Then I'd like to help you, if I can. You know my skills are limited to a lady's common trades and pretty rhetoric, but you have them at your disposal just the same.
I consider you my friend, Harry, my true friend, not the sort one forms in court.
[ Perhaps that clarification isn't necessary here, as the Tyrell reputation doesn't precede her, but she says it nonetheless. ]
I appreciate it. Especially since I think that 'court friends' are a lot like 'Ministry friends'.
[He shrugs and looks a bit sheepish. While there's no proper court in Wizarding Britain, Harry knows what its like to have people claim to be friends for the sake of political maneuvering.]
I'm ... I'm not always as good at making friends as I might like.
[He can get along well with them, but he's found that many of the people he knows are more interested in the idea of The Boy Who Lived and less in Harry Potter.]
We just came through a war back home and in the fallout, everyone seems to be jockeying about and swearing that they were always on 'the right side' from the beginning.
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You don't owe me anything. I'm slow to work through this, so you're welcome to borrow it whenever you'd like.
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I consider you my friend, Harry, my true friend, not the sort one forms in court.
[ Perhaps that clarification isn't necessary here, as the Tyrell reputation doesn't precede her, but she says it nonetheless. ]
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[He shrugs and looks a bit sheepish. While there's no proper court in Wizarding Britain, Harry knows what its like to have people claim to be friends for the sake of political maneuvering.]
I'm ... I'm not always as good at making friends as I might like.
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Surely, he has friends. ]
Because most desire to be 'Ministry friends'?
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[He can get along well with them, but he's found that many of the people he knows are more interested in the idea of The Boy Who Lived and less in Harry Potter.]
We just came through a war back home and in the fallout, everyone seems to be jockeying about and swearing that they were always on 'the right side' from the beginning.
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That's always the way with war. I can count those true to me, regardless of outcomes and titles, on two hands.
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[It's taken months, but he's more resigned to the loss than actively grieving.]
Maybe, if I get back home, that will change. I'm not sure how, but maybe.