Juliana shrugged, not to imply she didn't have an answer or wasn't interested in talking about it, but rather because she didn't have a complete or definitive answer. "I know he's asked Lestrange for a few recommendations to include. Most likely to smooth feathers down the line, but it's playing with fire, a bit, isn't it? He's —" she paused, holding her tea cup in front of her faint frown as she tried to find the right phrase to describe the current Minister. The steam rose for a moment. "— not the sort to back down from anything," she concluded eventually. Her tone implied she did not consider this a wholly positive trait.

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