For various reasons, such as tidal locking, Earthlings can only ever see one side of the Moon, no matter how the planet rotates.
Some people also call the other side of the Moon the "Moon's Dark Side," but this is actually a bit of a misnomer.
After traversing the Lunar Seas and impact craters, Roger and Harry discovered that the far side of the Moon also receives sunlight, waxing and waning with the lunar cycle.
"Roger, what are you doing?"
The Moon's surface area is about four times that of Roger's home country in his previous life. It took them about half a day to travel from the near side to the far side.
As soon as they landed and before Harry could adjust from sudden movement to stillness, he found Roger messing with something he couldn't understand.
However, Harry didn't dislike the feeling.
His first ten years of life could be described as bleak. His parents were dead, and he lived with relatives who didn't care for him, enduring their cold stares and mockery daily.
School, home – it was all stagnant.
He was lost, unsure of where his life was headed.
But everything changed after that letter arrived.
Family-like elders, close friends, reliable mentors, and Roger.
Compared to his dim, uneventful Muggle life, he preferred this magnificent and vibrant magical world.
And Roger, in Harry's eyes, was the person who best embodied the word "magic"! He always produced various magical items, waved his wand, and made miracles happen before his eyes that were more incredible than the magic described in textbooks.
"I heard before that signals from Earth are blocked on the far side of the Moon, and at the same time, the interference from the signals also disappears. Some scientists say that if you install a cosmic detection device on the far side of the Moon, the effect would be very good."
"I'm testing if it's really that good." Transfiguration is very convenient. If you completely understand the internal principles, the difficulty of construction and the scarcity of materials are meaningless to wizards.
...Of course, that wizard has to be strong enough.
Although Harry came from a Muggle background, he was only 11 years old. Without Roger's absolute memory, which allowed him to sift through the messy knowledge from the information age, he couldn't really understand this Muggle technology.
So, he just quietly watched Roger fiddle around.
After a long while, Roger pouted, "As expected, the pictures online are all lies."
Logically, using equipment to look here should have yielded clearer results, but in Roger's view, space wasn't spectacular.
There was only a light spot, either large or small.
He waved his hand, dispelling the magic.
The images displayed by the equipment Roger had conjured might have held valuable insights for scientists, but from a purely scenic perspective, they were somewhat disappointing.
However, this didn't discourage Roger. He always had boundless energy. Just as he had said at the beginning, he decided to pursue Eternal Life so that he could better and more enduringly experience this endlessly wonderful world.
Therefore, even though many methods involved cultivation techniques like detachment and forgetting emotions, Roger had never approached his problem of mental agelessness from a similar angle.
A vibrant inner life was something Roger refused to give up.
And at this moment, Harry, the only person beside Roger, couldn't maintain the same state of mind.
Being on the Moon was completely different from being on Earth. When he was on Earth, no matter what kind of stimulation he experienced, he had a place to relax. But here, apart from Roger, there was only dead silence.
Even sound was isolated by the vacuum.
On the pale lunar surface, Harry's state of mind wasn't too bad, but feelings of loneliness and isolation kept surging. It was entirely because Roger was right in front of him that he could suppress the growth of negative emotions in his heart.
Watching Roger raise his wand again with great interest after making the astronomical equipment disappear, Harry had an epiphany at that moment.
"Roger is the pillar that maintains my own mental state in this solitude."
"Then what about Roger?"
"He's purely driven by curiosity about everything, so he never gets bored."
"And I... can't experience that kind of joy."
Harry also had curiosity about the unknown, but definitely not as much as Roger.
He cared more about family, about love.
His parents, Hagrid who brought him into the magical world, Ron who stayed by his side, his teammates who cheered with him on the Quidditch team, Professor Snape who was honest with him, and Roger, who showed him the wonders of magic and gave him an unparalleled sense of security.
It was the diverse people he had met throughout his life.
What a person lacks, they crave. From the time he could remember, Harry lacked love. He craved being cared for, being valued, being recognized. He craved human connection.
At this moment, Harry understood that he truly wasn't suited for anything related to Eternal Life.
If the people he knew were buried one by one in the river of time, leaving only himself and Roger, like now, he would probably go mad.
Perhaps he would constantly encounter other important people in his life, but they too would eventually dissipate in the torrent of time.
Vaguely, it seemed like Harry was experiencing a hallucination. The impact craters transformed into pits of corpses, with everyone he had ever met buried within them, and the boundless white land was dotted with scattered graves.
Shaking his head, Harry rejected this future.
"Harry, look!" The thought was transmitted. Harry's gaze shifted, and he saw a crystal-clear pendant, the size of a walnut, shaped like an Ancient Rune, in Roger's hand.
"It's a souvenir I made. I'll give one to all the professors and friends at school. What do you think?" Roger had traveled to two countries and bought some souvenirs when he left.
In Germany, it was small toys produced by Muggle toy factories, and in Sweden, it was local handicrafts.
There were no souvenir shops on the Moon, so Roger decided to make some himself using local materials.
On the way to the Moon's Dark Side, Roger took the Antarctic route. Due to the angle of sunlight, there is a permanent shadow zone at the Moon's north and south poles, where temperatures range from -157℃ to -238℃.
The Moon's atmosphere is almost non-existent. It is only in that permanent shadow zone that surface water exists in the form of ice.
Roger collected some and reinforced it with magic, turning it into the Moon Ice artifact he now held.
"It's great, but I think it would be even better if everyone were here," Harry said, smiling and opening his mouth, speaking silently.
Although he sometimes felt lonely, Harry honestly felt that the many sights and things he had seen on the Moon had filled him with a sense of vastness and awe. It was a journey he found incredibly interesting.
He would probably never forget the feeling in his heart the moment he stood on the lunar surface and looked back at Earth.
At this moment, he intensely wished that more of his friends and family could share this incredibly meaningful moment in his life.
As his words fell, Harry, who had gained a clearer understanding of his own heart, felt his Mental Power begin to undergo subtle changes.
And the perceptive Roger naturally noticed Harry's subtle shift.
"Actually... it might be difficult for your true self to come here, but if you just want to experience the feeling of being here, I think I might have a way." After thinking for a moment, Roger transmitted his thoughts to Harry.
"Huh?" Harry found that after traveling with Roger, he often fell into a state of bewilderment.
It was because Roger always had a way, repeatedly breaking his common sense.
"Do you remember what I said last time about longing being able to cross distances?"
"And my Conceptual Creation magic."
"I'm not sure if this will definitely work, but if I combine these two principles... I might be able to come up with a method for Interstellar Communication." Harry's wish sparked entirely new inspiration in Roger.
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