Chapter Summaries

Morris let Ravenclaw students test his skeletons in the common room, where Roger nearly got hit by a hammer before Morris stopped the attack. Robert fought a skeleton and watched its severed arm reattach, then Professor Flitwick arrived and said the magical construct used magic he did not recognize.

• Roger attacked Morris's skeleton with Diffindo, but it struck back with a hammer until Morris stopped it just before it hit Roger.
• Morris explained that the skeletons fought back, reassured the crowd that their weapons were harmless, and invited another student to try.
• Robert Hilliard restrained a skeleton with Incarcerous and severed its arm with an unfamiliar spell, but the arm reattached itself.
• Robert ended the fight rather than use Confringo, and Professor Flitwick examined the skeletons and identified them as sturdy magical constructs made with unfamiliar magic.

Morris tested his self-repairing skeletons with Professor Flitwick, then gained recognition among Ravenclaw students while keeping his magic secret. As Morris practiced Incendio by the Black Lake, Draco Malfoy and Marcus Flint approached, intending to intimidate him.

• Morris asked Professor Flitwick to test a skeleton, and Flitwick destroyed it with Reducto before its limited magic ran out during its attempted repair.
• Morris offered a prize for anyone willing to test the remaining skeleton, and Professor Flitwick asked to have the cake.
• Ravenclaw students increasingly greeted Morris and questioned him about his skeleton magic, but he kept its method secret.
• Morris practiced shaping Incendio flames by the Black Lake and sensed that his magic still lacked harmony.
• Draco Malfoy persuaded Marcus Flint to help scare Morris, and the two approached him from behind.

Morris broke through with his Fire-Making Spell and trapped Draco and Flint inside a shrinking ring of flames before extinguishing it. Professor McGonagall dismissed Draco’s accusation, and Slytherin lost twenty points for slandering a student and deceiving a professor.

• Morris cast Incendio and created a towering ring of fire that enclosed Draco and Flint.
• Flint used Aguamenti to open a gap, but Morris reignited it and made the ring contract until the two surrendered.
• Morris extinguished the flames and claimed he had only been practicing magic when Professor McGonagall arrived.
• Draco accused Morris of attacking them, but Professor McGonagall rejected his account because they had no burns and his story seemed impossible.
• Flint said they had been heading to the Quidditch Pitch, and Slytherin lost twenty points for slandering a fellow student and deceiving a professor.

Morris discovered that Filch was a Squib after finding a rejection letter from the Kwikspell Company, and kept it as potential leverage. At Hogwarts’s Halloween feast, Morris heard that Dumbledore had booked a Skeleton Dance Troupe and wondered whether Madam Caroline would be among its members.

• Morris dried Guantou and Mrs. Norris with a charm, and Filch confronted him for using magic in the corridor.
• Filch received a letter from the Kwikspell Company, then hurried away and accidentally dropped it.
• Morris read the letter, realized Filch was a Squib, and kept it in case Filch caused trouble again.
• Morris created noncombat skeletons for Halloween at Professor Flitwick’s request and spoke with him in the Great Hall.
• Morris heard that Dumbledore had booked a Skeleton Dance Troupe and wondered if Madam Caroline would perform.

After the Halloween feast, Morris found his undead cat Guantou petrified beside Mrs. Norris beneath a threatening message about the Chamber of Secrets. Dumbledore and the professors took the students involved to Lockhart’s office as Morris tried to determine what had happened.

• Morris watched the Elegant Skeletons dance troupe perform and recognized Madam Caroline among the departing dancers.
• Morris and the other students found a message on a third-floor corridor wall announcing that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened, with Mrs. Norris and Guantou hanging motionless nearby.
• Draco Malfoy taunted Harry and Hermione, and Morris briefly questioned him before dismissing him as the culprit.
• Morris levitated Guantou into his arms, found that she was still alive but unresponsive, and failed to undo her condition with Finite Incantatem.
• Filch arrived in distress, and Dumbledore and the professors brought the students involved to Lockhart’s office.

After Mrs. Norris and Guantou were petrified, Dumbledore investigated while Filch accused Harry and Snape questioned the students’ alibis. Dumbledore promised to find the culprit and said a Mandrake potion could revive both cats, but Morris doubted it would work on Guantou and warned that he might act if he found the culprit.

• Dumbledore tried several spells on Mrs. Norris and determined that she and Guantou had been petrified by advanced Dark Magic.
• Filch accused Harry, but Dumbledore and McGonagall defended him, and Hermione explained that the trio had attended Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday Party.
• Snape questioned why Harry and his friends had gone to the upstairs corridor, then suggested punishing Harry until he confessed.
• Dumbledore said mature Mandrakes could be used to brew a potion to revive both cats, though Morris doubted the potion would work on Guantou.
• Dumbledore let Harry, Ron, and Hermione leave, then Morris said he trusted him but could not guarantee he would restrain himself if he found the culprit.

Morris investigated the attack on Guantou while Harry, Ron, and Hermione shared their theory about the Chamber of Secrets and Draco Malfoy. Morris used his Purification Cauldron to cure Guantou, who remembered seeing a giant snake before he was petrified.

• Morris struggled to understand why the attacker had petrified Guantou and Mrs. Norris, and focused on finding a way to cure Guantou.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione told Morris that Hogwarts legend described a hidden Chamber of Secrets containing a monster, and said they suspected Draco Malfoy was Slytherin's heir.
• Hermione said the trio planned to use Polyjuice Potion to question Malfoy, while Morris offered to help if they ran into trouble.
• Morris used his newly completed Purification Cauldron on Guantou, but the cauldron exploded and hurled the cat into the dormitory door.
• Guantou recovered and told Morris that he had seen a giant snake before losing consciousness on Halloween night.

Morris identified the creature that attacked his cat as a basilisk, but neither he nor Dumbledore knew where the Chamber of Secrets was. At the first Quidditch match of the year, Harry caught the Snitch but broke his arm, and Lockhart stepped forward to treat him.

• Morris found an account of basilisks in the Restricted Section and concluded that one had attacked his cat.
• Dumbledore detected Morris hiding in the shadows, heard his basilisk discovery, and admitted they had not found the Chamber of Secrets.
• Morris returned to his usual routine and watched Gryffindor play Slytherin in the rain.
• A Bludger relentlessly chased Harry, who caught the Golden Snitch before crashing into the mud and breaking his arm.
• Lockhart offered to treat Harry, and Morris watched with interest as Lockhart drew his wand.

After Lockhart accidentally removed the bones from Harry's arm, Morris suspected the professor was hiding something and questioned him under Veritaserum. He learned Lockhart stole the stories for his books by erasing their original tellers' memories, then used Obliviate on him as the potion wore off.

• Lockhart cast Brackium Emendo on Harry, removing the bones from his arm, and Madam Hooch took Harry to the hospital.
• Morris visited Lockhart's office and asked whether he knew anything about the Heir of Slytherin.
• Morris secretly used a Wailing Curse on Lockhart and gave him water laced with Veritaserum.
• Lockhart denied knowing the Heir of Slytherin or the Chamber of Secrets and admitted he could barely cast spells besides the Memory Charm.
• Lockhart confessed that he collected other people's stories, wrote them into books, and erased their memories.
• As the Veritaserum wore off, Lockhart demanded to know what Morris had done, and Morris cast Obliviate on him.

After Colin Creevey was attacked by the Basilisk, Hogwarts students flocked to a Duelling Club organized by Lockhart. Morris attended and watched Lockhart introduce Snape as his demonstration partner, while Snape looked furious.

• Colin Creevey was attacked and ended up stiff and seemingly dead in the Hospital Wing, prompting students to buy protective charms.
• Morris continued his usual classes and work excavating the dragon skeleton in the Forbidden Forest.
• Fred and George urged Morris to attend the Duelling Club and revealed that Snape would take part.
• Morris arrived at the Great Hall, where Lockhart and Snape prepared to demonstrate duelling.
• Lockhart introduced Snape as his assistant and joked that he hoped not to embarrass him, while Morris noticed that Snape was angry.

During Lockhart and Snape’s dueling demonstration, Snape easily blasted Lockhart aside, and Morris coached Neville Longbottom in spell practice. Neville showed unexpected skill but accidentally sent a Disarming Charm at Snape, who warned him and Morris before leaving.

• Snape struck Lockhart with a powerful Disarming Charm, sending him crashing into the wall, and Lockhart claimed the result had been part of his demonstration.
• Morris paired with Neville and conjured a harmless skeleton for him to practice against.
• Neville successfully used a Levitation Charm and a Leg-Locker Curse on the skeleton, surprising Morris and the watching students.
• Morris taught Neville the Disarming Charm, but Neville’s spell veered off course and struck Snape’s Shield Charm.
• Snape warned Neville to control his wand and told Morris to keep an eye on his friends before leaving.

After Harry’s Parseltongue made the students suspect he was the Heir of Slytherin, more victims were petrified and Hogwarts grew tense. During the Christmas holidays, Morris transformed a restored dragon skeleton into a bone dragon and stored it in his Undead Creature Containment Magic Circle.

• At the Duelling Club, Harry spoke Parseltongue to control Draco’s summoned snake, leading students to suspect he was the Heir of Slytherin.
• Nearly Headless Nick and Justin Finch-Fletchley became the third and fourth victims, and Morris observed their petrified bodies in the Hospital Wing.
• Morris stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas and began the ritual to transform the restored dragon skeleton in the Room of Requirement.
• The ritual succeeded, and the bone dragon lowered its head to Morris while Guantou climbed onto it.
• Morris stored the bone dragon in his expanded Undead Creature Containment Magic Circle and left the Room of Requirement with Guantou.

Morris tested the bone dragon's abilities in the snow outside Hogwarts and discovered it could fly only briefly before exhausting its magic. Fred and George found him with the dragon, guessed that its skeleton broke rules, and promised to keep quiet while asking to watch him test it.

• Morris released the bone dragon and ordered it to fly, but it initially did not move.
• The bone dragon briefly flew before crashing, and Morris realized it lacked enough magic to stay aloft.
• Morris considered using his stock of Gap Energy Crystals to advance the bone dragon.
• Fred and George arrived, mistook the dragon skeleton for a model, and asked Morris how he had made it.
• George suspected the skeleton broke rules, and Fred and George promised not to tell anyone before asking to watch Morris test it.

Morris tested the bone dragon’s clumsy but fast ground movement before spending Christmas at Hogwarts, where Professor Flitwick confirmed that the attacks on students remained unsolved. After Hermione’s Polyjuice Potion mishap turned her partly into a cat, Morris offered to brew an antidote and became curious about her tail.

• Morris found that the bone dragon’s levitation made it light enough to run quickly, though Fred and George joked that it moved like an enormous rooster.
• Morris attended the Christmas feast alone at the Ravenclaw table, and Professor Flitwick told him that Dumbledore was investigating the student attacks and security had been increased.
• Harry and Ron told Morris that Hermione had turned into a cat-person after putting cat hair into the Polyjuice Potion they used to question Malfoy.
• Morris examined Hermione in the Hospital Wing and offered to brew an antidote using samples of her blood and hair.
• Hermione showed Morris her tail and demonstrated that she could move it, but she hid it when he asked to touch it.

Morris began the bone dragon’s advancement ritual in a secluded clearing near Hogsmeade, but the powerful magical disturbance drew Ministry officials to investigate. The ritual was still underway when two wizards from the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes arrived.

• Morris collected Hermione’s cat hair and blood, then asked Fred and George to show him a secret passage to Hogsmeade.
• Morris found a hidden clearing, had Yanhua watch the surroundings, and prepared an oversized advancement magic circle for the bone dragon.
• Morris activated the ritual and fed Gap Energy Crystals into the circle, causing the bone dragon’s bones and soul fire to transform as it absorbed the mist.
• Yanhua warned Morris that someone was approaching, and Morris confronted two Ministry of Magic wizards who had come to investigate the unusual magical fluctuations.

Morris’s Bone Dragon completed its advancement, and he tested its newfound flying ability before returning to Hogwarts. There, Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall confronted the dragon, which revealed an unexpected fear of human wizards.

• Morris’s Bone Dragon completed its advancement as two Ministry of Magic wizards questioned him about his magical experiment.
• Morris gave the wizards the name “Knight,” mounted the Bone Dragon, and flew away while they decided to ignore the incident.
• Morris tested the Bone Dragon’s speed, agility, endurance, and aerial maneuvers before landing near Hogwarts Castle.
• Yanhua told Morris that someone in the castle had seen him, and Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall arrived with Fawkes.
• Professor McGonagall raised her wand at the Bone Dragon, but Morris explained that it was his pet and ordered it to greet them.
• The Bone Dragon approached Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall trembling, and Morris wondered why it feared human wizards.

Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore confronted Morris after he flew a fire-breathing skeletal dragon over Hogwarts, and Dumbledore praised its magical will while questioning whether its bones came from a real dragon. Dumbledore excused Morris’s flight as magical research, and McGonagall let him off with a warning not to work on the skeleton at school.

• Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore discovered Morris beside the skeletal dragon after it flew over Hogwarts.
• The skeletal dragon breathed fire and nuzzled Morris, while Dumbledore examined it and sensed a will within it.
• Dumbledore pointed out that the skeleton’s proportions did not match those of a natural dragon, leaving Morris uncertain about its origins.
• Professor McGonagall challenged Dumbledore over Morris’s unauthorized and dangerous flight, but Dumbledore called it magical research.
• Professor McGonagall spared Morris punishment but told him not to tinker with the skeleton at school, and Morris agreed.

Morris’s flying bone dragon appeared in the Daily Prophet, and he took Fred and George for a brief flight before visiting Professor Kettleburn to identify an unknown animal skeleton. The professor agreed to come see it, while Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall continued discussing the Chamber of Secrets and its victims.

• After Morris left, Professor McGonagall asked Dumbledore where he had learned his unusual magic and whether it was connected to the heir, but Dumbledore dismissed the suspicion.
• Fred and George showed Morris a Daily Prophet photograph of him riding the bone dragon above Hogsmeade, and he confirmed it was him.
• Morris agreed to take Fred and George flying, but the twins returned from the winter flight shivering with cold.
• Morris asked Fred where Professor Kettleburn’s office was and went to visit him near the greenhouses.
• Professor Kettleburn remembered Morris from their work on a Crup skeleton, told him he would retire the following year, and agreed to help identify Morris’s unknown animal skeleton.

Morris learned from Professor Kettleburn that his Bone Dragon was an ancient, unknown breed, then tested a new transformation potion on Ron and Harry at Hogwarts. The potion gave them lion heads and a brief physical boost, though Morris knew it still needed refinement.

• Professor Kettleburn examined Morris's Bone Dragon and concluded that it was an ancient dragon of an unknown breed.
• Morris spent the Christmas holidays flying the Bone Dragon, then stopped when the students returned to Hogwarts to obey Professor McGonagall's warning to keep a low profile.
• Morris brought a vivid green potion to Hermione's Hospital Wing bed and explained that it was a modified Polyjuice Potion.
• Ron drank a sip and discovered that his head had turned into a lion's, a transformation that would last about three minutes.
• Harry tried the potion too, and Morris explained that it also briefly improved their physical abilities.

Morris sold Harry two bottles of his transformation potion and returned to his dormitory, where Guantou had found an enchanted notebook signed by Tom Riddle. Morris began communicating with the notebook under the name Mark, and Riddle revealed that he had also grown up in an orphanage.

• Harry bought two bottles of Morris's transformation potion for twenty Galleons each.
• Morris returned to his dormitory, cleaned up, and meditated before finding Guantou and Yanhua back in the room.
• Guantou brought Morris a shabby, blank notebook bearing the name Tom Riddle.
• Morris wrote in the notebook, and Tom Riddle replied that it stored memories and could communicate with others.
• Morris used the name Mark and said he was an orphan, prompting Riddle to say that he had lived in an orphanage too.