"I'm not finding anything. Do you want to ask the librarian? Not about our theory specifically, but the origins of magical creatures."

"Haven't found anything either so sure."

She walks over to the librarian's desk. "Hi, Ms Pince. Do you have a minute?"

"Hmm? Yes, dear, what is it?"

"We were wondering if there are any books on where magical creatures come from. Like did they just appear someday or did someone make them?"

She blinks slowly. "Did wizards appear someday or did someone make them?" she counters.

"I don't know but I'd like to. I understand if nobody knows though."

"I don't know offhand where one would find this information if anyone even has it. I certainly haven't heard any satisfactory answer to the question."

"Alright, thank you for your help Ms. Pince."

"You're welcome, dear."

Sarah walks over to a table and sits down. "Well that's disappointing."

"I didn't really expect much different, to be honest."

"Yeah, I guess. I'm just used to science where there's usually an answer or at least 'people are trying to find the answer but it's complicated.'"

"There are very few of us. Like... how many people are even scientists of any given type? How many—what are they called—the ones that study fossils..."

"I don't actually know. I never met one but I haven't met that many people."

"Well, those—how many of those are there? And there's, like, six billion people in the world. And almost no magical people. So maybe there just aren't enough of us to do much science."

"Yeah, that makes sense. It doesn't stop it from being disappointing though."

"If it wasn't all a secret muggles could help."

"That's true, I'm not sure how much that would help though. It depends on how many experiments muggles could actually do without wizards to help them."

"I'm sure we could get lots of teams with just one wizard to do stuff for most things."

"Maybe. I don't think I know enough to judge."

Shrug. "Definitely better than zero."

"I worry that there might be good reasons for magic being secret I haven't learned yet."

"Yeah, but... if so, no one explains them when I ask."

"The only reason I've heard is that there aren't enough witches and wizards to help all the muggles. I don't know if that's true though. I heard it from one of my roommates."