It was Astronomy time again, and Ryden was being VERY quiet. Yep. No need a repeat of last year. It had been quite embarrassing, looking back on it. Oh well - at least the professor wasn't the same... Though SHE was here. And she was a prefect now; wasn't that just fantastic. Psht.

NEVER MIND. She wasn't getting into that again. IGNORING the people who swallowed encyclopedias in their spare time - yes, YOU, Gryffindor prefect - Ryden raised her hand. "It's the study of everything outside planet Earth as well as anything beyond our physical grasp... Like the history of the universe, how its laws evolved, why it is the way it is - including Earth," she said, then lowered her hand again, straightening the name plate as she awaited the professor's answer.

This was one of the few classes she actually liked; the fifth year wasn't going to ruin it for herself by losing control.