She laughs coyly. "Perhaps we could speak somewhere quieter."

Skeeter smiles, sharply. "Of course. Especially for a quick interview."

"Wonderful. This way, please."

Ellie makes good her escape.

Hopefully Skeeter's article will now firmly be about Delacour and not her.

Skeeter strides off with Elodie.

Fontaine makes an apparently perfunctory attempt to solicit Ellie for an interview. He doesn't crowd her, though, or look particularly insistent.

She politely declines.

He gives her a friendly nod, a thank you for her time, and an apology for bothering her, then strides off to be friendly at Diggory.

Of course, the wand weighing ceremony isn't too long, and soon enough they're all being called together for the assorted camera-people to take group photographs.

The actual tasks can't be nearly this onerous.

They're free to go after, at least, though the reporters seem to be hoping for more interviews.

No thanks, Ellie is taking this opportunity to firmly abscond.

No one successfully accosts her on the way out, at least.

Good. She needs to go flop at Anathema and possibly Fay.

Anathema and Fay are findable! Fay seems to have been walking Anathema through assorted 'things that are definitely not relevant to Ellie in the tournament, nope.' This does mean they're fairly close, if Ellie's interested in tandem flops.

Oh good.

Flops.

Hair pets.

"Everything go okay?"

"Mrrph."

"I don't like interacting with the press."

Pet pet. "Me either."

"Did someone bother you?"

"Skeeter tried to pull me into a broom closet. But Delacour came and distracted her, so I got away."

"Did she now," says Fay, in the tone of someone who's mentally reviewing the legal reasons to challenge someone to a serious duel.

"Professor, please don't put yourself out of a job before we graduate."

She smiles, ruffling Ellie's hair a bit. "I'll wait for the day after your degrees are issued, then."

"Then you can come globetrotting with us."

"Is that your post-graduation plan?"

"Mostly it's a way to get away from all the recurring gossip."

"It's rather excellent on its own merits... I regret a bit that I haven't traveled more, actually." She brushes some hair out of Ellie's face. "I'd love to join you two, if you'd have me."