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[bootme]

There are things you can not tell, you know.

Here's something for you. My mother, as many of you know, is a biologist. I was raised around fossils and books full of Linnean names and things about the Cambrian. I can identify an Anomalocaris at ten paces. Which I bet most other people here couldn't do

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[nott_a_lot]

I was taught some piano before I came to Hogwarts. I don't know if it did me much good, however, as sometimes I can't listen to music without tearing it down to its most basic components. It's hard to enjoy pieces, then. Would you rather know music than Biology, Boot? It seems to me you rather like to know what you know. Perhaps we are lucky to be aware of the realities we know and other people can't even begin to imagine, like notes in a piece of piano music or fossils.

[bootme]

I am quite fond of knowing both what I know and what I might, someday, be able to find out. But you cannot deny that it is a bother to realise you have run up against the wall of language.

I might never want to teach anyone the difference between, say, three Trilobites, but it does sting to know that the words might not exist to do so.

[nott_a_lot]

I was under the impression you weren't going to teach anyone the difference between those things you mention. Regardless of your personal opinion, information wasn't always meant to be shared.

I can't say I worry much about the walls of language, these days. I would like to find tonnes of things wrong with N.E.W.T.S., but alas, Slytherins are not Ravenclaws.

[bootme]

Oh, I wasn't, believe me. I have never even wished to.

Then again, I've never wished to journey to the absolute centre of the earth and burn to a cinder, but there is a way in which it rather stings that I cannot.

On the other hand, there are a number of things I would never tell anyone, and I am proud of such because I could, but choose not to. It's the choice, you see. The ability.

And you should worry, you know. A lot. One day, you might find yourself pushed up against them.