  A general strategy is provided to identify the most general metric for
diagonalizable pseudo-Hermitian and anti-pseudo-Hermitian Hamilton operators
represented by two-dimensional matrices. It is investigated how a permutation
of the eigen-values of the Hamilton operator in the process of its
diagonalization influences the metric and how this permutation equivalence
affects energy eigen-values. We try to understand on one hand, how the metric
depends on the normalization of the chosen left and right eigen-basis of the
matrix representing the diagonalizable pseudo-Hermitian or
anti-pseudo-Hermitian Hamilton operator, on the other hand, whether there has
to exist a positive semi-definite metric required to set up a meaningful
Quantum Theory even for non-Hermitian Hamilton operators of this type. Using
our general strategy we determine the metric with respect to the two elements
of the two-dimensional permutation group for various topical examples of
matrices representing two-dimensional Hamilton operators found in the
literature assuming on one hand pseudo-Hermiticity, on the other hand
anti-pseudo-Hermiticity. The (unnecessary) constraint inferred by C. M. Bender
and collegues that the ${\cal C}$-operator of ${\cal PT}$-symmetric Quantum
Theory should be an involution (${\cal C}^2=1$) is shown - in the unbroken
phase of ${\cal PT}$-symmetry - to require the Hamilton operator to be
symmetric. This inconvenient restriction had been already - with hesitation -
noted by M. Znojil and H. B. Geyer in 2006 (arXiv:quant-ph/0607104). A Hamilton
operator proposed by T. D. Lee and C. G. Wick is used to outline implications
of the formalism to higher dimensional Hamilton operators.
