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He taught him silence.
He taught him control.
Together, they learned the cost of power.
A dark slow burn set during Goblet of Fire - where silence is a weapon, control is survival, and the unspoken becomes everything.
When the Goblet of Fire names a fourth champion, Hogwarts turns on its hero.
Isolated, doubted, and burning with anger he doesn't understand, Harry Potter begins to fracture under the weight of accusation.
But someone has been watching him - someone who sees the difference between arrogance and defiance, between fury and fire.
Marcus Flint, the Slytherin brute the school loves to fear, hides an intellect as sharp as his temper. When he quietly steps into Harry's chaos, a dangerous understanding begins to form.
Secrets. Silence. Lessons never meant to be taught.
A slow-burn exploration of control, anger, and the unspoken connection between a Gryffindor drowning in expectation and a Slytherin who has already learned to breathe beneath the weight of it.