MesserMoon

“There aren’t any heroes, remember? You said that. No heroes, no villains, just people.”

An awkward silence drifts over the group, suddenly confronted with the world outside of Hogwarts. It’s not that they don’t know what’s going on, because they do, as much as they can, anyway. James sees the tense way his parents hold their smiles these days, the way they whisper behind their hands and close their doors. But it always feels distant somehow, something that is happening somewhere else to people he doesn’t know.

“Remus, I love you, I ever tell you that?” James says, smiling.
“Almost constantly James, it’s getting a bit much if I’m being honest.”
“Just waiting for the day you say it back babe.”