"My holidays went nicely. I spent the majority of it with my parents, though I did have occasion to see Belinda." She paused. Melinda could be quite self-centered, but he objective here was not to speak about herself and she steered the subject back towards the information she wished to impart.
"I suppose he was a little bit tied up with other plans, then," she mused, as if it had just occurred to her that moment, as though she hadn't overheard he and Astoria making those plans of seen how cozy they'd been in the common room before the break. "You hear things and you hope to be wrong, but it's tragic, really. I had thought it was you who were his priority."
She wasn't being quite as subtle as she would have liked, but she wanted to be sure that Pansy got the point and she thought the older girl could be a little thick at times.