It works!!
I had already passed Marg earlier but it opened the dialogue again with another character when I walked by so gave it a try and can confirm walking away didn't do anything. However with Grog it works as I hadn't passed him before, and it entered Lohse (the bugged character in my case) into a dialogue! You saved me around 10 hours of playtime! So happy right now! :)))

Thanks so much for sharing!!