"It's useful," she admitted. "The public transportation. I've been learning the subway and busses and the like." She wondered what 'the usual way' was, but reasoned it was what she'd mentioned before. It sounded intriguing, but she didn't want to pry too much.
Lily thought about Susan's take on magic, shrugging a little. "I suppose that's the heart of it, yes. It's just always ben taught that dark wizards practice dark magic and there are dark spells. It isn't as though we go about thinking of every-day magic as light magic." She smiled slightly before she exhaled softly.
"I've spent most of my time since school on the wizarding side of London," Lily replied. "We've got a diverse enough population that this place isn't so foreign in that regard, but we were a touch more advanced, I think. I couldn't be sure though. I think we would have appreciated a hero on our side of things," she agreed. The war was scary and disrupting so many lives and costing so many people friends and families and loved ones. A hero would have been welcome news.
"I can relate," she said again. "I only held a couple of jobs, over the summers. Waitressing, and as a cashier. Even if I'd had more experience than all that, I've no one to vouch for it here. It's making this whole job thing difficult." She hoped she found something soon before she had to resort to selling her coins. That carried a finality she wasn't ready to consider yet; long-term planning was still something she was avoiding as well as she could.