'I wasn't saying I'm not going to take responsibility for him, all I'm saying is that we need to work together on this. We disagree on other things and we always come to a conclusion together. I don't see why this would be different than everything else.'
He looked over at the boy. 'I admit I don't know the first thing about what I need to do here, but I do know one thing. If we disagree he's going to take advantage of it, that's what I always did when mum and dad weren't agreeing on something. Same thing when teachers didn't agree, you went with asking the one you knew was going to give me what I wanted.'
He might not know much about kids, but he did know typical Slytherin behaviour, and he didn't think his son would spared from it. He seemed to have strong opinions of his own already.
'We can disagree in private, and we'll talk and discuss until we come up with something we can both live with.'