If it had been anyone else, Lily would have probably taken offense at that almost hiss but she didn't with Sirius. She thought she understood where he was coming from with it. "Sirius - I'm not saying he didn't. You've been through more than me. You know what happened. But I - you know me. I can't just write him off without seeing for myself. How many years did everyone try to make me see what Severus was like?" She asked him, a little touch of venom bleeding into her voice as she said her former friends name.