He refrains from saying but I want to know what it means to you. Hasn't Harry met him halfway so far? There's letting someone make his own mistakes, and then there's swatting him down before he can start.

(While he is thinking, Feuilly is engaged in wrapping himself inexorably in the blanket. He may be a mild fighter, but he's excellent when it comes to curling up in a tiny tight defensive ball.)

"Well--the common good, that would be what's good for all the people. Social distinctions, I think you can tell what that is."

(Any resemblance to a hedgehog, with his hair sticking out of the blanket, is purely coincidental.)