"If you've seen the trouble between mages and non-mages here," Hermione explains gently, "you might understand why some people may have opted to hide the magical world completely. I come from one such world." And she'll be happy to answer any questions on that, once she's done hearing about where Kain had come from.

"My world is also known as Earth," she tells him cheerfully as she jots down his name and the name of his world. "But I've never heard of Baron, and as I'd mentioned, magic is hidden, where I'm from. What sort of creatures do you have that you'd put under the umbrella of 'magical monsters'?"