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Deciding that he should give the telescopes another look over before his lesson, Airey made his way to the Observatory with a small box of cleaning materials held under his right arm. With how rough and uncivilized the Gringotts goblins had been when that had come and repo'd things...it really was a wonder that anything had been returned in one piece.
Whistling a classic tune as he entered, he did not notice the young Hufflepuff examining one of the returned telescopes on the other side of the area. Man on a mission here. He instead approached the nearest telescope and removed his wand, giving it a swish and a tap on himself to perform Oculo Focalis so that he could better examine the lens of the telescope for any scratches and damage that anyone with average eyesight would have missed.
Blue eyes bugging out of his head, he pulled out a piece of parchment and quill from his charmed breast pocket and began to jot down a few things. "Bloody halo," he cursed under his breath. "Gringotts will hear about this."
Altair jumped and let out a yelp when he heard someone curse behind him. Usually something like that would've made him laugh, but not when he though he was alone. When he finally caught his breath he looked over to see the person that was so upset. It was actually a larger person, it was a professor. Altair could only assume that it was Professor Flamsteed, given the way he was inspecting the telescopes and writing notes. He just hoped he wasn't in trouble. He might as well make his presence known, but he was pretty sure his little scream could have notified anyone within a mile radius.
"Good evening Professor," he choked up to say.
"Listen, I'm really sorry for coming up here without permission, I just wanted to look at the Aquila constellation and see if it truly matched the birthmarks on my back because that's what I was kind of named after and everything and I just wanted to know why. And I swear I didn't touch the big telescope even though the gravitational lensing is some of the most impressive craftsmanship I've ever seen on a telescope, though I've heard that hexagonal mirrors provide sharper images than spherical and... and..."
Altair took a deep breath, he could feel his ears begin to twitch as the nerves took over.
"I'm sorry." His shoulders slumped with embarrassment. He was wondering what kind of trouble he'd be in. He didn't know how late it was, but by looking at the night sky he figured it was late. Altair heard they would deduct points for misconduct.
"If I'm to be punished, please send me to detention or turn me into a toad or something, but please don't take it out on my House for what I did. Or you could write my papa, he'd be upset, but I would rather be the one that gets in trouble for being up here. I just lost track of time...I think. What time is it?" He could be bumbling for no reason, he was just so frantic, he didn't know what else. to do.