[Perhaps not to the same extent, but Ginny has seen and done things at an age where the only worries in life should be boyfriends and homework. But that's, perhaps, a conversation for another time. What he talks about brings back the memories of her first year and she finds it hard to keep looking at him as he talks, though she never stops listening.

Then she shakes her head.]

Nothing's touching anyone. [She can't make that promise, she knows, but she means it all the same. She's come to care for the friends she's made in the City, some as close as family. She's been here almost as long as she's been at Hogwarts and though most of her friends have since gone home, there are connections that aren't so easily severed. And she is Gryffindor to the core.] And you will get closer to people here. Even if you think it's best to go home and leave, you can't help but make friends. It's the only way to get through this sometimes.