He'd always tried to be kind, especially to Peter, because he knew what it was not to have friends. Neither of them had suspected James and Sirius to be anything but genuinely friends. Peter hadn't known, either, and that didn't make Remus feel better about his own obliviousness, not at all. He would have expected blind reckless foolishness of even Lily before he expected it of Peter, and then he'd been wrong again -