But still, the reality of war couldn't be erased just denied for a while, and there was a brittle fragility to the carousing that was proof of the war, and its indelible stamp on peoples" lives. Remus was looking pale still, and weak, and wouldn't be well enough to come on the Gringotts" mission – something he was deeply disappointed over, feeling it was his duty to go, that he was needed. Tonks was glad though. Hermione sat with her as the new mother fed Teddy in a quiet corner, and Tonks admitted her relief that Remus wouldn't be able to go, especially being so soon after the Russian mission.