Anthony immediately tensed when Padma focused her wand on the deliquent couple. In fact, he was ready to jump in with an appropriate speech when Padma took charge and quickly extinguished the situation and sent the students scrurrying away, twenty points less than they had been before their snog session.
In fact, Anthony was intently in prefect mode until Padma's last comment. Sure was Padma's gift to bring embarassment to a scenario that Anthony would have been previously felt removed from.
"No, no. Of course not," Anthony was quick to discredit any such connotation.