Seamus took the opportunity of staring hard at the board - harder than an opening move really merited, he only had some many options - to try to think of a response to that. He remembered Hermione's SPEW phase, but he'd thought she got over it. "Yeah, a shame," he eventually said, secretly thinking he'd be much more comfortable with a human chef. "The food at Hogwarts was always really good."
He was still casting about somewhat helplessly for conversational topics. "Been up to anything exciting lately?"