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The boy continued to sing about all the planets. Roman couldn't recall hearing anything like that before. He couldn't help, but smile a bit when the boy responded with not knowing what he was looking at. "Thingymabobs? And whatchamacallits?"
Roman really had no idea what the boy was talking about. He then couldn't help, but chuckle a bit after calling the patterns consternations. "Um... I think you mean constellations?" Roman smiled. Surely the boy didn't mean being alarmed, though Roman had kinda snuck up on him. "I don't know that many, but there's a few my mum taught me."
Roman took a few steps back and gazed up at the stars. He knew there were loads more out there, that only a telescope could see, but there were some that his mum pointed out every night before going to bed. "Okay there!" he pointed. There were three bright start in a row, "That one is Orion's belt, he was a hunter in Greek mythology."
He then spun around and noticed another one. There were four stars that almost made a box with a tail near the top, "That one is Ursa Major!" He pointed. "It kinda looks like a saucepan if you ask me." Roman laughed.
Roman then stopped to look to see what the boy was doing or if he was even paying attention. He certainly didn't want to come across as a know-it-all, but that was only a few he knew and he only could name a handful more. He certainly couldn't tell you which ones were planets either. "You don't think we'll have to know ALL of them in astronomy do you?" He had a slight tone of worry in his voice. How could anyone remember all of them?
Nodding enthusiastically (which was pretty much his normal nod, as everything the boy did seemed to come off a pretty enthusiastic) Darwin bit down on his lip a little as the boy repeated him.
"Yeah, those things." Waving an arm in the direction of the sky, he turned to look at the 'consternations' that he didn't know anything about.
"Didn't I say that?" he added as he was corrected - Darwin accepted that he was in the wrong, though, and shrugged it off. He wasn't particularly bright, no matter what the Sorting Hat had said; he needed to try hard, and to try hard he needed to know stuff.
And he didn't really know stuff about Astronomy. Not yet, anyway.
Looking back at the boy and following his arm, Darwin studied the stars he was pointing out.
"That's pretty cool," he managed, nodding again.
"I know that that's the North Star," he said, pointing to a star near to the 'saucepan like' constellation.
"And it tells you which direction's north." Oh, what an interesting fact; kudos to Darwin. Not.
"It kinda does," he agreed, admiring the saucepan-shape, and the information that the boy seemed to have.
"I think I've heard of it before though... something to do with a bear. But it doesn't really look like a bear. So maybe I'm wrong." He added as an afterthought, his voice getting fainter as he spoke. Maybe they'd learn some more, in lessons.
At the tone of worry in the other boy's voice, Darwin began to anxiously rock on his feet.
"I hope not. There's lots of them, isn't there? And like, millions and billions of stars. That would be hard." And his brain could not cope with that - he'd barely been able to remember his twelve times table, let alone millions of billions of stars and stuff.
