[quote=Imperfectionist]
 Ah, I him! Just the kind of person Emma would seek out.:) If they have any kind of prior history, I bet they taught each other quite a bit. Emma really is supposed to be closer to the "core" of magic than most people, hence the aptitude for wandless spells and rituals and that kind of thing, but it's more intuitive, more instinctual, while Michael is the colder, methodical, sciency type. So, his perspectives on the nature of magic could have been broadened from his conversations with and observations of her, while her understanding of she does what she does, and what magic really would be fostered in return!
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I think they may have tried an official mutual learning system, but I don't think it would have worked for Emma or Michael. He works by breaking everything down into its constituent parts and taking each individually, which is a slow and tedious process, and I doubt Emma would be able to sit through it. Apart from anything else, he's quite quiet about his research, not least because it involves breaking into the dark arts, which is obviously [u]not cool[/u] (if only there were a member of the group with a strong grounding in the dark arts... It's almost like I've planned this). That said, he may well have a fascination with her magic and pay attention slightly more subtly, while agreeing, if that's what she wanted, to a certain degree of tuition.