The Admiral of Hogwarts

Not long after Albus Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth, and Grindelwald simultaneously made their moves, Headmaster Dumbledore himself joined the battle. After all, he didn't want either his brother or his friend to be harmed.

"The geniuses in the wizarding world are indeed very powerful," Victory commented, sending the analysis report to Hugo through the Admiral Network while watching the duel in the courtyard below.

"I can see that their spellcasting timing and angles are excellent, but I'm not very clear about the spells they're casting," Hugo said, expressing his own views. "Is there something to be said about that?"

"Of course, there's something to be said," Victory said, keeping a close eye on the crystal ball. "You know, since Javelin completed her training and became a trainee Auror, we've obtained the complete set of training methods and data of the British Aurors."

"And comparing it with this data, you'll find that even the weakest of the three people fighting below, Aberforth, has surpassed the bottom third of the Aurors in terms of magical mastery and combat proficiency."

"As for the strongest, Grindelwald, I believe he can easily defeat 3 to 5 Aurors of Moody's level in a sudden battle, and he can also retreat unscathed when facing more than ten Aurors of that level."

"Is this the strength of the first Dark Lord!" After Victory's explanation, Hugo's face showed a look of emotion.

Because he used to only know that those top wizards were very powerful, but he was still vague about exactly how powerful they were.

Now, after Victory's comparison, Hugo immediately understood why the individual combat power of wizards was so important in the wizarding world. Because those powerful wizards can indeed turn the tide of battles between different groups on their own.

"Look out, Ariana is coming out." At this moment, Victory reminded him in a low voice. Seeing this, Hugo immediately pulled up the image projected by the statue on a tree next to the Dumbledore's house.

Sure enough, at this time, Ariana, who had been hiding in the room, was probably stimulated by the flashes and loud noises of the battle between her brothers and Grindelwald, so she stumbled out of the room.

However, at this time, the Obscurus on Ariana's body didn't lose control, but just raised her arms and rushed into the battlefield, trying to stop everyone from fighting.

Unfortunately, the three people who were already fighting fiercely couldn't stop, so Ariana was hit by a spell and fell directly to the ground after only rushing into the battlefield where spells were flying for less than five seconds.

"It was Grindelwald who cast the Killing Curse," Victory said in a low voice, keeping an eye on the situation. "And it feels like he did it on purpose."

"Because although the Dumbledore brothers were angry, they still maintained the last bit of composure. So, throughout the battle, neither of them released fatal magic like the Killing Curse."

"And Grindelwald only released magic equivalent to the Cruciatus Curse at most at the beginning, but after Ariana came out, he directly hit her with a Killing Curse."

"But why?" Hugo frowned and asked through the Admiral Network. "Although Grindelwald is the kind of person who kills people as easily as eating and drinking, he's not a lunatic like Voldemort."

"That is to say, he doesn't kill people because of his own likes and dislikes. Every time he kills someone, there must be a reason. And I can't figure out for the moment why he killed a 14-year-old girl who had no grievances with him, and had only met him a few times?"

"I guess it might be related to Dumbledore," Victory said at this time. "Maybe Grindelwald thinks that the main reason why an excellent person like Dumbledore is unwilling to work with him for the so-called New World is because his sister is holding him back."

"Therefore, he would feel that if he killed Dumbledore's sister, then maybe Dumbledore would leave home and fight with him for that greater plan."

"You see, in this kind of melee, because the situation is very chaotic, everyone involved in the battle, especially those with poorer skills, will put all their energy into the battle, so naturally they can't observe those situations that are not related to the battle."

"So, if Dumbledore really values ambition more than family affection, he can completely blame his sister's death on his brother, and then embark on the path to becoming the next Dark Lord."

"--Although I don't want to admit it, what you said is the most reasonable possibility." After listening to Victory's analysis, Hugo was stunned for a moment, and then sighed.

Although he had indeed been attracted by Grindelwald's decisiveness and grand ideals when he watched the movies in his previous life, he later discovered that Grindelwald didn't have the greatness and righteousness he had shown at the beginning.

To give the simplest example, the practice of indiscriminately killing innocent people for the sake of a plan, and even planning to destroy the entire Paris, completely contradicted his proclaimed goal of pursuing the future of wizards.

If you have to make an analogy, Grindelwald has the demeanor of a World War II German leader: claiming to build a new world belonging to a part of the people, but in fact, it must be built on a series of anti-human crimes.

And today's incident shows that Grindelwald didn't gradually deteriorate in the process of struggle, but that he had that anti-human tendency from the beginning, but he later tried to cover up these things in the propaganda of time.

However, if you think about it carefully, you will find that Grindelwald had already shown signs in this regard. For example, being expelled from Durmstrang for studying dark magic.

You need to know that the dark magic in this world is closely linked to the user's heart. People who don't use dark magic well may not be good people, but people who use dark magic very smoothly are definitely not good people.

To give the simplest example, although Snape repented and cleared himself of his sins at the end of his life, everything he did before can be said to be very bad.

Taking his time as a professor as an example, you will find that except for the students of Slytherin, almost all students think that Snape is a very biased person. And this is also likely to be related to his learning to use dark magic back then.

Especially considering that Durmstrang itself is known among European schools for its tolerance of dark magic, and even offers special courses to teach dark magic.

Then, if he could be expelled from such a school for the crime of using dark magic, then what was Grindelwald doing at that time can basically be inferred.

Just as Hugo and Victory were discussing Grindelwald's affairs, another change took place on the field below: several people finally discovered that Ariana had fallen at this time.

The Dumbledore brothers immediately rushed to their sister to check on her. Because no one noticed how Ariana fell just now, they thought their sister was only injured.

And Grindelwald looked around at this time, then quickly retreated to the edge of the hedge, and then jumped over the hedge and ran away.