Cee had no intention of flirting with Ben Crouch, so her comment had been innocent, even if it had come off as flirty. The thing was, she felt very comfortable with Mr. Crouch, so that made her speech less filtered. She saw him as a friend in the same way, she saw Cash Lestrange or her old teammates at Hogwarts. If she had been interested in him romantically, she wouldn't actually have the same comfort in speaking to him. She would be flushing and relying on alcohol to make her feel comfortable.

‘‘You make an excellent point, Mr. Crouch,’’ Cee agreed with a nod. She was the sort of person to believe in strictly monogamous relationships, where two people loved and were devoted to each other. She didn't believe in intentional casual flirting. Her boundaries regarding relationships tended to be black and white.

She was about to add something to that when one of the Hawaiian fellows was knocked off his broomstick. Cee gasped and jumped forward to grab the railing so she could follow the chaser's plummet to the ground. She remembered too well how a Japanese had died in the previous cup!