Humphrey:! !

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

Could it be that the wizarding world that Arnold said really existed?

Humphrey looked at this "guest from the fireplace" seriously. He had long pale golden hair with a shawl, a pale face, thin cheeks, and a pair of cold gray-blue eyes. He held a silver Quality snake head cane. The mouth of the snake opened wide, as if to choose someone to eat.

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

This kind of arrogant and disrespectful behavior made Sir Humphrey's first impression of this guy extremely bad in an instant. However, years of struggling in the officialdom has deepened his aura, making him unable to express his emotions or anger. Humphrey suppressed his inner emotions, and greeted that strange man lukewarmly.

It was Lucius Malfoy who met the head of the Muggle civil service. Although Lucius is a wizard aristocrat, the head of the Malfoy family, and a fan of pure-blood theory, he still maintains a disconnected relationship with the Muggle high-level—the Malfoy family originally did it for William the Conqueror. He made a fortune out of shameful things.

Armand Malfoy used the land bestowed by King William I to establish the Malfoy Manor, and began to engage in land mergers. When the "International Federation of Wizards' Secrecy Act" was passed, the Malfoy family had fully integrated into the Muggle upper class.

When the "Secrecy Act" was officially implemented, the Malfoy family claimed to have cut off all ties with Muggles, but there is sufficient evidence to prove that until the time of Elizabeth I, they still had a very close relationship with the royal family. Lucius Malfoy I even courted the Queen.

This kind of connection has been passed down from generation to generation along with the civil service system, and finally formed a network of relationships. The Malfoy family and the civil service leader work hand in hand to maintain a cooperative relationship.

However, in recent years, this relationship has gradually weakened. When the old Malfoy (Lucius' father, Abraxas Malfoy) was there, he and Arnold had worked together several times in tacit understanding. But since the old Malfoy passed away, the connection between the Malfoy family and Arnold has not been so deep.

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

However, although Lucius' attitude was indifferent, Arnold still valued him and the power of the pure-blood family represented by him very much. Now, he is retiring and needs to pass the line to the next cabinet secretary.

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

"Of course, Sir Humphrey is our most reliable colleague. 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 grandparents did." After Lucius Malfoy finished speaking, he turned and walked into the fireplace, and then disappeared as the green flame rose again.

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

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

"It seems that Mr. Malfoy is not as reliable as his father." Arnold fiddled with the wine glass in his hand, and Humphrey came over with the flagon and poured him a glass of wine.

"Reliability is a very important quality."

"Yes."

For civil servants, this is the consensus. If a person is deemed "unreliable", it is equivalent to being rejected by a vote.

"But we should have no other candidates, right? What a pity." Humphrey sighed.

Arnold shook the glass, watching the liquid slowly flow down the glass, "That's not necessarily...Humphrey, I think I should tell you the little secrets of the prime ministers."

…

"Mr. Dumbledore, it's really 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 had seen and heard along the way, and shared his life experience with Dumbledore, and Dumbledore also shared with him the story of his youth.

That would be great. Because Huck realized that this old man had completely experienced the Churchill era! So they conducted an in-depth discussion on that magnificent era.

This discussion lasted for more than two hours.

During the more than two hours of conversation, the dialogue between the two sides was generally very harmonious. Except when Dumbledore asks about Huck's achievements in life.

"You asked 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 and discover Twelve uses of dragon's blood, great achievements in alchemy with his partner Nicolas, hobbies... ahem, yes, these are the achievements."

"But from my personal point of view, I feel that being included in the chocolate frog picture is the most memorable. So Mr. Huck, what have you done?" Dumbledore put the chocolate frog picture back in the drawer.

Just when Huck was wondering what a Chocolate Frog was, he heard a question that gave him a headache.

what have you done

This is really a question and answer of the soul.

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

Obviously not the answer. But Dumbledore didn't dig deeper, because the conversation might be very embarrassing if he continued to ask.

Dumbledore: I defeated the first-generation Dark Lord~lightnovelpub.net~ Discovered twelve uses of dragon blood, assisted in refining the Philosopher's Stone, led my subordinates to fight against the second-generation Dark Lord, and "sealed" him .

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

I can't talk 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 parties. In case the fight against Voldemort spreads to the non-magical world in the future, he has the ability to handle it properly.

"It's almost time for lunch, let's go have a meal together?" Come on, let's have a meal together, anyway, Hogwarts does not lack Huck's meal.

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Note: Secretary of State Harker recently negotiated with the EU not to rebrand British sausages as compound sweetbreads.

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