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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"The Gryffindor graduates sat on top of the Astronomy Tower that night, bottles of Butterbeer in their hands, arms around each other's shoulders. It was their last night at Hogwarts. They were all legal adults now. They were no longer students. The Marauders, Lily, Marlene, Alice, Frank, Dorcas and Mary all sat a little bit farther than the others. James raised his style="box-sizing: border-box;" /"To us!" He said loudly. "For completing our entire school career!"br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /The others cheered and drank from their own bottles. Sirius earned a kiss from Remus. Marlene rested her head on Dorcas's shoulder./p
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