advancement ritual with his remaining Gap Energy Crystals, greatly enhancing its shadow manipulation.
• Yanhua gained the ability to summon multiple persistent shadow clones that provided extra fields of vision.

Morris met Gilderoy Lockhart, who bought all twelve Skeleton Dogs, then cared for his Skeleton Unicorn and discovered Guantou had briefly floated in midair. The chapter ended with Guantou unable to repeat the feat, leaving Morris unsure whether he had developed the ability to fly.

• Frick introduced Morris to Gilderoy Lockhart, who had ordered twelve Skeleton Dogs and was considering the purchase.
• Morris praised Lockhart's book and claimed the Skeleton Dogs were rare beings with research value, and Lockhart agreed to buy them all.
• Lockhart paid the remaining balance and left with the Skeleton Dogs, while Frick received an order for bone-care potion.
• Morris bought the potion from Frick and rubbed it over his Skeleton Unicorn's bones, restoring their luster.
• During meditation, Morris saw Guantou walking upside down through the air, but Guantou fell and could not repeat the feat.

Morris bought dragon blood from Borgin and Burkes, where Harry accidentally arrived through the Floo Network and secretly watched him. After Harry followed Morris into Knockturn Alley and an old witch collapsed beside him, Morris reappeared and asked what he was doing there.

• Morris concluded that Guantou had developed magic resembling accidental magic, but gave up trying to teach the cat spells.
• Morris followed Frick's advice and bought portions of Antipodean Opaleye and Welsh Green Dragon blood from Borgin.
• Morris spotted Draco Malfoy and his father in the shop while Harry watched from inside a cabinet.
• Harry left the shop after Morris and found himself alone in Knockturn Alley, where an old witch collapsed in front of him.
• Morris appeared behind Harry and asked, "Harry, what are you doing here?"

Morris rescued Harry from an old hag in Knockturn Alley, then confirmed that he had been the mysterious knight who fought Quirrell. After receiving Hogwarts' new booklist, Morris went to buy his textbooks and saw Gilderoy Lockhart using the Skeleton Dogs Morris had sold him to entertain fans.

• Morris used the Pain Curse to knock out the hag who had stopped Harry in Knockturn Alley, then led Harry back to Diagon Alley.
• Harry asked Morris about the mysterious knight from the Forbidden Forest, and Morris admitted he had been there and asked Harry to keep it private.
• Morris told Harry that he had received a reward, though he could not reveal what it was, and the two parted.
• An owl delivered Morris's Hogwarts booklist and money for school supplies, and Morris noticed that seven of the assigned books were by Gilderoy Lockhart.
• Morris went to Flourish and Blotts, where he saw Lockhart's signing event and the twelve Skeleton Dogs Morris had sold him entertaining the crowd.
• Morris bought his textbooks and returned to Knockturn Alley to continue researching dragon blood.

Morris returned to Hogwarts, where he told the Weasley Twins and Lee Jordan that he lived in Knockturn Alley and learned about the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart. Harry and Ron missed the feast after taking Arthur Weasley's flying car to school, and Ron's actions brought Molly Weasley's furious Howler and trouble for his father.

• Morris rode the Hogwarts Express with the Weasley Twins and Lee Jordan, told them he lived at number twenty-one in Knockturn Alley, and heard about their unfinished Skiving Snackboxes.
• Morris attended the Sorting Ceremony and listened as Gilderoy Lockhart introduced himself as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Morris noticed that Harry and Ron were absent from the feast while Hermione sat at the Gryffindor table.
• At breakfast, Morris heard that Harry and Ron had missed the train, flown Arthur Weasley's car to Hogwarts, been spotted by Muggles, and crashed into the Whomping Willow.
• Molly Weasley's Howler berated Ron for stealing the car and warned that Arthur would face an inquiry at work.

Morris lent Ron a usable secondhand wand after Ron broke his, then attended a Mandrake lesson where he turned Draco Malfoy’s earmuffs pink. Draco removed them during a demonstration and was knocked unconscious by a Mandrake’s cry, so Professor Sprout took him to the Hospital Wing.

• Morris offered Ron a bundle of secondhand wands, and Ron chose one that could cast Lumos.
• In Herbology, Morris correctly described Mandrakes and earned five points for Ravenclaw.
• Draco mocked Morris for choosing pink earmuffs, so Morris used a spell to turn Draco’s earmuffs pink and add flashing bows.
• Draco removed his earmuffs while Professor Sprout demonstrated transplanting a Mandrake and collapsed after hearing its cry.
• Professor Sprout stopped the lesson and took Draco to the Hospital Wing.

Morris attended his first Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson with Gilderoy Lockhart, who gave the class a quiz about himself before releasing Cornish Pixies. Morris restrained one pixie while the classroom descended into chaos, and Lockhart opened the door and whistled as he prepared to deal with them.

• Morris entered Lockhart’s Defence Against the Dark Arts class and read Holidays with Hags while waiting for the professor.
• Lockhart arrived, announced his many honors, and handed out a quiz focused on his life and achievements.
• Morris copied a devoted fan’s answers and altered the handwriting, earning Lockhart’s pleased approval.
• Lockhart opened a cage of Cornish Pixies, which began attacking students and throwing objects around the classroom.
• Morris bound a pixie with a spell while the other students took cover, and Lockhart opened the door and whistled.

Morris watched Lockhart use Skeleton Dogs to capture Cornish Pixies, then realized that Lockhart could not teach Defence Against the Dark Arts. While continuing to excavate dragon bones in the Forbidden Forest, Morris heard a huge crash at the Quidditch Pitch.

• Lockhart had twelve Skeleton Dogs capture the Cornish Pixies, then told Morris to keep quiet about having sold them to him and claimed he had rescued them from a Dark wizard.
• After several lessons, Morris concluded Lockhart knew little about Defence Against the Dark Arts and stopped taking his classes seriously.
• Morris continued digging up dragon bones in the Forbidden Forest and brewing potions to restore their vitality in the Room of Requirement.
• After a night of excavating, Morris passed the Quidditch Pitch at dawn and heard an enormous crash.

Ron’s anger at Malfoy unleashed an unusually powerful Slug-Vomiting Charm that struck the Slytherin Quidditch team and destroyed his borrowed wand. Morris stopped Ron’s retching, and Ron was left unable to explain how he had cast the spell.

• Malfoy taunted Ron about his family’s poverty and insulted Hermione, prompting Ron to point his wand at him.
• Ron swung his wand at Malfoy, and a blinding flash made Malfoy, Flint, the Slytherin players, and Ron vomit slugs.
• Fred and George failed to stop Ron’s retching with Finite Incantatem, but Morris used the spell to end it.
• Ron refused to lift the spell from the Slytherins, who left the pitch as the Gryffindors cheered.
• Morris asked how Ron had cast such a powerful spell, and Ron said he had been angry and might have said the incantation wrong.

Morris asked Professor Flitwick how Ron had made an unusually powerful spell and learned that adjusting a spell to suit the caster could improve it beyond the textbook method. Back in the dormitory, Morris experimented with Lumos until he found a casting method that resonated with his magic and filled the room with brilliant light.

• Morris asked Professor Flitwick why Ron's Slug-Vomiting Charm had been so powerful despite his poor wand and incorrect incantation.
• Professor Flitwick explained that Ron had likely found a casting method that suited him, and demonstrated how changing his Lumos movements and incantation made the light far brighter.
• Professor Flitwick advised Morris to explore personal spell adjustments only after mastering standard casting.
• Morris returned to the dormitory and experimented with Lumos, adjusting his wand movements, incantation, and emotions.
• Morris found a casting method that made his magic flow in resonance with him, lighting the dormitory as brightly as day.

Snape summoned Morris to his office and, at Dumbledore’s request, began teaching him the Patronus Charm. Morris produced silver mist on his first attempt, while Snape revealed a silver doe before threatening to deduct fifty house points if Morris failed to summon a Patronus within half an hour.

• After Potions Class, Snape called Morris to his office and told him Dumbledore had assigned him to teach the Patronus Charm.
• Morris read the study guide and said he was ready to learn the spell.
• Snape demonstrated the charm, first producing silver mist and then summoning a silver doe.
• Morris cast the spell on his first attempt and produced silver mist, surprising Snape.
• Morris joked that Snape’s Patronus should be a bat, and Snape threatened to take fifty house points unless Morris summoned a Patronus within half an hour.

Morris successfully cast the Patronus Charm, producing a silver raven and then dozens more, astonishing Snape. He explained that he had focused on the happiness of the unknown future, leaving Snape alone with the thought and unable to imagine one for himself.

• Morris adjusted the source of his happiness and cast the Patronus Charm, summoning a silver raven.
• Morris spread the silver mist into dozens of raven Patronuses, leaving Snape stunned.
• Snape confirmed the ravens were Patronuses and said he had never seen anyone produce more than one.
• Morris explained that he had focused on the future rather than a happy memory, because its possibilities made him happiest.
• Snape let Morris leave, then tried to imagine a distant, wonderful future but found only a blank.

Morris brewed Pepperup Potion for Snape and received rare ingredients as payment. On his way back, he told Hermione that Lockhart had bought the Skeleton Dogs he claimed to have rescued, leaving her shocked and confused.

• Morris joined Snape in brewing batches of Pepperup Potion for the Hospital Wing, despite wondering why he had been chosen.
• Snape gave Morris the storeroom key and allowed him to take three sets of ingredients as payment, subject to approval.
• Morris chose some of Hogwarts' rarest and most expensive potion ingredients and headed back to his dormitory.
• Morris met Hermione, who was carrying Lockhart's books and hoping to get his autograph.
• Morris told Hermione that Lockhart had bought the Skeleton Dogs he claimed to have rescued, and Hermione was left shocked and uncertain.

Morris learned to enter the Gap World without the Draught of Living Death and discovered the Skeleton Summoning spell in the Book of the Mage. He tested his new skeletons in the Ravenclaw Common Room by offering Roger Davies and the other students a cake and five Galleons to dismantle one.

• Morris gathered Gap Energy Crystals in the Gap World and returned to his dormitory without using the Draught of Living Death.
• Morris found Skeleton Summoning in the Book of the Mage, constructed its spell model, and summoned a magical skeleton.
• Morris gave the skeleton a scythe with the Bone Summoning Spell and planned to test its combat strength.
• Morris brought two skeletons into the Ravenclaw Common Room, where Roger Davies and other students found them frightening.
• Morris offered a cake and five Galleons to any student who could dismantle a skeleton within five minutes, inviting Davies to try.

Morris let Ravenclaw students test his skeletons in the common room, where Roger nearly got hit by a hammer before Morris stopped the attack. Robert fought a skeleton and watched its severed arm reattach, then Professor Flitwick arrived and said the magical construct used magic he did not recognize.

• Roger attacked Morris's skeleton with Diffindo, but it struck back with a hammer until Morris stopped it just before it hit Roger.
• Morris explained that the skeletons fought back, reassured the crowd that their weapons were harmless, and invited another student to try.
• Robert Hilliard restrained a skeleton with Incarcerous and severed its arm with an unfamiliar spell, but the arm reattached itself.
• Robert ended the fight rather than use Confringo, and Professor Flitwick examined the skeletons and identified them as sturdy magical constructs made with unfamiliar magic.

Morris tested his self-repairing skeletons with Professor Flitwick, then gained recognition among Ravenclaw students while keeping his magic secret. As Morris practiced Incendio by the Black Lake, Draco Malfoy and Marcus Flint approached, intending to intimidate him.

• Morris asked Professor Flitwick to test a skeleton, and Flitwick destroyed it with Reducto before its limited magic ran out during its attempted repair.
• Morris offered a prize for anyone willing to test the remaining skeleton, and Professor Flitwick asked to have the cake.
• Ravenclaw students increasingly greeted Morris and questioned him about his skeleton magic, but he kept its method secret.
• Morris practiced shaping Incendio flames by the Black Lake and sensed that his magic still lacked harmony.
• Draco Malfoy persuaded Marcus Flint to help scare Morris, and the two approached him from behind.

Morris broke through with his Fire-Making Spell and trapped Draco and Flint inside a shrinking ring of flames before extinguishing it. Professor McGonagall dismissed Draco’s accusation, and Slytherin lost twenty points for slandering a student and deceiving a professor.

• Morris cast Incendio and created a towering ring of fire that enclosed Draco and Flint.
• Flint used Aguamenti to open a gap, but Morris reignited it and made the ring contract until the two surrendered.
• Morris extinguished the flames and claimed he had only been practicing magic when Professor McGonagall arrived.
• Draco accused Morris of attacking them, but Professor McGonagall rejected his account because they had no burns and his story seemed impossible.
• Flint said they had been heading to the Quidditch Pitch, and Slytherin lost twenty points for slandering a fellow student and deceiving a professor.

Morris discovered that Filch was a Squib after finding a rejection letter from the Kwikspell Company, and kept it as potential leverage. At Hogwarts’s Halloween feast, Morris heard that Dumbledore had booked a Skeleton Dance Troupe and wondered whether Madam Caroline would be among its members.

• Morris dried Guantou and Mrs. Norris with a charm, and Filch confronted him for using magic in the corridor.
• Filch received a letter from the Kwikspell Company, then hurried away and accidentally dropped it.
• Morris read the letter, realized Filch was a Squib, and kept it in case Filch caused trouble again.
• Morris created noncombat skeletons for Halloween at Professor Flitwick’s request and spoke with him in the Great Hall.
• Morris heard that Dumbledore had booked a Skeleton Dance Troupe and wondered if Madam Caroline would perform.

After the Halloween feast, Morris found his undead cat Guantou petrified beside Mrs. Norris beneath a threatening message about the Chamber of Secrets. Dumbledore and the professors took the students involved to Lockhart’s office as Morris tried to determine what had happened.

• Morris watched the Elegant Skeletons dance troupe perform and recognized Madam Caroline among the departing dancers.
• Morris and the other students found a message on a third-floor corridor wall announcing that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened, with Mrs. Norris and Guantou hanging motionless nearby.
• Draco Malfoy taunted Harry and Hermione, and Morris briefly questioned him before dismissing him as the culprit.
• Morris levitated Guantou into his arms, found that she was still alive but unresponsive, and failed to undo her condition with Finite Incantatem.
• Filch arrived in distress, and Dumbledore and the professors brought the students involved to Lockhart’s office.