He could feel the powerful power contained in this wand, and completely surrendered to him, letting him use it as he pleased.
Dumbledore smiled as he watched Jon pick up the Elder Wand.
"Don't forget what I told you before. Sometimes when you have to face a choice, the answer is actually that simple."
Jon clenched the wand in his hand. He knew what Dumbledore was talking about and nodded heavily.
Dumbledore seemed to have finished explaining everything to Jon. He turned his head and looked at McGonagall and Flitwick.
"I have to say goodbye to many old friends. It is a failure for a school to have a principal like me. Perhaps having professors like you is the luckiest thing that these children have ever encountered.
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Mag was already sobbing loudly at this time, and Flitwick also turned his back to wipe away his tears.
Finally, he turned his eyes to Grindelwald, who had been staring at him silently in front of the hospital bed.
"Like we said before, you should have a long talk with Jon."
Dumbledore said softly.
Grindelwald's voice sounds very indifferent, but those who are careful will find the vibrato hidden behind the indifference.
"I have my own sense of proportion."
"Sometimes you just go too far." Dumbledore's voice has become longer. "I can't say whether this is a shortcoming or an advantage, but it is still better than me, because in a sense, I am just a
Decaying conservatives. You all want innovation, and I am afraid that change will have too big an impact on the world. But in fact, no period of history is static, so after you come out of that high tower
, I never gave any instructions on what you were doing."
Dumbledore looked around at Jon and McGonagall.
"Can you give these two old guys some private space? I have something else I want to tell him at the end."
Although Jon and the others were all sad, they still listened to Dumbledore's words and walked out of the ward together, leaving him and Grindelwald with private space.
After they had completely left, Dumbledore slowly closed his eyes. He looked extremely tired, as if he would fall asleep at any time.
"I asked you to promise me before, but I won't force you to do it. If the time comes, just follow your own mood."
"You don't need to tell me this, I know what to do."
"Ah~ yes, you are an independent person..."
A knowing smile appeared on his face, and the voice that sounded like a whisper in a dream finally sounded.
"Say sorry to me and Aberforth again... I'm going to find Ariana... If you don't want to see him again... let Jon convey it.
....."
This obviously sounded like an easy promise, but it made Grindelwald silent for a long time.
When the stars outside the window lit up and the bright moonlight rose high, shining on Dumbledore who was not sure whether he had fallen asleep, he answered softly.
"I see."
...
Dumbledore completely fell into an endless sleep.
Just like what he said to Jon, this is not death, but a well-traveled trip. He has worked hard all his life, and now he really needs some time to himself to rest.
McGonagall is discussing with Flitwick whether to announce this news to the people in the Order of the Phoenix and the students at Hogwarts. Since Jon came back yesterday with Dumbledore, Voldemort has announced his
After his death, everyone was concerned about Dumbledore's condition.
Grindelwald did not participate in the discussion between them, he just took a serious look at Jon.
"Do you know what Albus wanted me to say to you?"
Jon had calmed down his mood, put the Elder Wand into the cuff of his robe, and met Grindelwald's eyes.
"I can probably guess something about it. Is it related to the monastery you took me to?"
Regarding his answer, Grindelwald was noncommittal. He just motioned for Jon to follow him, and the two of them returned to the principal's office in Durmstrang.
The two sat down across the desk from each other. There was no tea or dessert. Unlike Dumbledore, Grindelwald didn't seem to prepare these when he was talking about serious things.
"You already know what I have done in my past."
Jon nodded. He actually knew Grindelwald's past deeds better than most people.
"When Albus was young, he and I had the same ambition, but some things later caused us to part ways. He became a professor who teaches and educates people, while I continued to pursue that bigger dream."
Grindelwald pointed at his eyes.
"I am a prophet. This is a gift given to me by the world when I was born. It is precisely because of this that I always have far more foresight than others. At the beginning of this century, I saw human beings
s future."
"Muggles will make a huge leap, and their technology will grow to the point where they can destroy a city in an instant. This made me panic at the time. Before they had not mastered such powerful abilities, wizards
They will be forced to shrink in a corner of this world, lingering like cockroaches, and if they control this power, I conclude that there will no longer be a way for magic to survive in this world."
"So, I decided that the wizarding world must take the lead, tear up the law of secrecy, and complete the domination of this world before the Muggles' technology has developed to that point."
"The result is obvious. I failed. Dumbledore defeated me, completely shattered my plan, and imprisoned me in a high tower. And as I saw, the Muggles also developed extremely powerful
The scary thing is that just because the law of secrecy is maintained well enough by the current Ministry of Magic, the conflict between wizards and Muggles has not yet occurred, but instead a war has begun within the wizards."
There was a depth in Grindelwald's eyes that was hard to see through.
"I actually thought about a lot of things in that high tower. I never doubted that my ideas were wrong. The conflict between wizards and Muggles has always existed, but the law of secrecy is like a fragile isolation board.
This conflict is hidden. But once this isolation board is destroyed one day, the world will face a life and death test."
"Just like what Voldemort is doing now, the more frequent wars between wizards, the easier it is for magic to be exposed to Muggles. Even if this isolation board is still maintained, his desires are endless. Magic
The world is not the whole of this world. By that time, the war I envisioned will inevitably break out."
"Then what can we do to resolve the war between two species competing for world hegemony?"