She looked as unamused as him, and he didn't know why. She was the one going out of her way to put on a show to explain the basics of astronomy, which he was certain they'd covered during the first six years of his education. He didn't think any of this would help him calculate the positions of planets at any given time, or hep him figure out which planets' rotational cycles affected the positioning of the asteroid belt, but he decided it wasn't worth it to argue when she'd started waving around her wand and taking out her earrings.

"I'm not physically pulled to it because it's just a pearl," he sniped under his breath as he caught the orb, hoping she wouldn't hear her while she was distracted with her demonstration. The only thing mildly interesting about any of this was the revelation that Yaxley was as good at practical magic as she was at answering his questions, and he briefly considered how terribly she'd take it if he tried to segue from Astronomy into Charms.

But then he was tossing her the orb back and was once again focused on her sideshow. He watched the orbs circle each other in the air and snickered. "Now the phrase 'you've got a big head' makes sense. Get it? Because it means you think the world revolves around you." Which he wouldn't admit to having been told a dozen times before, but she'd probably figured that out already, too.

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