It wasn't fair. For the briefest moment, the former Gryffindor thought she'd won this part of the conversation. She didn't care much for playing nice, he didn't strike her as the type to play nice; it all made perfect sense until he went and said all that.

Suddenly she didn't think she knew as much as she did when she walked into the pub and she had no one else to blame? thank? but him. "Never really thought of it that way..." Lex conceded after what seemed like a long moment of silent staring at the table. What did constitute a 'bad guy'...? The worst part was that she didn't actually have an answer that she couldn't counter with another, not fully anyway but there were some little cogs that started to turn. Maybe all those he listed made for bad people, even the one framed (by virtue of being dumb enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time) or maybe none of them. "I think you've just complicated my life." Just thought he'd like to know.

"But I won't." Lose the independent streak that is. "Too ingrained in me by now, nothing I can or want to do about it." Independence and confidence, something bred into all Cambridges 'cept maybe her creature of a half sister. "Sounds like it'll do me more good than I thought."

Enjoying her last year though. Whoa there, let's not get carried away with ourselves. "Not at all." And a very serious expression. "Hated almost every minute of it in truth and almost everyone in it too. Restrictions I didn't need, idiots I shouldn't have needed to be subjected to, the responsibility of taking 2nd year Ravenclaws to the bathroom," because she'd never forget THAT, "A year I could have done without."