Hermione had experience with time traveling; while she still didn't believe that some things were "meant to be", she'd seen how the actions of her future self had influenced her past. Things had worked out for the best, but only because she and Harry had gone back and set certain things in motion. What would her world have been like if she hadn't had that Time-Turner?

"So in your world, time travelers can set things in motion in the past that can completely alter the future? All without catastrophic consequences?" She seemed a bit skeptical but she was willing to believe that major cosmic laws could differ that greatly, considering that Kirk may well be from a different reality altogether. "When I was temporarily given the ability to time travel, one of the major rules I was given was never to interact with my past self, to never even let my past self know I was there. The few changes I made had to be subtle."

Carefully setting the book back down and hating that she needed a moment to catch her breath, Hermione shook her head to clear it before returning her full attention to Kirk. "If I draw from some specific source of power, I've never heard of it; it's always been described to be as simply a sort of energy. The best I've been able to guess is that, since mages her draw their magic from the Fade, the Fade is acting as a sort of interference to my natural ability." Shrugging a bit, she admitted, "I haven't figured out whether that means I need to work around the Fade or figure out some way to work with it, so overthinking it is probably what's caused so much trouble on my end."