"Listen, I already have a cat, a horse, and a wolf ... if I get a nuggalope they're going to start charging me rent for all of them." She smirks wearily, before she looks up at the other woman. "I can't argue with that. I just ..."

She waved her hand, frustrated again. "Don't I have the right to have a voice of my own? Doesn't every half-blood? Why do we have to hide in the shadows and pretend to be something we're not? Why can't we accept both sides of our parentage, instead of having to deny one for the other?"