If this becomes super confusing, sorry... I have no idea what I was thinking at this time. Maybe because I was sort of in class... at school. If you are ever confused, or there's a plot thing that's a bit weird (like, I reread and found some stuff that wasn't correct), just review and I will answer your question, and maybe, in twenty years, fix the plot mistake.

Again, Happy New Years!

Chapter 26: Harry Potter POV: 8 - Astronomy

September 2, 10:00pm, Stargazing Spot

Harry walked onto the Astronomy field after finally finishing his homework about love relationships. He looked up - the moon was bright and the stars were all out, and for some reason he could imagine Santa Claus up there with his reindeer. But that was probably just his imagination - Santa Claus didn't exist, and either way it was not Christmas yet.

"Kane, Sadie," the teacher was calling.

"Here!"

"Malfoy, Draco!"

"Olin, Ferus!"

"Potter, Harry!" The teacher, whom was now identified by Harry as Professor Aurora Sinistra, finally reached his name.

"Here!" he replied. The teacher marked down his attendance.

"Smith, John!"

"Tyler, Rose!"

And finally, "Weasley, Ron!"

For some reason, this kind of reminded Harry of the Sorting Hat, although they weren't actually doing anything. The teacher was just making sure they were all present.

"Welcome to Astronomy everyone, my name is Aurora Sinistra, Professor Sinistra to you all, and today we will be starting our unit on stargazing."

Professor Sinistra showed Harry and the other students how to operate the telescopes, then explained how to tell the difference between planets and stars. She also explained how despite some stars seeming to be bigger and brighter than others, in truth it could have been very different.

"It's based on how far away the star is, really," she said. "Even though that star," she pointed to a random star. "May seem bigger than that one," she pointed to another random star. "It could actually be much smaller, just closer."

Harry definitely missed the part where John Smith's eyebrows creased, and he frowned and turned to his friend Rose. He did hear the part when they were whispering, though.

"- Barcelona," John was saying. Harry began inching closer.

"-dogs of Barcelona," Rose said. Barcelona was obviously a city or something in the muggle world.

"We should go there soon," John finished. So it was a city after all! Or a county. Or something muggle.

Professor Sinistra finished her little speech.

"Can anyone identify where Jupiter is? It's visible tonight, even without a telescope," Professor Sinistra said. "But you should use your telescopes and the fact that you know the difference between planets and stars to find it. Here's a hint for everyone: It's to the south."

~Yeah I'm not entirely sure that's the right direction... but whatever.~

Harry immediately ran to a telescope and began operating the telescope like he had learned all throughout his years at Hogwarts. Everyone else did the same (except maybe not operate it like they were taught at Hogwarts). Meanwhile, John just looked up at the sky, pointed at a seemingly random star, and began tracing some sort of line.

"Found it!" he called.

"Found it?" Professor Sinistra frowned. "Don't point to the south and hope it's the right planet. Don't just randomly point and hope it's even a planet. You didn't even look at the telescope! Go back to your telescope and..."

Professor Sinistra followed John's finger and stopped mid-rant. "How?" She questioned John. He shrugged. "Instinct?" he said it like a question. "I guessed? I didn't want to use a telescope anyways."

She called everyone back (many of which were still staring at the sky through their machinery trying to find Jupiter.

"Look, your classmate found Jupiter. See, there?"

After fifteen minutes, everyone finally saw it. "Oh, that looks exactly like... everything else up there," Harry heard Percy say. "Well, can't judge things by their looks, I suppose."

"Since you've finished today's lesson, in which you learned to use your telescopes and find and identify a planet, class will be dismissed early."

"What's the homework?" Hermione asked. Typical Hermione, checking to see if there was homework.

"Tomorrow night, come here when it's dark. Find a star, any star out there, and try to create a story about it. Maybe even try to find it again during our second class. We will tell each other our stories."

After Harry went back to his dorm room, room number 401, he went to sleep almost immediately.

-End September 2-

January 1, 2018