cimorene

even if we wrote them and not jkr. ::snarls::

past:

Before Peter or Sirius could wrangle an invitation to live with Lily and eat tiramisu every night ("It's really that simple!" Sirius marveled. "And I never--") they had reached Gryffindor Tower.

"Of course it takes some practice," Lily said, still with a perfectly straight face. "I mean, with the brandy--"

"Rain of toads," James said to the Fat Lady. He was starting to look sideways at the conversation.

"And the ladyfingers," Remus said helpfully.

"That's what the brandy's for," Lily replied with a little look that was certainly not a frown.

present:
There's a box there, cardboard, with a cheerfully grinning banana painted on the side. And he can't help but see - really, he wasn't looking - that there are photographs in the box.

Wizard photographs, a closer investigation turns up, and he laughs in surprise at the first one, of a young Remus with his Gryffindor colours twined around his head like a turban, rolling his eyes and grinning as snow gathers on his shoulders.

::curtseys to