Harry takes a breath in. It's...a lot. A lot to take in, and James just seems to keep shocking him. It's not like Harry is blind; he and Ginny had sort of thought Al might turn out to be gay, and after Ginny confessed she'd 'experimented with girls' in Hogwarts, it was sort of an eye opener for Harry to the world of sex and youth. He'd never had time for any of that. Who knew where he'd have wound up if he had.

Still, knowing that James considered himself gay, that he and Scorpius were in love... It was a lot. And admittedly, the whole thing didn't settle right in his stomach.

"It's all right," he says anyway, rubbing James's back for a minute. "I understand. Well, I mean I don't understand, but I understand." Harry laughed a bit, diffusing some of the tension as he pulled back and smiled at James. "I'd be happier for you if Scorpius was out of school, but...he's... I mean, you two didn't...before he was..." Harry knew Al was of legal age in these sorts of things, but was Scorpius?