"You go up to a connected fireplace, throw down Floo powder into it, wait for the flames to go green, then walk into it and say where you want to go, you spend a short time in inconvenient transit and then you arrive in a fireplace at your destination?"

"And there's a fireplace people usually arrive in here?"

"Yeah, it comes out at the Leaky Cauldron? You might've come through it on your way in."

"Coool! So after we're done can I visit?"

"Sadde, don't just invite yourself over to other people's places."

"I – you can probably have a quick look, at least? I'll have to check with mum, but since I don't think you've been to a wizard's house before…?"

"I haven't! You're the first wizard I've, like, actually really spoken to. Other than Professor Flitwick."

He nods. "Mum's not usually too fussy about when guests come around, she keeps the house sort of tidy as a general principle, so I think it'll be okay? And she likes talking to people from different backgrounds, especially since she's not really used to talking to muggles?"

"Okay! So after wands is Anthony's house!"

Sigh.

Relay notices this and says to Laura, sort of tentatively, "Mum will probably want to talk to you too, if that's okay?"

She smiles. "If she would like to talk, I would be delighted to meet her."

Smile. "It's only a sort of small house, we live actually in the city itself – smallest city in Britain, did I mention? – but we're towards the edge and have a few friends nearby, small greenhouse out back."

"Do you have magical plants?"

"A couple? But they're not super interesting ones."

"What do they do?"

(Laura will continue finding ingredients, then.)

Anthony has a look around too, and – "I think one is used in a potion for curing warts? There are a few other potion ingredients, one that changes colour when it's going to rain?"

"Cool!"

Laura has been here a while so now she has found all her ingredients. "Do you want me to show you where the first-year ingredients are?" she asks Anthony.

"That would be useful, please!"

She does, then. There are many ingredients, but now that she knows where they are they are easily found.

And then – "Is it okay if we go to the bookshop next?"

"Of course, that's where we were headed next anyway."

"Cool!" he says. "Uh, I think they have quite a few books in store. Something tells me you might want to be prepared when she, um, maybe tries to buy a library?"