Both of which could be quite usefully applied in any number of situations. "Tell me more about it," he said, leaning forward against his desk and clasping his fingers together. "Is the loss of ability and memory to the other permanent over an extended period of time?" He remembered when she'd attacked him and it had certainly been interesting. Now Magnus wondered what the prolonged effect could be- other than death, of course.
"Can you take particular memories?" he pressed further, "Can you choose what aspect of an ability you can take?" He would hope, if nothing else, her time at Xavier's would have taught her something about her abilities. For all of his rival's faults, Xavier had always done his utmost to learn the hows and whys of mutations. Magnus, on the other hand, needed only to know how they could be useful.