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eachdraidh2014-07-29 02:04 pm
noirant) wrote in eachdraidh2014-07-29 02:04 pm
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[ Politics and wars are one thing, but magic is quite another; some thirsts aren't slaked so easily by squabbling imps and gaudy fabric. Knowledge is power, and power is every wizard's disease.
Felix is far more rumpled than he'd like, and that hair won't unfrizz any time soon, but the words come calm as day: ]
It seems we've all been busy, so I suppose I ought to be brief.
Magic. If you'll indulge the melodramatic imagery, it's as myriad as a hydra's necks, and almost twice as difficult to pin down. Any sort of rigorous survey seems better left for days without a pounding headache. Perhaps instead, we might just speak.
Tell me what you know about magic. Stories, facts, vicious gossip if you're so disposed. Magic brought us each here, so let us be kind guests and oblige it the conversation.
[ He flashes a wide, tired smile. ]
Unfamiliarity is quite acceptable. I'd just like to hear it from you.
Felix is far more rumpled than he'd like, and that hair won't unfrizz any time soon, but the words come calm as day: ]
It seems we've all been busy, so I suppose I ought to be brief.
Magic. If you'll indulge the melodramatic imagery, it's as myriad as a hydra's necks, and almost twice as difficult to pin down. Any sort of rigorous survey seems better left for days without a pounding headache. Perhaps instead, we might just speak.
Tell me what you know about magic. Stories, facts, vicious gossip if you're so disposed. Magic brought us each here, so let us be kind guests and oblige it the conversation.
[ He flashes a wide, tired smile. ]
Unfamiliarity is quite acceptable. I'd just like to hear it from you.
voice.
[ It's said roughly, just a bit. He's been good about avoiding his own magic here. Even with knowing magic was abound here, he figured it was better to try not letting Muggles know. ]
This place's magic is gonna be different then what other people might have, you know.
voice.
If it wasn't, there would be little point to asking, would there?
[ Sorry Ron. Felix pushes out a breath, then drops the nasty tone. He sounds calm, but it's a little too heavy. Like someone who knows irritation was uncalled-for, but are just too reluctant to let it go. ]
I'd like to know about magic because I use it, and because it doesn't seem to conflict with this realm's own spellwork, nor that of other arrivals. Which implies a possible hybridity of method.
Should I mark you down for a 'might', or 'might not'?
voice.
[ Like using it for the wrong things or to your benefit. Or hunting out witches. He knew muggles did that. That wasn't something he didn't learn about after all. And it's why he'd being good and not saying anything about his own magic-- laws and all that. ]
I don't think they'd make it so easy for any of us to figure out.
And s'a might not. I don't have any opinion on it.
voice.
[ Sarcasm drips. Wow Felix, evolving to fourth grade rhetorical methods. Maybe next he can announce Ron's got cooties. ]
For the sake of discussion, which 'they' are we here assuming insurmountable?
Re: voice.
Hey, you'd ask if we'd share I just said no.
[ It's not like he's helping much, oops. But he is just trying to gauge magic and people right now. And he's not really sure about it... ]
They being the lot that brought us all here? We're basically their captive all around so if learning magic'd set us free I think they'd have put a stop to it.
voice.
The other half is this: He knows that Ron's right, has thought about it at some quietly frantic length; is quite inclined to agree. They're here, and they're stuck, and it takes either arrogance or certainty for a jailer to toss keys in the cell. ]
And yet magic flourishes, in abundance. [ His voice is cooler than appropriate, but it's not clear whether he's noticed. ] Word has it that such is even issued as reward, for service well-shown the Courts.
Magic may not 'free' us, [ Privately, he still believes very much that it will. ] But it can certainly improve the lot we've been cast.
Re: voice.
[ Which is his problem. If someone who always had magic mentioned it the people here might turn against them too. It wasn't just the magic the monarchs gave them-- it was all of them. And he didn't really want to sort through with that. Magic didn't always help. It solved plenty for wizards, sure, but they also didn't war as much as Muggles did. If muggles had magic on hand when they were fighting, well... That didn't seem like it would go too well. ]
Or it could make it worse. If everyone here had magic and decided to blow up half the castle then loads more people would be in trouble.
voice.
Instead of circling the pessimistic drain, perhaps we can consider the facts at hand:
Some of us came here with magic of our own. It exists, apparently separate but intact, from that magic which saturates this world. This realm's magic is used widely, and given more freely than might be expected, or wise.
[ He grants, with a nod that Ron can't see. ]
What constructive ideas can we draw from this?
voice.
...Ron. He shrugged his shoulders on his end, not really saying anything for a good moment.
Magic's not the same if you weren't born with it. If they're given it then, well, it really isn't there's. They're likely to mess up. [ Not that wizards aren't. ] Magic doesn't really solve everything now, does it?
Re: voice.
[ After a moment, he offers back: ]
Felix Harrowgate. You were born with magic?