double witch | Glowfic Constellation

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Willow beams at Miranda, then turns to Sadde. "How long have you known you were a wizard? You have probably always known." She directs that last part to Miranda. "I found out just last week, mum and dad went crazy, they were sure we wouldn't have time to buy everything, but it went actually pretty smoothly, we got everything we needed the day after, but I couldn't go just once so we went again and looked at all those cute pets but I didn't get any 'cause I'm allergic, so we went to the bookshop and got some books that weren't in the list and I even got some fiction but I haven't read it yet." She finally runs out of breath, and grins.

Sadde blinks at the speech, then giggles and answers the question: "I've known it for about a month, though I kinda had clues about it for longer."

chanuphis

"I can answer questions you have while you're catching up on everything but I don't know all the little technical details Sadde sometimes wants," Miranda says.

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Willow smiles at Miranda. "Thanks! I don't really have many questions, though, and most will come up when talking."

Sadde, naturally, looks absolutely flabbergasted by the idea of not having questions. After recovering, he turns to Miranda and says: "I don't sometimes want technical details, I always want them, but I guess the best place for that is probably at school."

chanuphis

"Sometimes ask for, then. Sometimes you just want to know that we can use owls for letters, that's not technical."

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He shrugs and nods. "True."

Willow angles herself to look at both of them and asks, "What House do you think you'll fall in? I really want Ravenclaw, but I think I'll probably end up in Hufflepuff."

chanuphis

"I want Ravenclaw. Mum was in it."

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"Slytherin or Ravenclaw, I think," Sadde says. He looks like he's about to ask something, but stops and writes something down on his notepad instead, getting his pen from the ground before that.

chanuphis

"...You should probably know that Slytherin has a bad reputation and a tendency to be full of people who hate Muggleborns," Miranda mentions. "The war may have changed some things, but probably not instantly and there would still be all the upper years to worry about."

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Sadde blinks. "Why?" he asks, "And what's that got to do with the war?"

Willow looks interested but less so.

chanuphis

"A lot of what the war was about was bigoted purebloods hating people," Miranda says. "And now the Dark wizard they were following is gone, but the beliefs aren't all. And he and most of his followers were Slytherins."

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Sadde looks very unimpressed. "Great. Another thing to fix."

Willow giggles.

chanuphis

Miranda snorts. "How would you fix that one?"

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Sadde shrugs. "I dunno yet. If the Dark Lord started a war about it, and furthermore if there's a single House particularly involved in it, these beliefs must be much older than him, so there must be all sorts of ways it's influencing society beyond the obvious. On the other hand, the bigoted side was the one who lost, so there will be some cultural pressures against it. I'd need to learn a lot more about how magical society works, and then figure out what to change... I mean it's not high priority so I dunno if I'd spend too much time thinking about it when there's easier and more obvious and urgent things to change, like the whole mind erasing thing. But tentatively, start out by being a very awesome muggleborn—although that could backfire by making purebloods jealous, so that's not... hm." He pauses. "I'd probably need to draw charts."

Willow gapes. "What mind erasing thing?"

chanuphis

Sigh. "There's a charm called a Memory Charm and it can erase memories. It's used much too often and on too many people but it probably won't happen to you."

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Willow makes suitably horrified noises.

Sadde looks at Miranda and asks, "How would you go about fixing widespread bigotry?"

chanuphis

"It depends on what its current form is, of course, I haven't assessed the situation in Hogwarts, let alone the Ministry or the general population."

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Sadde nods. "Are you planning to?" he asks, completely seriously, because of course two eleven-year-olds have enough resources for that.

Willow is looking between the two of them seeming to think much the same, with an undercurrent of being impressed.

chanuphis

"If it's very bad I'll probably have to to get anything else done, I'm hardly impeccably pureblooded for seventeen generations or anything. But I mostly want to concentrate on things like the use of memory charms. And one of the most promising ways to solve the bigotry would be to integrate with muggles anyway, so only a small fraction of the people you'd have to interact with most of the time would think it was anything less than awesome and special to be a muggleborn wix."

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Sadde nods again.

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Willow keeps staring at them, not really knowing what to say.

So of course she just says it anyway. "What was your first display of magic like? My parents told me I used to do little things like bringing my teddy bear to my crib, but I only started noticing later when I got frustrated with things and then I'd make them fly or such." She looks at Sadde. "Like your pen!"

chanuphis

"I did the usual things when I was little, moving toys and once I turned peas into chocolate, but Renée mostly like to talk about how my notebooks wouldn't open for anybody but me even if they got dropped on the floor."

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