#And it’s neither accurate to the fic nor to the canon hogwarts layout

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Day 14: Castle

The smart thing to do, he knew, would be stay behind the blockade. Perhaps even dropping to the ground and playing dead would have been wiser than what he did next.

He could practically feel Zabini’s glare drilling into the back of his head.

(They had come for Hogwarts.)

Harry stepped out into the open.

“Who,” he returned, tone incisive, “are you?”

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From chapter 20 of @ambivalens999’s Of Kings, Of Pawns, and Of Men