[ He's probably right, but that doesn't change fact. She's had enough experience down that street to completely embitter her to a lot of things but she doesn't let it drag her down. Her immediate response to that comment is a shrug, which goes well with his question, too. It's kind of a weird question. Still she finds that she doesn't have as much difficultly in answering it for him as she might someone else. ]

That doesn't change the fact that you do. In my experience, it's primarily been men, but I honestly don't know. I mean, I don't have a lot of experience. Gretchen was kind of up in my face about it, but not in a bad way. [ She'd been taken aback at the time, and kind of annoyed that she wouldn't drop it at first, but after examining it under a microscope it hadn't been anything like what Severus is describing. ] I want to say that women are obviously the superior gender, but I think that's a little too biased on my part.

[ Make a joke, Claire, that'll make everything better. ]