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James looked at Alex and then looked away from her before speaking. "So, what did your letter say?"

Alex bit her lip before answering, "What how I was sorted into. That was basically it. I didn' t want to dump a lot of information on them in one letter. I'd rather spread it out slowly as to not give them a heart attack."

Jame smiled as they continued down the stairs. "I didn't tell them I've been hanging out with you either."

Alex smiled in relief because she had thought that he might have been mad at her for not saying anything to her parents. Still she was glad that they had become friends because in one sentence he had made her fears void. It also made her feel sightly better to know that he had done the exact same thing with his letter to his parents.

"Fred and Mike aren't going to tell their parents right away either. They're in no rush at all in fact."

"Understandable, their parents probably hate mine more than just about anything." she laughed without humor, "Not that I blame them or course. I've heard about what happened while they were at Hogwarts."

James looked at Alex. "My did said that he's forgiven you dad and mom for what happened back then."

Alex smiled at James for trying to be nice. "Yeah, well he's probably the only one that has and probably ever will. Though it was only because of your dad that my parents stayed out of prison."

James looked at her and he wanted to say that it was for some great reason and that his dad didn't hate them at all but before he could even consider how to phrase it he looked at her face and acknowledged that it clearly said don't lie to me.

She knew that her family was hated and she didn't want her friends to lie to her about what she knew to be true. "In fact most parents would probably hate me for just being related to my family."

"My dad wouldn't hate you for no reason." James said seriously. This was something that he was sure of.

"Then your dad is exceptionally forgiving." Alex said with a smile. "Like I said earlier I don't blame anyone for choosing to hate me or my family. It is there choice and one that they have every right to make considering my family's history and everything that they've done to harm others. Still they're my parents and I love them."

"No one would expect any differently." James said and smiled at her reassuringly. "Now we should really get back or else we're going to have do deal with some irritating punishment for being out of bed so late.