She narrowed her eyes. "I just want to get it into your thick skull that Laurie isn’t like the rest of us. He had to follow behind us, just like I did with you, and try to figure it out all while our father was dying. Could you imagine, Will? Watching your father almost die at eleven? We were older, we understood, but he didn’t. He still doesn’t! Gwyn told me that Laurie said dad was never actually going to die, did you know that? He believes that when we called back from Hogwarts, that dad was just sick and then was fine. He didn’t process it, Will."