QM here. I’ll continue to the next scene later when I wake up. I just wanted to get this piece out today because I particularly enjoyed writing it. On a side note, I was listening to Akhnaten’s soundtrack while writing this, and I do think it fits with the mood of discovery of the next two posts amazingly well, most of all if you read them out loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji6LTT6tLpQNow, on to the update.
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You each take a telescope and peer at the sky. This is something the muggles miss, something they fail ever so poorly. In the cities, you can’t see the stars. There is too much light pollution, and it never goes off. You need to drive for miles and miles to get away from all that, just so you can look up.
Not in Hogwarts.
Yes, there are torches down on the ground level lighting the path from Hogsmeade to the school. Yes, there are the lights of the late sleepers in the Gryffindor tower. Yes, there is the glimmer of the small villages close to the school, glowing from afar.
But all that pales in comparison to the million billion stars above.
It is no wonder Taylor is so enamored by them. It’s no wonder he wishes to live closer to them, on the moon where there is no atmosphere to get in the way of their light.
They are beautiful, and so <span class="mu-i">terribly </span>far away that you can’t help but wonder if somewhere out there there is another race of beings, thinking like you. Living like you. And if they are out there, do they also have magic? Would you even recognize them if they tried to speak to you?
You’ve spoken about this with Taylor more than once and you know he stopped short when Lily asked what his ambition was. He does not wish to go to the moon, or at least not <span class="mu-i">just</span> the moon.
He wishes to go to the stars, for he loves them dearly. He’s watched them every night he can, and his greatest sadness is the certainty that he cannot hold them in his arms, that he can’t meet those who live around them, that he can’t tell the bright points above how much he loves them. That he will never hear from them how they love him also.
And being almost killed by them hasn’t changed his love one bit.
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