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Con_Stripes 
Ethan looked up and met the boy's eyes. He nodded once. It was fine.
"Apology accepted." He answered, equally as quiet and equally as sincere. "I am sorry also, Jake. I am not sure what that is worth to you but it is all I have to give. An explanation is not something I am able to give, not yet, not until Hogwarts is safe."
He cleared his throat.
"I hope you were paying attention." His voice went right on back to his usual tone, very little inflection or emotion at all.
Searching the man's face for some reason unknown by Jake, since he couldn't really understand that many facial expressions, the boy nodded back. Then he kind of stared for a moment.
This was why he liked Truebridge and all the teachers who apologised for stuff and were just...
nice. "Acc... accep... a-acc..." Okay, that word wasn't on the agenda for today.
"Okay."
Hogwarts... wasn't safe. That there was some real proof.
And, at the last statement:
"... Errr... yuhh-yeah."
But inside, Jake was just thinking;
I hope so too.