"I don't know. It was there and it growled at us. I didn't stay to ask it its business."

"And it was just—there? There was nothing else?"

"It blocked the entire corridor, I couldn't see if there was anything behind it. There was a trapdoor under its foot."

"—so it's guarding something."

"I suppose."

"I wonder what it is..."

And presently: the Great Hall.

Breakfast!

Neville really really doesn't wanna talk about last night.

And then it's mail time, and as the owls flood into the Great Hall as usual, everyone's attention's caught at once by a long, thin package carried by six large screech owls. They soar down and drop it right in front of Victor, and are immediately followed by another owl dropping a letter on top of the parcel. 

...he opens the letter.

DO NOT OPEN THE PARCEL AT THE TABLE.

It contains your new Nimbus Two Thousand, but I don't
want everybody knowing you've got a broomstick or they'll
all want one. Oliver Wood will meet you tonight on the
Quidditch field at seven o'clock for your first training session.

Professor M. McGonagall

He looks at the extremely broomstick-shaped parcel.

He looks at Professor McGonagall.

He looks at the extremely broomstick-shaped parcel again.

...well, if she doesn't want him to open it at the table, he won't.

"Is that what I think it is?"

"Professor McGonagall doesn't want me to open it at the table," he says, leaning it against the side of his chair. "So I won't."

"And what'd the letter say?"

"Not to open the package at the table because then everyone might want one."

"So it is a broomstick!"

"If everyone hears you say that, they might want one too!"

"Well everyone will know anyway, what else could it be?"

"Yes."

"Well which broom is it?"

"I don't think Professor McGonagall wants me to say that it's a broom. And if I said it was a Nimbus Two Thousand that would certainly be saying it was a broom."

His chin falls. "Wow! That is so unfair! Come on let's eat and open it—" And he starts stuffing his face. Well, more than usual, anyway.

Victor finishes eating.

Okay so now they can go, yes?

Yes.