"It's nice to have a sport where the tactical picture keeps changing because of new inventions!"

Miranda giggles. "Earlier I was thinking about inventing aerial dueling. Because I'd be so bad at footwork."

"Oooh. I'd try that. Theo'd be terrifying."

"He a good flier?"

"Yep. And ridiculously good aim." Only thing he's any good at but he's not going to tell someone that.

"I don't honestly expect I'd be particularly good at aerial dueling but I'd be a far sight better at it than the kind on the ground unless it turns out I'm clumsy in the air too."

"Well, we have flying lessons Friday, you'll find out!"

"Mine are Wednesday!"

"Pfft. Slytherin gets all the nice things. It's probably Timothy's fault."

"Does he have influence on class schedules?"

"He has influence on everything, it wouldn't surprise me."

"So far all I have seen is that he seems very nice. Maybe when I've known him longer I will detect omnipotence."

"Not omnipotent, just omninfluential. I sort of expect as soon as he's of age Father'll hand all House politics over to him, Father hates it."

"When we were all introducing ourselves he said he wanted to be Minister of Magic and then the whole rest of the world."

"Yup, that's Timothy!"

"How would you be Minister of the whole world? That's not even a thing."

"I guess you should probably ask him! Being in charge of things doesn't appeal to me much, I'd rather be learning stuff and inventing stuff."

"All of the above," chirps Miranda.

"There's only so much time in the day! Anyway if Timothy's in charge of the world then I can just tell him to do something if I need it for some reason. All the benefits, none of the politics sucking your time down the drain."

"Sure, that works if your brother happens to take over the world. If I want to be in charge of the world I have to do it myself."

"But it sounds like you'll have competition!"

"Nobody's taken over the world before, so I'm betting competition is not the biggest obstacle."

"Trains were just invented. You can't meaningfully control a territory you can't traverse and get information through. But in a hundred years maybe it'll be possible to move people and stuff in large numbers all over the world, and then someone'll be able to rule it."

"Broomsticks are old. And trains need tracks, which brooms don't. I'm not at all sure this is why nobody's taken over the world."

"Broomsticks don't move Muggles. To take over the world you've got to somehow govern the Muggles."