Sydney mulled over Emily's explanation, not sure she bought it. It was true, sometimes you could tell a text was garbage a few sentences in, but Sydney often ended up hate-reading things like that just to make sure she was truly justified in hating it. At Emily's mention of cliche's though, Sydney leant in, pulling the book towards her and flipping through it. "Ugh, you're right, there's no care for the suspense of the monster, or consistent metaphor for it I bet. Why bother writing about monsters at all if you're not going to use it to effectively reflect back on the reader's own humanity," She said haughtily, partially thrilled to be able to discuss fiction seriously with someone, and partly to make sure Emily still knew Sydney wasn't going to be out down by her literally analysis.
She was caught off guard again when Emily was actually interested in her project, anyone else seemed to think it sounded like dull homework to them and dismissed it. "Well, wizarding law is written in the most dull and inflexible way, but I haven't got much further than that. The government's seems to think awfully highly of itself to draw up so many rules around someone's personhood," She said. Truthfully, she hadn't gotten very far in reading anything yet. The law books were incredibly dense and hard to read and anything else she could find was steeped in prejudice or opinion which Sydney disagreed with. But she didn't want Emily to know that if she could avoid it.