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alt_terryAnother small thing: a candle.
boot has seen light from the candles floating in the Great Hall during feasts. Candelabras and lanterns glow over books and desks in classrooms and the library. house elves keep those candles lit, boot guesses. students and professors usually use the lumos spell at their wand tips, when they move around the castle at night in places without torches. lumos light is different: silverish white, not warm like candlelight
boot has no wand, so he must go through darkness at night, except for where moonlight and starlight reaches through windows. candles for mudbloods are waste.
but sometimes, there might be a candle, for special. madame pomfrey gave one to boot when she sent him back to his cupboard. hermione walked with him as far as her pallet outside the Great Hall, by the statue of Loefrick the Loser. when boot left her there, he touched his wick to hers and lit it, and left some light behind there for her.
then boot went through the Great Hall on his way back to his cupboard. he stopped in the Hall's centre and held up the candle. boot had been there once before near midnight without a candle. that time the blackness made him feel like something terrible waited for him out there, crouching behind one of the suits of armour against the wall, watching him.
but this time, a circle, a globe of light was all around boot, on the flagstones at his feet and rising over his head, and the shadows beyond moved in time with his breath over the candle flame. a small candle, a tiny flame, but it lit up so much. the Great Hall felt friendly again.
a candle can be like hope. it makes boot stronger.
boot wishes he could have candles more often
boot has seen light from the candles floating in the Great Hall during feasts. Candelabras and lanterns glow over books and desks in classrooms and the library. house elves keep those candles lit, boot guesses. students and professors usually use the lumos spell at their wand tips, when they move around the castle at night in places without torches. lumos light is different: silverish white, not warm like candlelight
boot has no wand, so he must go through darkness at night, except for where moonlight and starlight reaches through windows. candles for mudbloods are waste.
but sometimes, there might be a candle, for special. madame pomfrey gave one to boot when she sent him back to his cupboard. hermione walked with him as far as her pallet outside the Great Hall, by the statue of Loefrick the Loser. when boot left her there, he touched his wick to hers and lit it, and left some light behind there for her.
then boot went through the Great Hall on his way back to his cupboard. he stopped in the Hall's centre and held up the candle. boot had been there once before near midnight without a candle. that time the blackness made him feel like something terrible waited for him out there, crouching behind one of the suits of armour against the wall, watching him.
but this time, a circle, a globe of light was all around boot, on the flagstones at his feet and rising over his head, and the shadows beyond moved in time with his breath over the candle flame. a small candle, a tiny flame, but it lit up so much. the Great Hall felt friendly again.
a candle can be like hope. it makes boot stronger.
boot wishes he could have candles more often