[He nearly talks over James at the end of that, too loudly; he takes a step forward, like he's stating his case before McGonagall or something, instead of just James.]
All of it, we were going to tell you all of it, but it wasn't-- Merlin, James, I wasn't going to just throw it at you when you'd first arrived here-- [And, selfishly, he'd wanted James for himself. He hadn't wanted him divided--by grief, by fear, by the future, by Lily Evans--] --but I was going to tell you and if I hadn't gone off with Merlin I would have done it straight away, I swear.
And we're going to fix it. [He's filling in the silence now, he's talking too much and he knows it, but he can't stop, he can't leave a gap where James might get a word in, or even look at him, really look at him--] We're going to work out how to stop it from ever happening. We know loads more now than we ever would have, we can stop all of it--hell, James, even Merlin said he'd help us-- it's not going to happen, not any of it.
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[He nearly talks over James at the end of that, too loudly; he takes a step forward, like he's stating his case before McGonagall or something, instead of just James.]
All of it, we were going to tell you all of it, but it wasn't-- Merlin, James, I wasn't going to just throw it at you when you'd first arrived here-- [And, selfishly, he'd wanted James for himself. He hadn't wanted him divided--by grief, by fear, by the future, by Lily Evans--] --but I was going to tell you and if I hadn't gone off with Merlin I would have done it straight away, I swear.
And we're going to fix it. [He's filling in the silence now, he's talking too much and he knows it, but he can't stop, he can't leave a gap where James might get a word in, or even look at him, really look at him--] We're going to work out how to stop it from ever happening. We know loads more now than we ever would have, we can stop all of it--hell, James, even Merlin said he'd help us-- it's not going to happen, not any of it.