Harry Potter: Dawn's Light
Chapter 836

"Follower VI"

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"Have you ever considered betraying your master?" the secretary-general asked, looking at the "lobster tail" on the plate.

"What do you mean?" Snape asked slickly.

"Besides the Devil effect, Zimbardo also discovered the Lucifer effect. At first, I thought he was just another self-righteous 'scientist.' He described how good people became bad people. During the witch-hunt era, we persecuted 'heretics'; now the 'heretics' criticize how we fell into corruption. Kepler's mother, Katharina Kepler, was falsely accused of being a witch. Though she immediately took those people to court for defamation, there were simply too many accusers, and even the magistrate of Leonberg in the Duchy of Württemberg became involved. At the time, Kepler was the imperial mathematician of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, and his reputation was at its height. If he returned to his hometown then, he could not possibly distance himself from his mother's 'witch trial,' which was bound to affect his reputation. Yet for his mother's safety, Kepler still set out for home. Once lies were validated, there would always be people to echo them. Some believed we had arranged his arrest, after all, he had been deeply influenced at university by Copernicus's theories, which were secretly being spread. In truth, people always harbored a certain loathing for elderly women, especially unpleasant old women, who were inexplicably accused all the time. Katharina was accused because she was disliked. You have mentioned the faults of young people and boarding schools many times, so you are a boarding school teacher, aren't you? Most young people have little independent judgment. The first person to accuse Katharina was a young woman named Ursula, an elementary school teacher. Ten years earlier, Katharina had invited her to her home to read a letter. While reading it, she drank a cup of wine Katharina

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