Chapter 2899 Water and Dreams (2)

In the early 1970s, the London government completed an important task. They built some ugly houses and moved thousands of people who were crowded into the stairwells of high-rise buildings on the floor, or who were crowded into crowded basement cubicles.

Once inside, all Londoners, men, women, old and young, suddenly had a place to live.

Then, major cities across the UK were carrying out municipal planning. Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Nottingham, Newcastle and Glasgow all demolished the Victorian buildings in the city center and built roads instead to alleviate traffic congestion. However, in these

While the buildings that represented the honor of the citizens were demolished, the newly built roads did not make transportation much more convenient, so the walking trails became a universal tool for improving transportation in the eyes of London planners.

The narrow alleys and open squares are in sharp contrast, creating a staggered effect under the action of light and shadow. The ruling party at the time planned to turn London into a highway network. Although they lost the 1973 general election, the new ruling party

The political parties abandoned plans for a motorway network, and construction of extensions of the city's main roads has begun.

During the same period, two subways were built in London, and the Granning Mining Machinery Company made a lot of money. However, it was not him who ran the company at the time, but his father. He passed away before marrying Penny. He was only in his 20s.

Fernandesli took over the company left by his father.

He waited until his career was stable before proposing to Petunia. Minerva did not say in detail where the Dursleys lived, but it was probably in Little Whinging, a district in the southwest of London. The houses there were all of the same style.

, although it looks very neat and uniform, it is difficult to tell which one belongs to the Dursley family among so many houses.

This is probably the product of the post-war real estate development in the 1950s. Many townhouses in London that had experienced the bombing were razed to the ground. The council decided to build public housing projects and move citizens in the most damaged areas into these houses.

Although many people sneer at such independent, rustic houses, they think that new cities should have modern buildings.

From similar house structures, Pomona observed that many families had two children. In other words, it was not that the Dursleys had no extra room for Harry to live in, so they let him live in the cupboard.

If Petunia and Vernon had planned to have a second child, but because of Harry, they had to cancel the plan and Dally was forced to become an only child, then a lot of things would be explained. Multiple siblings would

They took care of each other, and after Lily died, they sent the child to Petunia's house.

In fact, Lily has another way to take care of the feelings of her sister and brother-in-law and not marry James. Of course, this idea is very ridiculous. Why should Lily act according to her sister's wishes? But for the "obedient" sister, she will listen to her sister

According to my opinion, I will no longer continue to associate with "little gangsters".

Lily made her own choice, said goodbye to Petunia and everything in the past, and became a witch in the magical world. In fact, there are still witches living in the Muggle world. Even if they are different on the inside, they can wear clothes and blend in with the crowd, such as the Ministry of Magic.

those female employees.

All in all, Pomona decided to give Vernon Desley a larger box car. Of course, he had to hide this from Penny. With this car, Vernon Deslee would not only go to the company more conveniently, but also the children would go out to play in the future.

Conveniently, he doesn't have to squeeze into the back seat of his current car, which has company advertisements painted on the body.

Changing a car is not a trivial matter, but you will always feel happier when you have a new car. You can drive to distant places for outings and other activities, even Godric's Hollow, where there are...well, simple folk customs.

Gryffindor girls have always been like this. They are still better than boys. At best, they speak up and speak up. At worst, they anger the lion, which means you will be torn to pieces. Although the academy

The manual says that if the other person does something that makes you angry, you should calm down, calm down, and calm down again. In reality, you often cannot calm down.

In addition to causing violence, anger can also make you unable to listen to other people's suggestions and act recklessly. Petunia said that she wanted to raise Harry to be a "decent person", which means that their family must be decent. Let Petunia slowly figure it out, why not

Someone was on the side to persuade and guide him. Pomona had never seen a man who didn't like cars. Even Arthur owned an illegally modified Ford Anglia.

This is not a small amount of money, not to mention she knows nothing about cars. It would be better to send a check to Fanon and let him choose. For this reason, she has to go to Gringotts and let the goblin take the money.

Convert galleons into Muggle banknotes, and then you have to open a bank account.

Sending a check was not something that an owl could do. Pomona decided to find the number of Dursley Mining Machinery Company in the phone book. In the red public phone booth, after confirming by phone that Fernon Dursley worked there,

She placed the check and letter at the front desk of the company.

She waited in the restaurant opposite the company entrance all afternoon and left after confirming that Fenong had indeed received the letter. Although getting the things in the "Happiness Manual" does not necessarily mean that everyone is happy, most people

That's all done.

Of course there is another option, pursuing something different from others, but the price may be ostracism from society, including your family and community.

Because to put it simply, if you don't make money, then you are a loser. Disabled people are all "motivational". How can people with good hands and feet not go out to work and make money?

As long as they work hard, people who are smart enough will have the opportunity to reach a higher standard of living; it is precisely because they don't work hard enough that they live so poorly, as if everyone is a potential millionaire.

Everything will be fine, and it always will be, as long as you work hard enough.

If you don't choose this kind of positive encouragement and "will yourself fall", then it is also your own choice.

If someone said that despair is more powerful than hope, they would be accused of spreading negativity.

Many dramas about the struggle between justice and evil, light and darkness, end with justice and light defeating evil and darkness.

But it is precisely with darkness that there is light. They are interdependent and indispensable. Neither can exist alone without the other. The two are a unified whole.

Without movement, there is no silence, without cold, there is no warmth. In one hypothesis of the end of the universe, there is "heat death". Due to thermal balance, there is no more energy to maintain movement or life.

This is indeed quite "negative", but it is not something that can be faced "positively".

Of course, this is just a hypothesis. No one can predict what will happen even one year from now, let alone billions of years from now.

But this involves a theological issue, that is, the issue of eternity and time.

Truth must be eternal, but if the universe does not exist eternally, there will be no eternal truth, and the universe changes with time.

The Epicureans advocate "happiness", which is "the absence of pain in the body and the absence of disturbance in the soul", and oppose the indulgence, enjoyment, and constant drinking of wine in ancient Rome. Exquisite feasts cannot make life happy.

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Happiness lies in the tranquility of the soul, which is based on people's clear understanding of the natural world and social life. Although Isidora's magic made his father "no pain in the body and no trouble in the soul", he lost his clear understanding.

It is also different from the Epicurean theory.

Albus said "the talisman of eternity", it is unfortunate to avoid pain in "eternity".

However, not everyone has a strong will and does not give in to pain, especially when there are people who constantly show off their success and criticize the losers.

This is a kind of kicking cat effect. The boss will use his subordinates as a punching bag. Fanon does that in the company, and Tobias does that at home. But Fanon doesn't yell at Petunia and Dally at home, but

Yelling at Harry, where does his stress come from?

Mining machines will make a lot of noise when working, and the noise can also cause stress. Moreover, she looked at the Groning Company and found that its performance was not so outstanding that big capital was interested in acquiring it. It did not even operate in an office building.

After this wave of urban development and real estate boom passes, it will be difficult for his company to survive. He has two children and a full-time housewife to support, one of whom is not his own.

He remained silent after learning that Petunia had a witch sister, instead of leaving Petunia decisively or reporting it to newspapers and television stations.

If the Dursleys cannot tolerate anything related to magic, and Lily cannot tolerate black magic, the epitaph "Love is a kind of endurance" is not suitable for their family.

Walking on the trail, Pomona looked at the ever-changing city. Sometimes it was good to be alone like this. Loneliness was actually not that unbearable.
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