Chapter 3048 Adamas (1)
In "The Fable of the Bee", it is said: A person who advocates honor must have courage, lack of courage, his other principles are at best a sword without a sharp point.
In addition to courage, a person who advocates honor also needs principles. In order to defend this principle, he would not hesitate to give up his job, wealth, and even his own life.
Compared with the Death Eaters, Grindelwald's believers are more "reasonable". This may be because they have passed through the "fire circle" set by Grindelwald in the catacombs of the Lestrange family in Paris. Only their beliefs are firm Only one can pass through the deadly flame.
Those who seek to transform a country or the world cannot do so by cultivating and exploiting discontent alone. Provoking personal pain and subjective bad feelings is not conducive to friendly negotiations, makes "peaceful settlement" impossible, and also creates the possibility of subjecting the will of one party to the unilateral arbitrary control of the other, excluding objective participation in cooperation with society. outside.
But there are always clear-headed people, and some of these people may join in for benefits, while others stay away from it. Apart from Bella and Regulus, who was deeply influenced by her, there were no other Death Eaters in the Black family. After entertaining a mysterious person once, the Black couple stopped participating in social activities and lived a reclusive life. Sirius' father's funeral was uninvited.
Negative emotions will always cool down with venting. The more wealthy people are, the less they dare to invest in reform with people who have nothing, because once they fail, everything accumulated over the years will be lost.
They dislike change and reject new things in order to maintain the status quo. Muggleborns are a greater threat to them than Muggles. Some good Muggleborns will take jobs that "belong" to their nephews, the British Ministry of Magic jobs are not hereditary, although they don't live on that salary. And the Blacks can also "bear" the Muggle neighbors around them, as long as they ignore them, they don't need to drive them out like the mysterious man said.
What one person calls generosity, another would call extravagance; what one person calls stupid, another would call wisdom. The French Enlightenment thought was not suppressed during the Louis XV period, and it also received the support of the royal family. There are those who like the life of a baroque king and those who don't.
Some people think that water flows forever, and they should think about future generations. So while I am alive, I am desperately accumulating, so that future generations will have inheritance to inherit.
There are also people who think that they will not have offspring anyway, and whether they can live tomorrow is a problem, and they enjoy the carnival regardless of the consequences.
Individualistic ethical egoists may actually believe in one moral theory while falsely claiming to actually believe in another, and if they were not, they probably aren't acting in their own interest.
They have their own positions, and there will be a lot of cover-ups in their speech and behavior. Louis XV's sentence "Even after I die, the flood will be torrential" was not spoken by him in public, but privately with his mistress, Mrs. Pompidou. Said it was what Mrs. Pompidou said to Louis XV.
Anyway, whoever said it is the golden rule of the hedonists. They may have children and grandchildren, but they don't care what happens to the children.
It is said that the Gaunt family didn't even know where they lived in the last generation. In the past, they often held luxurious balls with a lot of guests.
Lancaster itself has little money, and the families of rich wives are protected by force of British princes. By the time of Queen Victoria, the British royal family had given up all land income and lived off parliamentary grants, save for the Lancaster and Cornwall territories.
"Did you know that the Queen once leased the grouse land to a general to offset the royal family's rent of his land?"
When passing by Hagrid's chicken coop, Severus said suddenly.
"What?" Pomona asked suspiciously.
"They were neighbours, and they lived at Windsor Castle," Severus said.
Pomona was getting more and more confused.
He smiled smugly.
"Secrets are generally hidden for 50 years, because after 50 years, the relevant personnel will not be alive, and these family files will be kept in Windsor Castle, making it difficult for outsiders to access."
"Are you proud of having spied on a chicken?" Pomona asked.
"There are a lot of cases that are filed in the queen's name, but she doesn't know about it, and her lawyers have made their own decisions," Severus said.
Pomona couldn't believe her ears.
"Are you mocking the Queen?" Pomona asked in surprise.
"I didn't," he said tactfully.
"I can tell, don't try to play tricks!" Pomona stretched out his finger and poked his heart.
"That's your imagination, what's your evidence?" he said bluntly.
Pomona thumped him.
"Others are not stupid, if you say that in Buckingham Palace..."
"It may also be Windsor Castle." He said indifferently.
"Oh!" She was furious and yelled loudly, scaring the chickens in the chicken shed to crow.
"What's the relationship between the centaurs and the trolls now?" Severus asked.
"How else?" she sarcastically said.
"No, take my question seriously," he asked seriously. "The Ministry of Magic will stay to deal with that, too."
Pomona calmed down a little.
"You know the Arnold's Mill trial by the King of Prussia?" said Pomona.
He recalled it.
"Is this case in the file I gave you?" he asked perplexedly.
"No, no." Pomona circled him. "There's a Latin proverb, qui jure suo utitutur, neminin facit injuriam. What does that mean, Severus?"
He put his arm around his chest.
"It is not illegal for anyone to exercise one's rights," he replied.
"It sounds like the interpretation of the Supreme Court justices, but they were all sentenced by the king to build the fort." Pomona said.
He sneered, as if he thought her threat was a joke.
"There is another translation of this sentence, 'Exercise your own rights and not harm the interests of others'. This is the legal basis for international responsibility stipulated by international law. If a country abuses its territorial rights to cause..."
"Get to the point." He said coldly.
"Even the queen is not outside the law." Pomona said in a word. "She leased other people's land, and others rented her land, and used the proceeds as a deduction. This is the way of neighbors. You should learn something!"
He seemed to be angry with her, thinking about how to fight back.
"Let's go on to the mill!" said Pomona self-consciously. "The defendant built a pond upstream from the miller and used the water in the pond to raise fish, but this did not provide enough power for the mill to flow, the defendant said. , he has the right to do so, it is a matter of good common sense, otherwise great injustice would result, and he would be deprived of disposition of property which was clearly his."
"What's wrong?" Severus asked.
"Didn't I just say that? Exercise your own rights and don't harm the interests of others!" Pomona screamed.
"Don't scare the chicken," Severus said calmly, "I'm not deaf, you don't need to yell."
Pomona was so angry that he wanted to jump.
Everyone in this school knew what an optimistic and kind witch she was, and she never got angry with anyone.
Still, she closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and began to chant Buddhist scriptures.
Otherwise, what else can I do?
