"True enough," she admits. "I suppose what I meant is that I have more experience with adapting than I care to have." It's useful experience, but she'd really been hoping for some stability this school year.

Hermione hadn't known whether "healer" is a mage-specific title here or if it's a more general term, so when Sam implies that he is, in fact, a mage, her face lights up and she straightens a bit with interest. "You're a mage? There are so many of you here! Back home, magic is largely kept a secret, and the wizarding community - wizards and witches are the men and women who can do magic - is so small, relatively speaking. No wonder everyone knows about magic here if I seem to keep running into mages."