Illustration for Four Windows, from the adult visual novel The Ninth Window

Forty windows, four lit. That is what Corvina says when anyone asks what Gravenhollow is now.

Mione counts them that night with a lantern: four bright, thirty-five black, and one that is neither.

The window in the east wall is unlit and there is a warm light behind it, and there is a room behind it, and the east wing ends there.

MalfoidDo not go up. I have lived in this building for seven years and I have been told not to go up since I was eleven.

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