a pretty long head cannon about how Sirius leaves little notes for Remus in his books ( bear with me here ) :
Sirius sneaks into Remusâ Advanced Potion-Making and scribbles âThis page tastes like licorice. Lick it.â Remus, half-asleep, actually licks the book. He chases Sirius down the corridor, throwing the book at his head.
Sirius starts underlining random passages and adding commentary:
âBoring. Skip this.â
âImagine Dumbledore in this hat. (Youâre welcome.)â Remus pretends to be annoyed, but James catches him smiling at a particularly stupid joke about troll politics.
Sirius gets bolder.
âYou sighed three times reading this chapter. Tell me why over tea?â
âThis character reminds me of you. (Itâs the tragic backstory.)âRemus starts keeping the notes, tucking them between his favorite pages like pressed flowers.
Sirius steals Remusâ copy of Wuthering Heights and underlines every angsty line, adding:
"This is us. Youâre Heathcliff (brooding) and Iâm Cathy (dramatic)." Remus writes beneath it:Â "Except I wouldnât die for you. Iâd just make you tea and tell you to stop being ridiculous." Sirius underlines that too, with a heart.)
Remus opens his battered copy of Peter Pan to find, in Siriusâ messy script:
âMoonyâIâd never grow up if it meant staying like this with you. (Cheesy? Yes. Do I mean it? Also yes.)â He doesnât say anything. Just hands Sirius the book later, with a single word added beneath:
âOkay.â (Sirius beams so hard he trips over the sofa.)
Remus is trying to focus on his Defense Against the Dark Arts essay, but Sirius keeps nudging his foot under the table. Finally, Remus snaps open his textbook to find:
"Youâve ignored me for 17 minutes. Thatâs cruel and unusual punishment, Moony. - Your Prisoner Sirius Black" Remus scribbles back:Â "Solitary confinement lasts another hour. Stay quiet and maybe Iâll reduce your sentence." (Sirius spends the next 45 minutes dramatically sighing and folding notes into paper airplanes.)
Sirius slips a note into a random library book Remus is holding: "Meet me in the Restricted Section in 10 minutes. Bring snacks. -Your Favorite Criminal" Remus, flustered, scribbles back:Â "Weâre banned from the Restricted Section." Siriusâ reply, passed under the table:Â "Thatâs why itâs fun."
After a full moon, Remus wakes up to find Siriusâ handwriting in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them:
"You drool in your sleep. Itâs disgusting. (I watched you for an hour. Worth it.)" Beneath it, in Remusâ sleepy scrawl:Â "Youâre a creep. (But youâre warm. Stay.)"
Years later, Remus finds an old potions book in Grimmauld Place. Tucked inside is a yellowed note:
"If youâre reading this, Iâm probably dead. (Morbid, sorry.) But just in caseâyou were the best part of it all. Padfoot." (He doesnât cry. Not where anyone can see.)
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