"You're better off this way, Lily," James said in a mockingly reassuring voice. "I hear he still keeps a picture of you in your nightgown under his pillow as is."

Lily shot James a warning look but refused to reply. She just didn't feel like arguing with him right now. But if he kept talking she couldn't promise anything.

"I don't see what you saw in him in the first place. The bloke is a total ---"

"Will you just SHUT UP James Potter?!" Lily snapped. "He was my first real friend and understood me better than you ever will."