Professor of Pharmacy at Hogwarts

Nurmengard, in the stone castle.

Today's stone castle is brightly lit, completely different from previous years.

The two old men sat at the crooked dining table and laughed and talked about the past. The muscular man Bayer sat aside and listened with his eyes shining.

There was a candlestick on the dining table, and the bright candlelight illuminated the room brightly. The old man took a sip of red wine from time to time, cut off a piece of steak and chewed it carefully in his mouth, with extremely elegant movements.

"Gellert."

Dumbledore wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin, and moved his eyes from the back of Grindelwald's trembling hands to his face.

"Gellert?"

"Hmm. Huh?"

Grindelwald seemed to be awakened, looking at Dumbledore with confusion in his eyes. The next moment, the confusion disappeared.

"You're saying that Alexis' memory has been restored, right, Albus?"

Grindelwald asked.

Dumbledore nodded slowly, his expression becoming solemn.

Bayer, who was listening with great interest, raised his head and looked at Grindelwald in surprise, opened his mouth, but stopped talking.

Byer turned his gaze to Dumbledore, who shook his head at him in confusion.

"That's it -" Grindelworth said, "That's fine."

"I don't agree with this in the first place, so that's fine."

Grindelwald murmured, then he suddenly raised his head

"Where is Alexis? She promised to come see me this year."

"He asked me to get his memory back and went to Egypt to relax."

Dumbledore replied.

"Did you return the memory to him?" Grindelwald was surprised, and then nodded, "That's fine, Albus, no matter what, Alexis should know his origins."

"I didn't approve of what you did in the first place, so this is fine -"

Dumbledore stood up slowly.

"Gellert, I also brought a lot of gifts. I asked Bayer to take me to get them."

After saying that, Dumbledore pulled Bair out of the room.

In the stone stairwell, Dumbledore pulled Bair and asked softly

"When did Gellert start acting like this?"

Bayer recalled it for a moment and replied in a muffled voice, "I don't know, this seems to be the first time."

"Does Alexis know?"

Bayer shook his head, "Sorry, I don't know."

"What does he usually do?"

"Reading." Bayer knew the answer this time. "He likes to read, all kinds of books."

Bayer pointed downstairs, "Alexis will often bring him books back. There are books in various languages, but recently he seems to be very interested in books about time."

"Did he mention the Deathly Hallows?"

Dumbledore asked solemnly.

This question seemed to make Bayer very dissatisfied. He glared at Dumbledore angrily and raised his voice slightly.

"Hey, he's already here."

Dumbledore was not affected by Beyer's emotions and still stared at him with bright eyes, waiting for the answer.

"There are a lot of books and papers about time below, you can find the answers yourself."

Bayer yelled, then turned and returned to the room.

Dumbledore stood alone in the stairwell for a while, then returned to his room.

"Where have you been, Albus?" As soon as he came in, he saw Gellert greeting him with a smile, "Come here and try the steak."

"Little Alexis has never tasted my steak."

"Come and try it, how do you like it?"

"Alexis!"

"Alexis!"

Grindelwald shouted towards the stairwell, raising his voice slightly.

"time to eat!"

"Little Alexis!"

After shouting twice, but seeing no movement, Grindelwald was not annoyed. Instead, he explained to Dumbledore with a smile.

"Little Alexis likes to go to the pumpkin patch recently. She even sleeps in the field. I'll go check it out."

He said, winking at Dumbledore.

"Try it quickly. When little Alexis comes back later, we won't be able to grab him."

With that said, Grindelwald stood up tremblingly and started to walk outside.

When he reached the door, he stopped.

With his back to Dumbledore, Grindelwald seemed to be hiding in the shadows.

"Bayer, go take a look downstairs. The wind is blowing. Don't let those books get damp."

Bayer looked at Grindelwald, then at Dumbledore, said oh, and left the room obediently.

There was a long silence in the room.

The sea breeze blew in, and the candlelight on the candlestick danced, projecting the shadows of the two people on the wall, twisting them into a ball, entangled together, separated, overlapped, separated again, overlapped again...

"Albus-"

Grindelwald's voice came faintly from the shadows, causing Dumbledore to follow the sound. Only then did he realize that Grindelwald was no longer the high-spirited and half-hearted initiator of the 'Grindelwald Gas Stove'. Bai, with a skinny figure and a stooped waist.

Grindelwald held one hand against the wall, his arm trembling slightly, and the thick blood vessels on the back of his thin hand protruded and trembled.

Maybe he can't even hold a wand anymore.

"Thank you for visiting me."

Grindelwald said.

"Dinner is over, it's time for you to go."

After saying that, Grindelwald held on to the wall and slowly moved into the shadows.

step - step - step -

clang - clang - clang -

The old bells on the wall rang, and midnight came on Christmas Eve. On the coast not far from here, every house was brightly lit, and the green Christmas trees were filled with gifts and decorative lights, and the lights were twinkling.

The children lie on the bed and fall asleep with smiles on their faces, looking forward to waking up tomorrow and having Santa Claus stuff their longed-for gifts into their socks.

puff-

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Egypt.Cairo International Airport.

A private jet is parked on the runway, ready to take off.

Teams of heavily armed personnel boarded the plane carrying two large boxes. They put the boxes away, counted the number of people and confirmed that they were correct, and then one person walked into the cab.

The captain began to contact the terminal, and after confirming that everything was correct, he closed the door. The plane taxied on the runway and rose smoothly to the sky under the influence of airflow.

As the plane took off, the armed personnel gradually lowered their guard. After arranging patrol guards, the rest of the people dispersed and gathered together in twos and threes to talk and laugh in a low voice while drinking.

In the corner, Alexis huddled up in a ball after being stuffed into a box. He carefully took out a wand from his arms.

"Arajo Hole Open"

The lock on the box was opened, and Alexis opened a crack and peered out quietly.

The environment on the plane was a little noisy. The armed men were drinking and talking loudly. They spoke in a complicated and confusing language, which made Alexis feel dizzy.

After eavesdropping for a while, Alexis found nothing except to confirm that this was a ragtag group of people from various regions.

He decided not to wait any longer.

Just as he was about to take action, there was a slight noise from the box below, causing him to stop.

Dong dong——knock——knock——

Alexis thought and closed the lid again.

The wand danced in the narrow space, Alexis controlled it carefully, and a big hole was drilled into the box.

"Fluorescent Blink"

A soft light came on, dispelling the darkness in the box.

A familiar face with a embarrassed look appeared in front of him.

"Alexis!"

Slughorn shouted in surprise.

"Shh-"