It looked like a storybook house belonging to your favorite no-nonsense witch - which, come to think of it, sounded like both my parents."
-- Emmy (chapter 1)

Importance: Emmy is just arriving at home and shares her impressions of the Harlow family home. The homes of the other founding families are far more elaborate, which indicates that the Harlows are considered low in the social hierarchy of the magic community.

What I didn't tell her was just how oppressive living without magic could be, after having grown up with it running through you like a current, the absence of it a deep and relentless ache that sank its roots into the chambers of your heart like some encroaching weed. That part of the reason I wound up at Enchantify in the first place was that a (reasonably well-paid) excused to seek out even instruments of fake magic satisfied some deep yearning in my I...
-- Emmy (3 )