"- do you want a hug -"

"Not, um, not right now thank you - what is it I told Minor I'd ask -"

"Nnenne's a Muggleborn and my father's a perfectly nice and alive and present in my life Muggle and Minor wasn't just - casually asking - and I don't know if - eventually it'd come up -"

"Okay. I love you. - I didn't say that. Okay. Um. I'll. Try to suss out Minor for you?"

"If - I - don't feel obliged -"

"I think he'd be all right really I will see about getting that done goodbye -" and she bolts.

Miranda cries on her cat.

Karen marches very carefully not crying back into the Ravenclaw common room and attempts to sneak past Minor to get to her room.

" - did she say -"

"I um. I. Excuse me." She abandons sneaking and runs.

That's weird.

Minor cries for a while.

He then avoids both Miranda and Karen for a while.

Karen goes to her room and draws the canopy and casts a privacy spell and bawls uncontrollably for four hours and tapers off and has a nap and wakes up and composes herself and goes and washes her face.

And then she goes looking for Minor.

No Minor to be found, he's gone for a walk.

Okay. She can wait until after their next class then tap him on the shoulder.

"Hi."

"Hello I'm sorry about yesterday that was. Something else. Um. - oh, hell, I'm no good at this. You get on all right with Rebecca, right -"

" - yeah, she's fine, wanted me to be really careful not to let Catherine electrocute herself -"

"Um, and - um. What about Miranda's sort of pet not a firstie any more she's fine right -"

"Stoller? I don't know her very well but -" hiccup - "Miranda likes her -"

"- yeah. Um." There's nobody around, she recasts the privacy charm just to be extra sure - "um, you know Stoller had trouble over being a Muggleborn -"

"Yes, Michael fought a duel over it."

"Miranda's not actually pureblood."

"Was she even pretending to be, I thought she was just refusing to comment and counting on it being horribly rude to say she wasn't."

"She was like, pretending without I guess in retrospect lying...? And I guess she thought you might care. But. Seems like you don't. So. You could tell her that."

"Is - is that why -"