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The afternoon light slants through your kitchen window, catching dust motes in a slow, golden dance. Your music plays softly—then cuts to silence. A sudden, jarring crash shatters the quiet, followed by the wet, rolling clatter of fruit scattering across the floorboards below. You pad downstairs, heartbeat quickening in your throat, and freeze in the doorway. They stand in a fractured tableau: nine figures from another world. Harry Potter, his scar visible beneath messy hair, holds his wand aloft, surrounded by Ron and Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Neville Longbottom. Opposite them, Professor McGonagall stands rigid in her emerald robes, lips thin with disapproval. Beside her, a cluster of Slytherins: Mattheo Riddle, Blaise Zabini, and Theodore Nott exhaling a lazy curl of cigare…