"Oh!"

She stared at him for a long moment. Honestly, it hadn't even occured to her to think of what Matthew might, or might not, think. He wasn't her boyfriend, after all. Or, she didn't think he was, at any length.

"I...I didn't really think about it," she said with complete honesty before she gave a slightly embarrassed laugh and a one-shouldered shrug. "But then, I would think that it wouldn't matter so much if I could deliver a kiss that would make him forget everything, would it? And besides, he's not my boyfriend. Not yet, anyhow. And my brother-in-law has always told me that until I'm officially hooked up, that kissing and such should be experienced as often as possible."

Wrinkling her nose, her hand brushing along Julian's arm, she shook her head a bit. "That really sounds awful when I say it outloud. It's not that I want to be easy or that I want to go about the school snogging any boy I meet in the halls," Sirius not withstanding, she mused to herself, "but well, if practice is how one learns best, then wouldn't it be best to practice with someone who has no attraction to me and whom I have no attraction for as well? Less messy with emotions and all, right? And far easier, I'd think, to tell someone what they are doing wrong when there's no concern about the other not liking you because of the wrongness."