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Syd · 01-15-2011, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by CreativeAllie18

Alice nodded at him, sensing that there was a story involved with why he left, but she figured she wouldn't push it. If he wanted to share he could, but he didn't have to. "Oh, so you have siblings?" Alice said with a little smile. "I'm an only child and so far as I know I'm the only witch besides my..." Alice stiffened again but after a little shake of the head managed to finish the sentence. "Besides my mother," she concluded.

Alice shifted her attention back to the tree for a moment before returning her gaze to Dallin. "Was it easier having siblings show you the ropes so to speak? My dad and I have just been stumbling through it all," Alice said with a little laugh. She thought Dallin looked like her felt stupid for saying that out loud, so Alice tried to assure him that he didn't sound stupid. "It's kind of scary facing all of this alone," Alice said, giving a gesture with her hand. "I mean, muggles are open minded but even they aren't willing to believe that there are actual schools that teach people how to do magic, let alone people that are actually capable of magic."

Alice considered for a moment what exactly it was that made her a witch. Obviously there was something in her genetic composition that made her be able to do what she could do, but why did she have it but not another muggle girl that was the same age? "It is weird to think about what makes us so different from them you know? I mean, is it a complete difference in genetics? Are we so genetically different from them that there's no way to compare us to them, or is it just a singular cell in our body that's different?" Alice was quiet for a moment, picking at a blade of grass on the ground between her and Dallin. "I wonder if witches and wizards try and figure it out you know? I'm sure most just take it for what it is, and some probably think it's because we're some kind of "superior" race or some crazy nonsense like that." Alice shifted her gaze back up to Dallin. "What do you think makes us so different...from muggles I mean?"

Dallin nodded to her question. "Four," he said, his eyes widening. "All sisters, too. And older." Yepp, he was so lucky. And yes, that was sarcasm. His eyes widened more when she said her mother was a witch. But didn't she just say she was a muggleborn? ... That made absolutely no sense. Dallin looked down at his feet, frowning, but he didn't ask about it.

"I'm sure it helped me a lot." He said, shrugging one shoulder. "I didn't even know if I was a wizard until I got the letter for school, so it was a bit of a shock. But having two sisters at school with me was... nice, because I had someone that I knew there that could teach me things. And stuff." In other ways, though, he hadn't liked having family at school with him. And that's why he'd come to Hogwarts.

He stretched his legs out, leaning back on his hands as Alice thought. He didn't inturrupt her thinking; instead he let her think in quiet. When she talked, he listened closely, chewing on his lip and picking blades of grass. "I don't think we're so different," he mumbled thoughtfully. "I mean, if you think about it, and get sciencey..." he paused. "It's probably something like... a recessive gene. Because if it were something that only wizards had, there would be no such thing as muggleborns, because there would be no way that the kid could get magic."

That made sense, right? "But if it's a gene, or something that, then it's possible. Because people say that a muggleborn has magic somewhere in their ancestry, so maybe the gene was passed on through the family, but not used. So when you get two genes for magic, you get a witch or a wizard. Like hair color and earlobe attachment." That... was a lot of words. But they were actually kind of meaningful, and not just boring chatting. So that was good, right?

01-15-2011, 01:51 AM	#218 (permalink)
Syd MO Erkling Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: [GMT-7] Posts: 20,764 Hogwarts RPG Name: Anna Keller	Deep conversation. xD Sardines ♥ // Nomsy, yo Quote: Originally Posted by CreativeAllie18 Alice nodded at him, sensing that there was a story involved with why he left, but she figured she wouldn't push it. If he wanted to share he could, but he didn't have to. "Oh, so you have siblings?" Alice said with a little smile. "I'm an only child and so far as I know I'm the only witch besides my..." Alice stiffened again but after a little shake of the head managed to finish the sentence. "Besides my mother," she concluded. Alice shifted her attention back to the tree for a moment before returning her gaze to Dallin. "Was it easier having siblings show you the ropes so to speak? My dad and I have just been stumbling through it all," Alice said with a little laugh. She thought Dallin looked like her felt stupid for saying that out loud, so Alice tried to assure him that he didn't sound stupid. "It's kind of scary facing all of this alone," Alice said, giving a gesture with her hand. "I mean, muggles are open minded but even they aren't willing to believe that there are actual schools that teach people how to do magic, let alone people that are actually capable of magic." Alice considered for a moment what exactly it was that made her a witch. Obviously there was something in her genetic composition that made her be able to do what she could do, but why did she have it but not another muggle girl that was the same age? "It is weird to think about what makes us so different from them you know? I mean, is it a complete difference in genetics? Are we so genetically different from them that there's no way to compare us to them, or is it just a singular cell in our body that's different?" Alice was quiet for a moment, picking at a blade of grass on the ground between her and Dallin. "I wonder if witches and wizards try and figure it out you know? I'm sure most just take it for what it is, and some probably think it's because we're some kind of "superior" race or some crazy nonsense like that." Alice shifted her gaze back up to Dallin. "What do you think makes us so different...from muggles I mean?" Dallin nodded to her question. "Four," he said, his eyes widening. "All sisters, too. And older." Yepp, he was so lucky. And yes, that was sarcasm. His eyes widened more when she said her mother was a witch. But didn't she just say she was a muggleborn? ... That made absolutely no sense. Dallin looked down at his feet, frowning, but he didn't ask about it. "I'm sure it helped me a lot." He said, shrugging one shoulder. "I didn't even know if I was a wizard until I got the letter for school, so it was a bit of a shock. But having two sisters at school with me was... nice, because I had someone that I knew there that could teach me things. And stuff." In other ways, though, he hadn't liked having family at school with him. And that's why he'd come to Hogwarts. He stretched his legs out, leaning back on his hands as Alice thought. He didn't inturrupt her thinking; instead he let her think in quiet. When she talked, he listened closely, chewing on his lip and picking blades of grass. "I don't think we're so different," he mumbled thoughtfully. "I mean, if you think about it, and get sciencey..." he paused. "It's probably something like... a recessive gene. Because if it were something that only wizards had, there would be no such thing as muggleborns, because there would be no way that the kid could get magic." That made sense, right? "But if it's a gene, or something that, then it's possible. Because people say that a muggleborn has magic somewhere in their ancestry, so maybe the gene was passed on through the family, but not used. So when you get two genes for magic, you get a witch or a wizard. Like hair color and earlobe attachment." That... was a lot of words. But they were actually kind of meaningful, and not just boring chatting. So that was good, right? __________________ COURAGEOUS \| RESILIENT \| FIERY everlasting companion