crystal.

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FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Hermione Granger
RECIPIENT: Anyone and also everyone
NOTES: Threadjacking is encouraged. Imagine this is at some point before Spooky Horrors Shenanigans (TM) begin

An inane question, I'm sure, but I have been wondering...[ What a great introduction, superbly strong start. Let's move on. ] Tell me your hobbies - or even one hobby of yours, which isn't reading or sparring.

I can start. I used to knit, and I find myself missing the activity.

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[cozen]

Ah, yeah. That will do it.

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It is unfortunately the second time it's happened, so I am more or less used to it.

[cozen]

They do say people can get used to anything, [ wryly. ]

What were they like, your other worlds? Were they very different from here?

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Yes [ and after a beat, reconsiders that answer, and adds after a sigh, ] - and no.

They both had magic, but it was nothing like the Fade - rather nothing like the Fade existed in them. Where I'm originally from, there was a very solid separation between mages and non-magically capable people. We called it the Statute of Secrecy - the wizarding world was fully hidden, leading what were essentially parallel lives. Their own culture, history, wars. The non-magical people, whom wizards called Muggles, continued the progress of their civilisations without any knowledge that magic was real. They invented cars, and telephones, and television, and aeroplanes - those are skyships, basically.

Occasionally, though not frequently, a child who could do magic was born in a non-magical people. Muggleborn, [ mudbloods; the scar on her arm itches, and Hermione grows quiet before adding, explanatorily: ] Me.

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[ sniffs ]

Akhuras, the name of the world I was previously in - I think it might've been beautiful, verdant, and even peaceful at some point. But there were a few factions that were trying to destroy that, and having to fight armies of undead was actually pretty normal for any day of the week, so - the difference there was in the proportion between dead, undead, and alive.

[cozen]

I saw aeroplanes in the Fade,

[ with an audible little smile, so she can adjust her need to translate in the future accordingly, ]

and television and Wiki-pedia.

I am glad we can offer you more time to relax than Akhuras, at least.

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[ Here's a curious pause, though: ]

What's wee-key-pedia?