"Lily, Lily!"

Following a whisper, Pomona looked up at the window. A girl with shaggy hair was lying outside the window, signaling Lily to open the window.

"What?" Lily asked inexplicably.

"My mother is looking for me." The girl outside the window lowered her voice and said.

Although she didn't know what happened, Lily still opened the window, and then the girl climbed in through the window and hid under Lily's bed skillfully.

"Jessica!"

After the girl hid, a woman's voice came from outside the house.

Pomona looked up and saw a lady in an apron, as if she was looking for something.

While living at Lily's house, she knew that there was an old lady next door whose dog would occasionally get lost, and her grandson would call its name.

But obviously the dog's name is not "Jessica".

Pomona looked down at the chocolate frog drawings placed on the carpet. Normally she should put them away to prevent Muggles from seeing them, but she and Lily had cleaned them up so far. If they were put away, they would be disrupted again...

Just as she hesitated for a moment, the lady in an apron walked toward Lily's room angrily.

"Don't panic." Lily sat back down in her previous position and "pretend that nothing happened (playing cool)."

Then she continued to sort out the chocolate frog pictures as if nothing had happened.

Pomona also pretended, but her heart was beating so fast that she couldn't tell what was in the picture.

"Have you seen Jessica? Lily." The lady asked at the window where Jessica had been just now.

"No, Mrs. Vincent." Lily said nonchalantly, "I've been playing cards with my friends."

Mrs. Vincent stuck her head through the window and glanced around Lily's room twice, as if she still suspected that Jessica was in Lily's room.

However, after finding no trace of Jessica, Mrs. Vincent left and looked for Jessica elsewhere.

When her voice was far enough away, Jessica crawled out from under the bed.

"Thank you, you saved my life." Jessica said to Lily.

"What trouble did you get into this time?" Lily asked.

"Don't worry, it's the same as usual." Jessica shrugged nonchalantly, "I'm leaving now and we'll talk next time."

Then Jessica turned over from the original road. It seemed like this was not the first time that something like this happened.

"You lied!" Pomona accused Lily.

"Yeah, so what?" Lily said nonchalantly, continuing to sort out the chocolate frog pictures with her head down.

Pomona was a little angry.

It seems that it is not just the Gryffindor boys who are like this, if any of them are caught by Filch breaking school rules, they will cover up the undetected instead of telling the truth, or in their words "betraying"

friend".

While she was still angry, Lily's door was opened by Petunia. She followed Mrs. Evans's example, pouted, and looked at Lily unhappily.

"What did you just do?" Petunia asked as if she was guilty.

"It has nothing to do with you." Lily said a little coldly.

"I saw Mrs. Vincent was here just now," Petunia said.

"I saw it too." Lily replied with interest.

"She came to see Jessica," Penny said.

"I didn't see her." Lily looked down at the chocolate frog picture.

"What about you?" Penny asked, staring at Pomona.

Lily also glanced sideways at Pomona.

Pomona hesitated and couldn't make a sound for a long time.

Should she be "honest" and tell Petunia that she just saw Jessica hiding under Lily's bed, or should she lie?

"Did you see that?" Penny asked Pomona, her voice rising.

"No," Pomona whispered, as if that would lessen the guilt.

Lily smiled, then looked at Petunia, "You heard me."

Penny looked at Pomona suspiciously.

"You want to play with us?" Lily asked Petunia.

"I won't play your weird games." Penny said arrogantly, closing the door again before leaving.

Not long after, Pomona heard the sound of the sewing machine turning. It seemed that Penny was making new clothes for her Barbie doll.

Ever since Lily released tadpoles hatched from tree monkey frog eggs at Petunia's birthday party, and they jumped on the heads of the girls at the party, causing the guests to run away screaming, Petunia and Lily's relationship has been on the rocks.

How about it.

Lily didn't expect that those frog eggs would hatch in soap, and Pomona didn't think it was appropriate to give this soap to a girl like Petunia.

But that was a gift from the wizarding world that Lily could afford. Petunia had wanted to go to the wizarding world to study.

"Do you want to be in a daze or continue playing?" Lily asked impatiently.

Lily used to be a very popular girl in school, but now she invites Pomona, a weirdo, to her home for the summer vacation.

Pomona picked up a picture of a chocolate frog, which showed a weirdo named Ulric wearing a jellyfish hat.

She feels depressed and doesn't want to be a "weird" even though she doesn't have a jellyfish hat.

Then she acted normally, so she continued to sort out the pictures as if nothing had happened.

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As a "super nerd," Pomona looked up information after returning to school, hoping to find an "explanation" for his dishonest behavior.

Finally she found an explanation in a book written by a professor at the University of Reading.

People are always looking for something that can be used as a general principle or a rule to explain difficult problems. After the Sicilian War, Rome and Carthage signed a treaty. The treaty stipulated that the parties should bear mutual obligations and not treat each other's allies and their dependent states.

Form alliances, wage war, or exercise sovereignty within their territories, or raise armies.

However, based on the power of Carthage in Spain, the Romans formed an alliance with Sagunto in Spain, which resulted in Hannibal of Carthage besieging that city.

After the failure of the First Punic War, Carthage lost its hegemony in the Mediterranean and Sicily and turned to the Iberian Peninsula.

The Romans believed that this offended the dignity of Rome and that war should be declared. Some people tried to understand the content of the treaty "correctly" because the Romans had formed an alliance with Sagunto first, and Sagunto was caught between Rome and Carthage at that time.

Allies on either side do not count, but there are pro-Roman or Carthaginian factions in the city.

There is a group of people who believe that morality is governed by principles. Of course lying is bad, but if telling the truth is tantamount to betraying a friend, not to mention coercion and inducement, and if you speak out, you will not be punished, it seems that "honesty" is not always

A reason to do something.

The professor then proposed a kind of moral generalism and moral individualism. Moral individualism denies that moral inferences are governed by any form of principle. All motivations are situational, or to get you not to do something.

motivation.

In the scene of being caught violating school rules, "I can't betray my friends" and "I can't lie" appear, two motivations for one's upcoming behavior.

The Romans who were looking for a "correct understanding" of the treaty were the ones trying to maintain peace. Hannibal attacked Sagunto instead of Rome itself. The Romans should not do it again next time. Once the war with Carthage resumes, it will bring

Many disadvantages.

When Sagunto was besieged, Rome did not send troops to help because Sagunto was not an ally of Rome.

After the city was destroyed, Rome asked Carthage to hand over Hannibal for trial. When he refused, Rome declared war on Carthage.

If a contract can be interpreted in two ways, if one party accepts any country they like as an ally in order to maintain a peaceful state, then it constitutes a subjective and unrestrained sacrifice for one party.

The treaty contains restrictions on both parties. In this interpretation tendency, one party will restrict the other party based on its subjective and arbitrary wishes.

Therefore, what Hannibal did at that time cannot be "correctly" understood as a violation of the treaty.

But principles formulated in a particular case cannot be used to govern our thinking generally.

The University of Reading was once a branch founded by the Church College of the University of Oxford. It can be said to be part of the university city of Oxford, but in 1926 it became an independent university.

The University of Oxford implements a collegiate federal system, as do Cambridge and the University of London. In 1406, Henry IV granted Oxford University a charter "If any privileged class is prosecuted for a felony, they have the right to surrender."

This right to surrender does not mean surrendering to the police or similar secular institutions. Scholars were a privileged class at that time. Before that, there was a Chancellor's Court in Oxford. If a scholar committed a crime, even if it was murder or intentional injury, it would be under the jurisdiction of the Chancellor.

Surrender can be understood as a kind of "self-purification". The sinner joins a group of sinners who have shaved their heads and vowed not to commit crimes again. The offender can. If he refuses to take the oath or plead guilty, he may be imprisoned indefinitely and detained in a bishop's prison.

Before the establishment of the deacon's court, ecclesiastical courts were responsible for judging. However, outside the jurisdiction of the principal, scholars were not entitled to such preferential treatment. They still had to be prosecuted, sentenced and imprisoned by secular courts.

The head of the deacon's court is called the court counselor or deacon, who is recommended by the rector and approved by the king to handle cases for which the rector's court is not suitable.

At that time, the principal had great authority and could even punish people outside the school. When conflicts between citizens and scholars occurred, as long as they occurred within the jurisdiction of the principal, except in rare cases, the principal's court had the power to conduct independent trials.

However, the principal could not execute people, but could only expel lawbreakers from the city. It was not until 1890 that the religious jurisdiction of the Chancellor's Court of Oxford University was abolished, and thereafter the criminal jurisdiction of the Chancellor's Court was also abolished.

Not only did the deacons' court include scholars, but students could also commit crimes under ceremonial judicial privileges. The citizens of Oxford strongly opposed it, but to no avail. This was mainly due to the king's love for scholars.
To be continued...