The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Humphrey:! ! !

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

Could it be that the magical world that Arnold spoke of really existed?

Humphrey looked at this "fireplace visitor" seriously. He had long, light-blond shawl hair, a pale face, thin cheeks, and a pair of cold gray-blue eyes. He held a silver stick in his hand. Snake head cane. The snake's mouth was wide open, as if it was choosing someone to devour.

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

This arrogant and rude behavior made Sir Humphrey's first impression of this guy extremely bad in an instant. However, many years of hard work in officialdom have deepened his temperament, making him intangible with emotions and anger. Humphrey suppressed his inner emotions and greeted the strange man lukewarmly.

The person who met the Muggle civil servant leader was Lucius Malfoy. Although Lucius is a wizarding aristocrat, the head of the Malfoy family, and a supporter of pure blood theory, he really maintains a close relationship with the top Muggles - the Malfoy family originally gave birth to William the Conqueror through Made a fortune by doing shady things.

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

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

This kind of connection was passed down from generation to generation in the civil service system, and eventually formed a network of relationships. The Malfoy family and the civil service leaders worked together to maintain a cooperative relationship.

However, in recent years, this relationship has gradually faded. When old Malfoy (Lucius's father, Abraxas Malfoy) was here, he and Arnold had worked together in tacit understanding several times. But since the death of old Malfoy, the relationship between the Malfoy family and Arnold has not been that deep.

The communication between the two parties is more like an inertia and a tradition - just like eating turkey at Christmas. Is the turkey delicious? Not tasty, but it's tradition.

However, despite Lucius's cold attitude, Arnold still valued him and the pure-blood family power represented by him very much. Now, he is retiring and needs to pass that line on to the next cabinet secretary.

"Is he the new cabinet secretary?" Lucius shook hands with Humphrey and said hello. 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 ancestors." After Lucius Malfoy said this, he turned directly and walked into the fireplace. Then, as the green flames rose again, he disappeared.

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

Looking at the fire returning to normal, Humphrey was still in a state of confusion, 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 a wine flask and poured him a glass of wine.

"Reliability is a very important quality."

"Yes."

For civil servants, this is the consensus. If someone is deemed "unreliable," that's the equivalent of being outvoted.

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

Arnold swung the wine glass and watched the wine slowly flowing down the wall of the glass. "That's not necessarily true... Humphrey, I think I should tell you the little secrets of prime ministers."

…

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

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

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

This discussion lasted for more than two hours.

During the more than two hours of conversation, the dialogue between the two parties was generally very harmonious. Except when Dumbledore asked Harker about his achievements in life.

"You ask me what I have done? Let me see..." Professor Dumbledore took out a small card from somewhere and read the words on it: "Defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945. Discovering the twelve uses of dragon's blood, being effective in alchemy with his partner Nicolas Flamel, hobbies... ahem, yes, these are the achievements."

"But personally, I feel that being included in the chocolate frog picture is the most memorable. So Mr. Harker, 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 bothered him.

What have you done?

This is really a question for the soul.

"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 deeper, because if he asked any more questions, the conversation might be very awkward.

Dumbledore: I defeated the first generation Dark Lord, discovered the 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 managed to keep the name of the British sausage! (Note)

We can’t talk today!

During the chat, Dumbledore also observed Harker. After chatting, he felt that Huck was a good person and there was no fundamental conflict of interest between the two parties. If the fight against Voldemort affects the non-magical world in the future, he will be able to handle it appropriately.

"Lunch time is coming soon, let's go have a meal together?" Since they're here, let's have a meal together. Anyway, Hogwarts doesn't lack Huck's food.

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Note: Secretary of State for Administration Harker has recently been negotiating with the EU to prevent the EU from renaming British sausages as compound sweetbreads.

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