( miavi | un: myrddin )

[kingmaking]

Several things, if you please:
1. Reading suggestions for advancements in healing magic in the last several centuries.
2. Really, I'm curious about general developments in formal magic. I don't use a wand, but I find them interesting.
3. Has it ever been recorded that someone else can physically interact with magic? See it, I mean, smell it, hear it, that sort of thing.

Thank you.


[ then as an afterthought, a little down the page: ] And no, I don't have a beard.

Comments

un: g.g.

[roblet]

As far as I know, it is not something that has been recorded. Have you ever done any experimentation with it as far as how it compares to a wizard that cannot?

[ KILL BILL SIRENS ]

[kingmaking]

No. I've never spent much time around others with magic. My brief stays at Hogwarts were the only exceptions.

[ well, and his mother's family, but as far as he knows, they're all dead. ]

[roblet]

The lack of opportunity is unfortunate.

And now, being around so many with magic, will you?

[kingmaking]

I've no idea. Perhaps, given the chance. If I don't have to deal with too much nonsense first.

[roblet]

What sort of nonsense would plague your desire for knowing yourself?

[kingmaking]

The same sort of nonsense I've been dealing with my entire life.

We should meet in person. I'd be interested to talk to you.

[roblet]

I feel this deserves to push past the nonsense.

I would be very interested in that as well. Wherever you would like to meet.

[kingmaking]

Eventually. I'm trapped here for the foreseeable future as it is.

We can meet just on the outskirts of Hogsmeade nearest the forest. Tomorrow if you're free.

un: nehemiah

[gasleaks]

Is that not how magic works?

[Someone took the time to figure out how to use M.I.A.V.I. today, aren't we all glad.]

[kingmaking]

For me, it does. Not so much for others.

[gasleaks]

Oh.

[There's a long, long pause before the rest of the reply comes through.]

American magic might be different. I could not tell you for certain.

[kingmaking]

What's American magic?

[gasleaks]

I cannot claim to study magic, but I have been told I am freakish unusual and I am from America so it stands to reason Americans may have different magic.

[kingmaking]

America is a place, then. I'm afraid I've never heard of it. It makes sense that magic may be cast in different ways in different regions.

[gasleaks]

[Oh, he didn't know that was the question. He draws a small, wobbly map of the major continents and shades in America - the continental 48 states, anyway. When he's from Alaska and Hawaii aren't even close to getting statehood.

There's an arrow pointing to where the British Isles are represented by a cluster of dots labelled "Where we are" and one pointing to vaguely where New York is labelled "Where I come from."]

[kingmaking]

That is a very long distance away. That's an entire ocean. How did you get here?

[gasleaks]

I closed my eyes and when I opened them I was here.

[Then, added like an afterthought:] I come from 1926.

[kingmaking]

That's odd. I thought it was primarily people from the area that were being displaced, but first I spoke to a Saxon and now you.

un: a.black

[medesthai]

[ healing magic? this mediwizard has gotchu, boo.

andromeda lists down the most popular books to date, let's say about twelve?? titles, from memory. ]

Should you want to research further, I can send you a more comprehensive list later on.

un: S

[slithering]

[ ah, now this is interesting. ]

I've been told that wandless magic is a skill acquired only by the most talented witch or wizard.

[roblet]

One thing that brings us all together, I suppose.

I am free tomorrow, yes. That sounds perfect.

[kingmaking]

I'll see you around noon, then.

[kingmaking]

Thank you. It's amazing what this sort of knowledge might have done on the battlefield in my time, the lives it might have saved.

Are you a healer?

[kingmaking]

I've always been this way. It was often uncontrollable in my childhood, but I taught myself a fair bit, and I did receive some assistance while I attended Hogwarts.

[gasleaks]

It is. At least I have yet to meet another American who is in the same situation.

Then again, I rarely go out.