"Of course. I can't imagine it would make things better anytime soon. It's not my place."

"Mmhm."

"Magic seems to make everything easier. Good things along with bad ones."

"Mm, maybe."

"It seems like magic can fix a lot of sicknesses that we can't fix without it, I'm looking forwards to flying on brooms, and we're going to learn to teleport when we get older. Those all seem like good things."

"Yeah, but it seems sorta less—flexible? Like, it does more-or-less the things that it does, and new spells are invented but not in the same way new tech is invented."

"I think I understand what you mean. I don't get the sense of acceleration reading magical history that I do when I read about the development of science and technology."

"Yeah. I don't know why, I'm just guessing."

"It sounds like a reasonable guess. Hopefully we'll learn the real answer."

"I totally wanna invent new magic."

"Yeah, that sounds fun. And useful."

"Might be incompatible with politics though."

"Yeah, it depends on why new magic is invented to slowly." She frowns briefly. "Or at least becomes widely known so slowly."

"Yeah." Shrug.

"On a less serious topic, do you know what the limits of being a metamorphmagus are? Can you look like an adult if you want?"

She grins. "What kind of Slytherin would I be if I hadn't tried all of that?" she asks. "Everything the Polyjuice Potion can do I can do and more." Donkey ears!

"Cool. Are you actually heavier when you take on an adult form?"

"Yeah."

"Have you had any fun adventures that way?"

"I would never," she says in a very affronted tone.

"Of course not." Sarah's smiling and obviously doesn't believe Dayo.

She grins.

"If you did though, what would you expect to do and what do you expect would happen?"

"I cannot possibly imagine that a possible option would be to impersonate a particularly terrible bully of a teacher and besmirch his reputation."

"People inclined to hurt others should not be in positions of authority," Sarah says carefully, almost more to herself than to Dayo.