Walt smiled at her reassurances, but made a mental note to send off an owl to Mrs. Baker and warn her he was coming after their coffee break. They might very well have been talking, in the abstract, about wanting to see him (or that might have just been something Gertrude was saying to be kind), but it didn't necessarily mean they were prepared for company tonight. It couldn't hurt to give her a quick heads up, just in case.

"Lucy's back at Hogwarts," he said, though of course Gertrude would have known that. "But her first Hogsmeade weekend is this Saturday. As for seeing your family, though — maybe the wedding," he said with a slight frown. He wasn't sure whether Hogwarts students were allowed to travel as far as Irvingly on their afternoon trips to the village. Even if they were, Lucy was a teenager — he was lucky that she even made time for him, with all of the shops and friends and other things to do. It would have been easy for them to come and visit him during one of Lucy's breaks, if they were able, but a Hogsmeade house would never be accessible to Muggles. Lucy would be home for the Easter break, of course, but that was only a few days before they were set to marry.