Chapter fourteen - 'There's nothing wrong with stress relief!'
"Sirius Black." Harry called from his empty corner in the owlry with Hedwig sat on his knee as they ate tip bits from his breakfast.
It was early on Friday morning and having managed to get Dobby to drop him off some breakfast by his bed at the crack of dawn, they were sat up comfortable together to talk to Sirius. This was so Harry didn't have to sit in the main hall and eat with everybody else looking and talking to him. He had been hoping that half seven wasn't too early for Sirius, as his godfather had a habit of lying in bed in the morning these days. As it was, he was already awake and munching toast when he replied to the mirror to find Harry sat there looking quiet depressed and fed up on the other end.
"Oh, hello Harry!' He started brightly but then seeing Harry's sullen face immediately wondered what the matter was.
'Err, it's a bit early isn't it?" He asked checking his watch to see if it really was half seven, he'd woken early to watch the sun get up, it being the glorious anniversary of his mothers death and was a little annoyed not to have Buckbeak with him this time to dwell in the pleasure of her no longer upsetting him.
"Yeah well, I wanted to ask you something and I really hate going down to breakfast these days." Harry explained trying to sound off hand as Sirius was clearly sitting down on his bed to be more comfortable.
"You do eat though don't you?' At this though Harry merely rolled his eyes a bit but Sirius just ignored it.
'I don't want you skipping meals because you can't be arsed with eating." He frowned suddenly becoming all responsible and parenty. Harry had recently decided it didn't really suit Sirius's personality to be a responsible adult, but it never lasted very long as Sirius was far too young in his heart to be a proper over baring parent.
"Yes, I still eat, Dobby brings me something in the morning and I've taken to hiding with Hedwig while I eat it." Harry explained trying his best to sound bright and happy for Sirius. The reality was, he was fed up with Hogwarts and wanted to convince Sirius to convince Dumbledore to let him stay over half term.
"Good, I don't want you going all stupidly skinny again. What's the matter with going down to breakfast then?" He asked sensing Harry clearly wanted to talk to him about something but hadn't the confidence to come out and ask him too openly.
"I just can't be doing with it that's all, people keep looking at me all the time and it's annoying." He mumbled but was sure Sirius wouldn't understand, having barely been around many people in years and could only cope with conversation with one person at once.
"Well you've always managed to cope with that before Harry." Sirius wondered unsure what could be bothering him and was kicking himself for being incapable of talking more openly, he knew he should try harder but he just couldn't help it, he was nervous he'd say the wrong thing to Harry and upset him.
"I guess, it's just, well it's getting me down that's all. Can I..?" Harry asked but then stopped having already convinced himself Sirius would say no.
"What Harry?" Sirius asked perfectly normally as Harry took a deep breath out of view, so Sirius didn't notice.
"Can I come stop with you over half term?' He suddenly blurted out but seeing Sirius's surprised blank face started rambling on to fill the silent gap out of worry for the answer.
'It's just getting really crap being stuck here all the time and although we can't lark about like over the summer with all this stupid home work I've got to do. I'd still really like to get away from here and come see you.'
Harry hoped Sirius wasn't too annoyed or confused by what he thought was a rather bold request to make of his godfather. Seeing that Sirius had clearly not expected this but unable to recognise the glowing pleasure in his eyes, Harry quickly continued a bit more. He was sure he was rambling away like an idiot but he just didn't know what else to do.
'I don't mind if you want me to stop here, but you know it'll really piss Snape off if you let me come see you! He keeps putting me in detention and I'm ninety nine percent sure he'll try and do it over the holidays just to be an arsehole." Harry added knowing full well Sirius would do anything to piss Snape off if he could and hoped he could use this in his favour.
"Sure, anything to annoy Snape, but why Harry, I thought you liked it at Hogwarts more than anywhere else?" He suddenly became animated again, trying his best to cover how excited he was to have Harry back so soon. This unfortunately resulted in a lot of shuffling and twitching of feet but he couldn't start celebrating yet though, until he knew for sure Harry was coming, the disappointment would be so dreadful if Harry changed his mind and was sure he wouldn't know how to cope.
"I do, well I did. But I can't stand it at the moment, I never get a moments peace. I can't sit in the Library and do my work. Ron's hardly talking to me because somebody else made it on to the Quidditch team and not him. Hermione's ok but she's getting really annoyed sitting with me at dinner and stuff and keeps having to move between me and Ron and well, I just really don't want to have to put up with a whole week without even getting to hide in lessons from people." Harry explained quickly hoping that Sirius's blank silence was just indigestion or something and not a preparation for a big fat no, with his uncle it was usually a mixture of the two but with Sirius it was just so hard to read the veins on his forehead.
"It can't be that bad Harry, what about Hagrid?" Sirius asked but was really not sure why, he wanted Harry to come see him, not be talked into stopping at Hogwarts all year long.
"It's ok going down to see Hagrid and all, but he's a bit busy most of the time teaching and he keeps going off to see Gwarp." Harry explained picking up another bit of bacon and tearing it in two to give some to Hedwig who gulped in down appreciatively. Harry had wondered about all this bacon making her fat but she seemed to go out every night and fly around the grounds to fly it off so he gave it to her anyway.
After thinking carefully for a minuet Sirius decided it was easiest to tackle each one at a time or at least that was what Remus would do. In the end he began with Ron and the quidditch business as at least he knew something about both quidditch and odd friends. He couldn't understand the oddness of Hermione but Ron assured him no-one could so it was ok to get confused by her.
"Why aren't you and Ron talking then because of quidditch? I thought you two were always such good friends?" He asked carefully.
"We are, but we still argue some times. It's not as if we've fallen out as such, like I said before, I made every one go through the same test to pick new players. He said that was ok and understood I couldn't just stick him on the team because he was my friend. He made it through the first round ok, but in the second round, he was catching quaffels from Ginny and she's really quiet good and he ended up missing a few too many so the other lad got the spot and I couldn't really override it. I did do the right thing didn't I?" Harry asked hoping Sirius would reassure him and say something helpful or understanding.
"Oh well, I guess you can't really show that much favouritism especially with quidditch. Hasn't he got over it yet, you've bin at Hogwarts ages?" Sirius asked hoping that it was just a temporary glitch and that he wasn't going to have to face a whole load of difficult problems involving the Weasley's. Recently he'd grow to quiet like a few of them, not many but a few at least.
"No, not exactly, he was a bit down at first but then he got ok for a bit and I thought he'd be ok.' Harry explained sounding almost hopeful for a moment.
'But then he got it in to his head I had some secret girlfriend and wasn't telling him about her. I told him I didn't but he's not that daft and kept at it until I told him to pretty much bog off and leave me alone." Harry explained as Sirius tried his best to cover his amusement. Unfortunately he was totally useless and the snort was clearly heard by Harry.
"I'm sorry I shouldn't find it funny Harry. Although, do you have some secret girlfriend you're not telling him about?" He asked raising one eyebrow curiously as he spoke, Harry couldn't help but let his cheeks go slightly pink and hoped beyond anything it was too dark for Sirius to see properly.
"Not exactly, there was a girl involved but it's not that sort of thing.' He tried to explained in an off hand way ignoring Sirius's 'oh I!' look.
'I just go and see her sometimes for a bit of, err, stress relief. She's more my friend more then anything else." Harry explained rather annoyed at Sirius's comic face as his over active young male mind guessed what 'stress relief' meant until he almost toppled off his seat in hysterics. This added to the fact that he was actually getting quiet old and the same age as Harry's own father would be, made the expression to Harry somewhat difficult to gage.
"Hmm, so she isn't even a proper girlfriend then?" Sirius nodded knowingly forcing his mind to be a bit more mature than it wanted to be for Harry's sake.
"Oi, don't look at me like that I'm not some sex crazed animal." Harry snapped back even if he hadn't yet admitted to anybody, even Ginny just how important she was to him now.
"Harry! You're a randy teenage boy I hardly expect anything else from you! Besides, there's nothing wrong with stress relief, I wish I got it more often myself." Sirius explained bluntly finding the whole situation so amusing he only wished James was with him so they could heckle Harry together. Remus never could get his head round the noble art of heckling people for amusement when they deserved it and he was sure this would have been such an occasion to do it.
"No I'm not! That's what Nev says." Harry grumbled pouting in his shadowy corner daring Hedwig to smirk at him.
"I'm sorry that was insensitive. Well, why don't you just tell him and get it over with? If she isn't that important then why risk losing your friend for a quick visit to the eraser room?"
"Hogwarts has an eraser room?" Harry asked blankly sure he'd never come across such a place in one of his many late night wondering.
"Am I really that out of touch?" Sirius mumbled quietly to himself ashamed of his own lack of touch, he used to know all the places you could take a girl for half-on-stress relief.
"He wouldn't like the idea of her and she doesn't want me too. And to be honest she'd get a hell of a lot of stick being around me from other students." Harry explained truthfully but Sirius hadn't understood exactly his last point.
"Ok, so you won't tell him who it is because she doesn't want him to know and you don't think he'd like the idea of it anyway and I really don't understand the last bit Harry you'll have to be a bit more direct." Harry sighed then began explaining something that he'd only recently understood about girls.
"On the train I told you what happened to Hermione, well, I think that was because some lass was jealous of me spending all my time with her, as she sort of buffers other girls away. It seems I've gone popular again (can't see why, I'm the same skinny idiot I was last year?)' Harry pondered for a moment before continuing.
'Anyway it's sort of got a bit out of hand and I'm finding it really annoying to be honest. You know I couldn't sit down most of Sunday after some lass with really long nails grabbed me arse.' Harry explained honestly and plainly as Sirius had to fight really hard to suppress tears of laughter at this and had no control over his rather cocky grin.
'It isn't funny, that really hurt and I really don't like being grabbed at by anybody, let alone somebody I don't even know." He explained quietly and sullenly this made Sirius stop grinning and realise Harry wouldn't be happy about something like that after the previous summer.
He could have kicked himself for being so insensitive towards Harry, he'd been trying really hard to be sensitive towards other people now Tonks came round so often but he still found it really hard to fight his old ways. Whenever someone asked about how Sirius was coping with his lack sensitivity, Remus merely commented that Sirius has always been like that and he was never going to change so people should stop treating him like he's ill and accept Sirius is pretty much what you can see and always has been.
"I'm sorry Harry, I should have realised. Go ahead with you story." He gestured feeling rather guilty now but still smiling ever so slightly.
"It's ok. It hasn't bothered me in ages, just, I don't like been reminded of it that's all. And that was another thing Ron's been arsey about. Hermione told him how Dumbledore had gone into my head and shown you something but I never told them what it was. I don't want to tell them it's horrible, I don't even like thinking about it."
Harry mumbled looking dreadfully disappointed in himself for some reason and despite Sirius's sometimes insensitive nature, he could see how much this bothered Harry and wondered what on earth he could do to help. He may occasionally forget about what he'd seen in that pensive but Harry having lived through it certainly wasn't going to be so flippant.
"Harry, that's up to you if you tell him. I know it's horrible for you to cope with." Sirius sighed gently as he could.
"Ron thinks I'm keeping it from him, which I am, but I didn't think he would mind too much if he only knew. We started getting into an argument and ended up nearly scrapping on the floor after he'd thrown some heavy books at me, Nev gave me a shove and I just walked off and now we don't really seem to be talking at all. I don't want to tell him, he wouldn't understand but I don't want him to hate me for keeping it from him either. But I thought he'd understand that I didn't want to because sometimes he just doesn't wants to know. I know he doesn't, he's just too awkward to tell me."
Harry finished giving Sirius the opportunity to see just how bad Harry felt at the minuet when he let his head drop into his hands slightly out of Sirius's view. He hated having to talk about it to anybody but at least Sirius knew and could sort of understand. He hated having to think about it as well, or to even be suddenly reminded of it every time there was a particularly cold evening or rainy night.
"You really don't want to talk about it do you?" Sirius finally asked plainly seeing Harry's pale miserable face.
"No! It's horrible. I hate having to think about it. To be reminded when I'm not expecting it's awful. Like when someone shows me a photo without saying anything and I'm not ready to look. No one wants to have that done to them but people just keep on doing it and it's not fair!" He mumbled trying to bite back the horrible empty feeling of worthlessness that seemed to creep up on him out of no-where. It wasn't that he ever felt like crying about it these days, he just hated feeling so empty.
"I know Harry. I do sort of understand, honestly I do but?' He sighed heavily losing all of his pleasure of seeing Harry now he finally saw just how torn up he was at the moment about things.
'Isn't there any way you could talk to one of them and try and explain. Hermione's got her head screwed on straighter, can't you talk to her about it a bit and she might have a better chance of getting through to Ron than you, been more distant an all." Sirius wondered but he knew it was no good. Harry would have said something to Hermione by now if he felt he could, so it was fruitless trying to suggest something like that. Sirius just hated how the whole subject of Harry's attack was so difficult for him to get his head round and usually blamed himself for it anyway. It was no wonder Harry was struggling to explain how he felt.
"I really didn't want to tell you, which is why I gave in to Dumbledore so he'd do it for me. I don't want to have to relive any of it and to have to explain to Ron what happened...' Harry shuddered noticeably at the very thought of this before taking a deep breath and ploughing on.
'Hermione's just sort of accepted that I really don't want to talk but Ron won't. Does he really have to be that insensitive or am I just being stupid not telling him, he's supposed to be my friend?" Harry wondered darkly having often wondered what sort of friends ended up in a scrap of a fight in the middle of the dormitory.
"No Harry, you aren't stupid. I'd find it hard to tell Remus about it and it didn't even happen to me! You're bound to find it difficult, you'd be weird if you didn't, so try not to worry about it so much, you're perfectly normal." Sirius explained gently wishing he could have some magical easy answer to fix everything.
"You didn't though, did you?" Harry suddenly asked sounding almost frightened again by the prospect of someone else knowing his failings.
"No of course not, he asked but I told him you didn't want people to know and he let it go straight away and asked if you were feeling any better. Then he fed me half a chicken and we started talking about Tonks.' Sirius quickly explained annoyed Harry had that little faith in him after making Sirius promise he wouldn't tell even Remus.
'He just doesn't understand Harry and probably never would. Ron's lived a nice cushy little life with all his family and well, unfortunately you haven't. But I do think getting away might do you some good, you still have to sort it with him one way or another. And I guess Hermione's being difficult because she's torn between the two of you and doesn't want to loose friendship with either of you." Sirius wasn't sure if this made sense to him but it did seem to make sense to Harry so at least one of them knew what it was about.
"Yeah I guess your right. Although she say's it's not entirely my fault, but apparently, she can't concentrate with the giggling girls, they seem to always appear at the table behind us in the library and corridors." Harry explained trying to find something a little more cheerier to talk about, even if he wasn't quiet sure why girls giggling and trying to flirt with him was such a big problem to Hermione but still, he had to respect her annoyance some times, it got him through his exams every year without fail.
"I guess she's right, it must be hard to concentrate, and she comes across as deadly serious sometimes about her school work. Remus told me how she won't let anything get between her and her study.' Sirius added, pleased Harry seemed to be coming out of his shadowy mood a bit again and sure some idiocy on his part would help it along a bit. Sirius could always do idiocy, it was as easy as breathing.
'Now tell me about this girl your screwing around with?" He asked thinking the whole concept rather amusing and hoping to take Harry's mind off anything depressing for a while.
"I'm not screwing her as you so impolitely put it and no. I'm not telling you about her. So can I come stay then or what?" He asked trying to change the subject but it was clear Sirius's wasn't going to be waylaid that easily.
"Course you can, I'd like to see you again. I fixed your room up for you just in case you wanted to come so it's waiting for you. Now please tell me who she is and I can pester Lupin to see if he's taught her and what she might be like?"
"Goodbye Sirius." Harry started but he didn't really want Sirius to go yet.
"Oh come on, I'm board give me summit to do. You know I'll only ask you when you get here.' He paused for a moment to see Harry's very determined face looking back at him and after thinking how much he looked like his mother Sirius gave in, for now.
'I'd like you to come, but you best go ask Dumbledore first at your next lesson just to be sure, then I'll send Tonksie along to fetch you from the station." Sirius quickly added sure that anything involving Harry had to be pre-approved by Dumbledore and he'd rather Harry asked than him so he didn't come across as too annoying to the headmaster.
"Tonksie?" Harry wondered but was pleased Sirius seemed to be so fond of her, as it helped Harry feel less guilty when he thought Sirius was being too nice to him for no good reason.
"Yeah, she's moved herself half in, well in a way, while still keeping her flat going as a spare home but I think there's something the matter with it, as she doesn't like going back there very often. It's nice having her around, although I don't think Remus likes it too much sometimes though." Sirius explained casually but Harry heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
"I have to go now someone's coming, I'll talk to you later when I've seen Dumbledore. Bye." Harry quickly rushed standing back up and shoving the mirror back in his back pocket.
"Potter, what are you doing up here?" McGonagall asked trying not to snap too much and looking at his bag and leftovers from breakfast with a rather difficult book about transfiguration open on the side.
"I was having breakfast professor, with Hedwig." Harry tried to explain, gesturing to Hedwig who was just moving off his head and back on to a perch as he did but she didn't seem to turn cross like he expected and merely half smiled.
"I can see that, you come up here often don't you? Well as long as that isn't today's homework you're trying to do then I don't see any rules you're breaking. Lesson's start in a few minuets though, so I suggest you go get your things and get moving along to them." She explained waiting for Harry to gather his stuff and head back up towards Gryffindor tower.
Sirius came quickly bounding down the stairs to find Lupin sat quiet and lonely by himself eating breakfast as he always did. Ever since Tonks had started stopping more often with a hefty nudge from Sirius and had started hanging around in the evenings more often for something to do, Lupin had become increasingly aware of what he was trying to ignore.
Lupin after having a wonderful day with Tonks and then several more afterward had lost his nerve when he heard the odd comment about how Tonks was still rather young. When this was coupled with his insecurities and a few jokes about his age and gray hair it had left there relationship not cold exactly, but strained, by a bad full moon for Lupin the suddenly randy werewolf and Tonks's unfortunate batch of shifts. This also left her tired and sometimes rather moody and there was only ever so much Sirius could do to help matters being one of the worst forms of cupid imaginable.
Sirius tried his best to sooth things over although he wasn't sure what the hell the matter was as they both seemed to secretly adore the other. Unfortunately Lupin had got it into his head that she was only around to spend time with Sirius and relay messages from her mother and that, not only did Sirius view her as little sister status, he also really cared about her and seemed to adore her mother despite everything. Which Sirius honestly admitted was true. He did.
"Guess what?" Sirius asked sitting down next to his friend and pouring himself a cup of coffee with a cheery bounce that really didn't need caffeine fuelling.
"Well either Tonks has got a new bloke or it's something to do with Harry." He replied sadly, feeling really quiet depressed but still mundanely tuning to face Sirius like he should.
"Oh come on, cheer up you, I've got good news." Sirius grumbled annoyed that in one of his few moments of joy, Lupin couldn't be bothered to join him.
"I'm sorry. See I'm better now, tell me what your news is, you don't often get good news do you, you mad pooch?" He asked scuffing Sirius's hair and watching with pleasure as Sirius's face turned to grim annoyance before going back to his previous childlike chirpiness.
"Harry's coming to stay over half term. And it's just Harry and not all the Weasley's and even better he's got some bird he's diddling and won't tell me who. So I get to pester him about it!" Sirius grinned clearly pleased by the whole business.
'The simple mind he has in that head sometimes.' Remus mumbled in his head with an affectionate smile.
"Oh well, it'll be nice to see Harry and I can understand why you'd want him all to yourself seeing as you fully detest the Weasley mother hen, but what's this about some girl?"
Lupin asked cheering up now he knew Tonks hadn't got some new man with big young muscles, lots of money and didn't go as bad as an anal-retentive-middle-aged-women's-pmt every month as Sirius had so kindly put it once (well a hundred and once times to be more precise).
"He won't say, got rather huffy about it actually said it wasn't anything serious, but I got the feeling it might be, and it was just some one he went with from time to time on the quiet. Called it 'stress relief' of all things." Sirius explained calming down now he remembered how fed up Harry had seemed.
"'Stress relief', is that what they call it now? God, I knew we were getting old but if Harry's sneaking off for stress relief we must be getting on." Lupin explained shocked that James's proud little kid that giggled and gurgled in his cot as he tried to suck his own toes was nearly all grown up and sneaking off for 'stress relief' with girls, well Sirius assumed it was a girl.
Sirius however ignored Lupin's comment of running his age down again and since being in Azkaban had never really understood time and ageing. He unfortunately, having gone straight from a silly young man to what he was now, much older, so usually tried his best not to think about the years in between. Not that time had any place in Azkaban, you could hardly tell when one day ended and the next day began let alone the difference between the years.
He however, didn't count himself as old yet and had finally decided having left Azkaban and found himself face first in the freedom of sand, that he was going to skip the years in Azkaban and in his head, was now only somewhere between twenty five and perhaps nearly thirty when he bothered to remembered what year it was.
"We aren't that old you know Lupin. However much you feel it! Besides, I'm curious, Harry's getting older now, we can talk like friends more and he doesn't need to be mothered like a little child in the same way." Sirius began.
"Yes Sirius he does, and he is a child, I don't agree with the way Molly treats him but he still needs you to finish bringing him up. Just because he managed to cope with out anybody all those years doesn't mean that he should have to. Besides, you'd benefit from the responsibility.' Lupin sighed seeing Sirius's slightly slow face following his words carefully.
'Or fall flat on ya face and he'll be the parent, whichever works best really you'll still benefit from responsibility whichever way it's going!"
Lupin was always so disappointed in himself for not taking an interest in Harry sooner than he did. Sirius however, after getting over his momentary crossness at how bad Harry's family life had been, had quickly decided that Lupin's self shame was more than enough punishment for any one and he shouldn't worry about it, at least that was what Harry seemed to be doing so he might as well do the same as it always worked well with James.
"I guess, I do forget how young he is sometimes, but I want to be his friend, I don't want to tell him off like a boring parent, that's no fun. Besides, I was always less emotionally developed than the rest of you as Lilly so kindly put it. He doesn't want me trying to replace James, it wouldn't be right and I don't want to do it." He finished flatly and Lupin found himself actually applauding Sirius's sensitive maturity that Harry wouldn't want anybody trying to replace his father even if it was Sirius.
"I know and you're doing fine aren't you, he wants to come and stay doesn't he? Just don't forget how stupid, idiotic and young you were then, add a few years and that's what Harry's like now." Lupin added letting a bit of his natural sarcasm slip out again.
"I guess but still, what with my mental age and Harry's maturity we're almost equal." Sirius decided constantly yearning for better times with Harry than what he'd so far achieved.
"That is true, you were always a bit behind the rest of us in that way." Lupin pondered but still glad that Sirius was able to keep James and Harry very separate in his mind these days and talk about all three of the Potters comfortably and happily, well most the time.
"Any way, I promised him in the summer he could have that room when he next came and some how a boggart's got itself stuck in the wardrobe and I need your help seeing to it. I'm sure I got rid of the last one but another one's moved itself in. Bloody things are all over the place." Sirius explained finally behaving like an adult again as he stole Lupin's toast cheekily from his hand before it managed to get it's way to his mouth.
"Sure last thing we want is it jumping out on him when he tries to put his washing away coz I aint doing it for him. He's a grown boy he can do his own washing." Lupin explained putting his cup down and pushing his plate away, it was useless trying to eat, he felt sick and Sirius had already eaten all the toast off his plate, while they were talking.
"I guess but it's not as if you do yours, you dump it all on my bed and get me to do it." Sirius sighed getting up after him.
"Oi, you don't do it all and it's not as if you've got much else to do. Besides you do Tonks's washing half the time anyway." He replied happily continuing there odd sort of banter about Sirius and his odd house wife ways.
"Well at least I draw the line at underwear, have you seen how small half her things are? She's supposed to be a tom boy." Sirius's sighed fondly scratching his head but then suddenly had an odd moment of panic and Lupin was just glad it didn't have anything to do with Tonks's knickers. Because yes he had seen how small they are and yes he did really like the look of them on her perky little bum.
"You do think he's going to like the room don't you, it's a bit plain on the walls and stuff." Sirius asked wondering what else he could do for his godson to pass the time.
"No it looks ok. Stop worrying about it, I'm sure once he's filled it with his junk and maybe put the odd picture up it'll be very homely, now piss off so I can go read." Lupin replied flicking his wand and clearing his breakfast away.
"Are you ever going to do something about that bloody women or what?" Sirius asked thinking it unfair that his friend was always so boring these days and he couldn't even get them both to sit down and eat with him anymore.
"I am, I will, eventually. Just stop asking about her and it will pass by sooner." Lupin replied but unfortunately aware that he didn't want it to pass or go away, he wanted Tonks, he was just incapable of getting her.
"I'm just saying that judging by your grumpiness these days I don't think you seem to be getting any better that's all. And maybe if you went and actually held a conversation with her you might find out what a stupid idiot of an arse you really are!" Sirius explained sarcastically.
"Bugger off Padfoot I'm reading, I'll come fix you ickle boggart later. Go and kick Kresher or something will ya?" Was all he got as a reply.