Harry would have been happy to just live like this. Spending time with Sirius and talking about amusing things, about his mum and dad, about Sirius and Remus. About magic and their friends and family.

They're both equally sentimental and starved for love. It's a match made in heaven.

"She was very bright, wasn't she?" he says and leans his jaw to his palm, propping his elbow on the table. "Professor Slughorn told me about her when she was still in school. But I think dad wasn't slow either. It sounds like they knew each other pretty well, though."