"I don’t know who the players are to apply leverage to," Reggie pouted.  He had been trying to figure out the major players from home, but knowing how skewed Skeeter and presumably the rest of the Daily Prophet was, he could only assume that any article was half wrong and take a gamble on which half.  He couldn’t inquire at the actual Ministry offices because half the people there would arrest him on some trumped-up charge just to satisfy their curiosity.