"Theodore, no one's going to hurt you," Zacharias said when he saw the boy getting worked up again, turning frantic. He was like a sad little puppy and the urge was there to cuddle him.
"There's no harm in talking to Snape about it. Just talking," he said. He studied Greg's face then, the fatigue there. It was easy to focus on Theodore in all this, and his needs, but he wondered what toll this was all taking on the other man.