Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2562 Smoke and Mirror (twenty-eight)

  The "summer homework" that Pomona arranged for Neville was to go to Scamander's house to retrieve her turtle, and later added other tasks, but she forgot one thing, how did Neville get there?

   He's not in the fourth grade yet, and he doesn't have an extraordinary talent for magic, so it's impossible to Apparate. And Newt Scamander lives in the mountains far away from the city, and even if Neville uses the Floo network to reach the city closest to his home, he will have to ride a broomstick. It just so happened that Neville couldn't ride, so Pomona had to take him to Scamander's house himself.

   Newborn babies cannot Apparate. In order to deliver Harry safely to Penny's house, the entire wizarding world has spent a lot of effort, violating many international secrecy laws, and even Muggles feel abnormal.

It was not a waste of time to create such a big battle. Harry has survived to this day. Unlike Harry, Neville "must" go to a relative's house he doesn't like every year to spend an unforgettable summer vacation. The other children hate the start of school. It was "running to freedom", and even asked George and Fred to help him "break out of prison".

Pomona also plans to let two "running errands" take care of this in the future, but for now, she disapparated with Neville to the banks of the Spey River in northern Scotland, located on the edge of the Great Lake in the Gorge, next to the Great Lake There is a dam-like stone building that is Scamander's home.

  The Spey River, like the Ness River, will flow into the North Sea, and because it is the water gathered after the melting of the snow-capped mountains, the water temperature of the lake is very low, which is not suitable for human swimming, but it is very suitable for the life of horse-shaped water monsters.

   Not all ponies are as pushy as the Loch Ness ponies, the ponies fed by Scamander are well behaved and do not exclude humans from riding on their backs. She looked at the familiar scenery with an indescribable sadness, but she continued to take Neville to the door of Scamander's house.

   As a well-known "weird", there are few visitors to the Scamander's house, not even the doorbell, so Pomona had to knock on the door.

   Neville looked around, as if he hadn't woken up from the dizziness caused by Apparition.

   Soon the door opened, but it was not Scamander, but an elderly woman who could be seen to be beautiful when she was young.

   "You are..." She looked at Pomona and Neville.

   "You must be Tina," Pomona said. "We met when I was a kid and spent the summer at your house."

  Tina tilted her head to recall.

   "Is Newt here?" Pomona asked.

   "What did you want him to do?" Tina asked.

   "The Hogwarts Bird Snake is looking for your domestic breeder. I'm Pomona Sprout, a teacher at Hogwarts, and this is my student Neville Longbottom." Pomona said.

   "Come in, he won't be back in a while." Tina said, taking a half step back and letting the two enter the room.

   Everything here is the same as when she left for the last time more than ten years ago.

   However, she didn't take two steps, but two Niu Niu jumped out, one ran in front of the other, and soon disappeared.

   "Put the shiny things on you," Pomona said to Neville in a low voice.

   Neville had no idea so he had to ask "What shiny thing?"

  Pomona turned his head and found that Sniff was trying to grab the copper button on Neville's schoolbag.

   "Oh, it's you again!" Tina grabbed the back of Sniff's neck. "You can't treat your guests like this."

   Then she walked away with a sniff.

   "Like just now," said Pomona, and then walked on, and soon came to the "underground", or the "zoo" on the edge of the water.

   Neither the furniture nor the wallpaper has changed, but these animals have changed a lot. Some of the old ones that she knew are gone, replaced by young ones who don't know her.

   "How about some pumpkin juice? Or do you guys prefer tea?" Tina asked.

   "Pumpkin juice, thank you." Pomona demanded, "I want it chilled."

   Not long after, Tina came downstairs with three glasses of iced pumpkin juice.

   "Do you want to wait here? Or go upstairs?"

   "I think it's all right here, what do you think, Neville?" Pomona asked.

   Neville was staring at a snail in a daze. He heard Pomona's question and nodded subconsciously.

   "Thank you," Pomona said to Tina, taking a sip of iced pumpkin juice.

   There is no feeling of the bubbles jumping in the mouth that is unique to the carbonated beverage of Coke, but the advantage is that it is not so sweet, she is so comfortable looking at the lake and mountains in front of her and relieved.

   "I remember you." Tina said with a smile, "You're the little girl who asked if we had 'Coke' at home."

   "What is Coke?" Neville asked.

   "Next time I'm in the Muggle community, I'll treat you to a drink," Pomona said to Neville, then looked at Tina.

   "You came to find your turtle?" Tina asked.

   "How did you know that?" Pomona frowned.

   "Newt told me you'd come to him," Tina replied.

   "Why does he think I'm going to hurt my pet?" Pomona asked.

   "He thinks you're the kind of person who won't give up easily, come on." Tina said, taking off her shoes, walking to the edge of the steps and sitting down, soaking her feet in the icy lake water.

   This is too casual for someone who is meeting for the first time, but they are not the first meeting.

  So Pomona also took off his shoes, soaked his feet in water, and drank iced pumpkin juice together.

   "How about you, young man?" Tina looked at Neville.

  He shook his head cautiously and continued to visit Newt's home.

   "What did Scamander do?" Pomona asked.

   "Going to a meeting at the Ministry of Magic, I heard there is an emergency." Tina looked at Pomona "I remember that Hogwarts has a defensive magic circle, you better turn it on."

  Pomona didn't object, Hogwarts' defensive magic can resist werewolves, but because last year's Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher was a werewolf, this setting was changed.

   "Is this the Auror's suggestion?" Pomona asked.

   "That's right." Tina looked at the lake. "I also want to set up defensive magic."

   "I'll help you when you're done," Pomona said.

   "Thank you," Tina said.

   "You're welcome, hands down," Pomona said to Tina, looking at Neville again. "These animals are dangerous, we're leaving, you can go up by yourself later."

   "Okay, Professor," Neville said.

   "Are you all Hufflepuff?" Tina asked.

   "No, he's Gryffindor," replied Pomona.

   "Why is he here?" Tina asked.

   Pomona couldn't explain it.

   Severus had asked her before, why he hadn't given this opportunity to Cedric.

   Do you have to tell Tina that she didn't think so much?

   So she took a sip of pumpkin juice, trying to cover up the problem.

  Tina was too keen to ask any further questions, drinking pumpkin juice while looking at the scenery.

  It's very strange, obviously they didn't speak, but Pomona didn't have that embarrassing feeling of having to say something.

   She felt very peaceful, and even wanted to keep it that way.

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  Article 22 of the Declaration of Human Rights issued in 1793: Education is the necessity of everyone, and society should do everything possible to support the development of public reason and to make education available to every citizen.

Condorcet holds the same opinion on this point. He advocates the implementation of public education for all citizens. Through education, the common people, who are bound by ignorance, fanaticism and superstition, should be liberated. Everyone should have equal access to school, regardless of social status. Differences in height and gender, regardless of occupation, ended the church's monopoly on knowledge.

Compared with Napoleon, Robespierre carried out de-Christianization during his reign, and the chaos in France at that time is obvious to all, not to mention that the clerks appointed by Du Maurier and the National Government seized the gold, silver and documents of the church. , there are sentries both day and night. All neighborhoods in Brussels unanimously rejected all French proposals, and anyone who dared to defend the French would be insulted and attacked in the street.

The   Central School was designed by Condorcet and advocated secularization and scientific academicism, but Napoleon planned to carry out educational reforms. The purpose of education was to cultivate shrewd and capable officials who could serve the country, and citizens who could expand production.

   is like a person who broke free from the shackles and gained freedom. The phase of the central school has been completed, and now it is time to "modernize".

  The establishment of a university after the Jacobins came to power required approval. The Rouen University she went to was closed during the revolution. The school building was once a textile factory, and later it was used as a charity organization to provide children with accommodation and places to eat.

   And Condorcet is to support any citizen can open educational institutions, and independent of church and state interference, to avoid being a tool to control the mind.

But not all Headmasters have defeated Grindelwald like Albus Dumbledore, and also President of the International Confederation of Wizards, also won the First Wizarding War, Chief Representative of Wizengamo, 21 Kinds of Dragon Blood finder of use.

And even with so many titles, it's not as good as the charge of "treason", Ginny's "good idea", da is the abbreviation of Dumbledore's Army, Fudge has an excuse to arrest Albus, and the Ministry of Magic There was also an opportunity to intervene in Hogwarts affairs, and Doris Umrich became the headmaster.

   With Pomona's character, she would never let two Sniffers enter the office, but if one Umrich is gone, someone else will replace it, which cannot change the "general trend" of the Ministry of Magic's intervention in the school.

Fudge wanted to cover up Voldemort's return, Harry desperately wanted to publish the "truth", but only the naysayer was willing to publish it, and Umrich's "everything was calm" in get out of class, and she had Harry write a lot after class "I can't lie" black magic punishment.

   That's the beauty of power, there's always a group of "smart people" to help you when you want to distort a fact.

But no matter how you distort a fact, there will always be a day when the truth will come out. Fudge resigned after the war at the Ministry of Magic, and the Daily Prophet finally published the article that the mysterious man had returned, even for slandering Harry before. no public apology.

She didn't know whether her "little conspiracy" Sharptar saw it or not. At the Paris rally, Grindelwald blew out a smoke and showed the people present the "future" he saw. For the people of the war, even wizards don't want to experience it again, especially the nuclear bomb explosion at the final "finale", that is not tnt, there will be radiation and dust clouds, and it will affect people farther away.

   Perhaps, Albus saw Gellert in the Mirror of Erised, the man who brought him joy, understanding, and potentially, the man who killed his sister.

   He has experienced loss and knows that war will lose more. In the final analysis, it was because Arianna was attacked by three Muggles that her magical riot was silently parasitized, and their family's life changed dramatically. But what did Arianna do? She was just using magic in her own garden and was seen by three children who were looking into someone else's house.

   What the purger said just now did not make her horrified. She was also a witch. Some were trampled on like wild flowers, and some were held in her hands like a rose. Even if it was thorny, some people liked it.

  The magic is because of the compound decoction, she knows both experiences.

Life wasn't fair, she knew it, and Severus knew it, but he, like Albus, didn't want to go back and change something, like not say that word, or kick those three Muggle kids out. Walk.

  Albus needs a painful memory to remind himself not to get dizzy and walk that dangerous road with Grindelwald.

   And Severus had learned a lot from the Death Eaters, he had changed, he had learned grace, he was not the Slytherin boy at the door of the Gryffindor lounge, yelling that Lily wouldn't leave until she came out.

   This is something he couldn't learn from school and them.

  Those magical animals are actually as stinky as ordinary animals, and they are not suitable for living rooms, but she is willing to stay there and chat with Tina.

   After all, no matter how beautiful Veela is, she is also a beast. She belongs there. As a Hufflepuff who is good at keeping secrets, don't tell those "geniuses" what spells the carriages and boats use and how they "automatically" run, maybe they can really research something.

   (end of this chapter)