Lyra pulled another one of those faces of hers, a sort of silent "Oh all right" even as she still strongly dismissed the advice out of turn. Children her age tended to know just enough about the world to think that they knew everything. Everything important, anyway. And it was so hard to convince an eager young heart it should maybe slow down and reconsider on matters of love or friendship.

She had noticed Draco's thoughtfulness, though. Regarded him with some curiosity, even as she couldn't at all deduce the reason.

"I'm just not sure what to get her. I've never gone and picked out a present for someone all by myself before, you know. In a way it's rather frightfully exciting."