"Oh, she quit that nonsense years ago. I suppose she figures I have a hard enough time that a little tobacco isn't going to kill me. And at least it's just that and not weed and whatever else I used to roll and smoke the first time around." He thoughtfully scratched a long thumb-nail along his bottom lip and quirked an eyebrow at George's assessment of their new shop help. "I'm quite familiar with Mister Davies," he said. From what he remembered, the term eye candy wasn't far off, was it? Not that he needed to say that out loud. Though his gaze did shift to George, giving him a once-over. They weren't his students anymore, now were they? No. They were practically his peers. Sure. That justified it.
Remus leaned forward, knocked back the shot and waited for George to pour a second before downing that one as well and setting his glass down, finishing off his cigarette and stubbing it out. "Well, it would have taken me a month, two months at the most if Sirius didn't keep insisting we do it his way and add all these unnecessary bells and whistles in the name of a good laugh. As it was, it took us most of our forth year to put it together and that was only because I finally convinced him to shut up and let me do it my way," he said with a shrug.
"Though to be honest," he said, scratching the back of his neck, "Dumbledore gave us the parchment. It was already charmed, we just had to draw the map and find all of the passageways. And oh, we found every last one of them. And of course we had to throw our own charms on there and make sure it worked right... But the paper itself already had a bit of magic in it. Dumbledore always... took good care of me," he said with a nod and then reached out for another shot. There was a conversation he wasn't getting into. Ever.
"James would have loved you both," he said. "You're just his kind of people - you and Fred both. And Sirius. Well, I know how he felt about you two. He was proud that our legacy was living on in perfectly capable hands." He could say more, but it would all be wildly inappropriate and too-much-information.