Now at least the newspaper bit made sense. "Oh," he said, and sat up a little straighter so that he could reach over and try to take the newspaper from her. "Let me see." He hadn't been involved in the process of getting the announcement into the paper at all; he'd merely sent a letter to the appropriate office at the Ministry to register his interest, and presumably the staff politics reporter at the Prophet had taken it over from there, so he was curious to see what the article actually said.

---