Chapter Summaries

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.

Morris explored the crowded campsite for the Quidditch World Cup, reunited with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and joined the Weasley family by their campfire. Sirius arrived just as Ludo Bagman was inviting them to bet on the match.

• Morris found that Kyle's tent had an Undetectable Extension Charm and went out to explore the campsite.
• Morris watched a Ministry wizard Obliviate a Muggle, then ran into Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
• Morris joined the Weasleys at their campfire, where Harry revealed that Morris knew Apparition despite being underage.
• Arthur warned Morris not to tell anyone about Apparition, and Molly questioned whether he had used magic outside school.
• Ludo Bagman greeted the group and tried to persuade Morris to bet on the match, but Morris refused.
• Sirius arrived at the campfire, and Harry greeted him delightedly.

Sirius Black joined Harry and the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, while Morris helped Kyle brew a potion and spoke with Unspeakable Vaughn Hardy about a dangerous energy crystal. Hardy warned that the crystal could kill anyone who touched it, but Morris believed it was safe and considered testing it.

• Sirius Black arrived, bet one hundred Galleons on Ireland, and caught up with Arthur while Fred revealed that the twins had witnessed Morris capture him.
• Morris returned to Kyle's tent with a sandwich from Mrs. Weasley and learned that Kyle had stayed awake brewing a sleeping potion to earn his ticket.
• Morris offered to help Kyle brew the potion, then followed Vaughn Hardy away from the cauldron to discuss the death energy crystal.
• Hardy examined the crystal and warned Morris that its dark energy would kill anyone who touched it, but Morris said he had sealed and controlled the energy.
• Hardy invited Morris to become an Unspeakable, but Morris refused and wondered whether he should test the crystal.

Morris tested the death energy crystal, attended the Quidditch World Cup match with Kyle, and later confronted masked attackers who set fire to their tent. The chapter ended as Morris's skeletons attacked the masked wizards.

• Morris used death energy from the crystal to kill a chicken and wondered why it had no effect on him.
• Morris and Kyle watched the Quidditch World Cup match, where Morris noticed the Veela mascots and Ireland's Firebolt brooms.
• After returning to their tent, Morris woke to a commotion, and Kyle reported that someone was causing trouble nearby.
• Masked wizards set fire to Morris and Kyle's tent, and Morris extinguished the flames with Finite Incantatem.
• Morris summoned three skeletons to block the attackers as Kyle drew his wand, and the skeletons swung their weapons at one masked wizard.

Morris and Kyle resisted a group of masked wizards, and Morris drove them off with his Bone Dragon before pursuing one of them into the woods. He captured the masked man and began removing his mask, unaware that the captive was Lucius Malfoy.

• Morris cast a Stunning Spell at the black-robed wizards, and they answered with a barrage of spells.
• Morris protected Kyle with a bone shield and summoned the Bone Dragon, whose dragon breath scattered the wizards.
• Morris told Kyle to pack up the tent, then chased one fleeing wizard on the Bone Dragon.
• Lucius Malfoy hid in the woods, believing he had escaped Morris.
• Morris bound Lucius with Incarcerous, challenged his claim that he was merely passing by, and reached to remove his mask.

Morris captured Lucius Malfoy after confronting him over the attack on his friend’s tent, then used a death-energy-enhanced Pain Curse to punish him. Lucius escaped before Morris could lift the curse, and Morris returned to Kyle as Aurors arrived.

• Morris recognized Lucius Malfoy, threatened him, and demanded to know why he had come to the campsite.
• The Dark Mark appeared in the sky, and Lucius claimed he had been coerced into helping announce Voldemort’s return.
• Morris blamed Lucius for the attack on his friend’s tent and demanded compensation before offering to let him go if he tested a spell.
• Morris cast a death-energy-enhanced Pain Curse on Lucius, whose vitality began to drain as he screamed in agony.
• Aurors approached, but Lucius escaped by Apparition before Morris lifted the curse, and Morris fled to the campsite.
• Morris told Kyle that he had caught one attacker and that the man had received a lesson.

After the Quidditch World Cup attack, Morris returned safely to Diagon Alley, made new connections, and spent the remaining days of summer at home. He arrived at King's Cross to deliver broomsticks and reunited with Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the Weasley twins, showing off his expensive custom-made robes.

• Morris returned to Diagon Alley with Kyle, met Kyle's father, and arranged to sell him the Shadow Concealment Stones.
• Morris replied to Fred's worried note and sent Yanhua to deliver it to the Weasley family.
• Morris invited Kyle to join the Explorers, and Kyle agreed.
• Morris arrived at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters with a supply of broomsticks and met Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
• Morris explained the enchantments on his custom-made robes, surprising Harry, Ron, and Hermione with their Firebolt-level price.
• Fred and George checked whether Morris had been hurt at the World Cup, and Morris told them Kyle's tent had burned down and Malfoy had already been punished.

Morris told the others that Lucius Malfoy had burned Kyle’s tent and that he had cursed Lucius, then boarded the Hogwarts Express. On the train, he impressed Ron by transforming his own robes to match Ron’s dress robes, and left to return to Fred and George’s compartment.

• Morris said Lucius Malfoy had burned Kyle’s tent and described the curse he had used on him; Fred warned Ron not to confront the Malfoys without evidence.
• Morris spotted Draco Malfoy with Goyle and Crabbe before the train whistle called everyone aboard.
• On the train, Fred and George teased Lee Jordan about his book of love potion recipes, then accidentally set off a miniature Dungbomb.
• Morris escaped to Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s compartment, where he transformed his robes to resemble Ron’s dress robes.
• Ron tried and failed to remove the lace from his robes, while Morris guessed that the robes might be for a ball and then left the compartment.

Morris and the other students arrived at Hogwarts in heavy rain, and the Sorting Ceremony and opening feast took place. Dumbledore introduced Sirius Black and Alastor Moody as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professors, then began announcing that Quidditch matches would be suspended.

• Morris met Sirius Black at the station and showed Hermione the Rain-Repelling Charm in a book.
• Morris told Kyle that the Explorers organization aimed to fly into space, though its current activities were eating, drinking, having fun, and graduating from Hogwarts.
• Professor Flitwick dried the soaked first-years, and Professor McGonagall conducted the Sorting Ceremony.
• Dumbledore announced that Sirius Black and Alastor Moody would share responsibility for Defence Against the Dark Arts.
• Dumbledore began to announce the suspension of Quidditch matches, stopping the Weasley brothers as they started to stand.

Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts would host the Triwizard Tournament and that students who passed a test could enter, regardless of age. Morris unsettled Ravenclaw's first-years with his skeletons, then confronted Draco about the spell he had cast on Lucius, leaving Draco to realize Morris might have caused his father's illness.

• Dumbledore announced the Triwizard Tournament and said students of any age could enter if they passed the first test.
• Morris summoned a skeleton beside Cho Chang and decided to introduce Ravenclaw's frightened first-years to his skeletal aesthetics, keeping them awake that night.
• Morris blocked Draco on the stairs and asked whether Lucius was well after Morris had cast a spell on him at the Quidditch World Cup.
• Draco panicked and then realized his father's illness after the World Cup might have been caused by Morris's spell.
• Morris left Draco behind, and Draco stood silently with Crabbe and Goyle.

Morris returned to the Gap World to gather energy crystals, but Scrape attacked him again, prompting him to seek a safer way to strengthen himself. He arrived late to Dark Magic Defence Class and found Moody demonstrating the Killing Curse on a spider.

• Morris returned to his dormitory and watched Yanhua trap Guantou before opening the Gate of Two Realms.
• Morris entered the Gap World to gather energy crystals, but Scrape appeared and attacked him, forcing Morris to escape back to his dormitory.
• Morris decided he needed to grow stronger and find another way to obtain energy crystals because Scrape made the Gap World dangerous.
• Morris arrived ten minutes late to Dark Magic Defence Class and saw Moody cast Avada Kedavra on a spider.