Something like that. West smiled, sextant still up to his face. West brought it to the horizon and then pressed the clamp in and gradually adjusted the angle until Polaris came into view again thanks to mirrors and whatnot. Once it was lined up he released the clamp, adjusting the position a bit and then swinging it to check it was all good. Right.
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Latitude = 90 degrees - sextant angle
Latitude = 90 - 40
Latitude = 50
He wrote it down quickly and then eyed Dylan's parchment, weirded out that it could even be different answers. Was it because Hogwarts was unplottable? So what was even the point of the exercise then? Oh well.
"Ready." West said and the boys headed off to another location.