Looking around the shop quickly again, under the same guise of checking the behavior of the younger patrons but really just to double-check that they weren't being eavesdropped on, Fred nodded curtly, "Yeah, but, you know," he smiled anyway, answering in the only way he really could without going into any known details, "He's a good kid. A right bit smarter than he looks, too. Most of them are." The last part was added, a bit more gently, in an attempt to ease Katie's worries about her own brother, brightly.