"James is difficult. You'd have to work out too." And Peter was all in favour of less working out and more eating of the taters. "I mean, I reckon Sirius is strong too, but you can see it more with James?"

Or maybe he was just biased toward James, either was a strong possibility. "We are lucky they are friends with us," he concluded. He wasn't always the most introspective, but it was easy enough to imagine the 'what if' of any life where James and Sirius hadn't decided to be friends with him. "But they are lucky too, right? Cause we are putting up with them."

They could be a lot.