Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2530 Manonamission (twenty-three)

   "Cedric!"

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

   "Dean."

   he said with a polite smile, and she smiled at him.

   "Why didn't you stay at school during the summer vacation?"

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

   "Why is he so generous?" Pomona exclaimed.

   "My dad helped him out, he was surrounded by a group of goblins."

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

   "My dad thought he was going to rotate this summer, so he didn't buy a ticket. I told him not to accept it." Cedric said helplessly.

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

   "I have a question, Dean." Cedric said suddenly, "I heard you gave Longbottom summer homework."

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

   "I was thinking, is it possible..." Cedric hesitated.

  Pomona looked at 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 of the corner.

   "Why are you so elusive?" Pomona complained.

   "Your best student wants to do your summer homework instead of Longbottom." Snape ignored her and continued.

   "What...why?" she asked in confusion.

   "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 realizes something.

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

   "I didn't smirk!" she said solemnly. "That was a polite smile."

   Snape gave her a cold glance and went into the hall to eat.

  Pomona pondered his reminder, but Minerva showed up within a minute, the first time they faced each other since their last argument on the Marble Steps.

   "You remind me of Fat Friar," Minerva said. "He's been trying to get the ghosts to accept Peeves for parties."

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

  Minerva was silent for a while.

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

   "If you say no, I'll 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 calmly. "You have your own concerns too."

  ‘Just like me. ’

   Pomona said in her heart that she was just saying it casually and didn't think too much about it. Which child would like "summer homework"?

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

   "Let's go, 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 habitually.

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

   "Everyone is waiting for you, ma'am," said Ledrel.

"When I'm done writing this," said Georgiana, burying herself in writing the letter to Padma, and then handing the wet letter to Luderel across the desk. "Send it for me. ."

  Ledrel took the letter. "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?"

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

   "I have a question, do you know Madame Pompidou?" Pomona asked Ledrel. "And Madame Estelaide?"

"Madame Estrad is Madame Pompidou's cousin. Originally, Madame Pompidou called her into the palace, arranged a marriage for her, and married the Archduke Bardos. In 1745, the Archduke was in Fontenou. She died at the Battle of Wa, and she never remarried, and has been living in Versailles." Ledrel immediately said, "Madame Estrad accompanies Madame Pompidou like a sister..."

   "But she secretly planned to manipulate Madame Choisel to replace Madame 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 Ledrel.

   "Tell me all!" she said angrily.

"The people in the palace are talking that France should not join the war of the Austrian succession." Ledrel said, "We paid too much and received too little benefit, especially after the signing of the Aachen Treaty, the grain supply Prices haven't dropped."

  Pomona was stunned for a moment, "Why did you suddenly mention "The Treaty of Aachen"?"

   "I heard that you have a collection of documents 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?" asked Ledrel.

   She was silent, and Ledrel went on.

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

   During this time, the king continued to increase taxes, while a large number of homeless, prostitutes and undesirables were rounded up by the police and then reportedly shipped to Canada, the Nova Nova Cortia region that was returned to France in the Treaty of Aachen.

At least North America does not have to worry about starvation. Without these homeless people, the population of France will decrease a lot, and if the price of grain is based on supply and demand, the price of grain will also drop, but according to rumors, the police have arrested too many people, and parents in Paris live in fear. , fearing that their children will be taken away by mistake or even kidnapped.

The "bombing point" of the incident was the mysterious disappearance of a little boy from a citizen's house. The mad mother screamed and asked the neighbors to help in the search. In the end, a quarter of the city was 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 and go to Compiègne via Saint Denis.

   A new road was built next to the post road, called chemindelarevolte (road of resistance), to commemorate this event.

"I've always wondered, ma'am, why the British financiers are so aggressive about buying Mechelen Rail this time," Ledrel added after she had said what she wanted to hear, "and the news about the Mississippi conflict. Not a single newspaper published it."

   She sighed, and Ledrel was about to tell the story of Britain's intention to short the Mechelen Railway.

   "They're not really interested in buying stocks, I mean, not a single Brit when it comes to spending money," Luderer said.

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

   "On this point, I think you misunderstood her, not because it offended her," Ledrel said.

   "What is that?" asked Georgiana.

   "Do you remember that you asked the jeweler to give an amethyst lotus to every lady who attended the opening ceremony of the track?"

   She nodded.

   "The name of Madame de Vaudet 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 Belgian ladies, but she doesn't seem to accept this explanation."

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

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

   As I said before, Versailles has hundreds of meaningless details that cannot be ignored.

   She let out a long breath, packed up, and left the lounge with Ledrel.

   (end of this chapter)