If Flynn looked confused and also somewhat terrified, it was for good reason: he was both. He was also silent and not focusing too hard on what was happening to people he cared about (compartmentalising ftw) though he was wondering if he should be confessing that he had no idea who his maternal grandfather was and maybe they were a muggle, just in case somehow these people knew and he got in trouble for not disclosing it. He was still a halfblood regardless but did how big that half was matter to these people? Why had he never thought about this before? He spent a lot of time with muggles, compared to most people, because of the non-magical shows he had been in, but he had never thought about it. Even though the boys that had attacked him when he was (much) smaller had been muggles, it hadn't been a factor in how he processed it. They hadn't attacked him because they were muggles, they had attacked him.... for other reasons. The newspaper cuttings he privately collected about similar crimes, he hadn't really considered were mostly from muggle publications but it was true that most of those attacks were muggle perpetrators. Did that mean anything? He hadn't ever thought so.

Speaking of attacked, Flynn flinched every time someone got hit with something, but tried his best not to look, breathing shallowly and keeping his eyes fixed warily on Rosier instead. It didn't inspire him to speak up, he wasn't in any position to help anyone. He had to fight to keep associated memories from resurfacing, though even the worst spell from a wand was less triggering than what those (muggle) boys had managed toward his younger self with their feet and fists and cruel words.

So really, all he could do was focus on the questions, as shocking as they were, and answer honestly, hand going up with some slight wavering. " I-I don't know, sir, nobody has ever told me....... but maybe...... maybe its because since they don't have wands, they have to find other ways to be cruel and hurt people. Ways that you can't defend against if you're weak or young or small. " His voice tapered off to a whisper. Anyone that hurt others was bad in Flynn's eyes, like this interloper who had disguised himself as Kale's dad, but maybe there were a higher percentage of people like that in muggle society?