Hermione's just reluctant to pin labels on without actually knowing the details of what a faerie is, at least in Ilde's case; she knows the folklore, but how could she judge based on that? She works- or did work (that thought gives her a pang of homesickness and worry every time it comes up)- in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, after all, trying to scrap oppressive laws and often finding herself talking to a wall as far as wizarding attitudes to magical non-humans go.

As for raised amongst humans, the first thing she thinks of is her own upbringing. "Gosh, I can imagine," she says. "I-" No. 'I was brought up amongst non-magical people?' Why not just broadcast it? She swiftly changes what she was going to say. "I suppose it's rather something to suddenly- realise? Be told? Find out? Sorry, I don't mean to ask personal questions- I'm just...curious."