"I think I'll miss Hogwarts but I thought maybe by seventh year one gets sick of it." She starts reassembling Miranda's scattered notes. "Like how one apparently starts to want to get married."

"People feel different ways about that, I think."

"Well, I'm a Muggleborn, I can be as scandalous as I please and my parents won't even know to be disappointed in me. But most people seem in a right hurry."

"Not everybody, the ones who haven't found someone yet are just less conspicuous. Plenty of people get married when they're twenty-five."

"That'd be better. A little time to - figure yourself out -"

"Meet a wider variety of people, that sort of thing, yeah."

"What're you going to do once you graduate? - there's a spell for reorganizing these, isn't there, and I've been doing it all by hand -"

"I wouldn't've let you do that, there's actually not a good one unless the paper's pre-enchanted and this isn't. You don't have to though, I can do it if you'd rather - anyway make wands probably, live with my parents till I get married and help with my little brother. It'd be fun to have a spinster place in London with Miranda for a couple years in between but she's probably going to marry Minor the day after graduation - maybe plus long enough for wedding planning -"

" - oh, but that would be fun -"

"Yeah - I could do it on my own, Timothy's not in a hurry, but that's not as interesting and the wands don't bring in so much money that I want to fling it around for no reason."

"On your own would be lonely. With another girl'd be fun."

"Well, as far as I know nothing's stopping you."

"I'd have to meet someone. But maybe."

"D'you get on with Miranda's other pet underclassman? Fawley? I dunno."

"She's a little kid. I suppose by the time we graduate she won't be."

"I guess you wouldn't graduate at the same time."

"Tess Abbott's pretty and my year and not presently rushing headfirst at an engagement but I don't know her well enough to suggest anything."

"- ah -"

" - isn't she, though? Not the way you are, she's, hmm, fluffier? But I still like looking at her in class. There, that's all the notes in order - I should bring Swan a biscuit, too, she looked like she was tearing her hair out over that essay."

"- I don't know that I'd be able to identify Abbott on sight, um. Thank you."

"Yeah, sure!" Off she goes.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Timothy gets a password-protected letter which if tapped with his wand and told "palladium" will reveal a note.

I have no idea if I have just been flirted with but supposing I had been what do I need to do to be circumspect about the boyfriend I have???

Awwww. He doesn't mind, and you can leave it at that until you're really sure of them?

You're sure that's good enough?

Are you worried that not being clearer would sabotage a potential relationship? I'm assuming if people are flirting with attached classmates they probably wouldn't regard it as a dealbreaker if you were in fact attached.