[Let's assume this is later in the evening after everyone has had time to be sad in PCs.

Anyway Lalli is in the common room, and he is nibbling on some orchard fruit he swiped and brought back, when he suddenly thinks of something.]

Since we had a 'winter formal' and it's apparently winter now, then New Years is long past. I wonder why they didn't say anything about it, that seems like a pretty big holiday to miss.