Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1675 The Secret Word of the Goddess (20)

  Whenever encounters a war, people will always find a way to solve some problems that are impossible to think about in normal times, such as communication.

On October 18, 1870, a postal hot air balloon named "Victor Hugo" lifted off at Place de la Concorde. Victor Hugo participated in the lift-off ceremony and sent a letter to London. He also visited Emperor's Avenue that day. The house and garden where he lived as a child were gone, and a new street passed through the old site.

  In fact, France used the cable telegraph at the time, and even the United Kingdom took a submarine cable to the United States. It was the famous Agamemnon.

However, during the war, the telegraph will be controlled. Abraham Lincoln knew the importance of the telegraph. It can even be said that the victory of the Civil War is related to the telegraph wires that the federal government used the military telegraph team to lay down at risk. The American Civil War During this period, all civilian telegrams were stopped, and Morse code was used for confidentiality. During the critical war, Lincoln even slept directly on the small bed of the telegraph bureau. Sometimes the cable is cut, and you have to use hot air balloons, pigeons, messengers, etc. to send the letter out by any means you can think of.

A piece of news can make a Rothschild family, and it can also change many things. On the night of November 29, 1870, when Victor Hugo returned home from the Luohan Pavilion through Richelieu Road, he saw There was a very tall house on the other side of the play library. A window on the sixth floor of the house was open. At that time, the street was empty and dark, but there was a very bright light in the window, as if it were from a kerosene lamp. The light appeared a few times, then the window was closed, and the street became dark again.

  The great writer was as a passerby to record everything he saw. He thought it was a signal of military action.

  At that time, there was the sound of cannons on the east, west, and south sides of Paris. The sound spread throughout the city. Why should there be a light signal on the sixth floor next to the French National Library in the dark?

  On December 5th, that gorgeous hearse passed by Frosau Avenue. Alexandre Dumas died outside the city. Whoever goes out for funerals will send an empty box.

  And on the night of November 19th, Victor Hugo saw the northern lights over Paris.

  If this is placed in the 21st century, it is not a strange thing. There are many ways to achieve a gorgeous light show like the aurora. However, before the second power revolution in the 19th century, this kind of "light show" was impossible.

  Aurora usually appear over high magnetic latitude regions, such as the north and south poles. The earth’s atmosphere is a TV screen, and the earth’s magnetic field is guided by electron beams. Although this kind of aurora is beautiful, it can be compared with the combined electric capacity produced by power stations around the world. This kind of energy is enough to disrupt radio and radar signals, and can even interfere with long-distance telephone lines and power transmission lines, thereby causing some areas Is in a "silent" state and loses power supply.

  The latitude of Paris is 49 degrees, which belongs to the weak auroral zone. When the peak year of solar activity is encountered, huge solar flares can disrupt the earth’s magnetic field and expand the auroral range, so that the aurora can be seen in Paris at middle and low latitudes.

   But there may be two other situations.

  One, Hugo got it wrong.

Second, like the citizens of Paris in 1927, they thought there was a grand fireworks over the Cemetery of Father Lachaise, or the New York incident in 1926 used a large-scale oblivion curse, and most people have forgotten that time. Horrible memories, only Hugo's diary still records this paragraph.

At that time Balzac was dead, Alexandre Dumas was not in Paris, and he was dying of illness, and there was no time to record, but the French Ministry of Magic did not mention a word about such a great astronomical spectacle, as if something had been covered up. .

  At that time, Muggles were busy with the war, and the media was not in the mood to pay attention to the news, not to mention that few people stayed up at night to observe the sky like Hugo.

  Even if there is that, it is the staff of the Paris Observatory, and this is also the brainchild of Severus when he was making the picture. Instead of choosing the entrance to the catacombs, he chose the Paris Observatory instead.

When the paper data is not fully digitized, a massive literature survey is needed. The old bat has never been reluctant to confine students and let them do hard work. It is just that the students of Muggle University can't call him, and he is not theirs. "professor".

  Cuvier’s office is in Lamarck House, which is located between the Paris Botanical Garden and the University of Paris VI. The Seine River is picturesque and there are so many beautiful flowers blooming in the botanical garden. The artistic teaching buildings are hidden in the shade of the trees. There is also a zoo with flamingos, antelopes and other cute and precious animals nearby. It's a pity not to talk about love on campus while young.

  However, before the Paris VI University became a separate university, it was the Faculty of Science of the Sorbonne University. There were only science and engineering courses in it. More than 99% of the students were men. They were so energetic that there was nothing to do with pranks to scare teachers.

As for falling in love in Paris, it is impossible. Students = poor. The consumption in Paris is not something they can afford, but there is enough space in the botanical garden for them to "free themselves", not to mention their few human beings under 7 feet. , Diplodocus has enough space to move around.

  Lamarck building was taken by the students, because there is a sculpture of Lamarck in front of this red building.

Lamarck is a French naturalist. He proposed the theory of biological evolution in 1809 and published the book "Philosophy of Animals", 50 years before Darwin's "Origin of Species".

The biggest difference between evolution theory and catastrophe theory is time. Evolution theory evolves slowly, while catastrophe theory applies to emergencies such as asteroid impacts on the earth, super volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, solar flare eruptions, and reversal of the earth’s magnetic field, clusters of dinosaurs. The extinction is generally believed to be caused by an asteroid impact, and the evidence is the anomaly of iridium in the Cenozoic stratum.

  The content of iridium in the universe is very low, and it is even lower in the earth's crust. If it is not extraterrestrial, how did it come from?

  As for the earth’s magnetic poles, it’s not once or twice, and even if the earth itself doesn’t reverse, the sun will reverse, and it will reverse every 11 years. Each flip may be accompanied by a large amount of energy release. It may be the same as in 1870, causing aurora to be seen in low latitudes, or nothing may happen. Humans living on the earth are like Schrodinger’s cats, possibly because of the magnetic poles. Death caused by natural disasters caused by overturning may also be caused by being hit by a car while crossing the road, or a flowerpot fell from upstairs and killed. Of course, it may also be alive and well. This can only be known after "opening the box". .

  If the magnetic field is really going to be involved, then Severus and the others must be prepared to lose their existing Muggle communication methods and Gianluca's remote support at any time, and they will have to complete this "impossible task" on their own.

  Grindelwald was born in 1883. The method of driving a luxury hearse in 1870 was very similar to the one he used in Paris in 1926. Everyone has parents, and they will leave an inheritance to their children. For example, Salazar Slytherin left a secret room and a basilisk to Voldemort.

  Will the investigation data about the Deathly Hallows also be left to him by Grindelwald’s parents?

Even if    is wrong, it can save Grindelwald a lot of detours.

  As soon as Severus walked into the lobby of this building, he found a whale skeleton "floating" in mid-air.

That is the Cuvier's beaked whale discovered by Cuvier. This whale is widely distributed on the earth, from the tropics to the frigid zone. At the same time, this whale is also the deepest diving mammal, which is better than the sperm whale that catches squid in the deep sea. Even deeper.

The deep-sea giant squid can theoretically grow up to 50 meters. The sea monster prototype in many horror stories may not be it. It is said that someone once saw a giant squid kill a sperm whale. These two monsters are fighting in the sea. , After stirring up the great waves, they sink to the bottom of the sea and do not know where they are.

The squid eaten by the sperm whale will be digested, but some of the hard parts will be excreted after solidifying with the intestinal secretions. This substance is actually sperm whale feces, which is dark and soft when first discharged. It smells unpleasant, but it will harden after years of washing in the sun, air, and sea water. If you are lucky enough to find this wax on the beach, it is a rare treasure ambergris, the price is comparable to gold.

   "Have you seen these? Grindelwald?" Severus looked at the whale skeleton in front of him and said, it was bathed in the bright moonlight, as if swimming in the shallow sea. It didn't look scary at all, but rather holy.

  No one answered his question, because the person Severus asked the question was dead, and he was held in a prison where those who opposed him were once held.

  He stood here for a while and then went elsewhere. The soles of his shoes made a crisp sound when he stepped on the marble tiles. The sound was very beautiful, although it was completely different from the sound of a whale.

  (End of this chapter)