un: man's greatest treasure (video)

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[She switches on the video function of her device knowingly this time, as she climbs the stairs to a relatively quiet deck. It's daylight, and the moment she steps foot outside, she flinches; not that she believes in divination, but those fucking fortune fish were right.]

Ugh. Sun. [She squints and shields her eyes with one hand.]

Hello - I hear there are people who've newly joined our journey due east. I'd say welcome, but the circumstances of us meeting for the first time will never be better. Take it from experience. [The way she scrunches her nose here has little to do with the sun glinting in her eyes and more with the experience of circumstances.]

Anyway. My name's Hermione Granger, I come from a world where the planet I inhabit is called Earth, and the country I come from is called England. [A pause.] I am also a witch. It's not a thing we broadcast in my world, what with the rules about secrecy and not wanting non-magical users to know witches exist, but I figure when in Rome...

[ANYWAY 2.0] Tell me about yourselves. [She goes to turn the video off in wait, but it still catches the last mutter:] Bloody hell, I need a hat.

[ooc; NOTE ON TIMING: backdate this to before the plot rolls start, please.]

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[Wait. Wait. Is this what Lily felt when she first heard Hermione was from the future?]

Twenty-two?! Blimey - medicine must've advanced so much! [Among other things, right??]

[biomed]

Well, two-hundred and sixty years in the future, I'd sure hope so. Some of the medical practices of the nineteen-nineties are practically barbaric in comparison.

Does your society have healers, or do they see medical doctors?

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...wow. It would be incredible to see what the future medicine advances look like, to be calling mine barbaric. [A pause.] My parents are both dentists. At least if I tell you that, you won't ask me what on earth that is, right? [You'd be surprised how many people don't know what dentistry is in the group. Like a pretty vast majority. Hargreeves might know, but they are more the type to knock teeth out than to floss.]

The wizarding world has hospitals, but the medicine is different than modern day medicine. More potions-based than surgery-based.

[biomed]

( That gets a laugh out of him, warm and low in his belly. )

Yes, I know what dentists are. They were rolled into general practice a number of years ago, much like optometry, though plenty still choose to specialize. Most Earth doctors aren't just treating humans anymore.

( Should he be bringing up the whole, traveling-the-stars-and-meeting-aliens thing? Technically his COs have, so, whatevs. He nods at her summation, intrigued. )

Medicine where I come from is similar. It's rare for us to need to open a patient up these days, so many treatments are pharmacological, or we use tools that diagnose, and stimulate cell renewal and healing. Do you know how to make some of those potions?

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Some of them by memory, yes - not all of them. [How on Earth would non-surgical medicine work, then, she wonders? What kind of advances in technology will there be, two hundred and sixty years into her future?]

I've been brewing the ones I made a lot over the past year, with herbs grown locally. To different degrees of success - my Dreamless Sleep potion is about as effective as sniffing lavender.

[biomed]

Shame, ( and he means it, truly, ) That sounds like it could be useful around here.

What kind of training do you go through, as a witch? Do your people have schools too?

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It would be, but experimental potions brewing shouldn't be left entirely in the hands of someone who didn't even finish school. [She's deflecting; she knows she's smart. The trouble is, without all the books and notes from home, she can't make any adjustments without the risk of putting someone in danger.]

We do, by the way. It's a school of witchcraft and wizardry, of course. We learned a number of disciplines that could help us in adulthood. Charms, Transfiguration, Herbology, Defense - It would take a long time to explain them all.