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Lilian Marrow has struggled with insomnia for as long as she can remember. Neither the medications her father spent the entire summer carefully choosing nor the countless doctors he dragged her to ever seemed to make a difference. So, she braces herself for another dreadfully long year at Hogwarts, expecting sleepless nights and torturous mornings.
What she doesn't expect is for the oppressive midnight hours to turn into nightmares.
And Lilian isn't the only one experiencing them this time.
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Theodore Nott returns to Hogwarts relieved to have escaped, if only for a while, the suffocating silence of the house he calls home. Another year brings the same corridors, the same classes, the same familiar faces-comforts so predictable they ought to have been dull.
Hogwarts, however, seems intent on proving him wrong.
As much as unwillingly it is unfortunate that he becomes a witness of something much darker veining its poison into the walls each night.