"I suspect stories about others were marginally more likely to see the light of day," he says drily. "My point exactly: whether or not there's a being called nature or god to have an opinion, the extinction of this species wouldn't create an intelligence vacuum that needed filling, only a void. Intelligence might or might not develop again, but there wouldn't necessarily be a pressing imperative. If intelligence is god's gift to man, nothing says he she or they must regift it, and if it's a fluke of nature, nothing says it must recur."
"You weren't interacting with magic when you did that," he points out, "but with charlatans. Segregation was strictly maintained in England in your century."
Severus looks at him warily. "I'm not familiar with that term, master-eye."
Thanks! And thanks again. (g) Holmes's dominant eye thing is making me miss archery. :(