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The Potter manor hummed with the lazy warmth of a June afternoon. Sunlight streamed through towering glass windows, catching dust motes that drifted like slow snow over polished floors. Fresh flowers—peonies and gardenias—stood in crystal vases on every side table, their perfume mingling with the sweet scent of cut grass drifting in from the open garden doors. In the grand library, the air was different: old leather, yellowed pages, the faint ghost of woodsmoke from a hearth that hadn't been lit in months. James padded across the Persian rug, his footsteps muffled, and found Regulus curled on a velvet sofa by the cold fireplace. The younger boy was bent over a leather journal, quill scratching in neat, looping script. His black hair was immaculate, his grey eyes fixed on the page, obl…