"Uh-huh. Why do I get the feeling that's your first target."

"Not first!"

"Is it in the top ten?"

"...maybe."

"… Top five?"

"I'm not gonna tell you that!"

Thea starts laughing.

"If it's top three I'm worried about your priorities list."

"Oh shut up."

"Is it actually? Why? You could be looking into – okay but is this a short-term priorities list or are these goals just – just, why?"

"I never said it was!"

"You also didn't say it wasn't! And you told me to shut up!"

"Because you're inferring things about me that are wrong!"

"You could clarify that they're wrong!"

"I didn't say your conclusions about my priority orderings were wrong, I said your conclusions about me were wrong, and also I'm a Slytherin, I won't just tell you my plans."

"You're not a Slytherin yet."

"It's the principle of the thing!" His eye colour shifts to gold.

"… Is that a wizard thing?" asks Thea, noticing this. "Wait, no – huh?"

"It's a me thing! I'm a metamorphmagus, I can change my body however I like!"

"Ooh, can you turn into an animal?"

"Not that much."

"… You're still human though, right?" Pause. "Oh, or are you another sapient species – I saw, what are they called, uh, goblins."

"I'm human, that's just a thing some magical people are sometimes."

"Huh." Pause. "Just magical humans or are there also magical other – okay I guess it might depend on the definitions – are there, like, non-human wizards and witches?"

"Uh – wizards and witches are all humans? I mean, I guess you get some people with some magical genetics but, on the whole, human."