Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2271 The Winter Banquet of the Sea God (thirteen)

  Shakespeare often wrote about the ocean, he wrote the turbulent world as the ebb and flow of the ocean.

Europeans have some subtle differences in the artistic treatment of the sea. The Dutch like to use the recognized accuracy of cartography to depict the complex structure of large ships, just like painting a portrait of a ship. The scenery of the port and the storm beside the rocky reefs enrich the expensive canvas. Thousands of details are accommodated in the vast space.

  In the eyes of the Spaniards, the ocean has been placed under the gracious protection of the Virgin Mary. Maps, nautical charts, altars, and church wall hangings are all decorated with patterns of the sea. The British liked to paint the majestic Royal Navy, ports, and the hectic moments of victory in complex naval battles. On the contrary, there are no paintings about the ocean in France, only Claude Lorrain painted 13 landscape paintings about the harbor under the commission of Louis XV.

When Georgiana was admiring the oil paintings at Rubens' home, she was thinking about when she should find a chance to tell him that she would exchange Claude's paintings for Turner's paintings. At this time, Carolan came to tell her that Adrian, Minister of Magic of the Netherlands Mr. van Rhein has come, and Georgiana went to see him in the drawing-room.

  The Puritans in the Netherlands were once a lot, because it was a relatively religiously free country. When the Protestants in the Spanish Netherlands were persecuted, some of them went to the Netherlands, which made the Dutch dress far less gorgeous than Catholics. In winter, to resist the pervasive cold, people will put on a fur-trimmed robe on the outermost layer. It is customary for the rich to avoid wearing things that show their wealthy status. On the contrary, they will spend a lot on the house. Money and ingenuity, more ornate than Baroque Mannerism, were prevalent in the North.

In addition to this, there are tulips, although more than a hundred years have passed since the tulip mania, and seeing a man covered in black holding a bouquet of red and white tulips in his hands made Georgiana think that the one standing in the middle of the living room kept the A middle-aged man with curly shoulders and a whisker came out of a certain portrait.

   "Good night, Madame de Sèvres." Adrian said politely in French with a smile, and brought the tulips in his hand to her. "Eternal Augustus, dedicated to you and the First French Ruler."

  Georgianna was a little stunned, but Carolan coughed before calling her soul back.

"Thank you." She took the flowers and couldn't help but glance at them. After all, this is the "Eternal Augustus" that caused the tulip fever. Although people are crazy about it, not many people really see it. It's surprising, isn't it? In fact, the vast majority of the "market" in circulation are ordinary bulbs, and the real "eternal Augustus" has never been traded.

   "Put it in the carriage." Georgiana handed the flower to Carolan, then looked at Adrian again, "Why didn't you come two days earlier."

   "Obviously, you've had a busy week, thank you for taking the time tonight, otherwise I'd have to visit Paris," Adrian said.

"Please don't say that, dinner is ready, let's chat while eating." Georgiana said easily, Adrian took off the cloak outside, he was wearing a tight vest, looking a little thin, hanging on his waist With an ornate dagger, he couldn't tell where he hid his wand.

   Immediately after they came to the restaurant, she prepared a table of dishes, including English, French and Dutch cheese desserts, which were a bit too much for two people, so she called Carolan over to sit and eat together.

In Leonardo da Vinci's fresco "The Last Supper", an eel is painted, which is a delicious, but a fasting dish, not to mention the dining table of the priests, even the table of the laity It shouldn't have. When it came to the court of Louis XIV, there was no such rule. People began to pursue taste and deliciousness, and no one remembered fasting.

Because there is fasting, herring will sell very well during the fasting period. Eating seafood is not eating meat. Amsterdam was originally a small fishing village, and its main income was catching North Sea fish. In the Middle Ages, no one thought that it would become a world-famous one day. harbor.

  The Ministry of Magic of the Netherlands is located in Utrecht. It has a history of 2000 years. It was first a military fortress built by the Romans to protect the mouth of the Rhine, and it began to prosper in the 17th century.

In the Nika riot there was a nobleman who was pulled from his home by the people and dragged to the racing circuit to be crowned with a gold bracelet as a crown, the emperor later disappeared from history, Georgiana originally thought William III was a similar person .

  If he really was that kind of king, he wouldn't have used his veto in front of a parliament that had just completed the Glorious Revolution.

   This is also the difference between the Queen and the King. The Queen cannot refuse. Even if the parliament wants to dismiss her, she can only sign the document, but she has a privilege, that is, no one can slander or slander her.

  The way to identify wizards in the Netherlands is to use scales. They believe that both witches and wizards will fly because they are too light, so you better eat as a big fat man.

   Of course not talking about such depressing content during dinner, Adrian asked about the Calais meeting.

That meeting determined the line of demarcation between Britain and France. In fact, Rabastan suffered a loss by setting up wooden stakes on land in such a hurry. Since the time of Queen Elizabeth, the United Kingdom has attached great importance to sea power, and maintaining control of the English Channel is important The focus, it was for the control of the English Channel, to gain an advantage in the Dutch commercial conflict, that a fleet was built.

The republic formed by Cromwell followed the style of Queen Elizabeth, but the situation was different from that of the year. The Spaniards also needed to reach the Spanish Netherlands through the English Channel. After the siege of Stend, Great Britain gave up plundering on the high seas and entered a period of contraction in favor of a more specialized navy, while Spain and Holland fought each other on land.

It is precisely because of this that the Republic navy formed by Cromwell was able to defeat the navy of the Netherlands. The Netherlands won the second Anglo-Dutch War because the Netherlands spent its energy on the navy, ignoring the army, and in the third Anglo-Dutch war. The French faced a fortified line in disrepair during the war.

  According to Adrian's meaning, he seems to intend to draw the "line of demarcation" to the national border of the Netherlands Republic. Belgium has not even been established, let alone the Ministry of Magic.

  Georgianna would have preferred to draw the sideline on the Scheldt, but who was in charge of this area?

   It's possible that this was the idea of ​​Rabastan again, but it's not just a matter of defining borders, how many silents and silents are there in the Netherlands?

  To establish the Belgian Ministry of Magic, you must first find Belgian wizards. Generally speaking, wizards like to live in groups. How difficult it is to find those wizards who live in swamps and virgin forests.

   She turned the conversation to the question of children going to school. Why didn't Dutch wizards go to Hogwarts?

   "In 1735, the English Parliament passed the Witchcraft Act. Madam, after the Witchcraft Act was passed, the number of people accused of witchcraft increased." Adrian said.

   "What?" asked Georgiana in surprise.

"There used to be witch hunts in England, but it was during the Civil War, and there were private courts. If the king did not admit that there were witches, there would be no witchcraft charges, and there would be no witchcraft bills and trials," A Drian explained that "Britain uses case law, without precedent, precedent cannot be followed, and it is because of the Witchcraft Act, with original precedent, that there has been an increase in people accused of witchcraft, and worse. If the judge who created the original precedent made a wrong judgment, he would create more wrong precedents. That is to say, if it was wrong at the beginning, it would only add to the wrong. It is better not to open the first, witchcraft The bill prohibits the claim that someone can practice witchcraft, and defines witchcraft as deceitful behavior that confuses people."

   "What's the problem then?" Carolan asked Adrian.

   Adrian didn't answer, he looked at Georgiana.

   "That means the witch hunt is going on," Georgiana said. "Witch parents don't think Britain is a safe country."

"There is also the Goblin Rebellion. I heard that the goblins set their headquarters in Hogsmeade Village, where students will go to the village when it is very far from Hogwarts." Adrian said, "I know Hogsmeade. Gwarts is the safest place in the world, but we send children to study abroad to increase their horizons, and we can't keep them in the castle forever."

   "I know." Georgiana said clearly.

   "I didn't go out when I was in school at Beauxbatons." Carolan said, "It's surrounded by virgin forests, or some small villages."

   "But you know it's a Muggle village," said Georgiana. "Hogsmeade is a wizarding village."

   "So what?" Carolan asked in confusion.

   "When you let your guard down, the danger is more deadly." Georgiana said, "especially a group of children without adult protection and danger awareness, so the school requires parents to sign a consent form to go to Hogsmeade."

  Harry didn't think it was a big deal. He wanted to get Minerva to sign for him. Who would be responsible if something happened to him?

   In the past, there were students who faked their signatures from their parents. Fortunately, they were found out before the accident, and this person was Sirius Black.

  His mother threatened him with not signing, but he was completely disobedient. Later, he found out that it was really impossible to go to Hogsmeade by the regular way, so he searched for secret passages around the school and James Potter.

   "We all need a consent form when we leave school," Carolan said.

   "Let's eat, the food is getting cold." Georgiana smiled at the Dutch Minister of Magic.

   Adrian kept complimenting how delicious the meal was tonight, even though he didn't know she didn't make it.

   (end of this chapter)