Anthony catches it. "– So I'm guessing you haven't had one of these."

"No! Muggleborn!"

"Right, but – so's Sadde and he'd had one!"

"Yes, at your place."

"But you didn't jump when you saw it moving! Or, not that much – okay, never mind."

"So you'd met? ...and can I have the frog?"

"Yes to both!" He smiles. "We met in Madam Malkin's."

She takes the frog and omnoms.

"That's cool! I didn't meet anyone. Well, now I met you two."

"There's a card of a famous magical person inside the box," he says.

"Ooh." She grabs it. Merlin. "Cool!—why is he moving."

"Magical photos do that."

"And magical portraits do, too, except they're also people."

"Really?"

"Probably! Ish. They seem like people. I haven't actually spoken to – I mean, I don't know much about portraits."

"I talked to one and he said he was a person."

"Right, but, if they're designed to act like people then presumably they wouldn't just say they weren't people."

"Well if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I think it's safe to think it is in fact a duck!"

"I mean, okay, but if it's a duck in a photo it's still a duck… but in a photo."

"It doesn't matter where they are, the important part about being a person isn't having a body it's having a mind."

"– That's not what I meant? I mean, a photo is just of a duck and it's on repeat and the duck isn't actually thinking or anything, and I thought portraits were sorta like that but… a bit more interactive."

"Yeah but after you get interactive enough it's pretty much a person, isn't it?"

(Willow munches on her frog.)

Anthony shrugs. "It depends on why you're classing it a person? If it's 'should I treat them well and give them respect like a person' then clearly the answer is yes, you should treat them well."

"No, it's 'I should respect their stated desires and include them in my decisions about what courses of action bring the most good in the world.'"

"Is this back to the taking over the world thing? Or – does this also apply to the less enthusiastic of us?"