"Oh ew. Well on the bright side Deuxi also had a slytherin phase and she totally grew out of it, he'll probably get bored of them as soon as he starts having math opinions they don't understand." 

"I guuuuessss. ... speaking of developing math opinions too cool for the Slytherins to understand I am lost reading this book Tri gave me, I think maybe he forgot I am not you, I have a list of questions?" 

"Oh yeah sure lemme see." 

"...and I guess Tonks is like special and impressive or whatever but it's really bad for social cohesion, you know, having to make exceptions--" 

"Is it? I wouldn't know, you're the expert on social cohesion." 

"Take Ed Bones, right. We love Ed. Ed loves everyone. It's such a waste of his talents and energy, a good supportive community would be helping him filter, you know? Like Prince, sure, staggeringly talented and her mom is only mildly an embarrassment, but like, some of the Ravenclaws who are barely worthy of the name- unlike you, of course- I mean, we call it a friendship quest because it takes effort. You won't help anybody if you burn yourself out trying to help the unhelpable." 

"I see, I see..." 

"So how's your Kestrels this spring?" 

"Oh, absolutely avalanched by the Wasps. Nobody's been able to touch them for ages. Sasha thinks they're cheating but I think Bagman's just really good." 

"Did you hear that rumor that they tried to get Darren O'Hare to play Chaser?" Daniel does not entirely know what this sentence means but it's really important to him to know things about his friends' interests. 

"Oh man yeah. Insane behavior. O'Hare is the best Keeper of his generation and just because he's good at strategy they want him on offense? No wonder we're bottom of the league. They oughta fire whoever suggested that and make him the manager."