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At Platform 9 3/4, the construction of which a certain little girl just last summer wrote a sternly worded letter to the Ministry to protest only to be predictably ignored, that same small girl is going over a checklist while her mother feeds her owl a treat between the bars of the cage. There are two wands crossed in the girl's hair, a mass of individual braids so tiny that from a distance they could be mistaken for strands in their own right and then bound up in a lump at the nape of her neck. They are not the only black people on the platform but they don't seem to know the other family. No father is evident.

Mother hugs daughter, and daughter hugs back, and daughter steps into the train and goes looking for a compartment.

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"What for?"

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"A store. Muggle store, probably, or at least Muggle storefront, the manufacturing might be magic."

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"Ooooooh, what are you going to sell?"

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"Haven't decided yet. I'm really excited about mass production but that leaves lots of options."

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"A bit, yes. Where are you going to have your store?"

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"London."

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"Ooh, Miranda lives in London."

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"Yeah, we have an apartment on Plur Alley."

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"And so do a lot of Muggles! The city population's growing really fast."

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"It's a pretty neat city!"

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"It's a great business opportunity!"

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"...okay just checking do you think about other things sometimes ever? Like, do you ever think about what you're going to have for lunch. Or about the weather."

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"...yeah? I like cinnamon and apples that aren't quite ripe yet and my favorite weather is when it's cloudy but not raining. And I love my family."

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"Okay good."

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"Why?"

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"It just seems like it'd be a little sad if you only ever thought about one thing."

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"Well, it wouldn't make me sad, and my head belongs to me, not other people."

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"...uh, sorry..."

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He glances at Timothy for help. 

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"He does have a way of relating everything back to his favorite subject," he says. "Aaron, 'what else are you interested in' isn't an unreasonable question, people might want to know if they will find it enjoyable to talk with you when they're not in the mood to talk about economics."

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"...okay."

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That wasn't actually what Karen was getting at but she thanks Timothy anyway.

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Yeah, getting at the thing she was getting at will not go well. He changes the subject.

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A very welcome talent he has.

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He has a totally functional family as long as everything is going well and they are all present to cover for each other! It's a bit fragile. He has yet to figure out how to permanently fix it.

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