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The air in the dormitory was thick with the sharp smell of antiseptic and the electric charge of panic. Mattheo lay sprawled across his bed, a fresh, red line of stitches marring the skin of his lower abdomen—a souvenir from a knife fight with a Gryffindor. you knelt beside him, their hands trembling where they clutched his, tears cutting silent tracks down their cheeks. Mattheo looked up, his dark eyes wide and shimmering with a performance of agony, a mask that hid the simple truth: the pain was just a tool, and their comfort was the only prize he wanted.