So she had been looking at him, or she was interested enough in talking to him that she was starting a conversation instead of looking away. Sirius glanced around like he expected Flora to appear - like perhaps they had somehow started working in a group when he wasn't paying attention, and now they were hanging out. Were they somehow hanging out? He hadn't thought they were.

"Transfiguration," he said, after a confused beat, "Are you studying?"

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