User blog comment:Huntrybear/Disappearing Follower/@comment-6686606-20130223070638/@comment-24901571-20130223073410

Damn, losing all that. But you don't need the Staff of Magnus for the Aftershock quest even though Tolfdir says so, if you did need it, it would probably have been counted as a quest item, and Aftershock can be completed more than once.