"I think it'd give my mom a heart attack if I told her I was shacking up with a bloke." Talk about a dodgy subject in the muggle world. Then again, if she could love him as a wolf, he didn't doubt she'd find a way to love him no matter what. He just didn't want to add more differences and make them more disappointed. He wanted more normalcy, not less. "I think bachelor suits me better. Sounds way cooler too."

He smirked playfully and bumped into Sirius, pretty happy with the idea. "We'd be well fed and looked after. James is minted so we'd never go hungry. He could buy us chocolate frogs all the time." Well, a boy could dream. "Lily would learn to love us."