poly_chromatic | joint post ---> [accidental audio]

[ From the muffled sound of it, it's fairly clear early on that this recording is wholly unintentional, though if the exhilarated laughter is any indication, whatever's happening on the other end is an absolute riot. ]

All right there, Merlin?

[ Comes the familiar-to-some voice of one Fred Weasley, and you can very nearly hear that characteristic wolf-like grin. ]

[Merlin's exhilarated laughing might just be a bit nervous too, because this is really completely unlike anything he has ever tried before. When he replies to Fred, his voice is breathless, and unbelieving.]

Yeah, I'm fine! This is so weird!

Takes a bit of getting used to. [A third voice, familiar to the first but different enough to be recognised as George chimes in.] So are we looking for something in particular or is this pure intelligence gathering?

Hold onto your knickers, would you? We're almost there.

[ "There" isn't exactly made clear, but there's a bit more of just rushing wind before anyone speaks again. ]

Right about here ought to work. What exactly'd you have in mind, oh great one?

[A slight pause, before Merlin replies, sounding slightly uncertain.]

Well. I've been doing some research, so I was hoping I might be able to smash it. I have no idea if it's actually possible and I'm thinking I should be doubting that, but I thought, why not. So if you two have any ideas, feel free to join in?

Lets stick with the classics, shall we Fred? On the count of three...

[ There's a scramble of sounds as a pair of wands are pulled out from pockets, a quiet count of 'three, two, one--', and then a slew of words that are most certainly not in English. The reverberation is a loud distortion, a crackle and a whine, so I really do hope your device wasn't turn up loud.

It's only a heartbeat later that the trio comes clattering out on the other side, grunts and oofs and brooms everywhere, but never mind any of that. ]

Bloody Hell, Merlin! What on Earth was that?

[Confused pause goes here.]

What was what?

Your magic, mate! [ And both twins chime in excitedly. ] Do it again!

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Uhm...

It really depends? You don't always have to use your hands either, actually. If you're powerful enough. It just... works.

[There's a pause, and you can almost hear her smile.]

You and Christopher would've gotten on so well. He was in the City ages ago and we got to talking about our magic—his was more like yours, from the sounds of it.

I'll take your word for it.

Didn't even need an incantation when he showed it to me, barely his hands. Just sort of... willed it into happening.

Mm, something like that. I don't think everyone can do it back home, though. I'm... special.

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Born with it, then. We're the same, my brothers and I.

Yeah? You're always born with it in my world. Same in yours, or..?

Same. Our family's what people call pureblood—that means the family tree's all magical. But there are also Muggleborns; that is, people with non-magical parents. Most wizards and witches these days are half-blood, though, with one of their parents Muggle or Muggleborn.

[Ginny pauses, then adds,]

But magic's magic. Doesn't matter how magical your family is or isn't. It's all the same.

Mm, it is. We don't have those sort of definitions in my world. Just different practices of it. Either you have it or you don't.

[Definitions. That is what they are, isn't it, and how trivial it all feels now that she's years away from home. Blood status shouldn't matter. It doesn't. So she moves on.]

What sort of practices?

Well, uhm... There's, uh, ancient magic, the Old Religion, and then there's healing, and dark magic... Those sorts of things.

[That all sounds like there's an equivalent to her world, except for one.]

The Old Religion?

Ancient magic, the very... foundation of it. It lies in the work of time, life and death... Holds the very rules of reality. Like the breaths of the world. I think it's... cruel, but you could say it's the true magic.

Wow.

[It's a soft reply, thoughtful and curious.]

I don't know if I've ever studied something close to that.

Very few study it in my world. When the King took power, he killed most of those who practiced magic. I only know of one who still really practices the Old Religion, probably two.

[He's not sure what exactly it is Morgana does, but Morgause is most likely teaching it to her.]

[Killing people who practice magic. It's one thing to read about it for class and another entirely to know someone who's had to live with the threat of it. And she knows she shouldn't be thinking of it like this, but it's all... backwards. Muggles going after wizarding folk. But isn't that why they try to keep secret, still?]

What is it you do, Merlin?

Oh, a little bit of this and that. A lot to do with elements.

"This and that," he says. And you're teaching yourself, is that it?

I have a book that my guardian gave me, and sometimes I have help but, yeah, mostly I teach myself.

A professor of ours arrived in the City a bit ago and she's gone back to teaching classes, if you're interested. I don't know how well the magic crosses over, but I'd imagine there are some similarities?

Possibly. It might be worth a go. Who is she?

Professor McGonagall. She can be a bit, er, stern but she's brilliant at what she does. She taught us in Transfiguration, but obviously she can do loads more than just that.

[Transfiguration... Now that's something he hasn't tried.]

I think I can deal with stern. She and my guardian would possibly get along.

That really says something about your guardian.

[His voice gets somewhat excited here, so you can practically hear the grin.]

He's got this eyebrow, that's kind of skew all on its own, but then he likes raising it, really high, when he disapproves of something. And you know you're in trouble when he does that. He can always tell when I've done something, it's almost scary.

[...god, he misses Gaius.]

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