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1st Gryffindor Note - [Text, then audio post]

[Have a really, REALLY shaky handwriting, as though whoever's writing this hurts quite a bit or is exceptionally scared... or hey, why not both. And there's an ink splotch on the top.]

.../looks like a diary. I can't tell.

[Another ink blot, but this one's apparently intentional.]

It's not like what Harry described Riddle's diary as being. I don't suppose it responds to voice commands. My hand hurts too much to write.

[Oh hey, it's swapped to voice here. Have a thumping sound and a soft 'oof.' She's fallen off the bed. And her voice next is really soft, as though she's not aware the thing is recording.]

My handbag. Bellatrix's wand. They're -

Gone.

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Muggle? [She tilts her head. That sounds sorta like something...but she can't quite bring it to the front of her mind.]

I think it's some sort of...enchantment. Not technology, or anything.

Ah, sorry. Non-magical people.

[She's obviously taking all the information in and processing it. Hermione thinks a lot.]

Yet another thing I will have to figure out. [But she's smiling and definitely not upset about this.]

Non-magical people? So...do you mean people who can't do magic or people who have nothing magical about them?

[She seems to find the question very relevant.]

Well, they're kind of the same thing back home.

Okay, so what about people who have certain...abilities, but not of the casting-spells kind?

Like what? All we've got are spells and potion-making and that sort of thing. [Curiosity piqued? Check.]

[She's picking at the knees of her jeans. This is Buffy trying to be subtle. It doesn't work well.] Y'know--what about things like supernatural speed or strength or...or dreams that come true? Or destinies? What are those people?

[Hermione's looking serious, but not in a way that says she's afraid or disliking of the subject matter.]

I'm not sure. We don't have any of that without spell power. Well, we do have Divination as a branch of magic, but it's dull and rather worthless, so I don't think it quite counts. Everything else needs a spell for it to work back home. So I suppose what you've mentioned would fall under the category of magic where I'm from.

So what if it was started by a spell? But not by the person who is all fast and strong. By like, other people. A long time ago. And the spell that they cast lasted such a long time. Like, a really long time. Say, through generations?

Well the spell that was cast was magic, so the effect is magical and even if it's not exactly something your ancestors had by birth, you were still born with it. I would still consider that person magical, regardless of how they came about the magic.

It's kind of like my own heritage in a way. I'm Muggle-born, which means my parents don't have any magic in their blood and nowhere on our family tree was there magic until I was born.

Does that answer your question?

Do you ever miss the chance to be an ordinary girl?

To me, magic is ordinary now. Being Muggle-born, I've always lived in both worlds, so either is 'normal.' I definitely prefer being able to use magic, though. It's saved my life more times than I care to count.

[And also caused immeasurable pain, as is evident in her expression now.]

I guess it helps that you guys have the whole...society thing, right? Rather than being on your own.

A lot of people believe only those who are pure-blood wizards deserve to live in my world. Mudbloods like me have no place according to them. People like that are the ones I'm fighting against. Even in a society, there's good and bad.

[She looks down as she remembers the conversation she'd had with Scrimgeour before she, Ron, and Harry left school months ago.]

Somebody once asked me if I wanted to work in in the Ministry of Magic, helping the wizarding government. I told him no, that I actually wanted to do some good in the world.

[And she looks back up with a kind of sorrowful smile.] Even governments meant to help can turn corrupt.

Sometimes, a different kind of justice can be much, much more just. The underground kind.

Underground?

Not literally. I just mean--not the government, not the police. Some other sort of power.

So a kind of secret organization meant to help those... with magical powers like what you described?

Or one to help those without magical powers against those that do and go too far.

That's probably a good thing, though, isn't it? Sometimes you need extra protection, even when you think you're safe.

[Order of the Phoenix anyone?]

Exactly. [She pauses, evaluating the girl before continuing. Oh well, she's already said so much. And then there was the whole deal with hoping to use her in future as a potential researcher. Best to be honest with the girl.]

That's sorta what I do, back home. Kind of.

That's very caring of you. Everyone needs someone to look out for them, even the house-elves and goblins. [Says the creator of S.P.E.W.]

Caring is one word you could use, I guess. [She doesn't seem convinced, though.]

What would you call it, then?

Messy. Dangerous. But that's what you get when you deal mostly with vampires.

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