"'Some people with some magical genetics'?"

"Uh, like –" Pause. "I mean, people can be part magical creature?"

"Like what?"

"… Veela, for example?"

"Wait, what? How does that work?"

"… I'm guessing you are not asking me, an eleven-year-old, for The Talk."

"No, I'm asking you about genetics!"

"I feel like you might not get the information you want."

"Are other magical things, like, the same species as humans, or what?"

"… No?"

"So how can they make viable hybrids?"

Anthony frowns at him. "I don't really see why that'd be an issue – as in, why they would be nonviable. Sure, a human and a cat wouldn't work, but it's just how the species work?"

"That's not how species work!"

"… I mean, it's how these species work?"

"That's not how species as a biological category work! The definition of a species is 'cannot have fertile offspring'!"

"… Okay, so by that definition then I guess we're probably all one species? Which would be, I dunno, humanoid magicals?"

"That makes more sense, I guess. How did they evolve?"

"Beats me?"

"Ngh."

She giggles.

"I don't really know much about evolution…"

"… Do you guys not have the concept of science?"

"Uh, not as you're thinking of it? I don't think?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean there are people who develop new spells, people who study magical creatures? But we don't really – science? It's not standard curriculum or anything."