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[look]

[ the number's a 022, but there's no questions about where they are or when they get to go home. will doesn't even really want to be making this post, but people are talking about animal bones, human remains, blood. and that's kind of his gig. ]

I'm not a trained forensic analyst, but if we've got the equipment to do so, I'd be willing to try and take a look at the organic tissue people found in their lockers. I got meat. Anyone else?

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know-it-all coming through

[unapparent]

Actually, I've read several books that suggest magic is a counterpart to science.

Muggles (non-magic folk) have science, well, the more advanced branches that is. Wizards have magic and they hardly know anything of science. It's not something I've heavily researched by any means, but it is a theory. If you'd like a demonstration, Harry or myself would be happy to oblige.

As he mentioned, we have several spells that could help with the investigation, transportation, and restoration of evidence.

i love you lara and i apologize in advance

[look]

If you haven't heavily researched it, why posit the theory?

bring it

[unapparent]

It was relevant to your statement, and I prefer to be thorough.

[ all sides of an argument, etc. ]

[look]

You don't need to know anything about science to be bound by the laws of the universe. My statement, my hypothesis, is that whatever wizards call "magic" would still turn out to be a combination of biology and chemistry and physics, if our understanding of them was advanced enough to be able to study it.

[unapparent]

Then we're in agreement for the most part.

The basics seem to be a manipulation of reality, but there are also abstract branches of magic, which are very difficult to explain. They involve death, emotion, and love. I know it might be that we simply don't understand them yet, but — the science of love, really. It's a hard sell, but all that I mentioned seem to breach the laws of the universe and magic.

[look]

Psychiatry says otherwise. Neurology. Endocrinology. Our fleeting, liminal abstractions do not come from a void, nor do they exist in one.

[unapparent]

Forgive me if I misunderstand (again, wizard schooling is very limited), but with magic, our "liminal abstractions" aren't fleeting. They manifest and last after death.

[look]

You're going to end up making me philosophical. But I suppose I just meant that — our thoughts are fleeting. Comes with the biology. But I agree that stuff can last in the collective consciousness. People want to tap into that — fear, love, they can maintain a memory long after the act is faded. Still just science.

Understand that I do a lot of my work in the place between instinct and logic, but I'm a firm believer in explicable proof. If you say "magic" brought us here, or put items in our locker, or made someone fall in love, or broke the laws of physics in some way, I can't accept that as the sole explanation.