"You want to put dementors back at Azkaban?" Josie quizzed. She was surprised. "Do you think this is why they are everywhere? Because they are not at Azkaban any more? Why now?"

“No, not specifically.” Edwin clarified. “I know that might make for a good headline, but that isn’t what I am saying.” He lifted a hand to indicate for Josie to stop getting ahead of herself. “We need to examine dementor behaviour when they did have Azkaban, and whether we can find some way of providing a food source, or a foci for them out at sea.” He watched her carefully to check she had understood. “As for why they are everywhere, that has been the question yet to be answered sufficiently. Something that is amortal doesn’t have a lifespan. They are a part of our world. Certainly Azkaban gave them a home, a focus. Britain is their home and focus now, but we cannot feasibly let it continue, can we?” It was a rhetorical question. “I don’t know the answers, neither will Prewett. We need to work closely as a government to sort this. Zephyr, while she has tried, hasn’t been successful. Whichever of us succeed her will need to tackle it head on.”

"No we should not." Josie agreed with Mr Glass. "I will ask Mr Prewett when I interview him. Do you think you are the man to fix things?" Josie asked. "You believe things can be fixed?"

“… I will ask Mr Prewett when I interview him…” Edwin tried to take that with good grace. He hoped Prewett wouldn’t be arrogant enough to suggest he did have answers, which might sway public opinion in his direction. To claim you had them and then to discover the reality was different would be career suicide as a Minister.

“I have the hope and the expectations of a nation behind me,” Edwin told Josie with a small smile, “Where there is a will, there is a way, the great minds of our community need our support and resources to find a solution, and as Minister I would enable this as far as situations would allow. I’m not arrogant to suggest I have the answer, it will be our good experts, who are already working on matters with my Department’s support.” Edwin lifted his coffee to finish it.

Josie took the hint. She changed the subject. "So Mr Glass. You never found a Mrs Glass? Will you stop looking when you become Minister?" She grinned. "Oooo or a guy! I assumed. Mr Prewett and Mrs Storm are both married. Do you think that gives you an advantage?"

Well, a subject change was a subject change, Edwin supposed.

“I do not think the marital status of a Minister impacts on their ability to do their job,” Edwin stated firmly, “the support of a partner is of course, welcome, but acting alone also gives flexibility. No, there is no Mrs Glass, and I doubt if I am voted in, that the likelihood of a Mrs Glass ever existing will improve. I will be very preoccupied with all the post entails.” He gave Josie a pleasant smile, though it was definitely one of a patient parent with an excitable child.

“Was there anything else, Ms Flint..?”

"Thank you Mr Glass." Josie said. "That was great. Thank you for agreeing to an interview. And good luck with the Minister bit like." Josie smiled. She shook his hand. She could not wait to get this published.