Sirius snorted. Fucking cat.Of course, James thought it was funny, says he's going to be a great
Quidditch player.
We had a very quiet birthday tea, just us and old Bathilda, who
has always been sweet to us, and who dotes on Harry. We were so sorry you
couldn't come, but the Order's got to come first, and Harry's not old enough
to know it's his birthday anyway!Sirius sighed as he remembered the hassle he had gone through just to get that
bloody broom mailed to Britain. It went through three different customs problems, and it
still had to be sent to Dumbledore, who eventually delivered it to James and Lily. Sirius
was not even aware of their location, though he had his suspicions. It was too dangerous
to include any location information in a letter. With Lily's mention of Bathilda Bagshot, he
assumed they were back at Potter Cottage in Godric's Hollow. He made a mental note to
subtly reply to the letter and let Lily know that she needed to be more careful just in case
their owl was intercepted.
James is getting a bit frustrated shut up here, he tries not to show it,
but I can tell—also, Dumbledore's still got his Invisibility Cloak, so no
chance of little excursions...Sirius sighed at the revelation that Dumbledore had the cloak. He could almost feel
the frustration of his best friend from thousands of miles away. James was not the type of
man who could just let himself be locked away, out of the fight. Sirius would go mad if
they had suggested such a thing for him.
If you could visit, it would cheer him up so much. Wormy was here
last weekend, I thought he seemed down, but that was probably the news
about the McKinnons; I cried all evening when I heard...Sirius set the letter down briefly and pinched the bridge of his nose. Despite their
sordid past and the fact that Mia had hated the girl, he had been hurt by the news of
Marlene's death. Of course, these days, each new letter he received reported one death or
another. The news about the Prewett brothers had sent him back to the pubs in search of
firewhisky, only to find that since his alcohol-induced coma a year earlier, he had developed