17 August, 1893 — Dempsey Estate
Oz turned the page of the Daily Prophet and squinted at the first headline that caught his eye, as though it might transform itself into something more palatable upon closer inspection. It did not. The suffragists may not have been taking over the Ministry Atrium this week, but they had certainly not been quiet, as their frequent appearances in the news attested to. And the louder the suffragists, he had recognized, the louder the questions from every angle asking for his opinions on the matter.
Anyone who had met Ozymandias Dempsey would know he was never short of opinions, and he typically had no reservations about expressing them — but that had been before he'd started running for Minister. Back then, he could say whatever amused him most in the moment regardless of how he really felt; he could (and often did) express an opinion just to get an interesting reaction from whoever was asking. Now his opinions had consequences, which meant he had to consider them more carefully.
"If you had to take a guess," Oz said to the room at large, as he shuffled past the article on the suffragists without reading past the headline, "Would you say the voting population is mostly for expanding voting rights, or mostly against?" Not that he was so mercenary as to entirely base his opinion on pandering to the largest population of voters, but it was something to take into consideration, certainly, and in this area it was hard to gauge what voters actually thought about the issue — since the issue was specifically that those most concerned about it didn't vote.
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Anyone who had met Ozymandias Dempsey would know he was never short of opinions, and he typically had no reservations about expressing them — but that had been before he'd started running for Minister. Back then, he could say whatever amused him most in the moment regardless of how he really felt; he could (and often did) express an opinion just to get an interesting reaction from whoever was asking. Now his opinions had consequences, which meant he had to consider them more carefully.
"If you had to take a guess," Oz said to the room at large, as he shuffled past the article on the suffragists without reading past the headline, "Would you say the voting population is mostly for expanding voting rights, or mostly against?" Not that he was so mercenary as to entirely base his opinion on pandering to the largest population of voters, but it was something to take into consideration, certainly, and in this area it was hard to gauge what voters actually thought about the issue — since the issue was specifically that those most concerned about it didn't vote.
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