They stop talking about the painting around three and start working through it, which is a different activity with a different feel and everyone knows it.

MalfoidI want it on the record that I am doing this because a Ministry clerk is going to read it in an archive, and I would rather he read the truth than a libel.

MioneIt is not the clerk's name in the corner of the canvas. Nobody in that archive will care who you were trying to impress.

The panel behind them changes as it happens, filling in, and the paint dries matte and flat the moment each clause is satisfied.