"That and the - absence of other solutions -"

Cam makes him a copy of the oath.

And he reads, and occasionally asks for clarification on what servers and simulations and backups are.

"People can be - rendered as - information. You can sort of put them on pause and then they don't change or have any experiences - that's what happens to an Elf if their body dies but the chip is fine. Keep them around as static records in case something happens to a copy you're messing with, backed up. You can 'run' them - that's what servers are for - the body's unnecessary, you can with the right stuff interact directly with the information, give it whatever experiences you want, much faster than normal. Duplicate it, run two or more of the same person at the same time. Edit it, fuck around with memories or anything else you know enough about to change precisely."

"...that's terrifying."

"Yes."

Read read. 

"Okay. You did the right thing, if you want confirmation of that from teenagers from the 1800s."

"Your alt thinks so too. Helped with it."

He flinches slightly.

"Makes sense to have more eyes on it."

"Yeah."

"Speaking of which offer stands to look at the taking-over-the-world notes and go "oh they tried that in the 2060s and it doesn't work as well as you'd think" or whatever."

"Thanks."

Investigation of notes commences.

They are really thorough and exhaustive! Here is a glossary of every single person of influence in magical Britain and how well he knows them and which projects he could trust them on and avenues to reduce or increase their influence or his influence over them, updated after regular holiday parties and with notes about frequency of personal correspondence (he is talking to everybody, all the time). There are forty pages on Ministerial reorganization. There are three full notebooks on the Statute and the international conference that would need to be held to overturn it and the people he is in the process of persuading to hold that conference and proposed timelines and their drawbacks. There are eight pages devoted to prospects for marriage and their political advantages and disadvantages.

And then there are plans for once the Statute is repealed and he is Minister of Magic: infrastructure, research, governance, Muggle-magic relations, goblin relations, centaur relations, werewolf regulations, merpeople regulations, international conventions for dragon handling, potential things to do about the human slave trade, potential things to do about the Muggle colonial holdings in Africa -

"I can have less meaningful future knowledge on things like centaurs, although I can extrapolate a little bit from daeva."

"There's a notebook for Muggle governance stuff in particular, if you want to confine yourself to that, or I'll take centaur-daeva parallels."

"Might be more efficient to give you a book on Revelation and take questions, since there are only three kinds of daeva and that's faster than teaching me about all these things." Book.

"Thanks." He starts reading.

And Cam takes notes and writes in suggestions and cautions on all the Muggle stuff.

"Thank you. - you doing okay?"

"In what sense?"

"Uh, spending the next however-long being sad seems worse than not doing that?"

"It isn't - useful, but it seems appropriate."

"My world really really sucks and I guess it would be appropriate to be sad about it all the time but. I don't know."