Chapter 3369 The Tide of the World (4)

There is a silver wine bottle on the table. The design of the bottle cap is very special. It is the heads of two people. They are back to back, and the backs of their heads are connected.

"What is this?" Pomona wanted to touch the wine bottle.

"Don't touch it," Severus said without looking back as he arranged the medicine cabinet, as if he had eyes in the back of his head. "That belongs to Alastor Moody, or so we think he does."

Pomona immediately took her hand back.

Now she remembered what the flask was for. Alastor Moody, Barty Crouch Jr., who drank the polyjuice potion, used it to hold the polyjuice potion. Two years later, she remembered Almost no longer impressed.

"Why are you keeping this thing?" she complained. At this time, a bubble suddenly appeared in a crucible, and then with a "pop" sound, a stream of green smoke rose from the burst bubble.

"Dumbledore asked me to do it." He looked back at the crucible, waved his wand, and all the potion in the crucible disappeared.

She doesn't really understand...but whatever.

"Are you going out tonight?" Pomona said, leaning on the desk. "Or do you have other things to do?"

He ignored her, as if all his energy was spent on those terrible medicinal ingredients.

"How about having dinner together?" she asked.

"I'll answer you later." He said perfunctorily.

"Okay." The Herbology Professor said after delivering the herbs, and reluctantly left the Potions Professor's office.

Before leaving, she looked at the wine bottle on the table again. She really couldn't imagine how Barty Crouch Jr. put such a spout into his mouth.

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In Hogwarts, it is difficult to find books on witch hunting, although there are textbooks on the history of witch hunting.

In records of witch trials in the 17th century, it was believed that someone dug up the dead who had died from the plague and applied poison to the doorknobs, thus spreading the plague.

Bernini's active time in Rome coincided with the Great Plague of Milan in 1630. The pope at the time was Urban VIII. After he came to the throne, he immediately strengthened Rome's defenses because it was the decisive stage of the Thirty Years' War. .

It was no coincidence that those German mercenaries appeared in Milan. The Habsburgs had always wanted to return to Italy, and Urban VIII was not very supportive of the Habsburgs. He would rather form an alliance with Cardinal Richelieu of France.

During his tenure, he rebuilt St. Peter's Basilica as if he wanted to give the Holy See all it had. Therefore, some people believe that the outbreak of the Great Plague in Milan was related to Urban VIII's failure to take effective measures.

In fact, when the plague reached Milan in 1629, the plague was not so deadly because the city quickly took effective prevention and control measures.

However, after a carnival in 1630, all previous efforts were in vain, and the plague began to wreak havoc in Milan on a large scale. A second impact occurred in 1631, killing half of the city's population.

This plague later spread to Venice, and the Church of Our Lady of San Antonio was built for this plague. After the plague broke out, the Venetians turned to Mary for help, and of course the Carnival was cancelled, with everyone spending time in their homes praying.

Then Venice built this church under the condition of financial constraints, requiring that "it should not cost too much, but also give people a good impression."

If the materials used to cast bronze cannons were used to make cannons, about a hundred could be made, which is almost half of the inventory of the royal arsenal of Savoy.

Bernini, who was able to mobilize so many resources, could do almost anything he wanted. Not only did he take credit for the work of other architects, he also took the wives of his assistants as his mistress.

No one will blame him, but everyone will flatter him. A cardinal once said to Michelangelo, "You are too expensive." Of course, no one told Bernini that Milan and Germany were in ruins, so stop indulging in your art world.

He was so arrogant that when he learned that his mistress had an affair with Bernini's brother, he was furious. Bernini broke two of his brother's ribs with an iron rod and expelled him from Rome. In fact, this was Mainly because there were soldiers from the Holy See who came to stop him, otherwise no one knew what he would do. He later found his mistress and put her in jail after slashing her face with a knife.

Bernini served a total of eight popes. Not all of them liked him so much, but when the accident happened, it happened to be Urban VIII who liked him, so he only paid one thousand gold coins and was fine.

After the death of Urban VIII, Innocent X became pope. He supported the relatives of the Habsburg dynasty and Spain, refused to recognize the independence of Portugal, and criticized the greed of the relatives of the previous pope and confiscated their property. .

As Urban's most valued designer, Bernini was not directly affected. Like the Pope's relatives, he fled to Paris and was protected by Cardinal Mazarin.

St. Peter's Church was designed with a bell tower. Bernini did not consider the foundation when designing the bell tower, and his assistants did not remind him. Then the bell tower collapsed during the construction process, and Bernini suddenly fell out of favor and lost Innocent Ten. and Alexander VII.

God made people out of clay, and Canova also used clay. He told Georgiana that his sculpture method could be "error-tolerant." Whether it was Michelangelo, Bernini, or their followers, There is no room for error.

When the old Bernini finished designing St. Peter's Square, he commented that he "didn't make a mistake when he was young."

He had changed a lot at this time, and the arc-shaped colonnade of St. Peter's Square seemed like an open embrace.

"David" is facing a powerful foreign enemy, and "Bernini" is facing an even more difficult enemy.

Georgiana looked at Francois Zabini, who looked two or three times like Blaise Zabini.

People are indeed curious... If you use the "portkey", you have to catch the trophy like Harry and Cedric before you can be teleported.

No one said that Bloody Baron and Helena left together... Legend has it that Helena left with the diadem first. Rowena Ravenclaw wanted to see her daughter before she died, so she sent Baron to find Helena. .

The world is so big, how did Barrow know that Helena had gone to Albania?

They had been an engaged couple, and he probably understood her and knew where to find her.

Ordinary Pythia only need to keep the holy fire alive, but there is a high priest who can enter the oracle and receive the oracle of Apollo. Only she can enter this place.

Helena wants to surpass her mother. Becoming the high priest of Apollo will be recognized by everyone, but there is still a long test before that, which requires not only wisdom, but also talent.

A passage from Epicurus was recorded in the Ten Books on Architecture written by Vitruvius: Luck does not belong to scholars.

If a person has nothing and is not born into a prominent family like some lucky people, shouldn't he be happy?

When she harbored dreams and wanted to become an accomplished woman, the person who should support her the most asked her to recognize the reality, let go of her illusory dreams, and become a "normal woman", get married, have children, and be a good woman. Mother, give up her talent and another possibility in life.

If rejection is a kind of freedom, Helena's choice not to see her mother for the last time was her choice. Many people do not see their loved ones die.

She rejected Barro and, as Socrates said, gave him the freedom to find other happiness. He could accuse her of being cold, but he couldn't kill her with a knife.

The same goes for St. Catherine, who rejected the lord's proposal of marriage...

"I don't want to talk to you." Georgiana said to Zabini. "We are not the same kind. I am a half-Veela."

"What you think is different from what you said." Zabini said.

"Please go away," said Georgiana with her last breath.

"You can hire me to be your knight squire." Zabini said, "This is a custom in Lombardy."

"I don't think I need it, the French Ministry of Magic..."

"In the marriage contract of the nobles, it will be marked as a knight, which is like a dowry. He will be handed over to other members of the family as family property." Zabini said, "What do you think?"

She actually couldn't say no.

"I'll be waiting for news from you." Zabini said with a smile, and then walked away. Just then Grando came over with a water glass.

"There's alcohol everywhere, and it's really hard to find water," Grando said.

Georgiana took the water glass he handed over and drank it without hesitation.

After drinking it, she began to wonder where she could get a pot of Polyjuice Potion, although she was not sure whether this potion, which could change "solid" flesh, would work on materialized ghosts.