"They are," Gideon admitted. Which was the whole reason they were having this conversation in the first place. If there was one choice that was obviously the best, he would have just made it and explained to her afterwards why it was in her best interest. As it was, the route she would probably be most inclined towards — going to Hogwarts and introducing herself as a boy — was the one that seemed to contain the greatest amount of risk to him. Going as a girl would at least ensure that she could keep on at Hogwarts from year to year, if she wanted to, and that she wouldn't find herself in any particularly compromising situations — but it was also the option that offered them the least flexibility in the future. He could foresee a scenario where she started Hogwarts as a boy, for instance, and decided after five or seven years that she'd rather live as the sex she'd been born with, and if that happened he might be able to change her name and introduce her as a distant cousin, or something. It wouldn't be ideal, but it would be easier to introduce a mysterious young woman to society (he thought) than to try and get a job as a boy if she had no social connections and no OWL or NEWT scores in her name to lean on.

"We don't have to decide today," he said with a slight nod. "But soon. Probably before your letter comes." If they were going to try and pass her off as a boy, he'd have to respond to the Hogwarts letter which 'incorrectly' listed her as Wilhelmina right away, or else they'd have no hopes of convincing anyone. Hopefully the Hogwarts staff would be inclined to take him at his word, if they went that route — he couldn't imagine that any of the professors would be inclined to actually check, but he didn't know that.

"No, before that," he said as he connected some dots in his head. "We'd need to go see a solicitor and get something official that has a name on it, if we wanted to tell Hogwarts you were a boy. Because their records would have the name your mother gave you, you know. A girl's name."