Harry Potter Morning Light

“When the soul is absorbed in one sense by receiving impressions of pleasure or pain in that sense, it is evident that it has no regard for the other senses. Therefore, when something we hear or see strongly attracts our soul, we are not aware of the passage of time. ’

Pomona was eating the licorice wand while watching the Divine Comedy, and a slight "squeaking" sound kept coming from her ears.

'I had a real experience of this when I listened and watched the ghost's narration attentively; because when we came to a place, the sun had risen 50 degrees, and I didn't even notice it. ’

At this time, she raised her head and looked at the direction of the sound source.

Snape was sitting in a rocking chair with the new Daily Prophet in his hand, the front page of the newspaper was a reconstruction of Gringotts, and the goblins were shaking hands with Draco Malfoy because he had just deposited a large sum of money Go into the bank.

"I have great faith in Gringotts' current security capabilities." Draco told the reporters, looking at his father. "Centuries before the dragon was captured, Gringotts also properly protected our property. "

Pomona took another bite of her wand, took off her shoes, and gently rocked Snape's rocking chair with her feet.

She wanted him to move closer to the ground so she could see what the small print on the newspaper said.

"Don't make trouble." He was still staring at the newspaper, but he told her in the tone of warning a student.

When he said this, she wanted to "make trouble" even more, so she rubbed her ankle against his right leg, which was the one that was bitten by the three-headed hell dog Lu Wei.

In Dante's time, heliocentric theory had not yet become popular. According to Ptolemy's theory, the sun revolves around the earth at 15 degrees every hour. From the time it appeared on the horizon in the early morning to the time Dante appeared in Purgatory, it had risen 50 degrees, which means that 3 hours and 20 minutes had passed. Assuming that the sunrise was about six o'clock in the morning, the time was 9:20 am.

It's broad daylight, why can't Dante feel the passage of time?

The first is because there were no pocket watches at that time, and the second is that just like the dragon, the sun never shines on the lowest level of the vault where it lives, where the senior customers are.

When Harry discovered the dragon, it was weak and blind. There was no need for vision in the dark, and its hearing became sharper. The sound of the goblins ringing bells evoked its painful memories. When the soul is fully focused on this sense , it was obvious that it no longer cared about other senses, so the dragon allowed the person ringing the bell to pass in front of it.

However, the dragon was not completely blind. It could still feel the light coming from the ground. It climbed in that direction and took Harry and the others to escape from Gringotts. Even the dragon tamers rarely Ride a dragon.

"What are you doing?" Snape asked.

"Does it still hurt?" Pomona moved her ankle up.

He put down the newspaper and covered her feet.

She looked into his eyes, as if she had discovered an interesting game. His thigh muscles were very strong, not like those of a "professor" at all, more like a climber.

The wind chimes under the porch tinkled, not as harshly as the goblin bells.

The school motto says "Don't disturb the sleeping dragon", but she wanted to "wake up" the dragon.

He suddenly put down the newspaper and stood up, hugging her so that the "Divine Comedy" in her hand fell to the ground.

"Wait!" she laughed.

Without the weight of the person, although the rocking chair was still rocking back and forth, it no longer made a harsh sound.

When the surroundings are quiet, even if the dragon cannot see it, it can still smell the scent of the goblin.

Pain can be a reason for revenge, but what kind of punishment will you get after breathing out dragon fire?

Maybe the dragon was thinking about this, so it didn't immediately spit out Long Xi. It was originally caught here to guard the treasure because it was "seen."

But the chains were broken by a little witch, and it is now free.

Purgatory was filled with flames, and the high temperature of the dragon's death burned the goblin who was under the Imperius Curse to ashes, as if "sin" had been eliminated.

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When the grapes begin to turn black and purple, people in the countryside often use a small fork of thorns to plug the gap in the fence. This gap is larger than the path Dante and the guide walked before, which was lined with atoning souls. .

They were guilty of laziness and had to climb the steep terrain of San leo by foot.

San Leo is located in a valley near Rimini and the Republic of San Marino. It has existed since ancient Roman times, but it was not called that name at the time. Its Latin name was mons feretri, which may come from the name of the gods in the Roman theogony. King Jupiter's alias, jovis feretrius, means "Jupiter who brings booty".

Around 300 AD, a stonemason named Leo came here to preach. He used the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter to build the earliest churches and monasteries, so the town was named after Saint Leo.

This town is entirely built of stone and can be said to be completely fortressed. Because it is located on the top of a cliff, it not only has a panoramic view of the plain at the foot of the mountain, but it is also an important pass leading to the Apennine Mountains. The Byzantines, Franks, Goths, and Lombards all fought fiercely for this place. In 960 AD, King Berengar II of Lombardy invaded the Papal States. The Pope asked King Otto I of East Frank for help and agreed to crown him Holy Roman Emperor.

So Otto I marched into Italy, and Berengar II was abandoned by his own troops. With nowhere to go, he retreated to San Leo and hid in the fortress. After Otto I was crowned as the Holy Roman Emperor in Rome, he chased all the way to San Leo.

There is a saying about the solidity of the fortress of San Leo that San Leo could not be breached unless it was due to hunger and betrayal.

Otto I captured Berengar II after three years of siege. Eleven days after his coronation, Otto I abolished Pope John XII and replaced him with Leo VIII as Pope. He also signed the "Otto Privilege Agreement" with the Pope, and the successor of the church was decided by the emperor.

After that, the fortress was abandoned until the Renaissance. In addition to the Medici, the famous patrons at that time were Montefeltro, who were a noble family in the southeast of Florence. Their surname Mentefeltro was derived from mons feretri.

Dante mentioned Guido da Montefeltro in the Inferno. This man fought with the Pope in Romagna and Tuscany, and then surrendered to Pope Boniface VIII in 1295. Then the family gradually moved closer to the Pope and consolidated the alliance through marriage. So with the support of the Pope, the Montefeltro participated in the rebellion against the Lord of Rimini. They were even hired as mercenaries by Lorenzo de' Medici to suppress the Volterra rebellion.

A member of this family took a fancy to San Leo and rebuilt the fortress. In 1631, San Leo was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Papal States. Since then, the fortress has become a prison for alchemists.

A general prison has one layer of iron bars. The prison windows there are so small that only cats can pass through. There are three layers of iron bars inside, and there is only one entrance and exit, just above the head, and there is a stone pier on the ground with a chain on it to lock up the alchemists in their seventies and eighties.

Usually alchemists would not be treated like this, unless they were very disobedient or were found to be swindlers. Below the cell was the place of torture, with all the tortures in the world and hell.

Before this, San Leo was the place where alchemists lived in seclusion. As Dante said, that place was where lazy people would go to be punished. "The road to becoming a god is rugged and difficult", and so is the road to knowledge.

Napoleon also went to that place when he went to Rimini and the Republic of San Marino. If he had come earlier, he would have met Count Cagliostro.

This was a well-known charlatan. He was born in Sicily and ventured to Rome. He was famous for selling elixirs of youth and love potions. He was also a medium and fortune teller. In 1785, his séances had become a trend in the Parisian fashion industry.

He had a deep friendship with Cardinal Rohan, so he was involved in the necklace incident and was imprisoned in the Bastille for 9 months. Later, he was expelled from France with Jeanne, one of the masterminds.

In 1789, his wife filed a complaint with the Inquisition, after which he was arrested in Rome, sentenced to death after trial, later commuted to life imprisonment, and imprisoned in the Fortress of San Leo until his death in 1795.

The reason why he was spared was that he did learn alchemy during his early years in Greece, Egypt, Persia, the Middle East, and Rhodes.

The French crossing the Alps was sudden, and the Papal States were also in trouble, so no one cared about the fortress that no one cared about.

As usual, Bonaparte "packed" all the information inside, and they were stored in the Brera Palace.

Among these materials, there is a map with a marble cover, which was painted on linen.

In Columbus's time, maps were usually drawn according to Ptolemy coordinates, a type of spherical coordinates. In his "Geographical Guide" written in the 2nd century AD, he had already used longitude and latitude lines to depict world maps.

Ptolemy once measured the longitude from Aswan to Alexandria, assuming that Alexandria and Aswan were on the same longitude, but they were not.

So someone measured the angle between Aswan and Alexandria by shadow, which was 7 degrees and 12 minutes, or one-fiftieth of the circumference, and then calculated the circumference of the earth.

Although the latitude is not as changeable as the longitude, the equator is the longest. If it were not for scientific research purposes, no one would sail this longest route.

Moreover, Columbus and Magellan were heading for the new route to "India". Choosing which latitude not only means the voyage, but the earth is an ellipse rather than a perfect circle. At different latitudes, the length of 1 degree longitude is also different. Alexandria is close to the equator but not on the equator.

Or to put it this way, Columbus reduced the width of the ocean, making people feel that going to the New World is not impossible by human power. At the meeting, both Spain and Portugal expanded the ocean, making onlookers feel that transatlantic navigation is impossible.

Ptolemy did not set the prime meridian at Alexandria, but in his "Geographical Guide" he set it at a small island he named "Isle of Happiness", which happened to be located in Cape Verde. What's more, it completely avoided West Africa, so Pope Alexander used 370 miles west of this meridian for arbitration and divided the "Pontifical Meridian".

In the era of Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, they felt that the island of Hierro in the archipelago was just 20 degrees away from the longitude of Paris, so they used this line as the benchmark. Louis XIV ordered the construction of the Paris Observatory and set Paris as the prime meridian.

In 1752, England changed its calendar to the same as Europe. The Julian calendar was still used during the Spanish Succession War. In short, after Louis XIV participated in the Spanish Succession War on the grounds of dowry, an anti-French alliance was formed. Then the Grand Alliance instigated a rebellion in southern France, and Louis XIV supported the Hungarian uprising.

In his book about the era of Louis XIV, Voltaire mentioned that from 1706 to 1707, France's enemies were becoming stronger. Among them, Britain won the Battle of Bronville during the reign of Queen Anne, and Austria also defeated the Hungarian rebels at the beginning. However, the rebels turned the game around after moving to Transylvania and recovered a large area of ​​the Danube.

In 1706, Louis XIV only proposed peace talks. The empty treasury and his age could no longer support new conflicts.

In addition to the Hermetic school that can turn base metals into gold, and the Horus alchemy, there is also a more niche Isis faction.

This faction believes that minerals, like agriculture, can be nurtured in the body of Mother Earth, and miners need to let the mines rest after mining for a period of time, rather than the total amount being determined at the beginning of the world and unchanged.

The largest gold mine on Earth is located in South Africa. It was hit by a meteorite. This is the popular science content that Pomona saw when she read National Geographic. She is not sure where the exact coordinates of the gold mine are.

Count Cagliostro studied this, and the linen map he collected depicted a "temple" in the Alps.

No matter how hard Georgiana thought, she couldn't remember how she found the underground maze in the first place. She also drew a map of the maze.

The copying spell can also copy some "metals". Harry was almost "drowned" when he was looking for Hufflepuff's gold cup.

Even if it is not real gold, a large number of gold coins can be copied using the copying spell, which can alleviate the problem of the French treasury being empty?

Anyway, Bonaparte didn't mention it to her. Maybe he didn't know the "copying spell" and no wizard remembered to tell him.

With a stable rear, he doesn't need to take care of both ends when he is on the front line, and worry about what problems will arise at home. Even if it is impossible to achieve "a chicken in every pot" like Henry IV, at least civilians should not take to the streets for bread.

Civilians are rarely mentioned in war and history. When the Austrians and Ottomans fought on Hungarian soil, the land cultivated by Hungarian farmers naturally suffered.

But the problem is that Napoleon was commanded by the French. The promotion of smallpox vaccination was so difficult because people were worried about leaving scars on their faces. Youth and beauty potions were poisonous, and even tuberculosis was an aesthetic way to die.

Vampires are beautiful and elegant. If the philosopher's stone cannot rejuvenate, it is probably more attractive to become a follower of the "blood clan" than to live forever like Nicolael, who is old and ugly.

Who doesn't want eternal love? Diamonds are inlaid in diamond rings because they represent eternity and indestructibility.

Diamonds can also "grow" and even be cultivated artificially.

Pomona once worried that her lover was getting old, and he was obviously younger than her.

But magical creatures do have longer lifespans than humans, even though she, Felive and Hagrid are all mixed-blood.

In addition to discovering the bottle named after him, Klein also wrote a book about a place called Drentois, where the locals closed the ancient mines and allowed the mines inside to "regenerate". A diamond called "Cullinan" was once found there. In addition to the large number of police forces deployed to protect it and the diamond was inlaid in Edward's crown, it caused a sensation because the "mother" of Cullinan had not been found.

Zoisite cannot be generated in the natural environment of the earth. The person who discovered it found it by the lake, which looked exactly like a meteorite crater.

Opal, which was once as famous as diamond, has also begun to depreciate. When people mined opal, they did not give it a chance to "regenerate".

In the labyrinth of the Alps, she did not find a sculpture that vomited gold and silver, but the alchemist who named himself after another name of God copied the tears of the phoenix and the blood of the unicorn.

Ilfamoni School of Magic also copied the blood of the Rem bull, although it was an incomplete form.

Count Cagliostro's death sentence was changed to life imprisonment because of those materials. No one in Brera dared to touch those materials because of Count Cagliostro. No one wanted to be locked in the tower like him, and they didn't make mistakes like him, or be called "heretics".

Georgina put the map away, as if she had not received this "gift".

Although she was not worried about being locked in the tower for research, this thing was a "forbidden technique" and a field that humans should not touch. Only people with strong curiosity like Snape would "open" it.

There were two unopened letters on her desk, or maybe they seemed to be unopened. The "n" on the envelope looked very eye-catching.

"What else didn't you tell me, Leon?" She whispered, picked up a letter and opened it, although she remembered that there was still a letter from Koblenz that had not been opened.