Elio makes appointments. His time is limited but if Timothy's willing to meet him in Spain he can make time during his visit there!

Timothy can meet him in Spain.

Then he can meet Elio in the taproom of his inn!

He tells quite a few people where he's going. 

"Thank you for making the time. I'm really impressed with the work you've been doing."

"Thank you! I have been delighted to hear that Britain is disinclined to be obstructionist - our biggest obstacle right now is China, which cites its Muggle government's dictates or vouchsafes to ignore them by turns, I wish Mr. Feng would make up his mind if the bureaucrats are brilliantly handling their workloads or crushed under them so I could choose a line of argument!"

"I'm wondering what kind of world you envision arising were the Statute repealed."

"Repealed altogether - would that such a thing seemed plausible in my lifetime - the trouble about that is that it will require a complete reworking of how we interact with the Muggle governments, which already bristle when they hear that wizards don't separately administer Sicily - it depends on so many things. Principally I look forward to, in the general sense, trade - not just of charms for cheese, but the exchange of ideas and blood and opportunity. I could give you abstract imaginings but the most exciting part is that we cannot know exactly how it would all shake out; if we could there would be so much less point to pursuing it, although the arguments about letting halfbloods talk to their aunts and uncles and grandparents would stand."

...nod.

"What do you think wizarding Britain needs to be ever more comfortable with Muggle knowledge?"

" - something to gain from it, for one thing, and that might get better as Muggle industry produces more things that aren't easily reproduced magically. It's hard to anticipate the growth of industry but I think it will certainly make Muggles wealthier and more educated and possessed of more consumer goods, which is probably good for acceptance in wizarding Britain - and possibly also deadlier weapons, which would be bad for it - and then there's the possibility of communications developing to the point where the Statute ceases to be viable at all..."

"I'd like very much to reduce the - shock, if one day there are simply too many people to Memory Charm away," nods Elio, "even if I can't get the entire way to open existence gently."

"Yes. I think we have a lot of time, on that. Muggle industry is still strictly inferior to magic in almost every respect. But it seems to be where we are obviously headed eventually, barring some great catastrophe of Muggle development..."

"And wizards are so conservative - in a way I think being longer-lived does it, not that I'd volunteer to shuffle off the mortal coil at eighty so that more advanced descendants wouldn't have to placate me!"

"It seems likely we'll be behind the times when they get to the point of changing on us, yes."

"Well, for the moment we can be ahead of them." He lifts his beer.

"How did you come by your passion for this?"

"I am myself approximately pureblooded - at least as Italian wizards count these things; perhaps no witch in England would have me - but some of my dearest friends are Muggleborn, and they have endured terrible hardship, and even though they escape some of it as soon as the Academia di Magica picks them up and spirits them away - more or less - they must leave everything behind! Their parents may know, but you know in Italy it is not technically legal to tell one's social father if there is any uncertain paternity, likewise if one is being raised by one's grandparents or something? And no one checks, so the fathers are then memory-charmed - it's terrible - Anyway, so I began very selfishly out of concern for people like my friends but I have only developed greater confidence that the solution is as much relaxation of the Statute as is possible as quickly as it can be hurried through."

"Thank you so much. That's really everything I was curious about."

"It has been such a pleasure to talk with you, Mr. Way, do let me know if there is anything I or my staff can do to help you."

"If you have suggestions -"

"I don't know much about British politics! Perhaps you'd like to give me an idea of the situation at hand in the time we have left -"

He can do that! In great detail!

Elio is fascinated! He is not the notetaking type but occasionally he calls a staffperson over to tell them stuff or ask Timothy to repeat something for them.

"I also have notes I can send your staff, if that's helpful -"

"Please do! Knowing more can only help."