"What's the Fade?" she asked curiously. "Magic is just... it just is. It's a natural force that some people are born being able to wield and some aren't. The men are called wizards, the women witches; those who can't use magic are Muggles. It... gets a bit complicated after that. Magical families don't always have magical children, and sometimes Muggle families have magical children. I'm Muggle-born myself, so I spent the first eleven years of my life not even knowing that magic exists. Once I learned otherwise, I read every book on the subject I could get my hands on."

Pausing for a moment to think it over, she murmured, "But I've never heard of anything called the Fade. And dreams are only connected to magic insofar as Divination goes, and that's a dodgy subject all on its own."