Cameron sat there, wondering what the right thing to say was. He couldn't offer to make her a witch, and nothing would be more cruel than trying to sneak her in and only have her disappointed in the end. He couldn't help that he was a wizard anymore than she couldn't help that she was a muggle.

"Well there's enough muggleborns in the world. They all have families, and I'm sure they do just fine." Or they get thrown out or ultimately separated from them in adulthood. There had to be muggleborns out there who regularly interacted with their muggle relatives, but Cameron had once accepted—long before Maddy had become his step-sister—that he would one day grow apart from his natal family.

"If it helps, there's a whole class at Hogwarts dedicated to the study of muggles. Wizards and witches don't understand you either. They don't understand muggle inventions and lifestyles." Well, half of them believed muggles inferior on some level, even if they were not openly discriminatory. The others were interested, but did not always understand muggles.

(Cameron knew he would one day marry a witch. He could not think of marrying a woman who he could not share the magical world with. How depressing. He still wasn't sure how Mr. Bell had managed.)

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