"Yeah, that's my partner. I'm starting to get this feeling that he might be queer, not sure what to do about it." Holden said it dryly, while leading Remus over to a bookshelf. "These are the romances, the gay ones. We've got lesbian over there. And if you look at the colour code, black dots are the ones that don't end happily. You'll want to follow the colour spectrum for the ones that do. I'd stick with red."

"That's not the same as the hankie code, Remus. Just so you know. Really not." Sirius felt it was important to inform him of that. In so many ways, Remus was still young and inexperienced, after all. "I'm surprised Felix is up already. Is he gonna come down? I want him to meet Remus!"

"He's like a puppy, your boyfriend," Holden talked to Remus, but in a fond tone, "Maybe you should get a leash. Perhaps a muzzle."