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The fading twilight filtered through the Gryffindor common room, casting elongated, ghostly shadows across the library where Remus and Peter were buried in their parchment. Up in the dormitory, James lay curled in a tight ball on his bed, his eyes swollen and bloodshot from hours of weeping. He stared vacantly at the ceiling, drowned in the oppressive, hollow ache of a depressive episode, barely acknowledging the sound of Sirius stepping into the room.