Nineteenth-century European collectors once held a highly controversial view, one that remained popular even to this day.
They believed it was best for scholars and merchants to bring their precious discoveries to Europe, because Cairo had no museums, and taking those artifacts to European museums could spare them from plunder and destruction. A pasha was a high-ranking official in the Ottoman Empire's administrative system, usually a governor, general, or senior official, roughly equivalent to a British "lord." Muhammad Ali, the Pasha of Egypt at the time, naturally did not agree with the Europeans. He had once established a museum, but after it was dissolved, its collection was swiftly divided up as "diplomatic gifts."
The three of them carefully examined the Egyptian artifacts collected in the Louvre Museum one by one, hoping to find some unusual trace among them. The sheer number of things to inspect left them dazzled.
Then Pomona suddenly thought of Bill Weasley. He had worked in Egypt and was also a Curse-Breaker, making him far more trustworthy than this Count Gong Saiyi Leroy, whose background they knew nothing about.
Not every French person took pride in speaking French. Some had to speak English for work, after all; English was now the international lingua franca.
But Pomona would never speak French to French people. She had encountered French travelers in Britain before. The moment she spoke French, they became especially eager to correct her accent, or else they put on an expression of "I am being patient," pretending to listen tolerantly as she spoke accented French.
She was unfamiliar with Gong Saiyi, whereas she knew Bill much better. It was more reassuring to bring an acquaintance along on an adventure, yet she herself did not know why she had failed to think of that at the time.
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