"Not then. But, we can now." Remus was firmly behind taking this opportunity to do better. Their civilization had failed. They would have to do better or just fail again. "I think that's a brilliant idea. And, you know, if you need any help or someone to bounce ideas off, I'm always available. But, I think approaching it that way is the perfect plan. And, possibly more useful, in the long run, even if I still think we need to know how things happened if only so we don't repeat them. And, Harry will likely respond better to the security angle," he added with a shrug.
Echoing his friend's frown, he started walking again as he thought. "But, if that were true, why would it need us at all? It could have existed contently with just the house elves and ghosts. But, now that you point out the relationships, that makes me think even more that it wasn't random. It's like the castle knew who to pair together. It was upset Glenda left, but...from what I've seen, it seems like most people were either just confused or...needed the change in perspective to change their own. So, was it trying to teach us something beyond the fact it doesn't want us to leave? Or was it showing us what it could do as just a taste, the implication being if it could do that, what else could it do?"
Remus hadn't thought about it in the way Peter put it, not until that morning, and he nodded. "I know. And I know you're not playing who's had it worse. It's been two years since the war, three since I started going deeper into the packs. I have a distance from everything that you three don't. A distance from all of you beyond just having lost you." He was the outsider more than Peter in a lot of ways and he knew it. He'd had time to grow and mature while his friends were still as they had been. "I said something similar to Regulus this morning." And it held true with Regulus in a way, too. Regulus had come straight from his part in the war. Remus was...where he had always been. Just slightly out of step with everyone.
"I think, if you were afraid of it, you wouldn't have let it happen. But, I can understand the fear." It wasn't fair that Peter had been given so little time with Cassandra, had lost her before he'd even known if there was something to really lose.