Remus chuckled. "Don't you know children often are the complete opposite of their parents? It's God's punishment for the sins of the parent's childhood. But, maybe it's more that he doesn't think you want to teach them those things. I don't know. You two have spent so long on opposite sides of the dialogue, as it were, it must be difficult for either one of you to see the other as capable of coming to the middle."
And maybe that was the key to the entire question -- finding the middle ground, the 'perfect compromise', that would satisfy all parties. The impetus was his desire to be with Regulus, what he thought, hoped was Regulus' frustrated desires to be with him warring with his duty. But, maybe this was really more about the family as a whole and, therefore, something they would all need to do something about?
It bore thinking on, at the very least.
"I'm certainly open to suggestion. Of all of us you know the family duties best. James knows the possibilities of this time. I'm not really sure what I get to be the expert on," he laughed. "But I'm the one that won't give upon this for anything, maybe. With all of that, we should be able to come up with something."
Remus fell quiet a moment, then asked. "Give me your honest opinion. Do you think I should ask him outright for time to work on a solution? Ask him for the years James suggested?"