Hermione asking Ron to the Ball
"Well, when I said... what I said," she started, feeling very stupid, "perhaps I wasn’t clear. I mean, I thought I was, but – today I realized – that is, I wasn’t thinking about it, but then – anyway, truthfully, I didn’t really mean to say anything that night, so it’s quite possible that you misunderstood what I did say." She was talking so rapidly that she hardly understood the words herself.
Arabella and B Bennett, Dare