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Chapter 12

-Answers-

The silence of the deserted Hogwarts halls was almost unbearable for the two teenagers who sat alone in the hospital wing. Serena's eyes were cast downward at her fumbling hands not daring to look back at Harry who's unnerving gaze never left her face. Both sat in their awkward silence trying to decide what to say to each other, and at that moment Serena wished more than anything that Madame Pomfrey would come out of her office for their check up, but her office door remained shut.

"Alright Serena" Harry finally spoke up, "I didn't give you away to the Professors and I'm not sure I made the right decision, but I need some answers. Who are you? Why are you here? And how do you know everything about me?"

Serena took in a long breath as she tried to clear her head and think of the right way to explain. "First of all" she finally began, "You know who I am. I'm Serena, your friend, and the same person I've been all year. Now you know that I'm also Sailor Moon, but that doesn't change anything, I'm still me." Harry's gaze didn't waver at her words and he waited for the rest of his answers. "Second, I already told you I don't know why I'm here. Do you really think I want to be doing this? I hate fighting."

"Then why do you do it?" Harry cut in.

"Because I didn't want you to get hurt" Serena shot back, "I couldn't bear to have another person's blood on my hands."

Harry was slightly taken aback by the statement and was left feeling only more confused. "But how do you have all this power, and how come you've never shown it before, and you didn't answer my last question" Harry threw back at her.

"Okay Harry I'll be honest with you" Serena continued, "I don't know if you'll believe me, but I'll be honest. Hermione was right about me because I'm of Lunarian decent," she paused for a moment to think, "sort of, and when I become Sailor Moon I can use my lunar magic, which I didn't know I could do until this year. When that first youma attacked it awoke something within me because you needed my help."

Harry now regretted ever asking Serena anything since her answers were only leading to more questions. "This just keeps getting weirder."

Serena almost chuckled to herself, "You don't know the half of it."

"What do you mean?"

Serena inhaled another deep breath while she prepared herself for what she was about to tell him. "Harry even though you only met me this year I've known you my whole life."

"Most Wizards have" Harry replied.

Serena ignored Harry's statement and continued. "I'm not sure why or exactly how it happened, but you and I are somehow connected." By the look on Harry's face Serena knew he didn't understand. She knew this wasn't going to easy, but she was having a hard time trying to explain it without sounding crazy. "Harry haven't you ever wondered how you survived Voldemort's death curse when you were a baby?"

Harry paused for a moment wondering where she was going with this. "My mother" he finally responded, "Dumbledore told me because my mother sacrificed herself for me and it deflected the curse."

Serena shook her head sorrowfully as she dreaded what she was about to say. She was now praying that Madame Pomfrey would walk in and separate the two, but it was hopeless. "Yes Harry a mothers love is powerful" she paused for moment remembering her own mother and how she had sacrificed herself to save Serenity and her Senshi. She fought back tears as she continued, "That's why you are safe with your Aunt, but that's not why you survived that night."

"Why would Dumbledore lie to me about that?" Harry questioned skeptically.

"Because Dumbledore doesn't know, nobody does, and I'm sure he told you what he thought happened. But the truth is Harry that that night I used my powers to protect you."

"Right, you can stop death?" Harry interrupted clearly not believing her story.

"Uh" Serena hesitated. She had purposefully not mentioned her crystal and wasn't about to bring it up now; things were confusing enough. "No" she continued, "It's…It's complicated. Anyway, my magic reflected the Dark Lord's back at him, which destroyed his body, and you were left with that scar. That's how you absorbed some of Voldemort's power and, as you learned last year, linked the two of you together enabling you to see into each others minds, but what you don't know is that that night you also absorbed the power I used to protect you."

Harry stared incredulously at the girl. "I don't know what you're trying to do Serena, but you could at least come up with a better story than that. Just tell me the truth."

"I just did and I knew you wouldn't believe me, which is why I didn't want to tell you in the first place" Serena was getting a little frustrated now.

Harry rolled his eyes at Serena and decided to play along, "So you're saying that not only do I have Voldemort's powers, but I also have yours? Can I speak Lunarian too?" He scoffed.

Serena scowled back at Harry. "Maybe" she said, "Have you ever tried? You seemed to pick up Parsetongue pretty easily."

There was a pause in the conversation as Harry pondered her words. "Voldemort gave me this scar that night and it links us together, so if you were there too then that would mean that you…" Harry stopped and looked back at Serena.

Serena's pink lips began to curve slightly on one end transforming her scowl into a small smirk; he was finally starting to understand. "That would mean what Harry?" She asked him, "That I would know about the Sorting Hat wanting to put you into Slytherin? That I would know about the time when you were little and your fat cousin locked you in the cellar and you weren't found until the next morning?" She paused for a moment and took a breath, "That I would know about the Prophecy Harry?"

Harry sat dazed for a moment then suddenly began shaking his head. "It's not true" he hollered. Harry then looked toward Serena with vivid anger in his eyes, "What do you want? Why are you doing this to me?"

Serena stared back into Harry's green eyes as hers began to glisten with tears. "I didn't ask to do this" she answered him, "Voldemort is an evil man and a powerful enemy. You can't face him alone, so I've apparently been sent to protect you, and I've been doing the best I can."

"Protect me?" Harry shot back even louder, "Since when do I need your protection? If you haven't noticed, since my first year here, I've been doing pretty well on my own. Thanks for your help this year, but I've taken on Voldemort four times before on my own, and I can do it again without your help."

Serena nearly laughed at this statement, "That's right Harry, you did all of that on your own without any help whatsoever; just pure dumb luck."

Harry glared at the blonde, "What do you mean luck?"

"Think Harry" Serena replied, "Think back to first year when you faced off with Prof Quirrell. He almost killed you, but you were somehow miraculously saved."

"He couldn't touch me" Harry yelled back, "He couldn't touch me because of the…" He stopped.

Serena nodded back at him. "Quirrell was a very evil man with Voldemort inside him so they were no match for the pure magic that protected you." Harry sat for a moment unable to speak, so Serena went on, "And what about your second year in the Chamber of Secrets against Tom Riddle?"

Harry quickly cut her off, "I pierced his diary with the Basilisk's fang that I fought and killed myself. It wasn't luck."

"How did you kill the Basilisk?" Serena queried.

"I stabbed him through the mouth with the sword of Godric Gryffindor."

"But how did you get the sword?"

Harry was getting sick of this game. "I pulled it out of the Sorting Hat when Fawkes brought it to me."

"Oh" Serena replied, "How very lucky it was that Fawkes arrived at that moment." Harry's eyes widened. "Fawkes and I have been good friends since second year Harry. I knew you were in trouble and alone, and that there was no way to get to you so it would've done me no good to try and explain it to Dumbledore, but Fawkes could easily get to you and a phoenix can be very useful in battle. I will say though that the hat was his idea, and I was just as shocked by it as you were." Serena paused to look at Harry who seemed a little dazed by the new revelations. "Shall we go on to your third year?"

"There was no luck that year" Harry told her as he snapped out of his dizzying thoughts, "Everything went terribly wrong. Lupin lost his job, Sirius was still convicted, and Pettigrew got away."

"But Harry, you're forgetting that short moment when you narrowly avoided a fate worse than death."

He thought for a quick moment before it hit him, "The Dementors kiss? I saved myself from that when I went back in time and used the Patronus charm."

"But how did you conjure a full fledged Patronus that powerful if you had never done it before?" Harry didn't answer. "You heard Hermione; the Patronus charm was a gift from the Lunarians to the Wizards. Casting a Patronus was one of the easiest spells I learned that year."

Harry was rendered speechless. He had always thought it odd that that night he suddenly could conjure a corporeal Patronus. There was just something in his mind that told him he could do it that time. As much as he didn't want to believe Serena, what she was telling him answered a number of questions he had. "And what about the forth year?"Harry asked numbly.

"Actually Harry" Serena responded after a moment of thought, "The Dark Lord caught me off guard that year. When he used your blood for his return, he removed the protective spell I placed on you. There was nothing I could do for you at the grave yard, but I was able to point out to Prof McGonagall, who warned Dumbledore, when Barty Crouch led you off the Quidditich field against his orders."

Frustration was starting to rise within Harry when he couldn't believe that Serena was hitting every question he threw at her and worse that he was starting to believe what she was saying. "Then what about last year?" He nearly shouted at her, "Where were you when we were at the ministry fighting with the Death Eaters? Where were you when I was battling Voldemort? Where were you when Sirius was killed?"

Serena looked down ashamed, "I couldn't help you last year. After Voldemort removed my spell I knew it wouldn't be long until he found out about the link between you, so I thought I could protect your mind from him, and if Dumbledore hadn't made you learn Occlumency it would have worked."

"But I didn't learn Occlumency! Snape threw me out after a few lessons and it didn't work."

"Maybe not against the Dark Lord, but my mind is not so strong. By the end, you had completely blocked me out and left your mind unguarded. Voldemort had taken away every defense I had on you, which is probably why I regained my power this year because there was no other way to protect you."

Harry was amazed but still fuming, 'Why of all people did it have to be Serena?' He cried out in his mind.

Serena could sense his feelings by the look on his face, and she too became enraged. "You think this is a picnic for me? You think yours is the only life ruined by this? I've tried to break away from you, and last year when you shut me out I thought you didn't need me anymore. I thought I might finally get a chance to live a normal life, but I was wrong."

"Well" Harry seethed through clenched teeth. He was getting tired of Serena trying blame all of this on him since it wasn't his fault either. "Go live your normal life and leave me to my abnormal one. I don't need your help anymore, and I proved that last year when I took on Voldemort and his Death Eaters without you!"

"And look what happened." Serena regretted the words as soon as they left her mouth. She watched Harry's expression change from a livid, irate look to a somber, hurt one as he realized what Serena meant. "Harry" she continued in a soft, apologetic tone, "That was uncalled for. I…"

But Harry wouldn't let her finish as he jumped off the bed and started heading for the door. "I… I need some time" he muttered from the doorway, and then left without another look back at Serena. She quickly got up to follow, but didn't even make it four steps before Madame Pomfrey came out of her office and rushed her back into bed.

'Perfect, now she comes.'

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Days passed over the break while Harry and Serena barely left their rooms. Ron was confused by their depressed moods and often questioned them about what happened in the infirmary, but neither of them ever gave him a strait answer and he was forced to give up. Although Ron continued to fuss over Harry and Serena, Hermione didn't pay them much attention as she was always engrossed with dozens of books.

"What are you doing with all those books?" Ron questioned Hermione one night while he and Ginny played Wizard Chess in the common room. "I thought you finished your school work a day after the break started."

"I did" Hermione replied without looking up from her book, "I just have a few theories I'm working on."

"Uh huh" Ron muttered glancing over and giving his friend a curious stare then, without even looking back at the board, added, "Bishop to H 4."

The sounds of two fighting chess pieces could be heard along with Ginny's groans, "Damn, that was my queen" but Ron never took his eyes off of Hermione who had an eerily calm demeanor for what was happening around them.

"How can you sit there and read like that when two of our friends are moping around like this?" He finally asked her.

Hermione looked up from her book, "Who, Serena and Harry?"

"No, Crabbe and Goyle, of course Serena and Harry" Ron replied with a roll of his eyes.

Hermione sent him a scowl before she turned back to her book. "They're just having a little spat. Give them time and they'll get over it."

"Time!"Ron shouted in disbelief, "They've been fighting for months and now they're like this. Something big must've happened when they were in the hospital."

"Good" Hermione replied coolly as she turned another page, "That means they'll snap out of this stupid thing soon and either hate each other forever or finally go back to being friends, and maybe even realize their true feelings."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Oh isn't it obvious Ron? I've seen the way Harry looks at her when he thinks no one's looking and vice versa."

Ron thought for a moment, "That's what I thought at first, but now I'm not so sure. Queen to G 2."

"Ron, people don't fight like that unless they really hate each other, like Harry and Malfoy, or unless they really care for each other and are trying to hide it."

"But they fight all the time; even before this whole fight started they argued a lot."

"Kind of like you two" Ginny butt in as she moved another chess piece, and with a huge grin on her face added, "Check."

Hermione quickly buried her face back in her book as Ron turned his now vermilion face toward his younger sister who wasn't trying very hard to stifle her giggles. Without turning his death glare away from Ginny, Ron moved his remaining knight. "Check Mate" he hissed threateningly at his sister before he jumped up from his spot on the floor and headed up the stairs.

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Christmas Eve came all too quickly for the remaining students at Hogwarts, and although it should have been a joyous time, not even the Christmas cheer could lift the gloom off of the castle. The few remaining students hardly ever left their common rooms out of fear while the Professors were constantly busy with all of the terrible things that had been happening around the castle. Fudge had warned Dumbledore that he had one more chance to bring the monsters and the Sorceress under control before he took drastic measures. But even with all the gloom in the castle none of it could compare to the anguish two students in Gryffindor tower felt.

As night moved in and peace settled within the school, a restless blonde quietly crept out of her bed, careful not wake her bushy haired roommate, and tiptoed down the stairs into the common room. She slowly warmed herself by the dying fire and then made her way over to a large window. Resting her elbows on the window sill, Serena stared out at the snow covered grounds that were now eerily bathed in the twilight of the full moon. 'Some Christmas this is' she thought sadly to herself, 'Tomorrow will be filled with presents and sweets and all sorts of fun, but all I can think about is 'him' and what I've done. I've never messed up this much on a mission before, but then again I've never had to do it on my own. But why does Harry have to be so damn difficult?' She thought as she slammed her fists down on the stone window sill, 'Can't he see that this is tough enough on me already?' Serena looked down at her hands, which now throbbed from where they had hit the stone, and slowly unclenched them. 'But have I thought about how tough this must be on Harry?' She continued her thoughts, 'I've at least had a few years, well lifetimes actually, to get used these sorts of things happening to me, but this has all been thrust on Harry all at once. I guess he actually took it pretty well since I just blurted it all out there, but what do I do now?' Serena pondered for a moment as she stared out the window again. 'Perhaps' she wondered, 'Perhaps this is a test; a chance for me to prove my worth as future Queen. A queen must learn to make decisions on her own and not always depend on others.'

Serena's thoughts were interrupted as her head suddenly snapped up and her body stiffened when she heard something fairly close to her move; she suddenly had the odd feeling that she was being watched. Her fears were confirmed when she spotted the pair of eyes looming out at her out from the shadows. Serena fought off the urge to scream, but couldn't stop herself from tripping over the wooden chair behind her. She quickly fumbled for her wand, but gave up when she heard the sound of familiar laughing coming from above her.

"The mighty Serena, who has fought off at least a dozen monsters this year and saved Hogwarts while she eluded the Ministry of Magic, taken down by a single chair."

"You're lucky I can't find my wand Harry because you'd probably be dead right now."

"Right" Harry mocked as he held his hand out to help Serena off the floor, "And would you have done that while you were tumbling backwards or after you had hit the floor?"

"Whose to say there's anything stopping me now" She replied as she begrudgingly grabbed his hand.

Harry quickly pulled the blonde to her feet with a smile on his face, "So you risk your life trying to defend me all year long just to kill me on Christmas Eve? Think of the irony."

Serena softened a bit and began to giggle, "It was my plan all along."

Harry turned away from her and sighed, "And to think that Snape was right about you from the beginning."

Serena immediately stopped laughing and shot Harry a scowl. "Fine" she said a little spitefully, "You live for now, but only to prove him and Fudge wrong."

"You're very gracious" Harry replied and soon both Gryffindors were trying to contain their silent fits of laughter so as not to disturb the rest of the sleeping castle.

As the giggles subsided and awkward silence reined once more, Serena couldn't help but wonder what was going on. Only days before she and Harry had almost been enemies, but now they were actually laughing at the very thing they had been fighting about. "What are you doing down here?" She asked him starting with an easy question.

"Couldn't sleep" he shrugged, "I've been wanting to talk to you for a while, and I thought I might find you here tonight."

"How'd you know?"

He paused for moment, "Just had a 'Feeling" he told her with a quick smirk.

Serena looked down at her feet as silence loomed over them once again. "Harry" she finally spoke, "About the other day, I was out of line and I…"

"Don't" Harry quickly interrupted as he held up a hand to silence her, "We both said a lot of things that we regret. Its probably best if we try not to bring them up."

Serena silently nodded. "So what now?"She timidly questioned.

"I don't know" Harry answered truthfully, "As much as I don't want to admit it, I know that you're not lying. It's all still confusing, but somehow it clicks in my brain. It's just…" He stopped.

"What?"

Harry laughed slightly, "It's just kind of a punch in the ego" he said as he slid down to the floor with his back against the wall.

"Oh" Serena responded with a small smile. "Why because you were saved by a girl?" She teased as she took a seat next to him.

Harry winced, "I was trying to not to think about that" he told her.

"I wouldn't worry about it" she remarked, "I've saved bigger and stronger men than you before."

Harry shot her an odd look before deciding to ignore her comment and continue. "It's just that I've never really thought of myself as a hero, but a lot people see me that way and even though I hate it, it always gave me a little confidence to get through everything."

"I know exactly how you feel" Serena whispered.

Harry smiled back before he went on, "But now I know that everything they think is a lie. All of my amazing feats weren't even really mine."

Serena stared at the black haired boy in shock, "Harry that's not true" she scolded him, "You saved yourself all those times; I just added a little help."

Harry rolled his eyes, "I remember everything you said in the hospital wing Serena, so don't try to make me feel better because it's only humiliating me more."

"It's true" she argued, "Like in the Chamber of Secrets. Now I don't do snakes, so you were on your own there, and it was you who killed the Basilisk and saved Ginny. I just gave you the sword."

Harry looked up and had to laugh at the huge grin plastered on Serena's face. "I s'pose we make a good team" he admitted making Serena's grin even bigger, "But I'm still confused about somethings."

"Aren't we all."

Harry ignored her commentary and continued. "The other day in the hospital, you said you saw Voldemort, but how?"

The smile on Serena's face quickly faded away. After everything that had happened she had somehow forgotten about the dream. "I don't know" she finally responded, "It seemed like just a dream, but it was so vivid, so real, so…evil" she began to shiver at the thought, "I've never felt something so dark."

"I don't think it was a dream" Harry concluded, "Because that's exactly how I've felt for the last few years. But I don't understand how it happened. I haven't even felt Voldemort since that night at the Ministry, so how were you able to see him?"

Serena thought for a while. "Your scar acts up when your around Sailor Moon like it does with Voldemort doesn't it Harry?" Harry only nodded in response feeling a little guilty. "It must be because the magic I gave you is somehow responding with my own. The Dark Lord and I are both linked through you, so perhaps when we get too close our magic reacts and it creates complete chaos in all our minds."

"So you're saying that you saw Voldemort through me?"

"It's not as insane as it sounds" Serena defended, "Even if Voldemort has successfully blocked you out, he wasn't expecting me. Plus we were umm" she paused and cleared her throat awkwardly, "Awfully close that night." Both Serena and Harry quickly turned away from each other as the red started to creep up in their cheeks, but luckily for them the common room was dark so the other didn't notice.

Harry desperately wanted to ask her about the dream he had had that night, and perhaps if it was scene from her own mind, but decided against it seeing that this week had already held too many confusing twists. That question would just have to wait for another day when some of this stuff actually made sense. Harry decided to finally break the uncomfortable tension between them with a new topic. "I can only imagine what would happen if the Daily Prophet got a hold of this information" he commented with a small chuckle.

Serena quickly looked around and then leaned in close to Harry's ear. "I promise I won't tell anyone" she whispered to him.

Harry laughed again, "No I think you should come out and tell the world. Come share the glory Serena you deserve it."

Serena too began to giggle again, "That's alright you can keep the glory for yourself. Fame doesn't suit me anyway."

"Nonsense" he told her as he pulled her off the ground and put his arm around her shoulders. He turned them towards the window and with his free hand he spanned the landscape before them with an open palm as if to show her what their life would be like. "We could both tell our story to all the papers and be considered lunatics together. Two crazy and very disturbed teenagers against the Dark Lord. Although I think your story outdoes mine, so you may have a few more mental problems then I do." He finished with the air as if they were starting a Vegas act.

"When you put it that way" Serena responded with a roll of her eyes, "How could I pass it up?"

Laughter once again enveloped the two but was stopped this time by the sound of the large clock in the common room striking midnight. "What do you know" Harry muttered, "Christmas."

"Yeah I guess we should probably get back to bed."

They were about to depart from their spot by the window, but as they turned to go they were surprised by the sound of a small bell tinkling above them. The Gryffindors looked up and their mouths immediately fell open at the sight of Mistletoe dangling directly above Harry's head. Their attention was then directed to the other side of the room when soft shuffling could be heard, and they could barely make out the small frame of a house elf quickly scurrying through the portrait hole. "Dobby" Harry muttered as he covered his eyes in embarrassment.

"Sly little imp isn't he?" Serena smirked as she saw the embarrassment in Harry's face.

"Well" Harry stated as the humiliation faded away and was replaced by a smirk of his own, "Might as well just get this over with."

"What!?"Serena shouted back at him, "Oh no, if you think I'm gonna…" She fidgeted slightly as she started turn pink again, "Then you've got another thing coming."

"You think I like this anymore than you?" Harry retaliated with a fake scowl, "You think I want you to do this after everything that's happened these past few weeks? Damned the fowl person who came up with this twisted tradition" Harry added with mock anger in his voice. "I wish I could change things Serena, I really do, but" he pointed to the Mistletoe, "Tradition."

Serena rolled her eyes at his childishness, "No!" She firmly stated.

Harry sighed, "You're right, you're not under any obligation since I'm the one stuck under its treacherous curse." He then leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes, "I'll just have to wait here until someone is kind enough to free me from my prison."

"Ginny will be up in a few hours and I'm sure she'll be more than happy to free you."

Harry pouted slightly with his eyes still shut. "But I don't think Dean would like that, and I think that Ron would rather do it himself then let Herimione anywhere near me."

"Well there you go, you've got Ron."

Harry wrinkled his nose in disgust and sighed again, "I s'pose I'll just have to sit here and wait. And to think that someone would actually leave me this way on Christmas."

Serena looked over at her reunited friend and could see that he was watching her through a half opened eyelid. "You sure have this damsel in distress thing down" she grumbled.

Harry laughed, "I'm just following the rules."

It was now Serena's turn to laugh, 'Not surprising, the only rule Harry Potter follows would be this one.' "C'mon Harry enough fooling around we've got to go to bed."

Harry just crossed his arms and stood his ground, "Sorry, tradition."

After mumbling a few incoherent things to herself, Serena finally approached the boy who was annoying her so. "Fine" she surrendered, "But you tell anyone and I really will kill you." Harry just replied with a large grin while his eyes still remained shut.

Serena leaned in close and stared for a moment at the boy who was patiently waiting for his ticket to freedom. As she leaned in even closer she could feel her heart beat quicken its pace, and then it nearly stopped as her lips came only millimeters away from his. It seemed that she stood like that for an eternity while she contemplated what to do. Harry shifted slightly showing he was becoming impatient, so Serena finally closed the gap in between them, but at the last moment moved a few inches to the right so her lips hit mostly his cheek and only the corner of his mouth. She lingered there for a moment and then softly pulled away and turned around to walk up the stairs.

Harry didn't complain about the type of kiss she had given him. In fact, he was rendered speechless by it as he brought his hand up to feel the place where her soft lips had graced him once again. Harry walked to his own set of stairs and started to climb while his eyes never left the figure on the adjoining staircase, which completely blocked out from his mind the subtle burning he now felt on his forehead.

Still feeling his eyes upon her, Serena stopped climbing and slowly turned around to face him. "Merry Christmas Harry Potter" she said with a small smirk and a quick wink at him. She then turned back and once again headed for the sixth year dormitories.

"Merry Christmas" was all Harry could mutter as he too headed for his room.

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Good Sin that took a long time to write, but I finally got it done even if it meant writing all day while I'm sick instead of resting. Well there you go, a long chapter to make up for the last one, no cliffhanger, and Harry and Serena are friends again with all the secrets out in the open (well almost all of them ;).

Anyway, don't get mad because I changed the whole mothers love thing because I liked it too that's why I still left it in. No one understands a mothers love better than I, but that particular part just doesn't work in my story. I hope you understand.

Well hopefully I'll get to start on the next chapter soon because there's been too much talk the last few chapters, so now its time to get back to the action:) I reread this a couple of times, but if something doesn't make sense I'm sorry but I've been writing most of it with a very high fever and I've become a little delusional since I haven't been able to get up off my bedroom floor. Please let me know what you think.

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