Chapter Summaries

Morris identified the black Animagus as Sirius Black and reported him to Professor McGonagall, who took him to Dumbledore. Later, Morris brought Harry a silver broomstick to test at Gryffindor practice, and Harry launched into the sky at astonishing speed.

• Sirius left after writing "Goodbye," while Morris realized the black dog was likely Sirius Black.
• Morris told Professor McGonagall about the Animagus and drew a portrait of the black dog for her.
• Professor McGonagall brought Morris to Dumbledore, who ordered the portrait posted on the noticeboard to warn the school.
• Morris went to the Quidditch Pitch and asked Harry to test a silver broomstick he claimed was faster than the Firebolt.
• Harry complained that the broom was uncomfortable, then kicked off and shot into the sky at incredible speed.

Morris tested his rune-enhanced broom with Harry, but its extreme speed made it impossible to control and nearly caused a fatal crash. After Harry returned to training on his Firebolt, Morris went back to his ship to improve the broom’s handling.

• Morris watched Harry fly the broom, which was faster than a Firebolt but difficult to steer.
• Harry lost control of the broom and began spinning toward the ground.
• Morris caught Harry in midair with a spell while the broom crashed into the pitch.
• Harry told Morris the broom was uncontrollable, and Morris promised to refine it before giving him one.
• Fred discovered that the broom was made of bone, and the Gryffindor team returned to training.
• Morris went back to his ship and began modifying the broom with a Balance rune.

Morris tested a thought-controlled flying broomstick armed with the Bone Summoning Spell, then began the first preparations for becoming an Animagus. He left a Mandrake leaf in his mouth beneath the full moon, beginning a month-long process.

• Morris had Guantou test the flying broomstick, which responded to thoughts and could cast the Bone Summoning Spell.
• Guantou trapped Yanhua in a bone cage, but Yanhua soon subdued Guantou with shadow magic.
• Morris considered making more armed brooms for undead creatures and summoned beings.
• As night fell on the full moon, Morris used a spell to ease the discomfort of holding a Mandrake leaf in his mouth.
• Morris began the month-long preliminary preparations for becoming an Animagus.

Morris gave Fred, George, and Neville Mental Power Connection Crystal Balls to test a communication device that worked with the Sound Transmission Technique. The three connected their mental power successfully, and Neville squeaked in response to Morris’s greeting.

• Guantou lost its secondhand wand, so Morris offered it a replacement from his stockpile of wands.
• Fred, George, and Neville visited Morris after learning the Sound Transmission Technique.
• Morris explained that he wanted them to test his Mental Power Connection Crystal Balls, which could connect users over long distances.
• Morris had the crystal balls connect the three visitors to him, and they heard his voice in their minds.
• Neville squeaked to show he could hear Morris, leaving the others looking at him strangely.

Morris began preparing for his Animagus transformation, then heard that the Ministry was offering a reward for Sirius Black. As he worked on an improved broom, Fred urgently contacted him to say he had seen Black.

• Fred and George tested the mental power-linked crystal ball by singing to Morris through it.
• Morris buried the ingredients for his Animagus transformation beneath a tree, then realized he might have to wait a long time for a thunderstorm.
• Morris told Kyle, Marietta, and Cho Chang that Sirius Black likely had another purpose for coming to Hogwarts, then noticed the Ministry's reward for information about him.
• Morris returned to the Ship in a Bottle to improve his flying broom with stability, protection, and cushioning runes.
• Fred contacted Morris through the crystal ball and urgently told him he had seen Sirius Black.

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.