Ezra was about to cut in with a deflection about how they didn't even know if he'd be accepted into the training programme yet, much less become an auror — he was not particularly fretful about not making the cut, but given how selective the program was he thought it best to hedge everyone's expectations whenever possible — but Byron's question distracted him. What did he take him for? Was this a trick question? Byron was looking at him as though it was rhetorical, as though the answer was obvious, but Ezra felt he'd missed some crucial bit of make-believe context.

"... A pirate?" he guessed, hoping that this was the right answer — or at least not the kind of incredibly false answer that would provoke the eleven-year-old's outrage.

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