Several long tables have been set up with an array of sandwiches, salads, and small snacks covering a wide range of food needs and preferences for a casual lunch between orientation tasks. Grab something to eat and one of several beverages at your leisure and take a seat.

Round tables have been set with several chairs at each. Two self-inking quills rest in the center of each table near a little envelope marked "Conversation Starters" on one side, with instructions on the other. Perhaps you know the people you're seated with, but perhaps you don't. Introduce yourselves and start building the connections that are part of a strong Ministry team, within and between Departments.

SPOILER!!: Conversation Starters

Choose one (or more) of the prompts below for what was in your table's envelope!

• What is the Ministry not doing that you think it could be? This might be something external to serve our constituents or something internal like employee mixers
• You're out to dinner as a group when a woman approaches you to lecture you about how the Ministry ignores the threats on Knockturn. How do you respond?
• What aspect of wizarding culture is most important to you and why?
• Brainstorm two new initiatives that involve all of the departments represented at your table
• Why work for the Ministry of Magic?
• Write a mission statement for the Ministry of Magic
• Imagine that you remain employed at the Ministry the rest of your working years. What is your legacy?
• Your table is the newly appointed Public Relations Committee. What do you want the rest of the Wizarding World to know about what the Ministry does to serve?