Juliana considered. "Aldous Crouch isn't much for campaigning," she surmised. She knew of maybe one or two campaign events he'd had, and they were not impassioned rallies on the streets of London; they were small, from what she'd heard, and the atmosphere demure. Something that befit his personality, but was a far cry from some of the other campaigner's tactics. These sorts of events had an appeal to a certain crowd — the wealthy, powerful men who were invited to them — but they were rather limited in scope and consequently so was their reach. "And his department isn't especially high profile. It's not one to make headlines — in part due to how well he runs it," she observed. The Minister's Office worked closely with the Department of International Magical Cooperation, of course, and she had never found Aldous Crouch anything less than impeccably competent. But impeccably competent was not, perhaps, a compelling reason for anyone to campaign on his behalf or even vote for him.

"I think his chances would be much improved by your recommendation," she said. "They may even depend on it. I don't know that he'll build the momentum otherwise. And whichever candidate you endorse will certainly have momentum."

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