Though Melinda was still working with the boxes, filling and arranging the contents so they would fit the best, she was listening intently to what Marcus was telling her. She stopped for a moment, when he said that Roger had gotten in the way. Knowing Roger and knowing how Roger felt about Marcus, Melinda didn’t for one minute think that it had been an accident that Roger was ‘in the way’, and that had her shaking her head, muttering something about Roger and Gryffindor tendencies. With a sigh, she shook her head again, shocked to hear what had actually happened. “That man cares more about y-his friends than he does about himself,” she said, hoping that she had caught the ‘you’ that had been on the tip of her tongue. She knew how Roger felt about the man in front of her, but she didn’t know if Marcus knew or how he felt about it, although given the fact that he was stopping by here made her think that at least he thought friendly of Roger.
“Well,” she said and placed the two boxes on the counter; they were all packed and ready. “You saw what he wrote in his journal, right?” Melinda nodded as if saying ‘that’s what he told me’. “And then there was a small warded note where the phrase ‘totally fine’ appeared again, and then he went on to talking about how Cho and I should still go dancing and the usual Roger teasing about dating and boyfriends, that sort of thing. He really played it down.”