Fifteen -- video

[facesdeath]

[ It's unclear as to where Regulus is - the lighting is dim, and there's a figure across from him - though it's clearly not alive and to those that have seen one before, it's a training dummy.

Regulus is in frame and, with a lazy flick of his wand- ]

Expulso.

[ The dummy blasts apart instantly and the young wizard steps forward to examine the

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[orderonto]

[this is the sound of a cup of hot chai spilling all over someone's arm and lap.]

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[facesdeath]

... All right, there?

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[orderonto]

GOD DAMN, YOU BLEW IT UP? WITH MAGIC?

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[facesdeath]

Well, yes.

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[orderonto]

All of that destructive force, and you just...point and flick? Just so easily and effortlessly?

That's terrifying.

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[facesdeath]

Yes. You have to learn it first, of course.

It is, in the wrong hands.

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[orderonto]

Then what? It's a latent ability which must be cultivated? For that matter, who would one cultivate a...spell or whatever, to blow something up in the first place.

That's not a thought to give a man nightmares for life at all.

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[facesdeath]

Yes, it's something you're born with that shows up while you're a child and is cultivated in school. [ A pause. ] For the same reasons that muggles have weapons.

It would perhaps distress you more to hear that I've some talent as a duelist back home, Mohinder. However - those not involved in such things likely would not be able to blow something up with so much ease.

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[orderonto]

To kill one another, you mean?

I can't imagine having the kind of ability that magic would give someone to do good, and to use it for something like sport.

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[facesdeath]

My world was in war when I left it.

Sport is for children. I was something of a... soldier, I suppose you could put it.

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[orderonto]

A soldier?

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[facesdeath]

It is the simplest and closest parallel I can think of.

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[orderonto]

I'll never understand how something which could be used to heal would instead be used to kill.

Ever.

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[facesdeath]

There are different sorts of magic, just as there are different sorts of people - dark and light.

Just because we have magic does not make all of us good people by default.

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[orderonto]

I suppose not. I suppose that one might possibly need to...cultivate an appropriate defense against those who would abuse their power.

Magic or...otherwise.

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[facesdeath]

No world is perfect, so yes. There will always be conflict and those that harm others - with them, those that protect others, using the same weapons.

Magic or otherwise.