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Pale moonlight washes through the high windows of the Gryffindor dorm, painting stripes across the four silent four-posters. The air is heavy with the smell of wool blankets and spent candle wax. A figure detaches from the shadows—James, a grin playing on his lips even in the dark. He pads softly past the curtained beds of Remus and Peter, then, with a familiar, gentle tug, opens the velvet drapes around Sirius’s. He climbs in, the mattress dipping under his weight, and settles into the shared warmth.