 Lil' gooz | Sarangel | Junior Dweeb
Norah didn't have much time to wonder what she'd said wrong so that the Professor had done only plain old smiling at her answer instead of jumping on her desk or yelling something excited. He did a lot of yelling. Usually. But her wondering was cut off on account of Sophie Brown saying more words than the Hufflepuff planned to say during the whole entire lesson. How did she fit all that knowledge in her HEAD? She had a very nice head that looked pretty properly head-sized, which made it hard to believe that her brains could all fit without wanting to squish out of her ears. She probably knew more about space rocks than the entire rest of the school put together, and space rocks were a pretty random thing to know about (but don't tell Pebbles she'd said that). The fifth year fell behind in her notes as she tried to scribble down all the stuff Sophie had said, but caught up when Flamsteed began speaking again. Lots of stuff about rocks. Okay cool. AND he said rocks showed things about dinosaurs so her answer hadn't even been completely wrong, so THERE.
She paused to copy the terms down on her parchment before putting a hand in the air. "The things people call shooting stars aren't even stars at all, they're meteors." Right? Or were there meteoroids? Or meteorites? WHY did they make all those words so similar? "Meteors are rocks too, and those don't seem like they'd look like stars but sometimes when they're coming into the atmosphere they move so so so fast and hitting all these space particles so then they give off a trail of glowing light, or at least it looks like glowing light. I'm not really sure what the glowing bits are made of. So then we see them just for a second and think they look like stars except like I said, they're not. Sometimes they come all the way to Earth but then they're called something else." Something that started with 'meteor' except she wasn't sure which ending was the right one. Shooting stars were one of the best parts of space, if y'asked her, because they meant wishes and wishes were always fun. Well, except when they weren't. But usually fun.
And there was a Ravenclaw firstie saying Pluto wasn't a planet. Excuse HIM, it wasn't fair to be mean just 'cause Pluto was small. HE was small too, shouldn't he know that?
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