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Chapter Two

It took Harry and Daphne a week to meet up to start their lessons on the Wizengamot, much to his annoyance, though he quickly realised that the reason it took them so long to meet up was because the Greengrass' were attending numerous Wizengamot sessions at the moment, keeping Daphne very busy.

Curious to see how the Greengrass family handled the Wizengamot, Harry snuck into the public seating of the court and watched as Rowan seemed to dominate proceedings and was quickly pushing through his proposal to expand the retail area of Hogsmeade in order to reduce the burden on Diagon Alley. He had to admit that he was impressed by the older gentlemen. If Daphne was anything like her father, he knew she would be the best person to teach him the ins and outs of the chamber.

Looking up and noticing that Harry was sat at the back of the audience paying rapt attention as her father debated their proposal amongst their fellow members. Quietly Daphne, excuse herself from the floor and made her way up to the seating area, sitting down next to Harry, the two watching the proceedings silently. "So, how are you going to make me as successful as him?" Harry asked, motioning with his head towards Rowan Greengrass as the session was wrapped up with the proposal moving forward to a final review.

"I'm good, but I can't teach you fifty years of Pureblood dogma and etiquette in a couple of months," Daphne told him with a laugh. "My father has been taught about the Wizengamot and how to be a member since he could hold up his own head."

"Fair point," he said with a chuckle, before turning to face her. "So, what's the first lesson?"

Turning to face him, Daphne placed her head in her hand and took a moment to observe the man before her. When she first saw Harry take his seat on the Wizengamot he had looked so hopeful, no doubt thinking of all the good he could do for the country. As she watched as proposal after proposal, he put forward was abjectly rejected, she could see him getting more and more dejected as the weeks went on. Now though, with the prospect of beating the old wizards of the Wizengamot at their own game, she could see his fire coming back into his eyes, his head being held higher than it had been in weeks and this before they'd even started.

"First, I'd suggest sitting in on as many sessions as you possibly can," she told him, glancing back down into the bowels of the court as she quickly came up with a plan for their lessons. "Find a spot up here and watch as many sessions, with as many different members as you can and watch how they interact with each other; take note of who's allied themselves with who and take a note of who's in what session," she instructed him. "While you're observing them, think about who you would approach to suggest co-authoring proposals."

"When would I need to get a co-author, surely that would just confuse things during debates?" Harry asked with a frown.

"Sometimes, but it can be used to your benefit if you pick the right person for the right proposal," she pointed out to him, smiling slightly when Harry continued to look confused. "Trust me, it'll make more sense once you have an idea of how the other members behave," she reassured him. "Come find me if you need anything clarifying, but I'd suggest we meet again once you feel as though you've observed enough," she suggested, offering a small smile when he nodded in agreement, before separating to return to her father's offices. After all, just because she was helping Harry didn't mean the daily work had come to a halt, she refused to give the doddering old fools the satisfaction of accusing her of having a split focus.

"How many of you take the time to go to Hogsmeade, rather than Diagon Alley when you require anything?" Rowan asked the assembled members. "When was the last time any of you went there since graduating Hogwarts? They have some key shops for accommodating the pupils of Hogwarts, which means that when the school is closed, the town has little in the way of income for three months of the year. Yet the shop rent is just as high as that of Diagon Alley…"

"We're talking about expanding the retail area of Hogsmeade Rowan, not about the building rents," Theodore Nott Snr interrupted.

"The two go hand in hand Nott. Due to the high rent and low foot-fall, people decide to put their business in Diagon Alley, where the rent is also high but it has an infinitely higher footfall, balancing out some of the costs. This means that the space and resources of Diagon Alley are pushed to breaking point, while Hogsmeade struggles to make ends meet," Rowan explained patiently.

"Are the Goblins amenable to changing the rents on Hogsmeade property?" Amelia Bones asked, not looking up from where she was reading -and annotating- the brief Rowan had sent out.

"Very amenable. They know that it's good business to investing in other areas of our community. After all, they don't want to see a repeat of The Shambles," he pointed out, reminding them all of the once illustrious street in Yorkshire that was now completely owned by muggles due to the extortionate rates that once covered the area.

"So, what you're proposing is to reduce the rent as well as expand the shopping area within the town. But what about the homes surrounding the street as it is now?" Leathan Wood asked, his brow furrowed as he too looked through the proposal. In fact, Harry could see that of all the members currently in attendance, that those that were considered 'Liberals' were the only ones reading and annotating the proposal in front of them.

"That's not as much of a problem as you would think," Rowan told him, reaching into his stack of parchments and holding up one in particular. "In recent years more and more people have moved away from the main street due to the disturbances of students. There's only a few people that would need to be relocated before the street can be expanded. And before you ask, the home owners in question are more than happy to relocate," he added before the next question could be asked.