Theo blinked, taken by surprise but finally, after his numerous uncharacteristic emotional outbursts he finally seemed to have gotten a grim on himself again and hid the flicker of surprise before it appeared on his face. Curse Longbottom for running into him here of all places! Here, where Theo felt vulnerable because he had not yet come to terms with the shadow of a man his father had become.
Outwardly unimpressed, Theo placed an easy smile on his face as he turned back to Neville, watching the Entry Witch wince from the corner of his eye. "I see you're used to hospitals and their abysmal staff." Theo said loudly, then lowered his voice. "Not to sound ungrateful but you might want to be careful. The next thing she does is rush to the staff lounge and start gossiping about that Longbottom bloke being Pro-Death Eaters." He scoffed, though there was a hidden smile in there somewhere. "Trust me, I've met enough of those people. You might have just turned into the personification of evil in her eyes."