At first glance, the dormitory appeared to be one giant mess: clothes were strewn, beds went unmade, and strange black hair littered virtually every surface as though the boys that occupied this space owned some sort of long haired animal, though there was none in sight. Under it all, a peculiar odor was radiating, smelling oddly of rotten fruit. At second glance, however, a small space that revolved around one out of the five beds situated nearest the door had an odd air of order, a made bed, and smelled pleasantly of Christmas and chocolate. This bed belonged to Remus Lupin, who had an acute gift of cleanliness and perhaps a minor case of OCD. He took the phrase, "cleanliness is next to godliness" in a quite a literal sense.

Sirius Black, one day while admiring the strange unrealistic neatness of Remus Lupin's bedside, decided to, in attempted discreetness, move a book from its quite distinct place in alphabetical order, to a quite non-alphabetical position, upside down and sideways on said Moony's nightstand. Sirius then glanced back at Remus, who was seated in a scarlet armchair with a book under his nose, rather like a child that had snuck a cookie out of the cookie jar.

For a moment, Remus continued to read as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Although, when you live with Sirius Black, the ordinary automatically becomes the unordinary, as is to why Remus was so practiced in the area of multitasking, and how he could, without glancing up from his book and without tripping over the many piles of odd clothes littering the floor from teenage boy cleanliness (or rather lack thereof), cross the room and pick up the book, placing it in its correct place on the bookshelf beside his bed, and then cross the room again to sit down in the armchair he had previously vacated. He then proceeded to continue reading that same booked shoved under his nose as if nothing had happened.

Sirius, quite bewildered indeed, turned to James Potter who, having watched the scene play out with an amused smile on his face, merely shook his head. Neither would ever understand how the inner mechanisms of their friend's mind worked. But this did leave Sirius wondering if he indeed had a sixth sense about disorder, and how similar this same scenario would play out if Remus had been in the shower.