On the train to Venice, Severus and Pomona had also discussed the matter of "children."
The so-called "population farms," though they claimed to serve national interests, made Aryan girls victims of war, just like every other nation and people in the world.
The Crusades had been launched under the slogan of protecting pilgrims, and the Knights Templar had initially been formed for that purpose. But pilgrims often carried considerable funds, and travelling with so many precious metals was unsafe. Thus, the Knights Templar developed a "bill of exchange" business. European nobles could deposit their gold, silver, and jewels with the Knights Templar in Europe, then collect them in Jerusalem after receiving a "bill of exchange." Such bills were usually encrypted and forged-proof; no one outside the Knights Templar could recognize them.
Armenian Paper, likewise used as an invitation, had anti-counterfeiting measures. Jean-Louis Fargeon, Marie Antoinette's personal perfumer, had also lived through the Diamond Necklace Affair. To Jeanne, it had been "no big deal." After being whipped and branded, she miraculously escaped to England and wrote a memoir that slandered the queen in great detail.
Rule One of the Gryffindor Code: Gryffindors feared nothing.
Rule Two: Dare to face bloodshed, dare to fight evil forces.
For the Golden Trio back then, they had more important things to do—fight the evil Slytherins and Death Eaters, and destroy Horcruxes. Under that overriding premise, everything else was a "minor matter."
Gryffindor said in its code: Brains are a good thing. We have them!
Slytherin usually responded with mockery and ridicule.
Introverts were often sensitive. The smallest thing could make them react with overwhelming emotion like trembling flowers, unlike extroverts, who quickly forgot.
That scene beneath the beech tree had been only a small part of school life for James Potter and Sirius Black, yet