The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts

Casting is a traditional craft of Europeans.

Especially on religious statues, with the blessing of faith, they will always devote themselves to unimaginable experiences and strive for excellence.

The most typical example is the statues in various cathedrals in Europe.

No matter what material they are made of, it is hard to imagine that in that era of low technology and productivity, someone could cast such lifelike statues.

But the bronze statue that appeared in front of Link and Emily at the moment was an exception.

This bronze statue with the theme of the Birth of the Virgin is as tall as a person, and it looks like an assembly line product cast in a large factory as a whole, with a rigid shape, a stiff expression, and unreasonable joints.

Link even suspected that she should be hollow inside.

And because it has been exposed to wind and sun all year round, or the quality of copper is too poor.

This bronze statue, which was supposed to be shining in the sun, was now covered with a layer of gray and black, and it looked dirty.

The only clean and new place on the whole bronze statue is the breast that the Virgin is about to open for breastfeeding.

There is still a beautiful brass color shining there, so bright that people dare not look directly at it.

Any adult with basic education and common sense of life should be aware of the reasons for this phenomenon.

If all the people present were men, everyone would probably smile tacitly.

But the problem is, there is still this girl here.

"Humph!"

Emily snorted coldly, and scanned Dumbledore's whole body up and down with a scum-like gaze, which made Dumbledore extremely embarrassed.

Although Dumbledore did not do this kind of ironclad evidence before him, Dumbledore couldn't explain it well.

So he didn't explain at all, and after touching his nose, he went straight to the statue.

"This statue is actually the entrance, we just need to touch it lightly..."

As Dumbledore spoke, he lightly touched the statue's arm.

The next moment, the scenery around Link and the others changed suddenly.

The majestic castle and the Muggles who came and went have all disappeared, replaced by a square shrouded in all kinds of magical neon signs and towering magical buildings.

Even the rough statue of the Virgin has become a statue of a girl who is nearly five meters tall, with a firm face, wearing armor, and holding a giant flag.

On the base of the statue are also written in French and English respectively - to the greatest witch: Joan of Arc!

"Joan of Arc?"

Link couldn't help reading the words on the base, with a very strange expression.

Of course he knew about Joan of Arc.

The great hero of France, who made his debut at the age of thirteen this year, practiced the will of "God" as a girl, and led a group of French men to drive out foreign enemies and save the building from falling.

Hundreds of years later, Joan of Arc was canonized as a Catholic saint.

How could such a character be a witch?

This is really too weird!

But if you think about it carefully,

It does seem to be a possibility.

After all, Joan of Arc was captured by the country at the age of nineteen, and the Inquisition under the control of the country was sentenced to fire for heresy and witch crimes, and was burned alive.

Originally, from the perspective of Muggles, this was another stupid act of the popes.

But now it seems that they burned it right?

"Oh! Joan of Arc!"

Dumbledore saw Link's confusion, and explained with a sigh, "She is a great hero in the French magic world. In her era, the world of wizards was not as peaceful as it is now.

There are not a few people who are ambitious and want to unify the wizards of the world.

At that time, the French magic world suffered an unprecedented major invasion.

Faced with an invasion of this intensity, the French wizards had no resistance at all.

Then, Joan of Arc stood up.

Following the way of the enemy, she united the Muggle power and wizard power of France, expelled the wizard invasion from outside with a cooperative attitude, and returned the French wizards to freedom.

But in the end she herself was captured by the enemy wizard and brutally killed. "

After all, Dumbledore touched his nose in embarrassment and shame.

Link and Emily also had weird expressions.

Because according to the records of the history of magic, the wizards of Inglan launched an expedition to the French magic world around the fifteenth century.

So what Joan of Arc was fighting against was the wizard of Anglan?

Emily shook her head, still puzzled and asked:

"I still don't quite understand. Since Joan of Arc is a witch, how did she get involved with religion? She was even canonized as a saint! Those religions and wizards have always been in opposition!"

Hearing that Dumbledore smiled and said nothing, Link shook his head and explained:

"There is nothing difficult to understand. Wizards are also human beings, and they need faith. The object of their belief may be an idea, a family, or a specific god.

Therefore, there are not many wizards who convert to religion.

The most typical example is the ghost of our Hufflepuff house - the fat friar.

That guy is a high priest!

With his devotion to the gods and the ability brought by magic, if he can survive, he might even become the pope.

But he is too arrogant.

He never avoids people in his spells, whether it's using his wand to spot chickenpox on a believer, or conjuring a rabbit from a communion.

You may not understand that the most steadfast atheists in the world are actually those senior believers in the Holy See.

So in the face of these 'miracles', the fat monk was naturally executed by those terrified senior believers. "

Emily nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

But there was still resentment and dissatisfaction in her gaze towards the statue of Joan of Arc.

She still didn't understand why Joan of Arc and those other wizards devoted themselves to the Holy See.

The wave of witch hunting set off by the Holy See has swept across Europe for 300 years!

Although it's nearly impossible for these Muggles to catch real witches.

Those who were burned as witches by them were more just ordinary Muggle women.

But there are still a large number of girls under the age of eleven who have just awakened their magic power and caused changes around them to be caught and executed.

These girls are not strictly wizards, but they can already be said to be wizard seeds.

In Emily's view, this is no different from slaughtering wizards.

People like Joan of Arc and the fat monk naturally became traitors among wizards!

Taking a deep breath, Emily looked away from the statue of Joan of Arc, and followed Link, Dumbledore and others to the pedestrian street not far away.

Said to be a pedestrian street.

But in fact, the street that appeared in front of Link and the others was tens of meters wide, enough for a horse race.

Just as everyone walked into the street, they saw a huge magic lamp in front of them.

It is still clearly written in bilingual - Lion Heart Street.

Lionheart?

Why is the commercial core street of wizards in France called Lionheart?

Link's expression became weird again.

Because the word lion heart has always represented the kingdom of Ying.

For example, a lion is engraved on the coat of arms of Muggle Kingship in the country.

Another example is the quite famous King Charles I of England, whose title is the Lionheart King.

But this time Link quickly figured out why.

Obviously, the Joan of Arc in the square just now did not completely drive out the Anglan invaders as the French wizards boasted.

At least on a wizarding level.

On the Muggle side, France did indeed win the Hundred Years' War and complete its unification.

But the French wizards are very likely to be substantially defeated by the Anglan wizards and colonized.

The reason why it is not written like this in name may be to better rule this group of French wizards.

This also happens to be able to explain why even the instructions on the statue of Joan of Arc have to be written in English and French at the same time.

Otherwise, it depends on the feud between France and France.

Killing a French wizard won't write English on their iconic hero statues.

After understanding all this, Link's mentality changed.

He started not to observe everything around him from the perspective of a foreigner.

After changing the perspective, he found that the buildings in Lion Heart Street really had a strong Chinese style.

The only difference between the two is that the buildings in Lionheart Street are bigger, more spectacular and gorgeous than Diagon Alley.

But that's all the common ground between the two countries' magical circles.

In other respects, the magic world of China and France are so different that they are like two completely different planets!

For example, pedestrians on the street.

Although wizards like fancy clothes, it has become the consensus of Muggles and wizards.

Link and Emily have long been accustomed to the costumes of the wizards in the country.

But Link and Emily were still taken aback by the weird outfits of the wizards coming and going on Lionheart Street at the moment.

Compared with French wizards, Chinese wizards dress like normal Muggle office workers!

The weird hairstyles and costumes of those French wizards almost turned this street into a Halloween celebration.

The difference in goods between the two countries is even greater.

The country's business system is basically in a state of shock under the monopoly of the Wizengamo oligarchs.

It is difficult for wizards to see imported products in Diagon Alley.

That is to say, Link's Foley family relied on their good relationship with Fudge in recent years, and later Batty Sr. and Percy directly emptied the Ministry of Magic before importing some imported goods.

As for the rest of the imports, they were all stopped by exaggerated tariffs deliberately set by the Wizengamot oligarchs.

The direct result of this is that Diagon Alley and Lionheart Street are simply not comparable in terms of the abundance of commodities.

If you have to describe it.

Diagon Alley is like a humble store in a remote village that specializes in products like 'six nuclear bombs', while Lionheart Street is a super-large chain supermarket in the city.

Such a huge difference made Emily almost happy and crazy at the beginning.

She crazily dragged Link into every store, regardless of whether it was useful or not, just buying and buying.

The most outrageous thing is that she even bought herself and Link a pullover cloak that almost everyone on Lionheart Street owns.

The shape of this cloak was created based on various magical creatures, and some of the more expensive ones were even made out of the skins and skulls of the same magical animal.

According to the clerk, these are all inspired by their famous designer from the natural spirit admired by the horse people.

As long as you put on these cloaks, you will have a special sense of substitution as if you have transformed into those magical animals and blended with nature!

The natural spirit of the horse people is not like this!

Link, who had just communicated with the centaur Firenze not long ago, is very clear about this aspect.

And ah.

Why are these cloaks so similar to the lion heads used for lion dances in the Celestial Dynasty?

The only difference between them is that the lion's head becomes the head of a poisonous horned beast, a thunderbird, a poisonous leopard...

They were so expensive, they dared to sell two purely decorative cloaks for 500 Galleons!

This is simply outrageous. His mother opened the door for Outrageous, and Outrageous has arrived home!

Fortunately, Emily's crazy behavior stopped immediately after going on for a while.

She reached out and moved the poisonous leopard cloak of the same style as Link on her head, and said in a rather depressed mood:

"Link, why do you think there is such a big difference between Diagon Alley and here?"

Hearing this, Link almost instinctively threw out the oligopoly theory he had thought before.

But when the words came to his lips, he stopped suddenly.

Staring at the various magic lamps shining brightly around him, Link pondered for a moment and said seriously:

"The oligopoly of the Wizengamot councilors is the main cause of the widening gap between Diagon Alley and Lionheart Street. But the underlying reason for all this to happen is—the Second Wizarding War!"

"The Second Wizarding War?"

Emily frowned and repeated.

Even Dumbledore looked sideways when he heard the words.

"Yes, it was because of the Second Wizarding War." Link said decisively, "The terrifying cloud named Voldemort has hovered over the magic world of the country for too long. During that tragic war, the magic world of the country Almost 30% of the young and middle-aged population has been lost.

Of course, it does not mean that all these people were killed.

Most of these people fled to other countries.

And there are a large number of emerging nobles who have made the same choice as these people.

These wizards with not very good backgrounds hold a lot of wealth and property in their hands.

But because of the fear of Voldemort, they transferred all their industries and wealth abroad.

This is a devastating blow to the industry and commerce of the country's magic world.

It was also because of that incident that the magic of the whole country completely declined and became the private property of a small number of people. "

"Papa papa..."

As soon as Link finished speaking, there was a burst of loud applause.

Dumbledore clapped his hands and said:

"That's great! Link! Your views on the current state of the country's wizarding world are so sharp! If we were still at Hogwarts, based on what you just said, I should add a whole lot to you." percentage!"

Although Dumbledore's words were perfunctory to Link's ears like "I'll treat you to dinner when I'm free".

But adhering to the idea of ​​respecting the old and loving the young, Link still bowed slightly to Dumbledore and saluted.

It was also a response.

At this time, Emily was completely lost in thought after listening to Link's explanation.

Before that, Emily had never thought about the state of the Ministry of Magic in China, even if she learned the history of magic well.

But her situation is somewhat similar to Hermione's. When learning these histories, she just memorizes them by rote and lacks the ability to diverge thoughts.

What Link said just now opened up a new way of thinking for her.

Allow her to think along this line of thought in her own way.

This is definitely a great thing for Emily.

Therefore, neither Link nor Dumbledore meant to disturb Emily at this time.

A group of people escorted Emily, who was in deep thought, all the way forward.

And finally, it appeared under a huge plaque of pure gold.

A line of French is clearly engraved on the plaque - Zangwill's wand!

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