Chapter Summaries

Morris spent the week reading in the Hogwarts Library while slowly pursuing information about the Draught of Living Death, then sneaked into the Restricted Section at midnight. In its basement, he encountered a tall, scarred old man who ordered him to wait.

• Robert Hilliard told Morris how students could enter the Restricted Section and hinted at sneaking in after midnight.
• Morris spent most of the following week reading in the library and rejected the centaurs’ offer to apologize for their earlier attack.
• Morris slipped out of his dormitory at midnight and used Shadow Concealment to pass through the Restricted Section’s locked gate.
• Morris found a staircase to a basement room and discovered a tall, scarred old man reading there.
• Morris tried to leave casually, but the old man called out and stopped him.

Ravenclaw first-year Morris Black encountered Professor Kettleburn in the Restricted Section at midnight and borrowed his illustrated book about dissecting Crups. Morris found a skeleton diagram that could help him assemble the Crup bones in his trunk, while Professor Kettleburn watched his unusual enthusiasm.

• Morris turned around when an old man caught him in the Restricted Section and said he was curious about its books.
• The old man introduced himself as Silvanus Kettleburn, the Care of Magical Creatures professor, and explained that a young Hebridean Black Dragon had taken his arm seven years earlier.
• Morris noticed the book in Professor Kettleburn's hands was titled "How to dissect a Crup in the most sensible way (with illustrations)" and asked to see it because he owned a Crup skeleton model made of loose fragments.
• Professor Kettleburn lent Morris the book and pointed him to a Crup skeleton diagram at the back.
• Morris studied the diagram and concluded it could help him assemble the skeleton, while Professor Kettleburn observed his excitement over the graphic illustrations.

Morris borrowed a book from the Restricted Section and assembled a Crup skeleton, successfully transforming it into a skeletal dog. After discovering that the dog could repair itself and send simple barks into his mind, he found a new Bone Summoning Spell in the Book of the Mage.

• Professor Kettleburn allowed Morris to borrow a book from the Restricted Section and warned him to return it to his office.
• Morris assembled the Crup skeleton in his dormitory, though part of its left toe bones was missing.
• Morris used the Undead Creature Transformation Ritual to animate the skeleton as his third undead creature, a skeletal dog.
• The skeletal dog fell apart when it tripped, then reassembled itself and communicated with Morris through mental barks.
• Morris ordered the dog to be quiet and sit in a corner, realizing it could understand only simple commands.
• Morris checked the Book of the Mage before bed and discovered the Bone Summoning Spell, which reignited his curiosity.

Morris tested the Bone Summoning Spell, discovering that its bone shield could withstand fire and minor jinxes, then damaged his room’s Silencing Charm with bone spikes. After Roger Davies helped him repair the wall, Morris settled into school life and declined the twins’ invitation to investigate the forbidden fourth-floor corridor.

• Morris summoned bone spikes that pierced his wooden wall and tested a bone shield that repelled Incendio and minor jinxes.
• Roger Davies confronted Morris about the noise, and Morris apologized and explained that he had damaged the wall and its Silencing Charm.
• Roger Davies repaired the wall for Morris despite initially refusing to help.
• Morris followed a routine between class, the library, and his dormitory, and heard that Professor McGonagall had caught Fred and George exploring the fourth-floor corridor.
• Fred and George blamed each other, were assigned to clean the second-floor bathroom, and urged Morris to sneak out with them; Morris refused.

Morris enjoyed a sunny walk with Guantou, then met Harry and Ron and lent them his Potions homework. When they complained about Snape’s treatment of Harry, Morris praised Snape’s teaching and suggested Harry ask him directly why he disliked him.

• Morris walked along the lakeshore with Guantou and greeted several Ravenclaw students.
• Morris recalled how Ron’s fear of a conjured spider had caused him to accidentally blast Neville with a spell.
• Harry and Ron asked Morris to lend them his Potions homework, and he agreed.
• Harry and Ron complained that Snape seemed to hate Harry, while Morris defended Snape’s teaching and academic work.
• Morris suggested that Harry ask Snape directly why he treated him differently.

Morris encouraged Harry to ask Snape directly why he disliked him, then encountered Snape himself and lost Ravenclaw points for offering to lend homework. The confrontation turned into an opportunity for Morris to ask Potions questions, and Snape discovered how seriously he studied the subject.

• Morris suggested that Harry ask Snape why he hated him, but Harry agreed with Ron that the advice might be a joke.
• After Ron and Harry left, Guantou alerted Morris to Snape hiding behind a stone statue nearby.
• Snape said he had overheard Morris offering to lend homework and deducted ten points from Ravenclaw, warning that copied work would cost Harry and Ron points too.
• Morris took out his notebook and asked Snape questions about Potions, but Snape initially dismissed the idea of discussing them then.
• Snape changed his mind, examined Morris’s notebook, and was surprised by the number of questions and Morris’s evident enthusiasm for Potions.

Snape gave Morris a list of potion books to study and invited him to ask questions afterward, while warning him to stay out of matters between Harry and Snape. In the library, Morris avoided a quarrel between Ron and Hermione, then challenged Hermione’s lecturing manner before continuing to gather the books.

• Snape wrote a list of potion books in Morris’s notebook and told him to read them all before bringing further questions to his office.
• Snape urged Morris to pay attention in class and not discuss irrelevant matters with Harry Potter.
• In the library, Hermione criticized Ron for wanting to copy homework, while Morris left to search for books.
• Morris told Hermione he respected Ron’s choices and found Advanced Potion-Making on Snape’s list.
• Morris advised Hermione that lecturing people would make it harder for her to find friends, then went to look for more books.

Morris found the Draught of Living Death recipe in Advanced Potion-Making but lacked the ingredients to brew it. He agreed to join Fred and George in sneaking into Snape’s ingredient storeroom, and they planned a midnight scouting trip before attempting the theft during the Halloween Feast.

• Morris found the Draught of Living Death recipe and learned that its many rare ingredients would be expensive and difficult to obtain.
• Fred and George told Morris about the Hogwarts potion ingredient storeroom and suggested taking what he needed from it.
• Morris agreed to join the twins, who planned to scout the storeroom at midnight and make their move during the Halloween Feast.
• Fred asked whether Morris knew the Disillusionment Charm, and Morris demonstrated that he could use it.

Morris joined Fred and George on a nighttime scouting trip to the Potions ingredient storeroom, then reluctantly helped them search a forbidden corridor. He discovered a living Three-Headed Dog behind a locked door and called the twins over to see it.

• Morris met Fred and George on the Marble Staircase, and they used Disillusionment Charms to reach the Potions Classroom undetected.
• Fred and George found that Snape was still in his office, so they decided to wait until Halloween before trying to enter the storeroom.
• The twins brought Morris to the forbidden fourth-floor corridor and persuaded him to help search for its secret.
• After several fruitless searches, Morris unlocked a wooden door and found a living Three-Headed Dog inside.
• Morris quietly closed the door and asked Fred and George if they wanted to see what he had found.

Morris, Fred, and George investigated a room containing a chained Three-Headed Dog, then hid from Dumbledore using Morris’s Shadow Concealment. After escaping to an abandoned classroom, Morris learned the map was called the Marauder’s Map, while he and the twins kept their own secrets.

• Fred opened the door, and he, George, and Morris discovered a chained Three-Headed Dog inside.
• The Three-Headed Dog woke and growled at them just as George spotted Dumbledore approaching on the Marauder’s Map.
• Fred cast the Disillusionment Charm, but Morris used Shadow Concealment to hide all three from Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore checked on the dog and left, after which Morris ended the concealment and George led the group to an abandoned classroom.
• George told Morris the map was called the Marauder’s Map, and Morris and Fred each answered questions about their secrets in kind.

On Halloween, Morris and the Weasley Twins broke into Snape’s office and potion storeroom so Morris could take ingredients for brewing the Draught of Living Death. After their theft went smoothly, they heard a disturbance upstairs and headed back to the Great Hall.

• Morris left the Halloween feast and met Fred and George near the Potions Classroom.
• Fred and George entered Snape’s office with Morris, and Fred retrieved the key to the potion ingredient storeroom.
• Morris used the key to enter the storeroom and took two portions of the ingredients he needed.
• The three returned the key, escaped without being caught, and heard George describe a loud disturbance upstairs that sounded like a troll.
• Morris and the twins decided to return to the Great Hall for more food.

Morris encountered a troll scare at Hogwarts, then concentrated on brewing the Draught of Living Death and successfully filled five vials. He left for his afternoon Potions Class, postponing his experiment with the Gate of Two Realms until evening.

• Morris, Fred, and George heard voices in the girls' bathroom, where Hermione, Ron, and Harry hurried out before Fred was caught by Professor McGonagall.
• George fled with Morris, leaving Fred behind; Morris later learned Fred had lost five points after a troll escaped into the dungeons.
• Morris studied the Draught of Living Death recipe during History of Magic and returned to his dormitory to brew it.
• Morris successfully made the potion and poured it into five small crystal vials.
• Morris realized he was nearly late for Potions Class and put off his Gate of Two Realms experiment until that evening.

Morris was caught taking ingredients from the storeroom to brew a Draught of Living Death, and Snape ordered him to demonstrate his skill before deciding on a punishment. The chapter ended with Morris preparing to brew the potion under Snape’s supervision, with two attempts allowed.

• In Potions class, Snape deducted points from Gryffindor for Ron and Harry talking, then awarded Ravenclaw five points for Morris’s nearly perfect Swelling Solution.
• Snape asked Morris to stay after class and questioned him about the Draught of Living Death, which he identified by its lingering smell.
• Morris apologized, but Snape left the office and returned with a bag of ingredients after discovering that several sets were missing from the storeroom.
• Morris admitted taking the ingredients because he was curious about the potion and apologized again.
• Snape ordered Morris to brew a Draught of Living Death in front of him, giving him two attempts and making the result relevant to his punishment.

Morris improved his Draught of Living Death recipe under Snape’s supervision, then used the potion in an attempt to activate the Gate of Two Realms. The attempt failed, leaving Morris convinced the potion needed a crucial ingredient, so he went to seek Snape’s advice.

• Morris prepared Sopophorous Beans by crushing them and squeezing out their juice, and Snape judged his Draught of Living Death barely passable.
• Snape deducted thirty points from Ravenclaw and barred Morris from entering the potion storeroom without permission, then allowed him to take the potion.
• Morris divided the potion into containers and drew a magic circle for the Gate of Two Realms in his dormitory.
• Morris drank a small amount of the potion and woke an hour and a half later with the magic circle unchanged.
• Morris concluded that the Draught of Living Death lacked something essential and headed to the Potions Classroom to ask Snape for a clue.

Morris learned from Snape that ashes from someone who died hoping to live could turn the Draught of Living Death into a potion that let its drinker experience death. He drank the altered potion in his dormitory and awoke in a mist-filled version of the room, where the clock had stopped at 9:40:52.

• Morris visited Snape at night and asked whether the Draught of Living Death was incomplete.
• Snape revealed that the missing ingredient was seven milligrams of ashes from someone who died hoping to live, which transformed the potion into a Death Experience Potion.
• Morris took the ashes, measured them into his potion, and drank it inside a magic circle while Guantou watched.
• Morris awoke in his unchanged dormitory after the magic circle had vanished, but Guantou was gone and the clock had stopped at 9:40:52.

Morris entered the world between life and death through the Gate of Two Realms, explored an empty Hogwarts surrounded by desert, and returned to his dormitory when the potion wore off. The next day, after learning the Energy Gathering spell but failing to hold the gathered magic power, he prepared to enter the strange world again.

• Morris found Ravenclaw Common Room and Hogwarts empty, with an endless pale desert surrounding the castle, and confirmed that he had entered the gap between life and death.
• Morris explored the desert, tested that his magic still worked, and spotted a wooden cabin before the Draught of Living Death wore off and returned him to his dormitory.
• Guantou told Morris that he had suddenly disappeared, and Morris concluded that he had physically entered a real space between worlds.
• Morris woke the next day and discovered the Energy Gathering spell on the Book of the Mage’s last page.
• Morris learned Energy Gathering and tried to gather magic power, but the glow dissipated each time.
• Morris returned to the magic circle, told Guantou and Yanhua to watch the room, and drank the Draught of Living Death to enter the Gate of Two Realms again.

Morris explored the Gap, gathered energy into crystals, and broke into a protected wooden house, where he found a photograph of an unknown blond man. Two weeks later, as Hogwarts’ Quidditch season began, he learned that Fred and George were playing in the upcoming match.

• Morris used Energy Gathering to condense the Gap’s mist into a pearl-white bead and named it a Gap Energy Crystal.
• Morris found a symbol carved beside the wooden house’s door, broke in with the Bone Summoning Spell, and discovered a photograph of a young blond man.
• Morris explored the seemingly endless desert for several days, collected a bag of Gap Energy Crystals, and failed to identify the symbol or the man in the photograph.
• At breakfast on November sixteenth, Morris offered Fred and George a Draught of Living Death when they said they were tired before the Quidditch match.
• Morris asked where Fred and George would be playing, and the twins realized he did not know they were on the Gryffindor Quidditch Team.

Morris arrived at the Quidditch match, clashed with Draco Malfoy in the Slytherin stands, and then joined Cho Chang and Marietta Edgecombe among the Ravenclaws. The Gryffindor–Slytherin match began as Morris learned Ravenclaw was missing its injured Seeker.

• Morris arrived early at the Quidditch Pitch and accidentally sat among the Slytherin spectators.
• Draco Malfoy demanded that Morris leave, snatched his Potions book, and mocked him with Crabbe and Goyle.
• Morris summoned his book with Accio, causing Draco to fall, then left without reacting to the jeers.
• Draco told Crabbe and Goyle to follow him after the match so they could teach Morris a lesson.
• Morris joined Cho Chang and Marietta Edgecombe, learned Ravenclaw's Seeker was injured, and watched the Gryffindor–Slytherin match begin.

Morris watched Harry Potter win the Quidditch match after mistaking Harry’s uncontrolled broom ride for a clever tactic. On his way back to the castle, Morris encountered Draco Malfoy, who blocked his path and demanded an apology for an incident Morris did not understand.

• Morris watched the Quidditch match with Cho Chang and Marietta, struggling to follow the action without binoculars.
• Harry Potter spun wildly on his broom for several minutes, then dived and caught the Golden Snitch, winning the match for Gryffindor.
• Morris assumed Harry’s apparent loss of control had been a deliberate tactic, while Cho Chang remained puzzled by what had happened.
• After the match, Morris returned toward the castle alone and found his undead owl Yanhua carrying his undead cat Guantou through the air.
• Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle blocked Morris’s way, and Draco demanded an apology for something Morris did not understand.

Morris used a Bone Summoning Spell to trap Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle in bone cages after they tried to attack him. He left them behind and headed toward Ravenclaw Tower, where Prefect Robert Hilliard suddenly stopped him.

• Draco ordered Crabbe and Goyle to restrain Morris, confident that three against one would let them overpower him.
• Morris tricked Crabbe and Goyle with a false warning, then summoned bone spikes and a bone lid to cage them.
• Morris trapped Draco in a smaller bone cage and left the three boys, telling Draco to try the Blasting Curse to escape.
• Morris walked away, expecting the cages to disappear after a few minutes and the Dungbomb he had placed inside to go off.
• As Morris headed toward Ravenclaw Tower, Robert Hilliard reached out and put a hand on his shoulder.