Chapter 501 Floating Life in a Sea of Bitterness
Parents can't hear what the teacher said in class, and sometimes some private goods are included, which is why Voldemort is not allowed to be the teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts.
What he advocates is pure bloodism. Compared with him, the actions of the Carlo brothers and sisters are much clumsy, and anyone can tell the difference.
The classroom is not a political arena, but Umbridge brings into the classroom the illusion of Fudge's "business as usual" whitewashing, leaving Harry alone and preventing the Hogwarts students from using their wands.
The defense against the dark arts class in the magic school is to learn the skills of how to resist when encountering bad guys. If students are not allowed to practice practically and only have theory, they will end up "talking on paper", unable to protect the safety of themselves and their families.
Anarchy can happen at any time. Maybe at the next street corner, you will meet a robber. He has already ignored the legal constraints when he robs. If there are only two people, calling for help may not necessarily lead to the police or Aurors coming immediately. One's own personal safety can only be protected by oneself, and learning magic is for this purpose.
If Harry didn't use the god-guards to protect himself and Dudley from the dementors, the Aurors from the Ministry of Magic would have to collect the corpses when they arrived. He obviously had power but couldn't use it for self-defense. The flour is starved to death.
If Umritch's method completely deviates from the purpose of education, the teaching method serving politics may teach a group of docile and obedient students. The Ministry of Magic does not rule wizards, but exists to maintain the International Law of Secrecy. The Muggle tricks carried over to the wizarding world.
The defensive formation of the all-boarding school in northern Scotland will not be open once it opens, and you can only go to Hogsmeade on fixed Saturdays.
American consumerism spreads all over the world. Stimulating consumption is a "special medicine" invented during the Great Depression to quench thirst. Christian ethics and morality can curb the evil of human nature in the early days of capitalism, ensuring that capitalism will not be driven by the pursuit of maximum profit. Transformed to perish, swallowed by selfish desires.
But in the 1920s, people's desires were no longer restrained. Consumerism advocated the pursuit of conspicuousness, luxury and novelty of consumption, and the pursuit of unrestrained material enjoyment, entertainment and hedonism, so as to satisfy personal desires. Children like novelty the most. Their curiosity is very strong. Building the school in the wilderness far away from the city and commercial streets can isolate the children from the flashy world. Learn to enjoy life early and multi-task, and don't concentrate on learning skills at all.
A consumerist society taps people's desires and creates novel ideas that keep people spending money to buy.
Energy and money are not being used in the right place. St. Mungo's Hospital in the wizarding world is run entirely on donations, and the money is used for research and treatment of incurable diseases. The reason why the Gunter family fell into ruin was because they paid special attention to luxury and pomp. They used to be quite rich, but they had no money when Tom Riddle arrived.
Nietzsche said that the reason why some people live in isolation is to avoid hooligans, and he really does not want to drink well water, share fruit and fire with him.
Stay away from those materialistic people and stay kind and innocent. People in the wizarding world are not as "smart" and cold as Muggles, and even Slytherin is not as calculating as Muggles.
On the contrary, half-blood wizards, such as Lockhart, Severus, Voldemort, and even Muggle-born Hermione are more scheming than pure-blood wizards. Lucius Malfoy has been dealing with Muggles all year round. It is estimated that Fudge suppressed Albus. That's what he taught.
But it is precisely because Hogwarts is isolated from the world that parents don't know what's going on in the school. Parents would have no idea what the Ministry of Magic was doing to their children if it hadn't been revealed by the Quibbler.
Today's Journal of Transfiguration has published many methods of making Muggle sirens. After making this thing, it is necessary to defend against Muggles. In this way, the confrontation between wizards and Muggles arose.
Today's Transfiguration is a magazine edited by both Albus and Minerva. In the public perception, it should be a white magic publication, and people without the ability to recognize it can easily be brainwashed.
The concept of right and wrong taught by the teacher is not necessarily correct. Harry was led to a dead end by Albus Dumbledore, "sacrificing for the greater good". He was only 17 years old at the time, and he was still a minor in the Muggle world People, he has no parents by his side, not even his godfather, he is in a state of isolation and helplessness, and he does stupid things as soon as he is bewitched by the elders.
He is Voldemort's last Horcrux and must be destroyed. No one will question the authoritative conclusion of Albus Dumbledore. If Harry doesn't die himself, he will be sent by someone who fears Voldemort.
It seems easy for Muggles to rule wizards, provided they can find out where the entrance to the wizarding world is. Even if they spend everything, most Muggles will never get in touch with real wizards like the kings in fairy tales. Get sucked in by charlatans masquerading as wizards and alchemists.
All real wizards want to stay away from Muggles, but Muggles are desperately looking for wizards, wanting to ask for the elixir of immortality and the Philosopher's Stone. Even if someone said that the Philosopher's Stone was obtained by sacrificing human life, he believed it, because Nicolas was trained into the Philosopher's Stone during the spread of the Black Death.
With so much money, why don’t you buy things? American historians pointed out in the book "Promoting the American Dream" that although social wealth is in the hands of a small group of people at the top of society, ordinary people can still obtain a certain sense of satisfaction by imitating and copying the consumption patterns of the upper class and identity. In a society where consumerism is rampant, all classes, regardless of their income levels, are coerced into it.
The American cultural critic Paul Fussell pointed out that people of the poor class have high respect for advertisements and trademarks without exception. This is because the mastery of consumer knowledge allows them to associate themselves with the halo of goods in advertisements. Together.
Just as people in the Middle Ages were shrouded in the light of Christian theology and believed that they could gain happiness by believing in God. Only when the great plague broke out and Europe was almost wiped out, people would wake up from their daydreams and begin to rationally look at the way wealth is used.
If everyone can make a broad-spectrum antidote, they won’t be selling 32 galleons a reagent. Similarly, Muggles and Chinese can make wolfbane bullets, so they don’t need to buy them with silver.
Knowledge is power, knowledge is wealth, knowledge is power.
The Chinese pay great attention to rankings, and this emphasis has become a brainwashing trap. Is the ranking list of the world's top schools really not suspected of being fake? Can't the so-called authority be questioned?
When it comes to interests, capitalists dare to trample on all laws, Aristotle ran away when faced with powerless threats, and literati have never had much guts.
In this torrent of collective unconsciousness, individual voices will be ignored, and even ridiculed and abused.
Everyone else has gone to a good university to find a good job, what are you doing?
Therefore, the real situation is much worse than that in the laboratory. Only a few people can study quietly in an impetuous society. Only by building schools in the mountains and wilderness far away from the city can we avoid those who are only interested in profit.
Oxford and Cambridge used to be far away from the city of London. With more students and the expansion of the town, they became more and more prosperous and full of noisy tourists.
Poisoning does not necessarily mean sending blankets with smallpox virus, but it may also be full of specious precepts and deeds.
Chinese people love to grow rice, and rice is grown backwards. The water in the paddy field is like a mirror, reflecting the prosperity of the world. It seems that the scenery is infinite, but in fact it is nothing.
Inserting rice upside down seems to be a step backward, but it is actually an improvement, because there are all rice seedlings in front of you. After careful breeding, they will become edible grains when they mature.
There is no limit to the sea of suffering, and the shore is right when you look back. If you go further into the storm, step back to the sea and the sky, you should stick to the principles in your heart and the nobility deep in your heart. You should not easily compromise or even sell your conscience just because you succumbed to pressure or coveted the enjoyment of material benefits. Therefore, when personal fame or material interests are damaged or conflicts arise with others due to personal interests, if you can give in a large amount, it is not only not cowardice, but a manifestation of forbearance.
Of course, no one would listen to such nonsense, so the Buddha could only watch all living beings cry.
"What did you do just now?"
Severus asked him when he was eating at a Chinese restaurant, and the restaurant actually put a golden Buddha statue in the lobby, which almost blinded people's eyes.
"We watched a movie." She said perfunctorily. Hong Kong movies are really becoming more and more open. The first part of Infernal Affairs was okay, but the second part had some ethical scenes. It was awkward when she watched it with Ma Youxuan Extremely.
"Just watched a movie?" He narrowed his eyes and asked word by word.
"It's really just watching a movie. Oh, we also discussed the topic of yin and yang. They feel that selfless devotion to themselves is a great spirit, but if they don't care about their own health, even the sun will fall early..."
"Who are they?" He asked reluctantly.
"Buddha and Mr. Zhang, I read in the Diamond Sutra that all good men and women who have good intentions should settle down in their hearts, and then help others. In a broad sense, they must be healthy before contributing to society and others."
"When did you meet Zhang?"
"The EMI Building is a movie theater. Zhang also likes to watch movies. It's strange to meet him in a public place."
He stared at her without speaking.
"Do you think Zhang will go to a place controlled by Hongmen to watch a movie?"
"Why not?"
"There's a Chinese proverb that says that if you don't agree with each other, you can't get together." He said with a stiff face, "I hate it when you lie to me."
She wanted to say she wasn't lying.
"I'm sorry." She murmured.
"I don't want to send someone to follow you, you can tell me what you did, I won't be angry."
Pomona looked at the "angry" Snape, and finally obediently told what happened yesterday and today.
She really doesn't seem to be good at lying, a skill that requires brains, and it really is best for Hufflepuff fools like her to play dumb.
