Not a peep out of him in answering the question, however, Cutty was thinking so good on you, Airey Flamsteed for getting your students to use critical thought. It was somewhat remedial, despite it being a change to the usual topics this discussion of earth's season. There was probably a reason for this. They were in the shire now, but was he going to take them in Mordor?

This intrigued the boy and he listened to the answers given. Both were solstices and affected the amount of daylight regions above and below the equator received. And then a Hufflepuff mentioned something about the equator and Cutty started thinking about regions above that and beyond. He considered the quaffle once more before his hand went up. "So, if the earth is tilted and the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere's amount of daylight is affected by the solstices, wouldn't that mean that areas above the arctic circle would get too much sun on the solstice?" And by too much, he meant all day. And was the same true for the antarctic circle? Cutty let his fingers flip the edges of his textbook in anticipation of looking up page 163 and slowly let the uneven chair settle so that he was seated at a tilt.