"The 24th," he said brightly. "I hope Mum and Dad can be there for this year. They will be very sad that they have missed it. I have a lot to apologize for when I get home." Like leaving while only leaving a letter, cursing a lot the past few days, adult touching when it was apparently against the rules, and not protecting Dennis well enough. There was so much. He hoped his parents would forgive him. If not- Well, he tried not to think about that. "I can't wait till then. Then we can do all sorts of fun things!"
Colin paused at the confused look on Lavender's face, blushing almost instantly. "Oh! I forgot!" That was just what Kevin, Dean, and Su had called it. "The potion! There was a potion," he explained. "It's really called...umm...Com- something." He squeezed his eyes closed, nose scrunching up as he thought, trying to bring the name back to his memory. "Complacens! Yes! That is what it is called! It was to keep you from questioning anything. Harry told Dean about it, and Dean told us." He cleared his throat. "Dean and Kevin liked this movie called Men in Black. I never saw it, but apparently there is a giant roach alien in it and he wears this guy Edgar's skin and has a whole family of roaches. They were calling Voldemort Edgar...and the Death Eaters were roaches. Su said something about being the lady that worked in the morgue in the movie. I dunno what that means."