Percy blushed a little at the thought of the few rules he'd broken in his lifetime, though very few people would ever know about them. "Let's keep that our little secret, why don't we. I'd hate for my brothers to think I was capable of further rule-breaking," he added with a wink.
He watched as the boy fell and Lucy went immediately to his side, helping him up and brushing grass from his clothes. She then went to get the ball to try the trick for herself, only for it to go flying into a nearby flower bed. He rolled his eyes and Lucy led Christopher into the flowers. "Please, for Merlin's sake, don't step on the flowers!"
He nodded. He understood the dilemma, he was caught in it himself. At the moment, there simply wasn't another option that he knew of. "There is no need to apologize, I agree with you. There is certainly value in it. Even if there were some sort of partnership with a Muggle school made up of Muggle children who already know about our world - the children of squibs and families of Muggleborn witches and wizards. There is so much work needed to open a school - a location, resources, funding, teachers..." He sighed. "We've only recently finished putting the Ministry to rights, at least mostly so. The idea of starting an entirely new insitution is... momentous, to say the least."