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The first year was shutting his eyes TIGHT at the first sign of any kind of flashes of light...just in case they were green especially. When no other screaming came from his peers, however, he knew it was safe to open his eyes and that nothing particularly terrible had just happened. Such skewed perspectives on reality these days, but compartmentalizing things was one of the few coping mechanisms Atlas had to process everything he was seeing and feeling.
Though most things went into a rather large box labeled "THINGS WE JUST DON'T THINK ABOUT". Problems for future Atlas. Eventually. Hopefully never.
Part of him just wanted to be assigned to the muggle side of things...so he could hide, but there was also relief in being made a wizard. It meant...he didn't have to hide anymore and as long as he was doing some sort of casting with his wand then he was safe. As long as he was being a wizard...he was okay. Unaware of how much all this was truly warping and molding the young impressionable Gryffindor to certain whims, Altas gladly took the little vest and slipped it on before heading over to collect some materials. All his baking with Quinn earlier in the term...before everything went even more sour...had at least helped him hone a few spells that he knew he could rely on for this activity. So he hoped, anyway.
And since literally everyone else on the wizard team wasn't speaking...he would keep silent too. And also try not to make direct eye contact with Nemesis Upstead.
This was fine.
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