"So that's how it is..." Vizet nodded thoughtfully when he heard Dumbledore say that.
In truth, Lucius Malfoy often wrote to him, and along with the letters came packages containing some extremely precious magical material, or a rubbing of some valuable ancient text.
He had to admit that Lucius Malfoy was indeed a master when it came to social graces.
Lucius Malfoy did not flaunt his generosity with Gold Galleons. Instead, he had seen exactly what Vizet liked, and faced with magical knowledge that had long since been lost, Vizet truly could not refuse.
Vizet also read the letters Lucius Malfoy sent him carefully.
However, reading those letters took quite a bit of effort, because he had to sift through a great deal of flowery flattery and rather veiled probing to pick out the information that was actually valuable.
Aside from that, he had also noticed something else: many of the Ministry of Magic officials, alchemists, or Potioneers Lucius Malfoy mentioned in those letters were names he knew very well.
The reason he knew those names was that he had already become acquainted with the wizards mentioned in the letters through correspondence on magical research.
This also made him realize that Lucius Malfoy was so enthusiastic about writing to him because he had interpreted these connections, built through magical research, as an intricate "network of contacts."
When Vizet first discovered this, he had actually felt somewhat helpless, but he quickly came to terms with it.
After all, Lucius Malfoy was extremely thoughtful when writing to him and choosing the packages he sent. What ultimately appeared before Vizet were all rare and precious magical materials that were difficult to find.
To a certain extent, this allowed him to bypass, in some measure, those complicated social obligations and the tedious process of