2 Students and 88 Keys PV Ashlyn Winters Closed

Simon knew some kind of answer like 'I've always gone to church,' wouldn't suffice here. She was looking for some deeper understanding and he wasn't sure he had it in that specific moment. He fell silent as he thought about it.

"I guess in my mind, God existing makes sense out of a wide range of facts of the life experience. God makes sense of the origin of the universe. Whatever begins to exist has a cause and the universe began to exist. What's to say He didn't put that into motion?" He'd start there. At the beginning.

"I think for me overall though the biggest would be that God makes sense for all the complexities in life. Look at all the different types of plants and flowers there are, how complex the human body is. I don't see that just being evolved from some single celled organism so long ago. I think there's something bigger at play." But then again it was his idea, not facts.

That was just it when it came to religion that most got or didn't get. Faith. You had to have faith in it even if you didn't get all the facts. He could see were some people that were quite literal or skeptical in mind wouldn't get there.

"And maybe I've been naive but there have been times where I've asked for help and I feel it's been given," he shrugged. "I guess it's a personal thing."

He understood though that his friend was okay with being at odds when it came to this subject and he felt the same. "I'm not going to become a theorist by any means here," he laughed, thinking how he failed miserably to say anything that was in his mind. "Have you given that any thought? To what you might do after Hogwarts?"

It seemed some had ideas before they even stepped foot into the castle on what their future profession would be. He was curious if Ashlyn had given it any thought.