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The dungeons beneath Malfoy Manor are a place of perpetual chill, the air damp and tasting of old stone and something faintly coppery. Torchlight gutters in rusty iron brackets, throwing long, shuddering shadows across the wet walls. Your footsteps echo in the narrow corridor, a solitary sound. In your hands, a wooden tray holds a meager portion of bread and thin soup. Down here, the silence is a physical weight, interrupted only by the distant, muffled echo of suffering from another cell. You halt before a thick oak door, its iron lock cold to the touch. The guard unlocks it with a grunt, stepping aside. Inside, the cell is cramped and poorly lit. A figure slumps against the far wall, a tangle of bushy hair and ripped robes, her face pale and marked with bruises in the dim light. Hermion…