Oh.

Well.

Jake's face kind of fell a tiny bit. He'd waited for the man and then sat and watched his duel with Sabel, which was admittedly quite a good idea in the end.

And then Tate mentioned the party. The social function which Jake would be attending WITHOUT Neptune, who was really the person for all of that. The young man glanced over at the 7th year Gryffindor who was over by the dummies. The bulletin board said he was going, too. "Yeah. I guess I am," he responded, looking only a little disappointed for the moment. "Then I'll... let you get off. We can, like... d-duel another time, for sure."

He turned to go back to the climbing wall, or maybe the punching bag. Jake hadn't missed his little escaped stutter, either. That got to him a little.