Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2559 Smoke and Mirror (twenty-five)

   What would have happened if last month's comet orbiting Jupiter orbited the sun and hit Earth instead of Jupiter, as observers had estimated?

In the movies, there are many stories of humans using technology to save the earth, sometimes aliens, sometimes asteroids. There is a movie about a few astronauts driving the most advanced spacecraft that humans can make with heroic spirit. Carrying a nuclear bomb, it is placed in several fixed positions on the asteroid.

These are several vulnerable positions measured by human surveying technology. As long as the nuclear bomb is installed there, the asteroid will be broken into several pieces, and then fly in different orbits, and some will bypass the earth, even if it cannot be changed in the end There is a risk of an asteroid hitting the earth, because its mass has become smaller, and the threat to the earth has become smaller. It will change from a catastrophe of the same level as the extinction of the dinosaurs to the loss of individual countries. Although individual countries have suffered heavy losses, But Earth and humanity survived.

  The people have the right to know the truth, but no one can predict what people who know the truth will do. It's almost 2000 AD, and every millennium will have all kinds of doomsday legends, although the final result proves that this is nothing but a myth, but all kinds of people with ulterior motives will deceive people at this time, and some people plan to die Before "making a big fuss", it was like completing a bucket list, doing all the things that you wanted to do but didn't dare to do once.

  Society will be in turmoil, the world will fall into disorder, and disorder will cause more problems. Maybe in the end, the asteroid did not hit the earth through the efforts of the warriors, but the people on the earth pressed the nuclear bomb button by themselves.

   Telling the truth is not a rebellion, but an earth-shattering revolution, so the "truth" should be treated with caution, not just scribbled like Lita Skeeter.

   "What did she say!" Pomona yelled at Minerva.

  Minerva took a loaf of bread and dipped it in Pomona's freshly made crème fraîche, frowning.

   "How much cream did you put in this time?"

   Pomona ignored Minerva and picked up the Daily Prophet that Minerva had placed on the kitchen table.

  The truth is revealed, Dumbledore appointed werewolves as teachers, and Hogwarts was his domain? Where does he intend to lead the wizarding world?

Just by looking at the title, you can probably know what the content of the article is about. The only thing that is fortunate is that the name of the werewolf teacher was not mentioned in the newspaper. The article mainly analyzes whether "a district principal" arbitrarily appoints and dismisses teachers and school managers. Power, that is, attacking Dumbledore.

   “How about dashi? I think olive oil is enough for that dish,” Minerva said.

   "Aren't you worried at all?" Pomona asked.

   "What are you worried about?" Minerva asked confidently.

   "Don't underestimate the power of public opinion," Pomona said.

   "They can't do anything, we didn't do anything wrong." Minerva said with a smile. "Rumours and tricks will eventually die."

  Pomona persuaded Minerva not to be so blindly optimistic, but she had already completed the task of "trying" and left the kitchen.

   After she was gone, Pomona looked at the big bowl of cream of mushroom soup.

Just now Minerva asked her how much cream she put in, but in fact she didn't put a drop. Her way of making French cream of mushroom soup is different from many people. She will fry the noodles first, and then add hot milk several times to make the flour fully Absorption, the batter will be very fine and will not be lumpy.

   Of course, in the step of frying the flour, you need to add a lot of butter and use a small fire, otherwise the flour will not become a fine batter.

   She put the unfinished Cream of Mushroom Soup into the basket, added bread and sliced ​​ham, and left the kitchen with them.

   Her destination was the cellar of Slytherin. After the holiday, the cellar was empty and dark and gloomy. It was really not a place suitable for human habitation.

   Especially since there is a dungeon here, she felt like she was here to visit.

After    came to the door of the potions classroom, she knocked on the door, but no one came to open the door for a long time. She raised her wand and cursed the door open, and she saw a pot of potion still boiling on the classroom lab table, emitting a suspicious green gas.

   Then she came next door, Snape was squeezing leech juice, he saw Pomona coming, and he had no intention of stopping.

   Pomona stared at the green, chubby leeches in the tank, and couldn't say enough to give him a taste of her cream of mushroom soup.

   Before the holiday, he could let the students or house-elves do the work for him through confinement. At present, the elves are busy cleaning, the students are on holiday, and the only interns are on the Quidditch pitch.

   Then she thought of Neville, who Snape hated so much that he wasn't locked up. It was possible that he wasn't caught by Snape because he was quick enough. But she remembered what Albus had said, no matter how much Neville was afraid of his grandmother, Augusta wrote a rant, accusing Neville of bringing shame to the family, they were still each other's only relatives, Neville's parents were in St. Ge, grandpa's health is also not good, it seems a little inhuman to let him not go home during the summer vacation.

   "What are you doing?" he said grumpily.

   At this point, he squeezed out the leech juice, and after taking off the gloves, he poured a large spoonful of the blood of some unknown animal into the sink.

  Sometimes she felt that the potion was made of these things, and even drinking it, she felt disgusting.

   "Are you going to accept Albus' offer?" Pomona asked.

   With a stiff face, he left the preparation room with the leech juice he just squeezed, and went back to the classroom next door to continue boiling the pot of medicine.

   But after he saw the color of the pot of medicine, he immediately showed an angry expression and disappeared together with the pot of medicine and the cauldron.

   "What does he want?" Snape asked Pomona.

   "Who is the 'he' you speak of?" Pomona asked inexplicably.

   "Remus Lupin." He propped up the lab table in his hands. "Aren't there enough free wolf poison potions?"

   She didn't know how expensive the potion was, any more than she knew how expensive Harry's Firebolt was, but she at least found a place to put her basket.

  Empathy is not something that is inherent in nature. Some people with low empathy cannot put themselves in other people's shoes, think about problems from other people's perspectives, and even fail to understand other people's emotions and give feedback.

   They live in their own world and cannot really enter the world of others, even if the other party is a very close person like a father and son.

"You're doing a great job, Severus," Pomona said softly. "You're doing the right thing, and all obstacles in your way will vanish, because the truth is in your hands. "

   He still frowned, but his expression changed slightly.

   "You really think that?"

"Of course." Pomona laughed, she felt that the old bat's age was turning back into the teens "but we have a problem to solve, you know, if there is too much aconite in the wolf's poison potion, there will be more What are the consequences?"

   He was lost in thought.

   "We must keep Remus alive before he can testify for you. Belby's wolf poison potion killed a lot of werewolves, right?" Pomona asked.

   "Drinking the wolf poison potion he invented requires weighing and height to calculate the body surface area..."

  Pomona stopped him from going on.

"I believe you, Severus, Remus looks healthy, not the kind of heart that's about to stop, and you have to understand his hardships." She said softly "He's a good man, but because he is Werewolf, all his good qualities have been rejected, and life is so hard."

   Then she pointed to his monochromatic, bad taste, but at least clean, new robe "Look at you again..."

   She's stuck here, Sirius says she's a terrible narrator, she really can't think of the right adjective, but she can't conscientiously say "beautiful" anyway.

   But Severus closed his robes proudly, and even had a smile on his face.

   "What did you bring?"

  Pomona took out all the vegetables in the basket.

   "Cream mushroom soup with Spanish ham," she introduced. "Minerva said it was too greasy."

   He dipped some bisque on the bread and tasted it.

   "I think it's good." He nodded at her "It's delicious."

   Later, when the Battle of Hogwarts ended and they left school, this was the first dish they ate in the homes of reclusive northern farmers.

   They were eager to escape from the castle that was happy for the children, but full of depression and pain for them, and made up their minds not to go back.

  No matter how cold wind blows from the North Sea outside, the house is always warm. Not only is there a burning fireplace, but they also like to lean against each other and read books, even though they read completely different things.

   She didn't object to him seeing black magic, nor did he object to her seeing Muggle psychology. There is a psychological phenomenon called the gaslighting effect. The gaslighting operator will exert emotional manipulation and abuse on the victim, causing the victim to gradually lose self-esteem and develop self-doubt.

  Severus' father, Tobias, was a gaslight manipulator. The victim was his mother, Irene, and he even tried to manipulate Severus.

  Tobia didn't do anything to Irene, but used emotional violence, such as "What's the use of letting him wave that stick like you silly? You can't make money with it."

   In fact, Tobia loved Irene, but his love for magic was not as long as he thought. After the novelty was over, he was very impatient with his wife who couldn't go out to work, and wanted to go back to single life.

   It was the 70s and it was crazy everywhere. Severus swore not to be someone like Tobia, but he still wanted to manipulate her intentionally or unintentionally, such as God's escort, they didn't need to maintain an opinion on everything, and she didn't need anyone to admit her. is right.

  Albus is always right. Albus actually told her to stop evaluating her actions. She was relieved but also worried. If she was wrong one day, who would correct her?

   In fact, she should not be so strict with Miss Campini, but she always felt that the gas light in her heart was flashing like a warning.

  When she still loved him, she felt that as long as his heart was on her side, Josephine was just a wife in name only, and she had nothing but marriage.

Later, she understood a little bit about Josephine and the way they got along. Josephine always called him "General" and flattered him. From Josephine, he could get praise from women, if Albus was right. , his heart is actually inclined towards her.

  What is Georgiana? She is just a chess piece, a concubine representing England in the "harem system". He will be close to her when he intends to use tenderness towards England. Both Grassini and Campini represent Italy, especially Miss Campini. , she's Genoese, although she's a Milanese ballet star.

She had endured for the "greater good" as she had worried about the future of wizards and hoped that Severus would find a young woman to marry, and he told her later on the international train that her thoughts and What's the difference between a "population farm"? Those Aryan girls made sacrifices for the good of Germany.

   He can have no children, so she should stop thinking about it.

   She does not deny that Bonaparte has something worth learning, and what she uses now is to learn from what he used in Egypt.

  The so-called holy water is pure water with salt added from the material side. It cannot cure the Black Death, and the disinfection effect is very poor. Even leeches cannot be killed, but alum can do it.

   It forms a layer of gel that makes it impossible for the leech to breathe, and more importantly, alum is easy to obtain, if the alum mines of the Papal States have not been lit for centuries.

For the war with the pagans and the needs of the artists, the church needed money, but Italian businessmen continued to sell Turk alums in Bruges for profit, so the Pope took advantage of the Maximilian riots to change the commercial center to Antwerp .

  Whether it is Albus, Grindelwald, Malfoy or that Muggle "Prime Minister Cupid", they are all about interests, and love should not be mixed with any impurities, even "greater interests".

  The credible people in Bonaparte's eyes were people who depended on him, like Josephine, without him paying her bills, she didn't know how much she would owe. And he will use people who help, not hinder him, like Madame de Stahl, who was expelled from Paris.

   As I said to St. Tyrell, you need to know where your power comes from?

  Women are too emotional. All kinds of happiness, anger, sadness, pain, and fear will hinder the rational thinking of the soul. In fact, women can also be rational. This is the path that Albus hopes she can take. Lily is also gifted, but she puts down her wand and chooses the joy that family brings her.

   Our choices determine who we become, not our abilities.

   Whatever he said, he gave her a chance to realize her delusion of becoming a female version of Merlin, at least she still has the chance to try it out.

  Churches are good at giving city sponsorships to expand their prestige in secular affairs. Luwen Theological Seminary was demolished, and it is estimated that it will not be rebuilt in a short time. These teachers and students who have lost the school need to be "placed".

  The liberal arts is a multi-faceted subject, which is used by justice and administration. How will they choose between the different truths represented by faith and science?

   "It's done, ma'am," said Jim.

Georgiana concluded the documents he had handed over. There were six articles in total. First, laying of drinking water facilities for civilian use; second, construction of water purification facilities; third, civil service examination; fourth, relocation of the cemetery in the city; fifth, factory environmental screening. investigation, to protect the health of workers; sixth, to promote vaccination.

   The Cobain of the bomb squad really shouldn't have ended her life for love, and she shouldn't have let the military doctor forcibly inoculate the girl.

   "I'd like to add another one," said Georgiana, who believed that the number seven had mystical powers.

   "Okay." Jim wanted to take the paper back, but she wouldn't give it to him.

   "I'll tell you when I think about it." She said with a smile, and Jim was a little lost.

   "You studied law, do you know Bentham?" she said softly.

   "I know a thing or two." Jim said confidently.

   "What do you think invalid punishments are doubly harmful?" asked Georgiana.

"The purpose of punishment is to deter crime, and if it fails to achieve the purpose, like the count's son, even if the countess punishes him to stop him from continuing to spend his life, he will continue to do it, and it will also hurt the feelings of mother and son. , and the pain of punishment on him wasted, so I advised her to leave it alone," Jim said.

   "Countess?" asked Georgiana in surprise, "the younger one?"

   "Then I will talk about the relationship between husband and wife, not mother and child." Jim smiled and said, "That house is full of lonely hearts."

   (end of this chapter)