The offer makes him pause as well, and he quite doesn't know which option is the safest. Would rejecting her offer be seen as rude and dismissive, or would accepting it subject him - the both of them, really - to an awkward fate full of stilted, small talk and underhanded barbs? Neither experience are worth their weight in galleons.

But they can be civil. They've managed long enough at the staff meeting, under the eyes of so many others that he felt like some form of cheap entertainment that they were all waiting for explode.

This time, however, it'll be a conversation away from prying eyes.

"Certainly, thank you," he says, after clearing his throat thanks to the small, awkward silence. He sits down on the table next to her, eyes fixed on his delicious looking plate of steak and potatoes, an all-time classic. "I take it your own lesson plans are just about done?"