She frowned as he trailed off, wondering where his thoughts were going, but when he had clearly lost track (which wasn't very much like him) she answered his question.
"You've got to have something to lighten up all those dull books your father filled the libraries with," she told him. "It might be rubbish, but it fawns over Potter less than the Ministry does, and I can't be bothered to cancel my subscription." She'd had it since she'd been eleven years old, after all.
"Someone ... Merlin, someone needs to sit down with the Minister and tell him that if he does this, our world is going to end. I don't understand how this is possible - surely the International Confederation of Wizards would ban any attempt to breach the Statute of Secrecy. I'm surprised an emergency council hasn't been called already - and why the Wizengamot haven't called for a vote of no confidence." She made a frustrated sound in her throat. "I can't believe our governments have descended to a level of imbecility quite so low as this."
Narcissa's attention had gone beyond her own finances now. "I wish I could go talk to the Ministry, but I'd just drive them faster to the Muggles ... and besides, I won't set foot in that place if I can help it." Her voice hardened briefly: Lucius ought to know that he was the reason why. "And Draco can't put forward that kind of influence, not yet. Though if he, or someone else, had a stronger, clearer case ... if we just had the right person to speak to them ..." She followed her thoughts in silence for a moment, but no name presented itself, so Narcissa's face fell and she stared out over the garden.
"There have to be members of the Wizengamot who aren't Potter's lapdogs," she said. "Old friends of ours, we used to have a surplus of them, but they shepherded so many of them out of the door when Shacklebolt stepped in. Not that it wasn't all in disarray after the Dark Lord's coup. Or the Confederation ... someone, there's got to be someone who could make the call. I'm sure that would be all it would take to start the ball rolling. They must know how dangerous this is."