Department Head Lounge
 

Located off the corridor of Level One is a heavy wooden door with an ornately molded silver knob, behind which is the comfortably furnished Department Head Lounge. Couches, coffee and end tables, lamps, mirrors, plants, and much more await the Department Heads who step through this door.

OOC: If you aren't a Department Head, you are not allowed to post in this thread.

Egypt got the memo about the new lounge for the department heads, and she was eager to how it was decked out. And plus she needed a nice place to put her swollen, pregnant feet up. After she got off the lifts she used her department head ID to open the door. She walked in the the lights clicked on. "Nice," she smiled as she looked around at the sofas. She pointed her wand at the fridge and a bottle of chilled gilly water danced across the room into her outstretched hand. She settled into the sofa and opened her water.

She was about to drift off to sleep when a voice broke through and her eyes snapped open. "Oh Mr. Newington." She smiled as she looked up at the man. She had meet him the few times he had come to the house to drop off his son for Lucas to play with. They had grown to be best friends at Hogwarts. "Oh thank you for noticing.Oh I am sis months so I have three more to go." She explained.

She giggled as he told her to call him Theo. It was just a habit since they weren't really friends, their children were. "Forgive me Theo." she said. She blushed when he mentioned husbands and wives galavanting. Her and Nathan did that a lot in their early days, well they still did it if she were going to honest. "Your wife works here as well doesn't she?" She asked.

She looked at him. "Well we are on lucky number 7 right here." She patted her stomach. "Another set of twins," She explained.

She envied Theo that he got to work with his more closely than her and Nathan could. "Oh Nathan is with the MLES on level two. I miss him terribly during the day," She admitted. "I used to be up there with the Wizengamot, but I wanted a promotion so I took up the post on level 8," She explained.

She nodded and she listened to him talk. "Well its just something we both want. Me and Nathan come from large families, and I guess we want our children to have that same thing." She explained. "Well we always have one child to chase after another child. So me and Nathan don't have to do too much of that, and I guess me and him are both big kids ourselves so we run and play with the children as much as we can." She offered. "Paris and Willow are off at Hogwarts, and Lucas is staying home this term, but then the twins will be starting muggle primary school this years. So the house will be almost empty." She said softly.

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"I wish he would come down to level eight to work for me, but I don't know if he would like that," She told him. She had never asked Nathan if he wanted to work security for her anyways, he might. That was a good idea. She would ask him about that when she got home. "It wouldn't kill you to do a bit of tiding," She told him with a smile. Men were hopeless when it came to "women's" work.

"Well I had eleven sisters, I was the second to last one. My oldest sister Asia was almost 25 by the time I came along. And Nathan is the oldest of 6 children." She explained. "I would have thought Nia was the oldest." She commented. Nia was so much bigger than Theo and his tiny bat. She couldn't remember what he called it. "Oh your son's name is Nathaniel," She said the name with a twinkle in her eye.

She looked up as the door opened again. It seemed this place was long needed around her, and she was glad it was here. She would have to thank Reagen, she knew it was her doing and not Cooper's. "Oh I am just fine thanks," She answered back. She had no idea who the man was but he was massive, like Warren. He would dwarf her like a child. "I'm Egypt Greenwood," She would have stood up to shake his hand but she was loath to move again so soon after have landed her pregnant bottom in the sofa.

She looked back at the man. So that was Ben, well where were they making this mountain men at. She felt like a actual dwarf. She looked back to Theo. "Oh well my family as immense holdings in Arab oil and then we one Riddle Broom and Carpet, so thats how the Riddles afforded 12 daughters. My mother comes from a large family as well. She is a twin in a family of 5 sets of twins." She explained. The family had other holding, but she didn't want brag or boast or anything. "In Africa a man's wealth is measured by how many children her has. So our families are always sizable," She told him. She nodded as he explained why Theo Jr. was smaller than Nia.

She looked at him, "Oh it was so much fun having 11 sisters. I always had someone to play with or talk to. My older sisters were always there for me and looking out for me. I wouldn't change having my sisters." She said as she smiled at memories they shared as children. She looked at him as he called her mother's family silly. She didn't like people poking fun at her family. "As I said in Africa we take a different view on families than Britain. Big families are common place. And my grandmother was a excellent potion maker and she experimented on some fertility potions, and thats why she had 5 sets of twins." She explained to him. "I mean it is very rare to see a family with just one child and then a family with no children is unheard of." She wanted to have lots of children, and she loved all the ones she already had with all her heart.

She looked at him pensively. A house elf was not the same thing as having a sister to hold you when you cried about a boy breaking your heart, or to jump up and down screaming and crying the day before your wedding. Or show up at the hospital with honking daises the day your first child is born. Egypt didn't know what she would do without her sisters. "Thats true you never miss what you never had, but I would die without my sisters." She told him. "Oh yes I love my sisters, but then I love Nathan in a very different way and I couldn't live without him either. He's my light," She beamed as she talked about her husband. "Oh yes you should see the looks me and Nathan get when we tell people how many children we have." She smiled.

She giggled. "Well Reagan is going to run against the Minister in the upcoming campaign." She told him. She wanted the world to know that they were finally going to have a quality Minister in charge.

She ignored the frown on his face. Well they were having a conversation after all. Excuse her for talking. "Yes she is, and she is going to give him a run for his money." She pointed out to him. "Her running against him is not a joke. She is going to run a proper campaign and she doesn't have to wait for him to retire. Now is the perfect time for her to run. She is just what this Ministry needs." She didn't know if she liked Theo just dismissing Reagan's run for Minister as a joke.

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.

"This is a very comfortable lounge area," Samantha agreed. "And you're absolutely right, Theo, I only have to walk down the hallway to get here. The rest of you have to come from a bit further away, but it's still well worth the trip." She laughed. "Very good place to relax, and I'm glad we have this area now. I'm sure we will all get much good use from it."

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She turned around and smiled at him. "Oh its so good to finally meet you Mr. Cobblestsen. I have heard so many good things about you," She said to him. One of the twins kicked and it made her pull up short and take a few deep breaths. "Forgive me," She smiled at him. "Well she is running because she has an excellent chance of winning and frankly I think she is the best person for the job," She explained to Ben.

She looked up and that witch from the conference walked in. She knew she was the transportation department head. "Good afternoon," She said to her. "Oh no you aren't. Please join us." She told her with a smile and a nod.

"Hello Samantha dear," She said looking up as another one of the twins kicked her swiftly. She winced in pain and took a few more deep breaths.

She turned back to Theo. "Of course he knows. He put Reagan up for the job as a joke to try and make himself look good." Egypt said trying not to say anything bad about the Minister. She was surprised that she could even muster that sort of feeling toward another human being. "The direction that Cooper is leading us in is on the path to destruction. We do need a change in direction and Reagan is the witch to give it to us. No one is backstabbing him. She is going to make her candidacy public knowledge." She pointed out to him. She didn't know if she liked his attitude about this.