Flashes from life
Godric's Hollow
Remus Lupin
When he wants to visit Lily and James, he doesn't go through the village. He saw the statue once, and doesn't wish to see it again, because it just isn't them. The artist hasn't captured Lily's smile right, or the way she held her head. James' chin is all wrong, his hair doesn't stick up like it did, they are too stately and still to be Lily and James Potter he knew.
He Apparates straight to the graveyard of Godric's Hollow. It's silent and empty most of the times he visits, dead, Remus laughs at the irony. Laughter is harsh and as hollow as he feels inside. He sits down to the ground and touches the tombstone with his fingertips, follows the words hungrily and then talks to it, tells every new piece of news, looks back at to the times when everything was right. The tombstone is like his personal diary, his only friend left.
One night, almost two years after, he forces himself to go to the village. Every step is heavy with memories and anger and sadness and regret and all the other emotions he can't deal with. He walks the familiar road as slowly as he can, but too soon he is there, looking at the remains of a house where his friends used to live.
He stands there for a long time and at some point he realises he's crying, because the whole picture is just wrong.