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At least this year she didn't have a Time-Turner.
No much later, everyone in the D.A. could call forth the spaceship door. Most were spending at least some extra time there. At first Harry didn't share their enthusiasm. Not that there was anything wrong with the spaceship, but it was dark and cold — everyone was getting quite experienced at making warming charms that lasted for hours and keeping their wand lit while they did other things.
Plus, he didn't know anything about runes, much less ancient runes, nor engines, earth-bound or not, nor even spaceships in general. It just didn't have that much of a draw for him.
Except the serenity he felt. That was a powerful magnet. But he knew if he indulged in it too much, the Pink Toad would become even more of a problem. And not just for him. He couldn't do that to his friends. So, he tried to draw her attention to keep it off them.
And then one night, after the D.A. session let out, he laid down on the floor and just looked out the windows. And fell asleep. It was the best sleep he had had in far too long for him to remember.
At the end of a corridor on the next floor down they discovered a large lounge with its own floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall window. On one side of the lounge a door led to a large ensuite with the biggest bed Harry had ever seen, and a normal-sized window to space, Even the bathroom had a window. On the other side of the lounge was an obvious workroom, with another window.
That end of the corridor ended in an elevator to the Bridge.
The next two rooms back from the Captain's Room were similar, but smaller in all dimensions. Then came another dozen ensuites with attached lounge-workroom combinations lining the same wall in the corridor.
The other side of the corridor was blank wall, and Harry assumed behind it was the machinery and equipment for the bridge above. The access was probably from the other corridor on the other side of the ship, which had its own set of smaller bedrooms like these.
They were larger than the single bedrooms they had discovered elsewhere in the ship. Which made it a simple decision on his part. He'd wait until after curfew, then sneak across the castle and into the ship to sleep. A few pillows from the Room of Hidden Things — they would need several thorough sourgifys — a cushioning charm or two, and he was good to go — asleep, that is.
Plus, as Ron said, the view was bloody spectacular.
Everyone wholeheartedly agreed on that part, even the pure-bloods.
"Evening, Luna," Harry said as he entered the bridge. He smiled. She, too, had taken to sleeping aboard the ship. She said the nargles no longer bothered her. A discrete mention of her issue to Dobby had brought about the rapid return of her missing property.
The twins had managed to come up with something to put on her bed in her dorm that made everyone think she was there after curfew when she wasn't. It imitated the normal sounds she made while sleeping, and simulated a body under the covers if someone should peek past the bed's curtains. In the morning, it turned off.
With Winky's assistance, it wasn't difficult to sneak back and forth, fooling their roommates into thinking she had spent the night there.
Harry was thinking of asking for one for his bed. Seamus was the only one in his dorm room that wasn't in the D.A., and he was oblivious — pointedly ignoring Harry. But who knew when a prefect might take it into their head to do a spot check extremely early in the morning?
Those two Weasleys really were geniuses.
"How goes it?" he said to the Ravenclaw sitting cross-legged in front of the windows.
"There's a shooting star," she said happily, pointing as he joined her. "It has a long tail. See?"
The bridge's front window had a sea of pillows from somewhere — probably the Room of Hidden Things, like he had done — placed before it. Harry took one and sat beside her. "Yeah," he said as he looked at what she pointed at. "Very pretty."
"It's not actually a shooting star, though," Luna said serenely. "Those hit Earth or burn up in the atmosphere. This one's not anywhere near Earth."
"Huh," Harry said. "It must be a comet, then. Looks like one, at least, with that tail and all. Odd how it looks like it has two tails, though. One a spread of blue and then the other white."
Luna nodded and hummed a moment. For a long while they watched the comet. It was moving too slow for them actually to see it move, but after a long time Harry realized a star in front of the comet was now hidden by it.
"Have you ever wondered why we learn astronomy, here?" Luna suddenly said.
Startled out of his thoughts, Harry said, "Uh . . . not really? I just thought it was a prerequisite for something else."
"Perhaps. But it's a bit much just as a prerequisite for an elective course, don't you think?" she said. "After all, we start learning astronomy as firsties," she added. "Eleven-year-old kids, awake in the middle of the night to watch the stars. And I haven't heard of any course or job that requires it, have you?"
Harry just shrugged. "Not really. Never looked, though. Maybe it's to teach the pure-bloods mathematics and art? You know, calculating the planets' positions, and drawing what we see through our telescopes?"
She nodded slowly, looking at him. "Possibly. I hadn't thought about that." She turned to look back outside the ship. "I think I could navigate by the stars, now." Luna mused. "Could you?"
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