After Rome was founded, people all lived in a hilly area south of the Tiber River. There were many small hills, and the Latins settled upon them according to blood ties, forming villages. Seven villages then joined together to become the "League of the Seven Hills," which was why Rome was once called the City of Seven Hills.
The earliest Curiate Assembly normally served as consul, handling conflicts and problems within the clans, and acted as a military leader in wartime.
Unlike the Romans, the Greeks loved debating in long robes, although Roman senators toward the end of the Republic also became very fond of eloquence.
In an age without national criminal law, not only among the Germanic peoples, blood feuds—avenging one's own family members—were common. If he killed his enemy himself, that enemy's relatives would seek revenge against him; after he died, his own relatives would avenge him. At best, this became a generational feud; at worst, it sparked a war between states.
Although Germanic Law stipulated that victims and their families could kill a criminal caught in the act without following procedure, it prohibited private individuals from possessing such bloody judicial authority in principle.
Severus had previously told Pomona that, to prevent the excessive spread of justified killing, the Ministry of Magic had imprisoned Percival Dumbledore in Azkaban, even though he was a father desperate to avenge his daughter.
And Grindelwald had seized precisely on this point, asking who "that law," the International Statute of Secrecy, was truly protecting. Though the scene in which he spoke had nothing to do with Dumbledore; he had said it in Manhattan, New York.
Albus had once told Vogel to do what was right, not what was easy.
But the reality was that Grindelwald could not be stopped. Even if Vogel "temporarily"