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Does the action of a 2-torsion line bundle on $Pic^d(C)$ fix the number of sections?

Let $C$ be a smooth projective curve over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $A$ be a degree $d$ line bundle on $C$, and $M$ be a degree 0 line bundle on $C$ such that $M^2=\mathcal{O}_C$, that is, it is a 2-torsion line bundle. Therefore, we have that $deg(A)=deg(A\otimes M)$. Is it in general true that $h^0(C,A)=h^0(C,A\otimes M)$? If we assume that $deg(A)>2g(C)-2$, we get that $h^0(C,A)=h^0(C,A\otimes M)$. But otherwise can we say anything?

More precisely,

We have the subvariety $W^r_d(C)=\{A\in Pic^d(C)|h^0(C,A)\geq r+1\}$ of $Pic^d(C)$. A 2-torsion line $M$ acts on $Pic^d(C)$. Assume $0< d<g+r$, and that $W^r_d(C)\setminus W^{r+1}_d(C)=\{A\in Pic^d(C)|h^0(C,A)=r+1\}$ is nonempty. Then will the action of $M$ on $Pic^d(C)$ take some open subset in $W^r_d(C)\setminus W^{r+1}_d(C)$ to itself?

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