Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil

Watching Grindelwald, surrounded by the crowd and walking away like a victor, Dumbledore's expression was unusually complex.

He understood that from this day forward, he would be facing a completely new Grindelwald.

A Grindelwald who was different from before, and even more troublesome…

Leved and Tom stood silently behind Dumbledore, also watching the distant Grindelwald, who had regained his glory and confidence.

This time, he was no longer holding a wand in his hand.

“Let’s go back…” Dumbledore said quietly.

Leved tugged at Dumbledore’s sleeve and pointed at Picquery, “Aren’t you going to comfort her?”

Hearing this, Dumbledore looked at President Picquery, who was now distraught.

Having been set up by Grindelwald like this, her position as President was basically over.

Even if she could still sit in the President’s seat, she would not be able to do anything under complete control…

Dumbledore sighed deeply, “She probably won’t listen to anyone right now…”

A strong woman who had been in power for a long time suddenly lost all her power within a few hours…

And even discovered that the power she had previously possessed was likely only superficial.

The blow she suffered was indescribable.

For a witch with President Picquery’s personality, any words of comfort at this time would be no different from mockery to her…

“If she hadn’t planned to stab her allies in the back, perhaps she wouldn’t have ended up like this,” Tom said calmly.

Tom felt no sympathy for Picquery’s fate, only that the woman deserved it.

Because what he hated most were people who casually stabbed their allies in the back.

Especially after he had once put himself in Dumbledore’s shoes to think about the problem…

Not only Picquery, but he also couldn’t understand Dumbledore’s behavior of almost being stabbed in the back… or even voluntarily stabbing himself in the back!

He felt that if this old man was really stabbed in the back, he would deserve it…

Dumbledore looked at Tom with some surprise, seemingly not expecting Tom at this age to be able to see the stakes involved.

Tom was watched by Dumbledore and immediately realized that he had been too talkative today.

Just as Tom was thinking about how to shift Dumbledore’s attention to Leved.

Suddenly someone walked over and handed Dumbledore a piece of parchment.

The person wore a top hat, and the brim of the hat was pulled down very low, making it impossible to see his face clearly.

Dumbledore opened the parchment and immediately saw the familiar handwriting…

This made him slightly stunned, and in that moment of stunned silence, the person who delivered the note had disappeared into the crowd.

Leved craned his neck and peeked out from beside Dumbledore’s arm.

It was actually a note from Grindelwald!

【Dumbledore, I am very glad that you could be here today, and brought two children to witness my rebirth…

By the way, is my wand easy to use?

Okay, enough with the pleasantries.

I almost forgot to tell you that a few days ago, your two friends wanted to participate in our grand event.

However, I thought it would be better for them not to show up, so… I had to invite them to a place to be guests for a few days.

Now, you can go and release them… Oh, they are now in the dungeons of the French Ministry of Magic, feel free to go in, this time no one will stop you.

It’s a pity that you didn’t find them when you sneaked into the dungeon that day.

I gave you a chance, Dumbledore, but you didn’t seize it.

See you again.

Your loyal… Gellert Grindelwald.

P.S.: Now, Dumbledore… who is the ultimate winner?】

“Professor… Grindelwald has captured your two friends?” Leved asked curiously.

Dumbledore folded the note, his face becoming serious. “Come with me…”

Then, Dumbledore led Leved and Tom against the crowd, towards the dungeons of the American Ministry of Magic.

This place was originally used to temporarily detain some prisoners awaiting trial.

Therefore, the number of guards was not that large to begin with.

Only after Grindelwald came did the number of guards increase.

At this time, those guards had not yet been removed.

However, when they saw Dumbledore, they didn’t even ask a question and directly opened the door…

Seeing this, Dumbledore sighed helplessly again.

Without a doubt, most of these guards in the dungeon were also Grindelwald’s people.

In other words, when he was in the dungeon, he could leave whenever he wanted…

But it made sense, he could win over Aurors, and even some high-ranking officials, let alone these guards.

Sure enough, Dumbledore and the three of them walked straight in without any obstruction.

Moreover, in order to prevent the three of them from going the wrong way, there were even guards specifically pointing the way for them along the way!

Even Dumbledore, who was always calm, had an increasingly ugly expression on his face.

Leved couldn’t help but啧啧 in his heart, Grindelwald was indeed Grindelwald.

Even at this time, he didn’t forget to show off the power he had mastered to Dumbledore, putting pressure on the old man…

Look, the American Ministry of Magic is already under my control! I can even remotely control the opening of the dungeon at will! I don’t even know how I could lose!

Finally, the three stopped in front of a cell.

Through the iron bars, they could see two men sitting back-to-back on the ground in a daze.

One of them was thin, with freckles on his face, while the other was short and fat, with a small mustache.

Without exception, they were looking listless!

Most striking was that next to them, there was also a Bowtruckle tied to a pillar with thick chains…

The chains were thicker than the Bowtruckle’s arms and legs, and faintly emitted a red light!

Leved was shocked, had this little thing violated the laws of nature?

“Dumbledore?!”

Upon seeing Dumbledore appear, the two men ran over excitedly.

At this time, a guard walked over and unlocked the iron door.

The thin man ran over and yanked the door open!

“Now, is it finally our turn to testify?”

“Yes, we were just caught by the Aurors as soon as we arrived… They said Newt had illegally entered the country, and said I was a Muggle and couldn’t enter the French Ministry of Magic… Now, is it finally clarified?”

“Newt… Jacob…” Dumbledore looked at them helplessly, “The trial is over, Grindelwald… has been acquitted…”

“What?!” Newt was completely stunned.

And Jacob’s face turned pale, “You mean… that evil guy… has been acquitted? What is the American Ministry of Magic doing? Any house-elf could do better than them!”

“Why is this happening…” Newt murmured, “If we could have arrived in time…”

“You actually arrived in time… but, you don’t know, the American Ministry of Magic was infiltrated by Grindelwald’s people a long time ago…” Dumbledore sighed, “In fact, I only just found out that you were imprisoned here… I previously thought you might have encountered something and missed it…”

“How could we miss it? We set off immediately after receiving your letter!” Newt said eagerly, “That is to say, we were actually secretly imprisoned by Grindelwald’s people? He… You… How could you just watch him get away with it?”

“This time Grindelwald took a different approach, Newt… We have no evidence to prove that he committed a series of crimes…” Dumbledore said. “And I… because of my complicated relationship with him, my testimony cannot be accepted…”

“We… well, we were caught. Like two Nifflers tied up and force-fed medicine.” Jacob sighed. “Too ruthless… Look at it…”

As Jacob spoke, he pointed to the poor Bowtruckle. “Good lord, there aren’t even any keyholes on the chains, this little thing can’t even pick the lock!”

At this time, the guard next to him pulled out his wand and pointed it at the Bowtruckle.

“Whirr!” The chains on the Bowtruckle instantly loosened.

Newt quickly went up, picked up the weak little thing, and put it back in his pocket.

“We can still testify now! Re-prosecute him!” Newt said firmly.

“At least… it’s not going to work in the American Ministry of Magic.” Dumbledore said. “Since he let me release you, it proves that even in the face of your accusations, he is still fearless…”

Hearing Dumbledore’s words, even Jacob, who was usually talkative, fell silent.

“In any case, let’s leave here first.” Dumbledore said.

At this time, another guard walked over with a suitcase.

Newt grabbed the suitcase, “Did you feed them?”

“Feed what?” The guard asked in astonishment.

Newt’s eyes widened, “Oh! My goodness! They’ve been hungry for days!”

Saying that, Newt opened the lid of the suitcase and climbed inside.

Before long, roars of beasts came from inside the suitcase…

Tom looked at the dark suitcase in surprise and asked with a slight doubt, “Was he… eaten by the suitcase?”

“Oh, of course not, in fact, there are some lovely animals in his suitcase… um, very lovely… so, don’t worry, he’s fine.” Jacob paused, then said, “If you know him for a long time, you’ll slowly get used to it.”

“Animals… in a suitcase?” Tom was a little surprised, he had seen the Undetectable Extension Charm, but he had never seen anyone use the Undetectable Extension Charm to this extent!

“Hello, I’m Jacob Kowalski! Unlike you, I’m a Muggle! Oh… you’re little wizards from England, right? Then you might not know what a Muggle is, it’s just a different way of saying it, in America, someone like me is called a Muggle, and in England, a Muggle is…”

Tom waved his hand impatiently, “I know what a Muggle is… um, my grandfather is a Muggle.”

“Ah! Really…” Jacob nodded repeatedly, but for some reason, the sentence sounded a little familiar.