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“And here’s the rest of it,” Sirius passed over the notes and homework for the other two classes, “I had to wait outside your Care of Magical Creatures class for half of lunch, so you’d better get top marks on that.”

“You did?!” Remus’s eyes widened in shock, smiling as if Sirius had just told him he’d found the cure for dragon pox. Sirius felt a thrill of joy at his friend’s amazed reaction.

Sirius felt an immediate wash of relief, paired with a strangely triumphant happiness—he knew Remus didn’t care about Lily!

“It’s not over,” he said, once he trusted himself to speak again, “I’ll show him. I’ll bloody destroy him!”

The marauders were at war.