John Manuelito

John Manuelito attended Charmbridge Academy from 2002 to 2009, though he was expelled during his senior year for his involvement with the Mors Mortis Society. He is "a tall, round-faced boy with a dark complexion and long black hair". He is Navajo, from Dinétah.
== Biography ==
He was likely the "eleventh-grader" named John who told the newly-arrived sixth-graders in September 2007 that it had "been almost ten years since the last kid fell off" of the Invisible Bridge.
During the 2008-2009 school year, he was one of the leaders of the Mors Mortis Society, and believed by Maximilian King to be in contact with "real Dark wizards" in the Dark Convention.
In November 2008, he ordered Tomo Matsuzaka and Darla Dearborn to bring him other students' familiars, to use in a ceremony to curse their owners. When Alexandra Quick interfered, he performed the Cruciatus Curse on her, three times, before King stopped him. 
Later, John and Darla confronted King and Quick on their way to enter the Lands Below and engaged in a fierce duel, where King was victorious and left him unconscious in the cavern. He was caught and expelled shortly afterwards, along with the rest of the Mors Mortis Society. 
In September 2010, he may have met with Gertrude in the Goblin Market before disappearing into Muggle Chicago. The conversation was witnessed by Quick, who recognized Manuelito, and ran after him until he disappeared. 
Believing him to be responsible for a series of murder attempts on her life, and the manipulation of Mary Dearborn, Alexandra swore revenge. Having learned of John's location through the aid of the elf Quimley, and after experiencing several traumatic events and shattering revelations about her family, Alexandra, in a fit of anger and rage, ran away from Charmbridge Academy and stormed Dinétah in January of 2011. First traveling to his house, Alexandra inadvertly activateded the Nemesis Spirit standing guard, leading to the destruction of the hogan. 
He later confronted Alexandra with a group of wizards while she was being transported back to the border by an Auror, Henry Tsotsie, leading to a fight. During the fight, John summoned a giant stone snake, which was battled by Tsotsie's enlarged rattlesnake, that eventually crushed it. Tsotsie angrily called him a coward and two-heart, also saying that he himself is "rolling over for belagana wolves" by joining the Dark Convention, and using white man's magic for his witchcraft. John only replied with "Whatever works", and eventually fled. Alexandra escaped into the desert while Tsotsie was distracted after the battle, determined to catch John. She later thwarted their plans to free a pack of werewolves, leading to the Battle of Witches' Rock. 
Enraged and humiliated in the eyes of the Dark Convention, John swore revenge on Alexandra, ordering the Nemesis Spirit to pursue her, first to Larkin Mills, then to Charmbridge Academy. John would spend the next few months trying to enter Charmbridge, but was unable to pierce the protective wards.
However, his opportunity came in June 2011, when, believing that the adults had no interest in hunting the Nemesis Spirit, Alexandra began creating a breach in the wards to burrow a path to the blocked cavern leading to the Lands Below, planning to use the Token gifted to her by her father to trap the Nemesis Spirit in the Lands Below. During an argument with Larry Albo, the Nemesis Spirit was able to pierce the wards and attack Albo, biting off four of his fingers. John followed through the breach, unleashing a murder of crows and Chindi onto the grounds of Charmbridge Academy, attacking the masses of students. 
While Alexandra was able to trap the Nemesis Spirt in the Lands Below, John was able to attack and incapacitate Alexandra, breaking her wand and trapping her in his stone hands. He told her that, according to a prophecy, she was supposed to be sacrificed by the Dark Convention to destroy the Confederation, but her father couldn't bear to sacrifice her. It also turned out that he wasn't behind the murder attempts on her, and had nothing to do with Mary Dearborn. While beginning the sacrifice of Alexandra, he was attacked and bitten by Alexandra's snake Nigel, which injured and severely weakened him. Alexandra gained possession of his knife, slashing him with it, and destroying his wand. When he tried to escape in his raven form he was killed by Diana Grimm. Henry Tsotsie later arrived to collect his body, to make sure his Chindi won't come back. 
== Legacy ==
While John failed to kill Alexandra, he ultimately got his revenge on her, Charmbridge, and the Confederation, as Alexandra was expelled from Charmbridge in the aftermath of the attack for breaching the wards, and the chain events that followed afterwards directly led to the Confederation Civil War. 
== Abilities ==
John is naturally talented with magic, able to perform advanced spells such as conjuring objects and channeling powerful fireballs with ease. His particular genius was for the Dark Arts, and for mixing the traditions of Navajo witches with more European forms of dark magic. He created the Nemesis Spirit, a near-indestructible undead construct and was able to rip open the veil to the Lands Beyond using human sacrifice, though there is no evidence that he ever traveled to the Lands Beyond himself. He was skilled with the Cruciatus curse but, despite murdering several people, he has not been seen to cast the Killing Curse, performing all of his murders with a traditional Navajo knife.
John was a dangerous duelist, though clearly less skilled than Maximilian King who defeated him fairly easily before travelling to the Lands Below. One of John's trademark spells caused hands of stone to form out of the ground and grab his enemies. He used this spell against Maximilian and later against Alexandra, and might have taught it to Darla Dearborn as well.
His Animagus form was that of a large black raven.
==Allusions==
Manuelito shares his surname with a Navajo war chief.
==Appearances ==
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Category:Males
Category:Mors Mortis Society members
Category:Ungraduated students
Category:Animorphmagus
Category:Deceased