Aloysius came to something of a screeching mental halt and smiled sheepishly at his superior. He shuffled his papers into something a little neater and sat down.
"Er, sorry," he said with a wry laugh. "I guess I got a little caught up in all the excitement." He took a deep breath and marshalled his thoughts as he shuffled his parchment in an effort not to drop it.
"Right... well, I'm not sure if you know but I've been looking into the big problem with using Time Turners," he explained. "Basically that the reason we so rarely issue them outside the Department is that we can't trust people not to... meddle and that might be disastrous since we don't know what even a tiny change in the past might do to the present or the future."
He began to warm up to his subject, excitement washing over his face again. "Well, I've been looking at developing a way of being able to determine how to do just that... work out what happens if a change is made. It's involved a great deal in the way of probability equations as well as the arithmantic equations and runic investigation but... I think I've done it."
He waved one hand in the air. "It's all theoretical at the moment, of course. That's why I'm here. I need to do more research, specifically I need to start trying to translate the theoretical equations into something tangible and for that I obviously need funding and all the rest of that sort of thing."
He actually wasn't really looking forward to that side of things. He hated doing paperwork at the best of times but having to justify the expenditure of Ministry money was always tedious.