Re: Meeting with James and Alastor
Alastor bit his tongue, hard, to keep from arguing with her. Expediency might not be the answer in politics, but it made no sense for him to go into detail Stephen could explain better when they had people in place to deal with it. Bureaucratic lag may be what gave them democracy, but there were reasons Alastor had never been a bureaucrat.
Lack of patience came prominently to mind.
"That about covers the highlights," he agreed, once Jamie had essentially given the same information he did, only using more words. Alastor did laugh at the warning that followed, however. "Don't think I'm not taking advantage of the suggestion to let you do my talking for me. I think you already know my feelings on talking to the press."
God, he was going to be stuck behind a desk...again. Even after all that had happened, he couldn't be happy about that idea. Just when he thought he'd gotten through all the hassles of that sort of position.