"Because you don't seem to understand. It's not about the press owning you. It's about having a social responsibility to the people you are making decisions for and the press is the collective voice of those people. It's-" Jamie stopped. He wasn't having this argument again. He'd had it too often with his father, especially after Jamie had started doing more and more in the public eye. "Doing the right thing, better society, those have always been my Dad's lines. But, he and you sound like that somehow exempts you from being part of that society, that you can lead it without participating in it."
Jamie couldn't help rolling his eyes. "No, I said that I took over the job to protect the family. And because I don't actually mind it the way he did, the way you seem to. I'm also not asking for you to give me the job. I'm saying you need someone. You have someone better, be my guest. You want Glenda Chittock to take on the strategy and pick someone else to be the spokesperson, go for it. You're the Minister. You make the appointments. But, you are going to need it. You can't just deal with the governments and keep us isolated from the rest of the world. Even the magical world is going global, now. You need to start building your relationship with the foreign press and get out ahead of things or the only representation we have out there is the likes of Scarlet and whatever she's writing. You also need to open up the journals so we can read what the world is saying, you need to get your hands on foreign papers so you can see what the other governments are up to besides what they tell you. You-" Again he stopped. Only his father could get him to go off like this. So, maybe there was more of him in Harry than either of them wanted to admit. "Never mind. You've made your decision already."
Sighing, he bit the inside of his cheek. "It wasn't terrible. That was the entire problem. Things were never as bad as he thought they were. They only got bad because he couldn't see anything good or worthwhile in his life any more. You don't have to fix anything, even if you could. I'm not holding you to any standard. I'm telling you I want better for you. You get a chance to live a better life than he did, one that makes you happy."