Harry Potter Morning Light

Michelle Walkerson Stanwood, from Baltimore, runs the Rare Book Store of The Chamber of Secrets next door to a flower shop.

It is not only an office, but also his residence and storage room. The books on the shelves are not commodities. The rare books he sells are all stored in a light-tight room with a certain insurance function. After Luka's email, Stanwood had already sorted out all the manuscripts he could collect, and now put them in front of Severus.

"Are you sure you don't want to read the letters written by Marie Antoinette? As far as I know, many people are collecting." Stanwood said.

"No, thank you." Severus flipped through the yellowed letter paper protected with resin.

Stanwood didn't know what to say for a while, so Gonceil asked, "How did you come to Paris to develop?"

"There are only politicians in Washington, can you believe it? In order to cut expenses, they actually plan to use paperless office." Stanwood said angrily, "If they can save two missiles, the money can be saved."

"I thought it was for environmental protection." Felix said with a malicious smile.

"Environmental protection, oh, speaking of this, I have another treasure." Stanwood said disdainfully, and then quickly took a paper in a wooden box from the secret room.

"What is it?" asked Conseil.

"The "Declaration of Independence" drafted by President Jefferson, an unpublished version." Stanwood said triumphantly, "There are a lot of explosive content in it."

"Shouldn't this be in the National Archives?" asked Crimean.

Conseil leaned over curiously:

He waged a brutal war against humanity itself, depriving a distant people of the most sacred right to life and liberty who had never offended him, capturing and trafficking them to another hemisphere as slaves, or subjecting them to torture in transit. tragic death. This pirate war, this blasphemous force and shame is the war waged by the Christian kings of Great Britain. Determined to open the market where people can be bought and sold, he has abused his veto to block any legislation that would seek to prohibit this abominable trade. Probably because he didn't want these many people who had killed those he also forced to buy the freedom he deprived them of. Thus he atones for the crime of depriving others of their liberty by compelling some to deprive others of their life.

"Jefferson was accusing George III," Stanwood said with a smile. Exactly."

"Where did you get it?" asked Conseil.

"Of course Jefferson's estate..."

"These letters were all written by Jerome Bonaparte." Severus said, looking at Stanwood.

"I think you should know that Jerome was once married to Miss Elizabeth of Baltimore," Stanwood said. "They were married on Christmas Eve in 1803, and went to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon in 1804. From them, a large number of newlyweds Couples go to Great Falls..."

"Jerome is a playboy." Severus interrupted Stanwood again "Because he has a good brother, and I want his letters to Napoleon Bonaparte, not his letters to his cronies .”

"Jerome was well looked after by Victor Dupont while he was in America, and he paid a lot of Jerome's bills," Stanwood said. "Their intersection began with the Louisiana acquisition and the formation of the DuPont Gunpowder Company. "

Severus suddenly laughed.

"He needs the French navy to deliver saltpeter?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." Stanwood said inexplicably, "but the Bonaparte family does have a branch in Baltimore. Miss Elizabeth was abandoned after she became pregnant and raised the child by herself, and Jerome was because of His brother arranged to marry a princess as his wife."

Severus froze and said nothing, as if unmoved by the tragic story of a loving couple who fell in love but were torn apart by Napoleon.

"But before that, Jerome was placed by Napoleon on a frigate that had just left the factory in Genoa. He couldn't write to Elizabeth at sea, but Jerome made mistakes again and again, which made Napoleon very angry. , and complicate the relationship between the two brothers."

"Stupid idea," Severus said dryly.

"But understandable." Conseil said helplessly.

"Later, Jerome was sent to hunt down the pirates. Since the Battle of Trafalgar, the strength of the French navy in naval battles has been greatly reduced. In the game of hide-and-seek, Jerome returned to the island of St. After a rest." Stanwood said, "He wrote these letters during that time, but unfortunately he did not send many of these letters, and many things have changed when the ship docked."

"What were you talking about?" Severus asked restrainedly.

“The truncated fragment of Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, which included the charges against King George III,” said Crimian. “George Washington didn’t want it to look like a scholarly report.”

"That's right, I've always felt that the Declaration of Independence is very much like a metaphysical academic report." Severus said with a smile curling the corner of his mouth, "Life is inherently unequal."

"That's the problem. This metaphysical view doesn't fit 'reality'. Do you think everyone in this world is following reason?" Stanwood said. , are the words of unrealistic people, only a lunatic would want to abandon hard-won and real things because of a set of metaphysical empty theories."

"But the Southerners lost," said Felix.

"The northerners defeated the southerners, and they themselves fell into chaos. I can't stand the dangerous country full of guns." Stanwood said wearily, "It's embarrassing to say this, but Governor Harold feels that the ancestors declared that everyone's life They were excellent patriots, but they were too excited and influenced by the French school of human rights to come up with such gorgeous and arrogant sentences."

"Gorgeous and vain?" Conseil repeated incredulously.

Severus laughed.

"This philosophy is bound to have dire consequences."

"Do you think people should accept their fate? Do you accept this inequality?" Conseil said angrily.

"Actually, I don't think so." Stanwood said calmly, staring at Goncey. "Besides chaos and conflict, there is another way to destroy society."

"What?"

"Despair, no one can stay in despair for a long time. Despair will quickly lead people to death. Man is born equal, at least it will wake up their numb and semi-drowsy souls, making them want to strive for better living conditions. As someone said, don't explode in despair, die in despair."

"I thought the original sentence was about an explosion in silence," Krimian said.

After a moment of silence, Stanwood said, "Napoleon restricted people's freedom of speech, and people were forced to remain silent. I thought people in that era should feel hopeless, but investors were very confident before the Amiens contract was torn up. I don’t know whether that era was full of hope or despair.”

"It's your American habit to talk about politics when you meet?" Severus asked.

"I heard that France is going to be messed up again, right?" Stanwood asked.

"Gianluca told you?" Severus asked.

"Is the country safe?" Stanwood continued to ask.

"We're not sure," Crimean said.

Stanwood smiled and shook his head. "Look, that's what I said. Only a lunatic would want to give up hard-won, real things because of a set of metaphysical empty theories."

"I don't understand." Crimean asked in confusion.

"Safety." Stanwood said. "Those who want to immigrate to the United States during the war deliberately understand that I really don't understand what people from rich and stable countries want to immigrate to the United States for? Pursue democracy, freedom and equality?"

"Everyone has their own real problems," Severus said calmly. "Muggleborns would rather sleep rough than go back to the Muggle world, which is a better world for them."

Stanwood looked at Severus in bewilderment.

"Bentham and his admirers held that the minority should be subordinate to the majority, that the object of society is to seek the greatest good for all its members, and that people should not be asked what power they have in society, but what they get out of society Interest," Severus said.

"I thought that was what Grindelwald said, for the greater good," Crimean said.

"Man's natural power is either trampled underfoot or extremely lofty in the face of reality. A large number of people often means great power. This seems to mean that a few people must submit to the majority." Severus said with a sneer, "This is Why do the Dark Lords pursue black magic and power, as long as they have the ultimate power, numbers will no longer pose a threat to them, if not for Nick Flamel, millions of people in Paris would have been wiped out that night."

"It's a dangerous statement, Snape, do you want to be a wizard like those Dark Lords?" Crimean asked.

"There's nothing here, let's move to another one." Severus stood up "Remember to clean up."

Stanwood was confused before he could figure out what was going on, and Severus took the opportunity to copy all the documents on the desk with the Copy Charm, including the unabridged and complete version of Jefferson's "Declaration of Independence".

It's just that he took away the original and left a copy for Stanwood, and Crimean was very dissatisfied with his behavior.

"You don't think it's real," Severus said to Crimean.

"What if it's true?" Crimean asked back.

"Just take a gamble." Severus said indifferently, and glanced at the yellowed paper again, then he came to his senses and put it into the shapeshifter skin pocket as if he felt ridiculous.

There is a book called "On the Declaration of Independence", which I read is published by business books, and I haven't seen any other publishing houses.

The Ship of Theseus is a famous paradox in metaphysics.

Universal suffrage in Britain is a theory that cannot be circumvented by Bentham. This is a political compromise, and the minority must obey the majority. The Death of Socrates is about truth, and truth is not always in the hands of the majority