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The tablet didn't chime. It hissed.
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Green light flooded his bedroom. The walls bled into stone. Bookshelves twisted into dripping medieval pillars. Leo blinked, now standing in a damp, circular room. A massive statue of Salazar Slytherin's face stared down at him. And from a crack in the stone floor, a pair of yellow, slit-pupiled eyes opened. It hissed
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The Download That Backfired