From the chatter Lucius heard, it didn’t sound like his proposal to keep things as they were was going to pass. He began writing up a list of the most influential of those suspects to perhaps have a...colleague of sorts from the old days pay them a visit. His eyes narrowed at the sight of Amelia Bones watching him intently before she was pulled into the Minister’s office for yet another meeting. "I can’t attack her directly, but perhaps there’s another way. It would be risky, especially with my son in the same castle but if I can get a letter to him warning to stay confined to his common room or even better his dorm, then I can contact an old associate to pay the castle a visit. Even better, I can give him the list of children to my most vocal opponents.’