Chapter 3185 The Giant Whale and the Elephant (9)

"How about it?"

 Seeing Hermione Granger coming from the Champions' Tent, everyone put their arms around her and asked.

"I didn't see the result, Ritaquist showed up." Hermione replied gloomily.

Everyone howled.

“Okay, everyone, go back!” Pomona shouted to the students, herding them back to the stands like sheep.

 After all the students were seated, Pomona sat next to Minerva.

 “Don’t be nervous,” said Minerva.

 “I’m not nervous!” Pomona said immediately, leaning towards where the players were entering.

“What was the result of the draw?” Minerva remembered and asked.

 “Miss Granger didn’t see it.”

As soon as Pomona's voice fell, Ludo Bagman's voice rang out.

 “The first contestant, Cedric Diggory.”

 An iron cage next to the dragon's nest was opened, and a blue dragon climbed out of it.

“Fortunately, it’s not a Hungarian Horntail,” Minerva said, patting her heart.

 But Pomona thought she had heard the worst news.

 People may think that the most dangerous animal in the forest is a tiger, but in fact wild boars are more likely to attack people.

The Hungarian Horntail is very aggressive, the Swedish Brachysaurus will try to minimize contact with people, and the Welsh Green Dragon's green coat is a protective color and can blend in with the dense forests on the mountains. It is the least likely to cause trouble.

As for the Chinese Fireball, it can tolerate staying with its own kind as long as it is not angered, while the Swedish Brachysaurus has high speed and high defense, and its leather gloves and shields are the most popular.

 It can be regarded as a type of wind dragon, and is closely related to the blue dragon in the Romanian Fire Dragon Sanctuary. It will cooperate with humans to catch the escaped dragon.

Cedric's face was blue when he entered, and he looked like he was about to vomit because of nervousness, but he still endured it and pointed a boulder with his wand, turning it into a puppy.

 He and the puppy ran in each direction, and the Swedish Brachysaurus made a choice between the two.

 “Good dog, come this way!” Pomona slapped hard towards the stands.

"That's not a real dog," Minerva said calmly.

In the end the dragon chose Cedric, maybe it felt that the dog posed no threat to it.

 The puppy ran towards the dragon's nest.

 This time, all the dragons chosen were female dragons. Female dragons have a stronger instinct to protect their nests than male dragons.

　　Swedish Brachysaurus also noticed Cedric's intentions. It may have thought about it, but it still attacked Cedric, but it did not use flames, but rushed directly towards him.

Thanks to Quidditch, Cedric nimbly dodged the dragon's claw attack and got out from under the mother dragon's belly.

It was more difficult for the dragon's huge body to turn around, and Cedric immediately ran towards the other end of the field.

 “Oh, it’s so dangerous, so dangerous.” Ludo Bagman explained.

“If you can’t commentate, find another commentator!” Pomona shouted at him.

Minerva pulled her and sat down.

After Cedric stood still, he rolled up a tornado, which was completely useless to the dragon. It only blocked it with its wings.

Cedric used a crushing spell on the stone at the dragon's feet. Now the dragon couldn't stand still and had to fly.

 The dragon's movements were lazily, and it looked like he was not using his full strength. Cedric took this opportunity to cast the Disillusionment Curse on himself.

 “Infraction!” said the referee.

 “You didn’t say not to use the Disillusionment Curse!” Pomona shouted.

Minerva advised her again.

“He used the Disillusionment Curse, why should we watch the game?” someone in the audience said.

“This is the first warning. Players are not allowed to use any magic to hide themselves.” The referee announced.

Cedric had no choice but to dissipate the magic and reveal himself again.

 “Very clever idea – but it didn’t work!” said Ludo Bagman.

This is the puppy that has approached the dragon's nest and opened its mouth to take the dragon egg away.

 A dog's jaw cannot "dislocate" like a snake and swallow prey that is much thicker than itself.

 But luckily it wasn’t a real dog.

The dragon noticed the dog's movement and turned around to protect the egg. Cedric crawled forward and seemed to be planning to go around the nest from behind.

The dog ran on the uneven ground with the egg in his mouth. The dragon spits blue fire at it, transforming it into a dog-shaped glass sculpture.

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Georgiana took out her wand and smashed everything she found offensive.

Whether it’s the murals on the walls or the furnishings.

 Destruction will leave a field of ruins, which may be construction waste or reusable materials.

She directed the fragments, which revolved around her like a belt of asteroids.

 In a paper written by Warburg, the general opinions of Florentine politicians in Machiavelli's time were recorded.

It is better to make peace with fate, to make a truce, to let our will conform to the will of fate, so that it does not forcefully pull us down a path we do not like.

If they were right, how could the Florentine Republic be destroyed?

It turns out that the goddess of fate is stepping on a wheel. This wheel controls and crushes people. Sometimes it lifts him up, and sometimes he falls into the abyss.

 Then she transformed into the goddess of sails.

On the roof of the customs house in Venice, there is a sculpture of the goddess of destiny, facing the Adriatic Sea, and further and further along her direction is Albania.

In 1501, a legate from Ferrara escorted the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI to marry Alfonso d'Este. The wedding ceremony featured a struggle between Fate and Hercules.

Heracles is the **** of Hercules, and his mother is the granddaughter of Perseus, who killed Medusa. Perseus once wandered on the sea because his grandfather heard the oracle that one day, his grandson would Seize his throne.

 Old people will grow old eventually. If the position is not passed on to the grandchildren, how can the throne be kept and carried into the coffin?

　　When Perseus killed Medusa, the ground was covered with Medusa's blood, and they all turned into poisonous snakes.

With the head of Medusa, Perseus can even kill people and monsters much larger than him. When he passed by a coast, he saw a beautiful girl tied to a rock on the sea. The sea breeze It messed up her hair and she burst into tears.

This girl was Andromeda. Her mother laughed at Poseidon's wife. The sea nymphs were very angry and asked Poseidon to punish her country.

 In order to appease the anger of Poseidon, the king sacrificed his daughter to the sea monster sent by Poseidon.

It was a huge whale. Perseus pointed Medusa's head at it, and the whale turned into stone and saved the girl.

Perseus and the girl had many sons, one of whom was Heracles's grandfather.

Hercules liberated Prometheus, participated in Jason's expedition to find the Golden Fleece, and participated in the battle between the Olympian gods and the giants. As a result, he integrated into the gods, reconciled with Hera, and returned Married to the goddess of youth as his wife.

 This is a legitimate way, at least more legitimate than the Trojan prince who poured wine on behalf of the goddess of youth.

How could Hercules not be a match for Fate? She looked so weak.

The scene ended with Heracles winning, Fate being tied up, and Zeus coming to rescue her on the condition that she protect the marriage.

Theoretically Hera is the goddess who protects marriage and family, but she gradually represents power, and she has no control over Zeus at all.

 Humans are still smart and know how to replace her place with the goddess of fate.

 What do people want to change through marriage?

  She thought of Anne Boleyn. If she had not married Henry VIII, would she have died so early?

So the sculpture remains at the stage where Fate and Heracles are fighting, with no winner or loser between them.

 “How can a man hit a woman?” said Bonaparte, looking at the sculpture.

 “Who do you think will win?” Georgiana asked.

 “A man can win even if he wins with force.” He poured himself a glass of wine calmly and drank it.

 “What if I told you she was Fate?” asked Georgiana.

 His drinking movement paused.

 “Hercules was very lucky and accomplished 12 impossible tasks.” She took the cup from his hand and drank heavily.

 “What do you mean by the snakes under their feet?” asked Bonaparte.

"Perseus and Medusa. Perseus's grandfather heard the oracle that his throne would be replaced by his grandson, so he put Perseus in a cradle and let him drift. Later he killed Medusa. , rescued his wife who was almost swallowed by a giant whale." She explained.

 “It’s also fate.” He said with a smile.

 “Do you like it?” she asked.

“What’s important is that you like it.” He looked at the ruined suite. “Come to my place tonight?”

 “No problem.” She said happily and finished the wine.

 “Don’t you regret it?” he asked earnestly.

“What if I regret it? There is no medicine for regret in this world.” She looked at the sculpture and said, “And I won’t use a time turner to go back.”

 “What’s that?” he asked.

“A waste that seems to be able to change destiny, but actually can do nothing.” She said coldly, threw the empty cup to the ground, and walked away holding the arm of the Italian conqueror.

 (End of this chapter)