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    (I wanted to update it early in the morning, but my mother got mad at me. Embarrassing! Did she and Jinx take turns to get into trouble? Alas)

    "Oh no!" Hermione screamed and rushed towards Ron, hurriedly applying first aid techniques taught in Muggle schools. If Ron's heart hadn't been beating too fast, he might even have had to have a chest massage.  Use them together.

    After a long time, Ron finally relaxed his tense muscles and asked with a pale face: "Has it been successful?"

    Hearing this, Harry and Hermione thought about solving the puzzle. They quickly looked back and saw that even though the positions of the two crowns had been reversed, the Pope's statue still stood firmly in place, unchanged at all.  signs.

    "Ha, ha" Ron laughed dryly, "Miss Know-it-all, I think you are mistaken. This is not about entrusting each other with glory, but "dumbbell" (dumbbell, but it also means fool, fool)  'That's right."

    Hermione was not in the mood to quarrel with Ron now. She just frowned in annoyance, seeming to be thinking about something. After a moment, she came back to her senses and said warmly to Ron: "Don't think about it now, the little broomstick is  You bastard! Ron, how do you feel now? Do you want us to send you to Madam Pomfrey?"

    "No, I, I'm fine." Even though the strong-willed Ron felt weak all over, he was unwilling to stay in the medical wing on the first day of the new semester.

    Harry and Hermione looked at each other worriedly, "Okay" They both knew Ron's temper very well and didn't want to argue with him at this time. Anyway, they believed that if there was something wrong with Ron's health,  Madam Pomfrey was also able to cure him in an instant.

    Harry and Hermione, who were no longer interested in solving the puzzle, helped Ron up one by one and walked towards the Gryffindor lounge. Now they had to speed up, otherwise when the curfew time came, Phil  Strangely, this vicious and deafening wolf would not listen to any of their explanations.

    "Huh you guys walk slower" Ron's feeble voice reached Harry's ears before he took a few steps, "I don't have much strength to walk now Merlin's beard, I thought just now  My heart was taken out and it won¡¯t beat"

    "What does it have to do with Merlin's beard?" Harry laughed, "Actually, it's because your heart is beating too fast, so you can't feel"

    "Wait!" Hermione exclaimed, suddenly interrupting the conversation between the two, "What did you just say!" She looked at Ron with piercing eyes.

    "Uh Mei, Merlin's beard?"

    "No, I'm talking about the next sentence!"

    "This" Ron tilted his head in surprise, "I seemed to think that my heart would stop beating after someone took it out What's wrong, Hermione, you don't want to follow me.  You say I have to take out the heart and stuff it into the belly of the Pope?"

    Hermione wrinkled her small nose, as if she found what Ron said to be very disgusting, "Don't talk nonsense! I didn't mean it, it's just that what you just said made me think of a personand then an object."

    "people?"

    "WellJack the Ripper!" Hermione said seriously.

    It turned out that one night at the end of the Christmas break, Hermione's parents had to leave home because of a dental association dinner, and she chose to stay alone because she wanted to add two inches to her Transfiguration homework.

    After finishing her homework, she turned on the TV out of boredom, and happened to switch to an opera performance, so she continued to enjoy it.

    This play is called "Lulu" and it is a play by the famous Austrian composer Alban.  Berg, a masterpiece written in twelve-tone technique.  The play briefly describes a woman named Lulu, who specializes in seducing the opposite sex, dealing with various men, causing them to live and die, and in the end she herself suffers misfortune.  In fact, this opera also contains a deeper meaning, conveying a mysticism of erotic desire that ends in a cycle. Unfortunately, these are things that Hermione, who is only eleven years old, cannot understand.

    In the seventh scene, which is the end of the play, Lulu died under the dagger of the murderer Jack. This caused a great shock to the young Hermione, because the fascinating plot made her start to think at a young age.  What is death?

    Then, the studious Hermione began to frantically search for all the information about the opera. She discovered that the murderer Jack was actually based on the famous killer in London a hundred years ago, Jack the Ripper.  In addition, this opera "Lulu" is not entirely composed by Alban.  Berg's original work was actually adapted from Frank.  Witkin's two tragic stories "Goblin" and "Pandora's Box".

    "Very well, please forgive me that my rusty brain can't keep up with the speed of your thinking" Listening to Hermione introducing a lot of opera plots, RonHis eyes were blank, he was not interested in any of this at all.

    Hermione sighed heavily and explained: "In order to have a deeper understanding of "Lulu", I looked up information about Pandora's Box. It comes from a Greek myth, and the story goes like this, because  Prometheus cared too much about humans and stole fire from Mount Olympus, which angered Zeus, the king of the gods, so he decided to take revenge on Prometheus and all humans Oh, Ron, please shut up.  , you should use all your strength on walking up the stairs first! I will explain the rest to you in the future"

    "After that, Zeus summoned the gods, and they worked together to create a beautiful woman - Pandora. In ancient Greek, Pan means everything, and Dora means a gift, so 'Pandora'  That is, the 'woman with all the gifts', everything about her is beautiful, lovely, charming, confident, luxuriously dressed, and as beautiful as a bride."

    "Under the arrangement of Zeus, Pandora married Prometheus' brother, Epimetheus. Although Prometheus was fully opposed to this, he was powerless to stop it and could only warn Epimetheus.  Don't accept Zeus's gift." At this point, Hermione suddenly let out a long sigh.

    "Before the marriage, Zeus gave Pandora a sealed box filled with disasters, disasters, plagues, etc. It was a malicious gift from the gods and asked her to give it to the man who married her, but Epimetheus followed his brother's advice  , never opened it, who knew that Pandora couldn't hold back her curiosity and opened it secretly"

    "Countless negative things flew out of it like black smoke. Plagues, insects, disasters, soul-torturing resentment, jealousy, and revenge filled the whole world, bringing disaster to human beings who originally lived in peace and joy. Pan Duo  La knew she had made a big mistake and hurriedly closed the lid, but who knew she had made an even bigger mistake!"

    Seeing Harry and Ron listening attentively, Hermione smiled with satisfaction and said: "It turns out that the compassionate goddess of wisdom Athena knows that with her power alone, she cannot stop the decisions of other gods, but she wants to save them.  It was the fate of mankind, so he secretly put the most beautiful thing in the world-'hope' into that box. Unfortunately, he didn't expect that before hope could fly out of the box, Pandora held the handle out of fear.  The lid is closed"

    During the conversation, the three of them came to the portrait of the Fat Lady. After saying the password, Harry and Hermione finally took the weak Ron out of the passage, half pushing and half pulling.

    Then, Harry took a breath, looked around the empty saloon, and asked softly: "So do you think the broken 'Box of Hope' in the riddle refers to Pandora's Box?"

    After Ron heard Harry's question, he suddenly realized it. He looked at Hermione with a helpless look and complained: "So you talked for almost ten minutes, just for five words©¤"Pan  Dora's Box'? Merlin, I thought the most nagging person in the world was my motherHermione, whoever marries you in the future will definitely be in pain!"

    "Shut up!" Hermione blushed and said angrily: "If I ever marry someone in the future, I will definitely marry someone with brains. Then I won't bother explaining all the 'common sense' to him."

    Seeing that the two friends were starting to quarrel again, Harry sighed in his stomach and repeated the question loudly, which attracted Hermione's attention.

    "Yes, Harry, you are much smarter!" Hermione glanced at Ron, "That's what I doubt."

    "But Hermione" Harry said hesitantly, "Pandora is a Greek myth, so it shouldn't have anything to do with the church, right?"

    Hermione let out a breath and said: "So I think I must have guessed wrong just now. The puzzle of the little broomstick shouldn't be this simple. Harry, heresy also means heresy,  So Greek mythology is not impossible."

    At this time, Ron's face froze, "So all the sacrifices I just made were for doing stupid things?"

    Although her ears were a little red with embarrassment, Hermione still pretended not to hear Ron's complaints and said in a relaxed manner: "The investigation has started again. This is getting more and more interesting. I didn't expect that I just finished my vacation.  I can encounter such a fun puzzle-solving activityI will write a letter tomorrow and ask my father to send me my copy of "The Complete Collection of Greek Mythology"!"

    "It's so late" Hermione yawned, not knowing whether it was true or not, "You should go to bed early. There will be classes tomorrow morning. Good night."

    Looking at Hermione's hurried away figure, Ron's eyes widened in shock. After a long time, he complained to Harry: "Although Hermione can be unbearably arrogant sometimes, I thought she was at least  He also knows how to repay kindness and reflect on himself"

    "Hey, Ron"

    "Harry." Ron interrupted Harry abruptly and stared at him seriously, "WillCome on, if anyone wants to marry Hermione"

    "I will definitely punch him hardto wake him up!"

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