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sweetpinkpixie 
"Oh, stellar," he grinned as he continued to make his way eagerly down the stairs. Although the use of yet had certainly tickled his interest.
"Certainly! It is no trouble at all. What year were you hoping to look at?" he asked as he set his star charts and binder down on the table. "The year you were born? That seems to be a popular one with students." Who he hoped to Merlin were not doing it for astrology purposes. Bloody highly inaccurate scientific hokum!
Reaching around the side of the projector and pulled out a touch screen pad and then headed towards a nearby seat. "Handy little muggle device. Pity that I had to taint it a little with some enchantments to make it work here at Hogwarts." Not that he was a muggle artifacts purist or anything. The astronomer was just not a fan of altering something that was in its true state so to speak...unless it was in the name of science.
Probably why he had never been especially proficient at Transfiguration.
Thornton smiled. It was nice having the proper Professor Flamsteed back, not whatever had been going on in the astrophysics lab. But Thornton was smart enough to know that broaching such topics would be incredibly impolite.
"Thank you," he said, walking to stand next to the man. Oh. He needed a year. Biting his lip, Thornton thought. He'd asked for summer, so...
"My sister's, I think," he finally said. Maybe he could sketch the skyscape for her.
"2079."
Thornton nodded at the professor's explanation, though he didn't necessarily follow. He often forgot that muggle machines did not work here at Hogwarts, if only because Thornton often forgot about muggle machines in general.