Some relaxing stargazing, or not

Harry disengages from Aurora and takes her wand, which cancels the spell she's using, "Professor, I do not appreciate being attacked in my own home."

Aurora shakes her head, "That wasn't an attack, I, just really needed to impress on you how important this is to me."

Cursing in his head that he didn't transfer his wand to this frame, Harry holds on to Auroras wand gently, "Professor, how is using magic on me not an attack?"

"It's er, well we," Aurora tries to come up with an explanation of how magic is used in their culture that explains the shades of meaning that different spells have. After a couple of false starts she continues, "For us, everyone uses magic. From the youngest child, through toys and training items, through to the most elderly who use it to perform day to day tasks that they're no longer able to perform physically. Spells like summoning or levitation, when used on other people, are considered the height of rudeness. However, as they are so easily countered. A simple finite," – her shoulders droop as she listens to what she's saying – "that you'll learn towards the end of this year. Will counter both of those. Even a stinging hex will raise little more than an eyebrow if the target is far enough away that calling is impractical."

Harry transfers out of the Oberon so that he can stare at her disbelievingly properly, "Wait, so you use magic so much in your culture that a summoning spell is considered to be on the same level as myself or Hermione grabbing someone and physically dragging them over to see something?"

"I'm sure you've seen the upper years do the same things in your common room, or at the dinner table."

"I have, but I thought they were just being lazy."

{Harry} @ProfesserKitty what's the general feeling on using magic to summon someone?

{ProfessorKitty} It's very rude, and if we saw a student doing it they'd be docked points, and maybe get a detention.

{Harry} How about levitation?

{ProfessorKitty} The same, why?"

{TheFairyQueen} Harry's just having a discussion with Professor Sinistra about that very thing.

{ProfessorKitty} Oh dear, I hope she's still in one piece.

{TheFairyQueen} She is, though Harry has her wand.

"I don't know what it's like to live anywhere else other than the wizarding world. But, no it's not lazy, it's time efficient. Lazy is using a broom instead of walking, lazy is owl ordering instead of visiting the store."

"How comes Minerva doesn't do those things?"

"She's a bit of an odd duck when it comes to magic. Every year she introduces muggleborn to the magical world. I can only imagine that over the years she's picked up muggle habits. By the way, why do you call her Minerva rather than Professor or Madam McGonagall like everyone else?"

"In our society, we don't have family names. So we just call everyone by their given name."

"Wait, does that mean that you're not Mr Potter?"

"Yes, I've started a clan called Potter, as it seems to be a name I can use. But it's not actually my name."

"So, when we call you Mr or Miss Potter?"

"You're being rude."

Aurora swallows hard before saying, "I would like to apologise for using magic on you that you were helpless in the face of. I also give you leave to refer to me by my given name, Aurora. I hope that I haven't offended you so much that you will turn me down. But I wa, would like it if you would consider giving me the same elixir that you gave Prof, Minerva. I know that it must allow her to use the systems here, as her paperweight looks almost the same as the sphere that is currently covered by Neptune. It must also allow her to do more than that, as she was able to get to the roof without alerting me. That means she didn't come up the stairs. She was also navigating the roof without any light, and I didn't see her light her wand once while checking the telescopes or work. We're on the Moon, you've got this amazing magic that allows us to see, everything. Miss, Hermione spoke casually about visiting the asteroid belt. I want, no I need this. I don't have a husband, so there's nobody I need to seek permission from. Please."

{TheFairyQueen} @ProfessorKitty If I ask Cy to pick you up, would you be able to come and talk to Aurora.

{ProfessorKitty} Why, what's happened?

{TheFairyQueen} She's this || close to begging Harry on her knees for the Elixir that you took.

{ProfessorKitty} I thought she'd appreciate being on the moon. What's going on?

{TheFairyQueen} Harry had the Orokin base create an Orrery, and you know what Orokin technology is like.

{ProfessorKitty} Why stop at perfect?

{TheFairyQueen} Her words to Harry just after she summoned him were 'You will give me whatever I need to use this room myself. Do you understand?

{ProfessorKitty} *sighs* fine, I was only doing paperwork.

Hermione ventures, "I'm sorry to interrupt, but I've just asked Minerva if she'd mind coming up to talk to you Aurora. Cy, I know you're probably listening, would you mind terribly taking the lander and picking up Minerva?"

Cy responds, "Certainly Tenno, unless the Captain objects."

Harry sighs and puts a hand over his face, "No, I guess it's become complicated enough that it's easier to just have her involved."

Aurora asks, "Harry, why does everyone seem to defer to you?"

He sighs again, "Because, apart from my mother, I'm the oldest person in our society in linear time lived. All of us had a long period of... sleep?"

"Hibernation." Hermione supplies.

"Yes, Hibernation. I woke up almost 100 years before the next Tenno, when Vor Hek found my Warframe and Ordis on Earth."

"He does a lot of that, I don't know how many brothers and sisters we've lost because he got to them first."

"I don't know if you've been to the contested areas of Lua yet. But every single crystalline or broken pod you see was a Tenno that was forced out of the second dream and died when their powers went out of control."

Hermione brings her knees up to her chest and hugs herself while Titania sends her waves of reassurance.

The conversation seems to come to a halt, as everyone involved realises that it's turned too heavy. When one of the Hogwarts long distance owls appears and lands on Hermione's knee, everyone cracks up laughing.

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Minerva runs as fast as she can from the Tenno areas of the base into the Orokin areas, acutely aware that there may be anti-sentient defences built in. While nothing should be active, this is the first time she's been here without a Tenno escort. When she arrives at the Orrery, the atmosphere is less tense than she was expecting.

"What's going on?"

"Minerva!" Aurora exclaims, "Can you persuade Harry to give me the same elixir that you took?"

"No, because you'd need to talk to my... yes my mother. Harry, do you have a message baton?"

Harry just looks at her until she remembers she has a few in her own storage, and materialises one, then puts a message on it.

Before she hands it to the owl she says, "Just so you are aware, what you are asking is similar to asking a family to be blood adopted."

Aurora blanches, but remains resolute, so she hands the baton to the owl.

Once the owl has vanished, she turns to Aurora, "Now, Madam Sinistra, let us talk about conduct unbecoming of a Professor of Hogwarts shall we?"

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The owl only took 5 minutes to return, but for Aurora that was possibly the longest 5 minutes of her life, as Minerva didn't just explain in excruciating detail exactly what she did wrong, why, and how. She also managed to make her feel 3 inches tall, all without repeating herself once. Something that was announced by the invisible voice called Cy.

"Good news," Minerva says without appearing to have even looked at the baton, "mother is willing to talk to you about it, if you go with Harry and Hermione while they return to their home this weekend. They leave after curfew, today actually. Cy, are you able to access my computer?"

"I am able."

"Is there anywhere I could do my work here?"

"I have added a waypoint to your, hmm, you do not appear to have mapping features installed. Would you like me to add them?"

Minerva thinks for a moment, "Would you be able to show me how to add them?"

"A wise decision. If you make your way back to the drydock, I will guide you from there."

The night passes quietly as each person on the moon does their own thing. Aurora finds her stargazing to be harder than expected, as she has to fight the urge to ask Harry, or Hermione, to reactivate that room. Wisp stands alone facing the window full of stars in the observatory, Harry's reason for trying to find Hermione forgotten due to the confrontation with Aurora. She feels, even if she doesn't yet have words to describe it.