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Bodies don't lie, but bureaucrats craft their own truths.
Her colleagues in the Auror Office? They'd washed their hands clean by branding her, the former Hero of Hogwarts, as their scapegoat. The over-achiever who'd finally broken.
From higher powers, a desperate performance of judicial theater means reaching into Azkaban's cold storage. Twenty inmates, to be freed on nebulous grounds of "good behavior."
Among the thaw, a freckled boy who'd gone in soft cheeked and stubborn. Now a man hardened by five years inside.
Last time, they'd blamed the Officer wrongly. Now, unbeknownst to anyone, her choices truly would determine everything.