Somewhere in the afterlife James potter is hooping and hollering at this scene. Because after all this time, Remus is still a marauder, still up for pranking Snape. But more importantly his friend is helping this boy who’s been tortured and ridiculed by Snape. His friend, Remus Lupin, helps Neville stand up for himself and he does it with humor. And James knows how easily Neville could have been Harry.
I love working at joann fabrics today a guy asked me to show him the fake fur and when I did he goes “noooo… this won’t do” and part of my job is giving advice for projects so I asked him what he was using it for and he looks down at the floor and quietly says “… I wanna make a yeti costume to scare people with when we go skiing…”