"Let me speak to Padma first. She was part of the Dumbledore's Army, although why they called it that when it was really Potter's Army, but he might listen to her more than either of us," Peter said. "She'd know how to present it to him, because magic is cool to study isn't something that'll convince him."
Peter snorted. "No shit. And you think I enjoy talking about Cassandra. It hurts, but also Remus is right, it helps while hurting. I think it'll hurt more in the long run, keeping all that hurt makes me angry and frustrated and ready to lash out." What Sirius was saying was so much what he'd been thinking about.
"We all do it, hide our feelings. I think- I've been thinking about it and I think we were always like that, but in school, we had a way to let that frustration and anger out. the Slytherins, the pranks. Once school was over, we had all of those feelings and we didn't know how to deal with them." He sighed again. "Cassandra was good at making my talk and things feels less hopeless when we were done." He looked at Sirius for a moment and then decided to go for broke. "It was real before she knew, Sirius, because all the fucked up things you hide made you do other fucked up things. Maybe it's time to stop dwelling and be a Gryffindor. Talk about it and make them real on your terms. Talk to her, to James, to Remus, to me, to your brother. Just talk to someone."