Chapter 3078 Libation Bearer (9)

Sparta in the 4th century BC was very powerful and did not need to consult with the weak city-states near it before taking action. The Athenians once accused the Spartans: "You go to war with others as you please, and you never ask for advice from your allies." opinions, but asked them to follow you to charge into battle, resulting in those so-called self-controlled city-states being forced to fight against their friends."

In fact, the Athenians were a bit exaggerated, because the Spartans would only convene an alliance meeting "when they need it", such as when launching a large-scale and dangerous war, or when the journey is far away and the opponent is powerful, and Sparta is alone. It's easy to go too deep and never come back, and that's when the Spartans need allies.

In addition, there are other things that played a key role. Sparta's allies were not treated equally. The first type of allies was weak and vulnerable to Sparta's influence. The second type of allies were stronger or farther away from Sparta. Further away, or both, but still not strong enough, or not far enough away to escape Sparta's control, the third category of allies is very powerful, or very far away from Sparta.

For example, Corinth, which straddles the isthmus, can keep out Sparta's enemies outside the Peloponnese, or allow them to enter the Peloponnese and threaten Sparta's security.

The wealth of Corinth was as famous as the poverty of Sparta. For various reasons, Corinth's opinions could not be ignored. Due to Corinth's opposition during meetings, Sparta's policies could not be implemented, and sometimes even Sparta's policies could not be implemented. It's all decided by Collins.

Corinth had a neighboring country called Megara, which fought with Corinth because of a territorial dispute. At first, the Spartans ignored it. Later, the Megara people broke away from Sparta and joined the Delian League led by Athens. This move was considered by the "Spartans" as a provocation to the leader, so Sparta and its allies began to support Corinth.

Joining the allies of Athens has two benefits. The first is that you can get the protection of the Athenian navy, and the second is that you can trade with the allies of the Delian League.

For the Athenians, Megara's geographical location is also very important. After all, it is a neighbor of Corinth, and Corinth's strategic significance is very obvious.

Soon after the Athenians formed an alliance with Megara, they sent military assistants to Cape Pei, a port of Megara on the Gulf of Corinth. At the same time, the Greeks also built a wall to connect Megara with Nicea. Nicaea was another port of Megara, where the Athenian army usually garrisoned.

This caused a problem, because civilians also needed to use the port. The relationship between the Athenians and the Corinthians was good, but they offended the Corinthians for this strategic location. However, although Sparta and Corinth always wanted to find excuses to start wars, But it was difficult to find opportunities, and it took nearly 30 years.

One day, four drunk Greeks came to the area where Megarians lived and "took away" a local woman. This aroused the anger of the Megarians. In retaliation, they then took away three Greek brothels. woman inside.

Later, the Greeks used the excuse that the Megarians had destroyed their sacred grove and did not allow the Megarian ships to dock at the ports of the Greek allies, and the Megarian goods were also confiscated.

There was such a fuss at the time that some playwrights wrote about the scene: "Everyone said that the other's goods belonged to Megara, and even a lump of salt would be confiscated."

This can be said to be the earliest trade sanctions, and the Megarians who were sanctioned were on the verge of bankruptcy. At first they hoped that the Greeks would calm down, so they went to the Spartans to persuade them. Athens did not agree to lift the sanctions, so in order to Survive, the Megarians also joined Sparta's allies.

The Greeks were furious, and the Megarian ban was the trigger for the Peloponnesian War.

Historically, Pericles gave people the impression of being prudent, but one should not think that he was completely incapable of doing stupid things, such as deliberately provoking the Peloponnesian War in order to seize the opportunity to banish people who opposed him and planned to use potsherds to banish him. The people who banished him suppressed this idea, especially regarding the Athenian expedition to Egypt.

In 460 BC, a peasant uprising broke out in the Nile Delta. With the cooperation of the Athenian fleet and the rebels, the entire delta fell under the control of the Delian League. However, the expedition later fell into stagnation and anxiety. Finally, the Persians Retaking Egypt with a large number of armed forces was a big loss to the newly established Delian League.

 With the precedent of failure, many Athenians did not agree to the expedition to Egypt, which was contrary to Pericles's opinion.

Anyway, what happened has happened, not to mention that the existing data cannot speculate on Pericles' thoughts. Anyway, the Spartans did not "war with others as they please" as the Athenians said, at least not when they went to war with the Athenians. in this way.

 Any war needs a "just cause", or in other words, a fight for justice.

 Grindelwald gave his followers a "just cause" worth promoting, which made all those who tried to stop the Witches seem less righteous.

 War is only beautiful when it is over, even if the initial dizziness of victory makes it seem wonderful.

'Who are you? ’

 The little silver snake on Kelly Wharton's head writes in glittering lines in mid-air.

"It doesn't matter who I am, let her go!" Pomona pointed at it with her wand.

　　‘Just you? ’ Little Silver Snake wrote in mid-air.

It obviously had no face and couldn't make any other sounds other than "hissing", but Pomona still felt the joke in his tone.

 “Those poems, were you written by you?” Pomona said.

"No, that's what I...I wrote." Kelly continued, but her voice became softer under the threat of the little silver snake.

Pomona was a little dizzy, but she still remembered her "mission", so she continued.

“I know your plan, and soon the others will be here, and you won’t succeed, you bad guy who deceived little girls!”

"I didn't lie to her." Little Silver Snake said, "I just flattered her a few words, and she completely believed me."

Kelly didn’t refute, and Pomona couldn’t tell whether she acquiesced or was threatened.

“We are outnumbered and you can’t control all of us!” Pomona said.

"That was your idea." "What was your purpose in doing that? Killing everyone in the castle? Aren't you worried about your followers?" Pomona asked.

 “Why should I worry about them?” asked the little snake.

"They will die too, even if they are purebloods," Pomona said.

 “Do you know who I am?” asked the little snake.

Pomona didn’t answer immediately, even though she had an intuition...

"You are a dark wizard, who else is from Slytherin House?" Pomona said.

"You idiot!" the little snake wrote angrily. Not only did the handwriting become messy, but it also made a "hissing" sound.

Pomona felt that she had attracted attention for long enough, why didn't Severus take action?

"What's the big deal?" Pomona pretended to be relaxed and said, "Aren't you from Slytherin House?"

“Even if I were, you wouldn’t allow that attitude!” The little snake spat out a snake letter and said, “Do you think you are smart?”

 No, she felt quite stupid.

“Everyone said that.” Pomona said matter-of-factly. “Everyone said that, and of course it’s true.”

 The little snake raised its upper body, as if it wanted to make it easier to write this way.

However, at this moment, a shadowless energy wave came towards it at extremely high speed, and the little snake only had time to turn its head before it was hit by it.

　　It shook twice and fell limply on Kelly's shoulder. Kelly immediately jumped up, threw the little snake to the ground and ran away.

At this time, Severus appeared. He held up his wand and came to the little snake. The moment it slowly raised its head, a cage trapped it. Then he pulled the black cloak and gave the cage to the snake. Cover.

Pomona doubted the necessity of his handsome move, but then Kelly ran over and rushed into Pomona's arms. She was crying like a tear.

 Kelly’s hair is dark brown. It should have been carefully taken care of and looks extremely smooth.

There are still traces of where the hairpin was before - it was cut off by a magic spell, and it looks like a bald patch.

If a girl's hair wasn't so important, maybe Kelly would have shaved her head. Pomona raised her head and glanced at the greasy-haired Severus, who was looking at them intently.

 “I’ll take this to a safe place,” he said dryly, then turned and walked away.

“Let’s go too.” Pomona said to Kelly. She nodded hastily, so Pomona took her hand and left the sunken theater.

When they reached the top of the steps, near the exit, Pomona suddenly stopped and looked back at the empty space.

Then she left without looking back.

 The experience of being at the lowest point in life is painful, and many people want to forget it, or pretend that that period never existed.

 But for some people, they don’t want to let go of such memories, are you right? Yusef Khama.

 Grindelwald "helped" him erase that memory, which seemed to relieve him of his pain.

His "craftsmanship" should be different from Isidora's. It is very exquisite and will not take away good and bad memories together, leaving only an empty shell in the end.

 Sen Bakar, who was in the same space as Isidora's father, saw that scene with horror on his face. Can such a person still "exist"?

 Even if it is a bad memory, I would like to keep it because it is part of "me".

Pain can make people sober, especially when lurking around a person who is good at demagoguery, one may accidentally forget "who I am."

 (End of this chapter)