Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 2824 The Runaway Wolf (7)

  Draco Malfoy is already five years old. Of course, he cannot be held in the arms of his parents like a newborn baby. After being baptized and blessed, he can become the godson of Severus Snape.

Although in theory he should be the protagonist of the party, in fact it is a party for adults. Everyone who has a relationship with Lucius Malfoy is here. As expected, it was a Death Eater reunion.

  Most of the Death Eaters without masks, such as Bella, have already been imprisoned in Azkaban, and Karkaroff doesn't recognize everyone who wears masks. As for how Snape was recognized by Karkaroff, maybe it was because of his greasy hair, even on the day when he was someone else's godfather, he didn't wash it.

But the guests didn't care. It doesn't matter that he is a special "talent" who can become a Hogwarts professor at such a young age and become the head of Slytherin. What's more, he doesn't have the support of his family and parents. Learn from him to urge juniors.

  The reactions of the juniors were “various and strange”, some were dismissive, some were disapproving, anyway, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they had to pretend on the surface, and they could only go out to play after this boring party ended safely.

   Someone also chatted with him about what he saw when he went to XZ. Everyone knew that Snape went to XZ during the Great Trial, and it happened that Gerald Rohart had written a novel about the XZ Yeti. Everything was "normal" until he was summoned by the Pomona Double Mirror.

Snape didn't have many friends, and it was obviously a woman's voice. The Director of the Department of Legal Enforcement of the new Ministry of Magic who was chatting with him paid more attention, but Snape went to a place where no one was around, although he still In the monitoring of other Aurors, but not in the director's sight.

  But Snape came back soon, but he didn't leave in a hurry. He only said that his colleagues at Hogwarts asked him to go back early, and he had to help with things.

At this time, Dumbledore was "traveling" in Europe, the director expressed his understanding, and then casually asked whose child was not going home for Christmas, and caused trouble for the teacher to go back. Snape casually asked about the goblin rebellion things to come.

   "Smooth? How did you pass the topic?" Pomona said incredulously.

  He glanced at her coldly, and then narrated in that deliberately protracted tone.

   Also in 1717, a goldsmith named Paul was brought to the Goldsmiths' Hall in London to be interviewed by the inspectorate officers because he was selling large quantities of large plates which had not been brought to the hall to be marked.

  The silversmiths of that time were also called goldsmiths, because they used both gold and silver in their work. This is not the first time Paul the goldsmith has gone to court. In 1714 he was taken to the private court of Goldsmiths Hall for failing to mark his handicrafts.

  Many of his works are not marked, which proves that he is at least suspected of evading taxes on finished silverware, not to mention that there may be fraudulent behavior. He plated a layer of gold and silver at the blacksmith and sold it as gold and silverware.

   Without his mark, it is impossible to prove that the silverware came from his own hands, and gold and silverware transactions do not need to sign contracts like trade exchanges. Then there is gem setting. There is a job called a gem appraiser, and his job is to determine the authenticity of gems. An apprentice who was a chimney sweep found a gemstone ring by accident. He took the ring and wanted Paul to identify it. Paul was not there at the time, so the apprentice took the gemstone off the ring, pretended to look at it for a while, and then Said the gem was glass and was only worth 1.5p.

  The chimney apprentice didn't believe it, and asked the apprentice to return the gem. The goldsmith apprentice called Paul out, but no one responded after shouting several times, so he took the "glass" to the back. When he came out again, the apprentice inlaid the gem on the ring, and returned it to the chimney apprentice "as it was", but the chimney apprentice asked someone else to appraise it, saying that the gem was a fake.

  Finally, the matter went to the Court of the Throne, which was heard by King George I.

Paul de La Mery was born in the Netherlands. His father, Paul Suschay de La Mery, was a French petty nobleman and soldier. The third generation played, the family came to London and settled in the French residence in Soho.

  How their family survived is an unsolved mystery. At the age of 15, Paul became an apprentice to a goldsmith named Pierre Platel under the Duchy of Schomberg. At that time, he couldn't even afford the tuition fee, so he needed to find a charity to pay for it.

  In 1711, the young apprentice came to an end, and after two years in seclusion, he suddenly sold large silverware to dignitaries, which his masters had never made.

  Paul quickly became famous and had his own mark in 1713, which was recorded in the official books as a manufacturer's mark, but he was brought to court in 1714 for not using the mark.

  His teacher Pierre is a meticulous, taciturn, and dedicated craftsman, while Paul is the kind of "poacher" who is full of friends and well-connected. He used the wealth accumulated in the goldsmithing industry to start a foreign trade business in London with a partner named Bentley. It is said that Bentley was very well connected in Tsarist Russia, and even the Tsar's collection also had Paul's unmarked works.

Paul's life was full of bad reputations such as fraud and tax evasion, but when he died of illness in 1751, many people cried along with his coffin. After all, in their eyes, Paul was a good man, and there was a hospital run by a Frenchman to show A document showing that Paul donated money to them, so he is a decent man.

When the king tried again, the chimney apprentice couldn't tell where the ring came from. His ancestors were poor for generations and couldn't afford a ring with real gems. They said they picked it up. So many people came to claim it. ?

  Paul will pay as much as the value of the "best first-class diamond" set in the concave of the jewelry, but Paul is not paying the ring owner, but the apprentice.

Due to the Paul de La Mery case in 1717, the "finder and guardian law" still exists in the British judicial system, which means that whoever finds the treasure belongs to him, and his assistants can only get it as a crew member. , Handyman digging pits, etc. "earn" the salary.

  When Paul in the Muggle world disappeared in 1751, another Paul appeared in the wizarding world in 1752, or the puppet who claimed to be Paul knew about troll armor.

  At that time, in addition to revenge for a series of goblin murders created by wizards, the goblins also made a request, which was to "sit on an equal footing" with wizards.

The period from 1747 to 1800 was divided into the Age of Enlightenment by humans. Also in 1747, a Swiss watchmaker created a robot that could play the harpsichord and dedicated it to Queen Maria Theresa. Due to the support of Russia, France decided to Negotiated peace with Austria and Great Britain, and signed the Treaty of Aachen in 1748, recognizing the inheritance rights of Maria Theresa and her descendants to the Habsburg family's territory.

   "So...this 'Paul' is that Paul?" Pomona asked numbly, her mind went blank.

   "What's my reward?" Snape said with a happy smile.

  She felt that he shouldn't be so complacent, but they had agreed before that she would have to pay a price before he would disclose the information. Although she didn't sign it, she didn't intend to break the contract.

  So she went to the dungeon next door and found Vera, the horned beast who was sleeping soundly. Vera woke up immediately after hearing footsteps.

  Whether in the wild or living with trolls, she would not sleep on her belly. Pomona followed Liz's example and knelt on one knee.

   After a while, Vera also bowed her head towards Pomona. Pomona stood up and gently stroked Vera's head.

   "I need your help, friend." Pomona said to Vera "Can you help me?"

  Vera seemed to have Legilimency, she tilted her head and turned her golden horns to Pomona.

  Pomona pointed her wand at Vera's horn, and removed some golden powder, which shone in the dark.

   "Anything to hold?" Pomona said to Snape, who followed her into the dungeon.

  His face was hidden in the darkness, she couldn't see his expression clearly, but she felt the surging anger.

   "Put this in here." Severus said calmly, and took out a transparent test tube.

  Pomona let the horned beast powder float in and filled the test tube.

   "Good girl, go to sleep." Pomona said to Vera, but Vera did not close her eyes.

   "Good night." Snape said sullenly, then turned and left the dungeon.

   "Good night." Pomona said, and looked at Vera again. Her eyelids seemed to be heavy, and they were slowly closing.

   There is a stench in the dungeon that is hard to get out. This environment is not good for Vera, but the winter in Scotland is too cold.

   "There is a Scottish proverb that kindness is the chain that connects society. I hope you don't find it too annoying." Pomona said while stroking Vera, and then left the dungeon.

  (end of this chapter)