Mar 24

“Like, for a caring, romantic letter, you would write, ‘My darling Lily’—Vanilly, his head instantly added, but Sirius ignored it—or ‘Lily”—Vanilly—”‘light of my life’, or ‘Sunshine in the storm, thy name is Lily Vanilly.’”

James looked up from the paper, which he appeared to be taking notes on.

“I did not mean to say ‘Lily Vanilly’ out loud,” Sirius said genially. “My apologies. Feel free to scratch out ‘Vanilly’, because I know you wrote it down.”

James did so.