"We're not rich here either."

"I'll ask Aaron how to do it, he'll probably have ideas."

"Okay."

And there is a food cart! And he was going to be restrained because she just said she didn't have much money but there are a bunch of things he hasn't had before so of course he has to try them and he ends up spending kind of a lot.

"Want to share?"

Miranda does have enough pocket money for some chocolates. "Okay."

And they nibble and trade stories they've heard about the teachers and the classes. He has four older brothers and so a lot of stories.

Her stories are all from her mum but suffice to make the conversation not completely one-sided.

"D'you know what you want to do when you grow up?"

"I'm not sure yet! I have time to pick something based on what I'm best at and what I learn at school."

"I'm going to invent stuff."

"What kinda stuff?"

"Dunno yet, whatever I'm good at. New forms of magic. Translation magic. Philosopher's stone or something like that or something better."

"Oooh, translation magic sounds so hard but really useful."

"Wouldn't it be?? Countries would be on much better terms if everyone understood each other."

"Well, maybe. We speak English just the same as Muggles around here do and aren't on terms with them at all. But it'd help."

"Might be even worse with Muggles if we didn't. Though I guess there'd be less people marrying them. Anyway, the hard bit about a translation spell is that there's nothing much like it you could tweak or expand on, and there's no good ways to cheat at development from scratch. I betcha I could do it but I don't see a way to do it cleverly. Maybe when I'm older."

"I wonder if you could make the spell kind of - read books, and figure it out that way. It'd only work if there were books in the language though."

"Well, every language should have books! But it's hard to learn a language just from a book, without starting out knowing anything. Hard for people, dunno if it'd be hard for magic."

"Yeah, different things are hard for magic but I don't know if that's one of them."

"Divination magic's the worst but I don't know if magic that learns things has to be divination magic."

"Is the spell for telling which direction north or whatever is technically a divination?"

"Dunno -" he stands on his seat to reach his trunk - "it's in my books somewhere, I bet -"

"You have a divination book already? I was just going to write the question down and then go look in the library later."

"I bought all the books for all seven years because I figured I was going to have to buy them eventually and this way I could study ahead."

"Oh, that makes sense."