At the confirmation, Sirius sat down on the chair across from Remus, a soft smile on his face as he did so.<br/>He recognised the exact position that Remus was sitting in, knowing that he hadn’t looked much different two years ago when he was just starting out, and was probably equally frustrated by the entire ordeal.<br/>“Stuck?” He asked, not as much as a sliver of malice in his voice, instead a slightly worried expression on his face to go with the question.<br/>He didn’t want to antagonise Remus any amount, knowing that it had to be frustrating to know that Sirius was that much further ahead of him, but Sirius still wanted to do what he could do to help Remus get ahead. This was both because he was actually Remus’ TA, but also because he knew that Remus already had a good dissertation, he just had to properly find it.<br/>“If you want, we can brainstorm on it for a moment, I know that that helped me heaps.”