She hadn't pieced together what he was getting at, but there was no way to continue the conversation from this point without his just coming right out and saying it. Gideon wished that he'd put this off until after they'd finished finding her wand, but it had just sort of... tumbled out, with one vague statement leading into the next until it was unavoidable. With years to plan how he was going to bring this up and what he was going to do about it, one might have thought he'd have it planned out a bit better, but that clearly wasn't the case. Then again, he'd never planned to be a father (at least not at this stage in his life, to a Hogwarts-aged child). He was out of his depth here as he had always been, but Merlin help him, he was doing his best.

"Well," he said gently, as though delivering bad news. "Not if you're in the girls' dormitories."

He wanted to watch her reaction to this statement and see how she took it, particularly as it was the first time he'd ever brought up the idea that things might change before she went off to Hogwarts. Unfortunately for him, at that moment the wand she was trying out caused a pipe to burst along the back wall of the shop. With a muttered curse (though nothing particularly profane; he'd long since learned to handle minor mishaps without insulting the more uptight customers who might have caused them), he drew his wand and headed off to fix it before the water could damage anything of importance.