Perhaps that is the hardest to accept of all. Given the givens, you would think that you should.
[He's just stating what he thinks is obvious to them both, yes? A man liking a man is...different. So it should be different and feel different, logic dictates.
The whole mess makes him fidget internally and honestly he'd rather not talk about or think about it at all. He doesn't, no matter what certain people might say of him, think those who prefer the members of the same sex are beneath him or disgusting. But he is not used to dealing with such people, or having them as his friends. Is it so much to ask that people simply be aware he is not used to it?]
I would not end an association over this. I have never before been friends with a Muggle or an American, either. They're equally as odd to me, to find myself in the company of. The man I was before coming here likely never would have believed it. And yet here we are.
It's an adjustment, interacting with a wildly different sort of person outside that which I have ever known before. On this matter in particular a lack of familiarity leads to confusion and discomfort on my part, simply put. It's nothing willful at all.
[...Obviously the part about not associating with Muggles is certainly very, very willful. But since that's not the subject at hand, why go into it?
He's already convinced himself not to worry about it by reasoning that since McGucket is from another world it's not like he isn't a wizard, really, anyway. He was just born in the wrong, non-magical dimension.]
no subject
[He's just stating what he thinks is obvious to them both, yes? A man liking a man is...different. So it should be different and feel different, logic dictates.
The whole mess makes him fidget internally and honestly he'd rather not talk about or think about it at all. He doesn't, no matter what certain people might say of him, think those who prefer the members of the same sex are beneath him or disgusting. But he is not used to dealing with such people, or having them as his friends. Is it so much to ask that people simply be aware he is not used to it?]
I would not end an association over this. I have never before been friends with a Muggle or an American, either. They're equally as odd to me, to find myself in the company of. The man I was before coming here likely never would have believed it. And yet here we are.
It's an adjustment, interacting with a wildly different sort of person outside that which I have ever known before. On this matter in particular a lack of familiarity leads to confusion and discomfort on my part, simply put. It's nothing willful at all.
[...Obviously the part about not associating with Muggles is certainly very, very willful. But since that's not the subject at hand, why go into it?
He's already convinced himself not to worry about it by reasoning that since McGucket is from another world it's not like he isn't a wizard, really, anyway. He was just born in the wrong, non-magical dimension.]