"That must have been very...unnerving. To suddenly learn about the forces of the universe around you." Ariadne could easily see such a thing breaking a lesser spirit. Not that she knew much about Hermione's spirit. But she seemed...relatively unbroken.

She tried to imagine first learning about magic herself. But she couldn't really remember a time when it hadn't been a basic fact of life.

Science, on the other hand...

She'd been so very baffled by an electrical light, the first time she'd seen one. She must have spent a whole day flipping it on and off again.