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SPOILER!!: Vic Quote:
Originally Posted by Bazinga 
Oh that was just wonderful news and Victoria smiled brightly. "I so wish we could get to see some of those Gobstone matches. I'd love to see him play." She loved her sports though so watching wouldn't be an awful task and he was so interested when they had played. "Though I do wish they'd bring back Quidditch. It would make one less issue for me." Trying to keep managers happy with tryouts and not having time to see them play was just a headache. "That's so good that he is doing so well. Bart had said he seemed to be a popular first year." That was about as much as her fifteen year old would tell her about school though.
She was very proud of her son, it felt like all the money she had spent on his camps through the years had finally paid off for him, though the money was well spent just by his enjoyment of the sport too. "He was very excited and very dedicated. I didn't see much of him really, most of his time was at the pitch." Part of growing up she supposed, but it was still sad not to spend a lot of time as a family.
She saw the look, but tried to ignore as she chuckled, "My job is both actually. I have been getting my thoughts and views out there, did you see my article in the Prophet?" She was rather proud of that article, "Plus we've been placing posters up and I have been speaking to the public, but I want to know what I can do to help the departments if elected. I feel our ministry runs very efficiently most of the time as is, so I'm not looking for major changes, so coming in and finding out how I can best serve departments is a way to make a transition, if elected of course, smoother. " Shew as still smiling brightly towards her friend hoping that made sense.
"Plus I'm very interested in your department functions. Your training program, it's along the lines of the idea I have to push ministry wide to get younger employees the experience they need to be successful and possible slow the turn over rate we have." Using MLE as the example in this program would be exceptional.
Spectating school gobstones matches... that wasn't high on her list of things to do. Crashing at the end so she could say she witnessed him play and make sure he was in one piece, and a healthy piece at that... that was more likely. "Mmm, who knows, I sometimes wonder if sending him to that school was the right thing to do." Nevertheless, he was happy, getting good grades, alive. Those were good things. The running of the school was out of her control, so whether or not attendance to gobstones matches was allowed or not, wasn't high on her list of concerns. Bring back quidditch, that was something else entirely - and for Zeke's sake, probably a good thing. "In time..." The sport wouldn't be banned forever, it wold lose a lot of business if it was. As for the matter of Zeke being a 'popular' first year, she found that difficult to believe, though she wouldn't have thought him as 'promising' either, and yet there it was in the yearbook.
It was nice the Vic was one for gushing about her children, it was something she limited in conversations, and thus her conversations were brief. "I'm glad to hear it," she replied politely. Granted, aside from their time in France, she didn't see a great deal of Zeke either, but he kept his nose clean for the most part.
And then the can of worms spilled all over her office, metaphorically speaking of course. Merlin, Vic could talk.
Emily nodded her understanding as the woman went on her spiel, and while her motivation was good natured, she had a department to run, and paper work to complete before her pending schedules.
"In that case I wish you would have set up a meeting." She sighed, leaning back in her seat a moment, fingers lacing together and resting in her lap.
"Honestly, since I've come in, I've made a number of changes with the support of Kettleburn and his administration, spending has been reviewed, as has staffing, training and security." Did Vic see where she was going with this? "All I can say at the moment, bearing in mind that you do not have the clearance to be privy to the most inner workings of this Department at this stage... is perhaps a little more funding, a little less red tape, and to let us get on with what we do best." Which was work cases, for which paperwork was an inconvenient necessity.
"If you need anything else, it's best to make an appointment with our secretary. I wish you well for the election race, but that's all I can do for you at such little notice." And really, there wasn't much more to be said anyway.
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