Status Updates From Lessons in Humility

Harry took a drink like a normal person, without all the pomp and circumstance. "It tastes like wine," he reported, thinking that might earn a chuckle from Draco. (He was right.)

"You are such a Philistine," Draco mocked, but he was smiling.

"Joke's on you," Harry retorted, "I don't even know what that means."

Fortunately, a lifetime of rigorous Malfoy training meant Draco could hold a teacup steady through a hurricane in a dinghy being tossed at sea.

He pointed his wand--slowly; don't want to startle jumpy ex-Aurors/Dark Lord slayers--at the room's poor excuse for a chair and concentrated.