They truly had been quite careful and discreet, and if it hadn’t been his own  son, he wouldn’t have been aware of the situation either. "Six months ago, you decided that you had had enough of fixing Draco’s—along with everyone else’s—problems and decided to step up to the podium and get yourself some rare air sort of power.  Ministry of Magic  sort of power. And now, here we are, on the eve of you being elected the youngest female Minister for Magic ever."