With a nod of his head Percy allowed the niceties to die off. He preferred being in the field to doing this sort of follow up. When he had first started with the department he had found such situations uncomfortable but after a decade of doing the same thing one could only really get use to such interviews and conversations.

“Shall we begin then?” Percy gave the man a polite smile hoping to set him at ease. Likely that wouldn’t happen until the meeting had ended though. Without waiting for an answer he plunged forward, better to get this over with for both their sakes. “Can you tell me what happened, with as many details as you can remember, on the sixteenth of April this year?” Out of consideration for the muggle and Irvingly’s rules Percy held a quill at ready to jot down any additional notes he might need. Typically he would allow the quill to subscribe the interview of its own accord, but today he’d make an exception. Poor gentleman seemed startled enough as it were.