Ernie pretended to look put out when his 'perfection' was called out as bullshit, but it quickly turned into a grin. This was exactly why he loved Justin - he saw right through him and wasn't afraid to say something about it.
"Ah, I get that," Ernie said knowingly, and he did. Personally, he preferred taking time off when the weather was poor, which would give him the perfect excuse to stay at home and cuddle in his bed with his close friends. "Well, you can take some time off later and leave them to pick up the slack. They owe you, after all."
He plucked the cherry from his drink and ate it before taking his first sip. "Well, in our unit, someone started coming out of a stupor they'd been in for about seven months. Unfortunately, when they came out, they had flashbacks to the last war and tried taking a healer's wand because they thought another patient was a Death Eater. It... wasn't fun."