Took that as a genuine compliment. "Your sister must be amazing then." As Althea truly believed she was nothing less than amazing every day. "I'm glad to hear that. I rarely find anyone younger than me interesting, but you, Jessa, are very, very interesting." This came to her as a shock, even as she voiced the thought out loud; she supposed she had matured over the summer. Go figure.

Hmmm. That was a good point. "What is considered normal, anyway," she started, taking another bite of the waffle, "is it normal because everyone says it is?" A genuine question she thought about all the time. What did constitute as normal or abnormal, and why did they have to rely on the general consensus of the majority versus the few?? All very strange indeed. She had to agree with that sentiment; the house elves were really good at what they did. Quite often, Althea found herself in awe of how efficiently they ran the kitchens - and with so few of them, too! Jessa's offer was very endearing. "You're sweet, but no thank you." She wasn't in the mood for super sweet things right now, though she filed this moment in the back of her head to remember the sort of generosity Jessa showed her. "Very kind of you to offer."

Again, her maturity astounded her.

Althea supposed the Ravenclaw had a point. "If we do eat, it's usually at the main one in West London, but, I'm telling you the food is really, really good. You should stop by over the holidays." The more business the better, right? Though she would see to it that Jessa got a free meal. "Oh, Helga no; no, no, no." Not for lack of trying, though; Althea was just not into Quidditch. At all. If it wasn't for Daisy, she wouldn't have even bothered attending matches again. "Out of the four of us, I probably could play if I wanted to. But Quidditch isn't that interesting to me." Plus, she was absolutely, unabashedly, lazy. "Naturally, my mum is frustrated with all of us." Not that she blamed her.

Even with a mouth full of food - she chewed as politely as she could - she managed to smile at Jessa. "It'll be fun having another person around who isn't studying for O.W.L.s, some of my friends are...intense about their studying." It was too much for her. Much too much. "Ah, you would get along with Levi then. He's got a very similar thought process." Though she supposed this more or less applied to humans rather than living beings in general. "Do you happen to also be into Potions or Herbology?" Another two of Levi's areas of expertise.