Harry Potter Morning Light

"Cedric!"

The handsome young man who was entering the foyer turned his head and looked at Pomona.

"Dean."

He smiled politely and she smiled at him.

"Why don't you stay in school during the summer vacation?"

"I'm going to the Quidditch World Cup with my dad, and he's got two tickets from Mr Bagman," said Cedric.

"How can he be so generous?" Pomona marveled.

"My dad sort of helped him out. He was surrounded by a group of goblins."

"Oh." Pomona understood that Cedric's father worked in the Goblin Liaison Office, and that Mr. Bagman had been having financial problems.

"My dad thought he would be on duty this summer, so he didn't buy a ticket. I told him not to accept it." Cedric said helplessly.

"Don't worry, you can go." She still smiled.

"I have a question, Dean." Cedric said suddenly, "I heard you assigned Longbottom a summer assignment."

"That's what happened, I told him to go to Scamander to get my u... to get something back," said Pomona.

"I'm wondering if it's possible..." Cedric hesitated to speak.

Pomona watched him, waiting for him to finish, but finally Cedric shook his head and turned into the hall.

"Have you ever thought about this possibility?" Snape came out from around the corner.

"Why are you so elusive?" Pomona grumbled.

"Your best student wants to replace Longbottom to complete the summer homework you arranged." Snape ignored her and continued.

"What...why?" she asked confused.

"Because he can take this opportunity to get close to Newt Scamander, who will be in seventh grade next school year, and he needs this opportunity more than Longbottom."

Pomona realized something.

"I really don't understand why you gave this opportunity to Gryffindor and not to your own house." Snape said bitterly.

"I didn't smirk!" she said seriously. "It was a polite smile."

Snape cast a cold glance at her, and went into the hall to eat by himself.

Pomona thought deeply about his reminder just now, but within a minute, Minerva appeared, and this was the first time they had faced each other since their last argument on the marble staircase.

"You remind me of the fat friar," Minerva said. "He's been trying to get the ghosts to accept Peeves to the party."

"Neville's not Peeves," said Pomona. "He's not trying to be mischievous."

Minerva was silent for a moment.

"If I refuse, am I as inhuman as a ghost?"

"If you say no, I'm going to keep asking until you agree to give him a chance," Pomona said.

"It's about the safety of a lot of people," Minerva said anxiously.

"I know," Pomona said quietly. "You have your concerns, too."

'Just like me. '

Pomona thought to herself that she just said it in passing without thinking too much about it. Which child would like "summer homework"?

"Thank you for your understanding." Minerva breathed a sigh of relief.

"Come on, let's eat." Pomona said, then took Minerva's hand, and the two walked into the cafeteria together.

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There was a knock on the door.

"Come in," she said out of habit.

But it wasn't a teenage Hogwarts student who opened the door and walked in.

"Everyone is waiting for you, Madame," said Luderer.

"Wait until I finish writing this." Georgiana said, and buried herself in writing the letter to Padma, and then handed the letter with wet ink to Ludrell across the desk, "help me mail it .”

Luderer took the letter over, "Where is this going to be sent?"

"London, where my students live." Pomona took a sip of water. "Do you know where Miss Patil is?"

Luderer put the letter away, "Are you ready to go back?"

"I have a question. Do you know Madame de Pompidou?" Pomona asked Ludrer. "And Madame Estérard?"

"Mrs. Estelard is the cousin of Madame Pompidou. Originally, Madame Pompidou called her into the palace and arranged a marriage for her. She married the Grand Duke of Bardos. In 1745, the Grand Duke was in Fontenou. She was killed in the Battle of Val, and she has never remarried since then, and has been living in the Palace of Versailles." Ludrer immediately said, "Mrs.

"But she secretly planned to manipulate Mrs. Choiseul to replace Mrs. Pompidou." Georgiana said, "I probably know the ins and outs of the matter, and I want to know something else."

"What do you mean?" asked Luderer.

"Tell me all!" she said irritatedly.

"People in the palace are talking about the fact that France should not join the War of the Austrian Succession," said Ludrell. Prices haven't come down."

Pomona froze for a moment, "Why did you suddenly bring up the Treaty of Aachen?"

"I heard that you have a document in your possession concerning the disappearance of children in Paris in 1750."

"You investigate me?" she said.

"There are no secrets in the palace, do you want to continue listening?" Ludrell asked.

She was silent, so Luderer went on.

In the "Treaty of Aachen", Britain reaffirmed the priority of the slave trade and transported slaves to the Spanish colonies. The issue of the slave trade was not completely resolved until the signing of the "Madrid Peace Treaty" in 1750. Britain gave up the priority of the slave trade in the treaty rights, and the Spanish government compensated the UK with £100,000.

During this period, the king continued to increase taxes, and at the same time, a large number of homeless people, prostitutes and unpopular people were rounded up by the police, and then they were said to be shipped to Canada, which is the Nova Scotia region that was returned to France in the "Aachen Peace Treaty".

At least in North America, there is no need to worry about starvation. Without these homeless people, the population of France will decrease a lot. If the relationship between supply and demand is followed, the price of grain will also drop. However, according to rumors, the police arrested too many people, and the parents in Paris live in fear Among them, they feared that their children would be taken away by mistake, or even kidnapped.

The "blasting point" of the incident was the mysterious disappearance of a little boy in a citizen's family. The frantic mother screamed and asked the neighbors to help find it. Finally, a quarter of the people in the city were mobilized.

The Parisians liked Louis XV at first, but on this day they called him King Herod, and their anger forced the king to leave Versailles for Compiègne via Saint-Denis.

Later, a new road was built next to the post road, called chemin de la revolte (the road of resistance), to commemorate this incident.

"I've always wondered, ma'am, why British financiers are so aggressive in buying shares in the Mechelen rail this time." Ludrell said after she had finished what she wanted to hear, "and the news about the Mississippi conflict None of the newspapers published it."

She sighed, and Luderer almost made it clear that Britain was interested in shorting the Mechelen railway.

"They're not really interested in buying shares, I mean, there's not a single person in the UK when it comes to spending money," Ludrell said.

"Does Madame de Vaudy know this?" asked Georgiana.

"On that point, I think you are mistaken, and not offended her by it," said Ludrer.

"What was that?" asked Georgiana.

"Do you remember that you asked the jewelry craftsman to give each lady who participated in the opening ceremony of the track an amethyst lotus flower?"

She nods.

"Mrs. de Vaudy's name is not on this list."

"What?" Georgiana stood up.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has explained to her that this jewelry is only given to the wives of Belgium, but she does not seem to accept this explanation."

"What reason does she have for not accepting it?" asked Georgiana.

"I'm just telling you what I saw," Luderer said.

Like I said before, Versailles has hundreds of details that make no sense but cannot be ignored.

She took a long breath, packed up, and left the lounge with Luderer.