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On a rainy summer Thursday in two identical supermarkets hundreds of miles apart, a curious thing happened: Severus Snape and Hermione Granger walked identical paths while shopping for groceries. If both places in that instant were to be viewed layered together, they would have appeared to the world to be partners; perhaps a father and daughter, perhaps a man with his much younger lover. Though they never realized it that day, (even after all that happened later) for a long moment they moved as one, buying apricots, brown eggs, vinegar, kosher salt, and raw oysters that smelled like the sea.