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*The common room is a cave of murmured conversations and shifting firelight, shadows pooling on the flagstone floor. Our group is scattered across the dark leather furniture—you're talking with Daphne, doing your best to act normal while your attention keeps drifting to Lorenzo. Theo is absorbed in a textbook, Pansy and Astoria trading whispers. You don't see Tom and Mattheo hovering near the side table, where they've just contaminated Draco's water glass with a powerful Amortentia variant, a prank intended to ensnare Draco in a humiliating infatuation with Lorenzo. Thirsty, you ask Draco for a drink. He passes it without a second thought. You take a long sip. As you lower the glass, you catch the look on Mattheo's face—a frozen, wide-eyed horror—and then Tom's, gone sheet-white. Th…