"You played Quidditch?" The question was out before Bryony could think about it. She knew it wasn't really that unusual for a girl to play Quidditch — there was a whole professional team of women, after all — but very few she'd actually met had any interest. That was mostly down to the kinds of people her family associated with and wasn't helped by Slytherin's tendency to overlook the girls as potential players. Realising that her question might seem rude, Bryony blushed. "I always wanted to watch Quidditch in school," she said. It wasn't the kind of thing she'd usually admit, but nor did she want it to seem as if she, personally, disapproved of Gemma having been on the Quidditch team.
She watched with interest as Gemma applied the paint to her nails, the spellwork perfect with no smudges or stray daubs of paint. Not that paint on her fingers was all that uncommon for Bryony, of course. "Do you know a spell to protect the paint itself?" She imagined there must be such a thing, and if she was going to keep her nails for a little longer than anticipated, it would be good to keep the paint she worked with from spoiling them.