"Nah, I didn't tell him. Didn't even tell him about you, my darling boy." He ruffled Gideon's hair and shrugged. "We'll tidy up a bit when I finish, so everything is nice for the puppy. And we need to prepare the couch for Remus and Sirius to stay over too."

He wondered what car these two would borrow, because he assumed that Remus was smarter than to try and get on a motorcycle with a puppy. Sirius, he was less sure about that. "Want to help me pick out a snack for my patient? We can pause the movie quickly."