Elliot Eades was taken aback slightly by the young man's blunt question, but he didn't let that deter him from the matter at hand. "Why am I interested in hiring you?" he repeated the question, tapping the papers he'd brought with him once on the table to straighten them. "Well, Mr Potter, I suppose I'm interested in hiring you because you're interested in working here. You, ah--" and here he showed his first signs of a stumble, forehead creasing as he mentally went over what he knew, "--did come to apply for our assistant's job, correct?"
He looked at Albus Potter over the tops of his glasses (ah, what a life of reading did to you!) and raised both eyebrows. He hadn't yet been wrong about what sort of interview he was going to, but he supposed there was always a first.