[Why, perhaps he'll use some of that blackmail he's been collecting about you?]

Why, to learn how to better care for and manage you unruly lot of course. You think I got so good at wrangling all those relatives through sheer luck or something? And yes, sometimes I've had to resort to blackmail to do so. But isn't it so much better for everyone involved when I can do so with nothing but positive reinforcement instead?

[It's so adorable that you think that he wouldn't just find such a display even more adorable than all the huffing and puffing.]

But it wasn't. I distinctly remember the harp being fine.

[No one likes to talk about the bear cub...]