Chapter 3053 adamas (six)

"Lily, Lily!"

Following a whisper, Pomona looked up at the window, where a fluffy-haired girl was lying outside the window, beckoning Lily to open the window.

"What?" Lily asked inexplicably.

"My mother is looking for me." The girl outside the window said in a low voice.

Although she didn't know what happened, Lily opened the window, and then the girl jumped in through the window, and hid under Lily's bed skillfully.

"Jessica!"

After the girl hid, a woman's voice came from outside the house.

Pomona looked up and saw a lady in an apron looking for something.

While living at Lily's house, she knew that there was an old lady next door whose dog would occasionally get lost, and her grandson would call its name.

But apparently the dog's name wasn't "Jessica."

Pomona looked down at the chocolate frog pictures on the carpet. Normally, she should put them away to avoid Muggles seeing them, but she and Lily have cleaned them up so far, and if they are put away, they will be messed up again...

While she was hesitating for a moment, the lady in the apron came angrily towards Lily's room.

"Don't panic." Lily sat back in the seat just now, "playing cool."

Then she continued to organize the chocolate frog cards as if nothing had happened.

Pomona also pretended, but her heart was beating so hard that she couldn't tell what was on the picture.

"Did you see Jessica, Lily?" the lady asked from the window where Jessica was just now.

"No, Mrs. Vincent." Lily said nonchalantly, "I've been playing poker with my friends."

Mrs. Vincent stuck her head in through the window and scanned Lily's room twice, as if she still suspected that Jessica was in Lily's room.

But after finding no trace of Jessica, Mrs. Vincent left to look for Jessica elsewhere.

When her voice was far enough away, Jessica crawled out from under the bunk.

"Thank you for saving my life," Jessica said to Lily.

"What trouble did you get into this time?" Lily asked.

"Don't worry, it's the same as usual." Jessica shrugged indifferently, "I'll go first, we'll talk next time."

Then Jessica turned the other way, and it wasn't the first time something like this happened.

"You lied!" Pomona accused Lily.

"Yeah, so what?" Lily said indifferently, continuing to sort out the chocolate frog pictures with her head down.

Pomona was a little annoyed.

Apparently it wasn't just the Gryffindor boys who, if any of them were caught by Filch breaking the school rules, would cover up the ones who didn't get caught, rather than tell the truth, or "betray" as they say. friend".

She was still angry when Petunia opened the door of Lily's room. Following Mrs. Evans' example, she pouted and looked at Lily very unhappy.

"What did you do just now?" Petunia asked guiltily.

"It has nothing to do with you." Lily said indifferently.

"I saw Mrs. Vincent was here just now," Petunia said.

"I saw it too." Lily replied without interest.

"She came to see Jessica," Penny said.

"I didn't see her." Lily looked down at the chocolate frog card.

"What about you?" Petunia asked, staring at Pomona.

Lily was also squinting at Pomona now.

Pomona faltered and couldn't make a sound for a long time.

Should she be "honest" and tell Penny that she just saw Jessica hiding under Lily's bed, or should she lie?

"Did you see that?" Petunia asked Pomona, raising her voice.

"No," Pomona whispered, as if that would lessen the guilt.

Lily smiled, then looked at Penny "You heard that."

Petunia looked at Pomona suspiciously.

"You want to play with us?" Lily asked Petunia.

"I don't play your weird games." Petunia said arrogantly, closing the door again before leaving.

It wasn't long before Pomona heard the sound of a sewing machine turning, as if Penny was making new clothes for her Barbie doll again.

Petunia and Lily haven't had a relationship since the last time Lily released tadpoles from tree monkey frog eggs at Petunia's birthday party, jumping on top of the party girls and making the guests run away screaming. How about it.

Lily hadn't thought that the frog eggs would hatch in the soap, and Pomona didn't think it was right to give the soap to a girl like Petunia.

But that was a gift from the wizarding world that Lily could afford, and Petunia had longed to study in the wizarding world.

"Are you going to be in a daze, or keep playing?" Lily asked impatiently.

Once the popular girl at school, Lily invites the oddball Pomona to her house for the summer.

Pomona picked up a chocolate frog card featuring Urick the Oddity in the jellyfish hat.

She's frustrated, she doesn't want to be "weird", even though she doesn't have a jellyfish hat.

Then act normally, so she continued to sort out the pictures as if nothing happened.

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As a "super nerd," Pomona went back to school and searched for information, hoping to find an "explanation" for her dishonesty.

Finally she found an explanation in a book written by a professor at the University of Reading.

People are always looking for a method that can be used as a general principle and as a rule to explain difficult problems. After the Sicilian War, Rome and Carthage signed a treaty, which stipulated that the parties mutually assumed obligations not to form alliances with each other's allies and dependents, wage wars, exercise sovereignty in their territories, or raise troops.

However, based on Carthage's power in Spain, the Romans allied themselves with Saguntus in Spain, which resulted in Hannibal of Carthage besieging that city.

After the failure of the First Punic War, Carthage lost its hegemony in the Mediterranean Sea and Sicily, and turned to the Iberian Peninsula.

The Romans believed that this offended the dignity of Rome and should declare war. Some people tried to "correctly" understand the content of the treaty, because the Romans first formed an alliance with Sagunto, and Sagunto was in the gap between Rome and Carthage at that time. Allies on either side don't count, but there are pro-Roman or Carthaginian factions in the city.

There is a class of people who believe that morality is governed by principles. Lying is of course bad, but if telling the truth is equivalent to betraying a friend, not to mention coercion and temptation, if you speak out, you will not be punished, "honesty" does not seem to always be a reason for doing something.

Then the professor proposes, a kind of moral generalists and moral individualism, moral individualism denies that moral reasoning is governed by any kind of principle, all motivations are situation based, or to make you not do that motivation.

In the scene of being caught violating school rules, "I can't betray my friends" and "I can't lie", these two motivations for my upcoming behavior.

The Romans who were looking for a "correct understanding" of the treaty, were the ones trying to keep the peace, Hannibal attacked Sagunto and not Rome itself, next time the Romans don't do it again, once the war with Carthage is resumed it will bring Many disadvantages.

When Sagunto was besieged, Rome did not send troops to aid because Sagunto was not an ally of Rome.

After the city was destroyed, Rome asked Carthage to hand over Hannibal for trial. After being rejected, Rome declared war on Carthage.

If a contract can be interpreted in two ways, if for the sake of the obligation to maintain a state of peace, one party accepts as an ally any country they later like, then it constitutes a subjective and unrestrained sacrifice for the other party. The treaty contains restrictions on both parties, and in this interpreted tendency, the other party will be restricted due to the subjective and arbitrary wishes of one party.

Therefore, what Hannibal did at the time cannot be "correctly" understood as a violation of the treaty.

But principles formulated in particular cases cannot be used to govern our thinking generally.

The University of Reading used to be a branch of the Church College of Oxford University, which can be said to be part of the University of Oxford, but in 1926 it became an independent university.

Oxford University is a collegiate federation, as are Cambridge and London Universities. In 1406, Henry IV granted the University of Oxford a charter "if the privileged class is prosecuted for a felony, they have the right to surrender."

The right to surrender does not mean surrendering to the police or similar secular institutions. Scholars were a privileged class at the time. Before that, there was a chancellor’s court in Oxford. If a scholar commits a crime, even if it is murder or intentional injury, it will be managed by the chancellor.

Surrender can be understood as a kind of "self-purification". The sinner joins a group of atonement groups with haircuts and swears not to commit crimes again, and the criminals can. Those who refused to take the oath or plead guilty could be imprisoned indefinitely and held in a bishop's prison.

Before the establishment of the deacon court, the church court was responsible for the trial, but outside the jurisdiction of the principal, scholars did not have the right to enjoy this kind of preferential treatment, and they still had to be prosecuted, sentenced and imprisoned by the secular court.

The head of the deacon's court is called the court counselor or deacon, who is recommended by the principal and approved by the king to handle cases that the principal's court is not suitable for.

At that time, the principal had great authority, and could even punish people outside the school. When citizens and scholars had conflicts, as long as the conflict occurred within the principal's jurisdiction, the principal's court had the right to conduct an independent trial except in rare cases.

But the president could not execute people, he could only expel those who violated the law and discipline from the city. Until 1890, the religious jurisdiction of the Chancellor's Court of Oxford University was abolished, and the criminal case trial power of the Chancellor's Court was also abolished thereafter.

The court of deacons not only includes scholars, but even students can commit crimes under the judicial franchise. The citizens of Oxford strongly objected, but to no avail. This was mainly due to the king's love for scholars.

Oxford's self-government declined after the death of Henry IV, but the court of deacons still exists today.

Jessica is a very naughty child. She doesn't like her younger brother and often makes him cry. Her mother, Mrs. Vincent, was able to talk to her at first, but then she began to punish her. Her younger brother relied on this Just cry, and then wait for my mother to teach my sister a lesson.

The two siblings often fought until they were adults and left home, but when they "grow up", they had a good relationship, although they would still fight after returning home for Christmas.

Unlike Lily and Petunia, who haven't seen each other since they got married.

Mrs. Evans was nice to Lily when she was at home, and Pomona could tell that Petunia was unhappy. But Lily went to boarding school and went home a limited number of times a year, while Petunia stayed at home and went to school near her home. She went to London until graduation, and then met her current husband.

What would Petunia think if she found out about moral individualism?

According to the Thucydides Trap, a newly rising power will inevitably challenge the existing power, and the existing power must respond to this threat, which will eventually lead to war and conflict.

Rome was a land country in the early days, not a sea overlord like Carthage, and Carthage also replaced ancient Greece after defeating it.

Carthage adopted a mercenary system, including the Spartans, and the Spartans had fought fiercely with Greece at the Battle of Alginusai. Greece won, but these generals were prosecuted when they returned home. The soldiers who fell into the water chose to pursue the enemy instead. Socrates voted against punishing them.

Of course, those who fell into the water had to be rescued, but this would also delay the opportunity for combat. When the Spartans readjusted their formation and launched a counterattack, the Greeks might not be the victors.

Wanting to escape punishment and wanting to win is also a tendency.

Telling the truth is commendable, like a truth-telling child in the king's new clothes.

Here comes a new question, what is the truth?

Or in another scenario, the Nazis are hunting a group of partisans, they come to the door, you will be "honest" and tell them "there are three hiding in the cellar"?

So Pomona, who hates lies, accepts this reality. Although lies will cause a lot of inconvenience to her work and life, she will not punish the students who lie and ask them to copy "I can't lie" a thousand times.

Lily and James have the same attitude towards friends. If caught by Filch, James will go to jail with Sirius, and Lily will protect Severus, whether he is an evil Slytherin or not.

Who made them Gryffindors, as bright and outgoing as the sun.

On the way she came across a clump of evening primroses, whose flowers bloom only in the moonlight and wither and wither when the sun rises.

But they are also sun-loving plants, and they should be placed in a brightly lit environment. After sufficient photosynthesis during the day, the flowers can bloom smoothly at night.

In fact, her explanation can also be understood in this way. James died in battle, and Severus took care of his survivors, and he also asked the Dark Lord to let Lily go.

People who have been in the dark all year round will also yearn for the light, and they may not necessarily appreciate the same kind of people who live in the dark like him.

"What do you want to talk to that centaur?"

Pomona turned her gaze forward, and Snape walked ahead with his back to her.

"Talk about constellations or something," Pomona said perfunctorily.

"You and Sinista don't talk enough?"

"How can it be the same?"

Then her mind came back to what Sinista had said about the marriage ad—widowed not considered.

Maybe that lady is not very old, how many years has it been since the end of the war?

In July, Harry and Neville would be seven.

"Do you believe that the number seven has magical powers?" Pomona asked.

He didn't say "it's superstition," nor did he endorse it.

Also as a woman, Pomona understands that Fitzgerald does not want Isidora to remove those painful memories, and pain needs to be "removed" in Isidora's eyes.

In the absence of pain, there is peace.

But pain sometimes reminds you not to do that. When a baby sees the flame, he is curious and reaches out to grab it. When he is burned by the flame, he knows it hurts, so he will not reach out to grab it next time.

There are only happy days, and you will get "drunk" after a long time. After Lily and James are together, it is not like in school.

At that time, she was accompanied by "Sev", who was eager to gain power from books, and he was as dull at a young age as he was when he grew up.

Too much pain is also a kind of suffering, maybe she should be like the baby who saw the flames, understand the pain, and won't stretch out her hand.

Butterflies don't understand. When they see a flame, they will jump at it and fly around it, no matter how hot it is around the flame.

It feels that it can't stand it anymore, so it will stay away from the fire, and when it feels better, it will fly towards the flame until its life is burned out.

Obviously, it was hard to change from a caterpillar to a butterfly.

After walking through Hagrid's hut, she walked along the slope to the greenhouse, so she didn't have to go back to the castle, or the dungeon, with him.

But she thought about the temperature in the greenhouse during the day. Without windows, the temperature probably wouldn't drop. It would be as hot as purgatory inside.

No matter, she can use ice magic, but if she can't sleep outside for a night, she doesn't want to continue walking.

"Goodbye, Severus."

She said and walked another way.

"Where are you going?" he asked belatedly.

"Isn't that obvious?" Pomona said, heading straight for the greenhouse.

Not long after, she heard footsteps behind her, and the old bat followed behind with a gloomy expression.

He didn't know how many students would be frightened by his expression, although she neither violated the school rules nor was she a student anymore.

If she is brave enough, it's time to tell him "don't follow".

"You're finished." She seemed to hear Sirius gleefully say, he still looks like a teenager.

When she saw it clearly, she realized that it was a ghost from Hogwarts, and it seemed to be Black too.

"None of your business!" She said to him angrily, holding the hem of her robe and running.

"Plop, plop".

She could feel her heart beating.

As if reminding her that she lives in a mortal body, not a butterfly.