"Scamander'll be new since you left," Ernest mused. He hadn't actually put together a list or anything, so he was just going through the department roster in his head and piecing together what Urquart would been to be caught up on. He was almost certainly going to forget someone, but hopefully his Unspeakables were too sensible to have their feelings hurt. "She's young, but she does good work. She has a brother working... somewhere in the Ministry," he concluded vaguely. Ernest did not tend to pay much attention to the other Ministry departments, so he knew nothing beyond that. He recognized the other heads and assistants, from occasionally being forced into meetings with them and having to endure their commentary on varieties of subjects, and he knew the former Unspeakables who had gone on to other positions, such as the older Lestrange son. Otherwise, he would be hard pressed to pick a coworker out of a line-up. Urquart would presumably know better than Ernest, anyway. It wasn't as though he'd really been that far away for the past five years.

"Fraser is the other new girl. Seems keen, but easily distracted. We had someone come and go in the hall of prophecy — funny story, that, actually," he continued with a sly grin; he enjoyed department mishaps more than was necessarily appropriate, given his position as assistant head. "A prophecy rolled through about him, and he just went mad over it. Vablatsky told him not to look, but..." Ernest let the sentence hang, finishing it instead with a little tsk tsk noise. "Had to be obliviated and reassigned. Works in — Education, now, I think."