Hermione decided her best bet lay in the manor house up ahead, so she stood and struck out for it. The road to get there led through elaborate gardens and Hermione stopped to consider new marvels as she passed through them. Every tree was resplendent in rose-pink blossoms, or groaning under the weight of golden apples; there were fountains of champagne-coloured water, which actually turned out to be champagne when Hermione tried a palm full as she grew thirsty, and a pond where rainbow-coloured fish with peacock-feather-type fins jumped and frolicked in the air as if to welcome Hermione on her journey.