Chapter 1708 The Goddess’s Secret Word (53)

The persecution of witchcraft varies slightly from place to place.

For example, in Salem, the first "witches" accused were three women of low social status, a slave girl, a young woman, and a woman married to a worker. The accusers were a 9-year-old girl named Betty and an 11-year-old girl.

The girl Abigail, if usually no one would believe the two children, but people at that time believed it, and even one of the women accused admitted her "crime". After all, "knowledgeable" people would

You know that if you don't admit it, you will definitely be beaten or tested by the "drilling" method, so it will be easier to "confess".

Then there is the annoying woman, such as the landlady, who always threatens tenants to evict them if they don’t pay rent, and doesn’t care whether the tenants will end up homeless on the streets. In fact, a woman whose husband died

As a widow, rent is her only income.

If starving to death is an existential threat, then living on the streets is also an existential threat. Jack the Ripper looked for targets on the streets. Women would be safer hiding in houses with walls. The reality is that some people use survival methods to survive.

Threatening you to hand over all your money to meet basic survival needs, just like rising food prices during a famine.

The feeling of being held hostage is terrible, but many people can't wake up to it for a while. The banker doesn't really want to realize the family dream for the borrower, nor does he really want a house. He just needs a collateral. If

If the lender cannot repay the loan, he can sell the house to someone else.

What he wants is money, interest. If the house cannot be converted into money, then the "poor man's home" is meaningless to him. He lives in a mansion with a view of the sunset and a swimming pool.

The garage is bigger than the house on Privet Drive that Harry lived in when he was a child. Is it possible for him to move in?

The key to the rules of the game is that the working class continues to invest money to repay the mortgage. If the working class stops repaying the loan, the working class will be displaced and homeless, and the animals drinking along this "water channel" will also have no water to drink.

So they must do everything possible to ensure sufficient "water sources".

The credit ratings of those customers who have stable jobs, higher incomes, and can repay their loans steadily have the highest credit ratings, such as Fernon Dursley, but such customers are limited and will be robbed soon.

Then those people who had stable jobs but low incomes, such as Mrs. Filch and Pince, became their "targets" for open source.

Filch is a squib, hated by the students at Hogwarts, and his income is naturally not as high as that of professors.

Although Mrs. Pince is a witch, she is just an annoying administrator, and her income is not as good as that of a classroom teacher, let alone a dean.

However, when they get married and have a family, they need a house, and they cannot continue to live in the school.

In the magical world, goblins don't have the concept of real estate because the population of wizards is so small, not to mention that some people can even live in a place like a burrow. They just pray wholeheartedly for the death of the wizard's family so that the wizards can stay in the ancient spirit.

All the money in the pavilion belonged to them, the Potter family was almost destroyed, and the huge wealth almost belonged to them. The goblins were not happy at all to see Harry Potter alive, and he later gave birth to an heir. This

The level of unhappiness needs to be increased by “more”.

After having a family, the unstable single life in the past was over, and Filch no longer had to live with a cat his whole life.

It was a new beginning for Filch, and he even left school and went on holiday to France with Mrs. Pince.

But if Mrs. Pince disappeared, all of this would be in vain. Of course, he wouldn't have to worry about taking out a loan to buy a house. He could continue to live in the caretaker's dormitory at Hogwarts and continue his old life.

Everything has risks. Transferring risks to others is actually a game of passing the flowers on others. This sense of security is false.

However, what Severus didn't expect was that Mrs. Pince would actually disappear in the library, which seemed quite safe.

Severus asked Haji and Felix to find Monica. In his opinion, Monica was in a more dangerous environment. But things had already happened, and it was useless to refuse to believe it. Even the so-called safest

Hogwarts was also invaded by Death Eaters.

The key is to find a way to correct it.

Severus returned to the table, took out a compass, opened the lid of the box, and revealed the bottom of the compass. There was a silver hair that seemed to be glowing inside.

It belonged to Pomona. She was in St. Mungo's Hospital and turned into a complete Veela state. She didn't look scary, but like a large fairy.

When she hid alone in the Shrieking Shack on Homecoming Day, Severus lied when she asked him how he found her.

Point-me can only point to north. He used the hair she gave him to make this small prop that can track and indicate her direction.

Now Severus took out the hair, put it into the test tube, put Mrs. Pince's hair in, and then put the lid back on the box. After a quick rotation, the compass pointed straight.

southeast.

He held up his wand and walked in that direction with very light steps.

He had checked that row of bookcases before and found nothing unusual, but the compass still pointed in that direction.

"She's not here," a woman said behind him.

Severus immediately turned around and saw a woman standing behind the bookshelf.

She was dressed in 18th-century women's clothing that resembled witches' robes, and had an ugly hat covering her hair, just like the one in Marie Antoinette's final portrait.

"Is she safe?" Severus asked in surprise.

"What kind of security are you talking about?" the woman asked.

"Is she hurt?" Severus asked.

"I was not hurt as much as I was. Everyone hates me," the woman said.

Severus didn't know how to respond.

"This is not my home, I want to go home." the woman said.

"You want to go back to Versailles?"

"I don't know if I should call that place home." The woman said, "But I don't belong here. They put me here without my consent, just like that woman slept in my bed without my consent."

On the bed.”

"You mean Josephine? Because she slept in your bed at the Tuileries Palace?" Severus asked.

"I don't know who she is," the woman said with a tearful voice, "I just want her to leave right away."

"What exactly do you want to do?" Severus asked.

The woman didn't answer. Instead, the bookshelf began to shake and the books fell to the ground.

"Pick up the one at the top," the woman said.

Severus looked at the pile of books on the floor. The top one was bound in a very exquisite way, and it didn't look like it could be afforded by ordinary people.

"What do you want from me?" Severus asked.

"Put it back where it belongs, and I'll tell you who attacked her."

"Okay, I promise you." Severus said. "Where should I put it?"

"Don't ask questions knowingly." The woman said, "Last time I saw two British women entering by mistake. They almost became his prey."

"Are you talking about the two female teachers who saw you in the Petit Trianon in 1901?" Severus asked. "The two of them even wrote a book called "The Adventure" about it."

"Do you remember how they described us?" the woman said a little arrogantly, "They actually said we look like wax figures."

"I think they were talking about the two people they saw at the door." Severus said. "You are still beautiful, wearing bright summer clothes and a white hat on your head to protect you from the sun."

"I like to wear beautiful clothes." The woman said, "It's hard to say which one makes me suffer the most."

Severus didn't answer.

"He wants to learn how the ancient emperors used polygamy to manage the colonies." The woman said, "A British woman is necessary for him."

"I don't think a female teacher can bring him any benefit." Severus said with a cold face, "He should propose to the British princess."

"He did marry a princess, but she didn't bring him a firm ally either." The woman said, "No one is fooled by the brilliant illusion he painted anymore. People have lost confidence in him. Only blind people will believe in him."

Will defeat all Europe armed against him."

"That's a pity," Severus said. "Now all of Europe has given its weapons to others."

"Do you want him to win or lose?" the woman asked.

"He shouldn't touch things that don't belong to him," Severus said.

"Same for you." The woman said, "Sirius Black..."

"Don't say that name!" Severus interrupted her with an angry yell.

"You were like that that day too. When you heard the name, you got excited and even left the house." The woman said coldly, "You haven't learned your lesson yet?"

"she is mine!"

"Then you shouldn't feel guilty. You were just like a cat whose tail was stepped on."

"There are so many British female teachers, why her!" Severus curled his fingers as if he wanted to strangle someone.

"You can also give up and start a new life." The woman said, "Lily, I remember that was his condition."

Severus was stunned.

"Tell me what you are thinking about?" the woman asked.

"Did that stinky living dead send someone to kidnap Irma?" Severus said.

"It's not true. Only the British will fulfill their contracts seriously when they have hostages." The woman said lazily, "Although you won't fail to repay your debts, you often break your promises, and even if you escape, you will receive epic praise."

"That's because the French surrendered first!" Severus said angrily.

"What about the American Revolution?" the woman asked.

"We don't want to be like you France, sacrificing yourself to help the United States." Severus retorted.

"If he were not a king, he would be a good locksmith," said the woman. "Put that book in the room where he makes the locks."

After saying that, the woman left.

Severus tried to follow her, but the woman disappeared between the next bookshelf.

So he turned over again, looked at the book that fell on the ground, and used the floating spell to levitate the beautiful book on the top.

It was a manuscript with designs for locks, one of which was a salamander.

It looks a lot like the salamander ring Voldemort gave to Severus.
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