Sirius tells Hope about Harry, then tells her more. Well, he tells the potatoes he peels and the carrots he chops by hand—as if he were still underage learning how to cook in the Potter’s kitchen—all about speaking (yelling) with Petunia Dursley, and the meetings he and Remus have been having. He cries a bit while telling her about the nightmares he’s been having about the Potters and abandoning Harry, but he does this while cutting onions, so no one can call him out on that. Then, sautéing the vegetables aggressively (and with only the fraction of skill he used to have, unfortunately), he tells her about the frustrating cold shoulder he’s been getting from her son, and how he’s convinced Remus is planning on vanishing on him once he has custody of Harry, which is absurd because Sirius doesn’t even know how to survive as an adult in this new post-war world, much less how to raise a child in it.