"Muggles do tend to get mixed up about things," Ford agreed, at the comments about various types of beings and beasts. They never really had their stories straight, either, from one group of them to the next... but that made sense, he supposed, because it was silly to expect that Muggles might be a monolith just as it was ridiculous to suggest that all of wizardkind was alike. Still, it made for interesting subject matter back in his Muggles Studies course, because the strange things that Muggles believed about everything seemed to have no end.

(He wasn't sure about that line they want something else, though. It might be technically true, because vampires didn't necessarily want to kill people so much as they wanted blood so they could keep on surviving, themselves... but since killing people was a relatively major step in the process, Ford didn't think it did anyone any favors to mince words on technicalities, in this instance. Werewolves and kelpies, too — sure, maybe they wanted something else, but if they killed you it didn't matter much, did it?)

"Good thing it doesn't work like that, huh?" he continued cheerfully, in response to the comment about traumatic deaths. "If anything, I think the people I've talked with who died in awful ways are even more interesting than the normal ones. They've got great stories," he said, though it occurred to him he had never stopped to consider why that was. Maybe the sorts of people who had interesting, dramatic lives — the sorts of lives that made for great stories — often found themselves in the way of violent death. Hm.