"Oh! You reminded me, I need to give Dad hints about what I want." At least this year her birthday was on a Saturday, and she wasn't going to be a boarder then, yet. "You can come for cake, right? You'll be in the castle on the 13th. I'm pretty sure we won't be able to go home for it. I kind of wish we could, it'd be nice to see Skipper again."
The greenhouses were relatively quiet as they entered, and she was reminded how much she liked the smell of freshly loamed soil. "I wonder if it'd be possible to create a hybrid, or try for NEWT levels. I'll have to ask."
Now that the Auror was out of hearing distance she could safely ask, because she wasn't about to risk getting Hugo into trouble: "Why did you have to sneak out and feed it? For class they should make some sort of arrangement or exception."