"Children can be more than unkind, they can be perfectly cruel," Remus said simply, not excusing his friends' or his house's own cruelty. He still held the same arguments he'd held when he and Regulus first talked of this almost a year ago -- it was up to all of them as adults to see that history stopped repeating itself in this manner. And while he might have seen a different side of Dumbledore, he didn't believe the man to be perfect. "But, the adults around them should know better and do something more to guide them than smiling indulgently when they twist a new piece of magic to their purposes. Letting children regulate their own behaviour isn't teaching them a mistake was made."
He couldn't help thinking he was going to owe his lover a great deal for putting up with this evening. As much as he did still like his friends, it would have been better to just invite himself and Sirius, keep the friendships what they were and not try to force it into something inclusive of the others. Anyone could have forseen how this was going to go once there was an opening. Watching Regulus and Lily smile at each other it was impossible to miss the arrival of the opening.
Or the fact Lily couldn't see Regulus was right, at least so far as the implications of who was more important to whom. Marlene was inconsequential. Even if Lily hadn't said a word, Remus was sure Marlene would have figured it out before any of the rest of them had a clue. She was the only one who figured out he and Regulus were together without having to be told and they'd been a lot more careful of that secret than he assumed Lily would be with this news. And Al would know what Severus knew, Remus was sure. In any case, the boy was family and Harry's son. If there was going to be a heirarchy, family should be first.
But, Severus? James Potter had voluntarily asked Severus Snape to help his wife and child? Before coming to the other Marauders? If that wasn't a sure sign things had irrevocbaly changed between all of them, Remus wasn't sure what would be. Glancing at Sirius to see how he was taking the idea they'd told Severus before them, he nevertheless nodded politely. "Well, I'm sure with Severus' extensive experience, you're in good hands." Still, he couldn't help adding to Prongs, "And it's good to see you can put your lifetime hatred of the man aside in a case like this."