There was something incredibly nostalgic about hearing Remus talk like that, Sirius only too aware of the fact that he had sounded exactly the same when he ranted to James in the beginning of his own PhD. He hoped that he would be able to support Remus through it, just as James had been his own pillar through the entire first year, and still was most of the time.<br/>“No need to worry too much about Mulligan,” Sirius reassured Remus, knowing that he himself had been intimidated by the older man in the beginning as well. His relationship to the professor had eased significantly once Sirius started taking him less seriously though, not that he would recommend that Remus when that route immediately.<br/>“And the funding never stops being a worry.”