Snape was startled by the boy who landed firmly in his arms.
However, his first reaction was still to catch him, so he received a steaming savior and a few whistles.
His face darkened for a moment.
He carried Potter on his shoulder and walked straight into the house. On the way, he simply nodded to Weisles and his wife, but he did not answer Molly's question of "what happened".
He carried Harry all the way to the attic on the top floor. A small bed had been placed in the renovated attic.
Judging from the comic under the pillow, Ron was currently living here.
Snape unceremoniously closed the door with his leg and threw Harry on the bed. The savior, who had been well-behaved for a long time, finally couldn't help but panic. He shrank his head and squeezed against the wall.
However, the expressionless Snape dragged him out with one hand and then — pressed him on his leg and spanked him. Harry wailed and covered his face.
He pressed his forehead against the bedsheets, his cheeks burning red.
Venting (?) After that,
Snape picked up the little brat again.
He saw the child's red face and green eyes. Other than shame and anger,
There was also a kind of excitement in his expression that made Snape feel uncomfortable.
At this time, Ron's shout came from outside the window. "Harry! Are you okay? "
Snape let go of Harry and let him poke his head out of the attic window. "What's wrong?"
Ron was jumping and shouting in the yard outside.
He was waving something in his hand. "Professor Kamia asked us to look at the stars.
Are you going? "
Look at the stars? Harry didn't think much about it.
He replied directly, "Okay!" Then he looked back at Snape and remembered that he was here to take him back to Spidertail Alley. He smiled ingratiatingly. "Professor... are you going too?"
Snape snorted and grabbed Harry by the back of his collar. Before he could react, he jumped out of the window.
Kamia didn't seem to have come up with this idea on a whim. Lovegood and her husband had brought along a set of telescopes and some telescopes to distribute to their companions. Ron was holding one in his hand. The twins and Drac also came along. The girls seemed too lazy to move, so they didn't come along. Harry, on the other hand, felt that it was good to take a walk after eating.
They chose to observe the stars on a high slope. While Xenophilius set up the telescope, Kamia explained to everyone how to use the telescopic glasses.
Harry put the strange-looking spectacles on top of his spectacles and felt dizzy. Kamia quickly pulled the spectacles down and removed the seemingly decorative feather frame from the spectacles and put it on top of Harry's spectacles, hinting him to look up from the sky.
At that moment, Harry understood why Kamia chose this place to observe the stars. At this location, there were almost no villages and lights, only the shadows of the mountains and trees and the boundless plains. The starry sky was infinitely vast, and the telescopic glasses blocked all sources of light except for the starlight. Harry was surprised to find that the night sky was clear and bright. The purple, blue, and orange light flowed, and the many stars were like gold leaf sprinkled on a glass of Tequila Sunrise. The Milky Way was a clearly visible rift in the sky.
I really want to travel to space. An idea came to Harry in the dizziness of the sea of stars.
Kamia was talking to Xenophilius or everyone else. "Because of the distance, the stars we see are the past. When we see the twinkling stars, they may have exploded and disappeared tens of millions of light years away, or they may have developed an intelligent civilization and are preparing to set sail to explore us. But we don't know. We can't care about the world outside the cone of light. We can't even live in peace on the small Earth."
Harry suddenly had this thought: anyone who had seen such a magnificent galaxy would not have the idea of destroying the world, right?
On the other side, Xenophilius had already taken off his long robe and laid it on the grass for Kami to sit. The boys sat on the grass without any qualms. Only Harry, who was wearing casual shorts, could not sit still because of the grass. He looked at Snape, who was also standing, until the latter impatiently took off his black robe and threw it on the ground. He hurriedly knelt down and laid out the long robe. "Professor, please sit!" After Snape sat down, Harry then sat down on the other side.
The others did not notice their little movements. Kamia and Xenophilius were carefully observing the celestial bodies with telescopes. The twins sat side by side at a higher place and did not say a word. Ron was quietly arguing with Drac about which star was the legendary Draconic Star.
Raising his head slightly, Harry felt the illusion of starlight hitting his face. He didn't know if it was the magic of the telescopic glasses, but through the lenses, everyone seemed to be able to see the dust-like light constantly falling to the ground, like fine snow.
Harry suddenly remembered another saying that he had heard before. "It is said that every atom in our body comes from an exploding star, and the atoms in our left hand and right hand may come from different stars. The soil we plough is stardust, drifting with the wind, and in a glass of rain, we drink the universe … Everything we see is either stardust or the embers of creation. The stars are all dead, but we are still here … "
Subconsciously turning his head, Harry met Kamia's calm eyes. There was a common sense of shock in the calmness.
Only in a universe with a small enough cosmological constant, galaxies and other structures could form, and only then could human beings have the opportunity to discover that they were in such a universe.
In the billions of years of Earth's time, life was born, flourishing and dying. Only a very small number of life forms had survived to this day. Humans were just one of the species that had just arrived, no different from ants rolling in the dust.
If there was really a self-conscious god above all things, looking down at the world that humans treated them like this, would he be happy? Would he despise them? Or would he be indifferent?
There were some things that Harry could not think about, and there were some things that Harry did not want to think about. At this moment, Harry only felt that it was a precious memory for him to be able to sit on this grassland with his friends and watch the ebb and flow of the sea of stars.
The night wind was getting cold. Harry unconsciously leaned on Snape's arm, and his eyelids were blinking slower and slower. Kamia was also leaning on her husband's arms and was about to fall asleep. Xenophilius held his wife's slightly cold arm and suggested, "Why don't we go back?" The few who were still awake nodded in agreement.
Snape was about to pack Harry up and bring him back to Spidertail Alley. Ron saw Harry's sleepy face and could not help but say, "Professor, why don't we let Harry stay for the night?" The twins also agreed.
Kamia yawned and said, "You can't stay in your house anymore, can you?"
After Bill and Charlie came back with their girlfriends, even Ron moved to the attic. Drac was obviously going to stay for the night — she was probably going to squeeze in with Ron, so Harry had no place to stay. Weisles's children calculated for a while and it seemed that Ron could only sleep on the floor.
Xenophilius finished installing the binoculars and heard that they were calculating the guest rooms. He suggested, "Professor Snape, why don't you and Harry stay at our place for the night?"
Kamia leaned on her husband's shoulder sleepily and added, "Although our house is small, we still have a guest room."
Harry rubbed his eyes. He did not really want to go back to London, so he pulled Snape's clothes. Snape looked at the sleepy brat and then looked at Xenophilius, who was full of sincerity, and agreed. Therefore, everyone was happy. After walking down the hill, they divided into two groups. One group went back to the Shack, and the other group went to Lovegood's crooked black house.
Although Weisles's family and Lovegood's family were quite close, the two families usually chose the Shack for gatherings. On the one hand, the Shack was more popular, and on the other hand, Lovegood's house was relatively narrow. It was straight like a chimney. Except for the kitchen and living room on the first floor, there were only one room on each floor. The second floor was the editorial office of Sing Different, the third floor was the bedroom of Lovegood and her husband, the fourth floor was Luna's bedroom, and the fifth floor was the guest room that Snape and Harry were going to stay.
Harry leaned against the door and took a look. There was only one bed, and he suddenly felt nervous.
He looked back and saw Kamia coming up with a thin quilt. She said with a faint smile, "Do you want two quilts?"
Harry, who did not know how to react, shook his head and wondered why they needed two quilts in the summer. When he saw the ambiguous smile on Kamia's face, he jumped up and down. Kamia stuffed the quilt to him, and then turned to go downstairs and said, "Tsk, tsk. Speaking of which, you are also thirteen years old."
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