“Yeah, it was brilliant,” Sirius could say without hesitation. “Got me out of my parents’ house 10 months out of the year.”<br/>He was fairly certain he wouldn’t have survived living full time at home, but that felt like an unnecessarily grim addition to the recollection.<br/>“Made great friends. Offered plenty of opportunities to discover you like blokes,” he grinned, unabashedly. The posh tradition of highland boarding schools had greatly backfired on his parents, unknowingly encouraging every single antic they hated about Sirius’ behaviour.<br/>He once again picked at his mug, rings clicking.<br/>“I was disowned between terms,” he instead said. Sirius would return to the topic if Draco seemed interested in knowing about schooltime flings. “A schoolmate and his family were able to take me on for the last few years of my schooling.”<br/>There was no way Sirius would ever be able to repay James and his parents; even having raised his son for a quarter of a decade didn’t even begin to make a dent in repaying the kindness the Potters had shown him.