Chapter 2879 The Lion of Freedom (1)

If you look at the history of the Cooper family, it is not without celebrities. During the Chartist Movement, there was a labor leader in Sheffield, Thomas Cooper, who was known locally as "Brother."

At first, the Chartists and the Anti-Corn Law League were allies. Later, as the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew spread, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God."

The crowd stopped clamoring for bread and began to ponder some abstract concepts.

From this period onwards, the struggle between the Chartists and the Anti-Corn League became very fierce. Some historians have analyzed that the failure of the Chartist movement was related to the immigration of leaders, but Thomas Cooper did not go to the United States or Australia.

He went to live in London, where he lived until 1892. His last job was delivering newspapers.

He was a brave man and an authoritarian father. One of his three children was forced by him to go to the New World. Since then, there has been no contact with him. Ben Cooper did not even know that he had such a relative.

There were several major economic crises in the United States, which occurred in 1810, 1837, 1857 and 1873 respectively. The two crises in 1819 and 1837 were caused by banks taking risky speculative actions.

At that time, the United States was engaged in infrastructure construction. The construction of cotton and canals had a profound impact. Large amounts of loans from Europe were invested in these infrastructures. Along with them, civilians who fled to the United States because of the European wars also attracted a lot of attention.

A wave of immigration.

In Western movies, we often see vast, sparsely populated, desolate lands and dull villages and towns. In fact, if people could settle on the east coast, they would not be willing to move west.

Real estate speculation has led to ghost towns that are only on maps, and bankers won't visit them anyway.

With the discovery of the gold mines in California in 1848, a new round of speculation began, this time in railroads, but Wall Street undoubtedly provided a greater boost than the gold mines.

Compared with the United States, the increase in railway mileage in the United Kingdom during this period was pitiful. Even if the railway from King's Cross Station to Hogsmeade Station is added, it is only a fraction of the railway mileage in the United States. The railway mileage in the United States in 1850

It reached 10,000 miles, and by the time of the Civil War it was already 30,000 miles.

The discovery of gold mines filled the desert with water and became active. Just like a canal needs water to ferry a boat, navigation is impossible if the water flow is small.

But even the Black family doesn't have much magic silver at home. Even if there is a lot of magic iron in Isidora's device, it is almost impossible to ask Hogwarts to pay the goblins the money.

The goblin did not remind Isidora that she had to cut off the gift if she had no money for the magic silver. Isidora was busy perfecting her magic and her dream of a world without pain, and forgot about the price to pay for taking other people's things.

After giving the sword of Gryffindor, the goblins said that the magic silver in the sword was not enough and they wanted more, so they could only use the castle to pay off the debt.

The fat monk told her to look on the bright side of people. Isidora wasn't particularly bad. At least she didn't use her abilities to form a cult and charge believers to remove their pain.

Fortunately, Isidora is a girl, and the mysterious man is actually very talented, but look what he has done?

After returning to Hogwarts, Severus went to find those brats, while Pomona went to Albus to discuss Paul's problem.

Ben Cooper said that Paul absorbed too much power. Assuming that what he absorbed was "trash" that Isidora could not handle and needed to be disposed of with magic silver, then Paul might be as indestructible as Peeves.

If Peeves wanted to absorb the prank-loving emotions of children, then Paul was absorbing people's emotions of avoiding pain and longing for joy. Instead of becoming friends, when they got together, they ended up at war over territorial issues.

It would be best to get Paul away before school starts, but where to send him?

Just like this, Pomona muddled around till evening. After having dinner at school, Pomona planned to go to Hogsmeade to find Priya Moore. Before leaving, she thought it would be best to ask Severus to go with her this time, so she took

A double-sided mirror came out.

"Where are you?" Pomona asked.

"library."

"Come to the wooden bridge and we'll go to Hogsmeade," Pomona said.

Then she waited by the wooden bridge.

Summer vacation is coming to an end and she hasn't slept all day, which is really unlucky.

After waiting for about half an hour, the old bat finally came out, just like those real bats that haunt the evening sunset.

"How are the kids?" Pomona asked.

"Still looking for clues." Severus said expressionlessly, "Is it necessary to ask Bill to return to London and then take the car over?"

"He's a prefect, of course, and besides, Patsy will start school this year." She cheered up and walked along the wooden bridge.

Only their footsteps could be heard along the way.

"About talent." He suddenly said.

"Percival and Albus are indeed relatives, and they all speak in the same tone." Pomona said helplessly.

"Have you ever considered any other options?" Severus said.

"Are you talking about getting married and having children like Lily?"

He said nothing, as if he acquiesced.

In fact, Pomona admired Henrietta, who gave full play to her talents, and witches such as Silodiana.

"When you have a family, both men and women have to sacrifice some freedom. Dumbledore has been single all his life. He can do many things that the headmaster dare not do and has no time to do because he has no family to accompany him. You know the one about Barnaby

The dog, Dexter, I named him after Dexter Fortescue, the school principal in the 18th century."

"Why did you choose him?" Severus asked with a frown.

"Every time Phileas Black disobeys the Headmaster's orders, he helps Dumbledore, 'dereliction of duty'!" Pomona said, imitating Fortescue's tone. "Phyleas Black is often not in the portrait in the Headmaster's office.

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"He came home?" Severus asked. "Is there anyone alive in the Black family?"

"He can go to other places, such as going to the Drunken Friar on the third floor to drink. Oh, mentioning this, by the way, don't save Ferdinand." Pomona said seriously, "Just let him drink in Peeves's bathroom."

Stay in the room."

"Why should I save him?" Severus asked inexplicably.

"Nothing." Pomona said with a smile. "I think those portraits are very interesting, even after what happened with Phoebe."

He remained silent.

"Helen Keller is deaf and mute, but she can still touch the light. I don't believe that Phoebe can't." Pomona said, "She can go to Hogsmeade next school year. If I catch anyone who dares to bully her..."

"I know." Severus said impatiently, "I'll pay attention."

"If my students agree to your dungeon dance and something goes wrong with them, I will add some 'sauce' to your dish." Pomona gritted her teeth and said, "How about some soft-clawed land shrimp?"

He looked at her with new eyes.

"When the rash is gone, we will discuss whose spots are the authentic Slytherin green!"

"You want to start a war with me?" Severus said with a smile.

"You think I don't dare?" she asked with a smile.

He took a big step forward, changing from walking side by side to blocking her way.

"What about you? Do you want to go to the dance with me?"

"It's better for adults not to go to the children's dance, as it will save everyone's time and spoil everyone's fun." Pomona said easily, "But you can come to my office and do something adults would do."

"Like what?" he said teasingly.

Read, read, arm your mind.

But she didn't say anything, but walked past him.

Priya Moore was probably waiting for them. If they were delayed for a while, she might change her mind and leave.
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