The sting of betrayal couldn’t be replicated— at least now you understood what Lily felt.

It was like a knife to the heart- the boy you thought would never do something like that, that he had grown out of his family’s pure blood ideals.

Sirius was in a bad mood to begin with- had a proper fight with James he wouldn’t elaborate on. You assumed it had something to do with his family. It usually did when he was in a mood like this.

What you didn’t expect was to be smacked away when you offered him comfort— for that word to spill from his lips like the name of an old friend.

“Leave me alone, mudblood.” Sirius snapped, eyes flashing with momentary regret, followed by intense sadness, “I didn’t- I didn’t mean that—“