❝ i’ve been waiting to smile. ❞ ( via lily )
So smile, he wanted to tell her. No one’s stopping you. But he, unlike most, knew that nothing was ever that simple. Just because someone wanted to smile, it didn’t mean that they could. Wanting something didn’t truly mean anything. Remus couldn’t blame Lily for only being able to wait — especially considering the circumstances now.
Seven kids like her, who shared the same tainted blood — Merlin, Remus hated whoever decided that their blood was tainted just because they didn’t bear names like Black or Malfoy — as her, had been s t o l e n. Smiling, he imagined, was no easy task when the thought of that clouded their every mind.
“They’ll find the other three soon,” he said, though he wasn’t quite sure if it was her or him who he was trying to reassure. “Then we can all smile again — to honour the one of them who didn’t make it too.”