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Talking to the moon - Bruno Mars
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"Why do you fear the stars?"
The voice echoed in the stillness of the dark room, the voice she now knew as Professor Dumbledore of Hogwarts. Iveline stiffened, her fingers tightening around the rough metal of the bed frame on which she sat. Her gaze flickered up to the sky outside the window, a sea of stars staring back at her.
"I don't fear them, Professor" she whispered, her voice betraying a tremor she couldn't hide.
"Then why do you avoid them?" The voice came again, this time softer, and more gentle.
"They have watched over generations, unblinking, indifferent. They're not like us"
The man in the corner of the room, with a long white beard let out a sigh. "Stars aren't indifferent. They are the only things that do not lie, Iveline. They're show you who you are, whether you want to know or not".
Iveline turned away. She had understood what he had meant. The stars had always been there, watching, reminding her of the prophecy etched into her bones.
"Why should I believe in them?" She said, her voice hardening, "They have only brought me pain?"
The Professor stepped forward his face now becoming clear. The lines on his face which met his eyes, mouth and forehead now visible. "You fear them because you fear the truth they carry. You fear you are not what you want to be, but what you are destined to become. The stars don't decide your fate Iveline, they only reveal it."
She met his gaze, her breath catching in her throat. The weight of his words pressed on her chest- but there was something else there too, a kind of understanding.
The stars didn't lie. They couldn't. But Iveline wasn't ready to see the truth yet.
"Why do you fear the stars?" The man repeated, his voice low but insistant.
"Because they never ask for forgiveness"