James knew that it was his turn to say his piece, but he honestly had no idea how to sell this to Remus in a way where he would take the weird stranger in. He knew that it likely wasn’t their problem if they didn’t want it to be, but James liked Sirius and he wanted to help him to not get hurt.<br/>“Well, Remus, my dear friend,” James started, knowing that Remus was likely going to know exactly what he was going to ask when he was laying it on this thick, but he didn’t care. It was important to him and he knew that the only good place to put Sirius would be at Remus’ cottage.<br/>“I was hoping that you would keep him here at your cottage, just for a couple of days,” he expertly lied, knowing that it was likely going to be for far longer, but that was a problem for later.