Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1170 Louvre's Fairy (7)

  Death is a state of the soul. It’s just a change of residence, so why bother to be so sad. My father summoned me into the embrace of another kind of life, one day I will summon you too, then you summon your children, the years flow like this...

  —Carlo Bonaparte

  The Egyptians call their land Kemite, which means black land. All the land irrigated by the Nile River is of this color, which is different from the red soil that has not been irrigated by the river. The pharaohs believed that the source of the Nile River came from a cave among granites below Elephant Island in the diving of the underground world.

  Kemite is described as a paradise in many places, rivers fertilize the soil, and lush swamps and grasslands provide food and habitat for domesticated and wild animals.

  There are a lot of waterfowl on the river bank, fish are everywhere in the river, plus the solemn temple on the river bank.

Even if there are no sacrificial offerings at this moment and praying for the blessings of the gods, the temple has become dilapidated due to disrepair and destruction by tomb robbers, and it will still not disappoint tourists from afar, even because of the gods. The dilapidation of the temple feels a sense of vicissitudes of history, like a ride through the ruins.

  In the 1870s, because of the "Egyptian Traveler's Handbook" written by Wilkinson, even Europeans who did not know Egypt and learned so much could use this travel guide to visit Egypt. Egypt has become a winter holiday destination for many rich and less wealthy Europeans. There is a regular steamboat service between Italy and Alexandria.

  The upsurge of tourism has made European society more extensively exposed to "Oriental civilization".

  Mark Twain once wrote about the prosperous scene of Egypt in his "Fools abroad": The endless green plains and lush grains are really pleasing to the eye.

  These "green" places are places where rivers flow, palm trees and mirage-like colonnades. The place without river water is still full of yellow sand, coupled with the sphinx and pyramids, the combination of these scenery, in the era when there were only black and white photos, visually attracted people to visit this place.

  Most wealthy tourists come to Egypt to relax. Just as described in "The Nile Massacre", everyone is very leisurely. People pay attention to the romantic affair between Cleopatra and Caesar and Anthony, and the ancient gods have more intrigue than London.

  People danced on the boat, admired the scenery, and occasionally went to the scenic spots on the shore to comment on the old things thousands of years ago.

  It’s always easier to take care of other people’s family affairs than to deal with the bad things in your own house. Generally speaking, tourists always buy some souvenirs to return to the country wherever they go. The antique trading markets in Thebes and Luxor are almost open and legal. Counterfeiters have made many statuettes, stone tablets and scarabs, even The most experienced Egyptologists can also be deceived. Most travelers who are not so wealthy just want to have such an exotic decoration in their home, it doesn't really matter whether it is true or not.

  Genuine products are often reserved for more respectable collectors, who are usually agents of museums. Coptic manuscripts are especially popular with these agents. Every European museum wants major discoveries and complete papyrus.

  The other is the "big man". Whether he is important because he is rich or because of his hereditary title, only they can afford such an ridiculously high price.

  It is precisely because of the sky-high prices of these cultural relics that many adventurers and "freelancers" have the mentality of getting rich overnight, digging up large cultural relics, burning, throwing away, and destroying cultural relics that they think may be worthless.

  This forced some Egyptian scholars to leave Egypt. On the one hand, tourism and adventurers made Egypt’s oriental characteristics less pure, and on the other hand, because of the high cost of living.

  As we all know, the prices of tourist attractions are so high that locals would not go there, but these have nothing to do with Muhammad Ali, the ruler of Egypt at that time.

   Tagore said that when a person's patience reaches the limit, when he can't bear it, it is when he awakens.

   Muhammad Ali wanted to modernize Egypt and make ancient Egypt as advanced as Europe.

  He demolished the temple and used those stones to build factories to provide Egyptian locals with real economy outside of tourism. Anyway, these stones will be shipped to Europe if they are left.

  Scamander retrieved the thunderbird from Egypt because the Egyptian wizard planned to use it to attract rain and allow more land to be irrigated.

  "Oriental people" have always paid little attention to international secrecy laws. Unlike the West, their wizards not only do not have to worry about being hunted down, they also enjoy a very lofty status.

  If a wizard does not have true skills, he will be beaten or even killed. It is two concepts that the West has proved that a wizard is really a wizard and must be tied to a stake and burned to death.

  Napoleon once said that he seldom draws his sword, he uses his eyes instead of weapons to win victory.

   Although Napoleon defeated the Egyptian Mamluk cavalry, the French navy was attacked by the British fleet. In the end, only two of the 400 warships remained, which caused the domestic political turmoil in France. Napoleon felt that his opportunity had come, and he went back to France alone, used his authority to launch a coup, and established the First French Republic.

  Egypt is a long and narrow country, because it is related to the direction of the Nile. As a result, Napoleon's battle line was stretched very long. This was a taboo in the use of soldiers. Later, he failed in his expedition to Russia for similar reasons.

  The British burned the French fleet to help Napoleon indirectly, otherwise the victorious general would have a different taste of defeat in Egypt.

  Courage is the source of military strength, and the short Corsican also has this characteristic. This is different from the kind of "gentleman who can go to the palace lobby" that the Louis XV founding military school hopes to cultivate.

  The military academy that Napoleon went to was full of the boys of the marquis with outstanding family affairs.

Napoleon was studying on a scholarship, and the gang always bullied him. They regarded Napoleon as a bumpkin from the country, and used the French homophony of his name to give him the nickname "Straw in the Nose", which means "Should not be so lucky."

  The situation of the little nobles who enjoy the King’s scholarship like him is also not good. They value the family background more than the rich boarders.

  The worse it is, the more it is necessary to compare family origins and geographical differences. Le Picard de Filippo is one of them.

  His father was an officer, Poitiers, and like Napoleon on a scholarship, he was also an artilleryman, and entered the Paris Military Academy three years earlier than Napoleon. He was so fanatical to maintain the monarchy, he always troubled Napoleon. Young people always inevitably have conflicts, whether it is verbal or physical. Philippe sometimes laughed at Napoleon’s accent like the sons of the marquis, and sometimes referred to Napoleon. It was a nobleman who depended on the French invasion of Corsica.

  The two people often fight. Napoleon’s support for Rousseau’s ideas and the ancient republic are also related to this man.

  After the outbreak of the Great Revolution, Philippo participated in the royalist fleeing overseas, successively serving for the prince and the prince of Conde.

There is a Chinese saying that Yuanjialu is narrow, the earth is so big that they can still meet on the battlefield after graduation. A few years later, Philippe can be said to single-handedly blocked Napoleon’s eastward advance in Saint-Jean-Dacques. .

  From a certain point of view, the opponent is a confidant. There is an old Chinese saying that it is easy to get a daughter but hard to find a confidant.

  Grindelwald is a hard-to-find confidant to Albus Dumbledore, but Pomona never dreamed that they were gay.

  The sense of shock was more exaggerated than the first time she saw the Sphinx and pyramids in Egypt, although she had never seen one of the seven wonders of mankind.

  It’s like Severus doubting Sirius’s orientation, thinking he and James Potter had the same leg. If Sirius was still alive, he would surely become a dog and bite the old bat.

   "Merlin's beard, what happened here!!?"

  Pomona shouted at the Louvre.

  The lights of the Louvre’s glass pyramid came on at night, and it looked like an Egyptian relative reflecting the sunlight, unlike the phantom feeling during the day.

  Human lights try their best to create a brilliant effect. The pool around the pyramid is also reflecting the sky and lights, but the scenery in the pool is not the night view of Paris with the full moon, but the day of Egypt with the scorching sun.

  I heard that mirages often occur in the desert under the scorching sun. Those illusory oases will guide the lost in the wrong direction, and eventually die of thirst or exhaustion.

  She couldn't tell for a moment whether it was her dazzling or an illusion that a wizard could see again, because the Muggles walking in the Louvre square seemed to have not been seen.

  "Have you seen such a view?" Severus asked Gonsey.

  Your Excellency Earl, who is about to change jobs, shook his head in horror.

   "I have never seen it when I grew up."

   "You have to say, it's too late to regret now?" Severus asked Pomona.

  Pomona shook her head.

   "I don't know what to say anymore, my dear, since it's all here, let's go exploring."

  (End of this chapter)