Chapter 2649 Wind and Flowers (28)

In the understanding of medieval alchemists, the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn are all planets, revolving around the earth. They use gold, silver, mercury, copper, tin, iron, and lead respectively These seven metals represent, but this is not absolute, it also depends on the encryption language of the alchemists and the context at that time.

Gold was considered a perfect metal, and mercury could dissolve it. Generally speaking, mercury represents Hermes, the god of alchemy, which leads to an idea in "Hermes Alchemy", that is, dissolution and solidification, which are two of the "Hermes Alchemy". opposite. The Muggle chemistry Arif refers to is the "outer Virgo", which is the sixth sign of the zodiac, and the other side of the collective unconscious is the "inner Pisces", which is the twelfth sign of the zodiac.

Of course, Hermes alchemy is not the only one in this world, but almost all of the people in the venue today are "Hermes philosophers", except for Pomona, who is a stranger who has dabbled in herbal alchemy.

The purpose of the philosopher's stone (philosop's stone) is not to make gold, it is just a process at best, the true ideal of a Hermetic philosopher should be far above the material level, although for a long time, many alchemists gave up Instead of studying the inner world, he focused on the discovery of the "outer world", focusing on combinations and combinations.

Virgo has a quality of pursuing perfection, while gold is a perfect metal; Pisces loves to dream, and many worldly things Pisces simply don't care about it.

Of course some would say that horoscope divination is a damned superstition, and while the development of the "outer world" accelerated, the study of the symbolic "inner mind" was suppressed and continued to exist only in the form of "superstitions, fantasies and daydreams" with.

However, at the beginning of the 20th century, the situation began to change. Freud, Jung and others discovered the "subconscious mind" and analyzed dreams, thus liberating the "virgin" moral concept and began to focus on consciousness and desire. , which can be understood as Freud "dissolving" the materialization "frozen" brought to alchemy by the scientific thoughts produced since the seventeenth century.

The full moon is the best time to pick sapweed, a species of Artemisia spp., a close relative of which is used to treat dysentery.

But just as there are ordinary trees and wand trees for trees, only a few of this weed possess magical powers. Werewolves will transform during the full moon, and the sap grass picked during the full moon can also be used to "dissolve" the "frozen" body, making the body changeable and flexible.

Why does it have to be a full moon? In fact, the transformation of a werewolf does not have to be on the day of the full moon, and you must also see the full moon and be illuminated by the moonlight.

The moon, like gold, cannot emit light by itself, but reflects light, but its properties are different from gold. Unfortunately, Pomona has not done research on the growth of the moon relative to magic plants and the nature of magic power.

Where Arif pissed off Severus was when he kept trying to convince Severus to "accept" that Muggle chemistry was like potions.

Although Severus is very creative when he ridicules people, he is really not an expert in this area. The only thing he can do is to refuse to meet with Arif. His potions classroom.

After the breakfast meeting, Severus completed the steps of configuring the potion that needed to be kept secret, and the next step was the configuration of the potion that could be made public. He completed the configuration of the wolf-binding juice under the watchful eyes of many people.

Many people have the habit of using their beds. They cannot sleep in a strange place, and they will feel uncomfortable when they put on new clothes and shoes, and even affect their performance. Pomona is actually very nervous, even though she knows that he is no longer the first Boil this potion once.

The whole process lasted for a whole day, and more than 20 kinds of medicinal materials were placed on the long experimental table, like a small exhibition, and they were all added to the potion one by one in the end.

All the work in the process of boiling the medicine, including the preparation of the medicinal materials, was done by Severus himself, thanks to his many years of teaching career, he was already proficient enough to do everything by himself without an assistant.

This has attracted the admiration of some potion masters. They almost always have assistants to help them, just like the chefs in restaurants. In charge of seasoning, the chef himself does the least work. Snape could only rely on confinement and let the students prepare the potion materials he needed for the next class.

While she felt it was funny, she was also proud, and under the "catalysis" of love, she developed a feeling called sweetness.

But the feeling didn't last long, and when Severus announced that the medicine was ready, Remus was brought in, this time with chains on his hands and locked in an iron cage.

Pomona figured the kids wouldn't want to see that, they'd rather remember the shabbily dressed Defense Against the Dark Arts professor with the music playing and telling them to use "funny funny" on the Boggart in the locker.

Severus gave the potion to the Auror in a goblet, and the Auror fed the potion to Remus, who had no reaction after drinking it.

"You can talk to him," Severus said. "He can answer your questions."

"Of course, he is still a human being." A middle-aged man wearing a monocle said, "How do I know if he can still communicate after transforming?"

"Can you recite the five principles of Gump's Transfiguration?" Pomona said immediately.

"What's the use of that?" said the man just now.

"At least it can be compared, how much sanity the werewolf can maintain while maintaining wolf form after drinking the potion." Pomona replied.

While others were talking, Remus had already started to recite. He not only recited Gamp's Principles of Transfiguration, but also "Principles of Magic". When the "audience" in the audience asked questions about what he had recited, Not only can Remus answer accurately, but he can also express his own opinions.

The clock was ticking toward 12 midnight, which looked like noon because it was underground, but some people were already yawning.

For the wizards who just came from abroad and haven't lost their jet lag, it is daytime where they live, and they shouldn't have any sleepiness, but when everyone around them is yawning and looking sluggish, they Also started to feel sleepy.

"Are you going to transform? Werewolf." Fudge said at this moment.

Pomona really wanted to tell him at this moment that the transformation into a werewolf was uncontrollable. Even the third-year students knew this, and Remus could not change without an order from the Minister of Magic.

"We have a way to transform you..." said Fudge.

"No!" Severus cut him off loudly "that would interfere with the results of the experiment."

"Don't worry, it's just a little charm," said Fudge.

"Even a small charm." Severus interrupted Fudge again. "That's unacceptable."

"Then let's just sit here and wait for him to change when he doesn't know when?" Another "spectator" shouted.

"If you want to go back to sleep, no one is stopping you." Someone in the crowd said, "I'm going to stay here and see the result."

Some people echoed, and some got up and left. For those who left, those who stayed behind booed their backs, and even deliberately tripped when the other party passed by, acting like a first- and second-year student.

The scene was a bit chaotic, Fudge rushed to the judge's seat, intending to knock on the wooden hammer to keep everyone quiet, and Remus' transformation began.

This scene made everyone quiet, except for Remus' screams of pain in the courtroom.

The legs of human beings are different from those of animals. In other words, human beings walk on the ground with all their feet on the ground. The feet of animals are very long, and the toes and soles of the feet are on the ground. Therefore, people often mistake the heels of animals for calves, and place the ankles of animals on the ground. The joints act as knees.

As his feet had grown, Remus's shoes no longer fit him properly, and he had become a little taller for nothing, and his spine had deformed.

It looked too bad anyway, and even when the transformation was over no one spoke, only Remus panting.

"Can you recite Gamp's Law of Transfiguration?" Pomona asked, her voice even echoing.

Remus shook his head, then pointed his finger at his mouth, it was also deformed, the teeth turned into fangs.

"When we ask you questions, you can shake your head and nod, right?" Pomona asked.

Remus nodded again.

"Are you a werewolf?" Fudge asked.

Remus nodded.

"You volunteered for this experiment?" Fudge asked.

Remus nodded.

"When we uncuff you, can you promise not to attack anyone present?" Severus asked.

Remus nodded, but the people around him were clamoring.

"You can't do that!", "It's too risky!", "I've had enough, I'm leaving!"

The scene got out of control again, and Fudge struck the wooden hammer.

"Quiet!" Fudge said loudly, and then he watched the Aurors sternly "uncuff him."

The Aurors hesitated, but they complied, though Remus remained in the cage, his clawed hands gripping the railing, and then made no attack.

Those who had said they were going sat down again, and Fudge started asking questions again.

"Do you know what 1+3 equals?"

Remus nodded four times, then stopped nodding.

"Do you know who he is?" Fudge asked, pointing at Severus.

Remus nodded.

"Did you attack him on purpose last month?" Fudge asked.

"What does he mean?" Pomona heard whispers in the crowd.

"You shouldn't be asking that question at this time, Mr. Minister!" Pomona stood up.

"Why can't I ask?" asked Fudge.

Pomona was trying to figure out how to respond when Fudge asked Remus, "Have you ever hurt anyone?"

Remus shook his head in pain.

"It's a lie, we found a lot of blood at the scene, who does it belong to?" Fudge asked.

"He can't talk," Pomona said, "like I just asked him if he could..."

"Did it belong to Sirius Black?" Fudge demanded. "The blood belonged to him, and you hurt him?"

Remus wailed like a dog.

"He bled so much, he must not have run far, or did you eat him?" asked Fudge.

Remus shook his head.

"Don't you know, or don't you remember?" asked Fudge.

Remus shook his head again.

"You don't need to torture him like that," said a white-haired man. "We already know he's rational."

"This is not torture." Fudge looked at the other party and said, "We all know that werewolves are very hungry for human flesh and blood..."

"But this one isn't!" Pomona interrupted Fudge. "You want him to admit he ate Sirius Black so you can close the case and not a single living person has escaped from Azkaban."

"Quiet!" Fudge whispered to Pomona.

"What I see is that you are leading the people here, and if I keep quiet, Mr Minister, the next thing you are going to say is that your cross-examination is 'necessary' and that you will conduct an illegal investigation on him with the acquiescence of others. interrogation."

"That's your assumption!" said Fudge through gritted teeth.

"We all know that you are good at interrupting others, Fudge, just like your old colleague old Buddy Claudius, who sent Sirius Black to Azkaban without giving Sirius Black a chance to defend himself." Pommer Na said.

"You think Sirius Black was wronged?" said Fudge.

"She doesn't know what she's talking about, Minister," Severus said, and then he looked at Pomona and said calmly, "Sit down."

"Unless Mr. Minister agrees not to continue asking the same kind of questions." Pomona said.

Fudge lay on the judgment table, looking down at Pomona.

"And you, in what capacity are you protesting?" said Fudge.

Pomona was thinking of an answer when Remus slammed into the cage, looking like he was going to attack.

She sat down, and Fudge gave her a contemptuous look, then at Remus.

"We all know that werewolves are very hungry for human flesh and blood. We can even assume that what we have to deal with before is a mad beast. After drinking the potion, it becomes a ruthless killer with the physique of a wolf. And human intelligence, this is very bad for us.” Fudge said, “Werewolves will not become defenseless just because they drink the potion. Fortunately, it is expensive and the brewing process is very complicated. Only technology It can only be done by superb people, just like all of you here.”

The audience remained silent.

"I believe that a law will be introduced in the future to carry out 'management'. Since you have already learned the result, I suggest that you stop here today. Everyone, go back and rest first. Tomorrow..."

"I won't come." A man stood up, and then walked away without looking back.

As soon as he was gone, others stood up one after another, and no one seemed interested in Fudge's proposal.

Pomona glanced at Fudge before leaving, and shook her head at the Minister for Magic, but she guessed he didn't see it, because his attention was on Damocles and Severus, and Severus' Standing beside him was Malfoy, who was smiling all over his face at the moment, as if he had a winning ticket in his hands, looking so smug that one couldn't help but want to break his nose with a punch.

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Billiards is a closed system. At the beginning the balls are neatly placed in a state of high order, but once the game starts, the balls become disordered. Order is highly unlikely.

Hogwarts is actually a closed system, the difference is that the students are not always in an "ordered state", such as the way they stay in the classroom for class, sometimes they are disordered, such as the way get out of class and school are dismissed.

There is a sentence in "A Brief History of Time": The degree of disorder or entropy in a closed system increases with time, in other words it is a form of Murphy's law, and things always get worse.

This is about "time reversal". Time reversal means that the space coordinates remain unchanged and the time coordinates change, just like Harry and Hermione turning the time converter back to Hogwarts, not other time travelers, no matter Either time or space coordinates have changed.

Imagine a pair of electrons moving towards each other at high speed and annihilated. After annihilation, they become a pair of photons. In time reversal, the two photons will move in opposite directions, but they may not necessarily be a pair of positive and negative particles, even if they are annihilated , and their emitting directions are not necessarily opposite to the original process.

In other words, time reversal is not necessarily a "reversal" of the original process, which is what many people intuitively think of as "moving process" and "history".

If a time traveler makes some people who should have been born "unborn", and no one increases, it can be understood as a decrease in entropy.

There are fewer billiards on the table, and the "source of vitality" is gone. Unless you take out the balls that fell into the pocket and put them back into the triangular frame, and start a new game, your opponent will definitely try their best to prevent you from entering. Bags are scored, each ball is scattered, and the process of increasing entropy means increased chaos.

At the moment of the Big Bang, the entropy was extremely low, and then continued to increase, with more chaos than order, such as the asteroid belt, they are not always at a stable Lagrangian point, and there are always a few that leave its position.

Where does it go? It may be outer space. The comet that hit Jupiter in July 1994 came from the asteroid belt outside the solar system and entered the solar system to become a periodic comet. If it revolves around the sun, the earth will be hit.

Although it was shredded by Jupiter's gravity, it still hit it, and one of them produced a "crater" the size of the Earth.

Only now did Pomona figure out what Severus meant when he said Harry Potter was awarded a light bulb, and that was only when she heard Napoleon's speech in Mechelen.

If, according to Malthusian population theory, human beings must control population growth, why do the British always go to the United States to arrest people as soldiers?

Before the American Revolution, they directly searched for healthy men in the colonies. After "independence", they could only recruit merchant sailors to become the navy.

Malthus also said that humans, like animals and plants, are subject to the urge to reproduce, resulting in overproduction. At first glance, it sounds no problem. Wheat is harvested every year, and humans only grow one year a year, and mice grow up in five months.

One man was anxious. Seeing the seedlings growing slowly in the soil, he wanted to pull up the seedlings to "help" them grow, but all the seedlings died.

But the land has its bearing capacity, it needs fallow and fertilization, and the land enclosure movement has made British agriculture progress, but cheap foreign food will bankrupt domestic farmers, which is why the "Corn Law" came into being.

Georgiana opened the book "Revealing the Wisdom of God from Creation" given to her by Farron. Through anatomy, the author found the difference between the human heart and four-legged animals, because human beings are standing, and the gravity acts on human beings differently from animals , but she did not agree with what he said, there are no shortcomings, superfluous or useless in human beings.

Then she thought of Remus, how would the heart beating in his chest grow?