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    "...𝐈 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 you the true Heir of Slytherin."

    Once upon a morning, Luxanna strolled into the yellow painted kitchen, bleary eyed and yawning, to find her mother at the table in conversation with an unfamiliar man. 'Come, Lux, I want you to meet somebody' she had told her. The man gave Luxanna a smile and drew up a chair for her to sit on. He continued by saying that he had been yearning to meet her for years. That he was her father and that he had come to take her, and her mother home. He told her all about a far-off land named England, and the vast manor which he owned, and the famous school she would be going to once she turned eleven, while Luxanna nodded and hummed her understanding. It wasn't until after Carina had already packed their luggage that Luxanna asked 'Where are we going?'

    It was much in the same manner now, as she stood rooted to the centre of the Common Room, that the implications of Selwyn's words refused to register in her mind.

    Her eyes locked with Alex's—a silent sort of "What has happened?" and he returned her gaze, instead of with an explanation, by furrowing his brows in concern.

    "I'm sure you're all very curious to learn how I managed to come upon this information, so I'll do you the favour of enlightening you." The glares which had previously been glued to Luxanna now shifted their focus back to Selwyn. "Those of you who read Witch Weekly probably already have an idea of what a lying, manipulative bitch Luxanna Black is. But you see, as horrible of a person as she is, I took no offence to her slanderous lies, not until I'd found out that she had been using me like a puppet for months. Naturally, I sought to expose her for it. What I found out—thanks to my brilliant informant, Maisie Spinster, who had selflessly devoted several weeks to tracking Black—was beyond even my wildest daydreams."

    "Spinster?" The word tumbled out of Luxanna's mouth.

    "Speak up, love, we can't hear you," Selwyn said.

    "That was you? In the Chamber that day?"

    Spinster gave a little wave of her fingers, a nauseating smirk playing on her lips. "Yeah, that was me...You should've been a wee bit more wary of your surroundings." The nerve to undercut this statement with an apologetic frown did not go unnoticed by Alex, whose jaw fell agape in an expression of befuddlement. This brief exchange made Luxanna's stomach twist for some unnamed reason. The same source which had apparently robbed her senses of comprehension.

    "And that day at Hogsmeade..." Luxanna voiced her train of thought as it unravelled in her head, "at the dock, you warned Selwyn somehow—you let her know that Alex and I were there, watching her... You've been cooperating since the start."

    Selwyn pretended not to hear her as she marched over to the board and ripped one of the photographs down, waved it around at the crowd. "I knew something was off about her from the day we arrived at Hogwarts. I think everyone here knew, but refused to do anything about it. She once threatened me with a Conjunctivitus Curse for snoring too loudly—"

    "You snore?" Rowle interrupted.

    "And—and she tried to burn Renza's eyes out because she thought we stole her homework. In second year—"