Everything I have ever done was for you.

In the end, he only gets Andie to Hogsmeade by promising he's just interviewing for the job, not accepting it outright. It's not that he doesn't understand her reservations--he does. She doesn't spend enough time with the --muggles, he reminds himself, they're called muggles here--or out in their world. Why would she, given how it treats people like her, even in her beloved New Orleans. It would be better up north, anyway, she points out, trying to convince him to apply for a job at her beloved Ilvermorny. They met there, after all. Why not go back? Because there is still a fucking Puritanical strain there that says it's a bad influence on the students if they live together without being married, and if they marry, they can't go back home, even just within their own world, which makes no sense to him. Something something about living in harmony, and with he remembers, even if she doesn't, that being up north only protected he so much as a teenager. Granted, the wizarding world are more concerned about different "impurities" in the blood that her magical skill should allay, but it doesn't. She's not a pureblood witch, and she's not white and that fucks them over in both worlds. Either way, the boys are still considered bastards; he can't even legally acknowledge them in the muggle world without repercussions.

( England has to be better, right? )