[For a moment, when he falls silent, she wonders if she hit another nerve, but then he continued and she relaxed a little. He'd run away? He must have hated it so much, to cut ties with everything like that. She had never had that sort of experience. The occasional urge to run away from school, perhaps. Or to go another city. But she'd never acted on it. To be able to act like that, to be able to get himself out of that kind of situation, was a kind of courage and bravery she had the utmost respect for.

She would have liked to know more about it, but that would be an extremely touchy subject, and really better one that he should bring up himself. If he ever did.

Speaking of things she wanted to know...]

You all looked so happy... Tell me more about Hogwarts? I don't know much about it, really. We discussed magic with Mr. Lupin, but the school only came up peripherally.