An eye-roll. "It's a damned swimming pool, Weasley. You couldn't bring a bloke here, say you're sharing the jacuzzi?" But it was said with a bright smile. While Percy may have been the kind of guy to come here with a friend as an adult, she could could also see him having a fit of no, it's against the rules as a teenager.
It only took a moment to be shoeless and sockless, and then Verity was also cheerfully running her feet through the water. She watched them forming little ripples with one foot and then the other. "Thanks," she said, meaning it. "Looking back, I think it was just hard starting totally from scratch. I was really good in school until it turned out I was a witch." It was the kind of funny that wasn't. "Apparently, I just needed a lot of baby steps."
Self-conscious now, she interrupted with "Weren't we here to talk about your boyfriend?"