"Not all people are evil. I've met Remus' mother. She's a muggle and she's brilliant. The Potters are pure as the driven snow and they are grand too." Sirius shook his head. "I don't think it's our blood that's the problem. It's how we were treated. James doesn't get angry like I do. He's not cruel like we are."

Sirius wished, he really did, that he could be like James. That he could see the world the way this - who was so much like him - always had. "I don't want the world to be wiped out. You know I don't want that, right? You are talking nonsense anyway. As if you still want me around."

He spat it out like the rest, only letting it sink in afterwards. It showed on his face.