He giggles anyway. "It's like Gandalf! All we need is a pointy hat now!"

"Hats are cool," he concedes.

"Being a wizardly wizard is so awesome."

"We should probably get you a telescope."

"Oh yeah! I don't want to miss anything in astronomy."

Telescope it is!

"I'm sure we won't miss anything."

"Do you think stars are boring too?"

"No, stars are awesome, but worst-case you could borrow someone else's telescope, I think."

"Mom, he likes stars but not plants."

"Most people do, honey." 

He pouts. 

They retrieve a telescope.

So do they!

"I don't dislike plants. It's just animals who hate me, and plants are okay."

"I'll just find animals who like you! You'll see."

"I hope you do."

Scott proceeds to argue with his rat until it likes Sadde.

This looks like it'll take a while.

And Melissa buys supplies.

"We still have parchment and quills."

"I think we might keep you company. Scott and Sadde seem to be getting along." 

"We would like that."

So they accompany Laura and Sadde.  

"Are quills cool, or just stars?" 

"Quills are weird and I'm gonna bring pens too."

"Quills are swoopy, but harder to use," he agrees. 

"Why do wizards do everything so differently? Is it hard to make pens, or do they just not do things Muggles do first?" 

"I dunno, I think they're just very slow to invent things and there's not a lot of them and they don't pay attention to stuff muggles invent without magic."

"We should invent lots of things, then wizards won't be so slow."