Re: Ginny's Death
When it was over Sirius still didn't feel right, he itched to turn himself into Padfoot and find some small bit of comfort in the familiarity of it, something that kept away the cold and the memories that had come back so clearly. But Alastor had sent someone to find him, told him to find James, and Sirius ventured back up the stairs again.
James was the only person in the world Sirius would have gone back upstairs for at the moment - he was perfectly fine with sleeping in the Great Hall from now on if he were being honest, but he went back up. And found James kneeling in the corridor, his mother in his arms face pressed against her shoulder.
And Sirius didn't care about the dementors after that, he was still cold, and still had those memories just bursting to break free but James was so much more important than all of that. And Sirius knelt down there beside James, he didn't try to move him or pull him away from Ginny, just put a hand on his back, letting his palm soothe up his back until his fingers curled around the back of James' neck.