"Yes, that's probably it," Hermione agreed. "That and- well, it's just a shock, to find everything in working order like this. A whole pick-and-mix civilisation, it's..." She shook her head.

Impressive? Unusual? Frightening?

"I found directions to a library. I haven't actually been in there yet- I got side-tracked by somebody." Somebody who she wasn't going to talk about until she was very, very sure that Martha was trustworthy. She'd take Snape's word for it when it came to her own wellbeing- but Harry's (or not Harry's, as the case may be, Sebastian's) was a different matter entirely. "Still, I heard some very promising things about records and statistics on the um, immigration system around here."