[HP] Aunt of the Savior

"It's unbelievable!" Rita Skeeter squeezed the crocodile leather handbag tightly. "This is just... so rude!"

Harry's voice was not loud, but Rita Skeeter's suddenly raised voice still caused Fleur and Krum to glance in their direction.It didn't look like they cared at all if Harry actually said something inappropriate, which made Harry wonder if Rita Skeeter had harassed them before he came.

Skeeter gasped heavily, wishing he could immediately find someone to accuse Harry of his faux pas.But as soon as she turned her head, she saw Dumbledore's long silver beard. "Dumbledore!"

Her face contorted for a moment, and she suddenly put on a cheerful expression and talked about the report she had written about Dumbledore before, and she didn't look like she was just angry at all. "I think you must have read my excellent report last time."

"Ah, of course, I especially enjoyed reading the part where you wrote about me as an old lunatic last time, and thank you for reasoning the opinion of most wizards and frankly summarizing it into a report."

"Oh, I think that way you'll get a lot of new perspective from my reporting."

Harry couldn't believe that there were such boastful people in the world.

"But today's protagonist is not me, we can save our topic for discussion next time." But Dumbledore still had a smile on his face and said politely. "The wand-testing ceremony is about to begin, and I don't think Harry can continue chatting with you."

"Oh, well, of course." Rita Skeeter reluctantly let go of Harry and walked over to the photographer.

"I'm sorry, Professor Dumbledore." Harry felt a little guilty. He knew that his attitude just now was not very good, but the sentence written by Rita Skeeter's quill made him feel humiliated and overwhelmed. unbearable.

"Harry, I think you already know that your attitude just now was not so polite. We shouldn't let our momentary emotions dominate our actions."

"Yes." Harry said, drooping his head.

"But..." Dumbledore winked at Harry, "I think you managed to control the magic fire quite well when you burned the parchment."

Harry froze for a moment, scratched his matted hair, and couldn't help laughing.

The wand inspection ceremony went very well, and Mr. Ollivander announced that the wands of the three warriors were all in good condition.Harry was relieved that Mr. Ollivander hadn't brought up his really fantastic rhetoric from the wand shop.He loved his wand and didn't want its connection to Voldemort's wand to be known to anyone else, especially when Rita Skeeter was around.

Harry's visibly relieved expression made Dumbledore smile genuinely from the bottom of his heart.Although Harry's friends sometimes suspect that he was infected by Professor Snape, in fact, the way Harry just fought back Rita Skeeter looks more like Jody to Dumbledore.The fact that he suddenly became a warrior undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on the boy, which made Dumbledore a little worried, but Harry's performance made him feel more at ease.

After the group photo was over, Dumbledore walked towards his office alone.Like any old man who can't bear to walk for a long time, he stopped and stood in front of the stone monster at the door for a while, and then walked up the spiral staircase and opened the door.

Dumbledore was not surprised to see Professor Victor standing in the room waiting for him. If anyone in this school could sneak into his office through the stone monster, then there is no doubt that only that person

Victor was looking out the window with his back to the door.The phoenix Fox on the perch blew up its feathers full of hostility, screaming and staring at Victor's back.The portraits of the former principals on the wall moved nervously to the direction where Victor could be seen, and some of the portraits even set up the monocle in their hands.

Although he didn't know in advance that the other party would choose to visit him today, he knew that it would be a matter of time. He had already made sufficient mental preparations when the name appeared on the Marauder's Map.No, maybe when Jody asked his opinion to cooperate with Grindelwald, he was already mentally prepared for today's meeting.

Now, Dumbledore treats each other exactly like an old friend who hasn't seen him for many years, even though he himself doesn't know how the relationship between them should be defined now. "Please sit down!"

"Thank you."

"...Can I ask, how did you know the password for my office?" Dumbledore also walked behind his desk and sat down, with his hands on the table habitually, fingers crossed.

"Oh, I just noticed your favorite sweets recently." Professor Victor, no, maybe we can call him by his real name now - Gellert Grindelwald said a little casually: "Ah no Si, your way of thinking about passwords is too insecure, as long as you have a cookbook, you can easily guess your office password."

Grindelwald reminded Dumbledore with a very serious expression on Professor Victor's face, as if he wasn't the one who just broke into the principal's office without permission.

"It seems so." Dumbledore agreed in a very gentle tone. "Would you like a cup of tea?"

"OK, thanks."

Dumbledore drew out his wand and tapped lightly on the table, two cups of hot tea and a plate of biscuits appeared on the table.Grindelwald looked away quickly and naturally from the elder wand that once belonged to him. He didn't want to give Dumbledore the impression that he was still coveting the Deathly Hallows.

After the initial small talk, the two of them were silent while holding teacups.

"I found that your new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor seems to have a good relationship with your gamekeeper recently." Grindelwald thought he should speak first to break this awkward silence, since he took the initiative to find Dumbledore.

He had just stood looking down from the window just in time to see Moody crossing the grounds into Hagrid's cabin.From the day Moody arrived at Hogwarts, he had had his eyes on this man.

People say that Moody is an old friend of Dumbledore, which makes Grindelwald naturally curious about what kind of guy this Auror who is said to have once filled half of Azkaban is.If he is really as sensitive to dark wizards as the legend says, is it possible for him to discover that Professor Victor in front of him is an out-and-out dark wizard?

But judging from the results of Grindelwald's observations, Moody is not that powerful.Lately he seems to be putting all his energy on guarding against Snape and Karkaroff, while keeping an eye on Harry, who has become a Hogwarts champion, not at all to Victor or to the other professors. not interested.Then, there must be some reason for him to suddenly associate with the half-giant gamekeeper. "I thought he should focus more on Harry Potter—did he think that half-giant would kill Potter? Like breaking his neck on a whim?"

"I think Alastor certainly knows what he's doing." Dumbledore said calmly.Grindelwald was surprised by his tolerance for jokes that Grindelwald wanted to liven up the atmosphere but were not funny at all.He glanced in the direction of the window, and he could more or less guess what "Moody" was looking for Hagrid for.

"Well, I admit that Harry Potter doesn't need any more attention. There are enough people watching him in secret, and he is not a fragile boy-he is even good enough to represent the whole world. Hogwarts is in the Triwizard Tournament—even though he's only a fourth year." Grindelwald's fingers stroked the handle of his teacup. "And I noticed that you don't seem surprised by that."

He faced Dumbledore for the first time since starting the conversation, and met those blue eyes that seemed to have never changed, which made him pause for a few seconds before continuing his words: "Albus, now It seems that no matter what happens, nothing can surprise you anymore, and everything is under your control."

Although Grindelwald tried his best to make his voice appear relaxed and freehand to praise Dumbledore, there was still a bit of harmless irony in his tone.

"Not quite," said Dumbledore, modestly. "Things beyond my expectations are happening all the time in this world. For example, I never thought that the level of the Chudley Cannons this year could be so bad."

"I believe your accident is not referring to my escape from Nurmengard? I don't see that you are surprised by my escape." Grindelwald ignored the one mentioned in Dumbledore's words. Know the Chudley Cannons.

"Yes, I don't mean your escape from prison." Dumbledore admitted immediately, "In fact, I have been wondering for the past 50 years, when will you escape from the prison that you built yourself, I Believe it is not as strong for you as many people think."

"—especially when those guys who locked me in stupidly added more spells to the prison in Nurmengard to break the original best balance." Grindelwald curled his lips contemptuously, The next tone was more like talking about something completely unrelated to him: "I'm sure there are many people who regret that you didn't kill me directly in the duel. But you didn't, even if I really wanted your life at that time , you have every right to do so - of course, I know you have to prove that you are different from me."

"I am not an avenger or an executioner. I have always advocated that everyone should get a fair and just trial, and the result of the trial is not disappointing." Dumbledore's silence this time was much longer than before, he His emotions are still well restrained, and he calmly narrates his views.But now he is more in line with what people imagine the Chief Magician to be: dignified and solemn, not as amiable as usual. "I sincerely hope that you can seriously reflect on the wrong path you chose and all the sins you have committed—" Dumbledore lowered his eyes, staring at the elder wand in his hand. "Just like I did."

"Yes, you said that 50 years ago," Grindelwald said.He recalled many years ago, when he was lying on the ground, he asked Dumbledore hoarsely why he didn't kill him. At that time, Dumbledore answered him with these words.

He used to be angry, dissatisfied, and unable to accept... But now, when Dumbledore repeated what they said after the duel, he suddenly felt that he had completely understood.

No, maybe it should be said that during these 50 years in prison, he has already understood.It was precisely because he understood that he decided to cooperate with Dumbledore to deal with Voldemort after Jody and Snape visited Nurmengard, and even secretly sneaked into England as a fugitive and sneaked into Hogwarts.

He even made all the preparations on his own initiative: he went to France to kidnap Hogwarts' professor of arithmetic and divination Edmund Victor, modified the other's memory and took away a large amount of hair used for compound soup.

Grindelwald's behavior surprised Jody.She wasn't surprised that Grindelwald would leave Nurmengard to cooperate with their plan, but she never thought that he would come to England himself and plan to sneak into Hogwarts.However, after realizing that this plan was realized under the impetus of Snape, she accepted it and quickly merged with their original plan.

Therefore, Grindelwald temporarily returned to Hogwarts with Snape's face on his face, while Snape pretended to be Professor Victor, who always cared about Professor Bubbaji, for the launch of the Dark Devil at the Quidditch World Cup. Mark's Barty Crouch Jr. puts on a "Jodi Porter replaces Professor Bubbaji" drama.The only thing that hadn't been considered in their plans was the Marauder's Map that would show real names.

And this map happened to be in Dumbledore's hands at this time, which is fortunate in every sense.