Harry Potter Morning Light

When Severus returned to the massage shop, Zhang Tao had already arranged it in a "ghostly" way.

The electric light has been turned off, and only one candle is lit in the room. There is a strong fragrance in the whole room, which seems to be from the incense he lit.

Originally, it was already hot at the end of June, but now the place has become as cool as the catacombs, and the yellow light that was originally in the topaz flew out at this time, flying around the room like smoke, and laying on the table. Food such as wine, fruit, etc. are constantly hovering above.

"They have no malicious intentions." Zhang Tao said to Severus, "It's just that no one has sacrificed to them."

"What?" Severus asked dazedly.

"The priests once had a dispute with us on the issue of sacrifice." Zhang Tao replied, "Voltaire said that Confucius was a philosopher who talked about secular philosophy, not a religious man. It’s not about borrowing any strength from them. If your Western humanistic spirit is Greece and Rome, our humanistic spirit is the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States period. What we emphasize is not the individuality of publicity, but the collective and ethics. , the ritual of offering sacrifices to heaven is a group activity for us, and has little to do with piety or not. When we worship heaven and earth, we hope that the heaven will bless the weather, and when we worship the ancestors, we hope that the ancestors will bless the family. Piety, even if your God does not bring you any good, and even made an agreement with the devil to test your piety by torturing you, why do you still believe in it so firmly?"

"I'm sorry." Severus was in a daze. "What are you talking about?"

"There are statues of wolves on the banks of the Tiber River, and there is Athena in Greece. Why can't ordinary people trust the Lord of the City and the Lord of the Land? Anyway, they are the protectors of the city." Zhang Tao asked.

"I think it's because the Church is monotheistic," Severus said dryly.

"Amitabha hasn't been sent away yet, yet another Hallelujah has come. These people all pay attention to spiritual practice, regardless of the world." Zhang Tao said teasingly, "The reason for opposing these small beliefs is that sacrificing them will weaken the respect for heaven and earth. We have There is a proverb called "God knows, the earth knows, you know and I know". When we do bad things, don't think that no one knows. God is watching. This is similar to the presence of God, but we are afraid of God's punishment. You feel blessed by God."

"You want to discuss this with me now?" Severus asked.

"What I want to tell you is that I am tied up here, just like European priests are tied up on our side. Tang Nuowang became the prisoner of Qin Tianjian for the convenience of preaching, but he was opposed by his own people. Our thoughts It is indeed more secular, unlike Christianity, which has a strict theory of extinction, so I don’t understand what these European priests think.”

"If the priests don't pray for the gods, what else do they do?"

"I told you, it was a group event."

Zhang Tao and Severus were relatively silent, feeling that each other was an alien.

"What you're trying to say is that after all the talking, it doesn't necessarily work out in the end, right?" Severus asked.

"You Brits used to like to hold spiritual meetings, and 'spiritual mediums' were usually women." Zhang Tao said, "The sorceresses in Hong Kong are also women. It is easier for women to do this than us. Now there are three men in this room with so much yang energy. ..."

Severus didn't want to hear so much at all, he directly handed the stone he just got to Zhang Tao.

"Do you know what this is?"

Zhang Tao didn't touch the stone, but looked at Severus' hand.

"Stone?"

"I know it's stone, can you see something else from your 'eastern' perspective?" Severus hissed.

"The earth is so big and there are so many rocks, how do I know?" Zhang Tao asked back.

"Do you know what Dumbledore would say in this situation?" Severus said vividly, "'I thought you had other more important things to do, Professor, everyone has their own area of ​​expertise , the study of the origin of a stone should be left to the geologist'."

"You hate him?" Zhang Tao asked.

"I suppose it's obvious?" Severus said angrily. "I got this stone from a man I once knew who, like my buckler, got it from the Alps. Yes, that ancient alchemist wouldn't put ordinary things in storage."

"I have a better idea." Zhang Tao said, and brought the Ouija board over. "How about we ask her?"

Severus looked at Medusa on the Ouija board, and she was looking at them fiercely.

After all, she wasn't the real Medusa, and she didn't have the ability to petrify people, but Severus still made the gum on her mouth disappear.

"Devil!!" Medusa yelled as soon as she regained her ability to speak, "You scum!!"

Severus gummed her mouth shut again.

"Please keep calm." Severus threatened slowly, "or I don't mind just burning you down."

"I don't advocate the use of torture." Zhang Tao said from the side, "Testimony obtained through torture may not be true."

Severus stared at Zhang Tao.

"Rousseau once said, 'My madness will only hurt me', what conditions do you want?" Zhang Tao asked.

Medusa's expression changed.

That's when Severus removed the gum from her mouth, and this time Medusa didn't yell.

"I don't want to be with you," Medusa said. "You don't know respect and manners at all."

"I know there's a place you can go," Severus said. "There's a Room of Requirement at Hogwarts where you can live."

"I believe there is enough space there." Zhang Tao interfaced.

"Even a garbage dump is better than your pocket, full of dead animals and cockroaches." Medusa stared at Severus and said, "It's disgusting."

Severus showed his yellow teeth and smiled strangely. Medusa ignored him, looked at Zhang Tao and said, "At first we thought it was a meteorite, but the master put it in the warehouse and left it alone. It never talked to us, until one day, when the master's servant was chatting with someone, he mentioned that this stone might come from that city."

"The city he's been looking for?" Severus asked.

"That's right." Medusa replied.

"He didn't mention Paris?" Severus asked again.

"No." Medusa replied, "All other treasures have been taken away, and only this one has been left unattended."

"And you." Severus reminded with a smile.

"I can tell you that what you are doing now is impossible to ask its name, and I can tell you how to do it, as long as you restore the board to its original state." Medusa said.

"Why?" Zhang Tao asked.

"Those elves told me, don't think that anyone will be fooled after setting a trap." Medusa stared at Zhang Tao and said, "He is very powerful for us."

"You know his name?" Severus asked.

"I won't tell you, but I know who can." Medusa replied, "This is my condition, what do you think?"