"The moving staircases didn't help," Lucy agreed. She'd been lucky enough never to get stuck in one, but she'd seen it happen a few times. Mostly, she'd just had the nerve to jump when she noticed the staircase start to move. "It was a lot to get used to, but Sprout helped with that too."
Lucy nodded, thinking that Bryn's mum's situation didn't sound so different from her own - except that she hadn't had children to worry about, and somehow that made it easier to talk about. "No one in my family is magical, except me. During the war, when they said I couldn't go back, I just... made a life for myself in the muggle world. It was easier, in a lot of ways, but I guess I'm trying the magical thing again now." She shrugged, hoping he wouldn't find that too strange.