Ritchie blinked in surprise. He'd lost his professional demeanor for a split second when she mentioned her losing her memory. "Serious?" So many people's lives had been turned upside down by the war. It was amazing the stories heard by just talking to a few people. And here he'd been feeling sorry for himself for years for having been turned into a were. This girl had lost every ounce of herself in the war. "You've left me quite speechless."
Though he had enough tongue to reply to her most important question there. "As soon as you need me to, of course." He smiled, trying to bring the conversation back to lighter topics. "And I foresee a prosperous future, not that I did very well in Divination, but that was to be expected considering the only thing I paid attention to in school was Quidditch."