Felix curled his lips and walked into the reception room.

This room was also cast with the invisible extension spell. It looked small from the outside, but it looked like a small Hogwarts Great Hall.

The floor was covered with dark wood boards, and the blue ceiling was inlaid with glittering golden symbols, which kept moving and changing.

Two rows of torches were inserted on the walls on all four sides, and the red flames burned quietly.

There were about twenty people in the reception room, scattered in seven or eight small circles.

The Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge had the most people around him. He looked very active, smiling, and his belly was straight, which was completely different from when he was in Hogwarts.

Not far from the door, Snape was talking to a tall, thin, middle-aged wizard with brown curly hair.

"Professor Snape, you are here too." Felix walked up to the two of them.

Snape also looked at him with surprise. His eyes were fixed on Felix. He said softly, "I didn't expect that they would invite you too. I don't remember any memorable achievements you made in the field of potions."

Felix smiled and said, "Belby and I are friends. We often communicate with each other."

Snape smacked his lips and said nothing.

Felix turned his head to look at the wizard, "Mercurius, long time no see."

The wizard in front of him was the potion master who invented the wolfsbane potion - Mercurius Belby.

Belby shook hands with him enthusiastically, "Felix, I am very happy to share my joy with you."

He suddenly leaned in and said in a secret tone, "I recently watched a new Muggle performance. It was very interesting. If you haven't seen it, I strongly recommend you to watch it.

" "What is it about?"

"A story about a group of cats having a party?" He said uncertainly. "To be honest, I always thought it was an opera, but Muggles call it a musical. I can't figure out the difference."

"Hmm..." Felix tried to recall.

Snape listened to their conversation in amazement. Even Charity Burbage, the professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts, would not talk too much about the life of Muggles.

Speaking of which, it was Felix who brought Belby into the pit.

The first time the two met, Belby wrote a letter to refute some of his remarks in the book, thinking that he was exaggerating and his words were quite fierce. At that time, Felix only regarded him as a pure blood with unclear brains, and mocked him in a variety of ways with reason and evidence, and attached various data.

As a result, Belby really studied it seriously, and finally wrote a letter to admit his mistakes.

The correspondence between the two became more frequent, and Felix visited him several times.

The potion master was introverted and not good at socializing, but in fact he was delicate and sensitive. In the letter, he was distressed that he had alienated his family because of his obsession with potions.

Felix suggested that he and his family find common topics and find intersections between his own preferences and those of his family.

And Belby chose opera.

According to what Felix learned later, Belby invited the whole family to watch a very famous magic opera at a family gathering. They were all surprised by this, but they gladly accepted the invitation.

Later, Felix inadvertently mentioned that there are also many excellent operas in the Muggle world...

During the conversation, Belby pulled someone over, "This is my brother, Kleist, Kleist Belby."

Felix looked at the short man with the same hair color, "Hello, Kleist."

"Hello, Mr. Hep." The man said excitedly, "I heard Mokris mention you. He admires you very much. He bought a hundred copies of your book..."

"Ahem!" His brother coughed twice in embarrassment.

Felix: "..."

Not long after, other wizards on the field discovered Felix, and they took the initiative to come over to talk.

"Hep, long time no see, I heard that you went to work at Hogwarts."

"Yes, I'm in charge of ancient runes. Ogden, are the affairs of the Wizengamot busy recently?"

"Nothing, I don't really care about these." The wizard muttered.

Fudge came to greet him halfway through, hinting that he had a private party in the near future. Felix pretended not to understand and wished him all the best.

During this period, many people came to the room, most of whom were experts in the field of potions and members of the Wizengamot, as well as some staff members of the Ministry of Magic and a few reporters.

There was a commotion at the door, and Felix looked up and saw a short and fat witch in pink.

When she passed by, a strong smell of perfume hit her face.

The witch walked straight to Fudge and talked to him in a shrill voice.

Belby frowned and said, "She is the host today, which is the only thing I am dissatisfied with." "

That is-" "

Dolores Umbridge, the director of the Abuse of Magic Department, of course, is also a member of the Wizengamot. She doesn't have a good reputation in the Ministry of Magic, and she is a very demanding person..."

The witch suddenly giggled, and Belby closed her mouth tightly.

Soon, the ceremony officially began.

Umbridge stood on the high platform and smiled sweetly at the more than 30 guests below.

"As a member of the Wizengamot, I am honored to stand here and preside over this ceremony. I would like to especially thank the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, for his trust in me. Without his wise leadership..."

Felix was listening carefully, but when ten minutes passed, he finally lost his concentration. Although he would be polite to strangers, he had never spoken so long.

When she spoke for twenty minutes, the noise below gradually became louder. Umbridge had to pull out her wand from her pocket and knock on the wooden board in front of her to quiet the crowd.

Felix's eyes passed over the bow in her hair and stared at the wand in her hand - it was an 8-inch birch wand.

After another three or four minutes, when the commotion occurred again, Umbridge finally started the topic.

"Let us welcome today's protagonist - Mercurys Belby. His outstanding contribution to the invention of the wolfsbane potion has earned him the second-class badge of the Order of Merlin!"

Belby walked up expressionlessly.

"——and the guests of honor, Ministers Augustus Grey and Cornelius Fudge."

The head of the Wizengamot Office was an old wizard who tremblingly handed Belby a gold-plated certificate and was then pulled away.

Then Umbridge handed Fudge a box, who opened the box with a smile on his face and took out a gold medal with a purple ribbon.

Fudge hung the Order of Merlin on Belby's chest and shook hands with him cordially.

Felix noticed that his face was a little stiff.

There were flashes of white lights and "clicks" from the audience.

Next, Fudge gave an enthusiastic speech, praising "Belby's outstanding contributions, which eliminated the hidden dangers of werewolves for hundreds of years and was a historic step." Felix

imposed a "deaf ear" on the people around him, quietly turned his head, and spoke in a low voice to Snape beside him.

"Why don't you see Dumbledore?"

Snape squeezed out a word from his teeth, "He rarely participates in these activities unless he thinks it is really necessary."

"Isn't he the chief wizard of the Wizengamot?" Felix asked.

"That's an honor, Felix. In addition to trying a group of dark wizards at the end of the war, the Wizengamot spends most of the rest of the time dealing with trivial matters. Do you think Dumbledore will participate?"

With Snape's explanation, Felix re-understood this institution.

The Wizengamot has a big name. It is the highest court in the wizarding world. Its functions are similar to the combination of the court and the parliament. But in actual practice, their authority is highly overlapping with other departments of the Ministry of Magic.

The members of the Wizengamot can be divided into two groups. Most of the members are famous wizards in various fields. They are invited to join them; while the other part of the members, that is, the Wizengamot Affairs Office, is responsible for routine management and clerical work.

But they are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Magic.

Ordinary illegal incidents are all tried by this department. Only in controversial cases with great influence will all members of the Wizengamot be invited to act as a jury and vote to make a verdict.

Even so, the Ministry of Magic often directly appoints a judge.

...

When walking out of the reception room, Felix asked Belby, "What are your plans recently?"

Belby took a long breath, "I plan to take a break for a while and get in touch with new things - this is your suggestion to me, right?"

An idea suddenly appeared in Felix's mind. He looked Belby up and down. Just when the potion master was a little nervous, he finally spoke -

"Morocles, are you interested in experiencing campus life?"