With a backward glance to the room they'd left, Sirius reached a distracted hand to his hip, confirming his wand was still firmly within reach. "Couldn't have been a portkey," he murmured, knowing both of his friends were well enough acquainted with that rather dizzying mode of travel.
Leaning past Remus, he thrust an arm back across the threshold and then spent a moment staring in wonder at his own upturned hand. Like this, he could better feel the difference in temperature and air quality, Hogwarts perpetually damp and drafty while this new place was warm and dry.
"That's bloody brilliant," he said, and abruptly brushed past James and into the center of the long, golden room, peering eagerly down hallways as he went.
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Date: 2014-01-08 03:10 am (UTC)Leaning past Remus, he thrust an arm back across the threshold and then spent a moment staring in wonder at his own upturned hand. Like this, he could better feel the difference in temperature and air quality, Hogwarts perpetually damp and drafty while this new place was warm and dry.
"That's bloody brilliant," he said, and abruptly brushed past James and into the center of the long, golden room, peering eagerly down hallways as he went.