Laura chuckles. "I've known my daughter since she was born, I know how she feels about books."

Smile.

Off to the bookshop, then.

The bookshop: has books.

Sadde is ecstatic.

Anthony likes books too! And he can actually get some to learn spells from and practise and things!

He has seen a lot of them before, though he has not read them all.

"What's 'The Monster Book of Monsters'?" she wonders, prompted by a plaque mentioning it.

"I think it's Care of Magical Creatures…?" Pause. "Oh, it was – yeah, that was a book that tried to eat you for opening it, got removed from stock."

"It tried to eat you?"

"Yeah, if you opened it. It was sort of a creature itself, I think, you had to do something to calm it down? Supposed to be some sort of – teaching method, I guess."

"On the one hand that is sort of cool; on the other I'm pretty sure it would eat me."

"It's only small. I don't think it'd actually be able to, um, totally eat you."

"Animals in general hate me, I'm pretty sure an animal book about animals would double hate me. Or hate me squared." 

"Huh," he says. "I'm usually pretty good with animals?"

"When I got Richard—my owl—all the other owls hated me. But they hated him, too, so he liked me."

"Aww," responds Anthony. "I – am bad at coming up with names. Hopefully I'll get inspiration when I go get one."

"Did you get an owl, too? I named mine after Richard Feynman."

"I haven't gone yet!" he responds. "I expect I'll probably get an owl, though." Pause. "I'm not sure who Richard Feynman is."

"He's a muggle scientist who was really smart and cool."

"Ah," says Anthony. "There are – different parts of science, right? I haven't studied it much but I think there's stuff about gravity and, uh, the Sun, then stuff about animals and plants?"

"—yes, there are different parts, he dealt with very very very small things and very very very high energies."

"Ah," responds Anthony. "We really don't get taught much of that."

"I figured! It's no wonder you haven't put anyone on the Moon."

"I'm still not sure anybody is trying," he responds.

"That's a silly thing not to try! I mean, the Moon is there, why wouldn't you put people on it?"

"… There are constellations really far away, too, and you could make the same argument for those?"

"Yep, and guess where muggles totally do want to go?"