[have possibly the fullest laugh anyone's gotten out of Remus in a while]

I'm honoured, my friend and liege, but I think even if the course of history would not implode from such a thing, my head might.

[And he's tried functioning among those whose future he knows and found he neither likes it nor excels at it one bit.]

I think you'd find you already possess the necessary council.

[Go ahead and interpret that metaphorically. Time later to discover it's not.]