In the subterranean chill of the Slytherin common room, the shadows of a traumatic past finally begin to lift. After receiving word that her abusive father has been sentenced to life in Azkaban, the "Quiet Girl of Slytherin" finds herself alone in the green-lit gloom. To the frantic, percussive rhythm of Dog Days Are Over, she breaks her years of silence through a raw, unscripted dance—a desperate shedding of the flinches and fear that once defined her.