"I suppose I must take mercy on these poor confused souls." She waves at Terry's family, who certainly do look confused.

"Now, I'll just out and say it. I am being deadly serious here and I'm sure Mr. Grayward can prove me right... Magic is real! Your son is something of a prodigy! Something like it, anyway. I didn't notice until recently."

Of course, the family splutters at this. Terry's father leaves the room. He and his mother eventually settle on 'yes, we would like to see proof'.

Stephen takes some pebbles out of his pocket makes a show of letting the Andersons see that they are pebbles and then makes them float in a circle.

Topher takes his glass of water, raises it at eye level and then freezes it with a small burst of blue light. The entire room is a bit chiller, but only the glass has ice crystals.

"...Show me how to break the laws of physics, please."

"That's exactly why your grandmother called us here."

"Break the laws of physics as you know them." Adam says in the tones of a correction.

"-Right but if you - did you create negentropy - this is important!" He mouths to his grandmom, who's snickering.

Stephen and Topher say a tentative "No."

Adam says. "Yes. How do you two do not know this?"

"I never told them anything about it. Claire never showed any sign of lifeforce. And I never bothered looking at Teddy, since that part of my life was behind me."

"I'd appreciate the full story now, Krisa," his mom mentions. "This is something that affects my family a whole lot. I'm not very happy right now to be honest."

"I understand. I wouldn't be either. I just - I wanted to have fun with it, but that's not really appropriate I suppose. The greywards and I will explain everything."

"Forgive her. It isn't anything bad and it's an unique sort of opportunity. And nothing bad will come out of it. You could say a couple of worlds of possibilities opened to Teddy."

"Can we stop with the double meanings? It's kinda cruel to them. I think."

"Well, do you want to start with a history lesson? An explanation to the magic system? Or what I deduce are the likely plans your grandmother has for your future?"

"Magic exists unless you're very talented stage magicians pulling off a very cruel prank I think that's more important here."

"Okay. Magic exists. What we just demonstrated to you is called sorcery. Magic fueled by the five aspects of lifeforce: breath, stamina, wakefulness, health and youth. Your grandmother called here because you're a naturalborn sorcerer. Someone that has extra lifeforce, making it easier to use sorcery."

"You can... test us to see that our powers are not just stage tricks."

"-Well there's probably lots of things I can do to try and prove it but I'm inexplicably drawing a blank. Sorry it's just - two minutes ago we were talking about robotics and now I'm a wizard?"

"Sorcerer. They use the same term for people that practice it and the people that just have more lifeforce, it's confusingly annoying at times."

"To answer your question: Yes. There are magical schools and everything for people your age."

"Yes. Oh, maybe you can combine both things? Magical constructs exist and people are always excited about combining magic and technology in new ways."

"...I'm not going to be hunted down by Obliviators or anything, am I?" He thinks, then hands over a notebook. "Do something magic to that. It's mine so you can't have prepared it. Er, please. I'm - sorry for interrogating like this it's just - a lot."

He winces at Obliviators. "To continue the Harry Potter metaphor, you're a muggleborn and his family, so it's okay for you to know." He takes the notebook, but instead of doing anything to it he gives it to Adam.

Adam frowns at it for a moment, but then quickly makes a origami bird. Which starts flapping its wings and bobbing its head. It doesn't fly, but it clearly moves under its own power.

"...Huh... Are there people who keep the secret? That seems - not okay."

Sigh. "There are. Me and my family have our own reasons to not go public ourselves."

"I can't say I disagree with you. Though, if it helps, mostly the reason why magic is a secret is that naturalborn sorcerers are very rare on Earth."