It was said that during the Crusades in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Lionheart Charlie was active in Sherwood Forest near Nottingham with a band of outlaws skilled with bows, robbing the rich to aid the poor.
In ballads, people called that group Robin Hood.
If you were poor and had such an outlaw helping you resist the officials' harsh exactions, you would surely see him as a hero.
If you were wealthy and had a peasant rebel force hiding in the forest, ready to ambush you at any moment, you would most likely hate those "outlaws" to the bone.
A dark forest was the ideal place for an ambush. Though the black raven sculptures hidden in the laurel forest stood perfectly still, it was difficult not to be wary of them.
Unlike iron swords, archers could be trained easily.
Britain in the Middle Ages was far less wealthy than France. Even the Holy Roman Empire had originally been established to resist France's invasion of Italy.
France had once been powerful, and it was precisely because of that power that it had sufficient military funds to equip heavily armored cavalry.
Yet during the Hundred Years' War, Britain's longbowmen dealt devastating blows to the French army. At the Battle of Agincourt, British longbowmen killed more than ten thousand French soldiers at the cost of just over a hundred men.
During World War II, because France was such an unreliable ally, Britain had no choice but to carry out the Dunkirk evacuation, though history called it a "great victory."
Severus watched Voldemort, who stood on the other side of Lyall Mayer, keeping guard.
Without the ring on Lyall's hand, the mechanisms in the maze would not activate, and the final gate could not be opened.
It seemed that neither Voldemort nor Lyall,