For a moment, he's speechless. "…I wasn't aware anyone was trying." Which was true. Just, part of the truth. But why get to why he 'wouldn't let' before there was anything not to. "M-mostly people are mentally pairing me up with Sirius, when they're not trying to 'swoop' him up directly. Hanging around him and James is kinda like being a moon right next to a star." (Which, pffft, yeah, they were.) "You're pretty invisible in the glare." …Which he welcomed. It was the first freedom he'd known. With or without getting to reflect some of the light.