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[augury_megan]

It was clearly old, the leather binding a bit worn and cracked.

The cover read "The Gentleman's Magazine" by Sylvanus Urban. January - June Edition, 1849.

There was a slip of parchment forcing the book to open to a page 481. A passage highlighted.

"The seize quartiers is the most difficult and certainly most satisfactory test of the purity of blood."

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[aug_linusvaisey]

A book is returned to Megan. It is old, and once unwrapped discovered to be a book of Shakespeare. With it, a bookmark which opens to a very specific page. It is that of Act III, Scene I of The Merchant of Venice.

The words are magically highlighted under Shylock.

Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

[augury_megan]

You never fail to inspire deeper thought. But I doubt the people you associate with will agree with this Muggle writer.

I may need your help in the near future. I will let you know when.