He smiled as the boy took the treat, figuring he might want to at least give it a try, and he got right to explaining who he was and perhaps a bit about himself to explain why he was someone who wanted to talk to Mr. Lawrence about what happened. Thomas remembered the first time he heard the slurs being thrown at him and it was his first day of Hogwarts as well, and he supposed he was far more fiery about it than most, but he dedicated his life to trying to make relations between muggles and wizards better in hope that one day no student ever had to deal with that and they could be accepted like any other student.

“Do you?” he hadn’t really considered that muggle was a derogatory term as well, if he were honest, it was just the term that he got used to using as it was what most of his peers used when referring to non-magical folks and was intended to be the most politically correct term. But, he supposed that he could understand a distaste for any word that separated you from what was deemed as right or normal; no matter the age, all anyone really wanted was to fit in with everyone else, after all. “I have to admit that I never thought of it. To me, it just means without magic, but perhaps that is just because it’s what I grew up with, but I’m curious, what would you rather they be called? And in turn, what should we call ourselves if not muggleborn?”