The Rise of the Muggles at Hogwarts

"Albus!!!"

Suddenly, a heartbreaking sound came from the damp and deep corridor.

"Who else in this world will love you besides me!"

Hearing the sound, Dumbledore's footsteps stopped, his face turned very pale, and his body shook heart-rendingly.

For a moment, Anthony thought he was going to fall.He stretched out his hand and grabbed the old principal, but he was so frightened that he suddenly fell down.

But Dumbledore just staggered two steps, grabbed Anthony's stretched out hand, looked at him, with a forced smile on his face, and then patted his shoulder without saying anything.

This was the first time Anthony had seen such a vulnerable side of Dumbledore.If he shed tears now, he wouldn't feel weird, but the principal didn't cry, but smiled.Smiling is more painful than crying.

Anthony didn't know how to describe this expression. His experience was not enough for him to read the word despair from Dumbledore's pale face.

"Dumbledore is famous for defeating the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945."

People honor him on the most painful day of his life...

That brilliant and rotten emotion was so sincere and complicated. Anthony didn't understand it, and he didn't want to understand it, because he didn't want to bear the heart-rending pain behind it.

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Finally, he followed Dumbledore back to Hogwarts in a daze, and then returned to his dormitory.

It was as if nothing had happened. The only thing Anthony could confirm was that Dumbledore did not blame him for what happened in London, or that he did not have time.

Except for sending him back throughout Christmas, the principal seemed to have disappeared from the world.

Searching the edge of the castle, he was nowhere to be found.

It wasn't until the end of Christmas and the beginning of the new semester that he appeared in the castle, no, in the open space outside the castle, under the Whomping Willow tree.

After Harry and the others heard that Hagrid had returned to the hunting lodge, several of them and Hermione, who had returned from London, planned to visit him while they had no classes in the afternoon.

Because Harry had been worried that Hagrid was attacked by poachers in the Forbidden Forest and was injured and hospitalized, so he was not at Hogwarts on Christmas Day.To this end, he also wrote many new letters to Hagrid. Although there was no reply, this only intensified Harry's worries.

After meeting Hagrid, he happily prepared freshly baked rock cakes and soup made from bees mixed with the milk of a nursing magical animal for the children.

Except for Ron, who tried a little bit of these things, the other three little ones politely rejected Hagrid's kindness.

Afterwards, Harry asked about Hagrid's recent travels - of course they didn't get a decent answer. Hagrid kept it secret. Instead, he talked enthusiastically about the interesting things he encountered while patrolling the Forbidden Forest those days.

The little wizards listened very carefully and did not continue to ask him about his Christmas vacation. Anyway, after seeing that Hagrid was fine, Harry gave in. After continuing to chat for a while, they got up and prepared to return to the castle. And just when I walked through the gravel road in the mountains and reached the corner of the open space.

Standing on the mountain, Anthony saw the familiar lonely figure under the Whomping Willow in the distance.

Dumbledore stood there, looking at the withered and deserted forest under the cliff from a distance.

January is the time when the earth is most lost. Not even the whomping willow has sprouted buds, but the old man stands alone under the tree, silently.

"That's - Principal Dumbledore?" Hermione looked into the distance and murmured: "He looks - so lonely..."

Anthony responded softly: "Who says it's not the case!"

As he spoke, he jumped directly down the mountain. The downward slope accelerated his pace, and he ran all the way towards the tree of the Whomping Willow.

Four panicked voices quickly caught Dumbledore's attention.

He looked back, and after seeing that it was Anthony and the others, he gathered his mood and stood there waiting for them.

After a few minutes, the little wizards finally came to him.

Ron was the first to speak. He looked at the Whomping Willow with some fear, and then said loudly to the principal: "Professor, why doesn't this tree attack you? When school started, he almost killed me and Harry, and also destroyed me. of wands.”

"Be observant, Mr. Weasley. I think you have noticed that there is a huge knot on the trunk of this tree, which is its weakness." Behind Dumbledore's semicircular glasses, a trace of heart-wrenching pain flashed. "Often those who appear strong on the outside are softer and more fragile than ordinary people on the inside."

He spoke softly, and then stroked the tree beside him. His wrinkled and rough hands passed over the tree trunk full of ravines. For a moment, it was hard to tell who was lonelier, him or the Whomping Willow.

Suddenly, Antony rang out Grindelwald's last roar as they left Nurmengard, 'Who else will love you.' '

Now he suddenly understood that the greatest wizard in front of him, the world-renowned Dumbledore, was actually the loneliest person in the entire wizarding world.

The little wizards respected him, his friends feared him, and his enemies feared him.His only remaining relatives were dissatisfied and hated him.

Who would have thought that Dumbledore, the man who said 'love is the greatest magic', and the only person who loved him in his life, would actually be his enemy.

"Oh! By the way, Anthony, your wand!" As he said that, the old principal suddenly grasped it tightly from his right hand, and a box with a seal suddenly appeared in his hand.

"Um...I'm planning to buy another one." Anthony smiled, then took the box from Dumbledore's hand, then tore off the seal, opened the box, and took out his wand.

"Yew, phoenix tail feathers." The old principal looked at the graceful wand and said calmly.

"What's wrong? Professor?" Hearing this, Anthony's heart sank. He looked at Dumbledore cautiously. Except for the different shape, the material of his wand was almost exactly the same as Voldemort's. Not to mention him, even he often made mistakes in his heart. murmur.

"Don't live up to it, child!" Unexpectedly, Dumbledore's expression did not change. His blue eyes only showed a touch of sadness and nostalgia, but these were well hidden. Even Anthony, I couldn't see through it either.

"Yes, I will protect it well." Anthony nodded with a smile, slowly put the wand away, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, there was no problem.

"By the way, Professor," he continued.

"what happened?"

"Um - thank you for rescuing me."

"It's nothing, it's just my responsibility as the principal." The old principal waved his hand.

Anthony asked tentatively: "Professor, what have you lost for this?"

The wizard named Akinbad could so blatantly provoke Dumbledore, and the energy behind him was definitely not small. Dumbledore must have used something or compromised something to be able to protect himself.

"Oh! This is quite simple. Recently, the Federation is formulating a new trade law, which stipulates the minimum purchase price of some magic materials in various countries. It is a kind of-" Dumbledore said in a deep voice, and spoke slowly That tongue-twisting word: "Trade protection policy to improve the income of herb-growing wizards."

"I just signed and they happily accepted the fact that you were innocent."

"Huh?" Anthony was stunned, what is this?

Have wizards also begun to play with global trade integration?

"It feels weird."

"It's a bit strange. One of the Muggle contacts present seemed very angry. He kept criticizing this new law, saying that it was a loss of power and an insult to the country..."

Hearing the sound, Anthony gradually began to have some suspicions in his heart. Although he had never seen the unreleased document, he could vaguely feel that there was a huge conspiracy behind it. A wizard like Dumbledore might not Only those who are good at this Muggle trading game will be taken advantage of.

However, as he currently doesn't have any actual information, he can't guess anything even if he is guessing, but a danger that has not come yet has been surrounding his heart.

"Well, one more thing, Anthony."

Suddenly Dumbledore stared at him and said in a deep voice: "You are in Nurmengard..."

"Did he say anything to you?"

"Uh..." Anthony touched his head, knowing that the principal was asking Grindelwald.But - he didn't have long contact with that bad old man, they just chatted briefly.

But...the topic was all about Dumbledore.

Subsequently, Anthony transformed into a robot, and Abba told Dumbledore all the conversations between him and Grandeward in prison.

Speaking of: 'Meg!Is that the woman who always takes Dumbledore with him? 'At this time, the old principal smiled knowingly.

Speaking of: 'He would abandon his own students! ' At this time, the principal pursed his lips and said nothing.

Said: 'I realized I would never understand him. ' At this moment, a complicated light flashed in Dumbledore's eyes.

He said: 'The outside world is just another cage for me. 'At this time, his figure suddenly felt a little lonely.

Every word he said aroused feelings in him.

His mood rose and fell with him.

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The other three little wizards who were also standing next to Dumbledore looked confused. They had no idea what Anthony was going to say. Who was that Grindelwald?

Why does he sound like a dark wizard?

What is the relationship between the dark wizard and the principal?

On the way back to the castle, they kept thinking about this problem.

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The conversation with Dumbledore was considered to be Anthony deliberately joining in to relieve the principal's boredom. After all, as the only person in the world who has read "The Correspondence of Grindelwald and Dumbledore", he is an unwavering ggad.

Back then, he was stunned by this collection of fan stories.It took the child a long time to recover.

Now that he sees the real two people, of course he will consciously hope that the two lovers can reconcile.

"Oh! I finally remembered." On the way to Gryffindor Tower on the eighth floor, Ron suddenly shouted on the spiral staircase, and then took out a card from his pocket.

That's Dumbledore's wizard card.

"Dumbledore is famous for defeating the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945!!"

"Grindelwald was the most famous dark wizard before You-Know-Who. I heard my mother talk about it when I was a child." Ron continued to say excitedly: "Dumbledore defeated him, so the principal is so famous!"

"Haha! That's not defeat, it's that simple!" Anthony walked in front and turned around and said calmly.

"What do you mean?" Hermione asked.

"It's just free time anyway, wait until I get back." As he said that, he walked quickly towards the Gryffindor common room, passed through the door, and immediately returned to the dormitory.

Anthony plans to write the masterpiece of ggad's sadomasochistic correspondence collection.

Of course, because so much time has passed, his memory of the masterpiece has become somewhat blurry. He can only remember part of the 35 letters in the correspondence collection. Moreover, due to time constraints, after 1993, the most sadomasochistic ones were He couldn't write a letter.

However, this does not prevent Anthony from adapting the original work.

Especially after he met Grindelwald himself, the desire to write surrounded him all the time.

Anthony spent almost no effort, and in less than half an hour, an improved version with a more sadomasochistic correspondence collection was released.

The surging desire to share (I can't be knifed alone!) made him stand up and run downstairs without any pause.

At this time, Hermione was writing homework in the library area. Anthony saw her at a glance, then smiled knowingly, walked directly to her, and handed the manuscript in his hand to her!

"What!" Hermione raised her head slightly and looked at the parchment stacked in front of her in confusion.

"It's nothing, you'll know just by looking at it." As he said that, Anthony handed her a pack of rolling papers very considerately.

Then, with a blink of an eye and an inexplicable smile, he walked away as if he had retreated.

Hermione, on the other hand, stared at it with a confused expression, but after seeing the eye-catching title on the parchment at hand, her eyes were immediately caught.

"The Correspondence of Grindelwald and Dumbledore"

headmaster?

Hermione frowned, then turned to the first page.

Just like the title, the manuscripts Anthony gave her were all in the form of letters, including the writing format and the writing form of a piece of paper and a letter. Anthony even thoughtfully added an owl post office on the back of each manuscript. Seal, and sending and receiving addresses.

In a word, try your best to imitate real correspondence.

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Decades of correspondence between the great wizard Albus pwb Dumbledore and the prisoner Gellert Grindelwald.

1951 9 Month 10 Day.

Dumbledore——

Hey, it's me - your old friend Gellert Grindelwald...

Slowly, Hermione knocked on the door called sadomasochism page by page.

Different from the original work, Anthony's version, although there is no future story, the charm between the words and the details of the characters are richer. He has met Grindelwald and knows how miserable and lonely he is in his old age. The fragmented robe, His body will be blown down by the wind, sluggish, and the long wait is his only support.

Those are real emotions.

Of course, the strength of the knife is increased exponentially.

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1951/10/13

Dear Gellert,

thank you for your mail...

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1951/10/16

Dumbledore...

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1951/11/12

Garrett...

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1952/8/4

Dear Gellert...

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