Harry Potter’s Morning Light - Chapter 2621 partake (thirteen)

   Chapter 2621 partake (thirteen)

In 52 BC, Paris was still called lucotecia. After Caesar's arrival, Caesar changed the name to lutecia, which is close to the Latin lutum, that is, mud, or luto in Gaul. That is swamp. The city was born out of a swamp.

  Before the Romans came, there was no land route at all, and the Gallic houses were mostly built in secluded forests or by rivers, and the river was their transportation. Whether it is a dangerous swamp or a dense forest, these places are familiar to those who live nearby, but they are Roman legions from afar. The indistinguishable roads in the dense forest do not allow large groups of people to enter.

The ancient Roman legionaries have always been famous for their phalanx formations in tight formations. It is not to their advantage to let the legionaries go to the forest. Instead, the Gauls, after harassing and looting the Roman soldiers, can rely on them. Forests and valleys escaped for life, and then changed places to hide overnight.

   But the Gauls are not monolithic. Caesar took advantage of the contradictions between the Gauls and the city life to attract a group of refugees and encircled other surrounding tribes.

  The Romans brought roads, baths, opera houses, and Colosseum, and Lutesia gradually became a city highly assimilated by the Romans, becoming the Rome of Gaul. Unlike Rome, where **** dramas are staged every day, or the blood of gladiators in the Colosseum, or the blood of politicians like Caesar, it is unexpectedly calm here, although the Roman residents of the city have a hard time adjusting to the muddy water. Uneasy swamp.

  The land of Rome is solid, the climate of the Mediterranean is always warm, and it does not snow even in winter.

   And here are the rough Gauls and the harsh winter, the river will freeze like a marble slab, in order not to be frozen to death by this ghost weather, the Romans lit many open-air braziers.

   There was a Roman governor who lit the brazier but closed the doors and windows, as if he thought it would make the room warmer. This nearly suffocated him, but thankfully he yelled before falling into a coma, and the slaves hurriedly carried him into the yard, and the fresh air brought him back to life, but he didn't know it was the ones that were still smoking The charcoal nearly killed him.

   Even if the fire has been put out, sparks can still be deadly. Gaul was populated by a large number of Franks and Goths, and the Romans had always looked down on the tribes who lacked citizenship and lived on the other side of the Rhine. Although they also had excellent civilizations, they were still regarded as future generations. A place of enlightenment.

  The construction of a magnificent Rome required a lot of slaves and wealth, which caused Rome to have a bad relationship with what they called "barbarians" around it. In 410 AD, the Visigoths invaded the city of Rome, opened the city gates with the help of slaves in the city, and plundered them away. After that, the Visigoth Kingdom was established in the Western Roman Empire.

   After another 66 years, the Germans, the leader of the Roman mercenaries, deposed the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, the Western Roman Empire fell, and Western Europe entered the era of so-called barbarian rule. The towns built by the Romans in the past were owned by the barbarians.

  These barbarian rulers were not good at governing the city. The roads in the city were as muddy as in ancient times, and the sewage was not improved. With the increasing population concentration, the Eastern Roman Empire, on the contrary, still maintained a certain degree of prosperity and integrity.

   But they are not in peace, even if Attila is gone, there are Persians. When Western Rome was in chaos, the Eastern Roman Empire was overwhelmed. However, fighting on the vast plains, the "barbarians" rely on forests and terrain to fight. Compared with the threat of barbarians, the Eastern Romans feared something else.

In the history written by the Byzantine scholars, the people of the Eastern Roman Empire at that time had no idea of ​​the British Isle, they only knew that its land was roughly triangular, covered with rivers and bushes, and it was not different from Caesar's conquest of Gaul. big.

According to the records of "History of England" and Hume's exposition, the Britons at that time were recovering from injuries in the nomadic era. Very shabby.

  Druids hold great power. In addition to presiding over sacrificial ceremonies and guiding religious affairs, they also control the educational rights of young people.

They would tell these young children that if they violated the teachings they would be punished, that those who violated the teachings would be excommunicated, that is, they would be excluded from public sacrifices and feasts, and that those who came into contact with them would be stigmatized. , thus being abandoned by the same clan. No longer protected, he lives in misery and humiliation, and only death can deliver him.

   This means that he will return to the arms of the **** Dis, although there is no "heaven" there.

  Kant once published a short article in the "Berlin Monthly" entitled "What is Enlightenment? ".

  Kant believes that enlightenment is the release of human beings from the immaturity that they have imposed on themselves. Immaturity is not a lack of reason, but a lack of courage and determination to use one's reason without the guidance of others. Have the courage to use your reason, that is the slogan of the Enlightenment.

   This is also the pitiful thing about Harry Potter. Since he can summon the courage to go to death when he is "guided" by others, why can't he have the courage to use his own reason to judge?

   But Harry was led by Albus himself, plus Snape.

When    mentioned the Pantheon, she thought of Voltaire, who mentioned a passage in Voltaire's Treatise on Manners. The Qur'an admits that angels and demons originated from the ancient Persians, and from these monks, from their teachings of channati, Mohammed got his idea of ​​heaven.

  Chanati is the Arabic word for "heaven", which is the blissful world after death, where the resurrected people have complete faculties, and they use these faculties to enjoy all kinds of happiness.

   This is the biggest difference between the ghosts of this world and the ghosts of Hogwarts, they also have a variety of feelings, although not everyone is hedonic.

   But after all, this is not a real paradise, but an "artificial paradise", and it is inevitable to have shortcomings.

   She was almost lost in it, just like everyone else. Although in the Greek opera, Medea said that the misfortune of women lies in living for love, whether Queenie or Irene, for love, followed Muggle husbands to live where Muggle women did not want to go.

   She is not that great, the banquet always ends, and some guests even leave early before the end of the song, so she doesn't "participate" anymore.

   She blessed Bonaparte and hoped that he could find a better girl than her next time, because she was still influenced by the Slytherin from the mire.

   She is no longer "guiltless", and it is estimated that she cannot go to heaven, even if it is artificial.

   As for where to go, I hope I can go to limbo in the future and be with Albus.

   (end of this chapter)