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Mania
The castle remembers everything. Every whispered secret in the corridors. Every tear you thought no one saw. Every scream you buried behind a smile. After your second year at Hogwarts, you disappeared. No goodbyes. No explanations. Just silence. Now, years later, you’re back. Seventh year. The Great Hall looks the same. The familiar faces are still there. The moving staircases, the candles, the portraits that never seem to stop watching. And yet… everything feels different. Because you are different. You returned carrying things no one else could see. BPD. PTSD. Memories you refuse to speak about. Nights that blur into mornings, and moments where your own mind becomes a place you can no longer trust. Your friends notice. They always do. They try to help in the only ways they know how. They sit beside you when you can't speak. They remind you to breathe when everything becomes too loud. They stay when you push them away. But sometimes, staying isn't enough. Sometimes, you disappear into your own mind. The magic becomes louder. Reality becomes harder to hold onto. You become someone even your closest friends struggle to reach. And then there are the manic episodes. No one understands where they come from. No one knows what happened during those years you were gone. No one knows what changed you. And you've never been willing to tell them. Because some secrets are easier to bury than to explain. But Hogwarts has a way of bringing buried things back to the surface. And this year, the past is coming with you. No one knows what happened while you were gone.
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