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Luckily for Bernadette Grantham, Nem was perfectly content to entertain her questions, and even answer them more or less honestly. Sure.
"To their faces too. I just wanted to see what they'd do, the first time. Then I kept doing it, because I'd never liked having to call them 'mum' and 'dad' anyway, and there's no reason I should. Weird system. Sort of demands respect at the same time as enforcing familiarity." The whole 'professor' nonsense here was similar in the respect sense, but Nem went along with it because they still perceived there to be some benefit from doing so. Flexing their half-gloved fingers, shoved deep into their pockets for the added warmth, Nem thought back to the day they'd dropped the forms of address. Jake had been simultaneously incensed and utterly defeated; a definite candidate for a patronus memory. "They don't like it, but they can't exactly stop me. They're pretty soft." Too soft for Nem, at any rate, though Jake had had his moments. Even if they weren't, short of a strong Imperius Curse or something similar, how could they control what Nem said or did?
At that thought, Nem glanced sideways at Grantham. Hm... no, that was another conversation better saved for another day.
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