Alistair chuckles. Very manly. No giggling here.

Yeah no he's eleven and very secure in his absolute lack of a sexuality, he's giggling. He puts the frog in his mouth then checks for what card he got.

Uric the Oddball.

Very odd, here's all the odd things he's known for.

Huh. How odd.

...and it's moving. "Whhhy is this moving."

"Oh. Right, you should ask me lots of questions, and not other purebloods. All magical pictures move."

"Is it just the same movements on a loop or...?"

"Photographs are. Paintings act like real people, harder to catch them repeating. They might not." 

"...and are they? Real people?"

"Maybe. Grandfather certainly acts real."

He eats his pastries quietly after that.

Sadde does not do quietly.

"Do they... want to be paintings?"

"I've only met one, and he seems like he's happier being a painting than not. Most portraits are made of wizards when they think they're going to die." 

"Well, but what if he could be a person in a body again?"

"I don't know. He didn't like being old, and being a painting means he can be old without having an old body."

"Hmm... I'll figure out if paintings are people and if they are I'm gonna fix that."

"How are you going to fix that? Paint magical sculptures, maybe? Make the canvas bigger? Use better paint?"

"I dunno, I'll figure it out! But magic, probably."

"Wizards do most things by magic, you should probably get used to it. I don't think I've met someone this excited about magic in a while. Well, doing magic, yeah, but not...everything."

"Have you met many muggleborns? Or informed muggles?"

"I'm not sure I ever met a Muggle. I guess you've met at least one?"

"Well yeah my parents, and everyone I've ever interacted with before."

"Really? That's amazing! What was that like?"

He sporfles. "I haven't interacted with many magical people to compare! Lots less robes, people think the world follows the laws of physics?"

"What are the laws of physics?"

"Like... if you ignore magic, everything follows these strict equations all the time. Like, everything falls at the same acceleration no matter how heavy it is, and this happens because of a force called 'gravity' that bends spacetime in a certain specific way, and there is very precise mathematics that makes lots of predictions about stuff like the movements of planets and stars due to gravity and stuff."

"Oh. A lot of that is probably true, Astronomy probably has the same stuff about planets and things. You should talk to Professor Sinistra."