Neville listened as Ari hesitated a bit, agreeing with him that Ashley was a bad influence to break up the quiet for a moment.
"Oh!" he said, rubbing his chin. "I was actually wondering the same thing." That was all he said, through a nervous laugh. If Ashley and Ben were insisting that it was a date, then, Ari must be thinking that it's not... if she has to be convinced. Though, Neville's stomach did something odd, must've been because he would've liked it to be a date. Though if he said so... gods, now he remembered why he hadn't had a date in so long - he was Headmaster of Awkward at least.
They reached the gates and Neville smiled sheepishly and turned to Ari. "Meet in Diagon and go from there, or did you have a different plan?"