’Oh’ Maddie exclaimed a little surprised at being addressed. ’Oh no thank you’ she recovered, ’I have an interview soon, I couldn’t possibly think of eating before it.’ she finished, ’I wouldn’t want to get sick on Mister Crouches desk’ the last bit was slightly mumbled. Madeleine was a bag of nerves – she had never had to do an interview before and there was something about Mister Crouch that she found incredibly intimidating. In school she had interned in the department of magical law enforcement and the wizengemot respectively. She had attended a ball with the head of the wizengemot, as his plus one, but somehow this made her nervous.

Maddie glanced over the canteen and none of the tables were free, so she gestured with her free hand and invited the gent to take a seat. ’Please’ she directed, ’take a seat, which department are you with?’

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