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[cor_leonis]

mr lestrange the vastly more intelligent than i?

we have to write nine inches on a constellation this week and i do not want to write one on leo because it is too obvious and i am sure all the other gryffindors will choose it anyhow.

can you come up to the astronomy tower with me and help me choose one and then do research?

i would be very...

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[lestranger]

Miss Black the Elder is infinitely more skilled at Astronomy than I am, however I am amenable to following your ideas and offering guidance.

[cor_leonis]

narcissa is studying for her newts and has no time to help me with "rudimentary astronomy."

besides, i think i would prefer your assistance to hers. she enjoys that class far too much and would probably make me learn too much.

the problem is that i have no ideas. constellations are boring. everyone in my family seems to have one. and i do not want to do an essay on any of them.

so that leaves out taurus, scorpio, orion, canis major, et cetera.

perhaps i should make one up.

[lestranger]

Miss Black the Elder needs to learn a touch more patience, I believe, and a touch more trust.

And a moiety of self restraint.

And given that you refuse to take any constellation which is already wedded to a Black, that still leaves you a good amount of the cosmos.

[cor_leonis]

she is just being protective of me. i am her favourite person, you know.

it is a shame she has no connection to a constellation, or i would consider that one.

why do we not have classes on myth? i could fill scrolls.

the cosmos is tiresome. it is full of dogs and virgins and swans and bears.

the sky is a zoo. why should i care?

are you sure you do not to come up and look with me?

[lestranger]

Would it not be more fitting for Mr Malfoy to be her favourite person? Given as they are to be wed, it would seem that he would be best suited to fill the first slot in her heart.

The sky has a great many other things in it, as well. Dragons, for instance.

[cor_leonis]

narcissa has known me for sixteen years and lucius for a mere seven. we grew up together and are like siblings. i think it is fine for me to be her favourite person.

i am sure that lucius malfoy is a close second, however.

i like dragons.

[lestranger]

As well, Narcissa has a sibling of her very own. All this is neither here nor there, and it is not an issue for the moment, I do not think.

Is there not a dragon constellation?

[cor_leonis]

do not remind me.

and there is a dragon constellation and it is absolutely not tied to any members of my family. it might work.

i am still somewhat fond of making one up though.

i could have discovered lepus minor.

[lestranger]

There is someone else that the dragon constellation is tied to, but perhaps that is more information than you really need to know.

Perhaps I should come up and help you in person. There is too much to talk over than we can really cover here, I believe.