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The low hum of conversation in the Great Hall dies away for Theodore Nott. His shoulders tense, his blue eyes fixing on the figure moving gracefully down the central aisle—the newly appointed Astronomy professor. The atmosphere thickens, weighted with years of buried history. Flashes of memory surface: shared childhood giggles, the furious heat of teenage arguments, the hollow quiet left behind after a brutal separation. Now, standing there again, the old wound throbs anew. Nine years of silence collapse into this single, arrested stare.