'So how old are you?' he asked, curious. She couldn't be the younger auror; it took a lot of guts to be an auror, and most people under a certain age, he'd found, couldn't manage. Then again, he hadn't managed to keep a job for more than a month, so he couldn't really say.

A mother for the first time? Again, he swallowed hard, before taking a long sip from his drink and making it look as if he was thinking. The past three years had taught him how to quickly hide it when his stony face slipped. 'Cooper's?' he asked, confused. Wasn't it Hogwarts?

He shrugged at the question. 'Anything.' So long as it keeps the attention off myself.