In The Tales of Beedle the Bard, there was a story about a hopping pot. Yet, like many fairy tales, it existed in many versions. The bedtime story Draco Malfoy heard from Lucius differed from what was written in the storybook. The cauldron did not urge the young wizard to help the villagers as his father had done in life. Instead, it helped the innocent wizard get rid of neighbours carrying torches and rakes, drove them out of the wizard's house, then caught them and swallowed them whole, head and feet alike. Only after the remaining villagers promised never to interfere with the wizard's magic again did the wizard order the cauldron to spit out what was in its belly. Those people were no longer recognisable as human.
Georgiana entered Switzerland before Ney because she was operating in secret. Her main purpose was to stop Trolls from looting amid the chaos, while Ney could not enter Switzerland until he had been authorised to do so. At the time, Reding had already decided to resist to the bitter end, firmly refusing to accept Switzerland's transformation into a republic and insisting on retaining the federal system.
In Zurich, the ancient city walls still stood, but they could not withstand the assault. Before dawn, French troops poured into the city through three gates. To the beat of drums, they advanced across the open ground between the city and the walls. Gathered there were a battalion drawn up in formation and a group of armed peasants, most wielding flails, pitchforks, and sickles, but no battle broke out.
The troops that first entered Zurich belonged to the Army of Italy. Ney sent an adjutant to the Army of Italy headquarters, requesting that the army dispatch two forces through the Alpine Passes to seize Altdorf and