‘“You know,” Harry’s voice said quietly from beside him where his arms leaned on the railing next to Draco’s, “one of the things that Muggles get really wrong, is that they don’t turn all their lights out at night. Not even for one hour every month, not even for fifteen minutes once a year. The photons scatter in the atmosphere and wash out all but the brightest stars, and the night sky doesn’t look the same at all, not unless you go far away from any cities. Once you’ve looked up at the sky over Hogwarts, it’s hard to imagine living in a Muggle city, where you wouldn’t be able to see the stars. You certainly wouldn’t want to spend your whole life in Muggle cities, once you’d seen the night sky over Hogwarts.”‘

excuse me but fuck you

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#Brin reads HPMOR #Brin is touchy about stars #I think this is a stronger version of the reaction I had a couple dozen chapters ago #when he casually claimed that human emotions were universal among humans #I know *very* well that just because you’re running on human wetware *doesn’t* necessarily mean you’ve got the full suite of human emotions #very well indeed #oh look an original post #things that make me uncomfortably aware of my apparent inability to feel awe