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The heavy oak doors of the Slytherin common room slam open with a shuddering crash. James Potter stumbles into the green-tinged gloom, breath ragged, his gaze sweeping the shadowy space until it catches on a familiar silhouette. Regulus sits rigid beside Barty Crouch Jr., whose eyes sharpen like daggers. The air hangs thick and heavy, the torchlight flickering over Regulus's pale, freckled face. Barty shifts forward, a venomous guardian planting himself in James's path, his voice a low, cold sneer that cuts through the damp silence, every unspoken rule of their fragile ceasefire suspended in the charged space between them.