Tea sounds a lot better than he would have thought. He nods his thanks rather than say anything, but hey, it's acknowledgement.
"You've likely got the head start, but it may depend on how many times I have to tangle with the Muggle ones to really understand what they're on about."
"You might be surprised," Lily leaned against the tree she'd left the mugs on and watched the line of the coast ahead. "There's not much difference between stories written about Muggles and Wizards, everyone cares about the same things. Of course, the lack of magic does lend itself to situations that have been resolved more easily, still, guile and skill matter."
"It's not the situations that I really expect to present a problem. It's the set dressing. There's a cultural gap there that's only grown as Muggle technology expands, and even if I'd been able to get away with Muggle Studies... I'm not sure I'd have trusted it to be reliable information, just from comparing what was said about it in the common room to looking outside my house."
Granted, most Slytherins who bothered with the class were doing so in order to mock the Muggles they were supposedly studying, but still.
(Also: Get this boy a ballpoint pen and he will never look back.)
Nodding thoughtfully she had another sip of tea, considering the matter of set dressing for a moment before speaking up once more. "Muggle Studies isn't exactly unreliable, though I'd say it was very out of date," Lily paused again, turning away from the sight of the shore to look back at Regulus.
"You could ask, you know. I do know something of Muggle life." She knew more than just something really. While Lily embraced the magical side of her life, she hadn't completely abandoned all things Muggle for the sake of it. Who in their right mind could turn their back on a part of their life that contained such wonderous things as David Bowie after all?
"I'd probably have learned more accurate information by looking out my bedroom window, honestly." Granted, that would have come with no context other than his mother's rants about the neighborhood slowly but surely going Muggle.
As though any of them could see the house, let alone get into it.
"I'm aware. And when I do decide to take on those books, I likely will do. It wouldn't do me much good to refuse a resource that's right here."
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"You've likely got the head start, but it may depend on how many times I have to tangle with the Muggle ones to really understand what they're on about."
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Granted, most Slytherins who bothered with the class were doing so in order to mock the Muggles they were supposedly studying, but still.
(Also: Get this boy a ballpoint pen and he will never look back.)
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"You could ask, you know. I do know something of Muggle life." She knew more than just something really. While Lily embraced the magical side of her life, she hadn't completely abandoned all things Muggle for the sake of it. Who in their right mind could turn their back on a part of their life that contained such wonderous things as David Bowie after all?
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As though any of them could see the house, let alone get into it.
"I'm aware. And when I do decide to take on those books, I likely will do. It wouldn't do me much good to refuse a resource that's right here."