In Bahorel's considerable familial experience, drinking and singing and playing games are all very much things families do together. But he's pretty sure his and Harry's experience of family is even farther apart than their experience of cities.

He's also not going to push at that, right now. Harry will learn, in time, if he's stuck with them-- and if he's not then it might not all be true, anyway.

"It was different for us, of course. No commanders-- hah, you could say that was the point, in a way. And I for one wouldn't have trusted anyone claiming to fight for the people who wouldn't join us all where we lived-- or how could they have any idea of what was needed? And that was mostly in the cafés and bars, back home. It might well be different in other places-- and I'd expect to see anyone of our cause in with wherever the people there made their lives happen."