Samantha had received notice of the new Department Head lounge which had just opened, and wanted to come and see it for herself. Walking into the room she noticed that there were already four other department heads inside, all of whom she recognized from previous meetings of course. "Hello Theo, Egypt, Ben and Lorraine," she said quietly, taking a quick look around before taking a seat and beginning to review some material for the department. She wasn't that deeply involved in her work, and was fully listening and ready to jump into the conversation at any point. Had she just heard mention of the fact that Reagan was going to be running against Cooper for Minister of Magic? She smiled to herself, she had no doubt that Theo would support the Minister and would be very surprised if she were wrong. This election should be most interesting.

All of which reminded her of the fact that she had been appointed Reagan's speech writer. She needed to get to work on that right away! She decided to play it cool, not give away which side she was on but only to listen. Samantha picked up so much information this way, just by listening and not being obvious about it. Smoothing a strand of long honey colored hair away from her face and straightening her skirt, she sat and waited.