Time slipped quietly by as night fell like a vast black silk sheet, slowly draping over the entirety of Hogwarts.
The school gradually grew quiet as the students returned to their warm dormitories and drifted off to dreamland.
Malfoy slowly stood up amidst this stillness, his eyes vacant and bewildered. Like a walking corpse, he wandered aimlessly through the school corridors and stairwells.
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