A shame, as I'm sure so many are missing your company.

[If he wants to be snide, she can play mocking as well. It's taking an awful lot of will power just to stay in conversation with him rather than just taking off to find someone a little more agreeable to talk to.]

And you just accept this? [Not much of a surprise, given that it's Black, with his practically hereditary penchant for following the biggest bully around, though his brother isn't much better with Potter.] Surely there has to be some way to leave; I refuse to be held captive as some sort of plaything.