Terrence gave her a small smile, though he was sure that there was an edge to it. Not quite bitterness, but it was close. "It's not that simple," he said. "I would have been just fine with the government as it is right now, except that they didn't give me the chance to make my mind up for myself. There's very little I hate more than other people trying to control my mind or get inside it."
Which was why he hated the Dark Lord's regime, without actually disagreeing with anything that they did. He would have been perfectly content, living with Ella, unMarked, letting her do her Death Eater thing, letting them all do whatever they liked so long as his life was unaffected... but the Complacens potion made that scenario impossible.
"I didn't expect anything from you once I -- broke you," he continued, frowning at her choice of words. "I didn't know what side you'd be on, though I didn't expect it to be mine, I just wanted you to be able to choose."