"The state of California thing is a joke I felt inclined to make even though literally no one in this entire bar would get it, ignore it. Bio." He hands Minor a book. "I don't know what fraction of this is necessary but it's probably most straightforward to read the entire thing, let me know if you have questions."

"Okay!!!!" Bounce bounce.

"And you're welcome." Wag wag.

"Can all daeva be wizards now -"

"I do not know at this time how you'd do it with a daeva who didn't use to be a human. It might be doable especially if it turns out fewer than all of the gruesome medical procedures were necessary, but it's less simple."

Nodnod. He clings to the book. "Thank you so much." And off to go read it.

Miranda hugs him. "Do you wanna learn to do spells now?"

"Seems useful. I'm not sure how long I can hold onto the concentration but I seem to have managed this long."

"Where d'you want to start -"

"I have no idea what a reasonable curriculum would look like!"

"Uh, for Transfiguration one starts with turning matchsticks into needles, for Charms by levitating things, for Potions by brewing wart cures and so on..."

"You mean I no longer need suffer through all these warts?"

"Actually a lot of the potions curriculum is constrained by 'will blow up and kill you if you do it wrong' stuff being reserved for more advanced students so you can skip straight to - hmm, we were thinking Polyjuice would have commercial applications..."

"Yes, it'll sell like hotcakes."

"Something not-Unforgivable to bribe demons with!"

" - uh, the rest of us are rather grasping for context, here -"

"Gene therapy results in Hazel-type magic powers; demons cannot make magical objects and will become less challenging to trade with if more people have these powers. Previous magic-based trading with demons has involved among other things the consensual use of a dangerous and illegal spell with recreational applications."

"Ah, okay. Congratulations on your magic powers!"

"Thank you!"

"Things to trade demons sound useful to accumulate, if we do find ways to go visit a thousand worlds..."

"Yes. Of course eventually demons in general may figure out how to wizard themselves but it's still more labor-intensive than would make it trivial - sort of like fairies can bake just fine but it's possible to pay them in cookies."

"And some of the spells aren't easy to learn and some potions are just plain tedious."

"I mean, it's not conceptually impossible that a wizard demon can just appear potions and have them work, I have no idea how the magic enters the potion - do they all have magic ingredients -"

"Yeah - but Muggles can't make them even with the ingredients so it's not just that -"

"It'll afford some experimentation."