"Oh. Why him? Professor McGonagall said she visited all muggleborns."

"I don't know, maybe she was busy that day? I sent my reply to her. Maybe I'll ask her sometime."

"Huh. Weird. But I guess not that unexpected, since I spent all my life shapeshifting and only found out last year how or why."

"Yeah, you'd think they'd tell kids earlier when they grow up in the non-magical world."

"Yeah I'm not impressed."

"Well but there's the Statute—"

"—of Secrecy, yes, I'm aware of this travesty of a law."

"I don't know enough to call it a travesty, but I don't think it helps keep the secret to have accidental magic going unexplained. My relatives knew what was happening even if they didn't tell me, but I can imagine a lot of parents asking everyone they can think of for help understanding what's going on."

"Magic can get clean water to third world countries and doesn't, it's a travesty."

"Third world?"

"Why do you think it could?"

"There are spells that do that!"

"And do those spells make clean water right then, or continuously. Do you know how they work?"

"There's one that just makes water, infinitely."

"That doesn't answer my question. If someone has to stand there producing the water that makes it hard to scale."

"Sure but no one even tries."

"There's a lot of good things people could do but don't. I don't think proposing that wizards and witches should devote their lives to refilling and purifying aquifers is a bad idea, but I don't think it's as urgent as you seem to."

"No I think everyone's just wrong, including the muggles that could be doing a lot of good things that they don't. And the magical community is tiny, Hogwarts gets like forty students per year and that's about as many student-aged magical children Great Britain has at all, I think the reason we don't have things that scale is because no one thought to try to invent them."

"If one percent of the population is eleven each year that would be a population of four thousand. That isn't a lot of people to solve all the world's problems."

"That's my point, they never had to create any spells that could because there's so few of them and they don't care about muggles."

"Dad thinks muggles and wizards should be treated the same..."

"Do you know what's involved in spell creation? I haven't looked into it yet. Ron, I don't doubt that your dad wants things to be better for muggles but from what I've seen the laws are a long way from being equal."

Shrug.

"I don't, but I'm gonna look into it."

"It sounds like a cool thing to be able to do."