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The silence of Privet Drive is a cage. The screams from the graveyard are a prison. In the suffocating summer before his fifth year, Harry Potter is breaking under twin burdens: the haunting spectre of Cedric Diggory's death, and the relentless, hidden abuse of the Dursleys. Shame forces him to hide every bruise, every nightmare. His only anchors are the memory of the Quidditch pitch and the fierce, constant presence of Katie Bell, a Chaser whose eyes, he knows, follow another seeker entirely. This is the story of the silence before the storm, of a Seeker learning that survival might mean trusting the team to see the cracks, and that a lifeline can be thrown in a glance, a shared play, or the promise of a Snitch yet to be caught.