Nodding, Remus smiled briefly before taking a moment to put his thoughts into words.
"You know I've been trying to reconcile the Remus Lupin everyone remembers with who I am now that I've come back," he began. "I think I'm ready to put that aside now."
He was more than ready, if he was honest with himself. He knew now what the world's expectations of him were going to be and how far he would reasonably go to meet them. It was time to let the man he had been rest. And, if he had a little more incentive to do so than he'd thought he'd have before, well, he was coming to terms with that rather well, he thought.
"In order to do that," he continued, "I need to tie up some final loose ends that I've been ignoring." He took a breath and let it out slowly. "Such as determining whether or not I'm still legally married."