"The sea? I've never seen the sea. Aunt and uncle go every year with Dudley. They told me I could go if I cleaned the whole kitchen but I didn't do a good job so I didn't get to." He hadn't caught one tea spoon and that was enough to dash his hopes and send him to the neighbours to be watched. Not that he minded the elder lady who watched him but she was hardly fond of him either. "The sea is blue and there's shells and sand, right?"

Dudley always boasted about getting ice cream there too. Maybe were going to live in an ice cream shop! It was crazy but everything kind of was here.

"Sirius? What's a Godfather? You said you were mine." What did that even mean?