Apr 16

“That’s my problem,” he said to Uncle Vernon as if confessing. “I never think before I act. I mean I’ll get the urge to do something and…” Sirius slammed his fist into the palm of his opposite hand, with a very loud smacking sound, “…bam! It’s done. All that time in prison, you’d think I’d learn my lesson, but really I seem to be in more of a rush to get things over and done with then before. That’s one of the reasons I’m so fond of your nephew; he thinks things through, more then I do anyway. He’s quite convincing too. For example when I found out his ‘Aunt Marge’ had referred to my dearly departed friend Lily Potter in a less then pleasant manner, I was going to burn your house to the ground, but then Harry, always the thinker that one, Harry says ‘you really shouldn’t burn their house down’ and I think he was right, don’t you?”