Humphrey: ! ! !

What did he just see? The fire in the fireplace suddenly turned green, and then a man came out of the flames? Isn't this really some weird trick?

Is the magic world that Arnold said really exists?

Humphrey looked seriously at the "guest from the fireplace." He had pale blond shawl-length hair, pale face, pointed thin cheeks, and cold gray-blue eyes. In his hand he held a silver Quality snake head walking stick. Shekou opened his mouth wide, making an appearance of choosing someone to devour.

"Lucius Malfoy." He strode over to Humphrey, wearing leather gloves, and lightly touched Humphrey's hand.

This arrogant, disrespectful behavior made Sir Humphrey's first impression of this guy a very bad one in an instant. However, the years of trial and error in the officialdom deepened his shrewdness, making his joy and anger indistinguishable. Humphrey suppressed his inner emotions and greeted the strange man lukewarm.

It was Lucius Malfoy who met the Muggle civilian chief. Although Lucius is a wizarding nobleman, the head of the Malfoy family, and a fan of pure blood theory, he still maintains a close relationship with the Muggle high-level executives - the Malfoy family originally passed to William the Conqueror. Made a fortune by doing unsightly things.

Armand Malfoy established the Malfoy Manor with the land granted by King William I, and began to engage in land annexation. When the "International Wizards Confederation Secrecy Act" was passed, the Malfoy family had fully integrated into the Muggle upper class.

When the Statute of Secrecy came into effect, the Malfoys claimed to have severed all ties with Muggles, but there is ample evidence that they had a very close relationship with the royal family until the time of Elizabeth I. Lucius Malfoy I even courted the queen.

This kind of connection has been passed down along with the civil service system from generation to generation, and finally formed a relationship network. The Malfoy family and the civil servant leaders worked together and maintained a cooperative relationship.

However, in recent years, this relationship has gradually weakened. Old Malfoy (the father of Lucius, Abraxas Malfoy) worked together several times with Arnold. But since the death of old Malfoy, the connection between the Malfoy family and Arnold has become less deep.

The connection between the two parties is more like a kind of inertia, a tradition-just like eating turkey at Christmas, is turkey delicious? Not tasty, but it's traditional.

However, although Lucius' attitude was indifferent, Arnold still valued him and the pure blood family forces represented by him. Now, he's retiring and needs to pass the line to the next cabinet secretary.

"Is he the new cabinet secretary?" Lucius said hello after shaking hands with Humphrey. He looked at Arnold, "Is he reliable?"

"Of course, Sir Humphrey is our most reliable colleague, and I believe he can handle all aspects of affairs perfectly." Arnold said kindly.

"That's great, I hope we can work together as happily as our ancestors." Lucius Malfoy turned around and walked into the fireplace after saying this, but with the green flame rising again, he disappeared.

He didn't even bother to chat, and his attitude was extremely perfunctory.

Looking at the fire returning to normal, Humphrey was still in a state of daze, but Arnold's face was completely cold.

"Looks like Mr. Malfoy isn't as reliable as his father." Arnold fiddled with the glass in his hand, and Humphrey came over with the pitcher and poured him a glass.

"Reliability is a very important quality."

"Yes."

For civil servants, this is the consensus. If a person is deemed "unreliable," that's the equivalent of being downvoted by one vote.

"But we don't have any other candidates, right? What a shame." Humphrey sighed.

Arnold shook the glass and watched the wine slowly run down the wall. "That's not necessarily... Humphrey, I think I should tell you a little secret of the Prime Ministers."

...

"Mr. Dumbledore, it was a pleasure chatting with you." Huck walked out of Dumbledore's office happily.

In the office just now, Huck and Dumbledore talked a lot. Huck started chatting from what he saw and heard along the way, and shared his life experience with Dumbledore, who also shared with him the story of his youth.

That would be great. Because Huck realized that the old man had experienced the Churchill era completely! Therefore, they conducted in-depth discussions on that magnificent era.

This discussion lasted more than two hours.

In the two-hour conversation, the dialogue between the two sides was generally very harmonious. Except when Dumbledore asked about Huck's achievements in life.

"You ask me what I did? Let me see..." Professor Dumbledore took out a small card out of nowhere and read the words on it: "Defeat the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, Discovering the twelve uses of dragon blood, being fruitful in alchemy with partner Nicole May, hobbies... ahem, yes, that's all."

"However, in my personal opinion, I feel that being loaded into the Chocolate Frogs is the most memorable thing. So, Mr. Huck, what have you done?" Dumbledore put the Chocolate Frogs back in the drawer.

Just as Huck was thinking about what a chocolate frog was, he heard a question that made his head hurt.

What have you done?

This is really a soul quiz.

"I... I have been the editor-in-chief of a newspaper, a regional councillor, the minister of agriculture, the minister of administrative affairs..."

Obviously the answer is wrong. But Dumbledore didn't dig any further, because if you keep asking, the conversation may be very awkward~lightnovelpub.net~ Dumbledore: I defeated the first generation of the Dark Lord, discovered the twelve uses of dragon blood, and helped refine the sages The stone of the man, led his subordinates to jointly fight against the second-generation Dark Lord, and "seal" him.

Huck: I managed to keep the British sausage name! (Note)

No chat today!

During the chat, Dumbledore also observed Huck. After chatting, he felt that Huck was okay, and there was no conflict of fundamental interests between the two sides. If the fight against Voldemort spreads to the non-magical world in the future, he is also capable of handling it properly.

"Lunch time is almost here, let's go have a meal together?" Come on, let's have a meal together, anyway, Hogwarts has no shortage of Huck's meal.

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Note: The Secretary of State for Administration, Mr Harker, has recently been negotiating with the EU to not rename British sausages to compound ribble.

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