A private message popped up in the IRC chat channel on the side of his screen. You’re the one grabbing the workprint? User: Elias_W: Yeah. Is it going to finish? User: Prongs_99: Depends. The mods are shutting down nodes early. Why do you care? It’s a potato-quality AVI file. Terrible CGI.

Stay safe out there, and always support the magic legally – it’s the only way we’ll keep getting amazing wizarding world content!

He reopened his coding software. He hadn't managed to save the video, but the log files from the download were still in his cache. And somewhere in that metadata was the IP address of the Seeder who had given him the file.

The power flickered. The monitor died for a heartbeat, then hummed back to life. The room was plunged into silence as the fan on his tower whirred to a stop, then roared back to life.

He looked at his hands. They were shaking.