When the drinks were brought and Severus had paid - he also had a whiskey though his was over ice - he turned a little on the bar stool the better to face her for conversation.
"I've finally caught up on my work and decided to come out to socialise a bit," he said, offering her a sheepish little smirk. If it felt strange to her to have a drink with her former Professor, it felt equally odd to him to be socialising with a student. By his frame of reference, she had just finished Hogwarts the year Albus died.
"At the risk of being clichéd, how are you doing? Your family?"