Before answering, Touma looked around in case some pureblood kid would hear him and take offense.

"Wizarding Britain can be...set in its ways," he said delicately. He was always too caught up in the Muggle aristocracy to see enough of wizarding Austria to compare. "Unfortunately this includes considerable discrimination against other species."

It was something he'd observed from the Prophet and some of his textbooks, as well as in his occasional visits to Diagon Alley. He couldn't help drawing a parallel with his grandmother's attitude towards the lower classes and his own mother.