"Hmmm, Yes, you could have. A girl would be wise, to make plans for those sorts of contingencies, I would think," she said teasingly, some part of her liking how easily they fell into step together. It was a nice change, other boys usually making her scramble to keep up.
His next words made her catch her breath a little, her voice a little less certain when she answered him, but still warm. "Hmmm. If one was to assume it was something else, and one had been wrong, one would feel like an utter ninny and would likely never be able to look you in the face again. So I thought it better to bring my homework. In case it turned out I was reading too much into simple kind attention." Which was, for Astoria, who was all too aware in their differences in age, his history of dating Pansy 'the Zealot' Parkinson, and the fact he'd never looked at her twice before, quite bold and blunt and her stomach did an odd little flip flop.