"But what if I have never shied away from a little teasing?" Winnie pinned him with a flirtatious smile. "Would that doom me for calling it upon myself?" She had never been shy, in any respect, but she wasn't sure what her goal was here either. She was disassociating from the end of Hogwarts and thinking that she ought to enjoy her last few days at the school. How she enjoyed them, well, that remained to be seen.

She pulled her hems up a little higher and waded out a little further in the water, eyeing Mr. Dempsey as she did. She was only up to mid-calf, but her skirts fell just higher still as she clearly did not want to get them soaked.