[ In this together, he thinks wryly, smiling at how Credence lets some of his tension go.
It might be a bad idea - he doesn't have all the details, here - but. Well. Left to his own devices he would probably have stared at the ceiling for a while before picking a fight with some poor nurse in the hopes of strongarming his way out.
Instead he's laughed and had coffee. It's not as bad as it could be.
Credence's question is not one neatly answered, but Percival opts to cut it down to what little is known to be true, without doubt. ]
A wizard or witch is able to 'do spells' primarily through access to magic, which is inherited, and with added training so one knows just what the hell one is doing and what one is aiming for. My training mostly involved wands, but a great deal of magic and potion making can be managed without.
You're proof of that.
Potions and magic... potions have much stricter rules on how one goes about creating them, and you can't make a potion without magical aptitude. The things one can do with magic are astounding, and potions are just. A very specialized sort of magic. There's various specializations really.
[ Textbooks would be better, Percival thinks, but hopefully he hasn't made things unusably confusing. ]
How long do you have to remain in the hospital for?
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[ In this together, he thinks wryly, smiling at how Credence lets some of his tension go.
It might be a bad idea - he doesn't have all the details, here - but. Well. Left to his own devices he would probably have stared at the ceiling for a while before picking a fight with some poor nurse in the hopes of strongarming his way out.
Instead he's laughed and had coffee. It's not as bad as it could be.
Credence's question is not one neatly answered, but Percival opts to cut it down to what little is known to be true, without doubt. ]
A wizard or witch is able to 'do spells' primarily through access to magic, which is inherited, and with added training so one knows just what the hell one is doing and what one is aiming for. My training mostly involved wands, but a great deal of magic and potion making can be managed without.
You're proof of that.
Potions and magic... potions have much stricter rules on how one goes about creating them, and you can't make a potion without magical aptitude. The things one can do with magic are astounding, and potions are just. A very specialized sort of magic. There's various specializations really.
[ Textbooks would be better, Percival thinks, but hopefully he hasn't made things unusably confusing. ]
How long do you have to remain in the hospital for?