"Are we there already?"
Watching Albert enter the hall, his face similarly a little pale, Hermione felt as though she were dreaming. She had only taken a sip of water, yet Albert had come to tell her they had already arrived in Australia? "Wasn't that much faster than expected?"
Albert forced a smile at Hermione. Using Apparition to leap across one country after another had really taken a toll on him.
"It was indeed fast, but are you all right?" Hermione had noticed Albert's pale complexion as well.
"It feels like riding several roller coasters in a row. I'll be fine after sitting down and resting for a while." Albert was rather surprised by his own resistance to it. The last time he had used Apparition to travel to the Far East, it had taken him quite some time to cross half the globe. If he did this a few more times, he probably would not even be out of breath when Apparating around the world in the future.
"Since we've arrived in Australia anyway, why don't you sit down and rest for a while first?" Hermione's gaze at Albert was unusually complicated. After pouring him a glass of water, she suggested, "Once we've recovered, we can go look for them together."
"All right!"
Albert did not refuse Hermione's kindness. He merely ran through the plan for finding her parents in his mind.
Having lost the original backup method for locating them, they would have to use other means to find Hermione's parents in vast Australia.
Albert knew his own Divination abilities best. They were certainly effective, but they might not locate the people they sought right away.
They could probably start with the Muggles, but getting them to pull up immigration records from the past few years and narrow