"—but I would have likely thought that about someone raised in a Light family, as well. Hell, sometimes even my father would say things to me that hurt, and I knew he was trying his best. No," Remus shakes his head again, "no, it was mostly because I knew how cruel you could be." Sirius breathes in sharply beside Remus. "When we were kids, you... Well, not saying they didn’t deserve it, but you could be downright cruel to the Slytherins, especially Snape, who quite frankly wasn’t any worse than the others. You were a bully, and James, too, but—James liked to act out just to make you smile, you know. You’d be down, and he’d make a plan to prank the Slytherins. And as we grew older, those pranks became... crueler."