Re: Gilderoy
Ah, there was a question, wasn't there? Positively beaming, Gilderoy nodded to Kingsley. "Good to see you," he exclaimed. "But I'm sure it will take me much, much longer to go on about my summer than it will for you to go on about yours, so ... really, what were you up to this summer?"
Mostly, he needed time to invent a few stories that didn't have him wrestling dragons or anything outlandish like that.