"Can it be stored indefinitely without decaying? Are there any problems with duplicated food?"

"I think duplicated food is fine? If a cake comes out well my dad sometimes duplicates it to have another for later. I don't think we've ever had anything in the pantry for all that long..."

Sadde scratches her head. "Even if we assume that we can't store food indefinitely, and that'd be a pretty arbitrary restriction but I guess I wouldn't be too surprised, can someone explain to me why hunger still exists?"

"Statute of Secrecy and distribution problems. If I went to visit my great aunt in Nigeria and multiplied a pile of rice until it was the size of Hogwarts, how would hungry people who didn't happen to live right next to her come get it? If they don't have rice they probably don't have trucks."

"Well sure but that doesn't sound like an insurmountable problem, I mean why not fly rice over everyone? One determined person on a broomstick could get quite a lot of rice to quite a lot of people! I mean I'm not saying that this is feasible either, I haven't stopped to think it through, but unless magic has some pretty specific restrictions all over the place this doesn't sound like a more-than-ten-years project!"

"Statute of Secrecy. If you rain rice all over everywhere people notice."

"Well, yes, that. Another reason to do away with it. But I'm waiting for someone to come to me and say, 'Actually, magic can only make up to seventeen copies of a thing,' or 'Actually this has been tried once but it accidentally caused the Plague,' or something, not 'Magical society as a whole has decided that it's pretty comfortable with the needless death and suffering caused by their first reaction to the mild threat posed by the people they could be helping.' Well, maybe not mild, we did build nuclear bombs, but still, do you get what I'm saying here?" she asks plaintively.

"I get it. I'm just not learning about it for the first time and I already decided the thing to do was to go to school, learn everything, network, and start doing things when I can perform unsupervised magic and go places by myself."

"Yes! With the power of hard work, perseverance, commitment, and studying, we can take over the world!" Willow says triumphantly, raising her fist in the air.

Sadde laughs and eyes her appreciatively. "Are you sure you shouldn't be in Slytherin?"

"Yep! I prefer being in the back, studying the things, and then telling the two of you what things you need to know in order to rule the world!" she giggles.

"You can be our advisor."

"That works!" she beams.

"I'm not so sure I like this taking over the world thing."

"We'll be very responsible with it."

Sadde nods, looking dead serious, then dissolves into a fit of giggles.

"Well, I will anyway."

"Oh, I will, too, for sure. It's just that, if we don't take over the world, this conversation will be pretty funny, and if we do, it'll also be pretty funny for completely different reasons. Well, I think so, anyway."

Giggle.

Grin.