The corner of Al's mouth twitched. "That's common sense, and simple scheduling, and basic responsibilities of friendship. And it's only normal to be disturbed by your absence, since such a significant change would be very noticeable and jarring.
Back then I deduced that the development of my affection for Severus was hormonal in nature and attempted to find patterns in similarities of my behaviour to others, which was easy enough to do." Al shook his head. "No. No one knew it then, I'm sure."
He smiled. "In that case, you can owl them tonight and see if you can set the time."