It's clear all right. Charles feels like he's getting an insight into Ned previously unseen. Ned's power is so much like theirs that both Charles and Erik seem to regard him as more mutant than not. To know that Ned himself has suffered the same fate so many of the children had, well, it makes it easier to attempt this reconciliation.
"Until recently I hadn't considered the house I grew up in to be anything more than that. A house, walls, a roof. Looking at it now I can't imagine it not being something more. It's ... large enough to hold dozens upon dozens of people comfortably." That he comes from money is no big secret, but as ever Charles is mildly cautious of being judged. He remembers Erik's reaction to it quite vividly.
"I've given some thought into doing that here. Not on the same scale but - finding some way to hold a community center. We've had an influx of young mutants and I'd rather like to give them that stability."
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It's clear all right. Charles feels like he's getting an insight into Ned previously unseen. Ned's power is so much like theirs that both Charles and Erik seem to regard him as more mutant than not. To know that Ned himself has suffered the same fate so many of the children had, well, it makes it easier to attempt this reconciliation.
"Until recently I hadn't considered the house I grew up in to be anything more than that. A house, walls, a roof. Looking at it now I can't imagine it not being something more. It's ... large enough to hold dozens upon dozens of people comfortably." That he comes from money is no big secret, but as ever Charles is mildly cautious of being judged. He remembers Erik's reaction to it quite vividly.
"I've given some thought into doing that here. Not on the same scale but - finding some way to hold a community center. We've had an influx of young mutants and I'd rather like to give them that stability."