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"Same constraint likely applies - Bar?"

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The only method the means for which are available here are door-based and require a patron to hold the door to whichever world you wish to visit.

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"Are there records of other methods?"

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Summoning is an example; there are others, none of which I expect to be learnable from books.

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"Okay. Thanks."

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I do apologize.

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"We appreciate your help very much." 

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"I'll take some books on summoning and on interdimensional travel in general," he says without looking up.

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Bar coughs up three recommendations.

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"Thank you," he says for his father, and hands him the books, and to Cam - "I want a list of priorities or something - there's multiverse stuff, there's recovering old lost magic in our world, if the notes aren't all magic themselves, there's figuring out if we have summoning and developing vaccinations to everything -"

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"Vaccines are big but not even the only thing - flattening out the economy is big, electricity is big, global communication is big -"

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"Flattening out the economy?"

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"Making it easier to trade. Everything gets cheaper when that happens and stuff gets invented faster."

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"Aaron's going to be all smug. I'm not sure it's worth waiting to repeal the Statute, actually - it'll be years -"

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"It does seem like it'd be very annoying to work around in the meantime."

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"The problem is that the Statute does a few good things I'd want to have other institutions in place to do, like 'not let people enslave Muggles' -"

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"I believe in 1802 people are already enslaving Muggles, yes?"

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"Muggles are enslaving Muggles and we are going to stop them. Wizards can much more conveniently enslave Muggles and are currently not doing that."

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"I'm aware, but that's not what you actually said and if you're considering politicking among non-wizards you'll want to keep an eye on it. About how many wizards are there? How would one be caught if they decided to enslave some Muggles?"

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"That's kind of the problem, Imperius isn't detectable. There're around two million wizards worldwide - we're about 1/500 -"

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"...that's tiny, especially if you have any decent healing magic - are half your kids not wizards or did you just have a really early demographic transition or -?"

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"Wizards' kids are almost always wizards, wizards do kind of get themselves killed a fair bit, average family size is in fact below two if that's what you mean -"

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"That's what I mean. It takes birth control and a higher standard of living to get people to do that but I suppose magic gets you there sooner."

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"We have birth control. I - don't actually know much about how convenient or scalable it is, or whether it's even safe for Muggles - Michael would -"

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"There are very nearly perfect nonmagical options available, just not in 1802."

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