Quickly, Hermione began to walk through the hamlet’s near-empty streets, searching for a way to approach the fortress. The magical community seemed to be almost entirely disconnected from other settlements, with no paths leading from it to the lush valley below or any sort of outside road. Instead only a thin, meandering path connected it to the fortress towering up above. The wind picked up as she began to ascend through the slope, forcing her to cast a heating charm on her cloak when she was only halfway there.