"Oh, I wouldn't think it was boring at all," Ford insisted, a little mischievously. This wouldn't have been a serious topic of conversation anywhere else, particularly since they'd been in the same year at school — if he tried hard enough, he could probably have come up with at least a rough list of what classes Lestrange had taken at NEWT level, so it wasn't going to be much of a surprise — but he wanted to force him to play the game, just for a minute.

"You could probably guess my favorite subjects," he said with a shrug and a smile. Ghoul Studies, Muggle Studies, History — he could probably talk about at least two of those in Muggle terms if he needed to. "But what were yours?"