Wayne remained convinced that a hippogriff probably would eat a person, if they were cut up into the right size chunks, but he decided not to argue the point. He preferred what she was saying about the Orpington stuff.
"It might," he echoed, sounding much more convinced than before. A minute ago he was thinking this would only buy him time, but now he was starting to think it just might work. "I mean, most people lose interest in Arithmancy pretty fast. And I know he's got better things to do than talk to me. I'd just have to come up with something that looked believable but not quite right." Wayne was enough of a nerd that the last part actually sounded like a fun project, and he almost smiled, but caught himself.
"I mean, it's something, at least," he finished, a little more subdued, but still hopeful. Something that beat turning himself in to the Ministry.