Sounds promising. Perhaps we can try it soon. Half at least of all one finds on restaurant menus these days seems deliberately intended to pack ballast on our frames. Do they imagine we are squirrels, storing up fat for a long winter?

Honestly. I was in the Lobby just this morning, waiting to catch Pennifold as he came through the Floo, and you would not believe the girth of some of our employees: it's a marvel some of them can squeeze out through the grates. Appalling.

Travers proposes that MLE might offer a reducing plan for the Ministry: we could run them daily through the course downstairs as target dummies. Self-preservation is a strong incentive for even the most indolent sorts. Sadly, the Minister is unlikely to approve.