"You've got it," Val chirps. She's already started following Lionel, naturally. It's fun to keep tabs on her classmates. Who are they hanging out with, who has a crush on who, who's buying what, so on and so forth.

"It's easy to be totally checked out from what muggles are up to," she ponders, putting her phone back in her clutch purse. "And then suddenly it's like no one understands television or the internet. My dad listens to a wireless show about magical artifact antiquing, which you think would be a lot more fun with, you know, pictures?"