He had to laugh at that. Jude had wondered whether the silence on that front was because they were busy readying some kind of statement or vote or wording of a bill – but if whispers of it hadn’t even reached the other end of the Ministry yet, then things evidently weren’t as solid as that. He was hoping for a positive outcome from it, when it was put forward, but he could only imagine how long the committee – and the Wizengamot, when it reached them – would talk themselves in circles.
“So no one’s been discussing much of anything else?” Jude asked, shaking his head in disappointment. (The reform on suffrage was important – but he’d hoped the Wizengamot would be grumbling about more prospective bills than that, hoped that Dempsey would have thrown caution to the winds a little more.) “Don’t you hear all sorts, though? Who else’s messes have you been cleaning up today?” He was only half-joking – he suspected a lot of what Miss Sinistra and her department did was put a cleaner spin on information that would have leaked about the Ministry’s inglorious doings anyway.
“So no one’s been discussing much of anything else?” Jude asked, shaking his head in disappointment. (The reform on suffrage was important – but he’d hoped the Wizengamot would be grumbling about more prospective bills than that, hoped that Dempsey would have thrown caution to the winds a little more.) “Don’t you hear all sorts, though? Who else’s messes have you been cleaning up today?” He was only half-joking – he suspected a lot of what Miss Sinistra and her department did was put a cleaner spin on information that would have leaked about the Ministry’s inglorious doings anyway.
