"Y'know, that's a heckuva curse you got there, but may I point out..." He pauses, finds a bit of stick, and scratches in the dirt in a manner he hopes is suggestive. "You can more or less write, so that's handy. I knew a guy who managed to transmute himself into a jelly back in the academy. I think he switched over to conjuration after the professors got him turned back." Taako's a silver lining kind of guy as long as it's about other people's inconveniences. If it's him, it's a national tragedy and everyone has to talk about it.