Reborn As A Squib In Harry potter

We saw a lot, though. We climbed the Eiffel Tower early in the morning, had lunch at a café across from Notre Dame, and then of course toured the famous cathedral where the Hunchback had once lived and rung bells all the livelong day.

And no, he wasn't a real figure. He was, for once, an entirely fictional character made up by Victor-Marie Hugo. Something I was relieved to find out. I'd been half worried I'd been descended from the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

After all, my birth-family in this world was called 'Hunch' and the magical side of things was both uninspired when it came to naming things and a bit too laisse-faire. I mean, who the fuck thinks it's okay to name their offspring 'Erroneous?!' So it hadn't been beyond the pale for an ancestor of my family to be that famous figure.

Thankfully, that wasn't the case, and I didn't have to be worried about the logistics of such a ridiculous origin.

Besides that, we took an evening stroll through a portion of the infamous Catacombs. It was creepy, and there were a lot of ghosts down there. I was glad Sam couldn't see them. Harry and I soon envied him. There's only so long you can stand to be shouted at in archaic French by a bunch of rotting plague victims before it becomes tedious.

Today, however, was Sunday, and that meant it was time for a trip to the Louvre! Getting the tickets had been a bit of a hassle, but well worth it. I had a feeling we'd be in there for the whole day.

"Good afternoon," an usher said in accented English as we entered the Louvre shortly after it opened. "Do you wish for any guides or pamphlets?"

"I would. Can I get one for the regular side of things, and another for the 'special' tour, as suggested by Beauxbatons?" I inquired, speaking the code words for getting into the magical side of the museum.

"Of course," the usher said with only a slight tilt of the head to acknowledge my words. "Anything else?"

"Where's the entrance to the magical exhibits?" Harry asked curiously, eyes shining as they darted around, and the usher smiled a bit at his excitement.

"There's a special door you can take at the Pavilion de l'Horloge," he said helpfully. "You can't miss it."

We thanked him, and after he gave us the two guides for the museum tours, we began our exploration.

The Louvre was massive, and I was glad we'd slated the entire day to explore it. There was a lot to see just in the mundane sections!

"Apparently, the Mona Lisa is unfinished," I muttered to myself as I read the pamphlet for the magical side of things as we observed the famous portrait. "It was supposed to be turned into a magical portrait, but a series of events resulted in there being no payment for it, leaving him with the painting in his possession."

"So, was Leonardo Da Vinci a Squib?" Harry asked curiously.

"Leonardo Da Vinci wasn't a magical or even a Squib, just plain Muggle. But back in the day, before the Statute of Secrecy, it wasn't uncommon for mundane craftsmen to work alongside magical ones. After all, someone has to make the base item for enchanted artifacts," I explained.

"Really makes you wonder how different things could have been, if we hadn't been forced to separate like this," Sam muttered.

"Agreed," I said with a nod.

The whole Statute of Secrecy thing had been a bit of an overreaction, in my opinion. What, exactly, did the Muggles of the 17th century actually do to harm the magicals?

If the wizarding community had really wanted to hide themselves they'd have done it at the start of the Spanish Inquisition. Or maybe earlier when Christianity started to get too big for it's britches.

Seriously, the magicals were so far above the rest of the world at the time that they didn't need to go into hiding. A few spells to isolate their more vulnerable communities would have worked just fine. And they were already doing that in most cases! And even if they were hunting down magicals in Europe, the continents of Asia, Africa, Australia, and the America's were pretty much doing just fine, if not better. Mages were respected on the other continents.

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