[HP] I'm hanging out at Hogwarts

GGAD - Christmas Eve

Aberforth thought that he would live a peaceful life after the war, and no one could affect his life.

He loved cracking open a bottle of rum after a long day's business and drinking it like a medieval pirate, forgetting the silly words of young wizards, even knowing his sister Ariana didn't want to see it.

Every time, he sat in an armchair and looked at Ariana, she was always so young, walking among the flowers in a white dress, she would smile and shake her head when she saw her second brother look like this, palm of her hand Pasted on the wall.

But Aberforth had to admit that, except that his nose hadn't been broken, he and Albus looked more and more alike, even the angle of the long beard was so similar.

Speaking of Albus Dumbledore, he was a real jerk.

He clearly knew how terrifying the friend he made was, but he still insisted on standing by his side. Even when he knew that Ariana was killed by Grindelwald, what did he do?He didn't avenge Ariana, he just ran away blindly.

"Are you worthy of being a brother?" he said drunkenly, as if he was speaking to Albus, but also to himself.

"I do not know."

Aberforth seemed to see himself in his dim eyes, but soon, he confirmed that the person who came was someone he didn't want to see.

"Albus... after so many years of running away, are you finally willing to face her?" Aberforth turned his face away, he couldn't believe he still saw him.

In the past few decades, one of them was in the Pig's Head Bar and the other was in the headmaster's office at Hogwarts, but they had never met each other.

"I'm here to see you." Dumbledore walked into the dim bar, "Today is Christmas, Merry Christmas, and so are you, Arianna."

"Shut up! You don't deserve her name!" Aberforth stood up, covering his sister's portrait with an old coat. "She doesn't want to see you."

"Aberforth, since you hate me so much, why did you attend my "funeral"?" Dumbledore's eyes were full of wisdom, and Aberforth couldn't fool him.

He spat hard, "Because you are a Dumbledore, I am not like you, I will only run away from my family, you...you have been a genius since childhood, everyone thinks you are so good, don't you Think me and Arianna are your drag..."

"I've never...ah no..."

"Don't interrupt me! Until that person appeared, everything changed after that person appeared! You don't need this family at all, you only need your partner." Aberforth took a deep breath, "Gellert Green DeVoe, I'm going to say that name that the world hates."

Well... the world hates...

The person outside the bar thought for a while after hearing this sentence, his black windbreaker was covered with snowflakes.

At least his loyal subordinate Vader Rozier, and his best friend...or soul mate Albus Dumbledore are not disgusted.

Gellert and Albus agreed, and Albus went in to talk to his brother by himself, leaving him outside the door. At this time, Gellert could not appear in front of them, at least it would not make the situation worse.

Why?It's not that I haven't seen his brother.

At this moment, our Gellert Grindelwald is holding back what his niece Miranda calls it: resentment.

"Do you think my old bones are going to freeze?"

"You are a wizard and know how to cast a Warming Charm."

"If you don't come out in 10 minutes, I'll blow up this place." Gellert gripped his wand tightly.

"Then your Christmas pudding will be gone."

"Okay." Gellert sighed helplessly, "The threat was successful."

Now, Albus and his brother Aberforth are in it talking about things he doesn't know, but Gellert knows very well that this story cannot revolve around a girl-Arianna Dumbledore.

During the quarrel between the two brothers, the old coat fell off, and Arianna's face was stuck in front of the portrait, "Is the brother coming?"

At this moment, they stopped arguing. This was the first time Ariana spoke in the portrait. Whenever Abufu wanted to ask her something, Ariana always shook her head with a smile and refused to reveal anything.

Aberforth had always thought that it was the artist's problem, which caused Ariana in the portrait to be unable to speak. Only today did he realize that it was all a misunderstanding.

"Arianna..." Dumbledore took off the little hat on his head. There was a little daisy on the hat, and Arianna seemed to want to reach out and touch it.

He felt guilty towards this younger sister in his heart. If it wasn't because he was too obsessed with his studies and career, he wouldn't have neglected Ariana and let her be bullied by Muggles.

When he was young, Dumbledore hated Muggles because of his sister. He met Gellert who came to his aunt’s house for summer vacation in Godric’s Hollow. Gellert didn’t have any special resentment towards Muggles. , Later, Dumbledore told him about Ariana, and Muggles started the world war, and his family was also affected by the war.

Muggles, a horrible species.

Young teenagers achieve the same goal - for the greater good.

During the implementation of the plan, Dumbledore gradually realized that the wars triggered by Muggles for rights and interests hurt more Muggles, and innocent people should not be involved in this war. it's the same.

Dumbledore had seen the wreckage of those battlefields with his own eyes. Their death was more painful than suffering an Avada Kedavra. If they ended the war, they would usher in the fate of being ruled and suffering a new round of slavery and suffering.

This is no different from those former perpetrators.

He reversed his position, only to make his companion, Gellert, aware of the betrayal.

The wrong quarrel and fight ended the life of the little sister Ariana, and Dumbledore couldn't remember who cast the curse to kill Ariana.

But maybe… myself, largely.

Arianna just fell down without a single protest, quietly like a porcelain doll, Aberforth was the first to rush up and hug her, he threw himself on his sister's corpse and was speechless for a long time, he I wanted to howl, but I was afraid of disturbing her.

At this moment, Dumbledore and Gellert had the same idea.

leave here.

Since then, Dumbledore, the greatest White Wizard, has never cast jinxes or black magic.

After many years, the three brothers and sisters reunited.

"Arianna might become a Ravenclaw, I remember she loved reading," said Dumbledore, "and Muggle fairy tales."

"But you ruined her."

"sorry."

Aberforth sneered, "Albus Dumbledore would still apologize, but it's too late. The hatred for you has long since disappeared."

"If it's what you said, then you wouldn't say that about me."

"I'm used to it. I've been telling you about you for so many years, but I'm not covering up my own mistakes. I didn't take Ariana seriously." He drank the last glass of wine, "Now you are not the principal, and those things are also important. it's over."

Aberforth wouldn't forgive him, but he wouldn't hate him forever either.

"You let him go?" Arianna's eyes widened in the portrait, "It's been a long time, this is the first time he's here!" She began to complain about her brother.

"You're not a Ravenclaw at all."

"Gryffindor, absolutely."

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Dumbledore finally left the Pig's Head Bar and came out. Gellert looked down at his watch, exactly three and ten minutes had passed.

The snow outside is getting bigger and bigger, and the snowflakes are sticking to Dumbledore's white beard. He is more than 100 years old, and his body is no longer young. Even the cold air makes him feel uncomfortable.

"Are you done talking?"

"Well..." Dumbledore raised his head, the folds on his eyelids concealed his bitterness, "I have done many wrong things in my life, but none of them can make up for it."

"One wrong thing I've done is worth all yours." Gellert lit himself a cigarette. "I think it's time for me to go back there, too."

"You are going back to Nurmengard?"

He nodded.

The war is over, he is only for Miranda, and now that Miranda will no longer be in any danger, Gellert Grindelwald should also return to the original place to continue atonement.

"I don't want you to be like this."

"I have to." Gellert and Dumbledore walked on the path on a snowy night, and Gellert blew a smoke ring into the cold air. "You can't do this wrong again, Albus."

"I've done a lot of wrong things."

Gellert shook his head and shook off the soot with his hands, "No, you did a lot of right things. Gellert Grindelwald escaped from Nurmengard, and the wizarding world will not be at peace."

Dumbledore stood there in a daze, "I'm old, so I can't tell right from wrong, okay?"

"You have to."

Their relationship started in Godric's Hollow, but they don't know when it will end.

There are countless stars on his robes, just like the starry sky when they were young and stargazing in Godric's Hollow, doing astronomy homework together.

How much he wished that his body could be young again, and let everything go back to that summer. At that time, everyone was there, how wonderful.

Now, the children of this generation have grown up and have become wizards capable of acting on their own. The greatest white wizard Dumbledore still has to become the spiritual sustenance and belief of the wizarding world. Living with the first Dark Lord is obviously not a good idea.

"I'm happy to see you again," Gellert said. "It's about time."

Gellert Grindelwald, he has the ability to come out of Nurmengard, and naturally he can go back at any time.

But when looking back, Dumbledore has already missed the once high-spirited boy, who met each other and cherished each other.

He took a mint out of his pocket and put it in his mouth.As he breathed, his throat seemed to contain a piece of ice, and tears slowly overflowed from his eyes.

...............

His memory seemed to return to that summer again.

"Why do you like to eat this? Could it be that you are still a child?"

"I like the taste of mints, and it's not the kind of candy that is too sweet." Gellert peeled off the silver-white wrapper, and threw a translucent mint into his mouth.

"Oh... so you like this..." Albus wrote it down silently.

No one knows why there is a large bowl of mints inexplicably at the Hogwarts opening banquet.

It's just that after 1998, mints also disappeared.

"We are all going to die. Even if we can't see each other again, we can do what we want after death."

Albus Dumbledore died the following year, the same year Gellert Grindelwald died in Nurmengard.