Why was William going all the way over there? Although once William actually stepped back and Gabe remembered there actually was a rest of the world, he noticed over William's shoulder a small cluster of students standing just outside the doorway. Noticed them primarily because they were looking his way, with big ridiculous grins, and they were his, they were Slytherins, and when they noticed he'd noticed them, they burst into raucous applause. One of them lifted a hand to her mouth and let out a whistle that probably wouldn't been a lot more piercing if Gabe hadn't had his eardrums blown up earlier tonight.
He stretched a hand passed William's shoulder and flipped them the bird.
And then William was grabbing him again, and Gabe dropped his hand onto his shoulder (ignoring the fact that the kids were just laughing harder now). "Hey," he said, "he's..." All right was over-stating things, but he would be, now that this shit was over and they could stop working off rubberbands and hope. "Going to be fine," Gabe finished. "Way's pretty damn good at that shit."