"I am thinking this is vhy children are so adorable. That way, you don't give in to your exasperation when they do things wrong, because they're too funny or cute to be terribly mad," he half-joked. "By the time they pass that stage, they know how to circumvent it." He smiled slightly. He adored his children, but there were definitely times when they tried the patience.
"Vat, like... hm, vat process would you prefer if you feel abused?" he said. He thought her concern for elvish welfare was great, and she seemed to be taking a better angle on it than in the past. "Hm that is good, though you might vant to run it past an elf other than Kreacher as vell?" he suggested. Kreacher, he knew, wasn't the most... stable of elves, though he had improved somewhat, he suspected, since the war.