"I always liked the sounds of your uncle." He was a delight compared to all the other Blacks. Not that he'd met many besides Sirius and his brother. And his brother had been a bit of a dolt so he wasn't really calling high in his standards. "I can imagine he's a lot like James. That kind of spirit doesn't get broken. Him and Lily, they were unstoppable. Their son will be too."

If he took even a little after his father and mother, he'd be the boy he imagined.