Professor Lupin had been the reason he'd gotten through that school year, and his connection with Harry's parents had helped make him feel like he wasn't quite so alone in the world. As if a part of them were present and he didn't have to grasp at stories of what they'd been like. There was such an easy-going warmth and something so endearing about chocolate being his solution to most problems.

He doesn't mean for her to get emotional. She's probably right, it's got to be the wine talking, but he's feeling sentimental and reflective. Something so simple as writing a resumé, his deeds and accomplishments- his life- on paper gets him to start analyzing everything in a way being an auror had never brought out. Silently, he wonders about that point, too.

"You're the one that got me thinking about it!" Her lips press to his forehead and that warmth in his chest tightens. He doesn't know what he'd do without her in his life. "Sometimes I wonder what would have happened without you around. Ron and I'd have definitely been killed by something, for sure."