"No, doing what's right is what I and I'm assuming your Dad did, but this social responsibility doesn't belong to either me or him. People need to find it within themselves. They can learn about what we do without me talking to the press and if they don't like it vote us out." He shrugged. "Maybe it would have been better if they had considering how it all ended, but the truth is that people don't care. They don't want to know because of some social responsibility. They want to know because they are curious and they like the gossip. They don't want the truth. They couldn't care less about the truth. They just like to put you up on a pedestal so they can tear you down, and you can't win, so I refuse to play the game."
Harry looked at James with a frown. "What strategy? What spokesperson? Jamie, you are making this very complicated. She's writing the letter, because as much as your Aunt Hermione wants to help, she has even less patience than I do. She's the one who kept a reporter trapped in a jar for days, so really she has no room to talk but my point is that we don't have to do any of that. I haven't closed the journals, but people don't use them. Remus doesn't trust them and I don't blame them. I certainly don't need to start building my relationship with any press, foreign or domestic, because they aren't stepping foot here. If we open up to them, we validate what they say Why would we do that? Instead as long as some crazy woman is coming up with random stories, no one really knows what's happening here. In the end, we only need to get the governments to deal with us."
He had to laugh. "You want me to live a better life and think that I should start with having the press interfere with our affairs? That's a really strange way to do it." He shook his head. "I don't believe that, though. Maybe he didn't know how to tell you, but I've read that letter more times that I can count. I know what it cost him to bury all of you. You were his good thing in life. You and your siblings, Ron and Hermione. In the end my life has always been about the people near me, not the big battles."