A Snake in a Raven's Claw
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Several large arched silver doors repeated around the tower, the icy chill of the Scottish winter shooting at the tower from every direction, silver railings encircling the chamber. Several arched windows were carved into the high tower adorned with elegant stained glass depictions representing various celestial bodies. Intricate visualizations of the sun and the moon were carved into the stone flooring of the Astronomy tower.
A crow haired girl with hazel orbs sat at an oak desk alongside a silver-steel irised boy, and a girl with reddish-brown curls sat at one of the many rows of desks which repeated around the circular room.
A tall slender elderly witch clad in ornate robes bearing symbols of the stars stood at the front of the class.
"Astronomy, Astronomia from Latin meaning the regulation of stars, and Onomy from Greek meaning the science of, collectively these two words form Astronomy, the science of the regulation of the stars." The Professor explained.
A scoff escaped the young pureblood's lips, the young Malfoy unable to keep the scoff imprisoned within his mouth, it seemed the Professors of Hogwarts always introduced their respective subjects with a history lesson on the name of their respective subjects. A pang of guilt shot through him at the look the crow haired girl shot him.
The Professor droned on in painstaking detail listing off the names of every single star in the solar system, the hazel orbs of the Ravenclaw seeker, and the silver-steel orbs of the young Malfoy widened as the sheer amount of stars they would be required to recall registered in their minds.
Professor Sinistra selected the students into duos after calculating their corresponding star-signs, explaining to the crow haired girl and the young Malfoy that she had paired them together since as a Gemini and Virgo respectively while not appearing so at first sight under the right conditions they make a good pair, inducing streaks of crimson in the two's cheeks.
Streaks of crimson slowly dissipating from Cho and Draco's cheeks the two slowly made their way to one of the many telescopes that lined the room in a circular pattern.
The crow haired seeker leveled her hazel orb so that it was aligned with a golden sphere, the young Malfoy couldn't stop thinking about how beautiful the Ravenclaw seeker would look with her snow-white skin and hazel orbs basking in the glow of the moonlight, a tinge of crimson creeping up his neck before coloring his cheeks.
"Draco", The crow haired girl said softly, as if sensing something was wrong.
"It's nothing", The young Malfoy replied, burying those thoughts deep into the abyss of his mind, the gleam in her hazel orbs told him that she didn't believe him.