6. Roses
"Oi, Harry!" Sirius called. "C'mere, check this out!" Harry got up from his seat and crossed the room to where his godfather was sitting on the floor with a large, white book in his lap.
"What's up, Sirius?"
"Do you know what this is?" Sirius asked, holding up the book.
"If it's your collection of PlayWizard centerfolds, I really don't think I'm ready to have this talk..." Harry laughed as Sirius attempted to hit him with the book.
"No, smartass! This is your parents' wedding album."
Harry's eyes lit up. "Really?"
"Yeah, I found it buried in a pile of my old stuff." Sirius opened the book and he and Harry were met with the image on James and Lily, smiling and waving at the camera, so happy to be married. Sirius and Harry spent hours flipping through the album, with Sirius telling stories and Harry hanging on his every word.
Eventually, they reached the final page. It was a picture of Lily and the Marauders. Harry and Sirius both felt a slight pang at seeing a smiling Wormtail beside James, and so Sirius closed the book. Padfoot and Prongslet sat in silence for a moment, then Harry spoke.
"Sirius, I have a question."
"Shoot."
"Roses?"
Sirius raised an eyebrow. "Huh?" Harry sighed and picked up the book. He flipped through the pages, stopping at certain ones to point out a minor detail: the wedding flowers were roses.
Sirius was still confused. "So what's your point?"
"Well," said Harry, "my mom's name was Lily, so wouldn't lilies have been a more appropriate flower for the wedding?"
Sirius threw his head back and laughed. "You'd think so, wouldn't you?" Harry nodded with an 'Um...yeah' look on his face. Sirius smiled. "Lily hated lilies. I guess she got really sick of everyone assuming they were her favorite flower really fast."
Harry nodded, but stayed silent. Sirius chuckled. "I remember the first time James tried to ask Lily out. We all thought it would be a brilliant idea for him to give her a bouquet of lilies."
"And?" Harry pressed.
Sirius grinned. "She slapped him. It wasn't until seventh year that we realized that he shouldn't have given her lilies if he wanted her to go out with him." Harry and Sirius laughed. "James was an amazing man, Harry." Sirius said, "He just wasn't always the brightest crayon in the box."
A/N: Ack, I hate the ending.