Chapter Summaries

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.

Morris and Dumbledore searched the ruined Gaunt family home and found a Horcrux: a ring containing the Resurrection Stone. Dumbledore was affected by the ring’s curse, and after Morris snapped him out of it, Dumbledore asked Morris to destroy it.

• Morris and Dumbledore flew to the ruined Gaunt family home to search for a possible Horcrux.
• While searching, Dumbledore said Professor Trelawney had recently made frequent prophecies and admitted he did not know what could make her ability go out of control.
• Morris found a gold ring beneath the floor and recognized the Resurrection Stone set into it.
• Dumbledore reached for the ring, but Morris blocked him and doused him with Aguamenti after noticing the curse had affected his mind.
• Dumbledore recovered, said the ring must be destroyed, and asked Morris to do it.

Morris used a skeleton worker and a Basilisk Fang to destroy the ring while secretly enslaving Voldemort's soul fragment. He obtained the damaged Resurrection Stone from Dumbledore and left for the old Black house.

• Dumbledore gave Morris a Basilisk Fang and asked him to destroy the ring because the stone was affecting his mind.
• Morris used a skeleton worker to pierce the ring, then secretly cast the Enslavement Mark and transferred Voldemort's soul fragment into the skeleton worker.
• The ring crumbled to ash, leaving the cracked Resurrection Stone, which Morris tested but could not use to summon anyone.
• Dumbledore explained that the Resurrection Stone summoned images of the dead rather than bringing them back, and gave it to Morris to keep.
• Morris put the Resurrection Stone in his pocket, and he and Dumbledore departed for the old Black house.

Morris learned that ordinary Horcrux fragments lacked memories, unlike Tom, and wondered whether the Resurrection Stone held a power that required the other Deathly Hallows. He went to the Ministry of Magic, where Robert told him he had repaired Time-Turner No. 47 and planned to test it himself.

• Morris questioned a skeleton worker containing Voldemort's soul fragment, but it could not speak or think for itself.
• Tom explained that his own Horcrux retained memories because he had copied them into it, and said he did not know how to merge soul fragments.
• Morris considered the Resurrection Stone and suspected its full power would emerge after he found the Elder Wand and the Invisibility Cloak.
• Morris visited Phoebe at Quality Quidditch Supplies and told her he worked at the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries.
• At the Ministry, Morris met Robert, who said he had repaired Time-Turner No. 47 and would test it himself because no one else would help.

Morris tested the Ageless Stone and then performed a tier-five advancement ritual on Skeleton Number One, who gained a living-looking head and enormous magic reserves but few abilities. Morris left Guantou to teach him magic and went to prepare for the new school year.

• Morris determined that the Ageless Stone let its user enter a customizable space where time stood still, while further attempts to use the Resurrection Stone produced no images.
• Morris performed an advancement ritual on Skeleton Number One, whose body absorbed the rampaging black mist and grew the face of a young Tom Riddle before the transformation stopped.
• Skeleton Number One denied any connection to Voldemort and showed Morris his vast magic reserves, but could only make his body glow with colored light.
• Morris summoned Guantou and asked him to teach Skeleton Number One magic, then went to the living room to prepare for a trip to Diagon Alley.

Morris returned to Hogwarts, reunited with his friends, and helped Luna after Draco knocked her down on the train. After the Sorting Ceremony, Kyle served as Ravenclaw prefect and introduced Morris to the new students, while Dumbledore prepared to give his opening speech.

• Morris arrived at King's Cross and met Harry, Hermione, the Weasleys, Sirius, and Lupin on Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.
• Draco knocked Luna to the floor on the train, and Morris helped her gather her belongings.
• Morris, Fred, George, and Kyle shared a compartment, where Kyle revealed he had become a prefect and the twins showed off their Fireball Spell gloves and Ministry earnings.
• At Hogwarts, Kyle answered the new Ravenclaw students' questions and suggested they could also ask Morris for help.
• Dinner ended in the Great Hall, and Dumbledore stood to give his speech.

At the start of term, Dolores Umbridge announced that the Ministry would oversee Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, while Dumbledore reassured students about Voldemort’s return. The next morning, Morris received his timetable and prepared to attend Umbridge’s first lesson.

• Dumbledore introduced Dolores Umbridge as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor, and she declared that the Ministry would ensure lessons met its standards and might send Aurors to teach.
• Dumbledore assured the students that Hogwarts would keep them safe despite Voldemort’s return.
• Kyle led the Ravenclaw students to their common room, where Morris told him the Explorers would gather the following Saturday.
• The next morning, Kyle handed Morris his timetable, and Morris saw that his first lesson was Defence Against the Dark Arts.

Morris and Kyle discussed their plans after graduation before noticing Draco Malfoy acting strangely and hearing the others speculate about his nighttime outings. At their first Defense Against the Dark Arts class, they found Professor Dolores Umbridge had posted dozens of restrictive classroom rules.

• Kyle asked Morris what he planned to do after graduation, and Morris said he wanted to research magic and travel, possibly with Kyle, to Asia.
• Draco Malfoy hurried past Kyle and Morris looking dusty, tired, and panicked, and Kyle suspected he had been out at night.
• At breakfast, Kyle told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that Draco might be sneaking out, and they discussed investigating while Morris declined to join them.
• Morris and Kyle arrived at the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom and saw a new nameplate bearing Professor Dolores Umbridge's name and the Ministry emblem.
• Morris and Kyle found a noticeboard listing dozens of rules for Umbridge's class, and Kyle doubted she would be a good professor.

Umbridge began teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts by assigning students to study Ministry regulations instead of practising defensive magic. After she punished Kyle for questioning the lesson, Morris decided to skip her class.

• Umbridge introduced herself and told the class that her teaching would bring stability and standardization to the course.
• Umbridge reprimanded a Ravenclaw boy for asking a question without raising his hand first.
• Umbridge asked Morris to distribute copies of the Ministry of Magic Wartime Safety Act, and Morris used silent Wandless Magic to deliver them across the classroom.
• Umbridge told students to memorize the Act and write out its Wartime Code of Conduct from memory before class ended.
• Kyle questioned why Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons covered legal provisions, and Umbridge took five points from Ravenclaw.
• Morris decided he would skip Umbridge's class from then on.

Morris visited Umbridge to ask permission to miss most upcoming Dark Magic Defence Classes and other lessons so he could focus on his Ministry research. He used a subtle mind spell to secure her approval, then encountered Draco Malfoy on the staircase.

• Morris told Kyle he did not plan to return to Umbridge's Dark Magic Defence Class.
• Morris visited Umbridge and explained that his Department of Mysteries research required him to miss most upcoming classes.
• When Umbridge refused to make an exception, Morris used a mind spell to make her view his request as reasonable.
• Umbridge approved Morris's absences on the condition that he attend spot checks and exams, earn at least good marks, and keep the arrangement secret.
• Morris left Umbridge's office and encountered Draco Malfoy hurrying up the spiral staircase.

Harry, Ron, and Morris followed Draco Malfoy to the Seventh Floor and discovered he was inside the Room of Requirement. They waited outside for him, and the hidden door finally appeared.

• Harry and Ron found Morris and asked him to help follow Draco Malfoy upstairs.
• Ron led Harry and Morris to the Seventh Floor, where Morris recognized the wall concealing the Room of Requirement.
• Morris explained the room to Harry and Ron and said Draco was likely inside.
• Harry and Ron decided to wait outside the only entrance until Draco came out, while Morris read and shared cake.
• After thirty minutes, a wooden door emerged from the wall, and Harry and Ron watched it closely.