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Penny was never really that good at Divination and just about managed Arithmancy. Still, she'd gone outside to the lake and picked up enough rocks to make a rune set out of. Being a Ravenclaw, when packing up for an escape into nowhere in particular, she brought all of her textbooks with her in her Bottomless Backpack. That includes her sixth year Divination textbook that included runic divination.

Now she's sat at a table in the bar throwing nine rune stones again and again with the same result each time. It's almost uncanny if you watch it. You'd probably get some entertainment from the not-quite swearwords she's muttering as well. She could probably do with a break to be honest but she's not going to do so on her own; she's too focussed on getting a different answer out of the rocks in front of her to do so.

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"I really should have taken Care of Magical Creatures so I could compare." She peers at the gorgon on the room key, "Weird. I can sort of see why you like them but it's still a little strange." She stands up straighter again, "I suppose it's to be expected, living on the moon and all, that you'd have different creatures than Earth." Something occurs to her, "Do you have an Earth?"

[gorgonfondness]

"We have the Blue Star, which I've assumed to be Earth. There are legends at home that say it used to be inhabited. Of course, plenty of people at home think that's just as fantastic as people on Earth thinking there's life on the Moon."

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"Used to be inhabited? Do they say what happened to it?" Penny asks curiously. As for the rest of it, well, different worlds again.

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"It was made uninhabitable in a war. Not the one against He Who Must Not Be Named, so you don't need to worry about any future exodus. The legends say a demigod named Zophar inspired wickedness in the hearts of men and began a war that ravaged the entire world. Althena, the goddess of Lunar, took pity on the survivors and made Lunar a living land so that they could start again. The legends also say that one day the people of Lunar will return to the Blue Star. But we don't think that will happen for at least another thousand years."

According to Luna on the last of it, anyway.

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"That'd be the Muggles then. Even You-Know-Who couldn't do enough to destroy the whole world and the Wizarding Word doesn't have anything like a space program." She's well aware that there wouldn't be a second Burning Times should the Wizarding World be discovered again - there might be a Disection and possibly Blown Up time depending on what the Death Eaters did. She shakes her head free of those thoughts though, not much that could be done about it now. "I've never heard of those names though."

[gorgonfondness]

"That's the thing that puzzles me: a lot of Earth people haven't heard of either Zophar or Althena. I came to the conclusion that they wouldn't need to after it happened, which means you might actually be in my far-flung future, but it's still rather strange. And I'm still not sure if anyone from any of the Earths I've encountered here truly is connected to my Lunar."