It's insufferable, having to work here, but since the Ministry decided to seize my assets during my time in Azkaban, I had little choice. Of course, it could be worse, I could be doing some awful job in a shop or some such hellhole, but luckily my name still counts for something, and I managed to get in at the Ministry. Magical Law Enforcement is not necessarily the ideal department, but I am sure that if I work hard and impress the right people, I might get a promotion at some point.
Everyday I have to come in and sit opposite the Granger girl. We're apparently team members but she is the team manager's pet, so she gets to lord it over the rest of us. She was at school with my son for goodness sake! She's nothing more than a chit of a girl and she tries to tell me what to do! And she's a … well, never mind that. I have to try and be politically correct these days. I am trying. I watch her work and I know she's as capable as any pure blooded witch or wizard there is. Part of the terms of my release from Azkaban was that I was to display a tolerance of all types of wizard, and I certainly try, though I have to bite my tongue at points.
I see her looking at me. At first I thought that she was watching over me and providing reports back to Shacklebolt. Maybe she is, but sometimes I catch her with a strange look on her face, and if I look back at her, she blushes and looks away. I am reluctant to venture it as a possibility, but I swear I have caught the look of desire in her eyes, more than once. The first time it happened I told myself that I was imagining it. Firstly, the girl is just that, a girl, and I am old enough to be her father. Secondly, for the first seven years that she knew of my existence, and I of hers, I did very little to endear myself to her, let alone attract her in that way. And yet, it has happened more than once, and I have been around the block enough times to know when a woman wants me. It's not unwelcome as such, I am human after all. And she's a stunningly beautiful young thing. This may require some thinking about.