Actually, it wasn't too far off from what Higgs had wanted to hear. If he had wanted to hear at all. Maybe that wasn't the right phrase to use. It was what he had expected to hear. Higgs respected Lydia's opinion a great deal and felt that she would be honest with him, which was why he had wanted to talk to her about it before he attempted to discuss it with any of his other friends. The question of honesty was an interesting one. Higgs didn't actually doubt that both Alicia and Weasley wanted to be honest, but what was understood by 'honesty' was probably a rather fluid concept depending on who you asked. And that, most likely, was one of the things that did worry Higgs.
It would be a lie to say that he felt like Alicia was honest with him, even if Higgs didn't thinks he was hiding things from him. Sometimes, though, it felt like it wasn't far off. "Not your favourite idea," Higgs repeated, because that particular bit had caught his attention more than the rest. He understood the whole 'they've been friends for so long', that made sense, but there was something about it that Higgs too, wouldn't struggle to describe as 'not his favourite idea', but was that fair? "I don't think either of them would intentionally want to hurt you," he said honestly before pausing. "Or me, I guess," Higgs added since it seemed rather petty to not. Of course, then again, Lydia hadn't been cheated on by them in the first place.
"What do you think are the chances that they'll unintentionally hurt you, though?" And that, Higgs thought, was a fair question. As much as neither Alicia nor Weasley might set out to hurt anyone with their friendship, Higgs was very dubious of whether they could really make the sort of promises that implied that it would never happen, planned or not. And no, Weasley hadn't given Lydia a reason not to trust him, which was pretty excellent as far as Higgs was concerned. Maybe his own view was slightly biased, since he couldn't say the same about Alicia.