I enjoy it, I'm just sorely out of practice, I suspect. I always did enjoy Arithmancy and Runes, and that did contain a surprising amount of math. But I don't think I"m up to the level they have for that sort of thing. It is quite amazing.
It's not wasting your brains. A bit of a trade off, as you say, but you're still using it, just in a different way. I think people underestimate that kind of thing in people who are drawn to the arts. That's not a mistake I make, in general. Being creative is not an easy thing.
Ah, Mars. And wouldn't that be quite extraordinary? A whole other planet. I wonder if magic would work on it the same way it does here, or at all. Can you even imagine? I've read a few ancient treatises on going other such places, though of course as far as anyone knows, no one has actually made it there (or if they have, they did not survive it). I keep waiting to see if the Muggles discover old bodies of wizards who got there and died or some such.
This is one of the rare times I admit I find the Statute limiting, as I don't think one side or the other can do it alone.
Very true. I know for many it's less a matter of choice than need, and I've been in that position too. The kindness of others has always been a great boon, as awful as it has made me feel on occasion.