Chapter 165 Dumbledore and Huck's achievements in life
Humphrey:!!!
What had he just seen? The fire in the fireplace suddenly turned green, and a man stepped out of the flames? Wasn't this really some strange trick?
Does the magical world that Arnold talks about really exist?
Humphrey looked at this "fireplace visitor" carefully. 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.
A cane with the head of a snake. The snake's mouth is wide open, as if it is choosing someone to eat.
"Lucius Malfoy." He strode up to Humphrey, wore leather gloves, and gently touched Humphrey's hand.
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 deepened his temperament and made him unhappy and angry.
Yu Se Humphrey suppressed his inner emotions and greeted the strange man lukewarmly.
The person who met the leader of the Muggle civil servants was Lucius Malfoy. Although Lucius was a wizarding aristocrat, the head of the Malfoy family, and a supporter of pure blood theory, he really had a close relationship with the top Muggle officials.
Maintaining a close relationship - the Malfoy family initially made their fortune by doing shameful things for William the Conqueror.
Armand Malfoy used the land granted by King William I to establish Malfoy Manor and began to annex land. When the International Confederation of Wizards Secrecy Act was passed, the Malfoy family had completely integrated into the upper class 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 sufficient evidence to prove that they still had an extremely close relationship with the royal family until the time of Elizabeth I. Lucius Malfoy
I even pursued the queen in my life.
This kind of connection was passed down from generation to generation along with 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 (the father of Lucius, Abraxas Malfoy) was here, he and Arnold had worked together in a tacit understanding several times. But since then
After Malfoy Sr. passed away, the relationship between the Malfoy family and Arnold was no longer so 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 delicious, but it is a tradition.
However, despite Lucius's cold attitude, Arnold still values him and the pure-blood family power represented by him very much. Now that he is retiring, he needs to pass this 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 saying this, Lucius Malfoy turned around 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 a person is deemed "unreliable", it is equivalent to being voted out.
"But we don't have any other candidates, right? What a shame." Humphrey sighed.
Arnold shook 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."
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"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 chats. Huck started with what he had seen and heard along the way, and shared his life experiences with Dumbledore, and Dumbledore also shared his own experiences with him.
The story of my youth.
That was 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.
In this more than two hours of conversation, the conversation 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.
Discovered the twelve uses of dragon's blood, and worked very effectively in alchemy with his partner Nicolas Flamel. His 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. Harker, what have you done?" Dumbledore put the chocolate frog picture back in the drawer.
Just when Huck was thinking about what a chocolate frog was, he heard a question that bothered him.
What have you done?
This is really a soul question.
"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 was wrong. However, Dumbledore did not dig deeper, because if he continued to ask questions, the conversation might be very awkward.
Dumbledore: I defeated the first-generation Dark Lord, discovered the twelve uses of dragon's blood, assisted in refining the Philosopher's Stone, and 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 Harker was okay and there was no fundamental conflict of interest between the two parties. If the fight against Voldemort spreads to the non-magical world in the future,
He also has the ability to handle it properly.
"Lunch time is coming soon, let's go have a meal together?" Since we'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 ask the EU not to rename British sausages as compound sweetbreads.