"Oh, right then, um." Lily cleared her throat and looked again at the wand in her hand. "It's sort of a conduit, if you like, for magic." Looking back to him she gave a hesitant nod before turning her attention to the book at her feet.

Once again she used the complicated little hand motion to cause the jet of warm air to return, blowing through the notebook's pages before gently closing the cover.

"Are you," she began, faltering. "Did that make anything clearer?" One of the benefits of the Statute of Secrecy was that one didn't find themselves having to have the 'yes I am a witch' conversation with that many people. She supposed now she didn't have much choice but to learn how - particularly if magic wasn't meant to be some big secret here.