Chapter Summaries

Morris attended Moody’s Defense Against the Dark Arts class, where Moody demonstrated the Unforgivable Curses and other Dark Magic before moving on to defensive spells. After those demonstrations were stopped, Morris went to Moody’s office to test his combat ability and found Sirius there as well.

• Moody demonstrated the Three Unforgivable Curses and told Morris that learning them was illegal except for senior Aurors.
• Morris told Moody he was not interested in Dark Magic, though he believed it was useful to know what an enemy could do.
• Moody continued demonstrating Dark Magic for three days, but the lessons stopped after a student’s parents reportedly complained to Dumbledore.
• Morris left breakfast to seek practical combat tests and went to Moody’s office, hoping to measure himself against an experienced Auror.
• Morris found Sirius in Moody’s dark, locked office, where Moody asked what had brought him there.

Morris asked Moody to test his strength in combat practice, and Sirius goaded Moody into accepting. In the clearing behind Hogwarts, Morris began with a probing bone spike and then prepared a much fiercer barrage.

• Morris asked Moody to spar with him, explaining that he wanted to measure himself against a top wizard.
• Moody refused after inspecting Morris's Shield Charm, but Sirius challenged him for turning down a student's combat training.
• Moody agreed to practice with Morris outside, and Sirius followed to watch.
• Morris launched a bone spike at Moody, who dodged it; the attack narrowly missed Sirius beside a tree.
• Morris summoned a dense field of bone spikes and warned Moody that his next attack would be fiercer.

Morris tested his bone magic against Moody, then asked Snape to compare his defensive magic against the dark wizard Morris had encountered. Snape agreed to show him his Shield Charm, and Morris followed him.

• Morris unleashed a rain of bone spikes, and Moody's Shield Charm cracked before he destroyed the remaining spikes with an unfamiliar spell.
• Morris concluded that Moody's Shield Charm was weaker than Scrape's barrier, while Sirius identified Moody's spell as a variation of the Bone-Breaking Curse.
• Sirius explained that Moody was an exceptional Auror whose experience fighting You-Know-Who had made him proficient in dark magic.
• The next morning, Morris found Snape brewing a vitality-replenishing potion and asked him for a duel to assess his Shield Charm.
• Morris told Snape that a dark wizard had cursed him and that Dumbledore had cured him, so Snape agreed to demonstrate his Shield Charm.

Morris compared his combat magic with Snape’s and considered how his strength measured up against experienced wizards. While reading about Inferi, he learned of an underground wizarding market in Somerset and left interested in visiting it.

• Morris tested his Bone Summoning Spell against Snape’s Shield Charm and found Snape’s shield held longer than Moody’s had.
• Morris returned to the Ravenclaw Common Room and decided his combat strength was close to Moody’s and Snape’s, though he abandoned the idea of testing himself against Dumbledore because the headmaster was away.
• Morris borrowed Daily Care of Inferi from the library with Snape’s permission and read it at a table.
• Hermione invited Morris to join S.P.E.W., but he declined her organization’s campaign for House-elf rights.
• Kyle told Morris that he had seen Inferi for sale at an underground wizarding market in Somerset, and Morris said he would visit if he got the chance.

Morris modified the Gate of Two Realms to gather Gap Energy Crystals without entering the Gap World, then bought and transformed magical creature skeletons to build an undead army. As Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrived at Hogwarts, Morris prepared for the Triwizard Tournament and remained confident he could become a Champion.

• Morris successfully modified the Gate of Two Realms so it produced Gap Energy Crystals without requiring him to travel to the Gap World.
• Morris asked Frick for a list of magical creature skeletons, bought every skeleton-related item in his warehouse, and moved more than a hundred skeletons into his own warehouse.
• Morris transformed the skeletons into fifty first-tier undead creatures, which together supplied about as much magic power as Champion.
• On October 30, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrived at Hogwarts, and Cho Chang asked Morris how the Champions would be selected.
• Morris told Cho Chang they would find out that night and said he was confident he could become a Champion if the competition was fair.

Morris discussed the Triwizard Tournament with his friends, then watched the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang delegations arrive at Hogwarts. At the feast, he awkwardly asked Fleur Delacour whether she had Veela blood, leaving her offended and Kyle apologetic.

• Morris said he would win the Triwizard Tournament if chosen, and Kyle announced that he would enter as well.
• Morris joined the Ravenclaw students outside to await the visiting delegations, and Professor McGonagall told him to spit out his pear drop.
• Madame Maxime arrived with the Beauxbatons delegation in a carriage drawn by Abraxans, and Karkaroff arrived with Durmstrang aboard a ship from the Black Lake.
• At the feast, Morris introduced himself to the silver-haired Fleur Delacour and asked whether she had Veela blood.
• Fleur Delacour took offense at Morris's question, while Kyle tried to excuse his awkward wording.

Morris discussed Phoebe’s Veela abilities before Dumbledore explained how the Goblet of Fire would select champions for the Triwizard Tournament. The next morning, Viktor Krum approached Morris about the Phantom Flying Broomstick, and Morris admitted he had designed it.

• Morris told Phoebe that her Veela abilities still had a slight effect on him, and Kyle quietly asked whether she was really a Veela.
• After the feast, Dumbledore introduced Barty Crouch and Ludo Bagman as judges and explained the Goblet of Fire’s selection process and the Age Line.
• Phoebe asked Morris if he was old enough to enter the tournament, and he answered that she should guess.
• The next morning, Morris watched Durmstrang students pass the Age Line before Viktor Krum introduced himself and asked about the Phantom Flying Broomstick.
• Morris confirmed to Krum that he had designed the Phantom.

Morris discussed designing a custom broom for Viktor Krum, then watched the Weasley twins fail to cross the Age Line with an Ageing Potion. As the Beauxbatons students submitted their names to the Goblet of Fire, Morris stepped up to the boundary and drew his wand.

• Krum asked Morris to make him a broom tailored to his needs, but Karkaroff interrupted and led the Durmstrang students away.
• Fred and George drank an Ageing Potion and tried to cross the Age Line, which threw them back and left them with long white beards.
• Morris helped George up as Fred asked him how he planned to get past the Age Line.
• Madame Maxime brought the Beauxbatons students to the Goblet of Fire, and Phoebe and the others submitted their names.
• Morris approached the Age Line amid the students' attention and slowly drew his wand.

Morris crossed Dumbledore’s Age Line by erasing part of it, entered his name in the Goblet of Fire, and left Fred and George astonished. He then went to the Black Lake to meet his ship, whose dark shape began rising beside Durmstrang’s vessel.

• Morris erased part of the Age Line with Finite Incantatem, crossed it, and put his name into the Goblet of Fire.
• Fred tried to cross the line with the same spell, was blasted backward, and Morris caught him with a Levitation Charm.
• Dumbledore arrived and said that only students with sufficient skill could cross the Age Line.
• Fleur asked Morris whether he expected to become Champion, but he showed little interest in the competition.
• Morris went to the Black Lake and told Karkaroff he had come to find his ship.
• The lake churned beside Durmstrang’s ship as a dark shape began to rise from the water.

Morris brought Krum aboard the Ship in a Bottle to discuss a broomstick suited to him. After showing Krum his private collection of prototypes, Morris offered him the fastest one, but Krum asked for a custom-made broom in exchange for fair payment.

• Morris told Karkaroff that the Ship in a Bottle was his personal property, then invited Krum to discuss broomsticks.
• Krum entered the Ship in a Bottle by touching its glass and explored its spacious living room.
• Krum startled at the sight of Morris's skeleton and black cat, but Morris reassured him and moved the skeleton away.
• Morris asked Krum what he wanted in a broom, and Krum said he wanted more speed than the Phantom Mark One offered.
• Morris showed Krum dozens of prototypes and handed him the fastest one, but Krum requested a custom-made broom and offered to pay a fair price.

Morris declined Krum’s request for a custom broom but let him try the broom he had brought. At the Triwizard Tournament selection, Morris was named Hogwarts’s Champion, then Harry Potter unexpectedly arrived and was declared a fourth Champion.

• Morris told Krum he was not in the mood to make a custom broom and offered him the broom at its original price after a trial.
• Krum left the Ship in a Bottle with a can of Coke, and Morris attended Hogwarts’s Halloween Feast with Kyle.
• The Goblet of Fire selected Viktor Krum for Durmstrang, Fleur Delacour for Beauxbatons, and Morris Black for Hogwarts.
• Morris spoke with Krum and Fleur in the adjoining room, where Fleur wondered whether Morris and Krum had known each other before.
• Harry Potter entered the room, and Ludo announced that Harry would compete as the Triwizard Tournament’s fourth Champion.

The Goblet of Fire selected Harry as a fourth champion, and the schools agreed to let the tournament proceed despite the contract’s threat of terrible consequences. While waiting for the champions’ briefing, Morris spoke with Fleur, who then secretly or casually made the fireplace flames surge higher.

• The Goblet of Fire named Harry as a fourth champion, prompting Karkaroff and Madame Maxime to challenge Hogwarts having two contestants.
• Ludo explained that the Goblet could not choose more champions and that all four students were bound by the tournament contract, so the group agreed to proceed as planned.
• Harry suspected Moody was right that someone had deliberately entered him into the tournament, and the briefing was postponed until the following morning.
• Morris arrived first at the briefing room, where Fleur joined him and asked about Harry’s magical ability and age.
• Fleur waved toward the fireplace, causing its flames to leap higher and warm the room.

Phoebe asked Morris about concealing her Veela enchantment, and he showed her an Aura Concealment Gem before offering to sell it. At the Champions’ briefing, Ludo Bagman revealed the first task would test their courage and hinted it involved a fantastic beast, while Harry later told Morris that Moody suspected Karkaroff had put Harry’s name in the Goblet of Fire.

• Phoebe explained that her grandmother was a Veela and said she wanted to conceal her enchantment ability on certain occasions.
• Morris gave Phoebe a lasting Aura Concealment Gem to try, but she returned it because she did not want to accept it without paying.
• Harry, Krum, Phoebe, and Morris attended the briefing, where Ludo Bagman said the November 24 task would test their courage and involve a fantastic beast.
• Morris guessed that the task involved a dragon, and Ludo’s brief reaction made Morris suspect he was right.
• Harry told Morris that Moody had warned him to be careful of Karkaroff and seemed to believe Karkaroff had entered Harry’s name in the Goblet of Fire.

Morris advanced his final two skeletons and discovered new knowledge in the Book of the Mage that could help him invent spells. Dumbledore visited the Ship in a Bottle, where Morris asked how to increase the power of his spells.

• Morris completed the advancement ritual for his last two skeletons, bringing the number in his containment circle to fifty.
• Morris discovered a new Book of the Mage section, “Principles of Spell Models,” and learned that understanding its principles could let him invent spells.
• Yanhua alerted Morris that someone was waiting outside, and Morris found Dumbledore by the shore.
• Morris invited Dumbledore aboard the Ship in a Bottle and served him cake.
• Morris asked Dumbledore how to increase the power of spells and demonstrated his Shield Charm, which Dumbledore praised.

Morris asked Dumbledore how to strengthen his spells, and Dumbledore advised him to gain experience and harness a wizard’s emotions, especially love. The next morning, Morris discovered that a gift parcel contained badly brewed Amortentia; feeding its biscuits to owls caused them to go berserk, and one knocked Phoebe down before Morris caught and helped her.

• Morris told Dumbledore that his spells had stopped improving, and Dumbledore suggested that experience and emotions, especially love, could make his magic stronger.
• Dumbledore told Morris to attend a wand inspection the next afternoon in a room at the end of the left-hand corridor on the second floor.
• The next morning, Morris received letters and a gift parcel from admirers, then found Amortentia on the biscuits inside and fed them to nearby owls.
• The biscuits made the owls lose their sense of direction, and one flew into Phoebe, tangled itself in her hair, and caused her to fall.
• Morris caught Phoebe, immobilized the owl with a wandless Petrificus Totalus, and explained that the botched Amortentia had confused the owls.
• A hidden figure in a corner put away a camera while Morris helped Phoebe recover.

Morris attended the Champions’ wand inspection and photo session, then taught Meditation to the Explorers and learned that Fred and George were experimenting with a broken Two-Way Mirror. After Yanhua delivered the Daily Prophet, Fred, George, and Kyle read an article that made them all stare strangely at Morris.

• Ollivander inspected Morris, Harry, and Phoebe’s wands while Rita Skeeter and a photographer prepared to cover the Champions.
• Phoebe told Morris that Rita had interviewed her and warned him not to answer the reporter’s questions.
• Ludo gathered the Champions for photographs, and Krum told Morris that he disliked appearing in the papers.
• Morris gathered Fred, George, and Kyle in the Ship in a Bottle to teach Kyle Meditation, while Fred and George showed him their broken Two-Way Mirror.
• Kyle offered to lend the twins his intact Two-Way Mirror, and they showed him their inventions.
• Yanhua delivered copies of the Daily Prophet, and Fred, George, and Kyle read an article before turning to look at Morris strangely.

After Rita Skeeter’s article sparked rumors that Morris and Fleur Delacour were dating, Morris ignored the gossip and helped Fred and George turn their crystal-ball invention into video chat. On the morning before the first task, Harry warned Morris that dragons were involved, and someone approached them as they discussed what the challenge might be.

• Morris read Rita Skeeter’s article, which used a misleading photograph of him and Phoebe to imply intimacy, and dismissed it as gossip.
• Rumors spread through Hogwarts that Morris and Fleur Delacour were dating, while Morris and Phoebe ignored them.
• George showed Morris the Surveillance Crystal Balls he and Fred had made, and Morris helped add video chat to his Mental Power Connection Crystal Ball.
• Morris asked Fred and George to make more Surveillance Crystal Balls for use in the Ship in a Bottle.
• Harry pulled Morris aside and told him that the first task involved dragons, and Morris guessed they might need to endure a dragon’s attacks.
• An unidentified voice spoke from behind Harry and Morris as they discussed the task.

Morris developed Shadow Veil, a spell that cloaked an area in black mist and weakened the senses of anyone inside it. As the first Triwizard task approached, he went with Professor Flitwick to the Champions’ tent, where Ludo told them to wait for the spectators before explaining the task.

• Sirius joined Harry and Morris and said he had heard the first task involved dragons.
• Morris told Harry and Sirius that his spells could handle a dragon, then left Harry and Sirius to plan together.
• Morris tested Shadow Veil in the Ship in a Bottle and found that it consumed nearly half his magic in five minutes.
• The Ravenclaw students wished Morris luck before Professor Flitwick escorted him toward the tournament grounds.
• Morris entered the Champions’ tent, joined Phoebe, Krum, and Harry, and began reading while they waited for Ludo to explain the task.

Morris Black drew the Swedish Short-Snout and entered the arena first to retrieve the Golden Egg. He defeated the dragon, collected three barrels of its blood, and picked up the egg as the spectators finally saw what had happened.

• Morris Black drew the Swedish Short-Snout and learned he would compete first in the dragon task.
• Morris entered the arena and spotted the Golden Egg beside the chained dragon.
• Morris used Shadow Veil to hide himself and the dragon from the spectators.
• Morris weakened and stunned the Swedish Short-Snout until it collapsed, then extracted three barrels of dragon blood.
• Morris cleared away the mist, put away his skeletons, and picked up the Golden Egg.

Morris Black won the first Triwizard task after retrieving the Golden Egg and knocking out the Swedish Short-Snout. He celebrated with Ravenclaw, where Kyle and the others began examining his egg for clues.

• Morris Black used a black mist and a Stunning Spell to defeat the Swedish Short-Snout and retrieve its Golden Egg.
• Dragon handlers revived the dragon, and Madam Pomfrey examined Morris before Professor Flitwick praised his spell.
• Phoebe Delacour arrived with her Golden Egg and scorched robes, then Krum retrieved his egg after blinding his dragon with a Conjunctivitis Curse.
• Harry Potter used his Firebolt to retrieve the final Golden Egg, and Morris earned first place with forty-seven points.
• Ravenclaw held a celebration for Morris, and he let Kyle and the other students pass around his Golden Egg.