August nodded, accepting Miss Adebayo's pushback. He had barely jaunted into Africa — it would probably, he thought, be good for him to travel more. But not until he was married, and Lysander needed to be well-established at Hogwarts.

"There's been an incredible increase in development in Berlin in the past decade," August said. He'd heard the sewers had been quite disgusting in the early 1870s, but that was not the sort of thing one brought up at a party. "And it was lovely to be in a city which felt as if it were — at the forefront of something new. You may think that's silly."