Chapter Summaries

Harry, Ron, and Morris discovered Draco Malfoy searching the Room of Requirement for something, and they began planning to learn what he wanted. Morris later set the mystery aside to attend the Explorers' gathering, where he met Kyle, Neville, and the Weasley brothers by the Black Lake.

• Draco emerged from the Room of Requirement, threatened to report Harry and Ron, and fled after Morris asked what he had been doing inside.
• Morris showed Harry and Ron how to reveal the Room of Requirement, and they found signs that Draco had searched through its stored junk.
• Harry said he had overheard Draco and another Slytherin mention Voldemort, and the three agreed to find out what Draco was looking for.
• Harry and Ron spent their spare time following Draco, while Morris searched the room alone but found nothing unusual.
• Morris, Kyle, Neville, and the Weasley brothers gathered by the Black Lake for the Explorers' gathering.

Morris brought the students to the Ship in a Bottle and introduced his Compendium of Basic Magic, a collection of spells he had invented. He demonstrated how practice could make a weak Chain Lightning spell much more powerful, then agreed to show the others.

• Morris summoned the Ship in a Bottle from the lake, and the Giant Squid splashed Neville as it slid back into the water.
• Morris showed the students that he had expanded the Ship in a Bottle's living room and added old, self-repairing training dummies.
• Morris introduced his Compendium of Basic Magic and had the students access its spells with their Mental Power.
• Fred tried Chain Lightning, producing a small ball of light that scorched a dummy only slightly.
• Morris demonstrated a stronger Chain Lightning that launched and charred a dummy, then reset it with his wand.
• Fred asked Morris to demonstrate the other spells, and Morris agreed.

Morris shared basic wandless spells with Fred, George, Neville, and Kyle, then spent two weeks researching more advanced magic. He later met Harry and Ron with Neville, who had stood up to Slytherins using his stronger magic, before Neville accidentally dropped a pot of Stinkweed.

• Morris demonstrated several basic spells and let Fred, George, Neville, and Kyle practice them.
• Fred and George learned most of the spells quickly, while Neville and Kyle continued practicing.
• Morris researched healing and control magic for two weeks but had not yet completed a spell model.
• Morris met Harry and Ron on their way to the castle, carrying Stinkweed for Professor Sprout.
• Neville arrived with a healed cut and explained that he had chased off Slytherins who had bullied him, though Professor McGonagall had punished him for using magic and fighting in the corridor.
• Neville took the Stinkweed from Ron, but dropped it, shattering the flowerpot and releasing its stench.

Morris learned that Umbridge was assessing Hogwarts and restricting Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons, then watched Fred and George demonstrate their Cooling Pear. After the twins asked whether he knew Legilimency, Morris offered to teach them.

• At dinner, Kyle told Morris that Umbridge was assessing the school for the Ministry and had prevented the Auror from teaching useful magic.
• Fred and George demonstrated their Cooling Pear to a crowd, using Ron as their tester and revealing that it made snow fall over him for a day.
• Morris asked about the pear’s price, and Fred announced that it cost two Galleons.
• After the demonstration, Fred and George took Morris to an empty classroom and asked if he knew Legilimency.
• Morris offered to teach them Legilimency.

Morris agreed to teach Fred and George Legilimency after they explained they wanted to use it for an invention and to investigate a suspicious supplier. During their first practice session, Ron arrived and asked to join, leaving the brothers curious about his reasons.

• Fred and George told Morris they wanted Legilimency for their invention and to find out whether their supplier had been bewitched or impersonated.
• Morris explained that Legilimency usually revealed only surface thoughts and agreed to begin teaching the twins the next day.
• Morris demonstrated Legilimency on Fred and George in the Charms classroom, and both experienced the spell.
• Ron stumbled into the classroom while retrieving his textbook and asked to join the lesson.
• Ron insisted that he wanted to learn Legilimency but refused to tell Fred and George why.

Morris helped the Weasleys improve their Legilimency and witnessed Umbridge assert her new authority over Hogwarts. After receiving news that Voldemort and the Death Eaters were active and Mundungus Fletcher had been attacked, Morris expanded his undead forces, bringing his tier-three skeleton workers to fifty.

• Ron joined Fred and George in practicing Legilimency, and Morris praised Ron's rapid progress.
• Morris encountered Umbridge and Professor McGonagall arguing over Umbridge's interference in Hogwarts teaching and learned she had been appointed High Inquisitor.
• Morris received a letter from Frick reporting Voldemort's renewed activity and Mundungus Fletcher's serious injuries after an attack near Knockturn Alley.
• Morris reserved Frick's batch of Fantastic Beasts' remains to strengthen his undead forces.
• Morris completed the tier-three advancement ritual for his fiftieth skeleton worker.

Morris increased the magic power available from his skeleton workers and went to seek Snape’s advice on brewing Felix Felicis. After meeting Luna Lovegood and reading a copy of The Quibbler, he found Harry collapsed in a corridor and prepared to help him.

• Morris noted that his skeleton workers provided more magic power, though their crystal-condensing efficiency had fallen, and decided his supplies could last for months.
• Morris left the Ship in a Bottle to find Snape about the final stage of his Felix Felicis potion.
• Morris met Luna Lovegood in a corridor after her shoe fell from above, and she gave him a copy of The Quibbler to read.
• Morris read the year-old magazine in the courtyard until the rain began, then headed back inside.
• Morris found Harry leaning against a wall in pain, and Harry asked him to take him to Madam Pomfrey before passing out.

Morris brought Harry to the Hospital Wing, where Madam Pomfrey found that an outside force had made him sleep. After Harry woke and described seeing through Voldemort’s eyes, he drew the old man Voldemort had been speaking to, and Morris set out to identify him.

• Morris carried the unconscious Harry to the Hospital Wing, where Madam Pomfrey said he was asleep because of an outside influence.
• Morris waited by Harry’s bed and played Wizard’s Chess with Guantou until Harry woke in a panic.
• Harry told Morris he had been forcibly drawn into Voldemort’s mind and had seen Voldemort speaking with an old man in a flower-filled meadow.
• Morris gave Harry a drawing board, and Harry used it to make a blurry portrait of the old man.
• Harry went to find Dumbledore, while Morris decided to search reference materials because the old man looked familiar.

Morris identified the old man Harry saw through Voldemort’s eyes as Salazar Slytherin and discussed whether Slytherin was still alive with Harry and Dumbledore. At dinner, Morris realized Ron was using Legilimency on Draco during their fight, before Professor McGonagall took them away.

• Morris recognized the portrait as Salazar Slytherin after comparing it with the statue in the Chamber of Secrets.
• Morris told Dumbledore and Harry that the old man was Slytherin, and Harry thought he had seen a living person rather than a ghost.
• Dumbledore said he would investigate and asked Morris whether he could speak Parseltongue, but Morris kept his method secret.
• Morris and Harry found Ron and Draco wrestling in the Great Hall, and Professor McGonagall ordered them to come with her.
• Morris realized Ron had been using Legilimency on Draco while Draco remained unaware.

After Ron and Draco were punished for fighting, Ron revealed that Draco had searched the Room of Requirement for a diadem and had already found one. Morris suspected the diadem might be connected to Voldemort and summoned Tom, hoping to learn more.

• Professor McGonagall took Ron and Draco away, and Fred told Morris and Harry that Malfoy had struck first.
• Hermione arrived from the library, discussed her Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, and left to look for food.
• Ron returned with thirty points deducted from each house, while Draco also received two weeks of detention.
• Ron told Harry and Morris that Draco had been looking for a diadem in the Room of Requirement and had found it.
• Morris agreed that they needed to investigate and returned to his dormitory, where he summoned Tom.

Morris learned that Voldemort had ordered Draco to retrieve Ravenclaw's Diadem from the Room of Requirement. After using Legilimency to uncover Draco's memories, Morris took him outside to confront him about the diadem.

• Tom told Morris that the diadem could be Ravenclaw's Diadem and that Voldemort might have made the Founders' relics into Horcruxes.
• Morris confronted Draco at breakfast and accused him of working for Voldemort and stealing the diadem.
• Morris used Legilimency to see Voldemort order Draco to find the diadem, and to witness Draco retrieving it from the Room of Requirement.
• Draco denied knowing anything about the diadem, but followed Morris outside after Morris ordered him to come along.

Morris confronted Draco about Ravenclaw's Diadem and learned that Draco had handed it to a hooded stranger in Hogsmeade. After wiping Draco's memory, Morris went to seek Dumbledore and encountered Professor Trelawney, whose crystal ball he repaired.

• Morris used Legilimency on Draco and demanded to know where Voldemort's Diadem was.
• Draco said he had given the Diadem to a hooded stranger in an alley behind the Three Broomsticks during last week's Hogsmeade visit.
• Morris questioned Draco about Voldemort's whereabouts, then erased Draco's memory with Obliviate after Draco threatened to report him.
• Morris set off to speak with Dumbledore and met Professor Trelawney near a revolving staircase.
• Trelawney dropped and broke her crystal ball, and Morris used Reparo to gather its fragments back together.

Morris witnessed crystal fragments form the Deathly Hallows symbol and then Ravenclaw’s Diadem, before meeting Dumbledore to report that Draco had taken the diadem from Hogwarts. Dumbledore suspected it was a Horcrux, and they were left to decide what to do next.

• Trelawney claimed the Deathly Hallows symbol offered Morris guidance, but she stumbled and crushed it before she could explain further.
• The crystal fragments reassembled into an image of Ravenclaw’s Diadem with an empty sapphire setting, though neither Morris nor Trelawney knew who had caused it.
• Morris went to Dumbledore’s office, where he waited while Dumbledore used the bathroom and greeted the newly reborn Fawkes.
• Morris told Dumbledore that Draco had taken Ravenclaw’s Diadem out of Hogwarts, leaving out details that could implicate him.
• Dumbledore said Voldemort may have made the diadem into a Horcrux and refused to use Veritaserum on a student.