"You bet it does," Octavian said, using slang in one of the few circumstances he would. "You should be glad I even touched you, and that I didn't silence your obnoxious mouth every time I heard you. I wasn't physically present at the hospital, but I was emotionally," he answered. While he wasn't there when James was delivered, he apparated home as soon as he could. Of course, James would never know that, because Octavian would never tell him.
"Do you think I take orders from my son? No." he answered his own rhetorical question, thrusting P.J. towards Jim. "Bonding is unnecessary if Paul never remembers it, which he won't."