Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 384 Footsteps of the Devil

There is such a story in the Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection. On the morning of March 16, 1884, an amazing strange thing was discovered in the small village of Wallas in the west of England: the previous night, a family of brothers and sisters played poker in the house. The cards, by the next morning, it was found that they had not left the table. The two brothers have gone crazy. Their sister, a pretty young girl, died sitting on a chair. She was obviously scared to death. There were no scars on the three of them, and the doors and windows were tightly closed, and no one had ever entered or exited.

  At this time, Holmes and Watson were living in a nearby town, so Mortyhei, the third of their brothers, went to report the two detectives. He said that four of them were playing cards together that night, and he left at 10:15. When they left, they were playing happily, with no ominous signs at all.

  Holmes asked him: "Do you remember any special circumstances last night?"

   "I was facing the window at the time, and my brother George was facing the window. Once I saw something moving in the bushes on the grass. As for whether it was a human or an animal, I couldn't tell."

  Holmes carefully inspected the house, only to see that the candles had already been lit, and there was still a fire in the house. According to Mortyhei, it was because it was cold and humid last night that the fire started. Sherlock Holmes went outside the house and the window to check again, but nothing was found; there were suspicious traces.

  When Holmes and Watson returned to their apartment, a burly, vicious-eyed young man with a hooked nose was waiting for them. Murakami called him Dr. Leon, a lion hunter and explorer who lived in Africa for a long time. He said he had some relatives with the family of the deceased and wanted to inquire about the progress of the investigation. Holmes told him that it was difficult to answer. He listened and left in grief. Holmes quickly put on his makeup and stared at him. He didn't return to the house until the evening, looking as if he had found nothing.

  Early the next morning, the deceased’s neighbor Pastor Landhey came to report in horror to Holmes and said: “No, Mr. Holmes, we are entangled by the devil!” It turned out that Mortyhey died last night.

  In the bedroom of the house where people died on the first day, the atmosphere was horrible and gloomy, and it was very sultry inside. The servant who entered the house first opened the window, which made the air in the house a little fresher.

  A smoking lamp was still lit on a table in the middle of the room. The dead Mortyhei sat at the table, leaning back on the chair. His beard stood upright, his glasses pushed to his forehead, his face facing the window. Because of the horror, his face was distorted and looked exactly like his dead sister.

Holmes scraped some dust from the chimney of the fireplace, and collected some brown powder from the lamp. He said to Watson: "There was something burning in the two rooms where the crime was committed. One was a fire, the other was a fire. It's a lamp. This shows that it is very likely that what was burned in the two cases was the same thing. After it burns, it will emit a gas that will poison people. Now, let's make an experiment."

  He opened the window, left the door ajar, and poured the brown powder scraped off from the lamp onto the lighted lamp from the envelope. After a while, they smelled a strong musky fragrance, subtle and disgusting. The first scent hits, and their brains and imagination are involuntary. I saw a thick black smoke in front of me, a group of vague demons wandering in the smoke. Their hair stood upright, their tongues were already stiff, and their faces gradually turned pale, stiff, and dull. Fortunately, both of them are very strong. They hugged and staggered out and fell on the grass outside the door

After a long time, Holmes said: "Watson, I didn't expect this powder to have such a powerful force, and it only nearly killed us! Well, I have found the first murderer. No wonder he was going to lie and say that he I saw something moving outside the window.

  Holmes found Dr. Leon and said, "Dr. Leon, we want to talk to you about Morty Black’s death and the brown powder

  Leon’s face changed color with a “swipe”. He suddenly took a photo from his pocket and threw it in front of Holmes. This is a photo of Mortyhei's sister. It turns out that Leon has always loved Mortyhei's sister, but for various reasons he could not get married. He lives next to them in order to be able to see her.

  There is a poison in Africa called "Devil's Feet". This medicine is very peculiar. Whoever smells it when it burns will go crazy when it is light, and die immediately when it is heavy. Leon got a bag and brought it back.

  One day Mortyhei came to Leon to stop by, and Leon accidentally talked about the usage and effects of this medicine. Soon, he discovered that his lover and her two brothers were victimized, and he discovered when half of his medicine had been stolen.

  Leon concluded that Mortyhey did it, because their brothers were fighting over the family property, and he decided to avenge his lover.

   Early this morning, Leon took the remaining half-pack of "Devil's Feet" and a pistol to Mortyhei's house. When Mortyhei opened the door to look out, Leon pointed a pistol at him, forced him to enter the room and light the lamp, and sprinkle the powder on the lamp. Mortyhey had done something bad, and had been terrified. Now he didn't dare to resist the pistol, so he died like his sister.

  The "devil's foot" that Holmes called is very similar to a material in the vertical hair potion, Abyssinian Shrinked Fig.

  Ordinary figs grow in the tropics. If the temperature is too low, they can’t survive. Abyssinian shrunken figs have a very strong root system. Even if the leaves are fallen in autumn, only the bare branches in winter can survive in snow.

  This characteristic is very common in other temperate plants, and tropical plants are very rare. The vertical hair potion is also known as fear potion. It can make people who take it see a very scary scene. If people see terrible things, they will have the feeling of vertical hair. This vertical hair potion is not a hair smoothing agent. It is used for hair care. For Europeans who have experienced the Black Death, mouse tails can definitely make people "hair upside down". There are mouse tails in the hair-lifting potion.

Unfortunately, the Chinese discovered that the Black Death was not spread by rats. This was the conclusion that a Chinese doctor in Harbin risked his life to dissect a corpse in 1910. The spread of the plague was the last time the Black Death had spread so far. A French doctor also went to China to study it. He and the Chinese had different opinions. He regretted that he died in a foreign land, at the hands of a disease he thought he knew well.

Conan Doyle, the author of   Holmes, lived at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, the surrender was very popular in the UK. It was a mysterious ritual to communicate with the dead.

  This kind of ceremony came from Hong Kong, China. In Hong Kong, there are many “grands” who claim to be able to communicate with the deceased. After the Qing Dynasty ceded Hong Kong to Britain, many British people did business there and brought this kind of ceremony back to the mainland.

Just like Hong Kong, the surrender will usually be hosted by a psychic woman called the "Guardian", and like the Chinese Dixian, she puts the pan of the spirit as a tool to communicate with ghosts. The vast majority of people are fakes. Yes, the magician Houdini at the end of the century loved to expose these so-called deceitful lies.

  After experiencing the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution, Muggles are no longer as repulsive and fearful of magic and witchcraft as they did in the Middle Ages. On the contrary, they have become longing, eager to contact forces that are completely different from the world in which they live.

  Some Muggles admire wizards very much, and even feel proud that there is a wizard in the house.

But some people are still very repellent to magic for various reasons. Conan Doyle obviously belongs to the type of Muggle that does not reject “witchcraft”. He even declared that Houdini can magic, because of Grindelwald’s Activities, the magical world did have the danger of exposure at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, the main battlefield of the wizarding world was in the United States. It was not until the 1930s that the main battlefield was transferred to Europe. Grindelwald’s secret weapon was Credence Baierburn, a member of the Dumbledore family.

  Dumbledore always said that woolen socks are not enough to wear, and woolen socks represent family affection, or it may simply be that his feet are cold. The boy's cold feet can be relieved by exercise, but Albus is also a "bookworm", unlike his dueling brother Aberfors, he can sit at the desk for a whole day. Girls with cold feet are complicated. It may be caused by anemia, stress, nervousness, or because they are too beautiful and wear less clothes (women are really complicated and difficult to understand). Chinese medicine is very effective in conditioning the body. Chinese medicine is in addition to Chinese food. The best-developed industry in the UK, the UK has become the second largest Chinese patent medicine market outside of Asia, and the public's recognition of acupuncture and Chinese medicine is also higher than that of other countries. In addition to the Chinese, there are a small number of Singaporeans and Malaysians living in London's Chinatown. Many people, Koreans, and Japanese have entered the country illegally. Before 1985, there was no formal administrative boundary for the "Chinatown". After 1985, the Juelu Street area was regarded as a Chinatown district, and there were many Chinese medicine hospitals there. And Chinese restaurants.

  However, in the first year of 2005, the large real estate developer Roseville decided to redevelop the eastern part of Chinatown. This plan was opposed by many Chinese merchants, who organized protest marches.

Places with a lot of people are often places where werewolves like to hang out. Chinatown is a mixture of dragons and snakes, and all kinds of weird people will appear. It is almost as chaotic as the Whitechapel area. There was a famous killer ripper in the history of that area. Jack.

What Pomona likes is the Jack Dawson who "you jump and I jump" on the Titanic with Rose. It's not the foggy murderer Jack. Now Potion Professor Snape has that kind of hairy stuff on him. With a crazy smile, he was about to become a super villain like Professor Moriarty, the opponent of Holmes.

Robert Shaker loves to wear a deerstalker hat like Sherlock Holmes. With Professor Snape’s current mood, he should be happy to be a lion hunter. After the aggressive Slytherin and Gryffindor left school Still fighting, Hefpaff and Ravenclaw, who were caught between them, said "I'm so difficult."

Hefpuff spirit, do the right thing because it is right, Ernie McMillan worked as an outside teacher in Hogsmeade as an out-of-school teacher in Hogsmeade. He supported Kingsley Shaker and Away from the fight for power and at the same time accumulating his own fame, he stood in the right position at a critical moment, although his original intention was to compete with Harry Potter who could teach many students who can summon the patron saint.

  "This bar needs to be cleaned up, can you borrow some house elves for me, Dean?"

  After regaining consciousness, Ernie stared at the greasy ground he had lay on just now, and said, at this time Pomona had already drunk the compound decoction, and she had returned to her short and chubby appearance.

   "You lucky bastard." Pomona was helpless, some people were so lucky.

  Severus can't get something so desperately, Ernie can easily get it. How annoying!

   "Good luck? No, this is strength." Ernie smiled triumphantly and said, "Which one is better than Justin? Dean."

  (End of this chapter)