Shrug. "And you can't be worried he's secretly drugging his girlfriend he doesn't even have one - I guess you could worry if Crouch got back with him -"

Nod.

"I guess I don't really see what the problem is."

"He also knows the Imperius."

"Really? Are you sure? How do you know?"

"When I went and got him to save that one merfolk he had a mouse under it. He admitted it, I've seen him control his cat, he said he wanted to learn to throw it off and is practicing to be able to teach other people but it makes me nervous about - not having an explanation -"

" - but you have an explanation..."

"For that, but why does he have a sensible explanation for the Imperius and a weird flimsy one for the potions and how many sketchy things does 'it's Timothy' cover -"

" - anything that's not hurting people?"

"I can't assume I am noticing everything, the Imperius was a coincidence and the potions was a fluke."

"Okay so if he's sneakily hurting people, how?"

"I don't know."

"I just feel like if he wanted to be a dark lord and run things off mind control he wouldn't have tried being close friends with you in the first place."

"I don't know."

"I wouldn't let him hurt you."

"...thanks, but if he wanted to I dunno how you'd stop him."

"He'd never hurt us."

"You are not always around when I am around Timothy, operation human shield is not a panacea."

"Are you scared he might try -"

"I don't feel scared, only confused, or I'd just quit being alone with him ever. But I'm pretty sure him being not-scary is not that closely related to how he causes people to be not-scared."

"And if he were evil what it would look like was him being good and so reasonable with a few weird things he had good explanations for..."

"Yes."

"I can see the thing you are upset about but honestly the potions thing you described really doesn't seem weird or suspicious."

"It's probably nothing, I said it's probably nothing. Just. He was literally more prepared to explain an Unforgivable."

"If he hasn't cast it on humans he hasn't technically done anything Unforgivable, knowing them isn't illegal."