"But true. Life is about making choices. We just have to hope they're the right ones."

"Very deep," he amends, smiling.

She giggles. "Thank you."

"Mum sorta had to raise me on her own and she doesn't make a lot of money all year. I'm gonna use magic to get rich, though. But I always knew I would."

"How? I was skimming a book about the local laws and there's a lot of them that forbid telling muggles about magic."

"I'm a metamorphmagus."

"Wicked! Show us something!"

"How about this?"

"Cool."

Ron's startled. "You can change even that?"

"Mum says the first magic I did when I was one year old was shift like this," he explains, morphing back. "So I never really... you know, decided to just be a single gender."

"Interesting. I guess that makes sense."

"So wait, you're not a boy?"

"Right now I am. Some days I won't be."

"Mkay."

"What was your first display of magic like?" he asks Sarah.

"I'm not sure, there were a bunch of small things but they kinda run together. The coolest accidental magic I remember was teleporting, apparently the wizards call it apparating, onto the roof of a building when I was running from some bullies."

"Oh yeah I did that once! I was falling off a broom though."

"Cool. Is flying as fun as it sounds?"

"I dunno, how fun does it sound?"

"Pretty fun, I'm not quite sure how to quantify fun though."

"Well it's a lot of fun."

"I'll bet. I always wanted to make functional wings with metamorphmagic but it doesn't work."

"That's a shame, it would have been awesome if it worked."

"Yeah, I can only do partly animal and the wings aren't strong enough."