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[Draco Malfoy has absolutely no reason to be outside right now. His hands are both still cut up pretty badly, he's fighting off a cold, and to top things off…

…well. He lost Jade Harley. Sort of. Jade sort of lost herself by leaving her bracelet on his bathroom counter. So today Draco's out and flying around the city of Asgard, Jade's bracelet in his pocket and bundled up against the cold. It's only when he's outside of his room that he really notices all of the lights going off in the city, twinkling against the darkness. He stops long enough to examine a few displays of light, raising an eyebrow.

It really must be close to Christmas then. Fantastic. Just one more thing to remind him of things he doesn't want to think about. Christmas reminds him of home, and lights remind him of a certain girl with long blond hair that he can't seem to stop thinking about. Ridiculous. After a few hours of flying back and forth hoping for some sign of Jade, anything that might indicate she's around, he gives up and lands to head into the Great Library if only for a distraction and maybe to pick up a few books to help with his current research for potions.

…and thus he finds himself curled up in a chair fifteen minutes later, trying to warm up and staring at a book in his hands. It's a small book, worn out and old in appearance. It's also a book he most certainly wasn't expecting to find here in Asgard, but then again it made sense. Why wouldn't the gods pull things from their own worlds to entertain them? When he turns on the bracelet's video feed, he's casually flipping through the book, reading and mumbling to himself. He's holding the book gingerly as though it's hard to bend his hands around it, but his eyes are narrowed in concentration.]

Babbity Rabbitty will never not be a strange name, and that's saying something [Flip. Flip. Flip.]

Granted, this shouldn't be a surprise. [And he looks up then, facing the camera.]

Here's a new question for anyone awake, something a bit lighter than the last. [Which he's still pondering on, thank you. His wall of notes may be folded up and in a box under his bed, but he still references them quite a bit.]

With the lights all around the city and with the discovery of this book--[He lifts it up, revealing the title to be the Tales of Beedle the Bard]--do you believe that something as simplistic as a fairy tale can actually have some truth behind it? Or, in other words, what determines if they're made up or if they're based on real people and real events?

And before anyone asks, no, there's no motive behind this question. Just genuine curiosity. [Which as we all know is the biggest lie of them all.]

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hmmm. Ok, you've got my interest a little. I haven't heard of any that don't have those sorts of things, but we'll see. What's your theory, if you don't mind me asking?

If there's a world without them, then there can't be any sort of fact behind them at all.

Hmmm, at least in that world maybe. I'm not sure how connected I think these worlds really are. Some of them are really far apart.

You really don't think they'll all connected somehow? We don't actually know how large the universe is.

I won't deny the possibility, but at the same time it almost sounds like a few of us have similar pieces of history. Would the same universes have the same Earth with similar histories?

I'm not ruling out the possibility. My world and the muggle world have similar parallels too. [But then again, they coexist on the same planet. Maybe that doesn't count.]

You really are a bit of a scientist, aren't you? Always seem to be testing little theories and guessing at this sort of thing.

I didn't know that was considered a bad thing. I like this a lot more than my previous occupation, at least.

A bad thing? Heh, nope. I'm just making an observation. It's certainly not a bad thing in alchemy.

Precisely. Magic and science are closely tied, and since I can't have my magic I have to default to the less superior form.

Hmmm, there's a sense in which you might as well just call them two sides of the same coin. Just different ways of approaching some of the same concepts, at least in a way.

Science is far too basic though. It's almost offensive to call it the same as magic.

I try to keep an open mind myself, but I'm a lot more familiar with Alchemy and the old ways than I ever was with science itself. Mostly picked up pharmacy and such from the alchemy studies.

Magic, and I suppose alchemy, is a much harder skill to master than science. You can understand why I hate comparing the two.

Magic... I've been curious. How strong are the traditions back in your world? In mine, it was a few lone practitioners and small cells of the desperate clinging to liferafts in a sea of disbelief. Finding real magic could be difficult sometimes.

I live among our kind...it's more rare to find people without any real magic in their blood. Unless you mean something else.

So... it's common enough for there to be a whole community of it?

Your world's very different from mine in that way.

It's common enough for there to be a whole community that needs to be hidden from muggles.

How different is different?

I knew perhaps five... six other practitioners in my whole life, only two of them well. Studies were usually one on one with mentors, and hidden away pretty deeply.

There are hundreds of us at Hogwarts, and we're only one of three large schools in Europe. And those are just wizards and witches between the ages of 11 and 18. You can imagine just how many of us there are in the world.

Yeah. The traditions are still alive in your world then. The old ways ... mother said there were a few cells out there, but there might be a hundred, two hundred around the world in total, and of course they were far from the only things with powers in our world so they hid more out of fear of misunderstandings than anything.

So what other powers were there out there?

Technology. A lot of high grade tech looked a bit like magic sometimes. Some aliens showed up that were more dangerous than humans. There were mutants who had strange powers that just seemed to crop up from time to time, and other folks that were part of mad science experiments gone horribly wrong. A lot of different sorts.

But it's still all science, and that is the difference. Science is something manmade, and even mutants are manmade. Pure magic is just something we're born with. It isn't something that can be replicated correctly.

Hmmm. That sounds a little on the preachy side, but you know I actually like the sentiment. It's got kind of a taoist feel to it, really. I might use that again one of these days.

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