Kingsley was in no rush to answer her question. That in itself was telling. For a man who spent over twenty years on the outside of the world he'd grown up in, it had to have been tempting to be allowed back in, especially with a modicum amount of power that his position as the Shacklebolt family representative on the Wizengamot would provide. She knew all too well how lonely it felt being away from the wizarding world and she'd only done it for less than a year.