Oriel had been around, but then, he had only graduated a year past. He should have graduated in 2001, but being a Muggleborn, the year of the war, when the Death Eaters had run the school, had been pretty much lost to him, and he had had to repeat it.
But now he was out of school and living in the 'real world' as some people called it (and expression he had always found off, because school had been plenty real to him).
"Keeping busy as well," he said, still signing too, and slower, so that Ellie could follow. With his Mother and other people who were fluent, his fingers would fly, but he slowed it down with people who were learning.
"I'm working at the Quibbler," he explained with a smile. "What are you doing?" He knew, from Maisie, that she had been gone for some time, out in the wide world, until recently.