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Stephen took a seat at the table, not exactly across from Tyrion -- then the stack of books would have stood between them -- but at something of a diagonal. "To say it is easier may not be true for everyone; there are some here who are quite good at charms and cannot seem to manage even the basic potions I teach in my class. I can say that to my mind, potions make far more intuitive sense. I might almost venture to say that to perform charms requires a certain sort of faith, a faith to which my own cast of mind is not lent. Before coming here, I was trained as a physician, though I do not practice the profession here, and it fell to me quite often to prepare medicines and ointments for my own patients. To me the so-called 'magic' of potions resides only in the scope of ingredients which the wizarding world knows and my world did not."