"Maybe not with paper and pencil, but I think you've too kind a view of Aurors and the Ministry if you don't think they're not giving me a side-eye." Harry's laugh is a quiet, huffed out thing - it is funny, because it has to be.
"There are times I wish I was less of a cynic, but after the second coworker sold a story to the Prophet -- well, I can't blame them, I suppose. It pays well enough, and I know it's all rubbish as it ever was." Occasionally, he lets it bother him, but it doesn't hit with the immediacy he felt when he was a child. "There were a couple of rough years, right after I became an adult and they could print whatever they wanted, but I made it through that."
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Date: 2022-04-20 03:32 pm (UTC)"There are times I wish I was less of a cynic, but after the second coworker sold a story to the Prophet -- well, I can't blame them, I suppose. It pays well enough, and I know it's all rubbish as it ever was." Occasionally, he lets it bother him, but it doesn't hit with the immediacy he felt when he was a child. "There were a couple of rough years, right after I became an adult and they could print whatever they wanted, but I made it through that."