He and his parents had been talking for over a year now, but only via letter. In fact, he hadn’t seen them in person at all since, well, everything. The last time he had seen them was as a thirty-five-year-old adult - not that that had been their experience. He imagined that the last time they’d seen him had been September the first before his fourth year at Hogwarts, as he hadn’t gone home for Christmas that year.