Percy returned to his desk.
He pulled the modified Muggle computer toward him.
It had a black case and a small screen, and the letters on its keyboard were already somewhat worn from his typing.
The computer could only be used offline, equipped with a specially made battery that blocked magical interference and high-capacity storage.
It was a Marauders Power Company product not available for sale.
Ostensibly, he had commissioned it from the Marauders Power Company to support his younger brothers' business.
He hoped his two younger brothers would make more contributions to the wizarding world in the future.
In reality, Douglas had arranged for it to be sent to him.
He was the only person in the Ministry of Magic who typed on a computer.
The printed documents had standardized formatting and clear charts.
There was no need to draw them by hand.
Percy's fingers settled on the keyboard.
The screen lit up.
The cursor blinked.
He typed the first line.
The title.
"The price of arrogance: our fading sunset seen through magical modernization across the Atlantic"
By Percy Ignatius Weasley, senior assistant to the head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation, Ministry of Magic.
The opening did not mention Ogden.
It did not mention Umbridge.
It did not mention Professor Holmes.
It did not mention the textbooks.
He wrote about just one thing.
"Last autumn, I queued in the lobby of MACUSA headquarters in New York to complete the handover procedures for official international correspondence.
The American wizard ahead of me took something the size of his palm from his pocket, pressed three buttons, and said a sentence into it.
Three seconds later, his colleague in Los Angeles replied.
I asked him what it was. He said it was called a mobile phone, a Muggle invention. MACUSA's