"Hm?" Wayne looked at Alfie, and then back at his journal. "Oh, it's... It's just..."
He sighed. Alfie wasn't in the D.A. and didn't know what was going on. But if something was going to happen at Hogwarts, he needed to know.
"Alfie, I have something very important I think I should tell you," he said, "But you have to keep it absolutely secret. I'm not kidding when I say your life could depend on it."