"Is it?" He asks innocently. "I don't know. I mean, has the faculty ever seen me drink, hm-" He twirls a hand. "-- anything?" They have not. He hasn't had a thing, mostly due to lack of money, but also for the fact that only alcohol is worth dealing with out of everything.

He continues, "Really, for all anybody knows I could be terribly allergic to alcohol. Deathly. But you...?" He tuts and shakes his head. "You're such an upstanding young man, why, it's almost unfair you're not treated like one of the adults. Maybe you just... decided to treat yourself." He shrugs, hands lifting up as if to say, 'what can you do'.