"Occlumency's -?"

"Some wizards can read minds; it's a rare skill but it exists and Occlumency's the counter."

"I assume I can't learn that either?"

"I've never heard of a Muggle learning it and there're things like potions where you'd think Muggles could do them but they can't, but there aren't any magic steps per se. The workbook I used to pick it up was called The Mental Arts: Occlumencee - misspelled - if you wanted to have a try though then we're back to testing."

"How's it misspelled?"

He spells it.

Cam gets himself a copy.

"You actually remind me of Miranda a lot, I'd wonder if she was a distant ancestor but she's black."

"If she was distant enough and the genetics shook out right wouldn't necessarily be able to tell."

"It is in fact 1802, that's probably distant enough. Of course it's also distant enough that 'genetics' as an explanation for the similarity in mannerisms is a bit implausible."

"Quite."

"You have good reason to not want to be around a lot of wizards, even if Miranda's barely thirteen and definitely doesn't know any Unforgivables. How do you want to handle Milliways traffic?"

"I'll probably get my own room. Although it's been quiet so far."

"I was mostly thinking of people I might invite for out-of-jurisdiction testing, not people from yet other worlds. Though that'd be cool."

"What do you mean by how do I want to handle it, then?"

"Would you like to refrain from being present, would you like to be present but keep most of your capabilities secret for your safety, would you like to keep it to people who definitely couldn't hurt you - or people I trust, if you happen to trust my people-trusting that far..."

"I trust your people-trusting pretty far, albeit mostly for secondhand reasons. I should probably default to not being present if I happen to be irrelevant, but when I'm relevant my capabilities will not make very convenient secrets... Bar, how far should I trust Security?"

Security reacts very quickly and is at any given time capable of subduing persons in the establishment, although they cannot guarantee a specific duration of maximum rule violation. Read-only telepathy does not violate bar rules.

"Why not?"

It is the default or only communication method of some patrons.

"I won't invite anyone who has Legilimency in. ...well, except here I am, but I promise I have never used it except to check peoples' Occlumency."

"- you've picked up more Dark Arts than I realized, I apologize for calling you incurious."

"I haven't picked up any dark arts. I've gotten a working familiarity with a lot of usable-for-evil ones."

"Does 'Dark Art' have a technical definition?"

"Mostly means 'spells without practical uses other than harm' but it's not formal."