As luck would have it, the moment Remus walked away and Faelan had his mouth full again, someone else greeted him, and he wondered briefly at how so many people could know him when he was, in all likelihood, the most anti-social person he knew.
When he saw that it was Padma saying hello, he swallowed his food nearly whole, and remembered the scene at his birthday party when Harry had stupidly reminded Padma that they'd bought a very naughty book in her very respectable store.