How are there ppl mad that the wheelers are getting more focus in s5... st fans are one of the least wonderous or whimsical people to ever watch a show i fear
Harry is wiping down the front counter when he notices the boy staring at him.
Full blown, wide-eyed staring—an amusing expression on a precocious boy no older than twelve or thirteen at most, with warm brown irises and a head of cute, lolling curls that must have taken his mother ages to style.
“Hello,” Harry says in a friendly way, giving the boy a little wave.
No response, though a flush of pink seems to be steadily spreading across the boy’s soft, round cheeks.
“Are your parents around?” Harry asks, now cautious, glancing around the mostly deserted parlour.
The boy coughs. Clears his throat with a tiny harrumph that sounds more cricket than croak. “No.” His chest puffs up, his chin tilting with pride. “My father lets me go around on my own.”
Not a reassuring answer, though the use of ‘father’ draws Harry’s attention to the boy’s clothes—definitely posh, from his fancy branded polo shirt to his little leather loafers.
“Wow,” Harry says, pretending to be impressed. “You know, I think I used to run around my neighbourhood at your age.” The Dursleys never batted an eye if he came home late, and probably wouldn’t miss him if he never came home at all. “How old are you?”
The flush is more prominent now, a pretty pink-red that creeps towards the shirt collar.
“Fifteen.”
That’s absolutely a lie. Harry nods like this makes perfect sense, never mind that this kid probably couldn’t even sit in a booth without his feet dangling over the floor.
“Did you want some ice cream?” Harry asks. If he keeps this boy here, at least he’ll be safe until the parents show up.
“My name is Tom,” says the boy. His keen eyes narrow in on Harry’s plastic name tag. “Nice to meet you, Harry.”
The way Tom says his name—Harry—is perfectly polite. Rich kid with manners.
Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”