Sorry, I'm a bit dim tonight. I think you'll do fine in the class, though. Sirius isn't the sort to take personal things out on his students, unlike some people I know. Ahem.

It's just - Harry's got so much to worry about already. Why should he have to deal with this as well? I would give anything to take all of this away, make it my pain and not his. I know that I can't, so don't lecture me, but the want is still there and isn't going away any time soon.

I just can't watch them end like this. This isn't how it's supposed to go, you know?

However I promise to lighten up now. You're not the first to tell me that I am being a whingey ass. You probably won't be the last (but you're certainly the more polite about it, that's for cert).

You were just as bad, incidentally. About the not-talking. So there.