The man's commentary on the castle made Touma smile, but his question gave him pause. Touma did prefer Hogwarts' classes and magic to the image-obsessed aristocrats of home, but his house's fascination with blood purity, bizarrely similar to his grandmother's, didn't do much to make him feel native.

"If just over three years here make one a native, then yes," he settled for. "The name's Thomas H. Norstein."

He put his quill down to offer the man his hand.