“Oh I doubt anybody forgets you in a hurry Mr Longbottom,” she replied with a grin at his almost inappropriate wink, committing his face and name to memory for the next ball she attended. Minnie could usually find something to enjoy at any social event but it was much nicer when she had somebody to look out for and, if she was charming enough, get an invitation to dance out of it.
Minnie felt as though she had been on an endless loop of flirting, dancing and meeting new people for so long now that the minutia of each step was ingrained on her brain, but Mr Longbottom was at least something new. Somebody new. And that meant he was an exciting prospect.
Maybe Emma would know more about him? She was of an age with one of his sisters, she was sure of it, and he certainly seemed like somebody worth knowing better…
“I’m sure you’ll have heaps of success now you’ve joined our circle of itinerant revellers,” she sipped her champagne, wondering where the majority of it seemed to have gone. “It was Quidditch you retired from was it not?”
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no, really MJ is just showing off at this point