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[guns_and_coffee]

Who: Cedric and Ianto
What: Magic on Earth? NO WAI!
When: Wednesday, 10 February
Where: demon tavern

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[guns_and_coffee]

Ianto smiled into his glass before taking another sip of lager. Cedric was smart. That was handy. It grew tiresome to have conversations with people who weren't. "Fortunately, the general population often refuses to acknowledge experiences with anything that doesn't fit with their neat little definition of the world. Made hiding the aliens a lot easier, at least until they started bringing ships the size of Wales into the atmosphere and threatening the world as a whole."

[cedricinshadows]

Cedric laughed into his glass, set it down without taking a sip, and began studying Ianto across the table. "I think... there is a difference between the abnormal outside of the personal realm, and the abnormal that threatens it. Some things are so far fetched that they're almost removed from your life." Degrees of separation and discomfort. There was something to be said for it. "Anyway, there's a little overlap. Witches and wizards marrying muggles, you have to tell them eventually." Hopefully before the children started manifesting.

[guns_and_coffee]

Muggles. There it was. Cedric had used that word back in August, and Ianto still didn't know what to think of it. The most logical explanation was that whatever translation spell was on the tree was turning Cedric's magical jargon into a word Ianto would understand. He'd been amused, but more than willing to go with it.

That was before he'd found out that in Cho's world, the Doctor was a character on the BBC.

Most people had not had the life Ianto had had, however. Most people had never seen hundred of their co-workers killed by creatures from a parallel Earth. Most people didn't know that parallel Earths existed at all. Those people were probably going to have a somewhat harder time accepting that on some Earth out there, they were fictional characters. So Ianto smiled pleasantly at Cedric and did not say a single word about Harry Potter. "How large is the magical population?" he asked instead.

[cedricinshadows]

"It's difficult to say with any certainty. There are pockets of strictly Wizarding population, but in larger cities they're usually mixed right in. In Japan there are just as many witches and wizards as there are muggles. Maybe even more. There's an enormous population in America. In England I think there are only a few hundred thousand now. The last war took its toll."

[guns_and_coffee]

"War?" Ianto was far from a Harry Potter expert, but you didn't have to be to know that war fit in with the plotline. On the other hand, people declared war on each other fairly constantly, so this was far from conclusive evidence. "What happened?" And here was the part where Cedric would talk about border boundaries or some such and definitely not an evil wizard named Voldemort.