"Ah, this is who you're teaching the Animagus transformation to? Remus asks, before giving Q an encouraging smile.
"Not teaching. Helping," Sirius says, looking at the papers rather than at Remus, and ignoring what he can see of Remus' 'oh, well, that's all right, then' expression. Some of the terms and references that Q uses simply bounce off Sirius, but he mentally files them aside to worry about later. "Were you able to find the intstructions for preparing the spirit induction formula#? And how are you going with the practical side of things -- transfiguring one animal into another?##"
# The stuff for which the cactus juice is an ingredient. ## Implied 'while retaining the first animal's consciousness in the second animal's form'.