"Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off!"
Hold him off...without a wand...
"No, I think you're like James, who would have considered it the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends."
"I knew your father very well, both at Hogwarts and later, Harry. He would have saved Pettigrew too, I am sure of it."
"Yeh did as much as yer father would've done and I can't give yeh no higher praise than that."
"Your father was the best friend I ever had and he was a good person."
"Potter told Dumbledore Black would rather die than betray his friends."
"Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. James used to call it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many were under the impression I owned a badly behaved rabbit."
"You think the ones that we have loved ever truly leave us? You think we don't remember them more than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night."
"You'll stay with me?"
"Until the very end."
I don't need an excuse to celebrate James Potter, one of the most beautiful and misunderstood fictional characters I've seen, due to a mix of movie misrepresentation and people who love an adult bully but can't forgive a boy who bullied an arch rival at the age of fifteen and grew out of it and trusted his friends with his life despite knowing there was a spy in their inside circle, had a half-giant and a werewolf for his friends, turned Animagus for his friend, adopted his outcasted best friend, married a Muggleborn and died trying to take on Voldemort with a wand to give his family a chance to run.