I spent more time defacing it than reading it. I'm honestly not sure how to tell him, poor fellow.
[He puts brief pressure on James' arm, a silent all right?. Of course it is still not all right, in the large sense of all right; it is unfair to the highest degree. But James is here., now, and the world ended, so they have this much, at least, a second chance at all of it.]
If we're here, that means anyone could be here. And that includes Harry. There's no way they brought the author of some textbook and left behind your son. We've just got to find him, keep track of him.
['Just', like it's that easy. It will be easy. James is here. The world--or what passes for the world these days--can begin to make sense again, fit itself back into the order that Sirius has been missing. Like having a limb lopped off.
When he looks back at James again, he thinks of a hundred things at once. The last time he saw James, the first time he saw James. Harry, laying on his back on the tatty rug at Godric's Hollow. Harry, in the Shack, white-faced and angry; James in the Shack, with dust in his hair. Very haunted, Moony. Harry astride the hippogriff, impossible and foolhardy and brave to a fault.]
He really is brilliant, James. You'll have to ask Remus for his marks.
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[He puts brief pressure on James' arm, a silent all right?. Of course it is still not all right, in the large sense of all right; it is unfair to the highest degree. But James is here., now, and the world ended, so they have this much, at least, a second chance at all of it.]
If we're here, that means anyone could be here. And that includes Harry. There's no way they brought the author of some textbook and left behind your son. We've just got to find him, keep track of him.
['Just', like it's that easy. It will be easy. James is here. The world--or what passes for the world these days--can begin to make sense again, fit itself back into the order that Sirius has been missing. Like having a limb lopped off.
When he looks back at James again, he thinks of a hundred things at once. The last time he saw James, the first time he saw James. Harry, laying on his back on the tatty rug at Godric's Hollow. Harry, in the Shack, white-faced and angry; James in the Shack, with dust in his hair. Very haunted, Moony. Harry astride the hippogriff, impossible and foolhardy and brave to a fault.]
He really is brilliant, James. You'll have to ask Remus for his marks.