"Lily was such a no-nonsense girl. The stories of James’ attempts to woo her were quite amusing, I will admit. I was always on Lily’s side; when she came to visit with the lot of you after you graduated I pulled her aside, you know, and asked if she were sure about James. "As sure as anything’, she’d said. "I love him, and he’s a good man. Maybe the best man ever.’" Yes, James was probably the best man Sirius has ever known. Loads better than himself, anyway. "And then she admitted that she would have chosen Remus, but unfortunately you both were better off friends, so she wouldn’t be able to become my daughter-in-law."