Of course, it wasn’t genuine. Of course, it meant nothing. Remus was just playing along, like he said he would. Saying what Mrs. Bagshot wanted to hear. This had been part of their agreement from the very beginning. Of course it was fake. "Cherish him?" It was so over the top. It was ridiculous! Who talks like that? And it was doubly ridiculous that anyone would want to "cherish" Sirius, anyhow. People cherished things that were precious, sweet, and darling, and Sirius was none of those things. He was messy, depraved, and "mouthy as fuck," as he’d been told by a long list of hookups, not to mention his parents.