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[noirant]

[ 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.

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Re: voice.

[masterofmystery]

It's not really your magic if someone has to give it to you. And then they'd turn it on you in an instant if they wanted.

[ 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.

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[noirant]

I'm not debating the point. But that's a problem of your fellow man, not the tools at our disposal. Give someone a rock and they'll bash a head in, take away the rock, they'll do it with their fists. Yet I won't leap to condemn stone houses.

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?

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[masterofmystery]

That they're stupid for doing it.

...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.

[noirant]

No. [ A bit of a sigh at that. ] No, it doesn't. But I don't believe there's any more cause for concern from those formerly bereft. Practice is practice, and plenty of wizards never see to proper training. New minds bring new ideas and approaches to the front; if nothing's ventured, there can be nothing gained, don't you think?

[ After a moment, he offers back: ]

Felix Harrowgate. You were born with magic?