He can understand Hermione's confusion. It was kind of complicated if you weren't used to it after all.
"People are afraid of things that are potentially stronger and dangerous to them. They don't quite like the idea of someone who can throw fire just because they can." Being afraid of things you don't know makes sense, everyone does it even instinctively. So he can understand the wariness of the masses on mages, but yes it does suck.
"Yes and no. Anything from the Fade is a spirit, they are meant to stay on their side of the Veil. Good spirits generally want to help, but don't generally want to come over. Then you have the bad spirits that we call Demons. They seek to 'live' on this side of the Veil, which often means tricking people, mostly mages, into giving them a body. A spirit moving into a body is a possession, but when it's the body of a mage they become an abomination - a spirit capable of using the mage's abilities and then some."
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"People are afraid of things that are potentially stronger and dangerous to them. They don't quite like the idea of someone who can throw fire just because they can." Being afraid of things you don't know makes sense, everyone does it even instinctively. So he can understand the wariness of the masses on mages, but yes it does suck.
"Yes and no. Anything from the Fade is a spirit, they are meant to stay on their side of the Veil. Good spirits generally want to help, but don't generally want to come over. Then you have the bad spirits that we call Demons. They seek to 'live' on this side of the Veil, which often means tricking people, mostly mages, into giving them a body. A spirit moving into a body is a possession, but when it's the body of a mage they become an abomination - a spirit capable of using the mage's abilities and then some."