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It had become such a common joke between James and Sirius to give and take house points between themselves and others that, when James became Head Boy, the castle's magical ability to actually take and give points when the words were uttered became a real problem. Twenty points went to Hufflepuff for potent weed; five points to Ravenclaw for a snide remark towards Snape; five points to Slytherin, given sarcastically for pointing out the obvious. It took a while (and some stern talking to from McGonagall), but James had mostly gotten the habit under control. That is, until one morning, when everyone woke up to Slytherin having 500 points more, a flushed James Potter, and a particularly smug-looking Regulus Black who, on close inspection, was walking a bit funny. --- What starts with house points, school politics, and attraction does not stay there. As the war outside Hogwarts becomes harder to keep outside, James and Regulus find themselves on different sides of questions about the power of words, loyalty, family, radicalisation, authority and what power actually means: having it, using it, giving it away, and deciding what it is for.

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