Richard left the two witches to talk amongst themselves. He bent down behind the desk and pulled out a ring of keys. From the ring he found a small brass key which he inserted in a keyhole of a drawer. He pulled open the drawer and a few purple folders. He stood up straight again and laid them out on the desk and pulled one or two pieces of parchment out. One was a request for a young wizard to have a weeks worth of work experience at the ministry. Richard pulled a quill towards him and signed the bottom. He pulled his wand from the inside pocket of his jacket and tapped the parchment. A red circle appeared at the top of the page signifying that it had been approved. He put that back in its folder. He brought out papers from the other folder and began flicking through. It was a list of people who didn't work for the ministry yet had been there that year. The pile of papers was rather thick and names were squeezed into the margins and any other piece of paper they could fit on with dates and departments next to them. He saw recently that people who he had amitted only a few hours ago had been magically recorded in here. He had to check it regularly as it wasn't the most reliable recorder of information. Several times it had taken it upon itself to write that someone had visited the 'Dept of Axes and Cats' instead of 'Dept of Accidents and Catastrophes'. He checked the last few pages and and the only correction he had to make with his wand was changing 'Dept of Miseries' to 'Dept of Mysteries'. He put the files and pages away in the drawer again and locked them away.
He decided to stretch his legs a little and began to have a brief stroll around the atrium.
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