Despite himself, Sirius glanced at Severus before returning his attention to his old head of house.
"It's not likely to be under any other circumstances, is it? Not you and me, I mean, but all of us." He moved his voice into the dramatic. "A motley, fractious band of the heroic, the dedicated, and the merely suicidal...."
The grate had sputtered several times. Finally, it flared.